I love this widget and have used it successfully for many months. However, this morning I finally got around to up updating my iTunes to the current version (7.4.3.1) on Windows, and I have the same problem as reported by prep.chuck. The widget loads fine, but the artist/song/album scroll window stays blank. The controls work, but they turn red when pressed.

I downloaded the older debug version and ran it. The error reported is:
"uncaught exception: Error accessing 'current track': Library not registered"

Daniel, will you have an update to fix this issue soon? With 131,000+ downloads, I'm not the only one that loves your iTunes bar!! ;-)

Many thanks!!!!

Best iTunes widget I've been able to find. It's always worked flawlessly until about 2 iTunes updates ago, now none of the info is displayed. No artist, title, time elapsed, artwork, rating, NOTHING! Haven't had the "Could not open Widget" error, but it's just as bad. Only thing that still works is the hotkeys. Hope for a fix?????

best iTunes widget so far!

It's NIIIIICE, I like the black glossy look.

Just Unistall Yahoo Widgets Completely.
Re-install Yahoo Widgets...and it should work.

**Dont forget to copy the widgets on your computer to restore them**..(So you don't get all the annoying old widgets you never used back again)

Thats what I did for the Reload Problem.

I love this widget. Only one thing I think it could use: a reload widget option, just in case it gets stuck loading the widget before itunes opens, like it did for me today. Otherwise, fantastic widget.

Yea, I am getting the same problem as below:

"Could not open Widget C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Widgets\iTunes Bar.widget.

Unknown exception encountered during onLoad. (OpenWidget)"

stopped working after I ran spybot and adaware...???

Hope for a fix soon??

It used to work great but after I downloaded the latest update, everytime I try to open it, it says...

"Could not open Widget C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Widgets\iTunes Bar.widget.

Unknown exception encountered during onLoad. (OpenWidget)"

Can you please tell me what is happening? Thanks.

"Could not open Widget C:(file location).

Unknown exception encountered during onLoad. (OpenWidget)"

Can you help me with this? This occurs everytime I try opening your widget.

[quote][i]Could you please make the dock icon change to the album art of the song currently playing?[/i][/quote]

This really would be a great feature. I just hope its no harm to a cpu usage.

Mike
(who still is curious who the covers are pulled along my firewall :-)

Ok -- a fix for the resize issue has been submitted -- expect to see it here in the next few days (if you can't wait, email me and I can send it to you directly).

hk_kumardbs: that's a good idea -- I'll look into it for version 5.

George the Flea: I always name the widget "iTunes Bar.widget". Perhaps Yahoo! normalizes the file name when I submit it -- if that's the case, I suppose from now on it will always be iTunes_bar.widget until they decide to change it :(

Could you please make the dock icon change to the album art of the song currently playing?

Thanks a lot.

My apologies about the resize issue. Somehow I managed to completely overlook that problem in the rush to release 4.0.1 for compatibility with YWE 4.0. I'm working on a fix and will update the widget shortly.

Also, version 4.0.1 of the widget requires the new 4.0 release of Yahoo Widget Engine -- that is probably why you're having problems, Joshua W. Unfortunately some of the changes to the widget engine are not backwards compatible so you don't get the proper error message on startup.

Finally, please try to email me if you have problems. I don't check this page very often so bug reports tend to be missed if you only post them here! I only noticed all the new comments today.

Yeah, can´t resize the artwork no more :-(

Mike

Here's the error continuation from the last post:
Included file 'Scripts/iTunesStatus.js' (iTunesStatus.js)
Included file 'Scripts/iTunes.js' (iTunes.js)
Included file 'Scripts/AlbumArt.js' (AlbumArt.js)
Included file 'Scripts/Lyrics.js' (Lyrics.js)
Included file 'Scripts/ContextMenu.js' (ContextMenu.js)
Included file 'Scripts/SkinSelector.js' (SkinSelector.js)
Installing default skins for version . (Previously installed version: 4.0)
TypeError: filesystem.createDirectory is not a function (Skins.js: Line 28)
Errors prevented this Widget from making itself visible
TypeError: volumeIndicator has no properties (UI.js: Line 62)
The last line here repeats indefinitely til I hit close. Any ideas? MacBook Pro, Intel Duo Core, MacOS 10.4.9

Loved the older version, but when I installed this one, I get this error:
Newand updated iTunes Bar skins for version will be installed. Old versions of the skins will be overwritten (other skins will be left alone). If you cancel, you may install them later by selecting "Install Default Skins" in the preferences. (Currently installed version: 4.0)
I hit the "Install Skins" button, and get another error:
Included file 'Scripts/DebugUtil.js' (DebugUtil.js)
Included file 'Scripts/Platform.js' (Platform.js)
Included file 'Scripts/DDAnimator.js' (DDAnimator.js)
Included file 'Scripts/Buttons.js' (Buttons.js)
Included file 'Scripts/UI.js' (UI.js)
Included file 'Scripts/Resize.js' (Resize.js)
Included file 'Scripts/Skins.js' (Skins.js)
Included file 'Scripts/versionCheck.js' (versionCheck.js)
Included file 'Scripts/iTunesTrack.js' (iTunesTrack.js)
Included file '

Thanks for this great widget, cant live without it.
installed the new version, but one problem i need ur help with guys! PC version won't display album artwork :( help!

Great plugin, but you Can't RESIZE IT Anymore!!!! Thank you for this widget:P

Очень красиво... ставить всем!!! и удобно=) Автору зачёт))

Found the problem with the preferences: the download was called "iTunes_bar.widget", but the old file was called "iTunes Bar.widget". Which is going to be standard? A different file name creates a different preferences file.

I am also unable to resize either the bar or the artwork window. Very unfortunate. For some reason, 4.0.1 ignored all of my 4.0 preferences, too (had to go through and change all the defaults again).

Hooray for a new version without polling, though! I'm looking forward to it.

After upgrading to 4.0.1 I can't seem to resize the bar.

Anyone else notice this?

Hi I'm the author of the widget. I submitted a small update (4.0.1) last week which fixes skin installation when running in the new version of the widget engine (version 4). It'll be here as soon as it gets 'approved'!

Meanwhile, I'm continuing work on a substantial update which will finally get rid of the 'polling' behavior in favor of a event-based mechanism for getting iTunes updates. That means no more un-quittable iTunes syndrome. So stay tuned :)

Awsome widget ;-)
for the default skins to work.

just convert the widget into a folder using the widget to widget.
then, drag the skins to the appropriate folder on ur com.
tats it !

great skin manage idea by the way!
keep it up

Only the skins does not work with the v4 of the Widget engine.

artwork works kinda weird, gave me a Beauty and the Beast cover for a hellogoodbye song

Doesn't work with the upgraded iTunes. Actually I don't think any iTunes widget does.
The new iTunes Version and Engine number: 7.0.1.59. Otherwise this is excellent widget. I love it so much its small and adjustable and it fits right above the informer bar and alongside the Info101 widget.

Spectacular widget. I really really love the clear small text version. Sits right above my dock beautifully

By the way: "embed artwork in..." does not word.
Couldn´t you add a "copy to clipboard..", so at least it can be done manually?

Thx,
Mike

Hi.
Did you delet my critics? Are you serios?

My question was: how come, iTunes bar puuls covers from Amazon., even though I have a firewall running?

Thx,
Mike

P.S. its a great widget, but question should be answerd, not deleted

Very well made and useful n good looking. Just freezes occasionally when performing certain functions...

Three thumbs up. Oops! I can't do that. I would if I could. I wish more skins were made for it. I LOVE this widget. Thanks so..............much.

Excellent widget.
Does exactly what it says.
Fun to work with.
Just need MORE SKINS

works perfect in iTunes 7, love it!!!!

Don't even need to reinstall iTunes. Just use the repair function. That got it working for me.

Can you update this for iTunes 7? I won't load Itunes 7 until this widget works for it :(

Your widget doesn't work with iTunes 7. It keeps sayong "Widget failed to load" or something like that. It's not just yours either it's like every iTunes related widget.

There're widgets you can do without and ones you can't! I couldn't use this widget for the ten days or so and had to switch to ituneskeys but life was just not the same! Thanks to whoever figured out the uninstall-reinstall workaround. I am back to iTunes bar, the only add-on iTunes needs.

it's seems unfit to itunes 7, when the itunes is running, itunes bar doesnt work at all, cant even open this widget.
please fix it, daniel, coz it;s really a cool stuff for useing it (before installing itunes 7)

Please revise this as this does not work for itunes 7 even after uninstalling.

Strange thing. For the first week of so after installing iTunes 7, iTunes Bar would act strangely. It would interact with iTunes as expected but the song info window would remain the same song even after a dozen or so songs have past. Today, I launched iTunes Bar and all is well. Go figure.

I was just having problems with the embed working now. Everything else seems to work in iTunes 7. It says embedding, but it never works.

Windows users: If you are having problems after updating to iTunes 7, please try uninstalling iTunes then reinstalling it. This seems to fix the problem.

If it still doesn't work, email me.

This is by far the best iTunes widgets out there. Takes up so little screen space yet still shows all useful info. But looks like iTunes 7 (Mac & PC) broke it. I just hope this gets fixed soon.

Hi everyone, I'm the author. So it looks like iTunes 7 breaks this widget, but perhaps only on Windows. I'm going to need some help fixing it, so please head over to the following URL to post detailed reports and test new versions:
http://www2.konfabulator.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15882

Worked great until I upgraded to iTunes 7.

it doesn't work for me in iTunes 7 either :(
the default itunes controller works fine though; i believe it's just itunes bar that doesn't work
please update this fantastic widget!

it doesn't work for me in iTunes 7 either :(
the default itunes controller works fine though; i believe it's just itunes bar that doesn't work
please update this fantastic widget!

Has any got this to work with iTunes 7?

THE best widget out there to control iTunes. The skins are fantastic, especially the transparent text ones. The album art is a great add, and the the ability to turn it on or off is even better. You get access to all of your playlists too!! What more could you ask for?

TOP NOTCH!

AWESOME

the skins are great and the player works perfectly, GREAT WORK!

I am definately recommending this in my blog, as one of the better itunes remotes

The skins arn't working. I used to have a certain one, reinstalled it, and now I get a fatal error when i try to look at the site to get it back. The player works fine but i want my skin back.

The skins arn't working. I used to have a certain one, reinstalled it, and now I get a fatal error when i try to look at the site to get it back. The player works fine but i want my skin back.

The skins arn't working. I used to have a certain one, reinstalled it, and now I get a fatal error when i try to look at the site to get it back. The player works fine but i want my skin back.

I would love this to take over for my MMD3 Winamp skin, but I have one problem with it, and I don't know if it'd be possible to fix. I have Winamp set to 20% opacity when inactive, and 80% at hover-over. Where I have it, I need to see what's underneath the player, but I want to be able to control the player at all times. Is there a way to include a hover-over active function or something along those lines?

WHOOHOO! If you comment out DebugUtil.js in onLoad.js it fixes the Alt+F4 bug. I'm not entirely sure what I broke but seems to be okay so far. Thanks for this excellent widget :)

Nice work with this widget. The Alt+F4 bug still seems to exist.

Sorry... my name is "Kumar", not "Best iTunes Widget ever" :P

This widget is probably the best widget ever created for iTunes. The only thing I could ask for is the ability to hide volume.

Does what it says. You can turn off the artwork window, minimize itunes to tray, and control your library from the bar. It fits perfectly out of the way in the windows title bar. Excellent extension.

great widget, but how can i get rid of the donattion nag???

Great widgit, but if i close itunes then open it again the widget doesn't pick it up, i have to reset to make it work again.
I'm using the option where itonly opens when itunes does.

It it wern't for that, i'd give it a full 4 stars.

I'm having issues resizing too. When I first installed the widget, it resized properly. Now, when I go to resize it, it crashes and closes the widget.

Works very nicely.

Just wish that I could control the size/length of the bar.

Livin' in a bubble! i love that song!

best itunes widget by far. try adding an option ot be abale to view playlist and select songs.

This is an awesome widget!

Excellent widget, but doesn't work with the latest update of iTunes?

Really nice. This is 85% identical to what I'd design if I were designing one of these.

definetly the best itunes widget i can find, any way i could increase the size of the text/widget when it is on transparent black/white?

Great, exactly what I was looking for. Works very well.

There is a bug in the Yahoo Widget Engine on Windows that causes the widget to become crippled after iTunes has been quit. This affects other widgets also. The Yahoo guys are aware of the issue and will hopefully fix it in the next release.

This is a killer widget! Absolutely love it. My only minor complaint is when I quit the bar and artwork hide, which is great, but when I restart iTunes the bar shows up but no longer works and the artwork fails to reappear. This is on windows by the way

I really like this widget but i'm having a problem with it. I have the latest version of iTunes and Windows XP. The problem is that when I close iTunes and then open it back up, the widget no longer does anything. I have to remove the widget and then add it back on to get iTunes to work with it. It would also be great if you had the options for it to stay on top of other windows and to resize the art covers to a larger size. But all in all, an awsome widget!

Lava: in the preferences there's a checkbox to re-install default skins. Now that I think of it, there ought to be a button on the skin manager window for that...

I have been using this widget for quite a while but I recently deleted it and downloaded it again. It workd fine and all, but all the skins are missing! Your site is underconstruction and I can't get the skins from your site either.

Awesome Widget! This is what it is about. Just one request... could you add networked file accessibility? That way large playlists don't have to be imported for those who work on a network all of the time. Thanks!

Awesome Widget! This is what it is about. Just one request... could you add networked file accessibility? That way large playlists don't have to be imported for those who work on a network all of the time. Thanks!

Fantastic little widget. Sit's at the top of my screen so it appears to be in the title bar of any window - set on the 'Transparent White' skin. Have appreciated it for a long time, however, since the release of iTunes 6.0.2.23 it no longer seems to work on Windows. Please, please, please update it! Thanks and keep up the fantbulator work!

Old versions will be posted by request at http://danieldickison.com/widgets/itunesbar/
However, if you email me, I can help you troubleshoot any problems with the current version and that would help me eliminate bugs in future versions.

Nalek: "next album" will probably be in the next version.

Where can I get the old version of iTunes bar? (3.0.1)

So i just got the newest version, funny thing, it plays the music, but thats about it, it cant pause, it cant bring up itunes, it doesnt display the song info, you can run the song progress into the negatives (which is just wierd), so you gonna fix it, cause rigt now im using the old one again

I have a small request. While at work, I have the shuffle mode as Shuffle by album. Itunes has a "skip album" keyboard shortcut, could you add a "Next album" button on the bar? Otherwise, Great job!

Forgot to say I'm using the Mac version under 10.4.3.

Thanks

I really like this widget, which is why it is driveing me crazy that I have to quit iTunes 3 or 4 times because iTunes bar keeps restarting it.
Please fix.

Thank you

Thanks for all your comments! I'm working on version 4 of iTunes Bar, and it will definitely include artwork resizing, will _probably_ include playlist selection on Windows (it already works on Mac) and _maybe_ export artwork to iTunes (this one's hard!). That and a few other cool stuff like falling back on Amazon Japan for artwork. Any other international Amazon you'd like me to include? Probably due in mid-January.

Christopher: the iTunes button simply unminimizes the iTunes window. You're the first person to report a problem like that. Remember to email me if you need help troubleshooting (do About iTunes Bar on the widget contextual menu or look in the Read me file in the zip archive).

HELP! I installed this widget about two weeks ago, and everything worked fine until last week. I clicked the "open iTunes" icon for the first time and iTunes crashed ("encountered an error and needs to close"). Since then I've updated, uninstalled, and reinstalled all of the programs involved (iTunes, Konfabulator, and the widget itself). I've even edited registry keys for iTunes using directions I found in a forum, but iTunes will not open anymore. It always crashes with "iTunes has encountered an error and needs to close". I've tried everything I can think of and I can't get iTunes to open again. The people in the forums on the iTunes website believe the problem lies with the widget or Konfabulator because none of their suggestions for iTunes repair worked. Does anyone have any suggestions? Exactly what does that little "open iTunes" button do? Help, I need my iTunes back!

HELP! I installed this widget about two weeks ago, and everything worked fine until last week. I clicked the "open iTunes" icon for the first time and iTunes crashed ("encountered an error and needs to close"). Since then I've updated, uninstalled, and reinstalled all of the programs involved (iTunes, Konfabulator, and the widget itself). I've even edited registry keys for iTunes using directions I found in a forum, but iTunes will not open anymore. It always crashes with "iTunes has encountered an error and needs to close". I've tried everything I can think of and I can't get iTunes to open again. The people in the forums on the iTunes website believe the problem lies with the widget or Konfabulator because none of their suggestions for iTunes repair worked. Does anyone have any suggestions? Exactly what does that little "open iTunes" button do? Help, I need my iTunes back!

amazing! i tried creating a widget myself... i gave up five minutes later... anyway im kinda new to itunes so i might be requesting something thats already in there! if so could you please tell me what to do?!
1. could you make it so i could choose the playlist? or album? so i wouldnt have to get into itunes everytime?
2. HOW do you take your own artwork off the song???
3. please could you make it so the keyboard buttons on windows could control the buttons on the widget example: those extra buttons!!!
Great Work A four star!

Fantastic iTunes controller - thanks!

Great Widget first of all... I'd like to be able to copy/paste the artwork like David said, or even better have it put in automatically. Overall though it's a great way to show a lot of info.
-B

In addition to the "Save Artwork As..." context menu option in the artwork viewer, it would be great if you could add a "Copy Artwork" option to facilitate adding covers quickly and easily via iTunes. Use case is 1. Copy artwork from your widget; 2. Open iTunes and select all tracks for the album; 3. Right-click in the artwork window and click on "Paste". That would be excellent!

This widget rocks! I've been trying to find a way to "integrate" iTunes into my Quick Launch bar, which I have to the top of my screen, and this works perfectly!

Thanks! : )

Wonderful, tks

Wonderful, tks

I have found that using function keys without a modifier doesn't work.

I am using:
Win XP SP2
itunes 6.0.1.3
itunes bar 3.0.1

Any ideas?

Sorry for the spelling error, I ment crashes

Whenever I try to access the widget preferences it ceashes the widget. It has only done this in version 3.0.1; it worked fine in 3.0.0. I am using iTunes 6

great widget. almost perfect.
Resize artcover ?

some minor imperfections:
-The icon for bringing up itunes would be better without the grey background (thus just the white musicsymbol)(default white skin)
-The drag me bar should be invisible or smaller to enhance smoothness (default white skin)

Thanks for such a useful widget !

Oh, it's working now...sweet.

There aren't any differences in iTunes 6 that I know of that would cause problems (and works fine for me and a few other people who I've heard from)... you might want to check if other iTunes widgets also have trouble. If it's just this widget with glitches, email me and I'll try to help.

The hotkeys don't work for me, maybe because of version 6?

Doesn't display any track/album/artist info with itunes 6 when playing. I love the bar though, thanks for makin it!

perfect until I updated to iTunes 6, now the artwork never displays. :(

perfect until I updated to iTunes 6, now the artwork never displays. :(

This is a great widget, however I am having a little problem when I have it open and I quit itunes it will quit and then just start up right away again and takes 2 or three times before it quits. I find that if I quit the widget first it quits the first time every time, so I am thinking that it is a widget thing. I have byteController open as well if that could have something to do with it. Just thought I would post it and see if anyone else is getting the same thing. I was going to email the programmer but there is no link here for his email, so I did this. thanks, love the functionality of it, great job.

Jeff

Great widget, real handy when working with other fullscreen apps. Nice skins too!

Great widget, real handy when working with other fullscreen apps. Nice skins too!

This is a great tool (and it also works with iTunes 5)
Could you add a hot-key for maximizing / reducing the iTunes window ?
Thanks !

Let me start off by saying you have created an excellent widget!

I do have one issue to report. When playing a radio stream I end up with a lot of empty space where the progress bar should be. Since iTunes doesn't draw a progress bar for streams this is understandable but it does bring up the following question. Can you add a preference to show the progress bar or not?

Font control? You used to have it... unless im not seeing it in the preferences. Please bring back!

Just want to ask, if anybody could manage to use the Bar with iTunes 5. Neither Version 3 nor Version 3.1 work with iTunes 5. I mean, I can use Play, Forward, Pause, Stop and the Title is displayed. But the Cover is not shown anymore and I can't use the iTunes Launch Button. With iTunes 4.9 it worked perfectly alright. So if anybody know something please answer!

(PS: Does anybody know "iTunes Alarm" for Windows?)

JUST WANNA SAY. GREAT APPLICATION.GREAT JOB. STILL THE BEST I CAN FIND.

well now its officially bolloxed - wish I hadn't updated it now as 3.0 was working fine

anyone else had a problem getting 3.0.1 to work with iTunes 5? it keeps telling me that it's not a valid widget and it can't find the .kon file.. 3.0 still works fine with 5.

anyone else had a problem getting 3.0.1 to work with iTunes 5? it keeps telling me that it's not a valid widget and it can't find the .kon file.. 3.0 still works fine with 5.

Ok, it started working (didn't do anything)... wierd...

Thanks for the great widget!

Not working... Can't open the widget - gives me a 'It either isn't a Widget or you don't have access to that file. (OpenWidget:Unable to locate .kon file).'

I have persmission for the file and it is ineed a widget.

Running WinXP

It doesn't seems to work in Mac. Please someone let me know if you could install it in the dashboard. Thx in advance!

I must say after trying other iTunes widgets this one worked the best for me. What I am trying to do with it is have it sit on the blank space on my windows xp taskbar, where the quicklaunch icons go... this way, i can see it no matter what app i am in, and its not interfering with scroll bars etc etc, and its well.. basically consistent! However, once i place the bar over the taskbar, everything works fine EXCEPT for when i click on something on the taskbar, then it disappears behind the taskbar! Is there a mode where it can stay floating above EVERYTHING? I know that the taskbar is technically the very very very most topmost thing in all of the OS, but still there must be some way for the iTunes bar not to disappear under it when the taskbar gains focus. Well thanks for reading and post here if you find out any way to get it running properly! other than that, awesome job man.

I have album artwork for every track in iTunes but this can never find any of it :(

Perfect

Please someone make a version of this for Dashboard! I love it!

This ROCKS - the hot keys to control iTunes is awesome. FINALLY!!!!!

Best of the itunes add-ins i've triedso far. my biggest issue is artwork. it flashes full picture, then only shows top 1/3 or so with bottom greyed, on some pics. other minor thing I find is on the transp. white skin, when changing volume the pixels seem offset, and I have to adjust/compensate to right.

Otherwise, loving it.

using iTunes 5.0.

Best of the itunes add-ins i've triedso far. my biggest issue is artwork. it flashes full picture, then only shows top 1/3 or so with bottom greyed, on some pics. other minor thing I find is on the transp. white skin, when rating the pixels seem offset, and I have to adjust/compensate to right.

Otherwise, loving it.

using iTunes 5.0.

excellent widget! just what I was looking for. thumbs up! the transparent skins are very nice, they just fit in the windows title bar when maximized. pretty kewl. thx!

one note: I think the timeout before the text starts scrolling is a bit long. I'd like if it start scrolling instantly when I hover over the bar.

hey this is great and all but can you have an update soon
seeing how itunes just updated
your current version does not cooperate with the itunes update

An update to (hopefully) fix the alt-F4 issue is queued for the gallery -- it'll be available as soon as it's reviewed.

The widget should always be getting artwork from the file first, and I don't know why it's not working for some of you. I'll try to look into it when I get a chance. The issue with some artwork getting "stuck", I believe, is a bug in Konfabulator so a future version will probably fix this.

I really like this, especially the artwork window, which is where I have my issues.
If it does not find the mp3 data, it's supposed to search Amazon, right? Sometimes it ignores my existing art & uses something totally wrong that it finds. Any way to override the Amazon search?

Also, sometimes, the artwork for a song will get 'stuck' there for the next several songs. Any way to refresh?

I do have it set to display none if it can't find the art, but sometimes even that gets stuck.

Thanks for a Great Widget!

I really like this, especially the artwork window, which is where I have my issues.
If it does not find the mp3 data, it's supposed to search Amazon, right? Sometimes it ignores my existing art & uses something totally wrong that it finds. Any way to override the Amazon search?

Also, sometimes, the artwork for a song will get 'stuck' there for the next several songs. Any way to refresh?

I do have it set to display none if it can't find the art, but sometimes even that gets stuck.

Thanks for a Great Widget!

It works great, but I have to open and close it for it to control iTunes.

Very good widget!!
Any workaround for the windows F-keys breaking?
Thanks

I love the transparent series, as well as the glass ones. The only thing is that they look blurred. I'm not sure if its a computer issue or its the widget itself. But it would be nice if the detail was brought up a notch. Otherwise, wonderful! I love it that I can just play, pause and do it all without going through a series of clicks...

OMG this is beautiful, the only thing that i would want to change is the size of the album artwork, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it resizable it is too big at the mo. Other than that PERFECT.

<quote CrazyLittle - August 18, 2005>
COMPLETELY BREAK the alt-f4 hotkey in windows.
</quote>

This applies for all alt-keys.

wonderful! any chance that you could support the windows key for the hotkeys? currently, i'm running iremote for the universal hotkey function with the windows key. that program is VERY buggy, but i only use it for the universal key use. I'd like to quit using it, and rely solely on this, but like i said, i want to use the windows key. keep up the great work, i love this program, it's wonderful!!

The bar itself works fine, but your hotkey functions COMPLETELY BREAK the alt-f4 hotkey in windows.

Stunning bar, great functionality (is that a word?!).

Looks awesome on my desktop with the cornered grey skin.

No bugs seem to be present. Downloaded and got running easily.

Many Thanks!!

Just what I was searching for!
I love it.
It will allow me to rate my music-collection much easier, thanks for this sweet Widget!

Cool, but when I quit iTunes this widget automatically launches it again (without me touching the widget) and then I have to quit iTunes again, then it stays closed.

Looks like 2.1.1 fixed the skin issue on Win XP but it seems to have broken the artwork.

Ok, It works fine now but... pleeeeease, can you make it using local images before download it? :)

This is, hands down, the best iTunes widget I've found. And I looked long and hard. Fantastic job.

Skins are working just fine on WinXP with Konfabulator 2.1.1. The iTunes open/min/max control seems to work just fine as well, tested on XP and 2000 today.

Now if only iTunes wasn't such a resource hog... I use FooBar2000 a lot when I want a small footprint, but iTunes is "homebase" for the iPod.

The widget really rocks!

Though, one problem: with Itunes Bar running (on WinXP) my file managers (Far, TC) stop responding on Alt+F1/F2 which is quite annoying. I have tried disabling widget hotkeys -- no luck.

I've got a report that K 2.1.1 fixes the skin browser issue on XP -- so go update now ;)

Well, I&#39;ve found the way to change skins in XP. Just add a group in the skin manager and then open My Computer without close the manager and navigate to the folder where the skins are located (usually My DocumentsMy WidgetsiTunes Bar Skins). Then just copy the skins to the new group folder. After that you will be able to see the skins into the new group in manager.

It&#39;s a bit confusing but works for me. At least until the next version arrives.

By the way Daniel, it would be great if you forces the widget to find the art stored into the mp3 folder BEFORE downloading. That would be great news for windows users as we usually have cover art as Folder.jpg into each mp3 folder.

Thx a lot.

Hi DD, It seems that MP3s w/ progressive scan JPGs that were made by d&d JPGs into iTunes don&#39;t show up in your art window. I have tested by replacing the art w/ baseline JPGs and works fine. Still every once in a while, an image won&#39;t load & skipping out of the track and back in will load it. Perhaps keep checking every x seconds if no art found. Am dying to resize that window!

Love it. Will wait patiently for windows skinning to work again. One idea, what about being able to change the order of the field display. you can turn fields off, but you can&#39;t control what order they appear in. For instance I think it would be nice to display as &#39;title, rating, artist, album&#39;.
Oh, and an option to double-click for the lyrics would be nice. Sometimes I&#39;m trying to click some where on the bar and the lyrics accidently popup when I don&#39;t need them.

boy oh boy. Too good!

If you could drag the art work to iTunes this would be better than a massage from a vietnamese prostitute

This bar doesn&#39;t seem to work when &#39;Volume Logic&#39; is installed. Any help?

spankmandog: i have the same problem with alt-f4. Otherwise I love this widget, but I use a mouse gestures program that I am addicted to for closing windows, which does not work with this widget open due to the alt-f4 bug - i would use this widget for sure otherwise!

I *LOVE* this widget! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the album art display! Most of my MP3&#39;s have art attached. Can the art display please maintain aspect ratio? (Composer&#39;s portraits sure look funny squished into a square) Also, can the art display be bigger? Much bigger? as in Album Art Desktop ?!? That would be a sick bomb. I&#39;ve only had some slight issues with the desktop art not updating correctly when skipping back and forth through tracks (some already played) I&#39;ve had just a few cases of a new song having a previous tracks&#39;s art after skipping back and forth through tracks. A skin for an album art frame might be nice.

I like the form factor of this widget the best of the available iTunes widgets. Strangely, whenever the bar is being displayed I can&#39;t use Alt+F4 to close the active window. I&#39;ve tried disabling hotkeys but that doesn&#39;t work.

Looks like Konfabulator 2.1 broke the skin manager on Windows... gimme a couple weeks to try to fix this. If any Windows widgeteers are reading this, and you could help me figure out the fix, I would be grateful since I can&#39;t test on Windows very easily.

Oh :(

My skins won&#39;t work - It shows me the directory

I just updated it.

Daniel save mee

I can&#39;t figure out the dang skins either. Shows the folders but no skins within them, which is a damn shame, cause I really like this widget, and I&#39;ve seen what it can look like with skins. I&#39;m not giving up!

I can&#39;t figure out the dang skins either. Shows the folders but no skins within them, which is a damn shame, cause I really like this widget, and I&#39;ve seen what it can look like with skins. I&#39;m not giving up!

What&#39;s the deal with the skins? The skin selecter shows the skin directories as /Defaults /Glass etc but nothing in the,

I forgot to say I can&#39;t use Skin Manager cause it don&#39;t show me the skins into the folders when I select one.

Ok, I really love this widget but I cant&#39;t change the default skin. I&#39;ve tried to reinstall and nothing changed, I even tried to rename the folder that contains the skin I want (Transparent White) as the default skin folder (Plastic, I think), again nothing happens :(

Can anybody help me please?. I&#39;m running K2 on WinXP SP2. Thx.

Im on windows and Im having a problem saving artwork to file it says it cant read from the source file? any ideas or is it just my box?Gotta give it a 4 anyways I love it.

My comment has no purpose other than to lavish more praise upon this widget; having the black-glass skin full width of the screen just above the task bar - so subtle - perfect.

Email me if you have trouble -- I can't get enough info through this comments page.
In response to some comments: artwork should already be coming from the mp3/aac file before checking Amaazon. As for exporting artwork to iTunes, I hope to implement this in the future, but it's surprisingly difficult.
I once started implementing control strings to customize the display, but the complexity of specifying conditional separators made me cringe. Maybe I'll have a stab at it again some day...

I'd give it four stars for sure (the skins are great) -- but the artwork window has not displayed anything at all (most of my covers are already stored with the mp3s). (In contrast, it displays them properly in the iTunes Companion widget.) Help, please?

I'm lovin' it, Daniel.

One feature I'd really like is to have the option of showing the year right next to the album (within brackets or parenthesis, to separate it). Actually, what would make it even more awesome is if one could define a string to show in the little window. You can create variables and let people have the option of defining their own strings. Variables could include the obvious ones, like album, artist, song title, and time elapsed/remaining/total, and other less used but still useful variables, like year, rating, playcount, track number, genre and whether or not it's part of a compilation. For those users who don't want to define their own strings, you could include maybe two or three predefined simple strings, like "%song%, by %artist%, from %album%".

In my case, I'd like to use:

'%song%', by %artist%, track &tracknumber% from the album %album% %compilation%[%year%]

(the value of the variable "%compilation%" being "(compilation) " if true, and null if fa

Great Widget... I had stopped using for a while because of problems with Tiger and K2 but this version seems good.

One problem - I can't get the hot keys to work with F1, F2, F3, F4,
they always worked in the past.

I've told you before, this is THE iTunes widget, I love it, and V 3.0 is great I have just 2 features to ask.
1. Can the Artwork Window first look if you have the artwork on iTunes before searching Amazon???
2. If you have no artwork in iTunes can you make it put the one found on Amazon on iTunes???

I think those 2 would make it faster, and great

Congratulations Daniel :)
So far no problems at all, great wonderful widget.
Brilliant job, Keep up the good work! :D

The Album Art window seems to work very well, but could you have an option for no drop shadow on the album art (just the outline)? I would like to have the album art 'sit' on the desktop, not float above it...

And with version 3, it looks like iTunes Bar has become the definitive iTunes Widget.

Daniel, you rock.

Sweeeeeet. :)

I've started beta testing version 3. Please check out http://www2.konfabulator.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7022 if you are interested in testing this for me, especially if you've had problems with previous versions. Thanks!

ok so i found out how to edit/make my own skin, but the read me isn't clear on how to compress it, when i'm done.

"To compress your completed skin, do "zip -j <SkinName>.iTunesBarSkin <SkinFolder>/*" from the command like."

from the command like? this in the terminal? i tried that and it didn't work. please make it clearer on how to compress the skins.

i dropped this widget, when i started having problems with it. now i got it again and noticed you changed something about the skins. previous versions of skins let me "show package contents", so i could edit the skin, but now i can't for some reason. i'd love to use the blue glass skin, but without controls, itunes button or volume control.

2 stars, until i can edit the skins.

Brilliant Daniel, love the black glass skin. Best feautured, look & feel iTunes widget avaiable. However, I've just installed Konfabulator 2 this morning, and your lovely widget doesn't work at all now! Argh!! Getting the error message: "It either isn't a widget or you don;t have access to that file. (OpenWidget: Error unzipping widget). Anyone else suffering the same. Have re-downloaded it, although it now seems to come without the skins (not a zippped file as before?) Any ideas anyone??

This is a great little all-in-one iTunes widget. I'm a fan of the clear white skin. My only gripe is the icon all the way on the left. It's really ugly. Is there any way to kill it?

I was having the same problem as other people (widget wouldn't load, message about not being a valid widget). Tried deleting itunes Bar.widget folder in Local Settingsapplication datapixoriakonfabulator folder and that made the error go away, but I still couldn't see the widget. Finally fixed it by deleting the iTunes Bar folder under Widget data (in the same folder).

I used the "reinstall skins" option in preferences, and got this error:

Error insalling Itunes Bar Skins

Please email etc etc

command results:
mkdir: zsh: unmatched'
cp: zsh: unmatched'

Damn -- sorry about the problems on XP. I have yet to figure out what's wrong. My last final exam is tomorrow so I'll be able to put a bit more time into debugging it. Please let me know if you have any ideas.

Every time I load this widget, I get

"There was an error loading the skin <any skin>. Please check your preferences"

This happens no matte where I locate the skins file, after reinstalls of Konfab and the widget, no matter what I do.

Im still having trouble opening this widget. Tried deleting the itunes bar.widget folder, without effect. On win xp. I get the install new skins dialog, then nothing. Anyone know whats wrong? Thanks

When it's scrolling a song title and also is displaying time elapsed/remaining, it resets the scroll each second (when the time ticks up/down). Is there a way to put the time somewhere else to prevent this?

If you're running Windows and have trouble opening the widget, try deleting the folder C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Pixoria\Konfabulator\iTunes Bar.widget
Thanks to Carlo for discovering this tip. Email me if you still have trouble (my address is my full name without a space, followed by @cmu.edu)

i had the same problem as carlo, but it was working for a while and then just inexplicably started crapping out on me yesterday. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling konfab, but no dice. also downloading a fresh copy of the widget didn't work either. itunes bar seems to be the only widget thats giving me issues, i'm confused. i'm running konfab v1.8.3 for windows.

I have a feeling the problem you're having (Carlo and Max) are related to Konfabulator rather than iTunes Bar -- try contacting support(AT)konfabulator(DOT)com and see if they can help you. Otherwise, email me directly and we can try to work it out. My email address is in the About box of the widget.

I have to say this is amongst the greatest widgets ever! Thanks for this.
But, I'm experiencing the same problem as Max does, The first time I ran the program, it popped up a donation dialog, after that everything worked nicely. Now I've restarted my PC and reloaded Konfab, but iTunes Bar no more.. I've tried reinstalling/redownloading iTunes Bar.widget without any luck. :/

It says "Could not open C:Documents and SettingsUsernameMy WidgetsiTunes Bar.widget"
(OpenWidget: Error unzipping widget)

Anyone else got the same problem?
Thanks in advance

im having some issues with the last version
it says to download the new skins and do nothing, well, but the skins are there anyway, then it asks for a donation, ok, and then it just works once, and no more.
i have an error saiyng that theres an error unpacking the widget.
ive downloaded several times, overwriting the original and still not work, any help ?
anyway , this is the best widget for itunes, ever, thanks.
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That's a great idea, to drag-n-drop a skin onto the widget to load it. Will be done in the next version (which might not be for a little while, so no breath-holding, please).

As for zipping up a skin, the command needs a trailing "/*" -- "zip -j <SkinName>.iTunesBarSkin <SkinFolder>/*" -- it's a typo in the About file. I'll provide a way to make it easier to develop skins in the next version.

Would it be possible to make the iTunes Bar load a skin when it's dragged and dropped on the controller? Also, whenever I try to zip a skin (through the Terminal) it returns: "zip: No match." If I try to run it as a new command, I get: "zip error: Nothing to do!" Luckily, the included skins are awesome enough that it doesn't bother me too much.

Amazing widget I must say. I was curious has anyone played with making any skins that are larger like around 60px high? Or are there any sites out there with other skins for this? Was messing with skinning my own but I guess there is some sort of incompatibility between The Gimp's PNG files and the widget =/.

One comment though. Is there a way to make it so that the currently playing track does not fade away when paused, maybe only when truly stopped?

I wanted to say thanks to all the people that have donated -- I appreciate it a lot! I'll try to incorporate your suggestions, like having elapsed/remaining time instead of total.

In answer to Logan's question: there's no such thing as bundles in Windows so I had to devise a new file format for skins. .iTunesBarSkin files are actually zip archives -- change their file extension to .zip and decompress it the usual way. To compress the folder, do "zip -j <SkinName>.iTunesBarSkin <SkinFolder>" from the command line. Email me if you have trouble.

Best iTunes remote bar I've ever seen. Apple should take some design hints from you!

I love this widget too! The one thing I wonder is if I am able to create my own skin. With the last version, I just modified one of the skins to have a white background instead of black, and it blended in with my menu bar quite well. When I looked to do this with the new version, I wasn't able to. Daniel, is there a way?

I love this widget--a lot--and it's the best iTunes remote I've found. The only thing is, I would love to be able to choose from time elapsed, remaining, and total. It's still perfect, though.

As others have said, this is the best iTunes controller available. I want to stress that I don't mean just for Konfabulator, I mean platform-wide.

Hello everyone. Thanks as always for your comments -- I really appreciate them. I'm working on version 2.3 right now which will be cross-platform. I recently got a copy of VirtualPC and realized that I can buy XP for cheap at my school computer store, so I can finally test on a PC now. Also, 2.3 lyrics searching can interface with widgets like Sing That iTune!. If Konfabulator 2.0 is released soon enough, I might be able to include some more feature. See you soon!

Windows... I want it.

This widget is the primary reason that I registered Konfabulator. If I could I would give it five stars; it is simply the best iTunes controller widget out there.

You are aware that "Nowhere Man" isn't on _Rubber Soul_, aren't you?

Your iTunes bar is still the best one!
I sure hope you make it for Windows one day...
(Even though I still like my Macs better!!!)

I love how I can stretch it out the length of the screen and see the reeeeaaaallllyyyy llllloooonnnnngggggggg song titles at one glance!

-DNA

Wonderful UI, functional, and useful. Thank you.

Exceptional.

Absolutely awesome! I love the convenience of the transparent bars- VERY WELL DONE. Thanks so much!

Hi Dan , finally the new version :)

Hi Dan , finally the new version :)

Awesome widget!!!

i used to really love this widget, but i noticed it has some bugs now that came with its new features. i don't like having the song info, rating or lyrics thing, so i shrink it to a short bar, but the rating thing goes over the itunes button, even though i have rating turned off. its very annoying. if i want to rate my music, i would go rate it in itunes or via that rate widget someone made.

so until that issue is fixed, i can't give you full stars, sorry.

The skinnability of this widget is great; however, I'd like to see a 'hide when iTunes is not playing' option as I use this pretty much to display track info and progress. It would be nice, but this is a four-star effort nonetheless.

Disregard that last comment, I closed it checking out my other widgets to see if they had the same problem and them I opened this widget back up and it showed the track names and everything just fine again. Weird problem but it works now.

I just updated to OS X 10.3.5 and now this widget isn't registering anything from iTunes. It says "undefined - undefined - undefined"

Another weird thing is that after I restarted from the upgrade to 10.3.5, the iTunes app was gone from inside the music folder.

Nevermind, I'm a fool. iTunes simply wasn't running. *smacks himself in the forehead*

I did the trick to make the white transparent the same as it was before, however the skin is now very transparent even though I have it set to opacity 100%. Any way I can fix this? The old skin needs to return, at least as another option.

thanks for your response. this is once again my favourite widget!!!

Also, we need a skin done to look like OSX Tiger's spotlight, with the nice, glassy blue.

Is there away to make it higher, i.e. larger font + button size?

If you want the original Transparent skins, follow these simple instructions: 1) Control-click on the Transparent Black/White.bundle file in the Finder and do Show Package Contents. 2)Go into the Contents folder and open Skin Info.xml with a text editor. Change "<src>bg.png</src>" on line 35 to "<src>blank.png</src>". That's it. But don't you find it impossible to hit the buttons when there's no background?

It is great but I agree with ib the old version of transparent white is better, the dark background doesn't "work" as well. Any chance of getting that skin back?

how can i get the previous version of "transparent white" skin? with updated version i lost my favourite one. i don't care for others. the new "transparent is not transparent - it has a dark background. can you send it to me? other then that - it's great

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frebe - I've added Lyrics Robot to the lyrics search in the upcoming 2.2.0. Can't do goLyrics because of the way it queries the search engine.

telos - It's actually pretty hard to include options for different text layouts, and you can see how crowded the prefs panel is already. An upcoming version of K is supposed to allow for bigger prefs panels so it could be a possibility in the future...

Thanks everyone for your comments! Remember if you need me to get back to you quickly, email is better as I don't check here very often (see About box for email address).

Peace!

Hi all -- I haven't updated in a while so I'll do some catching up.

First of all, pcote - thanks for pointing out the rollover zone issue. I had fixed the problem immediately after K 1.6 was released (which had caused the problem) but forgot to upload it. 2.2.0 was going to be a bit more substantial but I've submitted it to the gallery for approval with that bug fix and a few other smaller stuff, so hopefully that'll be available within a week.

And to everyone that wanted int'l characters to show up instead of ?'s -- if you haven't noticed already, the latest version of Konfabulator fixes this issue. Kudos to Arlo and Perry!

Gramage - showing actual remaining time is a bit annoying currently because it only updates every 4 seconds and looks very sluggish. There is a way to update every second without polling iTunes every second, but that'll take some substantial work so I haven't worked that in there yet... maybe in the semi-near future...

frebe - I've added Lyrics Robo

Rollover zones (clickable zones) are BAD... especially with the glass themes. You need to place the mouse EXACTLY over the wanted button before clicking it. Also, there should be a way to lock the bar in place because bad rollover zones often leads into moving the bar out of place.

Great widget but needs theses thing to be fixed before being perfect.

EXCELLENT! I love the iTunes bar, especially the ability to add ratings on the fly, and both library and streaming radio station name/artist/track title. No problems with the default arrangement of the respective controls as the developer has put a lot of thought for the most logical arrangement. I hide the dock automatically so the itunes launcher is very useful. In my opinion, the best place to put iTunes bar is at the bottom of the screen.

nice widget! probably the best iTunes controller

however, it would be cool to have the option to display/not display the volume control, progress bar and, in particular, the (imho rather useless) iTunes link.

it would also be nice to have the option of choosing how the text is displayed ("Artist - Song" or "Song by Artist", or "Song - Arist - Album", etc)

w00t, L'Ombre :D

Great iTunes widget. Easy to use and easy to skin. Just made my first skin ever. I use Synergy, so I reskinned it to get rid of the controls and to match my current theme (Latium 2.0). I'm sending it off to you right now.
Hi Gramage.

Probably the most used widget I have, totally awesome. It's strange, I have a bigger monitor now, but I'm even more concerned with saving space... Which this does an amazing job of.

Anyways, one suggetion: Option to show remaining time, not just total time. Or maybe remaining time instead of the progress bar. I like to know exactly how much time I have left (dunno why...).

That's no reason to take off a star though, nice job :)

Wow!!! This is an incredibly awesome widget. Thanks, Daniel!

Great widget, when can it support da songs with chinese names?

Really excellent widget! For the very nice lyrics feature, it would be great if you could add more extensive lyrics databases, like the Lyrics Robot (http://www.lyricsrobot.com/) or the very vast goLyrics base (http://www.golyr.de/songtextsuche.htm).

Very nice. The best iTunes Widget.

What about to select playlists?

Still my favorite widget! iTuner doesn't touch this one, yet. iTuner looks terrible if you're running themes. I love the transparent skins, but would be nice to see more. Maybe I'll get around to making a few. Thanks!

Wow, I can't believe I never tried this Widget out.

Kick ass job, makes me not want to finish the mini iTunes Widget now.

Before this i used to have about 3 iTunes widgets, now i only need one. Every iTunes feature i ever wanted. Sweet.

It _looks_ better than iTuner, no? ;)

One of the best controlers that i've ever used for itunes but it still can't beat ituner go to www.macupdate.com to check out some cool stuff.

it's an awesome widget; took me by surprise just now, I haven't been keeping up with my widgets for a while. Only problem- won't show foreign characters, such as Russian or Japanese fonts. Maybe it's just me. But. Whatever I do, they come up as question marks.

Best widget I have, but one suggestion, add a feature that lets you change the rating of a song. I always have iTunes Bar and TuneRater running at the same time, wastes space. Maybe you could add the stars somewhere in the bar and make them clickable to change the rating of the current song like in Tune Rater.
Keep up the amazing work.

THANKS so much for a really useful Widget. It takes up very little room, and sits at the edge of my Powerbook 12 screen, reminding me to listen to quiet classical music, putting me into a good mood for work....you have helped me to get things done !!! Seriously, it is great! Thanks !!!

If cd covers are not a fetish, this is the best compact iTunes widget controller. Thanks for the development!

This is a great widget! I've been using it for quite some time and have found it very useful.

Wicked-sweet. The only thing I could possibly suggest is a way to change playlists, but I shouldn't even mention it because this widget is so convenient and complete that the four star rating is unavoidable.

The ??? display of non-ASCII characters is due to a current Konfabulator limitation. The next (?) version of K should fix this automagically ;)

I've been using this fantastic little widget for a bit now. I enjoy it thoroughly and it's been of utmost use during unexpected phone calls, and being able to hide everything about iTunes. I stick this little widget right below my menubar, right where it fits in best :D

Great widget. Any chance in supporting the display of double-byte (East Asian such as Chinese) language track names? It is showing up as ??? ???? right now in the Arist and Track Name display. Thanks!

looks pretty good, but nevertheless i disabled it and now it comes back at every new start....had to trash it

Robert: try doing Repair Disk Permissions with Disk Utility. This seems to fix random breakages. If you still have problems, feel free to email me at the address in the About box with details.

This seems to be broken for me now with Konfabulator 1.53.
Worked fine on 1.52

Good call, Mick. I'd been meaning to do that for a while but had been putting it off -- until now ;) I think (I hope) this will be the last update in a while, anyways.

Nice that you continue to work on this, but getting weekly reminders that a new version is available when I start up is getting annoying. How about a way to disable that function in the preferences?

Thanks for the suggestions. Disabling "click-through" for the lyrics search is pretty much done, and probably will be released with next weekend's updates. Selecting a playlist from the widget will take some serious work, which I'm afraid I won't have time for. You might wanna check out Knut August Johansen's excellent Itunes Companion widget (I usually have that widget running alongside mine). As for "automatically hide iTunes," I'm not sure what you mean. How do you envision this happening?

Wow. i cant understand why i didnt try it earlier.
its as unobtrusive as i always wished it to be.
Thank you.

but would it be possible to remotley select the different playlist of iTunes so that we'd only have to rely on your little sweetness? ;) furthermore what about a feature that would automatically hide iTunes?

cheerz. and continue the good work.

I love the new lyrics search feature, but I feel it is too easy to click on accidently. It would be nice if you had to click and select the iTunes bar before you clicked on the name to open up the lyrics search.

Nice widget. Its smal... look nice on my desktop... and never lost the control of the coolest Apple app.

iTunes bar is my favourite widget by far.

I actually modded mine a bit yesterday. It's not a completely new skin as such, i've just changed the black skin (size/colour) so that it matches my dock. you can see it here,

http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=63841

As i said, it's not really a new skin, but if anyone wants it (or wants to know how it's made) just mail me @spymac.

Thanks for all the kind words :)

Tim, I don't include time displays because currently the widget only polls iTunes every 4 seconds and a time display looks annoyingly sluggish at that refresh rate. I'm reluctant to poll iTunes any more than it does currently for performance reasons, and because it would make the iTunes-can't-quit problem worse (which seems to be back with Panther, unfortunately.)

As for having options to select what to display -- I like the idea. It's done (for 2.1.2)!

This is one of my favorites.

A couple of possible ideas.
There is the progress bar, what about an optional time elapsed or remaining as well?

What about making what is displayed as options?
Such as, have the option of displaying albulm, track number, or other information that could be displayed.

Great work!

SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

Easily the best iTunes controller...hands down. No B.S. Some more skins would be great!

This is the best iTunes control bar out of all of them. The actual bar is incredibly useful, but even better are the keyboard shortcuts to pause, play, skip, and do other things without having to move the mouse at all. Excellent widget.

Please email with details if you have problems -- I really would like to eliminate any bugs. Having said that, v2.1 with bug fixes, new skins and many other improvements should be up in a few days so please try it and see if you still have problems.

Meanwhile, in my infinite wisdom I managed to nuke my entire Documents folder, so I'm hoping v2.1 is safely in Arlo and Perry's hands. Or else...

I have had some problems with this on panther. There are some visual glitches on it sometimes.

maelgwn, can you email me at "danieldickison at cmu dot edu" with more details about your problem? I haven't heard about such problems yet and would like to track it down. Thanks!

This is great but it doesnt show the information about the track for me. I think it is off the to left but nothing i do seems to make the information show. I am using a biege g3 running 10.2.6

ATTENTION SKINNERS:
I'd love to include more skins with iTunes Bar. Please look inside the package (iTunes Bar.widget/Contents/Resources/Skins/) for information about making and sending me skins.

And Lorenzo: I'm glad you like it :)

One of the best! Thanks :)