Clutter

Clutter Publisher's Description:
Clutter is a small application that lets you put music CDs on your desktop. You can drag them anywhere, they're really windows. Line them up neatly or put them in piles, it's your choice. Each one looks like the real CD's cover, and double-clicking it tells iTunes or SlimServer to play that CD.

Think of Clutter as an alternate user interface to your music collection. When deciding what to play next, instead of searching through a huge alphabetical list, let your eye roam over the covers of your favorite CDs and those you've been listening to recently.

What's new in this version:

* There is now a pref to put the CD covers on the desktop (behind all other windows). You can still get to them quickly by using Exposé: press F11 to move windows out of the way, and again to restore them. (Exposé doesn't exist prior to OS X 10.3 "Panther", though.)
* Fixed a bug where, if the Now Playing window was the only open window when Clutter quit, the window wouldn't re-open the next time Clutter was launched. (I think this bug was the reason I got so many questions about how to re-open that window...)
* The annoying "-50" errors some people get when trying to play a CD are resolved. Turns out this happens when all the tracks are either missing or disabled (unchecked) so there's nothing for iTunes to play. Clutter now puts up a more informative alert describing the situation. (Thanks to Clutter user Brooke Hendricks for the detective work!)
* CDs start playing more quickly in iTunes. (But iTunes 4.5 is now required.) People with very large music libraries should no longer get time-out errors trying to play CDs.
* If Clutter launches iTunes, it now launches it hidden. Also, the request won't time out if launching iTunes takes a long time.
* If you turned off shadows for your covers, new covers you create won't have shadows.
* Double-clicking the CD that's currently playing (or pressing Space while it's selected) now pauses the CD instead of starting it over from the beginning.
* The "Treat iTunes playlists as CDs" preference, which broke in d15, works again.