Longtime jimcofer.com visitors might recall this post from the original Geek Stuff page. In it, I opined about Toaster, a free WinAMP plug-in that displays pop-up notifications (“toasts”) showing the currently playing track, as well as the track’s album art. I really liked that plug-in, but I think I’ve found something better: a free program called CD Art Display:
This program not only puts the the track information on your desktop, it also puts the album art as an icon in your system tray (see the Ray of Light icon there by the WinAMP icon?). The program also lets you change how the cover art is displayed. For example, you can tilt the “virtual CD tray” at an angle:
You can even have CD Art Display show the album art as a label on the CD itself:
Pretty cool, huh? On top of being free (which is always good), CD Art Display also works with WinAMP, Windows Media Player, iTunes, foobar 2000, MediaMonkey, musikCube, and several other media players! The program can read artwork from several sources (including embedded ID3 tags, my flavor of choice), and CD Art Display can even download missing album art for your tunes from Amazon!
All in all, CD Art Display is one nifty program… Why not try it out today?