{"id":250,"date":"2017-06-09T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starshade.ca\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2021-06-28T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T00:50:08","slug":"lpcoverart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshade.ca\/wordpress\/lpcoverart\/","title":{"rendered":"LPCoverArt: Life-size album artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LPCoverArt is a project I worked on in early 2017 and had on display at the 2017 Vancouver Mini-Maker Faire (along with Lode<\/a>).
While the digital medium is a logical evolution from analog for music, I miss the physical artwork that gives an album some tangible context while you become familiar with the songs. This project involved making an oak frame with a 19″ 4:3 LCD screen inside, which displays the artwork at the very same size as an old vinyl LP. A thick frame border covers up the extra width.
It is powered by Raspberry Pi Zero that simply displays a website, and sleeps the display when no music is playing. I created an app for MacOS which hosts the webpage with artwork on it so that the wall-hanging frame can display it. The app picks up the artwork from iTunes via AppleScript, and hosts a local webpage using Python SimpleHTTPServer. This currently only works with iTunes on a Mac, and presumes the computer is always powered on and awake.\u00a0
You can\u00a0download the MacOS app here<\/a><\/strong>. It’s still very much WIP!
You may need to remove it from quarantine using 'xattr -d com.apple.quarantine \/path\/to\/App'<\/code>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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