Here’s the short version: if you have an iPad, and you listen to music, go to the App Store and download Planetary right now. It’s that good.
Planetary is a free music visualizer for the iPad, and if its design ethos looks somewhat familiar, there’s a reason. Bloom Studio, maker of Planetary, has Robert Hodgins as its Creative Director. The name may not be familiar to you right away, but his work likely is: he designed the Magnetosphere iTunes visualizer, which found its way into iTunes 8. My colleague Mel Martin notes that Bloom’s president Ben Cerveny was one of the original designers of Flickr.
Magnetosphere is pretty cool on the Mac, but Planetary on the iPad blows it away with its aesthetics and its features. You can navigate through your entire music library using Planetary’s interface, from a galaxy of stars representing artists all the way down to song moons circling album planets. You can view a walkthrough of the interface on the next page.
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