If you choose, you can even enable controls that show the path each moon sweeps out as its song plays, which provides an extremely imaginative twist on a playback indicator. Moons are sized relative to the play counts of the songs they represent, and they orbit at a speed proportional to the song length. Zooming in on a planet/album will reveal its system of moons/songs. These planets are skinned with the album art, which makes each planet visually distinctive. Instead, tapping on the star or its name will zoom into the system view, showing all albums by that artist as orbiting planets. Somewhat counterintuitively, you can't zoom in on a single star/artist down to its system of planets/albums by using the two-finger zoom gesture. I'm sure it was technically possible to show every artist at once in one giant view, but this probably would have been an impractical way to navigate through a huge library. Zooming out from this view will give you an alphabet wheel that will allow you to navigate to artists sharing the same initial letter.
Planetary starts you out in a galaxy with stars representing the artists in your iPad's music library. You can view a walkthrough of the interface on the next page. 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. Magnetosphere is pretty cool on the Mac, but Planetary on the iPad blows it away with its aesthetics and its features. My colleague Mel Martin notes that Bloom's president Ben Cerveny was one of the original designers of Flickr. 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. Bloom Studio, maker of Planetary, has Robert Hodgins as its Creative Director.
Planetary is a free music visualizer for the iPad, and if its design ethos looks somewhat familiar, there's a reason.
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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.