Planetary, a free iPad app from San Francisco startup Bloom Studio, is a jaw-dropping visualizer for your audio that turns your tablet's music collection into an interactive cosmic database.

[partner id="wireduk"]In the app, your musical artists are rendered as giant, pulsating stars, grouped into alphabetical galaxies. Each star is orbited by massive album planets, with their unique rocky texture derived from the original CD cover.

Each planet is flanked by moons, orbiting at a speed based on the length of the track. The moons also grow in size, too, depending on how many times you've listened to the songs. You can click on moons to start playing tracks, or use typical pinch and zoom gestures to zip around your custom-built galaxy

"Planetary is just the sort of science fiction experience you expect when using an object from the future like iPad," developer Bloom Studio writes on the app's iTunes page.

And this won't be the company's last foray into spiffy data visualization.

The team, which got together and founded Bloom in July 2010, is comprised of data science and visualization experts Ben Cerveny, Tom Carden and Jesper Andersen. Their forthcoming fleet of apps will be more playful applications that turn boring data sets – produced by things like social networking, streaming multimedia services and location data – into tactile and dynamic visual objects.

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