We put this together this evening in a fit of something. Bung in an Audio CD, hit play, then admire the graphics.
For anything worth looking at, you'll need at least 16-bit colour (Thousands) and 24-bit looks even better.
Just load this up next to the Apple CD player. Does it have a sunset? No. Does it have large blobs floating in it? No. Could it be mistaken for a UFO? No. Ours is clearly superior.
"Ah," you say, "but what about functionality?". Hmmm. We're working on that one and we should have a new and improved version out in a couple of weeks or so. We're aiming at more animation in the interface - moving buttons, a nice rendered 3-D track time display. It'll also be fully AppleScriptable and recordable. And if somebody can mail us the interface to the CD database, then we'll support that too. And a volume slider. And a cat confuser. We might even remove some of the more confusing interactions ;^)
If anyone's interested, we can easily produce a FAT version - let us know, and be prepared to test it for us!
This is freeware as it is the first release, but subsequent versions will be shareware (and we have some features worth paying for!). Please keep this readme with the application when distributing it.
This was written in about 12 hours (including rendering!) on an 840AV (@48MHz!) and an LC475. We apologise for any flaky code, but it works on both these Macs!
AudioBlob was constructed in MetroWerks CodeWarrior DR/3 (we want 4!) using PowerPlant and is our first executable submission to the net. Graphics were done in KPT Bryce 1.0, Photoshop 2.5.1 and Infini-D 2.5.1.
