I just found out about an interesting little plugin for iTunes. It’s called iConcertCal and it is a album release and concert calendar. Developed by a pair of grad students at the University of Washington in Seattle. The plugin is available for Mac OS X and Windows.

It works in a simple, and ingenious way. It is an iTunes plugin and they provide a simple installer. In order to activate you have to choose it as your visualizer and then turn on the visualizer. It’s a rather clever way to have it viewable. You can click on the name of the band/artist to get tickets or order the album from Amazon. There is also a feature to share calendars with friends. I’ve not used that yet.

Example Screen

I’d love to see iTunes store integration under CD releases. Otherwise it works as advertised and no problem so far. I recommend trying it out.

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