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Of all the stuff I've downloaded in the past few months--including the 47 most recent Lil Wayne mix tapes and Cloverfield--probably the one thing that has most improved my life is Widget Foundry's Amazon Album Art Widget for Mac OS X. (If you're not using OS X you can grab a non-widget version here.)

Ever since Apple introduced album-art support in iTunes, I've struggled to balance my OCD-driven desire to acquire art for every single record on my hard drive with the pain-in-the-assness of having to track down everything that's not on iTunes and the bugginess of manually assigning art. The Amazon Album Art Widget has made it entirely unnecessary for me to restrain my compulsiveness--I just select an album's tracks in iTunes, enter the album title in the AAAW, and in usually less that three mouse clicks my jams are connected to the proper art and I'm free to go make sure all of the picture frames hanging on my apartment walls are exactly level.


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Josh H.
May 6th - 10:07 a.m.
This is the best news for OCD music freaks ever. Especially since I just sold all of my CDs and went entirely digital. Jesus lord I hope this is as good as you say, Miles! Me and my OCD thank you.
Josh H.
May 7th - 9:38 a.m.
This widget rules. Highly recommended. Especially for people like me who have just about no artwork to go with there music, live alone and have way too much time on their hands. This has pretty much made my decision not to buy a TV a lot easier ... for now.



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