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How To: Create a Grid of Album Covers [Zune] | Posted at 1:16 PM

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If you are looking for a way to easily create a grid of your favorite album covers or artists, there is a decent implementation of the technique in the Zune Software. You don't need a Zune to use it.

All you do is let it scan in your library, then start playing a song. Click the bar graph in the bottom right corner to go into Now Playing view. You will see the program fill in your albums like it shows above.

You can take a screen shot and cut out whatever you want.

This gave me an idea, though. There's no easy way to customize how that grid looks because it constantly gets updated. So I was thinking of making some simple software that would do the same thing, only with better customization.

It'd be a fun project and someone would find it useful, I think. Winter break work!

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Thanks for sharing! Nice Tips

Outlook is a pain in the butt... why in this day and age are messages still being stored on a computers hard drive? Mozilla Thunderbird is the good stuff.

your concerns are very logical. I really liked it and yea, i like your profile picture as well :P

Great, you've chosen to include coheed and cambria on your own grid, cool choice of album covers. I'll try doing my own today, just for fun and include it on my blog. Cheers.

This looks very professional and stylish. Did you ever get around to designing the software to customizing it? Let me know if you did. Would love to check it out.

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