Projects
Online Tools
My website has been online since 2007 and has always been home to my open source projects and tools. Over the years these have grown to be a major source of traffic with thousands of visitors every day. Below you will find a number of these tools including artwork finders, music tools, and more.
Artwork Finders
High-resolution album, movie, and TV artwork
These tools help people find artwork that is otherwise difficult to retrieve directly from Apple Music, the Apple TV app, and the older iTunes ecosystem.
Apple TV Shows & Movies Artwork Finder
Find the newer 2:3 portrait artwork for TV shows (including season artwork), box sets, and movies.
Use the finder >Apple Music Artwork Finder
Paste the URL to an Apple Music album, playlist, artist, station, curator, or music video to retrieve uncompressed artwork at the highest resolution.
Use the finder >iTunes Artwork Finder
Search the iTunes store for music, movies, TV shows, iBooks, app icons, podcasts, and more.
Use the finder >
Shortcuts
Automate and bulk download high-res artwork
My Apple Music and Apple TV artwork shortcuts fetch uncompressed high-resolution artwork within the Shortcuts app ready for automating with other tools (for example, bulk downloading and renaming). Over 1,000 copies sold!
Music Tools
The data Apple Music doesn't share
I've built a few tools that crawl through the Apple Music service to surface the metadata in a better way.
Spatial Audio Finder
Search by artist to quickly find which Apple Music tracks have been upgraded to Spatial Audio.
Use the tool >The Spatial Audio Database
The most comprehensive database of Dolby Atmos and Dolby Audio tracks including the latest upgrades and data exports.
Open database >The Lossless Audio Database
A constantly updating list of all the lossless and hi-res lossless audio on Apple Music.
Open database >Retired Projects
Older services and extensions
These projects are no longer maintained but I keep them here for posterity.
- WikilocationAn API for finding Wikipedia articles by location.
- Tube UpdatesA RESTful API for London Underground status updates.
- jTARDISA jQuery browser history experiment that highlighted an old browser privacy flaw.
- phpMyOpenIDAn install routine for hosting your own OpenID server.
Browser Extensions
I also spent several years building browser extensions for Firefox, Safari 5, and Chrome. Font Finder helped web developers inspect the CSS behind selected text and was downloaded over 350,000 times. Stop! Hammertime! replaced Firefox’s stop button with an icon of MC Hammer and was downloaded over a quarter of a million times.