This morning, I saw a neat post on Panic's blog (http://www.panic.com/blog/2012/12/itunes-11-and-colors/) that showed an example of how to duplicate iTunes 11's cover art color matching algorithm. I thought it'd be worthwhile to make the code a bit more reusable, and...here we are!
I — Aaron Brethorst / http://www.cocoacontrols.com — have extracted all of the interesting code into a reusable class whose usage should be fairly self-explanatory. Let me know if you have any questions.
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