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%nickname% - November 6, 2007
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Hey, I love the widget. One request: in the "Hotkeys" section, could you make it so we can disable some of the controls? I only want a few of them active, so I'd like to be able to set the others to no key binding. Thank you!
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gomets16 - October 27, 2007
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Really good, although it sometimes does strange things, like changing the volume on my iTunes playback. Also, the lyrics synchronization does not work for me.
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orkey2000 - October 15, 2007
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program is amazing, however, i just downgraded my widget from 4.0.5 or wtvr it is to the older 3.14 or wtvr version widgets because i thought the heads up display was an awesome feature and it was worth downgrading for. the only problem is, the new itunes companion wont work with it. what is the last version i can get to work with it?
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nickgymnast@sbcglobal.net - October 11, 2007
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I love this widget, and I've been using it for the last year or so. My only problem with it after this last update is that I can't figure out how to delete the synchronization that I accidentally created. Is there any way to do this? If nothing else, it would be nice to know where the synchronization files are kept, so I can directly delete it. Thanks for the incredible widget, and thanks for hearing me out!
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rondson_vale - October 11, 2007
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I'm having the same problem described by the user"Jack". After updating to iTunes 7.4.3.1 in Windows Vista my iTunes Companion Widget stopped recognizing it, saying it's not installed in my computer. I hope the developer updates that soon.
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%nickname% - October 11, 2007
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Great widget! I tried to donate, but PayPal indicates "page not found".
I will keep checking though.
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heykrazi - October 9, 2007
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hey, just updated to iTunes version 7.4.3.1 and my widget doesnt even recognise when iTunes is running? when i delete and reinstall widget it works, until next time i log on after a restart and it does not find iTunes running... obv it works with iTunes 7.4.3.1 but what settings do I need to change so that it can pick up when iTunes is 'on'? I'm kinda not a whiz with computers so as much detail as possible please - i love this widget and want it to work... thanks in advance for any help, needless to say much appreciated.
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dosmediaman - October 7, 2007
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Perfect.... There's just one thing wrong with it.
This widget can't display album artwork for songs with ITunes Version 7.4.3.1!
Can you please fix that?
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dosmediaman - September 16, 2007
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Perfect! This Widget could not be any better! Excellent!
I've been looking for this to long. This is the Sh!t.
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ipodfreak12490 - September 7, 2007
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Very useful app. I love it! I hate how iTunes won't download album artwork unless you have an account set up at the iTunes store. Now i dont have to. Plus I was missing a BUNCH of artwork for my albums...NOT ANYMORE!..
Great job.
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gaspipe86 - September 2, 2007
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Yeah, the lyrics stopped working -- about a year ago. PLEASE fix it. This is what you get now when you "search" com 630.000+ lyrics in the biggest community in the world</TITLE> <META name='robots' content='INDEX,FOLLOW'> <META name='keywords' content='lyrics, music song lyrics ,SONG LYRICS,letras de musicas, letras de canciones , songtext, songtexte'> <META name='description' content='Lyrics'> <link href='style.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <script language=javascript src='http://ads.addynamix.com/creative/2-2125139-6j?'></script> <noscript language=javascript><a href='http://ads.addynamix.com/click/2-2125139-6'><img src='http://ads.addynamix.com/creative/2-2125139-6' border=0></a></noscript> </head> <body style='text-align: left' topmargin= This comment applies to version 6.1 |
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starhannes - August 31, 2007
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Excellent but PLEASE fix the lyrics download! huge pain but i know how great this is otherwise! thanks!
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willow_bob - August 22, 2007
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Excellent, BUT the lyrics download has stopped working :((((
Not the fault of the software but probably the website it links to.
All you get now is a load of gobbledegook HTML and that is with all songs that have lyrics or not, so beware , unless you want to duty of removing all that coding from your lyrics tabs in itunes.
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%nickname% - August 22, 2007
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This is the coolest widget I have ever used till date. I have been using the iTunes Companian Widget from the very first, even before yahoo took over Konfiburator and changed the name as Yahoo Widgets.
It has beenmore than 2 years I have been using this widget with all the latest updates on windows XP Professional. Now I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate edition and reinstalled which widget. The problem I am facing is the HOTKEYS, track info, title, status bar, artwork, etc do not work. But I am still able to pause, play, forward and rewind the music using the manual controls in the widget. I have also run the iTunes.exe /regserve to solve this but still NO LUCK. Please let me know if there is any solution to this.
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dskimberlin - August 10, 2007
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Love this widget. I have one issue when I "Scan entire library" it locks up in a certain place every time. Through troubleshooting I have figured out the issue only occurs when "download and place lyrics in iTunes" is checked. Any fix for this? The lyrics check box works fine when I am just listening to my library.
This comment applies to version 6.1 |
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krypticide - August 9, 2007
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For some reason it makes iTunes start automatically, and I don't have the option enabled. How can I fix this?
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%nickname% - August 7, 2007
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Knut:
This widget is God!
but you know it. :)
Diego G.
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%nickname% - August 6, 2007
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Great widget, one of the best out there. I do have a feature request however. I know there is currently an option to dismiss artwork but I would love an option to accept artwork. I usually don't want to add it to albums and don't do so automatically, but there are some cases (such as when iTunes doesn't have the artwork) where I do want to add album art via itunes companion. It would be great if there were a button in addition to dismiss that would allow users to choose to add a song to their library. Hopefully this could make it into a future update to this widget. Thanks and keep up the good work.
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willow_bob - August 6, 2007
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THIS IS THE BEST SOFTWARE !!
IGNORE LAST COMMENT - I TAKE IT BACK ! IT WORKS PERFECTLY . THOROUGHLY RECOMMEND !!
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%nickname% - July 29, 2007
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I figured out my problem. It had to do with exceeding my quota on my webspace. Oops! Thanks again Knut for a great widget! :)
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%nickname% - July 27, 2007
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I have started seeing problems with web publishing the currently playing song info. I am using iTunes 7.3.1, Yahoo Widgets 4.0.5, and iTunes Companion 6.1. The problem occurs on both Mac OS X and Windows. The files are FTPed into the right place, but they are all zero bytes. Anyone else see this?
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%nickname% - July 15, 2007
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I figured out this problem on my own. This program stores the image files on the disk in the My Pictures\CDCovers folder. For some reason, numerous albums were listed in this folder as "noCover". I can only figure this happened when I ran this thing last year when I went away and let everything play to load the artwork and lyrics. At some point the internet connection went down, and it was not finding covers, so this must have happened. If I delete the nocover folders, the artwork is loaded when I play songs now. But if that NoCover folder is there, it will not auto load the artwork.
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%nickname% - July 15, 2007
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I just started using the iTunes Companion again. Certain times, and for some very popular bands like Rush, Judas Priest, etc. it will not find the artwork. But if I right click the blank jewel case screen, and select "Search at Amazon.com" it immediately finds the artwork. So, its there, but many times it won't grab it automatically. Other times, it finds the artwork without my nudge.
Any ideas?
-- Gary chsmoot at yahoo.com
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%nickname% - July 15, 2007
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Found this wicket today. Does not run with the latest iTunes (7.3). Reports that iTunes is not running.
Could not check the widget because of this. Hope this will be fixed as it sounds very good.
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%nickname% - July 9, 2007
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I found this widget pretty useful, but nonetheless, there are a few problems I noticed..
1) Everytime I close the itunes itself, I get an error message or windows error.
2) After a while, the widget stops responding, and eventually crashes and you get an error message.
3) The cover suddenly hangs although the controls are still responsive but sometimes you get a glitch, and when you get to the next song you still have the same cover.
4) The "always-on-top" option doesn't work properly.
On top of everything else, it's a pretty decent widget, I was supposed to give a donation, but man it annoys me sometimes I have to spend time fixing it up and run it again everytime I encounter these bugs.
Bottom line is, it's a badass widget, hope the coder could fix it up and I would be happy to donate. Cheers.
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%nickname% - July 9, 2007
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I have just upgraded Itunes to version 7.3.0.54 and the widget has stopped working. It just reports that Itunes is not running even though it is. I would be very grateful if you could fix this as I really like this widget and I contributed a while back.
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%nickname% - June 17, 2007
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I love this widget and have been using for awhile now, but is there any chance that you may make a new skin for this. Something other than the jewel case?
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%nickname% - June 17, 2007
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I love this widget and have been using for awhile now, but is there any chance that you may make a new skin for this. Something other than the jewel case?
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%nickname% - June 17, 2007
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AWESOME widget, lots of functionalities, works great !
Feedback: A feature for scanning selected songs or a search feature would be great :D
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rkg_6 - June 14, 2007
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Hey you! It's the best widget that i have ever seen!!!!! i'd like to send an email to you to congratulate but i didn't find a contact address! as soon as i got some money i'll donate you becauese your widget is awesome!
thx man!
greetings!
RKG
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emirae1091 - June 6, 2007
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i love this widget. its my favourite one. but itunes updated again and now it doesnt work :( hopefully this will be fixed soon, cause its the best ever.
This comment applies to version 6.1 |
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%nickname% - June 4, 2007
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This Widget rocks!! By far, the best iTunes Widget I've seen and used.
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nickgymnast@sbcglobal.net - May 31, 2007
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I'm not sure how feasible this is, but here goes:
I've noticed that by dragging the stars in the widget, one can get "half-stars", which I can't seem to achieve any other way. This is excellent, but could you make them visible in the widget, by any chance? That would be awesome.
P.S. The widget is incredible, and I've already made a donation to prove I mean it.
This comment applies to version 6.0.1 |
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%nickname% - May 25, 2007
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Exelente widget, hace bastante tiempo keria encontrar una aplicacion para el iTunes k tuviera Hotkey, y k mostrara el album art!... gracias a dios. lo encontre...
Solo 1 pequeño detalle... no funciona el fade out...... la imagen del album se keda todo el tiempo...
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%nickname% - May 25, 2007
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Exelente widget, hace bastante tiempo keria encontrar una aplicacion para el iTunes k tuviera Hotkey, y k mostrara el album art!... gracias a dios. lo encontre...
Solo 1 pequeño detalle... no funciona el fade out...... la imagen del album se keda todo el tiempo...
This comment applies to version 6.0.1 |
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spereira82 - May 18, 2007
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I am a registered user. I downloaded the latest and now I get this.
Errors prevented this Widget from making itself visible
onLoad: TypeError: dockCoverArt has no properties (onLoad:main.js: Line 6002)
Please help
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traevore - May 11, 2007
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By far the best widget I have seen yet here.
So many features, there is absolutely no need for any other itunes widgets
This comment applies to version 6.0.1 |
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%nickname% - May 9, 2007
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Latest version does not load on Windows XP
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%nickname% - May 8, 2007
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It will not load on windows. How hard is it to get something to load?
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cruciarius - May 6, 2007
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Oops. Ignore that last comment I made. Just found out how to resize it. Now I just hope it can actually find the right album art this time...
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cruciarius - May 6, 2007
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I'm unsure what version I used to have, but it stopped being any use, after Konfab v4 (it loaded the wrong album art and sometimes couldn't find the album art although I have it saved on my HD). So I downloaded this new version and I can't resize the giant cd case. Make it small again, please. It's unusable to me, at such an enormous size.
This comment applies to version 6.0.1 |
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barneyh - May 5, 2007
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This widget is so good I made a donation. I was going to ask if you could update it to show the artwork in the Yahoo Widget Dock but you have already done this. Thanks again.
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preso101 - May 3, 2007
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Firstly this is an exceptional widget - i use it every time i get a new album. Great work. i have had similar problems to the other comments below, but being on a Mac it was quite simple to fix myself - i feel sad for those poor Windoze people. Now my problem is this; since updating iTunes, the Widget Engine and iTunes Companion a pop-up has appeared on iC asking for a donation - no problem there i want to donate. But when i hit the donate button it boots up a 404 message in Safari - dead link? Also the 'thankyou' audio is a nice touch but recorded and outputed for too high - scared the teenage girl out of me first time it happened!
So - Knut please let me know how i can give you some money for your exceptional creation (so i can give 4 stars).
Thanks.
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scenesfromadreamm - April 29, 2007
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it's good. but now forces itunes to open every time it starts, even though i have settings set otherwise. please fix that.
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scenesfromadreamm - April 29, 2007
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it's good. but now forces itunes to open every time it starts, even though i have settings set otherwise. please fix that.
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%nickname% - April 27, 2007
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New version isn't wokring on the Mac. I get the following error when trying to install, then open using new widget installer;
onLoad: TypeError: vitalityDoc.getElementById is not a function (onLoad:main.js: Line 135)
Errors prevented this Widget from making itself visible
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latafatal - April 27, 2007
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Hi everybody
Same thing as RinkRat
Help us please!
I am unable to get this awesome widget to work. It used to work until I upgrade iTunes. I am running XP SP2, Yahoo W E 4 and iTunes 7.1.1.5.
I get the following error when I try to open the widget:
Could not open Widget .....
Unknown exception encountered during onLoad (OpenWidget).
Please help.
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latafatal - April 27, 2007
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Hi everybody
Same thing as RinkRat
Help us please!
I am unable to get this awesome widget to work. It used to work until I upgrade iTunes. I am running XP SP2, Yahoo W E 4 and iTunes 7.1.1.5.
I get the following error when I try to open the widget:
Could not open Widget .....
Unknown exception encountered during onLoad (OpenWidget).
Please help.
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redtensor - April 26, 2007
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Thanks for continuing to develop this widget. It's been a real time-saver adding lyrics to 7000 songs. And now a detachable lyrics window? Bravo!
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%nickname% - April 11, 2007
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I am unable to get this awesome widget to work. It used to work until I upgrade iTunes. I am running XP SP2, Yahoo W E 4 and iTunes 7.1.1.5.
I get the following error when I try to open the widget:
Could not open Widget .....
Unknown exception encountered during onLoad (OpenWidget).
Please help.
This comment applies to version 5.5.1 |
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shemtovo - April 10, 2007
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best widget ever!
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oscar_l_90 - April 10, 2007
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Can anybody tell me how to change the preferences of this widget so it save the album art automatically to my itunes instead of giving me a webpage to Google Images? And also, how do you use the automatic lyrics functionality?
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%nickname% - April 9, 2007
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Nevermind the previous feedback. This works great!
pettusta try downloading the Y! Widget Engine 4...
The suggestion, though, stays in place... a "scan ipod" or even "scan selected songs" would be perfect.
Cheers.
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athiker95 - April 7, 2007
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Outstanding! Works like a charm with XP Home SP2 and iTunes 7.1.1.5. Especially like the feature where it adds the lyrics as soon as you play a song and puts that info into iTunes so it is available on one's iPod.
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%nickname% - April 6, 2007
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Well this widget really needs an update. Doesnt work with last version software (iTunes/Yahoo W E).
Suggestion for new versions: put a "scan ipod" option.
Thx
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pettusta - March 29, 2007
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This would be a great widget if it actually worked. I guess Yahoo doesn't test any of these widgets before listing them in the 'Featured' section. The thing won't even load on my machine. I am using iTunes 7.1 and Win XP SP2. Looks like several others have had this problem. Is the author there? Help us please!
This comment applies to version 5.5.1 |
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kayakertim - March 27, 2007
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This is my favorite Widget of all time. Thank you so much Knut
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%nickname% - March 26, 2007
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Please Knut! Update your widget!!
It no longer works with Y!WE 4, cause loss of unix utils (and so curl util too)!
Thanx
Marco
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gaspipe86 - March 25, 2007
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The lyrics feature no longer works. Fails to find lyrics for anything I'm playing. Please fix!
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%nickname% - March 24, 2007
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HEEELP!!!
i upgraded to Yahoo! Widgets 4; iTunes Companion (5.5.1) does no more download artcovers from internet when listening to radio!!!
why that???
thanx
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notwheatbutoatsinsteadabix - March 22, 2007
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Please please please release a version of this that will work with the new iTunes (7.1.0.59). I've been using this widget for almost a year now and it's awesome. I use it almost constantly and I can't live without it now. Don't let Apple make iTunes Companion obsolete!
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ciyrose - March 20, 2007
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I love this widget...at least I did. My computer no longer lets it work and I don't know why. I've tired all the ideas, gone through cmd, reinstalled Itunes, reinstalled the widget....I don't know why I won't run. If you have any ideas I would love to hear them...I miss this widget...it was awsome. I also dontated back in the day.....
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exil_fischkopp - March 18, 2007
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Hi Knut,
thanks for your great tool. I stopped for a while when I switched from Windows to Mac OS X and the dashboard, but there is just nothing comparable for Apple's Dashboard!
Through the swith, I seem to have lost the mail telling me how to disable the nags after I donated last April, though. I don't recall ever receiving one, anyway.
Please help me!
Thanks,
André
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foureverskiff - March 17, 2007
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Hi Knut,
i'm a great fan of your fantastic widget (and i'm a supporter too ;-))
no problems upgrading to latest version of itunes (currently 7.1.1 installed)
i'm posting right now just to say that the widget is fully working on my pc... and it works very well ;-)
thanx knut for all your work
greetings from north Italy ;-)
below i report my foremost HW/SW specs, just if someone is interested....
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
512 MB RAM
64 MB Shared AGP Video Card
Windows XP Professional SP2
Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.1.1
iTunes 7.1.1.5
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%nickname% - March 9, 2007
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this widget is the BOMB!! LOVE IT!, best donation I ever made! I literally cannot say enought about this widget...awesome. I also upgraded my itunes to 7.1 and have had no problems with the widget since the upgrade
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%nickname% - March 9, 2007
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this widget is the BOMB!! LOVE IT!, best donation I ever made! I literally cannot say enought about this widget...awesome.
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emirae1091 - March 8, 2007
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i updated itunes to version 7.1.0.59 and now this doesnt work! what do i do??
i LOVED this before i updated though! (when it worked)
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discken - March 7, 2007
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New Itunes update has broken your widget. I am a registered user and hope a fix is in the works
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batsabode - March 6, 2007
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Got an email now, it works thanks.
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batsabode - March 6, 2007
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I donated and receiveed an email from paypal, but I cannot see any way of getting rid of the donate nagging. Dont see anywhere in the prgram either to enter anything to stop it! Any help please???
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brubaker_jon - March 5, 2007
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The widget appears to no longer with the update to iTunes (7.1). I hope a fix comes soon. I really enjoy this widget.
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orkey2000 - February 25, 2007
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For those who dont know, becuase I had the same problem, when you donate whatever amount you donate, because it uses PayPal, it will send you a reciept to the email address you registered with PayPal and in that emai message it will explain how to get rid of the nag (donation box). Please read the email before complaining..
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orkey2000 - February 25, 2007
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Love the program and use it all the time, however, a problem that occurs every single time wiht the widget..
Problem: When i use the hotkeys or open itunes, the widget works great with the program, but once i close itunes and attempt to reopen with the hotkeys or by pushing play on the widget, it doesnt work. (it wont open itunes or if i open itunes, it wont download lyrics or show whats playing, etc..)
I am using the most recent 5.5.1 widget and 7.0.2 itunes
This comment applies to version 5.5.1 |
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fingersr50 - February 24, 2007
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Great Widget!
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%nickname% - February 20, 2007
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I would have hoped that my request for half-star ratings would have by now generated some kind of response from the author. It's been 8 weeks since I mentioned this.
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Does the author take requests?
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dvdgtmn69 - February 18, 2007
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When i try to open the widget, it says that itunes companion is unable to load itself succesfully. Do you have any advice?
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jport4087 - January 29, 2007
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Knut,
Thank you for the quick response to my email...This widget is the best....No more nag screen. Keep up the good work; it is greatly appreciated.
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jport4087 - January 29, 2007
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Knut,
Thank you for the quick response to my email...This widget is the best....No more nag screen. Keep up the good work; it is greatly appreciated.
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jport4087 - January 28, 2007
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I love this widget and have sent Knut a donation but am still getting the nag screen..I have read that entering the registration key stops the nag screen. My questions: will I receive a key? If so, where do I even enter it into the widget?
The nag screen is driving me insane. I will uninstall this widget if I do not get this figured out soon. I thought that sending Knut his just rewards would do it, but I am still getting the nag screen...Someone please help!!!
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phil.watts - January 26, 2007
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Fantastic. Even when I'm listening to radio on iTunes, if the station bothers to broadcast the track details, the widget downloads the album artwork. Great stuff!
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lachlan_james_ellison - January 22, 2007
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The Donation Box has to go, put it in the 'about widget' section, this aspect is repelling rather than attracting consumers thus it would get more popular, i think you'd get more money that way, everyone who agrees say I!
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%nickname% - January 20, 2007
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I'm registered and since I entered my key, haven't seen the "donation box." Maybe dupontchamp2 has forgotten to enter the key?
This is a sterling program and would be perfect (for me, anyhow) if it supported adding half star ratings...:)
TS
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nennof - January 18, 2007
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Donation pop-up beyond pain in the b@t. Author should let people know ahead of time that if you do not donate widget stops working. Otherwise a great widget.
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dupontchamp02 - January 18, 2007
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i really do love this widget, but the donation box has to go. i donated months ago and i've just recently stopped using it altogether because it annoys me so much. i'm sure i'm not the only person incredibly annoyed by this.
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ethgra - January 17, 2007
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BEST WIDGET IN EXISTENCE. WHOEVER YOU ARE YOU ARE AMAZING... THANK YOU!!!!
for everyone else who doesn't have this widget... GET IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
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jackiemisu - January 15, 2007
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Yes! I've been doing all the dragging and dropping from Amazon.com all day trying to update my library with cover art, and I wish I had seen this sooner!
Thanks so much!! This is AWESOME.
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%nickname% - January 15, 2007
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THIS WIDGET HAS GOT TO BE THE BEST ONE IN THE LIBRARY!!! keep up the good work man. a million stars. :D
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%nickname% - January 10, 2007
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I love this widget..there is just one feature i would love for you to add.... I like when you click the arrow the side window pops out and shows you other songs that are off the same album. What I wish it did, however, is for when you click on one of those songs it plays next in party shuffle mode. Keep up the good work!!!
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%nickname% - January 5, 2007
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I'm on a lowly windows pc and would like to take advantage of iTunes "half star" ratings. Some tunes are more than a 3 but not quite a 4, if you know what I mean...
Can this widget do this with a hot key or a pair of buttons ( one-half Up and one-half Down)??
Thanks for all the rest!
TS
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%nickname% - December 26, 2006
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You have to install Yahoo! Widget Engine first, that will manage all your widgets, including this one. Give it a try!
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charleenhidalgo - December 10, 2006
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also I can't figure out how to install this...the windows version..can someone please tell me...thanks
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%nickname% - December 5, 2006
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hello.....could any one please tell me how to install these widgets........
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Andrew - November 28, 2006
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This widget is great, except for the incredibly annoying donation box that appears every couple minutes. I "donated" my money to pay for it, and the donation box is still appearing. I emailed the author and have not received a response for quite some time. I wish I never paid for this.
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Kyle - November 27, 2006
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Does anyone else have the problem of iTunes Companion not getting lyrics anymore. It worked on version 4.0. Maybe I'm doing somthing wrong but I just wondred if anyone else had this problem.
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Rob - November 26, 2006
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Would get 4 stars, but it tries to connect to the internet all the time, even though I've checked "Don't connect to the internet", and unchecked all the amazon boxes.
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armandg - November 24, 2006
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the best iTunes-widget to this day, and really worth a couple of bucks!
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ger - November 4, 2006
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Foobar support?
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Alonso - October 29, 2006
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Hi Knut... if you're still connected
As it seems that you disapear; no answer at all since you released this current version, but it's probably because too much poeple sent you too much money and so you are sailling to your private island ! If you come back a day, will you be kind enought to take care of the remarks just below.
Thanks in advance
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Billy - October 24, 2006
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Pay Knut a couple of bucks to get rid of the disclaimer. It's really worth it. This is one of the best Media player tools I have ever used.
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Vinther - October 21, 2006
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Well this is and was a really great widget if you just cut the pain in *ss donation discaliamer that pops up every 5 min. And not only does it pops up it does on top of every thing and also if youre not are runing iTunes. Ok its fair enough you like to get some finacial credit for your work but do it in a more discrict way, like a tab in the prefrences or make the discalimer appear once a year, cause this just kills your work. Anyway all the other stuff is great, just my 5 cents
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anonymous - October 20, 2006
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are there any plans for skins? like the vinyl skin widget?
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Rawnnie - October 17, 2006
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Forgot to give a rating :)
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Rawnnie - October 17, 2006
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This is the only thing i actually downloaded Yahoo Widgets for! It's just THAT great :)
I tried many other album art toosl, and seriously this beats them all (eventhough this still has a lot of flaws, it's the best out there and works conveniently).
I'd like to provide ideas for imporvement Knut, if we can get to chat together.
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lechu - October 8, 2006
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I really love this widget. have been using it for a very very long time, and I'm happy to see that every release it's even better than the one before.
this post was just to give, again, a 4 stars vote to Knut, and also to beg yahoo for a pagination engine for the posts, with a search engine inside if possible. reading this thread has become a nightmare!
keep it up, Knut!
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Diego - October 5, 2006
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Great widget and a very nice addition to the next release would be that it searches amazon by 'album artist' if available. Getting album art for compilations, soundtracks and mixes can prove tricky at the moment.
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Artful Dodger - September 29, 2006
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This widget works better with every release. Running with Win XP Pro SP2 and iTunes 7.0.1. Can't find any problems with this release. Good job.
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Tom - September 27, 2006
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Version 5 works fine with iTunes 7 on WIndows XP as does every other iTunes-related widget, not sure why others are having a problem. I have only one request: the widget seems to ignore the iTunes artwork in cases where the album can't be found on Amazon. I have to drag and drop the artwork from iTunes. When it "agrees" with iTunes, there's no problem. Having a setting that says iTunes overrides the widget would be great. Thanks!
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Julien - September 26, 2006
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With Itunes 7, The version 4.5 work well even if you have cut the donate reminder, but with the vers 5 if you do the samething to cut that pop up, it don't work. Hopefully i didn't donate , but what a great surprise for those who donate and cannot use the widget. great job
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Andrew - September 25, 2006
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I thought this widget stopped working with the new iTunes v7.0, but after completing a repair installation it seems to be working fine with v 7.0. Awesome widget and I will continue to use it for a long time to come.
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Darkmanst2004 - September 24, 2006
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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.
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Darkmanst2004 - September 24, 2006
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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.
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orkey - September 21, 2006
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i have donated some money a few times, and the nag screen still comes up.. is this normal? when will it go away? how does the widget know if i donated? (and yes i really did donate)..
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Roman - September 20, 2006
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Simon, this widget ist for Yahoo Widgets, not for Apple's Dashboard. Sorry guy, wrong software.
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Simon - September 19, 2006
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Hi,
i use OS X 10.4.7 and iTunes 7 and unfortunately the widget is not working! I am not able to even install it into dashboard. The system does not recognise the .widget ending. If i change the ending into .wdgt the systems knows it, but when i klick it there is a "this is no valid widget" warning.
Is there a solution for this problem?
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Rasmus Brun - September 19, 2006
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Hi Thomas
That actually worked. Thanks a lot.
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Thomas - September 19, 2006
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If the widget do not work with iTunes 7 on Windows, try to install iTunes again (Repair install).
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Rasmus Brun - September 18, 2006
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Hi Knut
It seems as if iTunes Companion 5.0 does not work with the new version of iTunes in Windows XP, SP 2. Is this true, or have I gotten something wrong?
Best regards
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wataboutbob - September 18, 2006
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Forgot to rate the widget in my last post. My bad.
A request to Knut for in his next update for this just about perfect widget.
I use the comment field in the ID3 tags extensively as a means of saving the ratings of a song (how often as one rated and re-rated the songs just because one shifted from using WM9 to Winamp to iTunes?)
What started out as ensuring that my rating never disappear inspite of software changes or glitches became a full-fledged tagging system which I used to use in Winamp's Smart View and continue to do so with iTunes's Smart Playlists. I now insert genres, moods and tempo to flesh out the smart playlist. While the Companion will let me change almost anything in the ID3 tag from within it, it seems there isn't a field where I can enter the comment data. So if Knut can kindly insert that field in his next update then my iTunes can stay minimised for a lot longer.
Man... that was long winded................................ :-D cheers
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wataboutbob - September 18, 2006
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Awesome widget. Been using it for about a couple of weeks now with no hiccups. Took me about 2 days to import lyrics and artwork using this great piece of code into my iTunes 6. It found album names when I didn't know them. The rare instance of google search for lyrics from within the Companion suggested the correct spelling / title for some of the songs - which led me to get the correct lyrics, the correct album as well as the right artwork. Fantastic!
And voila! when I upgraded (inspite of great trepidation due to various comments on incompatibility with iTunes 7).... everything still worked as it always has. And all that hardwork with the artwork paid off with the funky new feature of iTunes 7 - browse library by artwork!
Can't thank you enough mate. This is seriously the single most important widget available for those running itunes. I use winxp SP2 and my english music library is about 14 gigs.
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pairustwo - September 17, 2006
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ver. 5.4.2 works great with iTunes 7.
Just thought I'd share.
This widget is still my favorite thing in the world.
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orkey - September 16, 2006
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great widget , however, if i leave itunes then come back into it, i must exit the companion and reload.. must fix this (itunes 6) not compatible with itunes 7, has gotten the wrong lyrics a few times, but its ok, under lyrics you should have the choice to see the lyrcis before accepting it, sort of the way you can do with album art..
overall, great program with a few bugs, but i keep recommending it!
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Goaler - September 15, 2006
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Doesn't work for ITUNES 7.0, please fix this!
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kramer - September 15, 2006
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I dropped by to see the state of things...
funny, i got rid of ver 5 right away (see old post)...and my ver 4 is running perfecty with itunes 7.
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kramer - September 15, 2006
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I dropped by to see the state of things...
funny, i got rid of ver 5 right away (see old post)...and my ver 4 is running perfecty with itunes 7.
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7.0 - September 14, 2006
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Great widget, PLEASE update for iTunes 7.0
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Juan David - September 14, 2006
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Hi Knut, great Widget the best add-on for iTunes, the greatest but now im so sad... :( but after I update the iTunes 7, i realize that the widget does not work any more...
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Mark - September 13, 2006
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Hi Knut,this has got to be one of the most well used pieces of software i have,a piece of true genius with nothing really out there to compete with it! And when you think of how global Itunes is and therefore how global a pain in the but it is to load in your artwork i find that incredible!
So Pleeeeeeeease update it now so it wil work with my Itunes 7!!!
How gutted am i tonight when i find it no longer loads :-(
Look forward to the new all singing and dancing version!!
Cheers again
Mark.
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NeO_Giu - September 13, 2006
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It's fantastic but doesn't work with iTunes 7!!
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Mike - September 13, 2006
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Sorry, Widget does not Funktion wirh iTunes 7 !!!!
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Ned - September 13, 2006
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This would be a fantastic thing...except everytime I go to open it, it can't...it tells me Yahoo widget engine must close. So there is something wrong with the program right now
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volponi - September 12, 2006
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Ooops! iTunes Companion for the new iTunes7 is not working. Of course, the release of a new version of iTunes change everything. We hope the developer can fix this!
Nice work, Knut.
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Ryan - September 12, 2006
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I would have voted this five stars if the nag screen didn't come up several times an hour. Many, many people have spent many, many hours on widgets, skins, and applications like this one, and yet have the common decency to not pester for donations, even if one chose to donate. I don't know what kind of superiority complex it takes to produce such an abomination of user-friendliness, but assuming that your work is somehow worth a constant nag screen versus the work of anyone else, including those who put thousands of hours over years into open-source projects with complexity that dwarfs this simple middleware is misguided at best, sad at worst. You should be ashamed.
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Yahzee Skywalker - September 11, 2006
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I´ve been reading a lot of complaints about the widget´s popup window. I dont think its fair since Knut has worked a lot on this widget, anyone using it for some time can notice. This widget was really the thing that pluged me into the old Konfabulator and inspired me to do the iPod Player. This widget is great and with a lot of features, and its free. It wouldnt hurt just give a few bucks to the developer, or clicking later in the popup. Remember YOU´RE USING IT FOR FREE.
Keep up the goodwork Knut.
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Mike - September 6, 2006
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I should add to the below that I'm not sure why this is happening ... it could be that Amazon re-wrote its code such that this widget no longer works with amazon's interface. I have no idea, but i'm sure someone out there does and can comment on this. Since the widget is so amazon-intensive, this might be the simple answer to the problem. I declined to give it a rating since i don't know the root cause of the problem.
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Mike - September 6, 2006
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I should add to the below that I'm not sure why this is happening ... it could be that Amazon re-wrote its code such that this widget no longer works with amazon's interface. I have no idea, but i'm sure someone out there does and can comment on this. Since the widget is so amazon-intensive, this might be the simple answer to the problem. I declined to give it a rating since i don't know the root cause of the problem.
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Mike - September 6, 2006
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This widget has always been buggy, but version 5.0 takes the cake. It no longer finds and imports the cover art for any of my tunes that don't already have it; it doesn't find and import the album name. It doesn't find/import the track's year. the only thing it *IS* doing right for me is importing lyrics, but then that only works about half the time.
What the hell happened to this thing?
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jurassic - September 6, 2006
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What an excellent one ! Really love it.. but here my only 2 comments: a) It would be nice to have the option to choose font size and widget size. b) That annoying donation claim should be automatically eliminated after making a donation, that I did...
Thanks !
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 3, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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Dan - September 1, 2006
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Stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money even after I donated. The artwork is not shown but the money plea. If you want donations don't make the program crap just cause of this and setup a website for donations instead of building it into the program.
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kramer - August 29, 2006
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version 5 never worked for me. it would pull existing artwork from itunes, but it would not find artwork in the root directory of the mp3. if it did find artwork in google or amazon, it would not export it to itunes. i reverted to the previous version. my problems with this one is that it never fades out..it always stays on top regardless of settings. 'Sleep' is all messed up. I haven't attempted lyrics. I wish this thing had a toggle to turn off when to look for track # or album name---I like it most of the time but times I need to turn it off briefly, no go. Overall good, but issues for me sometimes.
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kramer - August 29, 2006
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version 5 never worked for me. it would pull existing artwork from itunes, but it would not find artwork in the root directory of the mp3. if it did find artwork in google or amazon, it would not export it to itunes. i reverted to the previous version. my problems with this one is that it never fades out..it always stays on top regardless of settings. 'Sleep' is all messed up. I haven't attempted lyrics. I wish this thing had a toggle to turn off when to look for track # or album name---I like it most of the time but times I need to turn it off briefly, no go. Overall good, but issues for me sometimes.
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joe cool - August 27, 2006
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how about an option to show the average rating for an album?
I mean, that you will be able to chose between song rating to average rating ....
also, lyrics still don't work for me 95% of the time. even if i load and save them, i can't see 'em next time.
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ahasver - August 26, 2006
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Hey this a great widget and I promise my donation if the cover issue is solved. Unlike the previous versions 5.0 no longer loads the cover art for songs of an album. Beside that I really love it. Great new features and I promise my $8 bucks if it should work again. Not that that money will help you through the day but it's a start...
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Ned - August 23, 2006
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This won't work for me, I keep trying to have it pop up and it just shuts it down immediately and said that it won't start. Help?
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Rasmus Brun - August 23, 2006
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Hi Knut
Best Widget ever. I've been using iTunes Companion through several versions, and it's only getting better. I know you've been having a lot of problems with this, but it's only been small things, which you easily fixed. Nice work. Keep it up.
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mombrit - August 17, 2006
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Really excited about this widget, downloaded it, spent hours getting the covers plugged in only to turn it on today with NO ARTWORK! That was a total waste of time plus the annoying popup for money just isn't worth it. Very disappointed.
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kramer - August 15, 2006
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Have used this widget forever over several versions for obtaining artwork. Works great 95% of the time. For some reason, though, lately it has been referencing artwork for Bobby Darin and All-American Rejects on random tracks. Anyone else get that?
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Bucky - August 15, 2006
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Best Widget ever. Donate for unlock and you'll never stop using it. Thanks Knut!
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Begware - August 15, 2006
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I recommend Itunes bar as well. I gave this author a few bucks and I still get the donate splash everytime I start it....
Nice functionality, but ditch the splash...I guess I could edit it out..but still. Itunes bar is where its at.
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john - August 14, 2006
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i've stopped using this widget because of the annoying plea for money. It's a pretty good widget but several of the features don't work as advertised and one thing that never seems get addressed is the inability to shut down the computer with the widget open - iTunes cancels the shut down.
So I've started using the iTunes bar and it works just as well if not better.
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This widget blows!!! - August 13, 2006
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This is the link for the iTunes bar.
http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=32430
The Evil Lyrics tool downloads lyrics for current songs.
http://www.evillabs.sk/evillyrics/
This website has a script that will take the lyrics from Evillyrics and import them into the ID3 tag of the MP3 file.
http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2006/01/31/easier-to-use-itunes-scripts/
Best of all, it's all free and it works.
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Didn't work for me - August 13, 2006
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I could not get the artwork to work for me as well and was really bugged by the paypal popup everytime the the widget started so I removed it and went back to the iTunes bar.
The iTunes bar widget does work and you can find scripts on the internet that will import lyrics.
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hannah - August 12, 2006
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The lyrics feature is a-freakin'-mazing, but as hard as I keep trying I can't seem to get the album art feature to work.
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hannah - August 12, 2006
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The lyrics feature is a-freakin'-mazing, but as hard as I keep trying I can't seem to get the album art feature to work.
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WeWantRice - August 11, 2006
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This widget is amazing. Thanks for all your hard work. I didn't use iTunes until I found this widget.
One feature request for the next version. It's really convenient that you can change the rating with hotkeys, but since I have the control panel set to "autohide" I can't see the star rating when I press the hotkeys. Maybe you could have the control panel temporarily appear when you change the rating. Other than that great widget!! Please keep up the great work!
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WeWantRice - August 11, 2006
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This widget is amazing. Thanks for all your hard work. I didn't use iTunes until I found this widget.
One feature request for the next version. It's really convenient that you can change the rating with hotkeys, but since I have the control panel set to "autohide" I can't see the star rating when I press the hotkeys. Maybe you could have the control panel temporarily appear when you change the rating. Other than that great widget!! Please keep up the great work!
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Ian - August 9, 2006
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This widget is one of the reasons I continue to use Yahoo widget engine.
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Brad - August 9, 2006
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Great upgades make this even more amazing. I was hoping for an update soon just yesterday!
One minor note that may be user error-all my tracks have art, but since loading the update all the art is gone. Coincidence? Settings issue?
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Brad - August 9, 2006
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Great upgades make this even more amazing. I was hoping for an update soon just yesterday!
One minor note that may be user error-all my tracks have art, but since loading the update all the art is gone. Coincidence? Settings issue?
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joe montana - August 5, 2006
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Wow, what a great widget !
a few small bugs ... like drawer does not open on size 2 (it works for me at size 1 and 3).
also lyrics does not work at all. i find lyrics with "search" and save it, but next time i get to same song - still no lyrics.
but anyway, one of the best widgets around here !
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the dude - August 3, 2006
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good work, mate.
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Artful Dodger - August 1, 2006
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This is the widget that makes Yahoo Widgets worthwhile. Keep up the good work. Every release just keeps getting better. No problems. Very accurate on artwork retrieval. It has only retrieved the incorrect cover a handful of times on several thousand tries.
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Artful Dodger - August 1, 2006
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This is the widget that makes Yahoo Widgets worthwhile. Keep up the good work. Every release just keeps getting better. No problems. Very accurate on artwork retrieval. It has only retrieved the incorrect cover a handful of times on several thousand tries.
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FB - July 31, 2006
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I can say that you've put time and effort into this widget. It even comes with a readme in which every function is well documented. Nice work!
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dude - July 24, 2006
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Features in this are easily worth paying for, if they're fixed to work. Still the best itunes widget out there.
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stivmc - July 22, 2006
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I have found I have the same problem with the lyrics as GaryGnu. If anyone has a fix to clear out all lyrics please email me at stivmc "at" gmail.com. I also am having a problem again with dragging artwork to the widget and it does not take, I have to drag it into iTunes instead.
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stivmc - July 22, 2006
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I have found I have the same problem with the lyrics as GaryGnu. If anyone has a fix to clear out all lyrics please email me at stivmc "at" gmail.com. I also am having a problem again with dragging artwork to the widget and it does not take, I have to drag it into iTunes instead.
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Joe - July 19, 2006
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installed widget. opened widget and tells me cannot find iTunes and to reinstall iTunes. iTunes IS installed! i go ahead and run a repair of iTunes anyway and widget still does not find it. widget seems like junk to me!
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GaryGnu - July 18, 2006
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This widget is really starting to get on my nerves. My lyrics are now a complete disaster, and I am not sure how to fix them. I've noticed that most of the time when lyrics are NOT found for a song, the lyrics most recently used will be copied into the song anyway. I sometimes have 10, 20 songs in a row with the same lyrics. This is far worse than leaving the lyrics blank. So, I'm guessing there are hundreds if not thousands of songs with incorrect lyrics. I would like to just wipe them all out, and wait until these bugs are fixed. Knut, I'd probably donate you $50 if this thing worked the way it should, but now my lyrics are a mess! If anyone knows a way I can easily clear out the lyrics, please email me at chsmoot "at" yahoo.com I am using the most recent Windows version.
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GaryGnu - July 18, 2006
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This widget is really starting to get on my nerves. My lyrics are now a complete disaster, and I am not sure how to fix them. I've noticed that most of the time when lyrics are NOT found for a song, the lyrics most recently used will be copied into the song anyway. I sometimes have 10, 20 songs in a row with the same lyrics. This is far worse than leaving the lyrics blank. So, I'm guessing there are hundreds if not thousands of songs with incorrect lyrics. I would like to just wipe them all out, and wait until these bugs are fixed. Knut, I'd probably donate you $50 if this thing worked the way it should, but now my lyrics are a mess! If anyone knows a way I can easily clear out the lyrics, please email me at chsmoot "at" yahoo.com I am using the most recent Windows version.
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GaryGnu - July 18, 2006
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This widget is really starting to get on my nerves. My lyrics are now a complete disaster, and I am not sure how to fix them. I've noticed that most of the time when lyrics are NOT found for a song, the lyrics most recently used will be copied into the song anyway. I sometimes have 10, 20 songs in a row with the same lyrics. This is far worse than leaving the lyrics blank. So, I'm guessing there are hundreds if not thousands of songs with incorrect lyrics. I would like to just wipe them all out, and wait until these bugs are fixed. Knut, I'd probably donate you $50 if this thing worked the way it should, but now my lyrics are a mess! If anyone knows a way I can easily clear out the lyrics, please email me at chsmoot "at" yahoo.com I am using the most recent Windows version.
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Sean - July 13, 2006
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DELAY LOADING ARTWORK
Love this widget, but get a 1-2 delay in the music when it has to load existing artwork. Strangely it doesnt delay when the artwork is newly downloaded from Amazon. The widgets great for updating msiing artwork, but the delay really spoils the listening pleasure. Is there some setting I am getting wrong? For info my music folder is on my D drive and the album artwork is on the C drive - would this be causing the delay?
I notice that another user had the same problem on a previous release:
LMF
Fantastic widget! It'll be even better if you can optimize the code so that the album cover shows up faster when the song changes, right now there a 1-2 second delay. There is some syncing delay with the progress timer as well, sometimes it will not show the correct progress time.
March 20, 2005 - This comment applies to version 2.5.3
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stivmc - July 13, 2006
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I have an occasional problem where the tray does not list the tracks on the album. It works on some albums but not others. When this happens I notice everything else in the tray works OK. Thoughts? Using v4.5.2. Off the top of my head I don't have specific albums where it does or does not work.
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stivmc - July 13, 2006
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I have an occasional problem where the tray does not list the tracks on the album. It works on some albums but not others. When this happens I notice everything else in the tray works OK. Thoughts? Using v4.5.2. Off the top of my head I don't have specific albums where it does or does not work.
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Sean - July 13, 2006
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Not often I can be bothered to give feedback, but this is f'ing brilliant. Havent found any bugs so far. The best widget ive used as yet - by far
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David - July 13, 2006
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I must be missing something - when no artwork is found, and I look it up in Google or Amazon, how do I get it into the iTunes. Must I do it via iTunes or is there some way to paste the artwork on the Widget?
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Jay Lin - July 11, 2006
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I have tried everything I can think of but this widget keeps messing up my Itunes Artwork!!!
It keeps loading from somewhere, I don't know, residual incorrect artwork and copying it to the tags. All of my MP3 are labeled meticulously, complete with Artist, Album, etc. but when the widget finds a song with no artwork, instead of searching for the artwork automatically on Amazon, as it is supposed to, it just uses some random cached artwork and copies it to the entire album. The end result is that I get wrong artwork for my albums.
Does anyone else have this problem? Any solution?
Knut, do you have any suggestions for me?
Thanks in advance :-)
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Alberto Aguinaga - July 10, 2006
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Hey knut, great work! I use it since it started and seen all the bugs and fixes and it still is better than any other widget for itunes. But I though the version for the Mac prior to 4.5.2 (4.5.1) was a lot better. Now it doesnt fill in the album name in iTunes! I wish I could have my old version back!! I know how tough developing these things are like but you should REALLY make sure a newer version doesnt have a bug that was already fixed in a previous version... thats basics, man!!!
Anyway dude, get back to it! Eliminate bugs that were already fixed and release it as a new version. I think we prefere less features that work right than thousands of features full of problems, even though we always like new stuff.
Thanks.
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Brendan Bellina - July 9, 2006
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After logging in I am now getting the debug window displayed with the error:
onLoad: TypeError: currentArtist has no properties (onLoad:iTunes Companion 4M.kon: Line 3306)
Errors prevented this Widget from making itself visible
The donate window is displayed. And if I start iTunes the WIdget does show up properly.
This is with Mac version 4.5.2 using OS 10.4.7 and iTunes 6.0.5.
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Marky_UK - July 8, 2006
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Hi Knut
is there a new version coming anytime soon?
Just curious .... I'm sooo fed up of the skipping/jumping at the start of tracks, and the widget taking focus from whatever I'm doing .. twice! ... at the start of every track
within days .. poof! this widget will be off my computer if these two things can't be fixed :-(
hope life is treating you well !
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Steve Pereira - July 6, 2006
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I've used this widget forever. This latest version is driving me crazy. it finds the album and artwork, flashes, but will not replace it in itunes. Nothing I do will save the album name or art. HELP.
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Brendan Bellina - July 3, 2006
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Another issue on Mac seems to be that the Widget will not allow iTunes to be quit. If you quit iTunes while Yahoo Widget Engne is running and you are using iTunes Companion then iTunes restarts immediately after quitting, even if iTunes Companion is no longer on-screen (set to hide when iTunes is not playing). If you quit YWE first then iTunes closes correctly. Force Quitting iTunes seems to work as well.
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Brendan Bellina - July 2, 2006
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A couple of other bugs in the Mac version:
If you go into preferences while the drawer is open displaying lyriscs it closes and then attempts to reopen it cause the drawer and the lyrics to open on opposite sides.
If a song has a title in iTunes but the album name is blank then the album picture found on the web will display and then clear and then redisplay and then reclear over and over. Putting something in the album field in iTunes prevents this from happening.
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Brendan Bellina - July 2, 2006
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The previous comment refers to the Mac version.
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Brendan Bellina - July 2, 2006
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The previous comment refers to the Mac version.
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Brendan Bellina - July 2, 2006
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Experienced the same problem with using the scan option. Individually retrieving lyrics seems to work fine, but scanning the entire library results in lyrics being assigned to the wrong songs. In most cases the lyrics were from other songs from the same album, but not always. It is a big mess since I let it run for a while before cancelling it.
This was using 4.5.2 with iTunes 6.0.5.
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Shannon - July 2, 2006
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I got mixed up lyrics as well, and eventually it stopped retrieving any album art at all. Very weird. I also got hang ups while trying to scan entire library. It's an awesome idea and an amazing tool, and i would REALLY like to see an updated version without bugs.
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Steve - July 1, 2006
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Help... cool widget, but I clicked Scan entire library and it mixed up all the lyrics... like putting the lyrics for one song into another song... Anyone else get this behavior?
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Nacho - July 1, 2006
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I've used this widgets long time ago and I think is a great piece of software, simple, easy and useful. But with latest version I've started to experience frequently hung problems. I'm waiting for a new version. Nowadays great and frustrating
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Marky_UK - June 25, 2006
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Hi All
I HAVE THIS WIDGET AND IT IS AMAZING. I downloaded Y!WE just for this one widget. I have never heard of Knut or the "iTunes companion" before I surfed for something to permanently show my iTunes artwork and stumbled on this.
One top tip if you need a reason to download - I listen to coooool radio stations in iTunes like SomaFM's GrooveSalad or SmoothLounge.com, DropZone .... and guess what ... within 3-5 seconds of the track playing and you falling in love with a track you've never heard before, the artwork and title of the track is on your screen! iTunes only shows the track and artist .... not even the album! It's JUST BRILLIANT!
Download and give the guy encouragement with feedback and money to develop it further .... he's on a winner here!
:-) Nice one Knut .....
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rockstar - June 24, 2006
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reat widget, but not without a couple of bugs.
on windows:
the lyrics not found message shows up in a black font in the upper left side and there is no button to hit as indicated.
It won't write the artwork to itunes even thought itunes traks, even though the art has been found.. i am going to experiment to see if this has to do with not copying the songs into itunes - which it may. Usually i simply go through itunes to my network share with the tunes... don't want local copies.
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Tony - June 24, 2006
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If you are having trouble keeping the drawer open, try moving the widget to the side of your desktop. If you place the widget right in the center of the desktop, the drawer doesn't know which side to open on. Hope this work for you.
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devices - June 21, 2006
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Love it , love it, love it. Noticed a bug in the lyrics for 4.5.2W. Lyrics not include html for a bolded title on the first line of lyrics...
<h2>Queen Fat Bottomed Girls Lyrics</h2>Are you gonna take me home tonight
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devices - June 21, 2006
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Love it , love it, love it. Noticed a bug in the lyrics for 4.5.2W. Lyrics not include html for a bolded title on the first line of lyrics...
<h2>Queen Fat Bottomed Girls Lyrics</h2>Are you gonna take me home tonight
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Aaron - June 21, 2006
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Im pretty New to this and it seems to work very well. I have songs on my ipod that i do not have on my Itunes. I was trying to use this Widget to edit the songs on my Ipod (my ipods connected to my computer and the tracks are brought up). Does anyone know if it can function like this? Or, do the track have to be located on my hard drive-or is something not configured correctly?
thanks,
-a-
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Aaron - June 21, 2006
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Im pretty New to this and it seems to work very well. I have songs on my ipod that i do not have on my Itunes. I was trying to use this Widget to edit the songs on my Ipod (my ipods connected to my computer and the tracks are brought up). Does anyone know if it can function like this? Or, do the track have to be located on my hard drive-or is something not configured correctly?
thanks,
-a-
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BIGpimpDaddyJ - June 20, 2006
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Love the widget, but I'm having problems with the drawer, it dosen't want to remain open. Any help?
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BIGpimpDaddyJ - June 20, 2006
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Love the widget, but I'm having problems with the drawer, it dosen't want to remain open. Any help?
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cecil - June 20, 2006
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hooray! i was able to get rid of the donate window
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adrianovieira.com - June 20, 2006
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I frequently use Itunes Companion, but i'm behind a proxy, and i'm having problems too... I'm waiting the new version, with proxy authentication support!
Adriano Vieira.
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Fed Up 2 by Frank Berger - June 20, 2006
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You are NOT alone out there... I read your comment from June 12 and i'am also VERY frustated... Same combination OSX 10.4.6 with iTunes Companion version 4.5.2. As commented before a couple of times, it opens, loads the artwork, then promptly closes and disappears. Opening it again from the widget directory prompts my permission each time as if I've never used it before. I also used to love this widget and now it's like the end of an era - with version 4 it just suddenly stopped working.
KNUT, help us out !!!
Greetings, Frank Berger, Amsterdam, Holland
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Mark - June 19, 2006
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I have the same problems explained by a number of other people (on WinXP latest engine) ...
* Album art does not get written back to the iTunes library, but ratings do
* The screenshot shown on this widget page and what I see are different - I just see a CD shaped "box" only - not the other half?
* When the next track is played, the widget comes to the front and doesn't go back down even though I have the widget set to "Normal" level
* A bad problem - if I have the widget loaded, when any track plays, there is a skip/jump in the playing of the music somewhere in the first 8 seconds :-(
I'll also try and mail you this ... do you have a website to collate this feedback? Or what's coming up page or something?
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RJ - June 18, 2006
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I downloaded this widget a few days ago and loved it immediately! So useful!
Everything worked fine for a few days, but now... I can't get the widget to launch. When I click "Open Widget" and chose iTunes Companion (or double click on the widget file itself)... nothing happens. Task manager shows nothing about it. My other widgets work fine.
I've tried reinstalling the Widget Engine and re-downloading the widget, but it hasn't helped. Any ideas on how I can get my beloved widget to work again?? I'm using Windows XP.
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Jay - June 18, 2006
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I love the functionality of this Widget but it keeps messing up my artwork...
When the widget encounters an album in Itunes that has no artwork it proceeds to automatically copy the most recent saved artwork into the album. Rather than searching on Amazon or Google it just copies whatever is cached or saved recently. This is very frustrating. When I then proceed to manually have it search on Amazon it is too late, Itunes has already saved the wrong artwork and I have to go and manually delete the artwork, do the manual search again, and then I have the correct artwork. Why would the widget copy artwork automatically at random when it hasn't even searched online for the correct artwork?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If this problem is fixed, I would have to say this widget is nearly perfect!
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Steve P - June 14, 2006
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Widgets are generally worthless and I dismiss them after a few launchings, but not iTunes Companion. This one is the best trick out there.
Works well. Powerful. Thoughtful. Useful.
Bravo
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Brendan Bellina - June 12, 2006
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fed up: Don't lose heart. Try starting up the Console (:Applications:Utilities:Console.app) before starting the Widget. Then start the Widget and see if any error messages are sent to the Console. That might be helpful in figuring out why it is ending itself.
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fed up - June 12, 2006
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I *really* need to know why this isn't working for me on OSX 10.4.6. As I've commented a couple of times, it opens, loads the artwork, then promptly closes and disappears. Opening it again from the widget directory prompts my permission each time as if I've never used it before. So others aren't having this problem on the Mac, fine - but does *anyone* have any idea why this is happening? I used to love this widget and now it's like the end of an era - with version 4 it just suddenly stopped working, and it doesn't seem like anyone out there is able to offer any kind of similar experience or hunch about what could be causing this. I think I've given up on checking back here for updates or suggestions... Adios, iTunes Companion. What a shame.
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Amin Issa - June 11, 2006
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Bug Report: If an artist has an ampersand dymbol (&) in their name, you can't play their songs by clicking on ther name in the artist listing view on the widget.
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Jess - June 11, 2006
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(con't)...ually another famous CD from him, "An Innocent Man." Just little preference things, if you have any spare time and feel like tweaking it for fun. But awesome widget! Thanks for your time and development! With the time you've saved me, I'm going to dl a few useless widgets that I'll never use but are fun ways to waste my RAM.
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Jess - June 11, 2006
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So, just fyi, this is pretty much the most amazing, helpful widget I've ever seen. You obviously did your HW and put a lott of time into it. Thank you for saving me so much time looking up CD names, lyrics, and artwork. I have no idea how you even made this widget, but whatever you did, wtg! You are really awesome. If you plan on updating, which I don't really see any bugs so far or need for, you may want to consider adding one little preference thing. I have the Beatles 1 CD, which I put into my iTunes library. This is a pretty popular, common CD. It's a big hit. Somehow, though, the 1st album artwork I got was some weird, obscure cover, possibly karaoke CD. You may want to find a way to have it recognize, if the CD is 1 and the artist is the Beatles, that it's the red CD cover with the yellow painted 1 on the front. Also, I have Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man," which I had no CD name for. It gave me a compilation CD, which is O.K., but the original is act
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jason - June 8, 2006
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I love this widget, will donate. One problem i get getting is that when i set the window level to "below" or as "desktop" it still manages to come to the top most window after a couple minutes. A little annoying, hope it gets fixed.
Using 4.5.1 mac version and Widget Engine 3.1.5
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Brendan Bellina - June 7, 2006
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Mike - I just dl'd it for my Mac (10.4.6) and had no problems. Make sure you have installed the Yahoo! Widget Engine application. If you have then it sounds like something else is preventing .widget files from being handed to the Yahoo! Widget Engine and instead it is defaulting to opening the package. Download another widget and see how that one behaves.
If it seems to be only this widget, then use Finder > File > Create Archive to create a zip of the widget, rename the original widget file to something else, and then rename the zipped widget to end with ".widget" instead of ".zip". Dbl-click that and it should run. If it doesn't then you should consider reinstalling the Yahoo! Widget Engine or contacting their support.
On my Mac the widget is operating fine.
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Mike - June 7, 2006
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Just downloaded this for mac but when I did I can't use the thing as a widget I get a disk image, which is automatically mounted and then copy the file to my applications folder but then when I double click on the widget 'iTunes Companion.widget' it opens like a file a reveals another file named 'contents'. Am I being stupid or is there something wrong? How do I install this thing?
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Mike - June 7, 2006
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Just downloaded this for mac but when I did I can't use the thing as a widget I get a disk image, which is automatically mounted and then copy the file to my applications folder but then when I double click on the widget 'iTunes Companion.widget' it opens like a file a reveals another file named 'contents'. Am I being stupid or is there something wrong? How do I install this thing?
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Boris - June 3, 2006
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Awesome little widget.
I'm using your latest build, but I'm experiencing a few little problems.
It seems that the program will only assign album art to a whole album as long as the artist is the same for all...
Also, sometimes the program just won't import the art into itunes although it is set to automatic.
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Boris - June 3, 2006
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Awesome little widget.
I'm using your latest build, but I'm experiencing a few little problems.
It seems that the program will only assign album art to a whole album as long as the artist is the same for all...
Also, sometimes the program just won't import the art into itunes although it is set to automatic.
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sirhc - June 3, 2006
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amazing application that deserves many a kudo in Knut's direction, however when I rip cds in iTunes it doesn't export the cover art to iTunes....soooo not sure what I can do to fix it, but just a minor gripe, love it, sets the standard for widgets and why they came to be in the first place
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hubert - June 3, 2006
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I just love it. everything works fine!
but how does "Sleep" work?
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Jess - June 2, 2006
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really cool widget. there's a typo in your page title. The word "playing" is misspelled. Great job on the development though!
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Knut August Johansen - June 2, 2006
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bareet, if you send me an e-mail (knut@mac.com) maybe we can sort it out.
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stivmc - June 2, 2006
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Apparantly I did, although my email is flaky and it wasn't right away. Thank You.
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stivmc - June 2, 2006
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Apparantly I did, although my email is flaky and it wasn't right away. Thank You.
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bareet - June 1, 2006
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No, I don't get an error then - nothing happens.
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Knut August Johansen - June 1, 2006
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stivmc, thanks. I sent you an email with instructions on how to disable the pop-up right after you donated. Didn't you receive the mail?
bareet, does other widgets work for you? Can you open another widget and type this in the Evaluate field in the debug window: var iTunesApp = COM.createObject( "iTunes.Application" ) and press Enter. Do you get an error message?
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stivmc - June 1, 2006
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Knut, Great job on the updates. I donated recently. Is the donate screen supposed to go away after this? I am still receiving it and was just wondering.
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stivmc - June 1, 2006
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Knut, Great job on the updates. I donated recently. Is the donate screen supposed to go away after this? I am still receiving it and was just wondering.
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bareet - May 31, 2006
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I get this error:
uncaught exception: Unable to create object: The specified module could not be found.
onLoad failed. Most likely an exception was encountered.
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Knut August Johansen - May 31, 2006
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bareet, quit my Widget, ctrl-shift click on the Yahoo! Widget Engine icon so it reveals the "Debug Mode" menu item, select that so it gets a check mark and then open my widget.
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bareet - May 30, 2006
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How do I open in debug mode?
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Knut August Johansen - May 29, 2006
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To J.P. Guinness and everybody having the "drawer won't stay open" problem. I have fixed this in my next version. In the meantime move the Widget closer to the left or right edge of the screen and it should work.
Thanks, Lechu, it's fixed in the next version. I also wish this could be split into several pages since it has grown so big. It would also be nice if they could made it more difficult to double post.
That's great, dflor.
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Knut August Johansen - May 29, 2006
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it would be nice if you could write which operating system you are using.
"Lyrics-Search inconsistent?", the lyrics function is not crippled intentionally. The Widget is exactly the same whether you have donated or not, except for the pop-up window.
1. The tracks are scanned in the order they were added. "Scan entire library" is a new function. I need some time (and feedback from users) to fine-tune it. On my system it works without problems. It would be of great help If you could open my Widget in Debug Mode and send me any error messages you get when you try to scan.
2. Maybe the sites were down or there were too much traffic. Works fine for me when I test it now.
1. It searches lyricsdir.com, twin-music.com and lyricsdownload.com in that order.
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dflor - May 29, 2006
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Thanks Knut, I did I as you advised, redownloaded Widget Engine + ITC and all is fine now ! Great !
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Lechu (WXPSP2, iTunes 6.0.4.2, Multi-Plugin 2.3.2) - May 29, 2006
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as Knut knows I am one of the most delighted users of his widget...
probably the popup was not the best idea of all, but I didn't think twice donating after helping me improve my music experience as it did.
I get the "no lyrics found" message on the top left corner of the CD case when drawer not opened. is it a known issue? planning to correct it?
any way of paginating this "comments" web? if not it'll be really complicated to follow user's requests...
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Lyrics - May 28, 2006
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Oops- double posted and cut off at the 1000 character limit. Sorry about that.
The rest of the post was asking if perhaps the lyric search function is crippled intentionally when a user has not yet donated. If so, this should be spelled out in the documentation.
I would definitely donate if I knew the program would then work properly.
Thanks,
k
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Lyrics-Search Inconsistent? - May 28, 2006
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I was excited to find this widget, and wanted to use it primarily for its lyric-finding (and embedding) function. If it worked more perfectly, I would surely donate using the button.
Two things:
1. The scan my entire library function seems to hang up frequently. I let it run over night and it only seems to have gotten through two albums. (Also, a side question, how is it determining the order in which it scans through the library? Date added?)
2. After a few hours of song-by-song use, the lyric-finding function seems to have broken, returning no results even for songs it had previously found lyrics for. (I tested this by deleting lyrics for a couple of songs it had previously found successfully and playing those tracks again with itunes companion running -- wheras yesterday it had found the lyrics, today it reports no results found).
Two questions:
1. What site(s) is/are the widget querying for lyrics. Perhaps the problem is that the lyrics site it queries is down? (If
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Lyrics-Search Inconsistent? - May 28, 2006
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I was excited to find this widget, and wanted to use it primarily for its lyric-finding (and embedding) function. If it worked more perfectly, I would surely donate using the button.
Two things:
1. The scan my entire library function seems to hang up frequently. I let it run over night and it only seems to have gotten through two albums. (Also, a side question, how is it determining the order in which it scans through the library? Date added?)
2. After a few hours of song-by-song use, the lyric-finding function seems to have broken, returning no results even for songs it had previously found lyrics for. (I tested this by deleting lyrics for a couple of songs it had previously found successfully and playing those tracks again with itunes companion running -- wheras yesterday it had found the lyrics, today it reports no results found).
Two questions:
1. What site(s) is/are the widget querying for lyrics. Perhaps the problem is that the lyrics site it queries is down? (If
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J.P. Guinness - May 28, 2006
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First of all....WOW. This is seriously one of the coolest widget, or widget-like utilities I've ever seen.Do you think there is any way to add an option to "...keep drawer pulled out". I don't know if the drawer problem affects many people or just an unlucky few, but it would be excellent if it would stay opened to either the right or the left side of the widgets main display graphic. Woops..."drawer problem", I mean when the drawer just slams shut after a quarter second. I've scanned the comments section and I see that others have had this problem with at least some of the versions or this software. I really want to donate (I swear), but I have to at least know that the issue is a prevalent one, and/or maybe one that will be addressed if it affects enough users (b/c if this is just an error specific to my PC set-up, then I doubt it will ever go away, right?)
Anyway, I just want to tell you one more time how awesome this thing is. I haven't
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J.P. Guinness - May 28, 2006
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First of all....WOW. This is seriously one of the coolest widget, or widget-like utilities I've ever seen.Do you think there is any way to add an option to "...keep drawer pulled out". I don't know if the drawer problem affects many people or just an unlucky few, but it would be excellent if it would stay opened to either the right or the left side of the widgets main display graphic. Woops..."drawer problem", I mean when the drawer just slams shut after a quarter second. I've scanned the comments section and I see that others have had this problem with at least some of the versions or this software. I really want to donate (I swear), but I have to at least know that the issue is a prevalent one, and/or maybe one that will be addressed if it affects enough users (b/c if this is just an error specific to my PC set-up, then I doubt it will ever go away, right?)
Anyway, I just want to tell you one more time how awesome this thing is. I haven't
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J.P. Guinness - May 28, 2006
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First of all....WOW. This is seriously one of the coolest widget, or widget-like utilities I've ever seen.Do you think there is any way to add an option to "...keep drawer pulled out". I don't know if the drawer problem affects many people or just an unlucky few, but it would be excellent if it would stay opened to either the right or the left side of the widgets main display graphic. Woops..."drawer problem", I mean when the drawer just slams shut after a quarter second. I've scanned the comments section and I see that others have had this problem with at least some of the versions or this software. I really want to donate (I swear), but I have to at least know that the issue is a prevalent one, and/or maybe one that will be addressed if it affects enough users (b/c if this is just an error specific to my PC set-up, then I doubt it will ever go away, right?)
Anyway, I just want to tell you one more time how awesome this thing is. I haven't
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Knut August Johansen - May 27, 2006
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Omri, I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. If you don't have an image it searches Amazon automatically.
dflor, I don't know what's happening on your system. It works fine for me (and for many others I know of) on Mac OS X 10.4.6. Have you tried to delete the plist file? You'll find it here:
~/Library/Preferences/Yahoo! Widget Engine/iTunes Companion.widget.plist
If you send me an e-mail, maybe we can sort it out.
Alex and Bareet, can you try to open it in Debug Mode and see if you get any error messages?
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Omri - May 27, 2006
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amazing widget!!!!
it will be nice if Ull add the option to auto search amazon every time a cover is not yet set in itunes
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dflor - May 27, 2006
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Four stars... when it works. Older versions used to work fine on Mac OS X 10.4. (Since I contributed) this widget fails to open and crashes Yahoo! Widget Engine... What is happening?
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Bareet - May 26, 2006
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I have the same problem as Alex. I tried deleting the registry entry, but it still doesn't work.
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Bareet - May 26, 2006
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I have the same problem as Alex. I tried deleting the registry entry, but it still doesn't work.
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Bareet - May 26, 2006
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I have the same problem as Alex. I tried deleting the registry entry, but it still doesn't work.
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Knut August Johansen - May 25, 2006
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Alex, have you tried to delete the old registry entry for iTunes Companion with RegEdit. It's under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Yahoo/WidgetEngine/Widgets/?
Placoboy, I don't know why that doesn't work for you. Is the album name filled in? Can you open it in Debug Mode and see if you get any error messages.
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Placoboy - May 25, 2006
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Impressive app! really!
One thing that does not seem to work: export image to all tracks of the album - the box is ticked of course.
Any idea why?
and again ... Bravo !
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Placoboy - May 25, 2006
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Impressive app! really!
One thing that does not seem to work: export image to all tracks of the album - the box is ticked of course.
Any idea why?
and again ... Bravo !
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Alex - May 25, 2006
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"Vers. 4.5.2: Fixed "not able to load" problem on Windows. The Mac version is not changed."
Not for me. I downloaded it even from the other Website, you posted, but I still doesnt work. Please help me, because i'd love to use it.
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CharlesC - May 25, 2006
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Knut, thanks for the info on the picture location. That's very handy. Not too difficult to copy them over.
If an auto mode could be incorporated in the future, that would be a further time saver.
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Placoboy - May 25, 2006
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Impressive app! really!
One thing that does not seem to work: export image to all tracks of the album - the box is ticked of course.
Any idea why?
and again ... Bravo !
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Knut August Johansen - May 25, 2006
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CharlesC, it copies the image file to a folder called CDCovers in your Pictures folder. It doesn't embed the image in the file If "Export artwork to iTunes" is unchecked in Preferences
"Still doesn't work with OS X", click on the Yahoo! Widget Engine icon (gear icon in the menu bar) while you press ctrl-shift to reveal the "Debug Mode" menu item. Select that so it gets a check mark and then open iTunes Companion.
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CharlesC - May 25, 2006
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Knut,
I see the artwork gets loaded if it does not exist. (with Dismiss option) Can the app be told to copy the image file to the relevant folder as, say, folder.jpg or similar. I have looked through various options in the preferences. I would not want it embedded in the file. Just put into the folder.
Note my main music library is accessed by various players, one of which may be iTunes. The common preference to find images seems to be the folder.jpg convention. That would be very useful.
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CharlesC - May 25, 2006
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Knut,
I see the artwork gets loaded if it does not exist. (with Dismiss option) Can the app be told to copy the image file to the relevant folder as, say, folder.jpg or similar. I have looked through various options in the preferences. I would not want it embedded in the file. Just put into the folder.
Note my main music library is accessed by various players, one of which may be iTunes. The common preference to find images seems to be the folder.jpg convention. That would be very useful.
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CharlesC - May 25, 2006
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@Svlad, got it! Thanks. That was well hidden...
It certainly helps to make it the largest size.
I'll try the lyrics download Knut.
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Still doesn't work with OSX - May 24, 2006
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Still doesn't work with OSX 10.4.6. It opens, loads the artwork, then disappears. How to I open it in "debug mode" as you suggested?
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Knut August Johansen - May 24, 2006
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Thank you, everybody!
Richard, I'll see if I get the time to do the compilation thing soon.
Svlad Cjelli, it involves quite some work to make a bigger version, but I'll do it if there is enough interest for it.
Wootness, it never happens to me, but there have been others reporting the same thing, so in my next version you can turn off the automatics in preferences and choose on which side the drawer should open.
Ed, if you have checked "Download and save lyrics in iTunes automatically" in preferences, it will also download lyrics while scanning.
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Ed Galvez - May 24, 2006
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iTunes Companion version 4.5.2W
LOVE IT!!! I've already sent my donation to Knut!
I totally reccomend it. Does everything I need it to do. I am currently trying the scan entire library. Anyone know if it will download all the lyrics as well when I scan entire library?
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Ed Galvez - May 24, 2006
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iTunes Companion version 4.5.2W
LOVE IT!!! I've already sent my donation to Knut!
I totally reccomend it. Does everything I need it to do. I am currently trying the scan entire library. Anyone know if it will download all the lyrics as well when I scan entire library?
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Kinderpat - May 24, 2006
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Great Work, i can finally enjoy this widget on Windows, thanks a lot !
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Svlad Cjelli - May 23, 2006
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@CharlesC: There's a little white triangle shown in the top left corner when you mouseover it. It lets you switch between 75,150 and 300px cover image. Bigger isn't possible at the moment, thus my question.
Anyone else interested in bigger cover art? Trying to collect 'votes' to convince Knut ;-)
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Wootness - May 23, 2006
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Awesome widget. Only problem so far is that the drawer sometimes decides to pop out from the left and sometimes on the right. Drawer opens fine from the right side but when it tries to open from the left it opens and quickly closes. Anyone else have this problem? FYI, my widget is on the left buttom corner of the screen.
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CharlesC - May 23, 2006
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Is it possible to make the cover art window larger? I looked for settings, but didn't see any. Could it be made full-screen even, so it could sit there in the background displaying album covers etc. on the HTPC?
If the controls are all accessible by mouse, then this should work with a touch screen as well. It would need to minimise to the taskbar, and maximise again.
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Svlad Cjelli - 500x500px - May 23, 2006
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Hello there! What do you think of iTunes Companion supporting 500x500 px cover art? A while ago, I wrote Knut about this, and he replied sth. about thinking it over. Well, since the excitement concerning the popup subsided, i thought i could bring this concern back on the table again. What do you think?
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CharlesC - May 23, 2006
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Sorry, my previous post meant to say 4.5.2 is working for me. Good job Knut!
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CharlesC - May 23, 2006
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Well done. V4.5.1 now works fine for me on XP Pro SP2. I had problems before.
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Richard - May 22, 2006
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Brilliant widget, thanks for all the hard work (and thanks for a version which now works on Windows). A suggestions - the widget is bad at handling Various Artists compilations - perhaps making use of the MusicBrainz database would be a good way to make sure the correct artwork is downloaded? The Widget could also auto-correct tags.
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Crimbo - May 21, 2006
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hey guys, i've stumbled upon this program and its the first time ive come across a widget file. im just wondering how do you run it?
mail me at matchboxboy@hotmail.co.uk if u can
thanks very much.
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Rob - May 21, 2006
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Knut: That fixed it, many thanks for your hard work.
Mr X: That's just not cool
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Yukino - May 21, 2006
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Your new version worked on my computer! Finally I get to use the widget.
I think it is awesome. I really love it!!
Thank you!
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Knut August Johansen - May 20, 2006
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work for that kind of money?
Kinderpat, Rob and FredB, you must download it here: http://homepage.mac.com/knut/filechute/iTunes%20Companion%204.zip
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Knut August Johansen - May 20, 2006
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David, If you think Mr. X did you a favor, you're wrong. Quite the opposite, If people sabotage this it could mean that I'll stop developing iTunes Companion and it may eventually stop working with new versions of Yahoo! Widget Engine/iTunes/Systems.
Mr. X, I can't take you seriously when you say that it pops up every few minutes. After you have started the Widget It can be used for 2 hours, with no limitations, before you see the pop-up again. The users can pay what they think it's worth, and they won't see the pop-up again ever for all future versions. What's the big deal? I tried to increase the interval for the pop-up, and the donations almost stopped. Most people are not paying if they don't have to. That's why programs have serial numbers. In addition to developing the Widget, I do support as if it was a commercial program. You wouldn't guess how many emails I get. This doesn't make me rich. I think the hourly rate is under $1. Would you
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FredB - May 20, 2006
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Damn, fails for me too. Did the /regserve trick, uninstalled - reinstalled, didn't work... I miss that widget, definitely. Please Mr Author, so something!
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Pfffffff... - May 20, 2006
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Since the guy wants money from us, his widget goes wrong...
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Kinderpat - May 20, 2006
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New version stills fail to open for me.
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Rob - May 20, 2006
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Unfortunately the latest version of the widget still fails to run. What info do you need? How can I help?
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XeLlos - May 20, 2006
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Now work for me :-) (the zip in the link below)
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David - May 19, 2006
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Thanks Mr. X. Much better without the pop-up.
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Mr. X - May 19, 2006
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All -- Obviously I support Knut's work, as I paid for the program.
My suggestion to Knut would be to reduce this donation request to every time the widget is launched, or exited. Not every few minutes. I trust that everyone here would gladly donate for his great work -- but I'm concerned that too many people are being coerced into donating just to avoid the nagging.
In any case, I do support his work, and if he requires another donation to activate the next version, I would contribute again.
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Dudes - May 19, 2006
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Wow!!! the recent link now works for me!!! thanks!! its a great Widget!! Iloveit!!! Peace! ^_^
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Knut August Johansen - May 19, 2006
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Great!!! Thanks, mromega.
I will upload the fixed version. In the meantime use the link below to download the Windows version.
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Mr. X - May 19, 2006
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This program is great! I love it.
TO DISABLE THE ANNOYING POP-UP, HOLD DOWN SHIFT WHILE PRESSING THE RED X IN THE POP-UP WINDOW. Knut, please do not include such an annoying feature in future versions.
By the way, I donated to learn this. So, in return, if you would like to donate to me for spreading this knowledge, you can contact me at bcgaynor@gmail.com.
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Knut August Johansen - May 19, 2006
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Great!!! Thanks, mromega.
I will upload the fixed version. In the meantime use the link below to download the Windows version.
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mromega - May 19, 2006
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That new download works for me, when every other one failed.
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Knut August Johansen - May 19, 2006
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I have been able to reproduce the problem now and I hope I have fixed it. Can you test it for me? You can pick it up here:
http://homepage.mac.com/knut/filechute/iTunes%20Companion%204.zip
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XeLlos - May 19, 2006
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Doesn't work for me either.
-iTunes 6.0.4
-WinXP SP2
-YahooWidgets 3.1.2 (build 100)
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Andrei - May 19, 2006
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Doesn't work for me either.
-iTunes 6.0.4
-WinXP SP2 corporate Rus
-Latest YahooWidgets program
It was ok when i had iTunes5 and an old version of iTunes companion.
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Fulltimehuman - May 19, 2006
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Having the same problem here on a PC: Widget can't load itself. Would also appreciate a fix.
Thanks for the good work!
F
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Dudes - May 19, 2006
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It also doesnt work for me either... Im using WinXP SP2, latest Konfabulator and the latest iTunes companion...
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Dudes - May 19, 2006
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It also doesnt work for me either... Im using WinXP SP2, latest Konfabulator and the latest iTunes companion...
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Dudes - May 19, 2006
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It also doesnt work for me either... Im using WinXP SP2, latest Konfabulator and the latest iTunes companion...
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Knut August Johansen - May 18, 2006
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Can you see if this works:
http://homepage.mac.com/knut/filechute/iTunes%20Companion%204.zip
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Knut August Johansen - May 18, 2006
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Thank you, Guarona. This is a mystery to me, because I know it works for many people on a PC (including myself on Virtual PC). Therefore I don't understand how it can be a syntax problem. Since I'm not able to reproduce the problem, it's difficult to know where to look. It's not easy to find a problem that isn't there. It would be great if you could send me an email (knut@mac.com). Then I could send you some test widgets, and maybe we can trace down the problem.
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Guarona - May 18, 2006
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I love the widget, but i do have the same "widget wasn't able to load itself successfully" problem as aparently everybody else (on a PC). After trying everything suggested on this page, I ran the widget in debug mode with konfabulator's debug window, and it gave me an error about the 'onLoad' action every time. It seems like most of the times (from all the messing around to try to get it to work) there's a syntax problem. It also seems to be around the {, ; characters and the if, else and for loops. I tried 'revising' the code for as much as my very limited knowledge allows, but i still couldn't get it to work. I managed to get apparently no syntax errors to about line 6900 but still, there's something there beyond my knowledge that i know might be easy to fix by somebody that 'actually' knows. I hope this might give you more insight on where to look for the problem.
Thanks in advance for providing us with a working version of su
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Knut August Johansen - May 18, 2006
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Oops, I did a tiny little last minute change and was stupid enough not to test it before I uploaded it. Thanks jmob, I will upload a fix very soon.
Thank you, Angelo and iPhil®.
charlesC, did you try to delete the registry entry for iTunes Companion?
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charlesC - May 17, 2006
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Unforunately the new v4.5 still does not load on my PC in Windows. I'm using XP Pro SP2. I've tried the regserve, uninstalling iTunes etc.
I'll try it on a few other PCs.
It looks really good, I'd like to be able to get it working.
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jmob - May 17, 2006
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Scan artwork does not seem to work.
mac os x 10.4.6, latest version of konfab oops, yahho widget engine
this one is the best of the best
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iPhil® - May 17, 2006
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Awesome widget. Looks and works great.
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Angelo - May 17, 2006
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Knut, very very good! we all wait you!
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imarcano - May 16, 2006
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hey anyone here has ANY version earlier than 4.0.1?! If so, please email it to ivan_pk88@yahoo.com
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none ya bussness - May 15, 2006
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i h a v e a n i p o d ! !
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Knut August Johansen - May 15, 2006
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To Jeff and everybody having problems loading my Widget on Windows, I don't understand why it won't load on some Windows systems. I am not able to reproduce the problem. So, unfortunately, if you have tried the regserve thing, uninstalled iTunes and did a fresh install of iTunes and deleted the iTunes Companion registry entry, I can't help you at the moment. I would be grateful if anyone with knowledge on Windows could share some light.
"can I have v3 back", which system are you using? The Mac version works fine for me on 10.4.6. Can you open it in Debug Mode and see if you get any error messages before it closes? I will upload a new version soon, so hopefully it will work for you.
Nacho, I have fixed this in my new Widows version.
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Jeff @ paris - May 14, 2006
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me too, even when trying to lauch itunes with the "/regserve" argument as told in the readme file...
Any idea, knut?
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Q - May 14, 2006
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me toooo:{
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peter - May 13, 2006
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This thing "was not able to load itself successfully" WTF?!?!?
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imarcano - May 13, 2006
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widget wont work on my PC!!! it says itunes companion was unable to load itself sucesfully.. damn I shouldnt have erased the 3.5 version I had!!
XP home user SP2
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NO POP UP AT ALL ! - May 12, 2006
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THAT WOULD BE BETTER !
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can i have v3 back - May 12, 2006
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Mac version doesn't work either. Loads the song's artwork, then disappears/closes. I'm bummed because this was my favorite widget, and I can't go back to the older working version because my installation replaced it. Please post the earlier working version until v4's bugs are fixed?
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avoutthere - May 11, 2006
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I have the same problem as "annoyed":
The windows version wont work for me, i get the "iTunes companion failed to load message" when i open it.
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Nacho - May 11, 2006
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I like this widget since early versions but the Windows 4.0.1W version doesn't insert track number in itunes. I've back to 3.5W version waiting for a new release. Thank you very much for this piece of software.
Do you know any tool for report generation about the itunes libray?. All the ones I know only works over Mac OS.
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Nacho - May 11, 2006
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I like this widget since early versions but the Windows 4.0.1W version doesn't insert track number in itunes. I've back to 3.5W version waiting for a new release. Thank you very much for this piece of software.
Do you know any tool for report generation about the itunes libray?. All the ones I know only works over Mac OS.
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Annoyed - May 10, 2006
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The windows version wont work for me, i get the "iTunes companion failed to load message" when i open it, i followed the instructions in the readme, that didnt help
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Annoyed - May 10, 2006
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The windows version wont work for me, i get the "iTunes companion failed to load message" when i open it, i followed the instructions in the readme, that didnt help
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madde - May 10, 2006
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i apologyse myself. it now works perfectly. I must have deleted the correct path to my itunes library.xml file...
great work.
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Kinderpat - May 10, 2006
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Does not work with a fresh install of iTunes.
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madde - May 10, 2006
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hi,
"display all tracks in this album", "display all albums by author", "display all authors"
in the left bar doesn't work.
Using win Xp and 4.01
any ideas?
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Kinderpat - May 10, 2006
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To Knut August Johansen, yeah i've done the other solution with the cmd command line and the dos box, i've not done a fresh install yet, will try in a minute.
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Jose - May 9, 2006
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If you don't want to donate then just deal with the pop up... this is an awsome widget. I was poking around and I assume it has something to do with "password" registry entry so good luck trying to figure it out. He has done an awsome job so stop complaining
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arildeugen - May 9, 2006
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Zen Architect, I have the same setup as you and the same thing happened to me. At first I could select a track/artist but the red aroow kept floating three items above the selected on. Then I trashed the plist in Preferences (User/"me"/Library/Preferences/Yahoo! Widget Engine/iTunes Companion.widget.plist)its persisted. Then I downloaded a fresh copy after trashing the plist once more and now I could not select anything (well not quite true. Once it did select an artist, but never again). The I downloaded yet again another copy of iTunes Companion (keeping the plist) and now it works as it should! At last I am happy.
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arildeugen - May 9, 2006
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Zen Architect, I have the same setup as you and the same thing happened to me. At first I could select a track/artist but the red aroow kept floating three items above the selected on. Then I trashed the plist in Preferences (User/"me"/Library/Preferences/Yahoo! Widget Engine/iTunes Companion.widget.plist)its persisted. Then I downloaded a fresh copy after trashing the plist once more and now I could not select anything (well not quite true. Once it did select an artist, but never again). The I downloaded yet again another copy of iTunes Companion (keeping the plist) and now it works as it should! At last I am happy.
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Knut August Johansen - May 9, 2006
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Zen Architect, that's strange. Works for me with the same system & iTunes. Anyone else seeing this?
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Gohu - May 9, 2006
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Hello!
I have : Windows XP Pro
Yahoo Widget engine 3.1.2
iTunes 6.0.4.2
iTunes Companion v4
but I still have the same problem. I tried to erase the keys with regedit and launching "iTunes.exe /regserve".
it says "iTunes Companion was unable to load"
I still will try to reinstall itunes and yahoo widget engine th next time.
Thank you very much for your assistance and for your brilliant and smart tool.
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Zen Architect - May 9, 2006
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On the Mac (10.4.6) & iTunes (6.0.4 (3))the latest version does not work properly when selecting an artist, album or track to play next from the tray. The red arrow highlights the selection but the first track from the artist/album does not play.
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Knut August Johansen - May 9, 2006
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drewski, as it is now, the only way is to play through your library. (You only need to play a few seconds of one track on each album). I have been thinking of doing what many have suggested here, i.e. scan the whole library without the need to play anything, for a long time. Maybe I'll do that in my next version.
bronwyn, if you have "Bring WIdget to front on track change" turned on, this is intended. You can change the time it takes before the window goes back to previous window level in preferences ("Time before track info fades away" controls both the info and the window level).
Yukino, do what Kinderpat wrote: click on Start, then Run…, type "regedit"(without quotation marks) in the Open field. Click OK and the RegEdit application should start.
Kinderpat, have you tried the other solutions in "iTunes Companion ReadMe"? I don't know why this is happening for some people with WIndows. It has never happened to me.
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Kinderpat - May 9, 2006
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Same problem as a bunch of people, the widget won't load properly. I have the latest iTunes, Yahoo Widget Engine and a WinXP Pro. Any help would be great, thanks.
I also deleted the regedit entry (for those who don't know how to access, start --> execute --> type "regedit".
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Yukino - May 9, 2006
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Thank you very much for your help but I don't know WHAT RegEdit is and also how to get to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Yahoo/WidgetEngine/Widgets/
Thank you.
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Robr - May 9, 2006
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Dan, you can try my widget iScan which scans through songs moving to the next one after a certain amount of time (30 seconds by default). I created it for the exact purpose you described below. It is available in the forums at http://www2.konfabulator.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14351&hl=
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Dan - May 8, 2006
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Just a suggestion. In order to quickly fill your library with missing albums and lyrics it would be great if you could add a 'fast forward mode' where the widget jumps to the next song when the album art and lyrics are found (or after a certain time).
Otherwise great widget.
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bronwyn - May 8, 2006
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Hi... i just recently updated your widget from 3.5 [?] to 4 and found that when the track changes and the cover art comes to the front it doesn't go away unless i click on the cover and then back on the current window i was in, or it might go away but after 20 secs or so?
i just thought i'd let you know... but it's a great widget - thank you :]
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drewski - May 8, 2006
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k, i did a fresh install of itunes and i got the widget and itunes to respond to each other, however i'm still not sure how to optimally use the artwork feature (the artwork fetching feature is what really attracts me to this widget.) Basically I want to the widget to automatically search and add the artwork to the songs in itunes so that the album cover comes up on my video ipod and i'd like myself to have to do minimal work clicking through choosing the artwork (ill take a few wrong covers if it means me not having to click throuh thousands of songs/albums). How should i go about doing this your widget? thanks a lot i think you have written something great here.
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drewski - May 8, 2006
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yea, i have v. 3.12 and the latest itunes (6.042)
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Knut August Johansen - May 8, 2006
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drewski, that's what I expected. It hasn't been able to connect to your iTunes. You could try to uninstall iTunes and do a fresh install. Do you have the latest Yahoo! Widget Engine?
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drewski - May 8, 2006
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also, when i go to the artist list and click on an artist i get this error,
[iTunes Companion] TypeError: iTunesApp has no properties (Global/onLoad:iTunes Companion 4W.kon: Line 3605)
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drewski - May 8, 2006
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Knut - yes, the following error repeats about every 3 seconds or so, even if im not doing anything
uncaught exception: Unable to create object: Class not registered
any suggestions?
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Knut August Johansen - May 8, 2006
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Yukino and Angelo, if you have used my Widget before, delete the old registry entry for iTunes Companion with RegEdit. It's under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Yahoo/WidgetEngine/Widgets/
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Yukino - May 8, 2006
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Same thing is happening to me. It says that it wasn't able to load successfully. I would really love to use this widget but I can't open it. Help please!
I use windows XP also.
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Yukino - May 8, 2006
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Same thing is happening to me. It says that it wasn't able to load successfully. I would really love to use this widget but I can't open it. Help please!
I use windows XP also.
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Angelo - May 8, 2006
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Hi, I download iTunes Companion 4.0 but when I launch it, the system appears "was unable to load itself successfully" message. How can I do? I have windows xp home, iTunes 6.0.4, Widget Engine 3.1.2. thank u.
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Dave - May 7, 2006
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I am running Windows xp.
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Knut August Johansen - May 7, 2006
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Rick, It's a strange thing happening in the Windows version. I haven't figured out yet why it is like that. But I have found a work-around, so I think it will work better in 4.0.1, which I have uploaded today.
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arildeugen - May 7, 2006
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The same thing happened to me, Rick Gambrell. I found it solved the problem just by closing the widget and staring it again.
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Rick Gambrell - May 7, 2006
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Great widget. Just one problem. In the expanded mode it fails to scroll to be end of the lyrics. The last few lines cannot be viewed. This is not a problem in the small mode. I'm using ver 4.0 on Windows XP.
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Rick Gambrell - May 7, 2006
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Great widget. Just one problem. In the expanded mode it fails to scroll to be end of the lyrics. The last few lines cannot be viewed. This is not a problem in the small mode. I'm using ver 4.0 on Windows XP.
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Knut August Johansen - May 6, 2006
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stivmc, I'm aware of this. Unfortunately, there are some Mac code in version 4.0 for Windows. I will upload a fix for this very soon.
Dave, thanks! Which operating system are you using?
Thank you, zippynell.
Gohu and Ron, I don't understand why it won't load for you after you have deleted the registry entry. Have you tried the other solutions in iTunes Companion ReadMe?
Frad, I have used FileSystemObject object instead of UNIX commands to create/delete files and folders in my next Windows version. Hopefully this will solve your problem.
drewski, can you open it in debug mode (quit my Widget, ctrl-shift click on the Yahoo! Widget Engine icon so it reveals the "Debug Mode" menu item, select that so it gets a check mark and then open my widget). Do you get any error messages in the debug window?
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stivmc - May 6, 2006
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I love this Widget! Thanks! However, I have a small problem that started recently. When I manually add artwork to the Widget, it does not export this artwork to iTunes. I have verified that this option is turned on and I have the latest version of the widget. Thoughts?
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stivmc - May 6, 2006
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I love this Widget! Thanks! However, I have a small problem that started recently. When I manually add artwork to the Widget, it does not export this artwork to iTunes. I have verified that this option is turned on and I have the latest version of the widget. Thoughts?
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Dave - May 6, 2006
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This is hands down the best widget around for itunes. I am going to donate as soon as I fill my paypal up with some ebay sales coming in.
Someone mentioned some issues below about freezing and etc and I am getting the same thing. With this newest verison. I also have the newest version of the widget engine.
I have also been letting it run while I am gone to fill up lyrics for certain bands. I left it running on the white stripes and it got to the "G's" fine. But then it replaced the songs G-Z with the lyrics for "Girl you have no faith in medicine."
I would love to add a way to just have the thing go through, check for art and lyrics. If it's there move onto the next song. If it's not there, replace and move on. Or a function that you can set to skip to the next song after 30 secs or a minute. It would save me so much time in replacing the art/lyrics.
Everyone really should donate to this project. This is a program that apple should
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zippyneil - May 5, 2006
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v4 of this widget is great - much quicker and stable, and now I only have 4000 of my 8000 songs without lyrics, and they all have artwork. Without this widget, I would have none. Great work, Knut.
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Ron - May 5, 2006
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I have the same problem - it says iTunes Companion was unable to load itself successfully. Anyone know what to do?
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Gohu - May 4, 2006
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I have the lest version of yaoo widget (3.1.2)
and the version 4 of itunes companion (a great widget, thanks to the author)
And i have a problem when i try to load the widget in yahoo widget (the load is failed... :-( )
I have tryied to errase the key with regedit but it doesn'nt work...
(sorry for my english...)
thanks a lot
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Frad - May 3, 2006
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First off great Widget.
However I have been having a problem with it for quite some time (aka several of the past versions including the latest)
When the track changes the widget appears to lock up as it changes the album art. Specifically I have tracked the problem to this file "rm.exe" (and possibly "zsh.exe").
If the widget locks up I Ctrl-Alt-Del and kill the rm.exe process in the Task Manager. This solves the problem immediately and the album art updates. Until this happens again with the next track.
Seeing as I seem to be the only one mentioning the problem, it may very well be a problem on my end. I have uninstalled iTunes and reinstalled it. That made no difference. Any help would be appreciated. I have not really been able to use this widget in months because of it.
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drewski - May 3, 2006
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i dunno if im not using it right or if it just doesnt work for me, but it does nothing to find album covers even if i already have them in itunes it doesnt display them. also, when looking at the list of artists, i click on one and it just puts a red arrow next to their name, it doesnt go to their songs or albums or do anything, what gives? i have windows xp and itunes 6.042
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Knut August Johansen - May 3, 2006
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Sorry, I was too late :-), thank you, Maximus.
I have fixed the default libFilePath in version 4. I forgot to change the Mac libFilePath to the correct path for Windows in my previous version.
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Knut August Johansen - May 3, 2006
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Beat, are you trying to run it for the first time or have you used it before? If you have an old registry entry for iTunes Companion, delete it with RegEdit. It's under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Yahoo/WidgetEngine/Widgets/.
Thank you, Johnny, Mike and heppy.
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beat - May 3, 2006
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cool no it works :D
thank you maximus
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Maximus - May 3, 2006
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Beat, I was getting the same thing. I found that a Registry key for this widget was the problem.
HKCUSoftwareYahooWidgetEngineWidgetsiTunesCompanion
There is a key called "libFilePath" that had jibberish in it. Replace it with the path and filename of your XML file (i.e. "D:My DocumentsMy MusiciTunesiTunes Music Library.xml")
Once I fixed that the widget loaded for me.
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Maximus - May 3, 2006
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Beat, I was getting the same thing. I found that a Registry key for this widget was the problem.
HKCUSoftwareYahooWidgetEngineWidgetsiTunesCompanion
There is a key called "libFilePath" that had jibberish in it. Replace it with the path and filename of your XML file (i.e. "D:My DocumentsMy MusiciTunesiTunes Music Library.xml")
Once I fixed that the widget loaded for me.
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heppy - May 3, 2006
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@Beat are you using version 4? It seems to have fixed that problem for me, also make sure your itunes library file is pointed at that right place, by default it's not correct on the windows version
Version 4 seems to be the answer to my prayers! Looks like i'm going to have to donate now that it actually runs!
There are still a few bugs in how it handles weather iTunes is already opened, whether it's using the itunes scripting interface(even when it's asleep itunes doesn't quit straight away) and opening itunes when it is closed! But these aren't fatal like the old bugs
thanks Knut! I love it, expect my donation anyday soon...
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Beat - May 3, 2006
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I receive this message, if i open the widget:
iTunes Companion was unable to load itself succesfully.
I have Win XP SP2, and other widgets are working great...
Any one a idea?
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Mike Orren - May 2, 2006
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My favorite widget ever keeps getting better.
And you leeches bitching about the donation should send the guy a few bucks. He's done a great job.
Glad to see Yahoo! is doing such a good job of removing spam/offensive comments...
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Johnny - May 2, 2006
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I don't understand everyone's beef. Its not a very hard thing to get around. The fact that donators are emailed instructions to do it, should make people realize its possible for you to do it yourself.
Rather than bitching in the forums, do some research and figure it out.
Out of respect for the author you will never get the fix from me, so dont ask.
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Knut August Johansen - May 1, 2006
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Sjaarda, I sent you an email right after you donated each time 3/16 and 5/1, but I got both of them in return.
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Knut August Johansen - May 1, 2006
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Please send me an e-mail if you have donated and you haven't got an e-mail from me!
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Sjaarda - April 30, 2006
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Good Widget, The drawer doesn't work in large mode. Also, I have donated twice and the pop up still occurs.
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Knut August Johansen - April 30, 2006
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I'm flattered that my Widget can trigger so much emotions :-).
jbeaman, I answer everyone who donates, but there are a couple of people I haven't been able to reach because the e-mail addresses they used are wrong. If you are one of them, please send me an e-mail. But I guess you don't care since you are "done with it"?
I will upload a new version tomorrow.
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Rasmus Brun - April 28, 2006
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Hi Jeff Thielen.
I had the same problem with the missing .kon file. What I did was, that I reinstalled Yahoo Widget Engine 3.1.1
It perfectly solved my problem.
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Zulfikar - April 27, 2006
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Vers. 3.5: Now with lyrics. Option to also delete artwork in iTunes when dismissing artwork + many other improvements. => many !!!! the important one is the popup no?
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Jeff Thielen - April 26, 2006
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With version 3.5 I am getting an error:
Cannot open widget. Unable to locate .kon file.
I have gone back to 3.0.1.
I am running iTunes 6.0.4.2, Widget Engine 3.1.1, Windows XP Pro SP2.
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jbeaman - April 26, 2006
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i love this widget but i donated 5 bucks and still have the nag screen. seriously, i'm done with it. stupid stupid man...all for what? 500 bucks? one thousand? five thousand even. what's the point of donating?
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PVL - April 26, 2006
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How about someone who has donated do the right thing and post how to get rid of the popup?
Help the community, this is supposed to be freeware. Don't force us to donate for a free product.
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Scot - April 25, 2006
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I Donated the 10 bucks and then got an email from Knut about how to remove the nag screen. Just pay the couple bucks. I am also seeing the zsh.exe error occasionally when using the sidebar feature. Overall a great widget.
Request: I often use the party shuffle and just have it constantly running. From the sidebar when viewing other other tracks from the album it might be cool to be able to "Play Next in Party Shuffle" straight from the widgets track listing. Also if changes are found for track number and info like this, is it possib;e to save that change after the song has completed so as not to pause the song playing?
Great widget... wish more people would contribute quality widgets instead of things I just see as a novelty.
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Ericson Laja - April 25, 2006
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Nokia 9300 110$
Nokia 7260 120$
Nokia 7270 110$
Nokia 7280 120$
Nokia 6670 110$
Nokia 6020 120$
Nokia 3220 65$
Nokia N-GAGE QD 75$
Nokia 7610 120$
Nokia 9500 145$
Nokia 5140 85$
Nokia 6610i 120$
Nokia 7200 133$
Nokia 6230 145$
Nokia 6820 120$
(ericsonlajastoreinc@yahoo.com)(+2348025623329)
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Ericson Laja - April 25, 2006
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Hello buyers.
These is Ericson Laja of ericsonlaja store inc.I have a good news for you.I want you to buy your phones,ipod,mp3 player,laptop at a very cheap price .If you have interest mail me at (ericsonlajastoreinc@yahoo.com) or call us(+2348025623329) .The goods price are place bellow
thanks for you inquiry.
Best regard
Ericson Laja
mp3 player
Mp3 Player Price List
iRiver IFP-790T MP3 Player = $80
H10 6GB MP3 Player = $120
Sonic Impact Technologies 512MB MP3 Player w/ Flash Drive & Voice = $85
iriver H10 5GB MP3 Player, Gray = $110
YP-MT6X Yepp 512MB Portable Compact Digital Music MP3 Player = $70
Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player - Dark Blue [ Creative Labs = $100
iRiver 5 GB MP3 Player (Silver) = $110
Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 30 GB MP3 Player = $90
Sony MZ-NH600D 1GB MP3 Player Hi-MD Walkman Digital Music Player = $90
Network Walkman NW-HD1 20GB MP3 Player = $150
Cowon iAudio X5 20GB MP3 Player = $110
Digital
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Ericson Laja - April 25, 2006
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Hello buyers.
These is Ericson Laja of ericsonlaja store inc.I have a good news for you.I want you to buy your phones,ipod,mp3 player,laptop at a very cheap price .If you have interest mail me at (ericsonlajastoreinc@yahoo.com) or call us(+2348025623329) .The goods price are place bellow
thanks for you inquiry.
Best regard
Ericson Laja
mp3 player
Mp3 Player Price List
iRiver IFP-790T MP3 Player = $80
H10 6GB MP3 Player = $120
Sonic Impact Technologies 512MB MP3 Player w/ Flash Drive & Voice = $85
iriver H10 5GB MP3 Player, Gray = $110
YP-MT6X Yepp 512MB Portable Compact Digital Music MP3 Player = $70
Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player - Dark Blue [ Creative Labs = $100
iRiver 5 GB MP3 Player (Silver) = $110
Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 30 GB MP3 Player = $90
Sony MZ-NH600D 1GB MP3 Player Hi-MD Walkman Digital Music Player = $90
Network Walkman NW-HD1 20GB MP3 Player = $150
Cowon iAudio X5 20GB MP3 Player = $110
Digital
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Ericson Laja - April 25, 2006
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Hello buyers.
These is Ericson Laja of ericsonlaja store inc.I have a good news for you.I want you to buy your phones,ipod,mp3 player,laptop at a very cheap price .If you have interest mail me at (ericsonlajastoreinc@yahoo.com) or call us(+2348025623329) .The goods price are place bellow
thanks for you inquiry.
Best regard
Ericson Laja
mp3 player
Mp3 Player Price List
iRiver IFP-790T MP3 Player = $80
H10 6GB MP3 Player = $120
Sonic Impact Technologies 512MB MP3 Player w/ Flash Drive & Voice = $85
iriver H10 5GB MP3 Player, Gray = $110
YP-MT6X Yepp 512MB Portable Compact Digital Music MP3 Player = $70
Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player - Dark Blue [ Creative Labs = $100
iRiver 5 GB MP3 Player (Silver) = $110
Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 30 GB MP3 Player = $90
Sony MZ-NH600D 1GB MP3 Player Hi-MD Walkman Digital Music Player = $90
Network Walkman NW-HD1 20GB MP3 Player = $150
Cowon iAudio X5 20GB MP3 Player = $110
Digital
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Ericson Laja - April 25, 2006
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Hello buyers.
These is Ericson Laja of ericsonlaja store inc.I have a good news for you.I want you to buy your phones,ipod,mp3 player,laptop at a very cheap price .If you have interest mail me at (ericsonlajastoreinc@yahoo.com) or call us(+2348025623329) .The goods price are place bellow
thanks for you inquiry.
Best regard
Ericson Laja
mp3 player
Mp3 Player Price List
iRiver IFP-790T MP3 Player = $80
H10 6GB MP3 Player = $120
Sonic Impact Technologies 512MB MP3 Player w/ Flash Drive & Voice = $85
iriver H10 5GB MP3 Player, Gray = $110
YP-MT6X Yepp 512MB Portable Compact Digital Music MP3 Player = $70
Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player - Dark Blue [ Creative Labs = $100
iRiver 5 GB MP3 Player (Silver) = $110
Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 30 GB MP3 Player = $90
Sony MZ-NH600D 1GB MP3 Player Hi-MD Walkman Digital Music Player = $90
Network Walkman NW-HD1 20GB MP3 Player = $150
Cowon iAudio X5 20GB MP3 Player = $110
Digital
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Ericson Laja - April 25, 2006
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Hello buyers.
These is Ericson Laja of ericsonlaja store inc.I have a good news for you.I want you to buy your phones,ipod,mp3 player,laptop at a very cheap price .If you have interest mail me at (ericsonlajastoreinc@yahoo.com) or call us(+2348025623329) .The goods price are place bellow
thanks for you inquiry.
Best regard
Ericson Laja
mp3 player
Mp3 Player Price List
iRiver IFP-790T MP3 Player = $80
H10 6GB MP3 Player = $120
Sonic Impact Technologies 512MB MP3 Player w/ Flash Drive & Voice = $85
iriver H10 5GB MP3 Player, Gray = $110
YP-MT6X Yepp 512MB Portable Compact Digital Music MP3 Player = $70
Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player - Dark Blue [ Creative Labs = $100
iRiver 5 GB MP3 Player (Silver) = $110
Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 30 GB MP3 Player = $90
Sony MZ-NH600D 1GB MP3 Player Hi-MD Walkman Digital Music Player = $90
Network Walkman NW-HD1 20GB MP3 Player = $150
Cowon iAudio X5 20GB MP3 Player = $110
Digital
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egw - April 23, 2006
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This widget is awesome, up until the version after 3.0.1 where the ridiculously annoying "donate plz kthx" pops up every 5 seconds. EVEN IF YOU DONATE THIS DOES NOT GO AWAY, for there is no way to input any code or anything to get rid of the beg-ware. Anyway, 4 stars for features and how it works, 0 stars for the incessant nagging. (Thankfully I kept my old copy, so I was able to revert.)
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Fantomas - April 22, 2006
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I love this widget but eversince I upgraded to 3.5, I'm not able to make it work. I get the following error:
"StartWidgetProcess: Unable to locate the .kon file"
Any idea what am I doing wrong?
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george - April 20, 2006
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i have no foundation on script or programming etc. i am just a normal guy trying to get this widget to work because all the comments are awesome. when i go to the command thing, what do i type in EXACTLY to make this work because i get to the itunes folder and then i type in cd itunes music library.xml and it won't recognize it or something.
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Ca$e - April 20, 2006
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This widget is amazingly designed and a marvel of widgetary technology. I'm planning on donating BUT only if the program allows me to export to iTunes, I'm having a lot of trouble with that. It exports to iTunes very sparatically and I can't get it to be consistent. If I can get this fixed I'll be more than happy to donate.
By the way I'm running Mac OSX 10.4.6 and iTunes 6.0.4. 1 GHz PowerPC G4 with 1 GB DDR SDRAM. My email is CaseV8@hotmail.com. I'd really like to get this issue resolved as it's the main reason I downloaded the widget.
Overall this widget is amazing though!
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Zach R - April 19, 2006
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This widget doesn't work for me. I go to open the widget, and it says that either it's not a widget file, or I don't have access to it (StartWidgetProcess: Cannot find Widget file in the zip container) Anyone know how to fix this?
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arildeugen - April 18, 2006
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It is by donating some small amounts (and then I don’t consider a dollar to be an amount) that all the bugs will be found and lots of new features will be added, not the other way around. Most programmers are not paid by someone to make fabulous software for all to enjoy, the pay must come from the happy users.
Come on guys, let’s make this the best widget and give the developer the support he deserves!
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Neil P - April 18, 2006
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"widget failing to load itself succesfully" resolved! Thanks to cls55 (below) for the solution. Somehow it got confused as to the location of my iTunes .xml file.
: deleted the registry key containing the settings (see post below)
: restarted the widget (it worked that time)
: changed the widget preferences to point to the correct location
: saved the preferences
Still a great widget. Now I've only got another 6000 sets of lyrics for it to find!
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cls55 - April 17, 2006
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thanks for the idea tennie
Just needed to change HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareYahooWidgetEngineWidgetsiTunes CompanionlibFilePath to the correct location of my itunes xml file...mine was at C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml
Doesn't seem to crash anymore and all the buttons look like they work
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heppy - April 17, 2006
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knut, if you can get those bugs worked out for the pc, i will definiteyl donate! it could be a great widget, i don't understand all of these people complaining because it's not free, a lot of time goes into these. Just that these bugs on the PC at least for me are fatal, it kills my prefrences everytime, because i have to delete the registry settings (like the preferences on the mac) plus i noticed just now that the wheel was constantly spinning in the background, even when i changed the page, and it was using 90percent of the CPU!
If you need help debugging for the windows version i can help you out there, maybe we can chat via email or something, plus i know a thing or two about javascipt so i could be handy.
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tennie - April 17, 2006
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fabulous!
it wasn't working at first...whenever i tried to click on the buttons to see the other tracks on the album, it didn't work, i kept getting the "grep: C:/Documents and Settings/Administ" but i just had to change the location of my itunes music library .xml file and now it's great!
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heppy - April 17, 2006
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knut, if you can get those bugs worked out for the pc, i will definiteyl donate! it could be a great widget, i don't understand all of these people complaining because it's not free, a lot of time goes into these. Just that these bugs on the PC at least for me are fatal, it kills my prefrences everytime, because i have to delete the registry settings (like the preferences on the mac) plus i noticed just now that the wheel was constantly spinning in the background, even when i changed the page, and it was using 90percent of the CPU!
If you need help debugging for the windows version i can help you out there, maybe we can chat via email or something, plus i know a thing or two about javascipt so i could be handy.
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lmw - April 17, 2006
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Works great until you use the sidebar. Listening to a playlist, I clicked the "Albums by this artist" button and get a zsh.exe error and now the sidebar doesn't function at all. The Donation popup is somewhat annoying. I thought these widgets were free, sheesh.
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Alli - April 17, 2006
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Brilliant! I have no problems running it on my PC. Better than any other iTunes extension I've used. It's really accurate and I don't get any problems with it putting false information into the iTunes library. Genius! Again, I would give it five stars if I could!
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heppy - April 16, 2006
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i love this widget, i use it on my mac, not sure if it's the same author. Now i'm using this pc version.Only problem is, every time i close it then open it again, it says can't load correctly and i have to delete the registry entries. Then it goes, for a while....any fixes for this?
plus the other functions grep and zsh don't work.
thanks!
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yyy - April 16, 2006
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Amazing Widget - thank you very much for developing it :) Deffinetly gets my 4 stars (I'd give 5 if I could)
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Bill - April 16, 2006
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Widget won't even load. Crashes everytime. GARBAGE!!!!!!!
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cls55 - April 16, 2006
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Having the same errors with 3.1.1
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cls55 - April 15, 2006
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Did this break with Konfabulator 3.1? For most of the side window functions, it either crashes zsh.exe or it says "grep: C:/Documents and Settings/Administ"
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MacFly - April 15, 2006
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i agree the popup makes it unsusable !
back to version 2.5.8 taht was noice for me, too bad, this was a nice widget, but no future
Nest step is shareware :-(
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Josh - April 13, 2006
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I definitely would have given it 4 stars... but everytime I restart the widget, I have to go in and delete all the registry keys, otherwise it will not load properly (or at all). Does anyone know a fix so that it will run correctly after you have closed it and try to reopen it?
Again, great widget.
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Mike Sjaarda - April 12, 2006
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Great Widget. The lyric and album art snags when the album, song, and or artist are the same. Other then that nice work.
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Zulfikar - April 11, 2006
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I would be happy if someone from the antipopup consortium could send vers. 3.0 to me - jclairefond@yahoo.fr
Thank you
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Widget_wacker - April 11, 2006
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Previously I mentioned about the drawer not opening, not being able to resize, that is now working. I restarted the widget from scratch and that worked (plus I may have changed a setting that caused a problem). However, I still have not been able to use the track announce, which would be useful to me as I preview a lot of songs I have never heard and would like to have them announced to me so as not to have to run back to the computer and check. The lyrics feature, as I mentioned, beats manually entering ALL the lyrics but it really found a small percentage of lyrics for me.
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Dan - April 11, 2006
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Great widget! But the lyrics search still has some problems on Windows. It seems to fail on songs with special characters in the title (like &,% etc.). Then it hangs and fails to start the next time. You can only help it by changing the 'SearchLyrics' parameter in the Registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareYahooWidgetEngineWidgetsiTunes Companion) from 1 to 0. When you restart the widget and set it back to search for lyrics everything is fine (until it finds the next bad song title).
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clicks - April 10, 2006
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Amazing Widget, thank you Knut August Johansen. Its worth spending some money for it. I can't understand some of you guys here, Mr. Johansen only asks for a small donation, this won't kill you and you don't have to raise a mortgage for it. And it is fun to get the Solution-Mail from Mr. Johansen - you might be surprised :)
Nervertheless, I have one wish for future versions, the Windows Version starts iTunes automatically although I unchecked the "Open iTuens automatically when opening the Widget" box. Hope you can fix it.
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GMG - April 10, 2006
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Excellent widget. I'll donate in a bit. I have a slight problem. If I already have the artwork loaded for a CD, this program will NOT download the lyrics. Is there anyway around this problem? Email: chsmoot@yahoo.com
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GMG - April 10, 2006
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Excellent widget. I'll donate in a bit. I have a slight problem. If I already have the artwork loaded for a CD, this program will NOT download the lyrics. Is there anyway around this problem? Email: chsmoot@yahoo.com
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Ned - April 10, 2006
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this thing refuses to load
WinXP PRO
Widget Engine 3.0.2
iTunes 6.0.4.2
boo.
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widget_wacker - April 9, 2006
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Also, the tooltip says to click arrow to scale up/down. That doesn't work for me. Suggestions?
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widget_wacker - April 9, 2006
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I like it for finding lyrics (when it does)...beats manually searching. BUT my drawer doesn't stay open but for a millisecond, and my track announce doesn't announce (the song gets quiet for a second but no announce). Any fixes for these issues?
Overall, I think it's pretty cool!
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Aikagi - April 8, 2006
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Yea I agree about he nag always popping up and taking focus. I totally bites if you are in a full screen game trying to fend off enemies and then this thing pops up and drags down the game window. And always have my own music on in the back ground. can you please move the nag. put it like in the about option or some where in the options section or somthing. Cause as it stands you've indeed turned it into shareware and not freeware like Jay said. As an example there are tons of big name programs out there that do the exact same thing. you get the program and it works but you also get tons and tons of nags and such with it. Money must be payed to remove them also.
Out side of that it's absolutly great program. You've actually given me a reason to put artwork on my stuff! Cause 90% of the time I have Itunes minimized due it's HUGE ass interface so I don't see the art any hoo. But this widget changes all that.
So yea, either move the nag some where or just be up f
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Gary - April 8, 2006
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Just downloaded this thing. There are no installation instructions. How do I install and run this thing? Do I place the file in a certain directory?
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Tomasd - April 7, 2006
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What does "deleting the registry root" mean? I have been unable to relaunch the program after I installed it (when it worked properly). Can someone explain what and how needs to be delete it to make it work again? Thank you.
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Jaimie - April 6, 2006
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Can someone please tell me how to install this properly?
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madde - April 5, 2006
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just to correct me:
Everafter expanding the drawer, it isn't possible to relaunch the programm (an error message occurs).
Only after deleting the registry root, it works normal again.
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Madde - April 5, 2006
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great widget, except one thing:
Ever i am trying to click "Display all albums by this artist", the widget produces an eror message, and stops working properly, well it doens't work anymore. This problem can only be solved by deleting the full registry tree of it.
Reinstalling Itunes doenst fix this problem.
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Jaimie again - April 5, 2006
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my email address is your_veela_dream@yahoo.com. please respond. :)
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Jaimie - April 5, 2006
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I would really love this program and the reviews sound great! I'd be happy to contribute if someone could send me the 3.0 version. I've tried to install the 3.5 on my mac osX, but it wont work. the file opens up with itunescompanion.widget, and everytime i try to open it it wont work at all.
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Alan - April 4, 2006
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Nice but a bug that I didn't have in the previous versions : when you are working in an other application during the change of a song, the widget it taking control out this application so, if, for example you are writing a document, at each song ou need to clic again on the application to continue to work with. Isn't it due to the popup that ask you to donate... if it worked why not, but in this case not very sure
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Andrew - April 3, 2006
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Great but could be improved. Many of my songs I added artwork to manually, but iTunes companion can't find them on amazon. So all it does is display the empty CD case. I think it should be optional to display the artwork already stored on the computer, or if it can't find it on amazon, check if you already have it. That way I don't have an empty CD case when in fact I spent a lot of time finding the artwork myself.
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Kamil Mytnik - April 3, 2006
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Exported covers to ID3 tags in itunes only a few times after initial installation, now it only displays them only in the widget. Im on OS X 10.4.5. Apart from that, its nearly perfect. (forgot to mention OS)
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Kamil Mytnik - April 3, 2006
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Exported covers to ID3 tags in itunes only a few times after initial installation, now it only displays them only in the widget.
Apart from that, its nearly perfect.
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BOB - April 2, 2006
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This is a great widget. but i thas a problem loading somtimes.
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Tomas - April 1, 2006
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I have found the location to which you are referring but what do you mena by "deleting the registry keys"? What files exactly (name) does one need to delete? Thank you. P.S. This widget is amazing.
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Kevin Daub - March 31, 2006
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I think I found the solution to the widget not loading successfully. Use regedit and delete the registry keys associated with the widget in the Current User/Software/Yahoo Widget Engine/iTunes Companion. Hope that helps.
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luke - March 30, 2006
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This is by far my favorite widget.
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Devices - March 30, 2006
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At the moment, the popup is the least of my worries. I can't get the widget to start, at all. I tried reinstalling iTunes, tried the /regserve command ... no luck. Anyone else having the same trouble? WinXP - iTunes v6.0.4.2.
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Devices - March 30, 2006
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At the moment, the popup is the least of my worries. I can't get the widget to start, at all. I tried reinstalling iTunes, tried the /regserve command ... no luck. Anyone else having the same trouble? WinXP - iTunes v6.0.4.2.
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MikeG - March 30, 2006
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Looks like you are taking some heat on the popup. Perhaps you can find another way to implement, maybe a 5s nag window on startup and shutdown? I understand your issue, and must note that I have used this widget for quite a while without thinking of donating (not that I wouldn't, just never thought about it). So, make us think about it, but don't kill the fan base. I love this widget! I too have encountered art overwrite and rollover of the previous albums art to the current album, but it is still fantastic. I'll donate. It just can't be over-intrusive.
Thanks, Knut.
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Anti PopUp Consortium - March 30, 2006
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Thanks to PVL for sending me the previous version. The man got one word ! Everyone, go back to 3.0 ! The pop up has to be abandonned in the future !
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Ben S. - March 29, 2006
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Works great!!! Thanks so much for a wonderful widget!
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jdbriandb - March 29, 2006
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You naysayers are either unlucky or poorly trained. This has been THE most valuable widget I've ever found, and its functionality to fetch album covers and lyrics is better than anything else I've used. Just remember, you get what you pay for -- so complaining about freebies is pointless!
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jdbriandb - March 29, 2006
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You naysayers are either unlucky or poorly trained. This has been THE most valuable widget I've ever found, and its functionality to fetch album covers and lyrics is better than anything else I've used. Just remember, you get what you pay for -- so complaining about freebies is pointless!
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PVL - March 29, 2006
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JAB, funk, Viking - sent.
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Justin Eaton - March 28, 2006
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I'm having trouble getting it up and running. I'm new to the whole "widget" thing, but there are quite a few that are impressive. I downloaded and unzipped the files. What do I do to install/activate the program? Any help would be appreciated...
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Barry W - March 28, 2006
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Hi Knut, Great Widget! I'm having a problem with the new version though. I just downloaded the new Mac version 3.5 and I can no longer get the artwork to export to iTunes. I have the export artwork to iTunes preference checked. I have also tried checking and unchecking the "use Quicktime to convert..." preference without success. The lyrics export to iTunes great. I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.5 and iTunes 6.0.4 (3). Help please!
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Svlad Cjelli - March 28, 2006
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Well, Knut, I think Jay is bringing it to the point. I have no doubt that the donation nag is a financial success for you. I appreciate your work, and I also think that (almost) everybody should be able to donate at least 50ct. I can understand that asking for it in this way is kind of tempting for you, but please, think it over. For reasons why, see Jay's post.
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French Viking - March 28, 2006
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Is it possible to have the 3.0 please ? It crashe with the 3.5 and Yahoo Widget 3.02
frenchviking@free.fr
Thanks
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Anti PopUp Consortium - March 28, 2006
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Please PVL, can you send me the version 3.0 here : f4funk@yahoo.fr
Thank you very much !
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JAB - March 27, 2006
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PVL: I would be happy if you could send vers. 3.0 to me - conchis@home.se
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Jay - March 27, 2006
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The widget works okay, some hiccups, but the one star is for the popups. Widgets are supposed to be free... this is not a donation request, it is nag-crippled shareware. Call it a donation if you want, but if you have to pay to remove the crippling then it is not a donation. It not only pops up, it takes focus, therefore breaking you out of any activity you are doing. If you leave your computer not playing for an hour, it still pops up. If you are spending so much time on this software that you have to cripple it like this, take it out of konfabulator and sell it as shareware. I will say that this version is way more bug free than the last, so I guess I'll just remove it instead of rolling back.
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Neil Patterson - March 27, 2006
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Hi there - I've tried your advice on the "unable to load itself" issue with no resolution. Do you have any updates on this, or anything I can try out?
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PVL - March 27, 2006
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Also, 3.5 crashes on my computer when clicking on the "Display all artists in your library." My Library has 672 artists if that helps.
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PVL - March 27, 2006
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By the way, I've downgraded to version 3.0. If anyone needs it let me know.
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PVL - March 27, 2006
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I am leaving this unrated because of the "Give me money!" popup. It's a great widget, but these are supposed to be free. Sure we can donate if we feel like it, but just for the fact that you throw it in our face every x minutes, I won't. Freeware is rewarded intrinsically. Thanks for the widget, remove the popup for a four star raiting.
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David - March 27, 2006
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I can't believe I am dealing with popups again.
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Fingersatmytips - March 26, 2006
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this widget has honestly stayed on my desktop since the beginning of time.
Adore it.
but i'm sorry. i don't have money i can give you. I'm broke myself.
Please leave the option to donate available without rendering the art-showing useless every x minutes unless i click later.
Thank you.
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JeffF - March 26, 2006
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For those who get errors or the message "grep: C://Documents and Settings/..." when opening the drawer window, try setting the "Choose your iTunes music library.xml file" general preference. Even if the path is correct, use the browse button to select the location and save the preferences.
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amazingant - March 26, 2006
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this is great! i've been looking for something like this to take some of the time out of finding the album art for me and then showing it to me while playing... now the problem. it would seem that for some strange reason, after i set the volume rather low, it keeps wanting to go back to that low volume setting. so i'm halfway through a great rock song, and then all of a sudden i can't hear it.... :-(
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JohnC - March 26, 2006
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(continued)
paste them in over the "Not found text", it's difficult to select the "Not found message". And after pasting, the text is confined to the top quarter of the display (messed up scrolling).
4. The small hang when it updates picture/lyrics is annoying- it'd be great if you could wait to upload the data until the song finishes (or have that be an option), would be nice.
5. "Bring Widget to front on track change" would be nice, if it worked. Doesn't do anything, AFAICT.
If you plan to address these issues, I'll plan on donating :)
Thanks again,
-John
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JohnC - March 26, 2006
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Great work Knut!
I've been trying out your widget on WinXP, SP2 on a P4 2.5ghz. Works very will, in general, but I've had the following issues which prevent me giving it 4 stars.
1. Almost every time I try to load it, I get "iTunes companion was unable to load itself successfully". So I click Exit and try again. Sometimes it takes as many as 5 tries before it will load successfully. Is there a specific place I must install it or something?
2. Occasionally, when it can't find lyrics/picture, the little rotating "busy" icon in the lyrics window goes crazy spinning very fast, and results in the YahooWidgetsEngine.exe process taking >70% of my CPU. I have to quit the widget and re-open to get it back to normal.
3. The lyrics window display is difficult. Sometimes the "No lyrics found" text will show up over the top of the "Tracks on this album" window. When I google the lyrics, and want to paste them in over the
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Knut August Johansen - March 26, 2006
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mojambo, this is not a dashboard widget. You need to install the Yahoo! Widget Engine and you can put my widget in Documents/Widgets (or anywhere you like) and double click to open it.
pedro, have you turned on "Track announcing" in Preferences? If you have that on it lowers the volume on track change.
politicalslug, I'm sorry that I wasn't clear about this. I tell everyone who donates how to get rid of the pop-up window and it will stay away for all future versions. And any amount qualifies for this. I don't think that is too unreasonable.
Bruce, which operating system? I can't reproduce this problem on my Mac and it's hard for me to test the Windows version, but I'll see if I can improve the export function in my next version.
Shakramoune, what kind of problems do you have with version 3.5? And which operating system are you using?
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Shakramoune - March 25, 2006
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I love this widget, but the older version, this one is not working well. And the installation of 3.5 erase the 2.5.4 (this one was working very well) of my computer so i couldn't reinstall it. So if someone still have the 2.5.4 it would be wonderful if he could send it to shakramoune@hotmail.com.
Thank you
PS The four stars are for the older version.
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Dave Cody - March 24, 2006
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I love the widget! It is the only widget that makes Konfabulator absolutely worth having. And I understand why the nag pop up... I was one who did not donate even though the option was there.
However... please tell me that now that I have donated it will go away. Please don't make me look at that pop up. I don't want to re-install an older version. There has to be a registered version, right?
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Bruce Hawkins - March 24, 2006
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I'd like to echo "xbrianlorenzo"'s comment about this widget. It would be SO useful to me if it just wouldn't copy the last cover it found onto the next one I WANT it to find. I've ripped over 3400 songs from my 700 CD collection onto my laptop and I'd LOVE to be able to just leave for work and let this widget go through my collection and update the artwork which for some annoying reason doesn't come over. The way this works though ... if I let it do that ... I'll come back home to have only one CD cover on all my tunes. I've had to manually delete the covers applied and then let it do an amazon search ... and "refind" the correct cover, etc... etc.. etc..
If this issue is fixed ... I wouldn't worry about a popup cuz I'd definitely make a donation.
Look forward to this improvement.
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politicalslug - March 22, 2006
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First let me just say that this is my favorite widget, and I find it indespensible. This latest version with lyric imports.... fantastic. Why only three stars? Because of the pop-up advertisement. I understand you'd like some compensation for your effort, but you know full well that this site doesn't allow you to charge for widgets. You also aren't clear about whether or not the message goes away if I make a donation. I would consider it only if I knew that this, and all future versions, would have that message removed... otherwise what's the point?
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Julien - March 18, 2006
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Hi, I download Itunes companion 3.5 yesterday, and I'm sorry to tell that it doesn't work well on my computer. I'd like to know if it's possible to go back to vers 2.5.4 because this one was working very well. This widget is a very good one, the only I use!! So if someone got vers 2.5.4, it would be wonderful if you could send it at jclairefond@yahoo.fr. Thank you
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pedro - March 17, 2006
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This is a very good widget except for 2 very very large annoyances. Only occasionally does this save the album cover into iTunes. only about every 4'th song, if that. Even if it shows the album in the widget, it doesn't save them into iTunes. Also, on every song change the volume gets lowered to some ridiculously low level. I am using widget version 3.5 in iTunes version 6.0.4.2 in Windows XP Pro SP2.
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Anti PopUp Consortium - March 17, 2006
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Please, can anyone send me the previous version for windows (3.0.1) at this adress : f4funk@yahoo.fr ? Thank you !
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mojambo - March 16, 2006
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How do you get this to work? i put it in my library/widgets folder and it wont recognize the widget
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Gary Rowswell - March 14, 2006
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I think what this really needs is a full screen option! then it would be good
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Nos - March 14, 2006
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Brilliant but doesen't beet the iPod player 5
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oopl - March 13, 2006
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boo for annoying donation nag pop up that doesn't go away
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Knut August Johansen - March 13, 2006
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Prince, I fully understand that you want to change the aspect of your Microsoft software :-). But if you think my widget is precious, why don't you want to pay a few bucks for it? How much did you pay for your Microsoft software? I have tried for three years to only have a button people could use if they wanted to donate. That didn't work very well.
Robr, I don't think I understand what you mean. Does it disappear when you pause the music? It doesn't do that for me.
Ken, the images can't be pasted but must be dragged into iTunes. I don't know why it's not exporting to iTunes for you. Which operating system are you using?
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Knut August Johansen - March 13, 2006
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First I want to say thank you to everybody who have donated so far. There are a few I haven't been able to reach because I get the emails in return with an error. So if you haven't received an email from me, please check if there are any problems with the email you used on PayPal and send me an email (knut@mac.com).
Hewimeddel, my Widget checks iTunes every fourth second. I could do a check more often, but then I would get complaints about it taking to much CPU. I will change the way I do this in future versions which I think will work faster, but it will require a rewrite of a large part of the widget, so I don't think it will be in the next version. It's not a bug, but it's not possible to modify a file while you are using it without the "hang" for little while. I could modify the file after you have played it as you suggest. Maybe I'll do that later.
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Ken Blakely - March 12, 2006
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Kind of a cool widget, but I'm having an interesting issue: The widget downloads art correctly, but refuses to import them to iTunes. Even better, the images it saves in the CDCovers directory can't be imported into iTunes either - they can't even be cut-n-pasted in. In fact, if I have one of those images on my clipboard, iTunes won't even recognize that it's there. Very wierd, and kinda makes the utility of this thing == 0.
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Prince 3121 - March 12, 2006
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Please, in your next version, put a "donate" message in each and every one of your menus but not in this ugly pop-up window ! Remember we are here for customization ! To change the aspect of our microsoft software ! To choose what our PC should look like ! It is legitim to ask for a donation but, please, not this way ! Congratulations for this precious widget !
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Robr - March 10, 2006
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Knut, the lyrics folder action you mentioned covers most of what I was refering to. However, I also would like the widget to remember this when you press play after having paused iTunes. It would also be great if in addition to the dismiss button you could add a save now button. I find that for some reason the covers don't always save and a button to save right away would also be good for when trying to add art to a large number of files one after another.
Finally, Can I suggest that rather than having the donation window pop up over and over you make it a right click option in future versions (it seems to be turning alot of people off from the widget).
Cheers
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Paige - March 10, 2006
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Mine wouldn't update the cover art with any amount of speed. Oh, and the donation popup is REALLY ANNOYING. Everytime my computer went to sleep, when I came back that popup would be there, right on top of everything even though I set the widget itself to "show only in heads up display." I had to dump the widget...
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Hewimeddel - March 10, 2006
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Hi,
I just tested your widget and it seems to be quite nice, but I have three problems (WinXP-Version):
1. The widget needs more than five seconds to display the cover art and Tag-Data after the song starts playing. Is there a chance of improving the display-speed?
2. lyrics and art-download are nice feature but if i activate it, the playback "hangs" for 1 or more seconds, when this data ist saved in the song.
(this problem also occurs when i'm not using the widget and change tag-data of the playing track->seems to be an Itunes-bug)
My suggestion for a workaround is to save the data after the song has finished playing.
3. Even when i check "don't connect to the internet" song data is still downloaded if the other options are on. I think this might be intended, but the effect of this checkmark is not quite clear to me.
Keep up the good work and I might try your next version and might even donate ;)
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Knut August Johansen - March 9, 2006
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michael, I don't have 10.3.9 to test it on at the moment, but I see there are others having problems with it, so I hope that I get a chance to test it on 10.3.9 soon.. darkxiii_ndp, the sites I am searching for lyrics convert many special characters to "_" and I assumed they did that with ":" also. X & Y, you're right, I'll fix that.
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Knut August Johansen - March 9, 2006
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Lechu, the donate window will disappear when donating. I will change the way it fetches data so it doesn't lock up, but it's a good idea to put an animation in there. Vinther, do you mean to have the artwork linked to track instead of album?
Ivan M, I am using UNIX commands to fetch the data. Since Windows is not based on UNIX, a UNIX utility is used and that is giving you the zsh.exe error. I see there are some others having the same problem, so I will try to find another way of doing this. robr, do you mean it should remember the drawer content and position, so if the drawer was out displaying lyrics when you closed the Widget, it will open with the drawer out displaying lyrics the next time you start the Widget? Max see my answer to Ivan M.
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RJ - March 9, 2006
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Don't upgrade if you haven't already. The new version has incessant popup donation requests. The only additional functionality with this version seems to be the lyrics download. Lose the popups and this would get a 5 star rating.
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X & Y - Coldplay - March 8, 2006
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And '&' char should be '%26' when search on google. 'Cause in url '&' is ...
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darkxiii_ndp - March 8, 2006
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Good widget but still have some bugs. Big bug in search lyrics:
Song name: 'Day Eleven: Love' (without ') will be searching use 'Day Eleven_ Love' (without ').
':' tranformed to '_'
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michael - March 8, 2006
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widget disappears after a few seconds....no prefs settings seem to address this...using G5 dual processor with OSX 10.3.9....good idea however.....
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Paul - March 8, 2006
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Get rid of the annoying popup. It will not go away!
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Max - March 7, 2006
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for the most part, it saves me a ton of time fetching album art and has a great interface. however, i sometimes get an 'unable to load sucessfully' error, and when i click on 'albums by this artist' zsh.exe gets an error. also, when i close itunes and then load it up again, it's still stuck on the last album and stops recognizing itunes until i restart the widget. it's probably my computer, so-- awesome widget
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robr - March 7, 2006
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Great Job on the widget. Been using it for many versions now and as a fellow widget creator I appreciate all the hard work and may hours you have put into it. However, the donate reminder is really annoying, especially when it pops up when itunes is not playing. If you could make it not pop up when itunes is not playing that would be great.
Also an option to have the lyrics drawer remain open after a widget has stoped and then starts again it would be great. One bug I have noticed is that sometimes the "no lyrics found" dialogue appears on top of the album art when the drawer is closed. Great job over all though
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Ramdam - March 7, 2006
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This is great it's just GREAT!!! It may have some room for improvements, but it's 90% perfect, everybody should have this one. Get out of here and just get it now!
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Kai - March 7, 2006
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It's great to see new features like lyrics search, but I'd prefer iTC to do what it primarily does (display cover artwork) without the many bugs it currently has. There are so many issues and possible improvements in that area alone, but you seem to have a negative attitude towards feedback nowadays, so a detailed bug report with screenshots would probably be useless...
PS: Good job on the annoying pop-ups, they actually made me stop using iTC for now. Mind you, I even donated.
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Ivan M - March 7, 2006
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Hey Knut, thanks a lot!, the tracks on the album and my artist library showing up issues are cleared!.. awesome.. the only thing that its still not working is the "display all albums by this artist" feature... Im getting a zsh.exe error, one with a little devil figure or something with the option to send the report to microsoft...
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Vinther - March 7, 2006
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First thansk for this fantastic widget, its great. Although I would like and option where you could make the widget use the artwork I myself added (like if i have diffrent artwork in one album). But anyway thanks, you're doing a great job
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Lechu (WXPSP2, iTunes 6.0.3.5, MultiPlugin 2.2) - March 7, 2006
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hi Knut,
plenty of time since I don't send you my compliments for your widget. lyrics now! you're doing a great job man...
regarding the donate window... will it disappear when donating? I won't mind doing it then, as you may probably believe.
the drawer hangs for a while when dealing with thousands of files (example: all "no album" mp3s someone may have). I think an animated clock or the mac animation you use while searching lyrics would help to realize that the widget is not down but working.
2 words man: keep it real!
"it" ain't really a word, innit? - Ali G
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Knut August Johansen - March 6, 2006
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xbrianxlorenzo, I don't know what's causing the problem you have. Can you ctrl-shift click on the Yahoo! Widget Engine icon to reveal the "Debug Mode" menu item, select that so it gets a check mark and then open my Widget. See if you get any error messages in the debug window.
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Knut August Johansen - March 6, 2006
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Slad Cjelli , I know it's annoying with pop-up windows asking for money. But this is taking more and more of my time and I had to do something. I'll let the window pop up a little less frequently in my next version.
Rob, it doesn't do that for me. If you search manually it will replace what you see in the drawer, but if you don't click on Save it will not be saved in iTunes. If you close and open the drawer you should see your modified lyrics again.
juancase29, what kind of errors? And which operating system?
Ivan M, have you chosen the right iTunes Library.xml file? You do that in "General" in Preferences.
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Slad Cjelli - March 6, 2006
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A donation nag! Wuarg. But nevertheless, a great widget!
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Rob - March 6, 2006
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Great widget! Works as described on Mac OSX. Actually I think it works too good... The lyrics download will overwrite lyrics even they already existed (wiping out any modified lyrics). But still great stuff!
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xbrianxlorenzo - March 6, 2006
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an using the latest version of itunes and winxp pro sp2. plse update
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xbrianxlorenzo - March 6, 2006
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great widget but pretty noticeable bug:
When I get the album cover art for one cd successfully,
-when trying to get another album cover for a newer cd,
-it will apply the album cover FOR THE FIRST CD ONTO THE NEWER CD.
I am coping with it by
-letting the previous found album cover copy 100%
-then dismissing the previous artwork from the new cd,
-then having the program search for the newer album cover and from there it will write sucessfully.
i am just not happy with the repetiveness of letting the old cd cover go onto the newer cd, then having to dleete that previous cd cover then apply the new one
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xbrianxlorenzo - March 6, 2006
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great widget but pretty noticeable bug:
When I get the album cover art for one cd successfully,
-when trying to get another album cover for a newer cd,
-it will apply the album cover FOR THE FIRST CD
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juancase29 - March 5, 2006
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Dude..BEST Widget ever ! i'm getting some errors with this new version (3.5), may need more work.
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Ivan M - March 4, 2006
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oh another thing, im on windows xp sp2, and the function to see the other tracks of an album, the artist albums and the artists in my library doesnt work, i get a message that says grep: C://Documents and Settings/Ivan.... I'd be awesome if they did, i dont know, maybe it is just me.. i alsosometimes get a zsh.exe error (god knows what that is).. help??
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JuryDuty - March 4, 2006
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First of all, THANK YOU KAJ for this widget. As I posted before, I think it's the best widget out there and my main reason for even running Yahoo! widgets. Also, THANK YOU for addressing the pop-up focus bug I mentioned. That will REALLY help me the way I work. Finally, I understand what others are saying about the donation message. Maybe making it come up only once a day would be better. But I think that's ENTIRELY up to you. Like you said, you're the one putting in all the time on this thing and I can understand wanting some monetary feedback. I would too. I don't think all widgets should require this--but some, like this one, that take hundreds of hours to program and update, hey, why not? That said, my donation will arrive by the time you finish reading this. :)
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Ivan M - March 4, 2006
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oh another thing, im on windows xp sp2, and the function to see the other tracks of an album, the artist albums and the artists in my library doesnt work, i get a message that says grep: C://Documents and Settings/Ivan.... I'd be awesome if they did, i dont know, maybe it is just me.. i alsosometimes get a zsh.exe error (god knows what that is).. help??
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Ivan M - March 4, 2006
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Hey BEST WIDGET ever... The only thing is that there is a new iTunes version, 6.0.4.2, and its quite a mission to get the companion to load. hope you r working on it.. keep the good work.!
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Knut August Johansen - March 4, 2006
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JuryDuty, OK, now I understand what you mean. I'll do that in my next version.
Jeff, here's from a message you sent earlier: "Please fix ASAP". I don't understand you guys. You want me to do all this stuff and you are not willing to pay a couple of bucks? This is taking more and more of my time, and in addition I am bombarded with emails. It's not making itself.
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Knut August Johansen - March 4, 2006
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Dan, yes I'm a pre-teenager at 51. And it cost you a battle. What a catostrophy (sorry, I couldn't resist being sarcastic). You are using my widget for free. I have spent hundreds of hours making it, and people keep asking me for more features. Do you think it's fair that I should do all this work for nothing? Especially the Windows version, which I guess you are using, is very time-consuming because I have to run it in a PC emulator, and I have no use of it myself. Only a few people have paid for it voluntarily, so I had to do something. And it has actually worked, I'm starting to get something back. If you don't think it's worth anything, then why not stop using it?
tomislav, that is a valid argument. Send me an email and I will tell you how to stop the popup window.
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JeffF - March 4, 2006
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This used to be the best widget, but the popup continually asking for money is a big mistake. I don't mind you asking, but please ask once, or at least on startup only.
I have gone back to an earlier version. I suggest everyone rate this widget 1-star until this "feature" is removed.
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Rasmus Brun - March 4, 2006
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Hi Knut. I only have one complaint for this new version. The widget finds album name and artwork perfectly, but it takes two (or more) plays for each song before it adds the artwork to the song. I've had this problem with some of the other versions, so I'm hoping you will fix it ASAP. Thanks.
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tomislav - March 4, 2006
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Paypal isn't even supported in all the countries in the world.. like mine. This popup is a big mistake.
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Dan - March 4, 2006
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This begging box pops up at the worst times. I was having a battle in an online game and the begging box dropped me out of the game; cost me the battle. This was a very bad idea!
I still have the 3.0 version, how can I get it to those that want it?
Knut - you must be a pre-teenager, right?
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Winnetou Koslowski - March 4, 2006
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Great Widget!
Unfortunately i don't have scrollbars in the playlist and artist view. I am using 10.3.9.
This Widget and Clutter and you will not be looking at the iTunes GUI again.
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JuryDuty - March 4, 2006
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"JuryDuty, if you tell it to "Bring the Widget to front on track change", it takes the focus. That's intended. You must uncheck that and only have "Show track info on track change" checked."
No, it doesn't work that way. To see what I mean, open up MS Word, covering the widget and type continually. Change the track as you're typing. By using the options you suggest, it won't bring the widget to the front for you to see while the track changes, but iTunes Popup DOES do this, without interrupting your typing at all. It just flashes for 5 seconds on top of whatever program you're running, without interrupting your typing, and then goes away. With iTunes Companion either it takes focus OR it won't show up at all. Run both and you'll see what I mean. This would be a BIG help if you could squash that bug. But either way, you'll be getting a donation from me. This is an awesome widget--and my main use of Yahoo! Widgets.
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Rasmus Brun - March 4, 2006
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Hi Knut. Thanks for fixing all the problems. It works absolutely fine for me now. The lyrics part is just yet another cool option. I've now started using your fantastic widget again, and I'm thinking about donating.
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JACOB - March 4, 2006
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John said : "how do you get rid of the box asking for $ ?"
I am asking the same question.
Until now I was very happy with this widget.
There are plenty of activities in this world to win money...
So if I can't remove this disgracious message, I'm looking for the previous version (Unfortunately I deleted it...)
If anyone can help... Thank you !
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Knut August Johansen - March 3, 2006
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HeavyG, it only works with legal music. No, just kidding (although I think you should pay for your music). I don't know why it doesn't work for you. Must be something with the tags.
JuryDuty, if you tell it to "Bring the Widget to front on track change", it takes the focus. That's intended. You must uncheck that and only have "Show track info on track change" checked.
john, by sending me $ (any amount) :-).
Danny, it doesn't do that on the Mac, and it's a little difficult for me to test it on the Windows version since I don't have a PC. But I will look into it in the next version.
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Danny - March 3, 2006
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GREAT WIDGET!!! How can you stop the widget from opening ITunes when the computer starts up? The widget opens with the widget engine, and ITunes automatically opens as well, just a little bothersome, and slow @ startup? Thanx for a great tool!!!
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john - March 3, 2006
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how do you get rid of the box asking for $ ?
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JuryDuty - March 3, 2006
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EXCELLENT widget! The lyrics and year finder now work great for me, too!
The only thing that doesn't work right is that when you tell it to bring the widget to front on track change, it takes the focus away from your mouse. So if you're writing in Word, for instance, and the track changes, your writing stops and you have to click in Word to start again.
The widget iTunes Popup does NOT do this--so I have to use it in conjunction with iTunes Companion. Would be nice if the author would fix this tiny bug so I wouldn't have to use iTunes Popup at all.
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HeavyG - March 1, 2006
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Ok..... I think I know what the deal is. The songs that I ripped into itunes from CD work fine. It is the songs that I D/L from old nappster, kazza, etc. they wont "automaticly" search amazon. (even though the album name is in the id3 tag) I have to do the right click search amazon thing...... check it out.
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HeavyG - March 1, 2006
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Ok..... I think I know what the deal is. The songs that I ripped into itunes from CD work fine. It is the songs that I D/L from old nappster, kazza, etc. they wont "automaticly" search amazon. (even though the album name is in the id3 tag) I have to do the right click search amazon thing...... check it out.
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HeavyG - March 1, 2006
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Hey this thing is great.... but I think I broke it. It was working fine and then I stared to play with the preferences..... and now it wont search amazon automaticly. All it says is "missing" grfx with a red xcirlce. I can then right click it and search amazon and it works fine. What did I do?? I can't figure it out.?? cool wiget though.!!
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HeavyG - March 1, 2006
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Hey this thing is great.... but I think I broke it. It was working fine and then I stared to play with the preferences..... and now it wont search amazon automaticly. All it says is "missing" grfx with a red xcirlce. I can then right click it and search amazon and it works fine. What did I do?? I can't figure it out.?? cool wiget though.!!
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Seanjay - March 1, 2006
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OK, so it's an issue between different albums... Anyone know why some of my art is updating and some isn't? This is just on the iPod itself.
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Seanjay - March 1, 2006
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OK, so it's an issue between different albums... Anyone know why some of my art is updating and some isn't? This is just on the iPod itself.
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Seanjay - March 1, 2006
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Great work! Is there any way for a future version to update the images directly on my iPod? I don't have all my songs on my computer so I play through iTunes from the device. It does update my ratings, but no images... It updates the images on my PC hard drive when I'm playing from that, however, so I know that I have the right options selected. Could it be something else I'm not doing? Love the program!
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Knut August Johansen - March 1, 2006
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Rasmus, I will upload the new version today, but it has to be reviewed before it appears here. So I can't really tell, it varies a lot. Yes, I read your comments and it's fixed in my new version. At least it's working for me.
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Rasmus Brun - February 28, 2006
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Hi Knut. Do you have an ETA on the new version? I don't know if you read my earlier posts, but I'm just hoping the new version will solve the problems I've been having with this present version. Thanks.
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Carlos - February 28, 2006
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Thanks it worked just fine!
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Del - February 27, 2006
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Love the PC version, but I'm still having issues with the Mac (using 10.3.9) - usually with Japanese artists & filenames. It keeps pasting in the Quicktime screen when it can't find things, or it will paste in whatever the last thing it found was.
Also, it's hard to quit iTunes when the widget is running - it keeps re-starting the program. Other than that, great littlel widget. Thanks!
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Knut August Johansen - February 26, 2006
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AK, I forgot to convert some characters which are not allowed in file paths on Windows in my latest version. It's fixed in my new version.
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Knut August Johansen - February 26, 2006
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To Carlos and everybody having problems after updating iTunes. See the file "About iTunes Companion" which comes with the Widget.
shnazzay, I am actually working on a new version which supports lyrics right now. I have the Mac version ready, but (as always) there are some problems with the Windows version :-). I've decided to release it anyway, so you'll see it here soon.
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Dexter - February 25, 2006
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One more feature request: Amazon is not a very good source for independent label artworks, vinyl releases etc, but Google is usually successful, so it would be a nice option to have ITC do a Google Images search and grab the first result if the Amazon queries fail.
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Zack - February 25, 2006
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To the guy suggesting using albumart.org, why? albumart.org pulls images from amazon just as this does.
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shnazzay - February 25, 2006
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this should be updated to support lyrics on the new ipods... maybe pull them from a certain site? sing365 is a good one.
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Carlos - February 24, 2006
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Hi, thanks for this great widget, I'be used it for a while and love it, but i had a problem after updated to iTunes version 6.0.3.5, the widget stopped working and even loading, it shows a message sayin that the widget couldn't load correctly, i hope you could fix this, i'm using Yahoo Widget Engine 3.0.2
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AK - February 21, 2006
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First off, thanks for a fantastic widget! It's very well thought out in terms of features. Overall, it works nicely, but I have noted one bug in the latest release. If an album title has a colon (':') in it, the drag and drop doesn't save the cover correctly -- next time you play the same album it gives the "Missing" logo along with a "Dismiss" button. I am seeing this problem on XP SP2, Y! Widget Engine 3.0.2, and iTunes Companion 3.0.1. Anyone else see this?
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scott - February 21, 2006
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I love this widget, but I'm often having problems with it retrieving the cover art automatically. I've got itunes on shuffle, and often when a new song comes up, while it lists the proper name of the song etc, it will often call up album art from 2 songs prior (even if its the wrong artist). If i click search at amazon, it does find the right art, but its kind of frustrating.
Am I doing something wrong? All comments welcome!
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Michael P McHugh - February 20, 2006
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Seems to be broken on the Mac too since iTunes 6.0.3
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RJay - February 18, 2006
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Love it. Works great. Would like to see an option to pull the album covers from http://albumart.org/ though.
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budabing - February 17, 2006
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How do you get the drawer to show up? I am using XP, version 3.0.2 of the emgine and version 3.0 of the Widget.
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Dexter - February 16, 2006
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Knut: Thanks for developing this absolutely fabulous tool! I have one bug report and one feature recommendation.
a) I can't reproduce this with a lot of tracks, but it sometimes happens. For example, rename a track to "david (original mix)" by "gus gus", leave the album empty and see what happens when the companion tries to grab the album art. It gets something (wrong, though), loses it, gets the same thing again etc. etc. Very weird.
b) I wish in the right click menu there would be an option to export the current artwork to all tracks of the currently playing album in iTunes. Would very useful... and maybe one more little thing in addition: An optional little overlay icon that tells me if the current artwork is already in the file, e.g. if iTunes Companion pulled it.
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Duncan - February 16, 2006
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Knut, it is using a lot of CPU time. Around 9% usage on windows. Might want to check that out...
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Didier - February 16, 2006
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Sorry, I didn't read the Help file.
If it does'nt load, simple use the following command line: iTunes.exe /regserver
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Didier - February 16, 2006
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Sorry, I didn't read the Help file.
If it does'nt load, simple use the following command line: iTunes.exe /regserver
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Need Help - February 15, 2006
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i downloaded this widget. but how do i use it?
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Need Help - February 15, 2006
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i downloaded this widget. but how do i use it?
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Rasmus Brun - February 14, 2006
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It's NOT true what you are all telling Knut. It does work with all the latest components, but I'm sorry to say, that I still have the problem I mentioned at a sooner point. It does NOT fill in album name, if it's blank in iTunes. That's too bad, because I loved this widget before, but now i'm just waiting for a new version.
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yestoall - February 14, 2006
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it's true
this new version 3.0.1 it doesn't work in windows platform with last iTunes version
:-( bad news
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Didier - February 13, 2006
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I used it on my previous computer ! Very nice and usefull !
But I've same problem to install it on my new computer: unable to load it ! (OpenWidget: Chaîne de caractères trouvée non valide). Last iTunes and last Widget Engine. I had these regkeys, but it doesn't work :-(
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tjw - February 11, 2006
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love, love, love this widget, but...
does it check to see if a track already has art with it in iTunes and use that instead of looking for it by default?
I have several live tracks and a few "independent" CDs that I've added artwork to, but it never uses those and often gets stuck looking for it at Amazon (and it won't find it there).
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tjw - February 11, 2006
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love, love, love this widget, but...
does it check to see if a track already has art with it in iTunes and use that instead of looking for it by default?
I have several live tracks and a few "independent" CDs that I've added artwork to, but it never uses those and often gets stuck looking for it at Amazon (and it won't find it there).
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mtnrunner - February 11, 2006
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goose - i checked and I have those reg keys. Any other ideas why i can not successfully load the widget? I even have uninstalled the widget engine and reinstalled. Thanks!
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mtnrunner - February 11, 2006
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goose - i checked and I have those reg keys. Any other ideas why i can not successfully load the widget? I even have uninstalled the widget engine and reinstalled. Thanks!
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me and i - February 11, 2006
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how can i add this reg values?
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goose - February 10, 2006
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For those having the "unable to load successfully" error with xp and itunes 6.2 add the following reg keys.
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTypeLib{9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B807A3370712}1.7]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTypeLib{9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B807A3370712}1.7 ]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTypeLib{9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B807A3370712}1.7 win32]
@="C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTypeLib{9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B807A3370712}1.7FLAGS]
@="0"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTypeLib{9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B807A3370712}1.7HELPDIR]
@="C:\Program Files\iTunes\"
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Paul - February 10, 2006
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JC - A tip you might find handy.
Create a smart playlist in Itunes of all the track number 1's, then let this playlist play, the companion will then have the whole first track of each album to load up the artwork for the album.
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Paul - February 8, 2006
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This is a great widget, I've recently installed the latest version, and also the latest version of itunes, 6.0.2.23. The problem I have is that the widget will find the album cover, display it for about 3 seconds then return to the empty jewel case.
I notice in the CDCovers directory it creates a directory of the album artist and title appending no_cover to it, I have to redrag the picture from the CDCovers directory back onto the widget (which then removes the added directory)
I've XP any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.....
Paul
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JC - February 8, 2006
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Two thumbs up. This saves an incredible amount of time in getting the correct album information and artwork into the iTunes library with little to no work on your part. It sometimes does take multiple "listens" to get all of the information loaded, but it's still so much faster than doing it manually.
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jgm - February 8, 2006
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I am also having the problem running this widget (Win XP SP2) with iTunes (6.0.2.23) starting automatically despite unchecking this preference in the widget. Really my only complaint though. A truly great widget. Many thanks!
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jbRagnarok - February 8, 2006
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Generally, a very good widget. (using ver Win 3.0.1) Only issues I have are that often it takes a few listens to a song to get all the data filled, year never seems to fill, and when this widget is opened, Microsoft Excel can no longer do Ctrl-Home or Ctrl-End, even if Hot Keys are turned off.
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MtnRunner - February 5, 2006
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Ouch... it worked for a few minutes then had an error. I've tried reinstalling iTunes again and this widget will still not load for me again. I"m using iTunes 6.0.2.23 and Windows XP. Must be something specific for my configuration - sure wish I knew and could get this widget to work.
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MtnRunner - February 5, 2006
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Ouch... it worked for a few minutes then had an error. I've tried reinstalling iTunes again and this widget will still not load for me again. I"m using iTunes 6.0.2.23 and Windows XP. Must be something specific for my configuration - sure wish I knew and could get this widget to work.
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MtnRunner - February 5, 2006
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Ouch... it worked for a few minutes then had an error. I've tried reinstalling iTunes again and this widget will still not load for me again. I"m using iTunes 6.0.2.23 and Windows XP. Must be something specific for my configuration - sure wish I knew and could get this widget to work.
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MtnRunner - February 5, 2006
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Ouch... it worked for a few minutes then had an error. I've tried reinstalling iTunes again and this widget will still not load for me again. I"m using iTunes 6.0.2.23 and Windows XP. Must be something specific for my configuration - sure wish I knew and could get this widget to work.
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MtnRunner - February 5, 2006
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Ouch... it worked for a few minutes then had an error. I've tried reinstalling iTunes again and this widget will still not load for me again. I"m using iTunes 6.0.2.23 and Windows XP. Must be something specific for my configuration - sure wish I knew and could get this widget to work.
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MtnRunner - February 5, 2006
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Ouch... it worked for a few minutes then had an error. I've tried reinstalling iTunes again and this widget will still not load for me again. I"m using iTunes 6.0.2.23 and Windows XP. Must be something specific for my configuration - sure wish I knew and could get this widget to work.
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MtnRunner - February 5, 2006
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This is an awesome widget... packed with features, slick interface and very cool!
If you have problems with getting this widget to load properly, follow their instructions to reinstall iTunes - it resolved my problem.
Thanks for a great widget!
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MtnRunner - February 5, 2006
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This is an awesome widget... packed with features, slick interface and very cool!
If you have problems with getting this widget to load properly, follow their instructions to reinstall iTunes - it resolved my problem.
Thanks for a great widget!
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FatAxl - February 5, 2006
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I think this widget rocks, but I have one problem. The widget always wants to start iTunes when I log into my machine. The widget is set to automatically hide or just showing on the desktop, but it always starts iTunes. Is there something I should be looking at, or a setting I am missing?? Thanks for any help !!!
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MtnRunner - February 3, 2006
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the problem with 3.0.1, iTunes 6.2 in windows xp is solved?
It does not work for me. Is there an update?
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Ant - February 3, 2006
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So I think this program is really great. Gets most of the Art I am looking for and all. Just one question. How come the art doesn't transfer over to my ipod? Anyone know how to fix this?
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Ant - February 3, 2006
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So I think this program is really great. Gets most of the Art I am looking for and all. Just one question. How come the art doesn't transfer over to my ipod? Anyone know how to fix this?
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MtnRunner - February 3, 2006
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the problem with 3.0.1, iTunes 6.2 in windows xp is solved?
It does not work for me. Is there an update?
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MtnRunner - February 3, 2006
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the problem with 3.0.1, iTunes 6.2 in windows xp is solved?
It does not work for me. Is there an update?
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Marco - February 3, 2006
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Hi Knut. It's the second post for you. I never used your widget listening to the radio on iTunes... i did it... i love you!!!! 4 stars? it's not enough!! maybe need 10!!!
you're the best! i'm actually thinking about donate you!
Bye and many thanks,
Marco
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J5 - February 2, 2006
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Love the widget, but it seems to not search for the artwork automatically at times and then it places the most recent artwork on a completely wrong song. And at times I have to right click and click search amazon manually, I shouldn't have to do this right? Whats up with this?
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yestoall - February 2, 2006
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the problem with 3.0.1, iTunes 6.2 in windows xp it's solved?
for me it doesn't work
please help :-)
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Affinity - February 2, 2006
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ha ha, figured it out.
The artwork window has a tiny arrow top left that switches the artwork between 'selected track' and 'now playing'. Select noww playing and your art work updates as the tracks cycle about on shuffle.
Bon.
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Affinity - February 2, 2006
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Mate, this is skill!!!
I'll sat one thing that is weird though. On my laptop it works perfectly but on the desktop it reguires you to highlight the playing track before the artwork is exported to the ID3 tag. How weird is that?
The widget finds the artwork no worries, but as iTunes is left to its own devices and switches track the 'now playing' track is not highlighted in the library window and as such no artwork is exported.
ON the laptop though, it is P.E.R.F.E.C.T
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Marco - February 1, 2006
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Hi Knut,
I think your widget it's very, vey good! ...but i have some troubles, yet! i rate it with only 3 stars because of the below listed facts:
1) the art importer engine doesn't let you to choose from a list of found images. With iTunes Art Importer you have a list of found images to choose from. Sometimes i found that option very usefull, because the "first choice" of the search engine is not always the best one; i can eventually chose to have a small or big pic, while with your widget you have only one choice (or you have to manually browse on the internet!)
2) i don't want to launch iTunes automatically when opening the widget. I unselected the option in the preferences, but iTunes always starts! (i rebooted the system, but it doesn't work!)
apart this, your work is great, great, great! (and miles and miles ahead about complexity and style against all the others... Art Importer included!!)
Thanks for all,
Marco
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Marco - February 1, 2006
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Hi Knut,
I think your widget it's very, vey good! ...but i have some troubles, yet! i rate it with only 3 stars because of the below listed facts:
1) the art importer engine doesn't let you to choose from a list of found images. With iTunes Art Importer you have a list of found images to choose from. Sometimes i found that option very usefull, because the "first choice" of the search engine is not always the best one; i can eventually chose to have a small or big pic, while with your widget you have only one choice (or you have to manually browse on the internet!)
2) i don't want to launch iTunes automatically when opening the widget. I unselected the option in the preferences, but iTunes always starts! (i rebooted the system, but it doesn't work!)
apart this, your work is great, great, great! (and miles and miles ahead about complexity and style against all the others... Art Importer included!!)
Thanks for all,
Marco
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brian - January 31, 2006
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this is an awesome little program that helps me to find artworks!!
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micah - January 31, 2006
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this widget is easily the best one ever developed. knut, you're the man. :) now after i've patted your back, i have a small feature request (?). is there any way to stop the widget from looking up art if there is no album listed? if i'm playing a track without an album, the widget looks up an album, finds something, and then immediately discards it, and then gets the same image, and then the process repeats, so i just have this album cover sliding in and out of the cd tray, which slows my computer down. (whoa, long sentence, sorry.) the only other thing that would make this a 10-star widget would be if, after looking on amazon, if it finds nothing, it looks it up on google and picks the first image.
but, hey, you know, it's still an awesome widget! thanks!
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Aaron D - January 31, 2006
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Knut, I did completely uninstall ITunes when I reverted to version 6.1, but the Companion still didn't work. It was only when I uninstalled again and reverted to version 6.0 that it was able to load successfully.
I am using Windows XP and ITunes 6.0 now.
By the way, your widget is the greatest thing ever (in combination with MusicBrainz). I'm this close to sending you a donation :) . Like somebody else mentioned, it would be cool if the Companion could dismiss the artwork from ITunes as well (I think that this should be the default behaviour when you 'dismiss'). It is often the case that I have incorrect artwork in ITunes for whatever reason and it takes quite a bit of effort to remove it.
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JuryDuty - January 30, 2006
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I LOVE this widget and couldn't do without. One thing I'd REALLY like to see though: When I tell it to "bring widget to front on track change," it works, but takes the focus away from my cursor. This is very frustrating as I'm usually typing when this happens. The widget iTunes Popup does the same thing without taking the focus away from my cursor. Could you incorporate that in this so I don't have to use both programs at the same time?
Good stuff!
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Rasmus Brun - January 30, 2006
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Hi again Knut.
I just forgot to tell you, that I'm using iTunes 6.0.2.23. Sorry to have posted yet another comment-.
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Rasmus Brun - January 30, 2006
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Hi Knut
I've written this before, but since it hasn't been fiwed in this new version, I'll write it again.
When the album name is blank, iTunes Companion doesn't seem to search or find it.
I would really love if you would fix it or give me a reason why it's not working.
P.S. I'm using Windows XP
Thanks for a great Widget
Rasmus
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Etienne M - January 29, 2006
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Just great ! Thanks for it :)
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Etienne M - January 29, 2006
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Just great ! Thanks for it :)
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Nikhil Kapani - January 29, 2006
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I am using Windows XP Professional with iTunes Companion 3.0, Yahoo Widget Engine 3.0.2 build 79, and iTunes 6.0.2.23. I have not yet upgraded to the latest version of iTunes Companion because I read someone else is having problems with that version. I think my problems have to do with this newest version of iTunes. Everything else seems to work, just not the searching at Amazon and inserting album names into iTunes (i don't know if the two functions are related). I read another comment and they downgraded iTunes to make it work. Since iTunes Companion wasn't working for me, i used an external application called iArt to grab all the album information and artwork and insert it into iTunes. iTunes Companion seems to read everything perfectly. Hope my comments help! Let me know if you need any more info from me. I definitely appreciate all your efforts. This is an awesome widget!!
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Nikhil Kapani - January 28, 2006
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I am using Windows XP Professional with iTunes Companion 3.0, Yahoo Widget Engine 3.0.2 build 79, and iTunes 6.0.2.23. I have not yet upgraded to the latest version of iTunes Companion because I read someone else is having problems with that version. I think my problems have to do with this newest version of iTunes. Everything else seems to work, just not the searching at Amazon and inserting album names into iTunes (i don't know if the two functions are related). I read another comment and they downgraded iTunes to make it work. Since iTunes Companion wasn't working for me, i used an external application called iArt to grab all the album information and artwork and insert it into iTunes. iTunes Companion seems to read everything perfectly. Hope my comments help! Let me know if you need any more info from me. I definitely appreciate all your efforts. This is an awesome widget!!
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soyplastic.net - January 28, 2006
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I have got the same problem.
This widget doesn´t works in Window XP Pro and iTune 6.0.2.23.
Please, update it!!
I enjoy with your widget!!!
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yestoall - January 28, 2006
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3.0.1 version doesn't work with iTunes 6.2 in windows xp
help please, itunes is not the same without companion ;-)
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Knut August Johansen - January 28, 2006
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Thank you everybody for your feedback. I can't answer each and every one of them here, but I read them all. Please write which operating system you are using if you're having problems!
Nikhil, are you using Panther? If so see below.
Stephen, not all radio stations provide data on what they play and KEXP doesn't.
Mark and Aaron, iTunes 6.2? :-) Try to uninstall iTunes and do a fresh install.
Mike, let's hope people are listening to you :-). I made the Windows version just to please you guys, I have no use of it myself. Thanks for reporting this. Fixed in 3.0.1.
To Mac OS X 10.3.x users: Someone made me aware that some of the code I use is not supported by Panther. It's fixed in 3.0.1.
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Knut August Johansen - January 28, 2006
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I'm just testing to find out why I'm not able to post anything here.
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Aaron D - January 26, 2006
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Forgive the double post. I downgraded my ITunes to version 6 and it works. I missing the MiniStore - oh darn. Note that version 6.1 doesn't work either. For old version go to http://www.oldapps.com/itunes.htm
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Aaron D - January 25, 2006
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I am having problems with ITunes 6.2 as well -"unable to load successfully". I shouldn't have upgraded! It worked great before that - hopefully this issue will be fixed soon.
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Aaron D - January 25, 2006
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I am having problems with ITunes 6.2 as well -"unable to load successfully". I shouldn't have upgraded! It worked great before that - hopefully this issue will be fixed soon.
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Mike D - January 25, 2006
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Great Widget.. I hope people are donating so you can spend the time on this that it deserves.
In 3.0 (windows), it seems to have lost the functionality to drag and drop pictures into it. I will have to keep using 2.5.9W until that is fixed. Unless it's something I'm doing wrong. Anyone else notice this?
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Mark - January 25, 2006
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Does this not work with ITunes 6.2? All I get is an error saying it's unable to load successfully.
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Stephen - January 24, 2006
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I thought that this companion would detect songs played by streaming radio. I want to see if there is a widget that will show me what songs are playing on KEXP as I stream it. Any thoughts?
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emil - January 24, 2006
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I've been using this Widget for some versions, and it just keeps getting better and better. absolutely wonderful.
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Ito - January 23, 2006
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Hello,
You will need to install Yahoo! Widgets in order to use it.
http://widgets.yahoo.com/
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nova - January 23, 2006
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Maybe I'm just new to this, but umm, after I download it, where do I extract it?? I don't see it in the readme file.
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nova - January 23, 2006
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Maybe I'm just new to this, but umm, after I download it, where do I extract it?? I don't see it in the readme file.
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Nikhil Kapani - January 22, 2006
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I recently upgraded this widget to the newest version and it doesnt look like it is searching Amazon for artwork any more. It is also not inserting missing album names in to iTunes even though the check box is selected in the Preferences. When you right click on iTunes Companion and select "Search at Amazon" it doesnt do anything at all. "Search at Google" pulls up the Google web site in my default web browser, so i imagine that is what it should do for "Search at Amazon". I am currently running Yahoo Widget Engine 3.0.2 build 79. I love this widget so hopefully you can help me to get it working again. Otherwise can i get the previous version? Thanks!
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k9calamity - January 21, 2006
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sorry, I just wanted to also ask if yuo could send me a beta version also... I am developing a faux-frontrow for windows and mac and would LOVE to use your widget.. in some way, shape, or form on the Itunes section.... My e-mail is on my profile... k9calamity
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k9calamity - January 21, 2006
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WOW, I have been trying to develop somthing like this myself.. You've finally solved the iTunes problem!!!! But there is one bug.. On fullsize mode, the drawer opens and closes automatically. Please fix!
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Parm289 - January 20, 2006
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I love your widget - it's really useful. I am developing a widget that looks like a PSP and controls iTunes. I would like to know if I could use this feature in my widget. You can pm or email your response. My forum account is Parm289, and my email is listed in my profile. If you want to download the beta version of it (exclusive to developers :-), just ask!
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Pierre - January 20, 2006
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I use this widget everyday. However, the artwork, when found, keeps disapearing sometimes and I can't figure why ? It's like, for some songs, if the widget would find and display the artwork and then remove it, and then display it again... like this till the end of the song.
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Ricky Romero - January 19, 2006
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I can't believe how cool this Widget is. I really love the cover fetching; that just seals it for me.
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M - January 17, 2006
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I saw a glitch: If you are on the full-size mode, and you open the drawer, the drawer opens and closes immediately. Love the widget, though!
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D Bell - January 17, 2006
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I like this widget. The problem that I am having is that when it comes across a track that has no cover art, it uses the last piece of cover that it has previously displayed. Then that gets exported back to iTunes. For some reason, its not searching Amazon first. Please advise.
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Jake Cohen - January 16, 2006
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Hi, i'm having a huge problem. The widget finds the artwork, but it doesn't export it to Itunes, even though i have that option checked. Anyone have a solution? Please help!!! Jake
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TheGent - January 13, 2006
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Definitely a 10 star widget I use from the very start! Here my question: In the 2.5.8W Version I use if I mouseover the bottom part of the cover, name and slider appear but fade out again very quickly if I am exactly over the slider. So using the progress slider is nearly impossible for me, cause it runs away from my mouse! =) Is that a known issue? It didn't do it on older versions I think...
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SBK - January 8, 2006
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I'm using v 2.5.9 and OS 10.3.9
The widget isn't adding the cover art to itunes or uploading the html file to my server.
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Alpha - January 7, 2006
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Feature request:
+ Add an option to "Dismiss artwork from iTunes" (and for every track on the album). For example, if I'm listening to a Chinese track, it finds an incorrect artwork, updates 12 songs with the incorrect artwork, now I need to go back into iTunes to correct it. Basically, I am asking for a way to undo the "upload artwork to iTunes".
+ Consider a "don't search for artwork for these albums" blacklist.
+ International language support
Keep up the great work. This is one of the best things on my computer.
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MattyD - December 31, 2005
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Right GOOD WORK!!!!!
This widget is one of my 'Must Haves'!
Cheers,
MattyD
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beg - December 26, 2005
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great widget!!!
although i have a problem with the last version (2.5.9) that i didn't have with 2.5.7. When i listen to some albums and i want to see the tracks in some of them doesn't appear anything :S
anyway it's my favourite widget :D
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gileramxr - December 24, 2005
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Amazing, fantastic, great.
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blue - December 23, 2005
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congrats, U've done a gr8 widget!!!!
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lseven - December 18, 2005
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I just tried this widget... seems great but I wasn't able to get it to work entirely. The album artwork did not export into iTunes. I also had an issue where track numbers were incorrect. Is the track number info just wrong from Amazon in that case? But my main use would be for artwork, so any help getting that exported to iTunes would be great! (yes, I have the export button checked)
I'm using 2.5.9 under Windows. Thanks!
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Chinarut - December 17, 2005
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Quick addendum: I just updated to 2.5.9 and it seems the "Dismiss artwork" is the functionality I'm looking for.
The release notes are not crystal clear in regards to the actual application of this new feature outside of Amazon IMHO.
Regardless, great work on this widget!
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Chinarut - December 17, 2005
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This is by far the best widget I've used.
This widget even works better than the equivalent one for Dashboard and happy I got a pointer to it.
For the first time in the last 2 months, the widget brings up an incorrect album cover.
Is there any way to tell my companion "this is not correct?"
If not, this would be a great enhancement in giving your widget additional intelligence! ;)
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RJ - December 7, 2005
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I love this, but I'm having a weird problem where it loads (and saves into itunes) only the top half of album art. Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?
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JuanK - December 7, 2005
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It's great , best widget ever , does everything you could possibly ask for , the only "inconvenient" i found is that sometimes it just refuses to put the art work cover , or even sometimes it puts the artwork cover of the last song played , but most of the times it works just right , the key to avoid thos problemas is to let the song finish by it self and don't change it abruptly.
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Joe - December 7, 2005
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Great product!
Two small problems:
+ in large mode when you open the track list it close automatically again
+ it automatically starts itunes even if the option in the preferences is turned off
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Nok - December 6, 2005
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For some songs when it finds the album cover it copies it into itunes but for other songs it finds the album cover but fails to copy it into itunes. So the cover is sitting there but I can't simply approve it and have it coppied in. Do other people experience this?
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dana - December 6, 2005
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this is amazing... best widget yet. seriously, it does everything it can possibly do! love it! THANKS! 5 STARS
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Stefan Koegeler - December 5, 2005
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This is really a five star widget :-) thanks Knut for this perfect piece of software.
I am using iTunes as my music jukebox and MiriServer to remote control it. I was looking for software where I can use a hotkey (via remote control) to popup Cover, Artist and Song Title big enough to read it from some distance. This widget does it all except for the size.
A additional size X-Large would be the perfect solution. Please ?!
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Tony - December 2, 2005
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My problem: I use Tag and Rename to tag my mp3s, and I embed the cover art to the mp3 file itself. iTunes picks up on this and displays the cover art fine, and also sends it to my ipod fine.
This widget will not find/load at for any of my mp3s that are tagged this way (which is all 3,000 of them). I tried one album that wasn't tagged like this, and it worked fine.
2nd problem, smaller: I have 3 monitors, and when I drag the widget to my far left one the drawer opens on the right side of the CD case, and icons and text get all screwy and misaligned. The arrow to open the drawer even points to the right, kind of funny. The far right monitor displays the widget correctly.
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Larry - November 29, 2005
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Please add to Prefs:
[x] Automatically switch to Artist in Drawer mode
It is currently set to do this automatically, I would like to turn it off, so I can listen to one song, and browse my library before choosing to hear another song - it jumps to the artist you are considering (and forces the album and track for me - YUCK!). this should be OPTIONAL, not automatic.
ver. 2.5.9
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egemenk - November 27, 2005
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Hi Knut, great job you've done. There is a problem i have, when i close iTunes it displays that message about script and closes. However after relaunching iTunes and playing a song, widget says that iTunes is not playing. I think when i once close iTunes then it never communicates with widget again.
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egemenk - November 27, 2005
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Hi Knut, great job you've done. There is a problem i have, when i close iTunes it displays that message about script and closes. However after relaunching iTunes and playing a song, widget says that iTunes is not playing. I think when i once close iTunes then it never communicates with widget again.
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GLen - November 26, 2005
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This is a great widget, but has the annoying habit of once in a while changing the one of the track numbers to something large like 23998.
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FOLLOWUP - Theo - November 26, 2005
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I really love this WIDGET!
I recently had to reinstall it, and now it just says something about not being able to open itself. Do you have any suggestions?
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ThatBum - November 25, 2005
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AWESOME! It's been a real pain getting art for every song I have (1000's). BUT when it's scaled to it's largest(x3) the track menu comes up but dissapers. That sucks because it's easer to to read that big. But AWESOME!!
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Theo - November 25, 2005
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I Love This Widget!
It Finds The Album Art, And I Told It To Export It Into iTunes, And It Doesn't.
That's The Only Problem.
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Dan - November 25, 2005
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It would be nice if this widget would stop starting up iTunes (under windows)...I have UNCHECKED the "Open iTunes automatically when opening the Widget" setting. Been like this for the last four versions at least.
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Al - November 21, 2005
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This is the best widget ever created. That said, this could be greatly improved by making it more compatable with itunes 6. Sometimes album art wont show and sometimes art is added to the wrong song if songs are changed while it is still searching. Also, it would be nice if it didn't try to replace album art that already exists. Also it would be great to be able to modify tracks without having to play through all of them. Excellent Widget though 4 stars.
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Anthony - November 21, 2005
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I lvoe this Widget. Love it! I do have one problem though. When my music is changed from say Linkin Park to Switchfoot. The Linkni Park Album Cover ends up staying and writes to the Switchfoot song. Then it finally finds the right CD cover and changes it in teh case, but not in iTunes. Switchfoot CD still has a Linkin Park Cover. So basically it sometiems writes the previous AlbumArt to the new song. So because of this, I currently turned off exporting album art to iTunes, so if it struggles I don't have a particular problem. Is there a solution? Thanks.
Also sometimes the case stays the stays the previous Album Art for a majority of the song until I press Dismiss, then Search Amazon. Is there a setting I don't see? A majority of the time the Jewel Case is blank, after I clcik Search Amazon it works. Thanks. Great Utitlity@
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todd - November 20, 2005
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This widget is a nice concept, but it does not `save` the album covers it displays in the `cdcovers` folder, or anywhere else. That said, neither does `Itunes` when you activate the `show artwork` panel.
I use windows xp home.
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Mike - November 20, 2005
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Best of!!!!!! Great!
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Wolfgang - November 20, 2005
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This is a brilliant creation. Excellent work. This would be even more usefull if art and information from amazon.com could also be added to multiple tracks at a time without having to play them. iPod users would appriciate this.
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Alex - November 19, 2005
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This is amazing!!! Not only is it brilliantly designed, the graphical interface is beautiful too. Great job!
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Cruciarius - November 18, 2005
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after further use of this widget, i found out that in order for it to display some of my album art, i needed to disable its ability to connect to the internet. but by doing so, it can't get me album names...
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CaptainValor - November 16, 2005
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Knut, you are the best! All my problems with it are solved now and it's working perfectly. Keep up the awesome work. :D
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Cruciarius - November 16, 2005
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great widget, but oddly it won't load some album covers, even though i already have the artwork and have the artwork on the songs, in iTunes. ironically, its only happening to my favorite albums...
3 stars, until its fixed.
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emo~kid - November 16, 2005
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I was wondering how difficult it would be to make iTunes companion set the artwork as the computer's wallpaper, full size, rather than just having it in the littl jewel case
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Michael - November 16, 2005
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Hi Knut, just to let you (and others) know that uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling worked.
"Knut August Johansen - November 15, 2005
To everybody having problems after updating iTunes:
Try to uninstall iTunes and do a fresh install.
This comment applies to version 2.5.9"
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tsunami99 - November 15, 2005
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Absolutely briilliant.
Was only gonna give it two stars, because it kept fetching the wrong artwork and when I dragged the correct artwork into iTunes it only applied it as the second choice. Then I found that dragging the correct artwork onto the widget fixes the problem. Hmmm, Knut is smarter than Steve Jobs. Could be....
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Jay - November 15, 2005
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I am having the same problem as noted by Glen on November 11, 2005. My more detailed description of the error as follows:
When you click on the arrow to "open the drawer", the file sh.exe creates an error and closes twice. In the opened drawer space you get the error message "abnormal termination. zsh:fork failed: no such file or directory"
I have tried versions 2.58 and 2.59 and both have this error. I have tried putting the widget in both "my doc" and "konfab" sub-directories and get the same error either way.
Good widget otherwise.
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Knut August Johansen - November 15, 2005
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To everybody having problems after updating iTunes:
Try to uninstall iTunes and do a fresh install.
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Michael - November 15, 2005
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Hi Knut,
amazing widget that worked brilliantly until I installed iTunes 6.0.1.3 and now the widget doesn't load. I get the error "iTunes was unable to load itself successfully" - no more information. I have downloaded the latest version but that does not help. Any ideas?
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Lechu (WXP, iTunes 6013) - November 15, 2005
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hi everyone. great update, ain't it? the dismiss option is a great idea, and the Amazon and Google searches too. the "open drawer" issue when biggest companion size has been solved, and the error obtaining covers when listening to the internet radio has too been solved! wow, I'm really glad that Knut is getting his widget evolving as quick and good as it's doing.
issues found? up to now I've just seen that when it finds art for a mp3 that didn't had it goes on searching, even if art is stored (Knut, I'm sending the error code I'm getting in the debug window through email)
keep it up!
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Adelphi - November 14, 2005
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I love this widget,
Only one problem, whenever I have the widget on top and am playing iTunes in the b'ground I can't seem to choose the album if there is more than one album by the same artist.
The album is chosen for me and I cannot change it (I can only play songs from that album and cannot change it using the widget), is there anwyay of fixing this problem?
Adelphi
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TZB - November 14, 2005
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"amazing widget that worked brilliantly until I installed iTunes 6.0.1.3 and now the widget doesn't load. I get the error "iTunes was unable to load itself successfully" - no more information. I have downloaded the latest version but that does not help. Any ideas?"
Same thing is happeing to me. I really miss this widget.
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Michael - November 14, 2005
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Hi Knut,
amazing widget that worked brilliantly until I installed iTunes 6.0.1.3 and now the widget doesn't load. I get the error "iTunes was unable to load itself successfully" - no more information. I have downloaded the latest version but that does not help. Any ideas?
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Rob - November 14, 2005
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Fantastic Widget!!!
I have a feature suggestion... the ability to add the lyrics to each track in itunes. At the moment there is an app to do this but its Mac only, i'm hoping you could add it to iTunes Companion.
Thanks again and well done.
Rob
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Glen - November 11, 2005
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When I click on the open tray arroe (top left of jewel case) the program crashes. Otherwise this is an incredible widget! Thanks.
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fefer33 - November 10, 2005
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Excellent widget Knut! One note though, sometimes even though the widget finds and displays the album art, it will not integrate it into the music file in iTunes. I solved this only by restarting Konfabulator and reloading the widget. Is there anyway you can fix that?
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Knut August Johansen - November 10, 2005
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Ray R, 1) That's because the artwork is named artist_album, so if the artist changes, it will search for a new cover. I don't know how to avoid this, because sometimes different artists can have albums with the same name even if they're not compilation albums. 2) I think this is fixed in the new version.
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Knut August Johansen - November 10, 2005
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Edgardo, I have also seen this lately. It seems to be a problem with the amazon web services (too much traffic? :-) ). I have added a retry command in the new Mac version (unfortunately it doesn't work on Windows), so it tries again 3 times if the download fails + I've also added a "Search at Amazon" contextual menu item (both platforms), so you can try again if it's still not right.
donavon, you're right. I write the temp file to CDCovers in my next version.
Ankit, what's wrong with the hotkeys? Don't they work at all for you? There is a button for opening the drawer. See "About iTunes Companion" , which comes with the Widget. There you will also see which hotkeys you can use on Windows.
Andrew, if you send me an email (knut@mac.com), I can send you a modified version to see If that works for you.
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Knut August Johansen - November 10, 2005
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Michala, if you drag and drop an image over the cover art, the old one will be deleted. In my next version you can delete an image from the contextual menu.
David, Pierre and Kman, do you have export artwork or get track number or get release year on? If so, it's normal if the song stops when it modifies the track.
Paul, My new version will export after the album name is updated.
Mark, thank you. Unfortunately, I am not able to reproduce the problem on my system, so I don't know what's causing it.
Ash, try to uninstall iTunes and do a fresh install.
captainValor, as I wrote earlier, I copied the code from the Mac version and forgot about a difference between Windows and Mac. It takes only 8 characters to fix it, so it's very easy. I have uploaded my new version today.
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Adam Rice - November 10, 2005
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This is a remarkably complete and well-done widget. My only suggestion is deleting the jewel-box "frame" -- I'd rather just have the cover art with no decoration.
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Kman - November 8, 2005
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Awesome widget, but in this new version (2.5.8) I get a slight stall in the audio a second or two into each track. I'm using WinXP SP2, AMD64 3000, 512MB of RAM, iTunes version 6.0.1.3. Thanks for all your hard work....
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Ray R - November 8, 2005
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I really like this widget; but, I'm experiencing a couple of odd problems... 1) with 'compliation' albums the cdcover seems to change with the track playing; 2) sometimes when I click a track in the slide out window it plays a track with the same name in a different album. Both are very odd and may be due to the way I have my iTunes organized (or dis-organized).... Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions. Thanks, - Ray
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Andrew - November 7, 2005
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This widget would be really cool, it I could just get it to work...
I think I'm having problems getting thru my INET Proxy, I've entered the proxy IP and port, but the Proxy requires authentication and I'm not getting the prompt to enter my user and pass that usually pops up with outher widgets.
Also, it looks like the "CdCovers" Folder in was not created in "My Pictures" automaticly. I've created it manually, so I can now drag images one by one, but it still don't appear to be getting out to the internet to retrive images by itself.
Is anyone else having problems getting out via an INET Proxy?
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Edgardo - November 7, 2005
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Great widget, just one problem, I'm getting some incomplete artwork dowloads so when it gets a new artwork from the half to the bottom it looks gray and the top half seems right. Is there a way to fix this?
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donavon - November 6, 2005
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First off, great widget! But... I end up with a the last played song's iTunes artwork in C:iTunes_Artwork.jpg. Many consider it bad pratice to write temporary files to the root. A better place might be system.temporaryFolder. Maybe this is the issue that CaptainValor and others are having (something to do with write access to the root? just a wild guess). Thanks for a great app!
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Ankit - November 5, 2005
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Using Windows:
Need to fix Hotkeys. Need to add a "show drawer" command that isn't a hotkey.
Other than that, great widget.
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CaptainValor - November 5, 2005
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Ambaxter is correct. If a song's meta tag information (which includes the album art) is edited while that song is playing, there will always be a pause as the new information is saved to the file. I noticed this going all the way back to iTunes 4.
Currently I am simply unable to use the widget though, because of the "no album art appearing" problem. I don't understand how from one version to the next, the ability to show album art for streaming internet radio has been broken.
Hope you're able to fix this, Knut. :)
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ambaxter - November 4, 2005
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Pierre,
I think your music stops and then resumes because iTunes 6 requires more RAM to run and it's basically a performance hit. The same thing happens if you edit playing items in your iTunes library.
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Ash - November 3, 2005
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Qucik question.
Is anyone having trouble getting this widget to work with iTunes 6?
It has been running like a dream for the past few months and will not work after I installed the new iTunes.
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Mark - November 2, 2005
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Regarding the "drawer won't open with large album art" bug.
I am running Windows XP Home SP2 and iTunes 6.0.1.3.
When the album art is set to medium or large, the drawer will open but then quickly close. It works normally when the album art is small. However...
I discovered that the drawer opens normally to the RIGHT when the album art is set to medium or large. (Move the album art to the left side of your desktop screen, so that iTunes Companion can then only allow the drawer to open out from the right side of the album art.) After this, when you move the album art away from the left side of the desktop screen, you will find that the drawer will open out normally to the left!
Great widget, regardless, Knut. iTunes Companion is the only other widget I find worth using (the other is the 6-day weather one). Hope my bug report here helps.
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Pierre - October 31, 2005
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Hello,
Oddly, the new version seems having with latest iTunes version (6.1, PC). Each time a new track is played, there is a slight downtime where the music stops playing for like a fraction of second, the time for the covert art to be displayed, then resume.
This did not happen before, and since I updated both iTunes companion and iTunes, I don't know where the problem comes from.
Otherwise, great great program.
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memguy - October 30, 2005
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Its great when it works, I am using Win XP Sp2, and I notice that when it pulls the wrong cover art, sometimes it keeps adding that cover art to later albums. It may then find the correct cover art, but it won't be added. Otherwise great widget!
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Paul - October 29, 2005
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Magnificent. Bravo. Love it. Noticed a couple of strange things, but nothing I can't live with. When info is being knocked over to iTunes, the music pauses... probably iTunes fault, but wonder if it can be fixed. Also, if the Album name is updated (due to it being left blank) the album art doesn't move over. I have to play another tune then come back to make the pic move over.
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David - October 29, 2005
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XP; iTunes 6. I'm still getting the short hang up when a song starts and the widget tries to find the art. Any solution to this? Thanks for the great contribution.
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Michala Costello - October 28, 2005
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Everything is working perfect, but sometimes a wrong picture comes up how do i delete the wrong picture?
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Potrod - October 27, 2005
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Awesome work! Thanks for addressing some of the issues these people have posted (I was going to let you know about the track number bug, but I see you already know). I anxiously await the next version because I don't want to screw up my track numbering any more. Looking forward to the update! Awesome widget!
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CaptainValor - October 27, 2005
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Knut, my apologies. I am using Windows and am still having the no-album-art problem.
Looking forward to the next release. :)
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Knut August Johansen - October 27, 2005
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Thank you all for your comments. Too many for me to answer here. As I have written before: I appreciate it if you write which operating system you are using.
Jeff, I'm aware of the track number bug. It's a problem on the Windows version. It worked on both the Mac and the Windows version. Then I made some small changes and I just copied the code from the Mac version to the Windows version. I forgot about a difference between Mac and Windows. I did the same stupid thing with the streaming radio function. I will post a new version soon.
Andrew, I assume you are using the Windows version. Try to uninstall iTunes and do a fresh install.
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Jeff Thielen - October 27, 2005
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This widget keeps getting better with every release. The only problem so far is the inserting of the track number from Amazon. For example: Beware Of Darkness on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass album is track 62744 of 62790. My config: iTunes Companion 2.5.8w, Windows XP- SP2, iTunes 6.0.1.3
Keep up the good work.
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Andrew - October 27, 2005
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Does not seem to work for me w/ Itunes 6.0.0.18.
I get the common unable to load widget error. Trying 6.0.1 now.
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Andrew - October 27, 2005
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Does not seem to work for me w/ Itunes 6.0.0.18.
I get the common unable to load widget error. Trying 6.0.1 now.
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bmorris - October 27, 2005
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works great, except the random track number (track 11746) it picks for a selected song...
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sade321 - October 26, 2005
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Can anyone fix this: sometimes the widget would find the album art but it wouldnt import it into iTunes...
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Dan - October 26, 2005
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It would be nice if this frickin thing would stop starting up iTunes...I have UNCHECKED the "Open iTunes automatically when opening the Widget" setting. Been like this for the last three versions at least.
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Greg - October 26, 2005
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Fabulous widget, thanks.
I'm having problems with the hotkeys: Windows xp sp2. I setup alt-a, alt-z and alt-x as hotkeys, but they only work when I press shift-a, z, or x.
I finally did get Ctrl-F10, Ctrl-F11, and Ctrl-F12 working for anyone who really needs to get some hotkeys going.
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CaptainValor - October 25, 2005
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This latest version is really finicky for me. It doesn't show album art 70% of the time. With the previous versions it would find art and update it constantly while I listened to internet radio, but now it's not showing anything. Even for local music it doesn't show the art that is in the files. Plus, on mouseover I only get the top bar with the play controls. Nothing on the bottom.
Looks like there are still some bugs to be ironed out. :(
Any way I could get a previous version?
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Scot - October 25, 2005
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Well it looks like the best of both worlds has come together. The web publishing feature is pretty sweet. It think it would be cool if you could have choice of how many songs it published. Right now its only the current song but if you could select to show info for the last x number of songs people could program their templates to show the album cover for the currently playing song and then maybe the song title and artist for the previous 4 giving you a total of 5 songs listed. Again great widget that I'd like to see evolve even more.
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Maunykah Arcelin - October 25, 2005
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I just have to say thank you so much..you have saved me so much grief!
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SA Charisma - October 24, 2005
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I can't get /regserver to work. Anybody want to try and guide me through it?
AIM name is SA Charisma :)
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Andrew - October 24, 2005
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It does an excellent job, although quite frequently it will get the album art for an album with the same name but a different artist. Excellent job though keep it up!
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Steije - October 23, 2005
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It simply kicks ass!
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Grant Davis - October 21, 2005
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I use this widget all the time and it works really well most of the time.
There is a few things I'd like to see improved though.
First, it can from time to time retrieve artwork that has nothing to do with the track that is playing. In addition to this, when it gets it wrong, I can easily find the correct artwork using google, simply by clicking the widget itself, why can't google be included in the search in the first place?
Secondly, when I set the correct artwork manually, the widget still finds the incorrect artwork and displays it, not what I have set in iTunes myself.
If those things could be fixed, it would make this widget almost perfect!
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Aphex - October 21, 2005
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Simply amazing! can you make it add the cover art to the track?
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zyop - October 21, 2005
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I love u dude... This is the greatest widget on the planet!! Thanks for including the ability to fill in the blanks on the extra info!!! Well done!! A great widget just got even better!!!
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Garfunkel - October 21, 2005
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I too have the problem with the drawer. It opens and closes directly when I have set the widget to the biggest size. It works when set to the smallest and to medium size. I use WinXP SP2 and 2.5.8
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JaDe - October 21, 2005
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Knut: it looks like older Mac OS Export method is still not working in Version 2.5.8 either. Can't get it to work, does the same thing 2.5.7 did.
Mac OSX 10.2.8 with iTunes 5.0.3 on Desktop G4
Was/is there any combination of older Companion and iTunes versions where the export function did work ?? If not I'll try to be patient a little longer for you support my outdated OS (older hardware platform prevents OS upgrade).
Andrew John: Where do I find the ReadMe file you mentioned on the 16th? Is it for Mac or PC?
Thanks very much.
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Lechu (WXP, iTunes6, Multi-Plugin2.2) - October 21, 2005
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I'm sorry I talk so much... the complete error message in the debub window is the following:
[iTunes Companion] ReferenceError: streamFileCount is not defined (Global/OnLoad:C:Documents and SettingsjorgeConfiguración localDatos de programaPixoriaKonfabulatoriTunes Companion.widgetiTunes Companion.widgetContentsiTunes Companion.kon: Line 3992)
took advantage of this to vote 4* twice ;)
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Lechu (WXP, Itunes6) - October 21, 2005
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again I would like to express my gratitude for such an amazing widget that (1) helped me updating my huge mp3 collection and (2) improved my music listening experience (I was a convinced winamp user, but I changed to iTunes because of this awesome addon).
what I wanted to point out of this new version is that somehow is not dealing with tag info in the same way. last version was able to show cover art of the music from iTunes Radio (I assure you that this was just great). I cross checked both versions to be sure of this, and when the last version is able to download art this new is not (blue square displayed, and correct tag info showed if mouse over). I'm always talking about iTunes Radio, I haven't test it yet on mp3 files as I already have all art I needed ;)
[iTunes Companion] ReferenceError: streamFileCount is not defined (Global/OnLoad:C:Documents and SettingsjorgeConfiguración localDatos de programaPixoriaKonfabulatoriTunes Companion.widgetiTunes Companion.
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Jay Parmar - October 20, 2005
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Jeff,
Cheers for that piece of info on how to get this widget work with itunes 6 - it now works - RIGHT ON !!!
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Hans - October 20, 2005
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Is it just me that have a problem to open the drawer when you have changed the size to the maximum? It opens the drawer for just a second and then it closes again. I had the same problem in 2.5.7.
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Simon - October 20, 2005
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Thanks JeffF, it does work perfectly. Now I can run this widget with iTunes 6.0!
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JeffF - October 20, 2005
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OK, I tried iTunes 6 again with this widget and I was able to get it to work. I don't know why it didn't work the first time, but here's exactly what I did this time:
1. Close current iTunes (if open)
2. Close this widget (if open)
3. Uninstall current iTunes
4. Reboot
5. Install iTunes 6
6. Open iTunes 6
7. Open this widget
After this the artwork and title info would show up in the widget when iTunes 6 is playing. Hope it helps!
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Herrosuen - October 20, 2005
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this widget is great!!
but i got a problem ,when i expand it's size , the right disappear , even if i click the button again, the menu was came out a second then disappear again, the menu only work for the default size. would you check it?
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frestonia - October 20, 2005
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Overall, great widget. retrieving track numbers from Amazon doesn't work, though. I get huge track numbers (30,000+) inserted into my library.
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Simon - October 20, 2005
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Great Widget. Unfortunately I can't make it work with iTunes 6.0 even after the /regserve option as suggested... any solution?
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Charlie - October 19, 2005
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I was having the same problem with iTunes 6. After reading Nathan's comment I decided to uninstall iTunes and reinstall it. Everything is working fine now.
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Jay Parmar - October 17, 2005
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I have used this widget in the past but unfortunately it doesn't work with itunes 6 - i get a message that says "itunes companion was unable to load successfully" when I try to launch it. Why am i giving this widget 4 stars? Cuz hands down this is the most creative, most dazzling widget I have ever come across - its truly a work of art - i wish microsoft would be as creative cuz they all so crappy when it comes to slick interfaces (and as far as windows vista goes, its gonna be OK but still looks nasty as fook on the betas)
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Matt - October 17, 2005
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I have itunes 6, and the latest companion. everything works, except that i have the same problem as Bart below. "All Artists in Library" shows only a long list repeating "grep: writing output. invalid argument." my songs are on a different drive, if that matters. that can't be helped.
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Dustin - October 16, 2005
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Doesn't work with the new version of itunes, version 6. I love this thing and was bummed when it wouldn't work!!!
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emil - October 16, 2005
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downloaded and used this before but stopped using it since it wasn't stable, smart or customizable enough. now every damn thing about this widget is right. thanks a lot!
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Andrew John - October 16, 2005
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Amazing widget, I use it all the time. If you are using one of the 5.x versions, view the readme and it will show you how to load it properly. However I have found that this trick doesn't work with the recent 6.0 version. So hold on intil it gets updated, but I can garuntee I'll be checking for it!
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Caleb - October 15, 2005
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Awesome widget, the best iTunes remote I've seen for a while. Unfortunately, it doesn't work when I open iTunes when the widget is already open. I have to open iTunes first, then open the widget, which makes it inconvenient.
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Nathan - October 15, 2005
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This Widget is working great with iTunes 6 for me.
I have had iTunes 5 in the past, but it was uninstalled before installing 6. Perhaps try a fresh install of six, and ensure that the widgets settings for the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file in the widget are correct?
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jonathan - October 15, 2005
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an indisposable music widget, but it doesnt work with the iTunes 6.
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jonathan - October 15, 2005
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an indisposable music widget, but it doesnt work with the iTunes 6.
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DJay - October 15, 2005
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great widget. but it didn't work with itunes 6. :(
pleeeeease update.
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CTDKITE - October 15, 2005
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Great widget! Suggestion for future version: option to hide widget if iTunes is playing a radio stream.
By the way, I am having no trouble with this widget working with iTunes 6.
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sean - October 12, 2005
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im having major trouble it would be nice if somebody could help me out please. With what program do i run the Itunes companion with thanks.
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sean - October 12, 2005
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im having major trouble it would be nice if somebody could help me out please. With what program do i run the Itunes companion with thanks.
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JeffF - October 12, 2005
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Well it's back to iTunes 5 for me until an update for itunes 6 is out; I can't live without this widget!!
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JeffF - October 12, 2005
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Crap-I installed iTunes 6 and now the artwork doesn't show or the track information.
Please fix ASP!
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JeffF - October 12, 2005
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Excellent widget-I've been looking for something like this. Works as advertised.
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steve - October 12, 2005
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The widget still starts iTunes when launched, even when the option "Open iTunes automatically when opening Widget" is unchecked. Its a bit annoying for iTunes to open when i boot into windows (xp sp2).
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hootsmon - October 11, 2005
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Knut,
Many thanks for an excellent widget.
2 minor issues - 1. I no longer get album art downloaded when listening to a shared library on the remote PC. I saw the comments exlpaining - hopefully this will be sorted in the next release.
2. It seems to have difficulty with art for compilation albums with more that 1 artist. Even if I drag and drop it only displays for that particular song.
Otherwise, a truly brilliant widget. Can't wait for the next version.
V 2.5.7W, WinXP/SP2, iTunes 5.0.1.4
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Arrikhan - October 10, 2005
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Truly Fantastic ... but it doesn't drop the image into iTunes (Windows).iTunes is version 5.0.1.4
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Kevin - October 9, 2005
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On my PowerBook its not filling in the album name in my iTunes. On my girlfriend's iBook it doesn't export the picture or the album name. Great widget though.
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Rob - October 8, 2005
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Love it, works a treat, thanks
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Rob - October 8, 2005
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Love it, works a treat, thanks
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Robert Jantz-Lee - October 7, 2005
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Running OS X 10.2.8 and iTunes 5.01
The widget shows the artwork -which is awesome, but, no matter how I adjust the options, I do not get the artwork dropped into iTunes itself. Neither does it update missing album names in iTunes nor the release date.
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Knut August Johansen - October 7, 2005
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mcdj, yes, that's what I thought. I don't think you have that problem with 2.5.7?
Lechu, thank you. It's not difficult to do what you suggest, but I think it's nice to have it all inside the jewel case frame. Maybe I will make an option later to show the info outside the jewel case.
Frobu, see the tip from Dan Woodward below here. It's also in "About iTunes Companion" which comes with the Widget.
Colin, yes.
Nick, which operating system?
Niklas, it doesn1 do that for me in Virtual PC. Are you using Windows XP?
JBrek, thank you. I'm not sure what "L'essayer c'est l'adopter" means, but I hope it's good :-).
"Great Widget", thanks. Any particular bugs? I can't fix them if I don't know about them.
MF, thanks.
Dmitry, great. I'm glad it works for you now.
Version 2.5.8 is coming soon.
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Lechu - October 6, 2005
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I have nearly finished with the art retrieval for my entire collection, so I guess I won't be able to test the widget much more downloading art. I am glad to see that the widget has worked as well as it did doing the research for me, and now it just sits on my desktop displaying the album covers so nicely... it's even a great addon to listen to internet radio, as "artist" and "title" are sent and it's able to display their album cover. wicked!
colin123078, I'm using it with my collection stored in a 40Gb iPod. as it's not the Photo version I'm not able of course to see the album cover on its display, but as the mp3 file stores the art I'm able to see it on my computer's iTunes. hope this helps...
keep it up, Knut!
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Dmitry - October 5, 2005
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Lovely. At last the artwork gets exported to iTunes (XP SP2, iTunes 5.0.1.4 here). Thanks a bunch, Knut! :)
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MF - October 4, 2005
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Love it. Snuff said...
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Great Widget - October 3, 2005
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Great Widget,
keep up the great work.
I'd love to see it with all the bugs worked out.
Mabe I'll Play with the source later.
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JBrek - October 3, 2005
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Tout simplement la perfection! L'essayer c'est l'adopter :-)
Merci beaucoup
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Niklas Morberg - October 2, 2005
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Brilliant widget, but one small problem. Version 2.5.7W does not honor unchecking the option for starting iTunes. In other words iTunes will always start when this widget is being used.
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Nick - September 30, 2005
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Nice widget, but I can't seem to get it to write to iTunes 5, the Album Name, the Artwork.
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Nick - September 29, 2005
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Nice widget, but I can't seem to get it to write to iTunes 5, the Album Name, the Artwork.
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Colin123078 - September 28, 2005
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I dont know if this question has been answered i just stumbled across this site. Does this widger actualy coppy the album covers/art to the MP3 file so that it will be visable on my i-pod??
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Colin123078 - September 28, 2005
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I dont know if this question has been answered i just stumbled across this site. Does this widger actualy coppy the album covers/art to the MP3 file so that it will be visable on my i-pod??
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Frobu - September 28, 2005
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I upgraded to iTunes 5 and the widget fails to load.
I then got the latest version of the widget and same problem.
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Lechu (WXP, iTunes 5, Companion 2.5.7) - September 27, 2005
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the more I use this widget the best experience I get from my 3000+ mp3 files. all my 1400+ mp3 files with album information are now filled with cover and release year, and most of the rest of my mp3 collection about to. this widget has been really helpful not only to retrieve album art, but to help me curating song titles or artist names I had wrongly stored (and that's the only reason why I'm not having all them covered).
requests? being greedy I could go beyond Xonic's idea asking for placing all the visuals that are over the art (control panel, song information, ...) just outside the art. what about that, Knut? is it too challenging or is it just imposible? ;)
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mcdj - September 26, 2005
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Knut,
The version I was using was 2.5.6.W., and again, Windows XP SP2. Hope that helps.
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Knut August Johansen - September 26, 2005
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capturinglight, see my answer to Flyboy.
Apostol Apostolov, thanks. Do you mean the ratings from the iMix section of iTunes Music Store? I don't know how to get that. Which widget?
It does start iTunes for me when I click Play on both the Mac and the Windows version. Doesn't it start iTunes when you open my widget If you check for "Open iTunes automatically..." in Preferences either?
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Knut August Johansen - September 26, 2005
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Flyboy, The new export function only works on Tiger on the Mac. I wasn't aware of it. I'll include the old method for those of you with older systems in my next version.
Xonic, I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but you can have info always on and the drawer (I assume that's what you mean by control side panel) out without having the control panel displayed. They are not linked.
Leo, I didn't know Amazon had back covers. You can delete covers by selecting the tracks in iTunes, show info (Mac: cmd-i, Windows: ctrl-i), click in the check box for Artwork and click OK.
Rob, it slides the old image out and the new one in on track change. You can disable the slide transition in Preferences.
mcdj, did you use 2.5.7 when you had problems with the Damien Rice album?
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Stephen - September 26, 2005
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"Stephen, it seems i don't get "shared track" in return when I ask for "kind of track" anymore. I don't know if it's a change in iTunes 5 or what. I haven't touch that part of the code in the new version."
Knut, yes I can confirm this in the debug window. If I do a dump of the iTunes object, it returns "shared library" as the kind of track. This must be a change in iTunes 5. I guess version 2.5.8 will have to use the new value.
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capturinglight - September 25, 2005
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Great work on this, Knut... very well designed, and an all-around fun widget.
One question... i have "export artwork to iTunes" checked, but it's not working. I found that the images are being exported to the CDCovers directory, but not to iTunes. I realize i can drag/drop the artwork myself, but i thought this was supposed to be automatic. Am I missing a setting in the preferences? I'm on a Mac... OS X 10.3.9, iTunes 5.0.1, and the lastest version of this widget: 2.5.7. Any clues? Thanks!
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capturinglight - September 25, 2005
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Great work on this, Knut... very well designed, and an all-around fun widget.
One question... i have "export artwork to iTunes" checked, but it's not working. I found that the images are being exported to the CDCovers directory, but not to iTunes. I realize i can drag/drop the artwork myself, but i thought this was supposed to be automatic. Am I missing a setting in the preferences? I'm on a Mac... OS X 10.3.9, iTunes 5.0.1, and the lastest version of this widget: 2.5.7. Any clues? Thanks!
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Apostol Apostolov - September 25, 2005
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A tiny suggestion for 2.5.8:
A new option "Start iTunes on clicking Play in Widget".
Right now I must first start iTunes then start using the usually left always visible widget. I want to use the widget to also start iTunes... possibly even have a tiny button to close it, too, from the widget.
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Apostol Apostolov - September 25, 2005
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Awesome example of Konfabulator power and Interface competence - this must be one of the best widgets I've seen and I really hope it keeps beefing up with more features.
It would be nice if it can implement gathering the popularity and rating from iTunes Music Store and show them as a small shining star with different brightness in the corner of the jewel case. There's already a widget that does this functionality, but it has a horrible interface.
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Mack - September 23, 2005
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Ack! Serves me right for not reading all the replies :/ Thanks for pointing it out, yeah, it fixed it :)
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mcdj - September 23, 2005
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Knut,
Thanks for offering the script...I've already deleted the art for all the "infected" songs. I believe it populated the tracks with an Amazon cover (Damien Rice "O"). I'm running XP.
Not sure if this is a result of the Companion error, or a bug in iTunes, but I found that I couldn't drag/drop artwork to overwrite the Damien Rice cover...it would come back as Damien Rice after adding any new artwork. I selected all the tracks, then deleted the artwork via "info", then I could add new artwork. Hmm...Damien. An omen?
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Rob - September 23, 2005
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What is Use slide transition between cover art.?
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Leo - September 23, 2005
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Love this program, but it's adding all the back covers and not the front ones so now I got like 1,000 songs with back covers T_T sum plz help and how do I delete the covers it added?
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Xonic - September 23, 2005
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Very nice plug-in Everything works fine for me :)
You should however make the top control panel the play pause etc buttons be different from the control panel sidebar.
I like to have to have show song info always at the bottom with the sidebar control panel always on but not the play pause buttons on the top, wich i think you have linked control side panel with the play/pause keys
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Flyboy - September 23, 2005
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Mac OS 10.2.8
iTunes 5.0.1
iMac 15" 600 MHz.
iTunes Companion v 2.5.7
This is the best and most useful widget yet! Others are fun, but his is great. But, I can't get it to place the album cover into iTunes. It down loads the .JPG file to the CD Cover folder OK, but it won't populate it to iTunes.
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Knut August Johansen - September 23, 2005
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mcdj, I'm sorry about that. Did it fetch the cover (which was exported to every track in your library) from Amazon or was it an image you already had in "CDCovers"? I don't understand how that could happen, because I check both artist and album of the track to export to and if it's not artist and album of current track it shouldn't export. Which operating system? If you want I can make a script that deletes all the images for you, so you don't have to do that manually. Just send me a mail.
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Knut August Johansen - September 23, 2005
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Mack, have you tried the tip from Dan Woodward below here?
Jeff, I found them at Apple somewhere - can't remember where. At the time I found them I thought they would open soon, so I included them.
Stephen, it seems i don't get "shared track" in return when I ask for "kind of track" anymore. I don't know if it's a change in iTunes 5 or what. I haven't touch that part of the code in the new version. I have made a fix which I think will work. If you want it, just send me an email (knut@mac.com).
zyop, I don't understand how it can export blank album art on new albums. I don't call the export function when cover art is'nt found. What do you mean by "White album art"? I'll see if I can add the insertion of song number soon.
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mcdj - September 23, 2005
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Great idea, but it has turned out to be a nightmare for me. Foolishly, I let it run overnight, set to add album artwork automatically. In the morning, I found that it got stuck on one album cover and assigned the same cover to almost every track in my entire library...over 7,000 songs. :(
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Mack - September 23, 2005
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Just an update that it still doesn't work for me (2.5.7), same error as before. iTunes 5.0.0.35, xpsp2, konfab 2.1.1. Pity, I really miss it :)
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Jeff - September 22, 2005
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I was just wondering where you got your info from to add in the iTunes Music Store drop down list Australia and New Zealand, coz we dont have the store yet. Are these options for when the store is available?
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Jeff - September 22, 2005
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I was just wondering where you got your info from to add in the iTunes Music Store drop down list Australia and New Zealand, coz we dont have the store yet. Are these options for when the store is available?
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Jeff - September 22, 2005
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I was just wondering where you got your info from to add in the iTunes Music Store drop down list Australia and New Zealand, coz we dont have the store yet. Are these options for when the store is available?
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Stephen - September 22, 2005
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I've used this widget for a while and love it. I normally listen to my shared library, and with this release, the album art isn't functioning properly when listening to a shared track.
If the cover art already exists in the CDCovers folder, it is displayed properly. However, if it doesn't exist, an error is generated in debug mode:
[iTunes Companion] TypeError: trackPath has no properties (Global/OnLoad:C:Documents and Settings...Local SettingsApplication DataPixoriaKonfabulatoriTunes Companion.widgetiTunes Companion.widgetContentsiTunes Companion.kon: Line 2017)
Local music and streamed music works perfectly. Anyone else have issues with shared music?
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zyop - September 22, 2005
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win xp sp2, itunes 5.0.1.4 - itunes companion 2.5.7w
I have two comments. It seems this version is exporting White/blank album art on new albums it is playing.
Secondly, can you add a feature to insert the song number in the track. I have so many mp3 which are missing this information. ie: disk 1/1 - song 1/13.
Pls fix the white album art. ALso perhaps an option to refresh the album art if the album art is not complete or needs updating like in this 'white' export problem?
Cheers.
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Mack - September 22, 2005
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Oh, forgot system specs, it's the windows version, running on XPSP2 with iTunes 5.0, latest Konfab.
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Mack - September 21, 2005
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Doesn't work for me ever since the update to iTunes 5. Here's the error that I get (debug mode):
uncaught exception: Unable to create object: Library not registered.
Errors prevented this Widget from making itself visible (mainWindow: 00F8D460, visible: No)
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Lechu - September 21, 2005
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shame there isn't a five stars option to rate this widget... I've found this last version much more stable (WXPsp2, iTunes5, multi-plugin2beta), and although bugs may be present (their number and relevance are decreasing in time rapidly) Knut has developed a great widget, that still is being improved amazingly due to the lots of users' contributions, of course ;) new version? with a dedicated change? wow, I'm flattered. and the year option too? wicked! hope it doesn't take as long as it did last time to obtain it...
Duncan, I have my library divided into albums (1000+) and singles (2000+). the "albums" mp3s have no problems at all, but the singles sometimes need some work from you. if the "artist" and "song title" id3 tag fields are not correct this widget won't do miracles (although some of its results have been surprisingly impresive). I've been through 200+ singles and it hasn't been useful in less than 10% of them (du
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Duncan - September 20, 2005
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When plaing singles, there is no "Album" name which causes problems in the cover search. I usually get an "empty CD cover" picture which also does not allow me to Google search, even though I have "always search google when clicking cover art" turned on.
I listen mostly to singles so this is annoying, but others who listen a lot to internet radio will have this problem as well.
So I will send you a logic patch. Would be nice if you included it in the next version update.
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SottoVoce - September 19, 2005
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I've been having problems with the widget not working correctly through a proxy connection, so I turned on the debug mode. It appears there's a typo in the curl command. Example:
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Executing command: C:Program FilesPixoriaKonfabulatorUnixUtilsinsh.exe -c "curl -m 15-x proxy:8080 "http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&SubscriptionId=0RB9AT9BR557B2XY4JG2&Operati on=ItemSearch &SearchIndex=Music&Keywords=Uomini D'Onore Fireside&ResponseGroup=Images""
It looks like there is an extra space missing for the proxy flag. It should look like 'curl -m 15 -x proxy:8080' or something like that.
Any ideas? Otherwise, really great plugin.
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nam - September 19, 2005
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very good
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Knut August Johansen - September 19, 2005
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Marc D, it's so frustrating because the export function has worked on every image I have tested, and that is quite a few. Also the google problem you have, I can't reproduce. a) Can you see my answer to Ardy, do the same thing and send me what you get in the debug window? b) Can't be done.
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Knut August Johansen - September 19, 2005
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To everyone who writes a comment in here: It would help me a lot if you write which operating system you are using.
Elvis, do you have your music on your local drive?
Ardy, can you ctrl-shift click on the gear icon in the menu bar to reveal the "Debug Mode" menu item, select that so it gets a check mark and then open my Widget. See if you get any error messages in the debug window when it changes track and it's supposed to export. I assume that you have turned export on in Preferences.
Lechu, I've improved the export to every track on Windows in my new version, which I will upload today, so I think it will work better for you.
matt, that's strange. I have almost only m4a files, and I have no problems, but maybe it's an issue on the Windows version?
Dan, thanks a lot. You saved me from a lot of work.
J.R. Lillard, I have fixed this in my new version.
Bingo!, you've got bingo, it's in my new version.
Colin, search for Nipro here and read his com
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Marc D. - September 18, 2005
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Nice concept, having the iTunes updated automatically. Unfortunately, that isn't working for me.
MacOSX 10.4.2
iTunes 5.0 (34)
iTunes Companion 2.5.6
Now, the odd thing is that it was working fine for the first few minutes. Then, it didn't find a cover, so I went and found it myself, inserted it, at which point iTunes stopped updating iTunes at all. Even after a full restart of the sytem, starting itunes first, itunes companion first, and so on.
So lovely concept, but all it does now is make me waste time trying to find the picture it finds then dragging that to my iTunes. The "click for google" sometimes works, but sometimes not.
Could you
a) give me any clue as to why it wouldn't update iTunes? I know this is kinda futile given the lack of information I've got.
b) allow dragging of the image displayed from iTunes companion to iTunes?
thanks,
Marc
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Colin (iTunes 5, XPsp2) - September 18, 2005
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Great widget, but I can't shut down iTunes without a warning telling me that a program is still accessing the scripting interface. Anything I can do about that?
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Bingo! - September 18, 2005
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Great stuff, one of the best widgets around!
Would it be possible to get the year of the song, too, and insert it into iTunes? That would really make me happy. But it's already a great widget.
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Robert - September 18, 2005
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Knut,
Excellent widget - the export artwork seems a little unstable on XP with iTunes 5 - the problem seems to be in
iTunes Companion.kon: Line 2613
TypeError: searchTracks has no properties
Below the full debug output. Works sometimes, but not always.
Another annoying feature is that when checking "export to all songs in album" it seems to do a name substring search on the title - now all songs of any "Greatest Hits" album all feature Bruce Springsteen's backside ;-)
Thanks,
R.
Executing command:
C:Program FilesPixoriaKonfabulatorUnixUtilsinsh.exe -c "curl -s -m 15 "http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002MNF.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" -o "C:/Documents and Settings/xyz/My Documents/My Pictures/CDCovers/Prince_The_HitsThe_BSides__Disc_1.jpg""
[iTunes Companion] TypeError: searchTracks has no properties (Global/OnLoad:C:Documents and SettingsxyzLocal SettingsApplication DataPixoriaKonfabulato
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Dave - September 17, 2005
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This is one of my favorite widgets...but I've had to go back to 2.5.4 after every update b/c of the following problem (and probably wouldn't be a problem if I weren't so anal...lol):
It seems to work great with artwork that is found...but when it uses the file I've selected for songs that artwork can't be found there's a delay. The song info shows up and then the artwork slides in. If I revert back to 2.5.4 everything is fine. Is there anything I can do?
I looked throught the comments but didn't see any references to this.
Thanks for any help!
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J.R. Lillard - September 16, 2005
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I'm glad that you're finally getting some of the artwork bugs worked out in the 2.5.6 version for Windows. It finally seems to be consistently downloading album art from Amazon. I have run into a small bug though. I had no album art in iTunes 5 when 2.5.6 came out so it had a blank slate to start populating. When you attempt to apply the current artwork to every track on the current album, are you doing a fuzzy search based on album name alone? I have an album with the name "R" (that's right, just the letter) and it downloaded the right artwork, but it started exporting it to every track on every album that had the letter "R" in it. It looked to be doing it alphabetically by artist. Thinking that the widget locked up (as it was not responding), I killed Konfabulator and figured out what it was attempting to do. Going through my iTunes library I found a couple other instances of the same problem. Althought I don't an album called "One&qu
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Karen (iMac, 2.5.6) - September 15, 2005
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Went to CD cover folder and deleted art that showed wrong cover... seems to be working now. I'll let you know if problem returns...
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Karen - September 15, 2005
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Also, how do you view the drawer? I cant find it in the Mac options anywhere...
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Karen (iMac, 2.5.6) - September 15, 2005
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I am still having the same prob with my artwork. I was hoping the update of the widget and/or iTunes 5 would help. The resizing temporoary fix still works but only for the track that is playing at that moment. When I shuffle my iPod music, it shows the same wrong artwork for the whole album (for example, all of the Vanilla Sky Soundtrack tracks view with the Garden State soundtrack artwork when they appear during shuffling.) Has the artwork been corrupted somehow? Any suggestions?
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James - September 15, 2005
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Just wanted to note though: the drawer functionality for 'songs on this album' and 'albums by this artist' hasn't worked (they come up blank, and both the buttons will highlight at the same time too) for a while (pre-iTunes 5). The All Artists one does, but the others don't.
Any tips, anyone?
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James - September 15, 2005
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Fixed for me too! Ace!
Suggest you add it to the docs for the next release!
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splitretina - September 14, 2005
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/regserver fixed it for me. Thanks for the great widget!
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joelogic - September 14, 2005
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Dan, that fixed it. This might be the simple fix. Awesome.
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Reefer - September 14, 2005
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THANKS Dan! Applied your command and all works! I missed using this widget and was happy to see such a simple solution...that actually works! Wink!
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Dan Woodward - September 14, 2005
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I think I know what the problem is with iTunes 5. I believe it tramples on the iTunes.Application data in the registry. If you find your iTunes.exe and run the command "iTunes.exe /regserver" it should re-register the application and fix things. I know that I was having problems and this resolved it.
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matt - September 13, 2005
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I've always been a fan of this widget, but it doesn't seem to work for me right now. Running iTunes v5 on a PC (win2000) and version 2.5.6W for windows...
I can't add art by dragging the file onto the widget, and the widget will not update non MP3 files (m4a files don't get updated for example).
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James - September 13, 2005
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As before: "iTunes Companion was unable to load itself successfully"
Sometimes it gives the error, nothing appears, but it DOES then appear in the running widgets list and I have to guess which in Task Manager to shut it down. Other times it gives the error then doesn't load at all.
:(
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Lechu (WXP, iTunes5, 2.5.6) - September 12, 2005
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hi iTunes Companion lovers. isn't this widget great? it's helping me improving the experience of listening to my mp3 collection in such a way! new version solved a bug with the "no-album-search" that is helping me finding art even for files with just "artist-title". just wicked! you're doing great Knut!
so... new version? reporting time! first I should say that new widget version is working for me too with iTunes 5. second thing: does anybody know where to find the xml file in an iPod, so that it can be linked to the widget and then read? final thing: artwork exporting is working for me, BUT not always. Knut, is there any restriction for not exporting art depending on search results?
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Ardy - September 12, 2005
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Does the export to itunes thing actually work? Does it put the image file in the iTunes album artwork place or not? If so how do you get this to work since it doesn't work for me
Mac iTunes 5
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Elvis - September 12, 2005
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This widget is awesome. But I seem to not be getting the best feature from it. I have a PC and ITunes 5. The export image option to Itunes doesn't seem to be working.
Any ideas?
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John Cooper - September 12, 2005
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Superb, simple as that. SO cool I love the little details like opening the case to see the other tracks on the album!
running perfectly on iTunes 4.8 (haven't upgraded to 5 cos it forces me to install a buggy QT7 - PC)
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James - September 12, 2005
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Another person for whom it wont even load on iTunes 5.0 (PC). Been using it perfectly up until I upgraded my iTunes.
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Shawn - September 11, 2005
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Works fine with iTunes 5.0 for me. however the art still isn't exporting. instead it goes to a folder under my pictures called cover art...
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James - September 11, 2005
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Another person for whom it wont even load on iTunes 5.0 (PC). Been using it perfectly up until I upgraded my iTunes.
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Mike Orren - September 11, 2005
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Am also running on Itunes 5 w/o major problem, although the art import to an external drive still is an issue.
This is not the only widget with update issues. No widgets have updated or been added in over a week. No clue why.
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Knut August Johansen - September 11, 2005
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zielo, thanks. I'm glad you like it.
frad, thanks for informing this. I would be very interested to know if you are running it on Windows or Mac. For me it works fine with iTunes 5 on both Virtual PC and on the Mac. I'm trying to find out why it doesn't work for some people with iTunes 5 and Windows. It's not easy since I can't reproduce it, but I have found a kind person who is testing it for me on a PC it doesn't work on, so I hope I can post a fix for that soon. The only problem is that I can't upload a new version before vers. 2.5.6 is posted.
Dan, you must believe me. I did upload version 2.5.6 on Aug. 28. I don't know why it hasn't appeared here.
theo, timbo and Dmitry, I'm aware of the network drive problem on Windows. I hope I find a solution to that soon.
Caleb, to make my Widget open when you open iTunes, isn't something I can do from within my Widget. It has to be open before it can do anything. If you click on the play button
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Zielo - September 11, 2005
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excellent widget. Works well.
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frad - September 10, 2005
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perhaps, I am the only one... but I am running iTunes 5.0 and this widget runs fine for me. there are enough comments to the contrary here so there is still probably someting that needs to be tweaked, but i thought i would just put that out there.
On a side note though.. and a small nit picky thing.... but when slidding your mouse from the bottom of the widget to the top the progress bar and title overlay flicker.. due to the small gap between the two i think. could that be looked at? thanks.. this widget never leaves my desktop!
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Dominique James - September 9, 2005
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I'm on the look out for an upgrade to this widget that supports iTunes 5. The main reason why I adore this widget is the ability to automatically transfer the album art to iTunes. But now, apparently, that function appears to be, well, non-functioning. Please guys ... let's have an update soon! Thanks and more power!
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Rob - September 9, 2005
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Does anyone know when this might be upgraded to work with iTunes 5 for Windows? Looks very promising!
Thanks,
Rob
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Roswell - September 7, 2005
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One more thing... my whole problem in the first place is that now that I have iTunes 5, iTunes Companion won't even OPEN for me, PERIOD. It's horrible.
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Roswell - September 7, 2005
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Hey, I just thought I would join the ever-growing mass of people who are requesting a new iTunes Companion update in the wake of iTunes 5. I personally think the new interface is great, but I NEED iTunes Companion. It's nice to show off to people.
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Jimbo - September 7, 2005
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Cool widget! I loved how it worked... that is until I installed iTunes 5. Boo, Apple! Why did you have to go and change your interface? I want my remote back!
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Jacob - September 7, 2005
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I just have a quick comment in regards to iTunes 5.0. The artwork no longer is exported to iTunes so I just thought that I would let you know.
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Dan - September 7, 2005
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Somehow I don't think we'll ever see the version that was allegedly uploaded on 28AUG (10 days ago)...I figured this was too good to be true...
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Dmitry - September 5, 2005
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Same thing - under Windows with iTunes 4.9 the artwork is not being exported. The My Music folder is changed via registry to a different location. I've checked the old folder and it contains no .jpg files under "iTunes" where the .xml file of the library index is.
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Shawn - September 5, 2005
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It grabs the artwork but it doesn't export to iTunes even on the second playback. It's saving locally though, so i Can just go thru and drag/drop.
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timbo - September 5, 2005
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I have my library on a seperate drive and the widget can't add the art work to my library, is there a fix for this ?
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theo - September 5, 2005
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absolutely awsome widget.
one bug though (windows xp pro sp2):
when itune library is on a network drive the "all artists in library" link does not work and displays a link to "c:program filespixoriakonfabulatorunixutils...(don't know exactly where it leads, end is truncated)
clicking it even manage to freeze the widget.
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Caleb - September 3, 2005
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I love this widget, except for one problem. When I open iTunes, it doesn't automatically connect. I have to open the widget, which then opens iTunes. As a temporary measure, I've set up a shortcut to the widget file, which causes iTunes to open. Still, I really like it. One thing: I'd like a button that opens iTunes.
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Lechu - September 3, 2005
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Jacob, the drawer opens when you click on the white arrow that appears on the top of the CD side that becomes visible when you point your mouse over it.
Just wanted to send another encouraging post to Knut, wishing that the new version becomes available soon cause I became already dependant on it to enjoy playing music on my computer. does it take a so much time to have it published since you upload it? this week has been horrible! ;)
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Jacob - September 2, 2005
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This is the best iTunes widget available by far. But I have one gripe with it. The hotkeys do not work on my computer (Windows XP SP2) so I have no access to the drawer. Perhaps you should make the drawer available to open via the "general" options or if you click on the side of the cd it would open up the drawer. Just an idea.
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Ryne - September 1, 2005
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I have loved this widget, but ever since 4.9 came out I get the 'iTunes Companion was unable to load itself successfully' message. it simply won't load. I've updated to each new windows version of this widget with no luck.
I really miss it.
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cheridy - August 31, 2005
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this widget keeps getting better (v 2.5.5)
if you haven't tried it lately, download it now. chances are excellent that any issues you had with it are fixed, and that it does that thing you wished it did.
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Knut August Johansen - August 31, 2005
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Sam, check if the text to speech works on your computer. You can test that in the Speech Control Panel (Windows) or Speech in System Preferences (Mac).
Chris, I guess you are using it on a PC. It doesn't export right after it has downloaded artwork on the Windows version. It only exports the next time you play the track. I have fixed this in my new version. You open the drawer by clicking on the arrow on the left side in the control panel.
Rob, are you sure you've got the right version for your platform? Are you using a Mac or a PC?
hamsammich, I'm aware of this problem with the Windows version, but I don't understand it. It works for me with the music on an external drive in VirtualPC.
I uploaded the new version on Sunday, so hopefully it will be here soon.
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Knut August Johansen - August 31, 2005
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Christopher, the Google function doesn't work if iTunes is paused. I've changed that in my new version.
Karen, are you using a Mac or a PC?
Eric, I have fixed that in version 2.5.6.
Malcolm, I don't know why the hotkeys don't work for you. I don't have a PC to test it on, but I know it works for some others on Windows. I have changed the hotkey function a little in my new version, so hopefully they will work for you. I don't think the special hotkeys you have will work though.
Greg, that's strange, it doesn't do that for me. Maybe I will make it a choice where to store the CDCovers later.
blackf0rk, I see that it does that sometimes. I have changed the code a bit and, at least for me, it never does that anymore. But I don't think you need to restart the Widget. Just wait for the next track and it will update.
CaptainValor, I'll see if I get the time to add more places to search later. But you can search with Google now.
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Zoom Zoom - August 31, 2005
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I'm loving this widget, but I'm also experiencing two of the problems other people are reporting: artwork is not being exported to iTunes, and iTunes is being launched with the widget when I have that option switched off. I'm using XP/2.1.1/2.5.5W. Maybe this is of use: my music folders are on a different drive to my iTunes XML file?
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Andrea - August 31, 2005
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Great widget..but it does not work for me. If no art is present in the song, it will not search it, ant it always return "missing"..like it was not able to search on amazon. Might be a firewall issue..not sure
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hamsammich - August 31, 2005
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This widget is wonderful until you try to change the default location for your iTunes library. Every time I tried to change the location (I have a second hard drive for my iTunes music), this widget would crash. Otherwise, works well.
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Rob - August 31, 2005
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When I try to launch the widget, I get the error message.. "iTunes Companion was unable to load itself successfully."
When I enter debug mode, I get..
"uncaught exception: Unable to create object: Library not registered.
Errors prevented this Widget from making itself visible (mainWindow: 00D0C070, visible: No)"
I'm using iTunes 4.9
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chris - August 30, 2005
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this would be sweet if it actually exported artwork into itunes. have you tried it with 4.9 on windows? because i have and hey, no artwork exporting. also that drawer in the image you have there seems neat but clicking everything does nothing to show it. any help?
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Sam - August 27, 2005
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Hmm.. I checked the 'track announce' option but I don't hear it announcing the track before each song. Why isn't it announcing? Is there some special software to download?
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CaptainValor - August 27, 2005
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First off, let me just say that to date this is easily THE coolest widget I have ever used. I love running it especially while listening to internet radio.
One small suggestion: if you could expand the widget's searching capability to include other databases of cover art (perhaps Allmusic.com or Google Image), that would be fantastic. It finds the correct art about 70% of the time, which is, I must say, an awesome percentage and nothing to sneeze at. But that last 30% is worth going after, IMO.
Keep up the awesome work!
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blackf0rk - August 27, 2005
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The most useful widget I have, period. Word of suggestion: When listening to an mp3 on my HD after switching from a streaming radio station the cover art does not return to the currently playing MP3. I have to restart the widget.
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Greg K Nicholson - August 27, 2005
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Using version 2.5.5 with Konfabulator 2.1.1 on Windows XP, disabling "Open iTunes automatically when opening the Widget" seems to have no effect, i.e. it always opens iTunes.
This happens when opening the widget on its own and when it starts with Konfabulator.
Also, I'd prefer it if the CD covers were kept in a subfolder of the Widgets folder by default (I've hacked my copy to do it using system.userWidgetsFolder).
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Malcolm Duncan - August 26, 2005
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Hi, great widget, but I have one problem with it: Hotkeys don't seem to work at all for me. I checked the "About" file, and I'm using hotkeys like Shift+F1/F2/F3, and none of them work. Also, I have an IBM Multimedia Keyboard with hotkeys in the top left corner for play/pause/next/previous/volume, and it doesn't even register those. It'd definitely be a four star widget if those worked ;)
Is there a solution to my problems?
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Eric Goldberg - August 26, 2005
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I like it a lot! I noticed a bit of a bug, at least in the Mac version. It exports art for all tracks in the current album *only* for the tracks in the current playlist. So, if I have 7 out of 12 tracks in my "High Rating" playlist for a Moby album, only those 7 will get album art if I'm playing that Smart Playlist at the time.
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Karen - August 26, 2005
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Love this widget... However, I am experiencing wrong cover art on some albums when playing my 60GB iPod on iTunes. I have found a temporary fix where if the wrong cover pops up, I resize the window up from small to medium and it recognizes the right cover, then I shrink it down again. It's disruptive but it works. Would be great if there was a refresh button or something on the side near the resize button or for the bug to get fixed.
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Christopher - August 26, 2005
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forgot this.
the interface is very slow.
changing rating on a song is very sluggish and often fails
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Christopher - August 26, 2005
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the click here to search with google function does not work.
also it doesnt find that many covers by itself, maybe you should add some other sites
and sometimes the program hangs or pauses for a few minutes not updating the information even though the song has changed
using win xp home ande latest itunes companion
fix this and it would be great
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Knut August Johansen - August 24, 2005
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Anthony, can you ctrl-shift click on the Konfabulator icon to reveal the "Debug Mode" menu item, select that so it gets a check mark and then open my Widget. It would be nice If you could copy what you get in the debug window while it tries to export and send it to me (knut@mac.com).
Adam, thanks for reporting this. I have a hard time testing the Windows version. It's fixed in my new version, which I will upload this week.
Dreaminginsomniac, are you using a Mac or a PC? Do you have "Export artwork to every track on current album" checked in Preferences? I am not sure if I understand what you mean by "I wish iTunes could do it as well".
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Knut August Johansen - August 24, 2005
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Ken, I think your guess is right. I have had some reports from people telling me it doesn't work when you don't have your music on the local drive on Windows. I don't understand why though. I have set up a mapped network drive in Virtual PC and it exports artwork fine for me.
yyzUnderdog, thanks :-).
Lechu, if the album name is filled in and it finds the cover art, or if you set it to fill in album name automatically, it won't search again for that album. But if the album name is not filled in, it will search each time you play that track. This is because the image name it looks for on your hard drive is named artist_album. I have changed this in my new version, so that it names the image artist_track when there is no album name.
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DreamingInsomniac - August 24, 2005
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Everything working except exporting album art to Itunes
Any fixes ?? Perhaps in new release
I wish itunes could do it as well but its not a perfect world ...Pitty
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Adam PAstor - August 23, 2005
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Great except for one major flaw. It keeps getting the album art everytime the song is played and thus many of my songs have about 4 or 5 pics in the artwork section. Very strange bug. It also means it does a little pause while updating even when you have the art already. Needs a fix ASAP.
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Anthony - August 23, 2005
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Hi. Great widget. Thanks.
Can't get Import Artwork to iTunes to work though. Artwork is downloaded just fine, but doesn't make it to iTunes. iTunes 4.9, konfabulator 2.1.1, Companion 2.5.5w, Windows 2000 SP4. Music is stored on local drive, not network drive.
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Lechu (2.5.5W, 4.9, XP) - August 23, 2005
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hi again. I am quite enjoying playing around with this widget cause I am disconvering plenty of things to do with all my mp3. a doubt I have is regarding the cover search when art is already present, cause sometimes it adds a new cover, or even the same one. please, Knut, do a review of the conditions and restrictions to do the cover search (cause I have some files with the exactly the same cover repeated up to three times).
apart from that... what a widget! waiting for the new windows version with the "no album" search.
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yyzUnderdog - August 22, 2005
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Without a doubt, this is the best widget on my desktop!! I absolutely love it!! Can't wait for the next version. Some super minor quibbles - I wish iTunes had this as it's default interface. Awesome work. Thanks very much!!
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Ken - August 22, 2005
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This is a great widget, but I'm experiencing the same problem as Don and Razor. Same environment as the two. My guess is the problem might be related to the fact that my iTunes app is on C: but my music is on D:.
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Lechu (2.5.5W, 4.9, XP) - August 22, 2005
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hi, just wanted report that the drawer is not working properly. it opens and closes, but the buttons just change the drawer title, not the blank content. once more I must say that when a song with no cover info comes the empty CD image is not loading, and the previous one is still displaying.
Nipro, the Multi-Plugin plugin is great, thanks for the tip.
Bruce, the next/previous buttons are working properly for me, in case you need some feedback from a windows user.
Michael, it would help if you let Knut know your machine's configuration so that he can help you investigating why it's not working.
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Knut August Johansen - August 21, 2005
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Lechu, thanks for reporting this. I did some changes and I forgot to finish them on the Windows version. Will be fixed in my next version.
Kevin, are you using it on Windows or Mac? Do you need to restart because the hotkeys won't work after you have changed settings? I am aware of the hotkey problem. It's because of a change in Konfabulator and I forgot to fix that. I will post an update very soon.
Nipro, thanks for the tip. I recommend everybody on Windows to download it.
Bruce, I don't know how this works on the Windows version, but it's supposed to go to next/previous track when you press the hotkey quickly and rewind/fast forward when you hold the hotkey down for some time. I guess there is no use of that so I'll change it in my next version to only do the next/previous action.
Don, I don't understand why the export function doesn't work for you. Does anybody else have this problem on the Mac?
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Knut August Johansen - August 21, 2005
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Sophie, you're probably a Mac user and have got the Windows version.
You get the Windows version when you click on the Mac download. I have reported this to Konfabulator support, but it's not fixed yet. You can pick up the Mac version here:
http://homepage.mac.com/knut/filechute/iTunes%20Companion%202.5.5.zip
Michael, if you are using a Mac, see my message to Sophie.
Pierre, maybe I will add a function like that later. But the wrong cover art doesn't need to be stuck to the album. You can e.g. have a custom image on the desktop, and drag and drop it over the jewel case. Then you won't see the wrong cover art again. Or you can set it to always Google when you click on a cover and see if you can find it elsewhere on the net.
Razor, do you have your music on a network drive? If so, the export function doesn't work on Windows yet.
Bart, I don't know why you're getting that. Maybe you could email me and I will see if I can sort it out.
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Michael - August 20, 2005
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As much as i would love to use this program, it has never worked for me.
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Sophie - August 20, 2005
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For some reason, this widget downloads fine and appears as if it should work, but whenever I try to open it through Konfabulator, nothing happens. If I look for its preferences, I get a message saying there are no preferences for it. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Pierre - August 19, 2005
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Hello,
Sometimes, the iTunes companion shows a wrong cover art. It would be cool to have a right-click option to ask him to try again, because, once it has wrong picture, it sticks with it. :)
Thanks.
Pierre
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Razor1 - August 19, 2005
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Same problem that Don mentioned already: artwork export to iTunes isn't working. version 2.5.5W, iTunes 4.9, Konfabulator 2.1.1, Win XP SP2
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Bart - August 19, 2005
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Knut Thanks for the update. The crashing seems resolved in the side drawer when you click on "albums by this artist"; when clicking on "all artists in library" it fails (doesnt crash though). First line shows "c:program FilesKonfabulator..." All the other lines show "grep: writing output: Invalid argument". In settings the directory where the itunes library is, is correct. Knut, Would you have any idea what to do?
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Lechu - August 18, 2005
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Although the issue I should address... what a widget!
Just wanted to ask if the search function has changed in this last version, since the "artist - song" is no longer working. One of the features I used to like of this widget was that it was searching a possible album cover for each of the 2000+ individual tracks I have on my PC, and now it seems to look for "artist - album". Change? Recoverable?
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Mike Orren - August 18, 2005
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My apologies-- It isn't pulling the song name, but the artist and album name. Where that can screw up is with compilations, but I don't think there's a better answer.
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Mike Orren - August 18, 2005
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Love the new feature where clicking on the cd case does a Google image search, BUT:
Better if it pulls only from the album title. Currently pulls song title, artist and album, which rarely finds the right image.
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Kevin - August 18, 2005
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Great widget. Artwork doesn't always seem to work but it's still good.
A couple points
1. The CD case should have the option of displaying just the name and artist of the song if it can't find the cover
2. It would be nice to be able to refresh the settings without having to restart - it seems that way in my case anyway.
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Nipro - August 18, 2005
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First off all, Great widget!
He're is a tip: To get rid of the scripting interface warning, download Multi-Plugin. You can get it at http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/skins/multi_plugin.html . To turn the warning message off, go to Options -> Multi Plugin -> Other.
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Bruce - August 18, 2005
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Great widget, and the hotkey feature is great!
But on my PC the "Next track" and "Previous track" hotkeys is linked to "rewind" and "fast forward".
I am running 2.5.5W og Companion, Konfabulator 2.1.1, Itunes 4.9 on windows XP.
Bruce
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Don - August 17, 2005
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Oh yeah, I'm using Konfabulator 2.1.1
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Don - August 17, 2005
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Using iTunes 4.9 with v. 2.5.5 of this widget on OSX 10.3.9, the export artwork to iTunes is not working for me. It's grabbing artwork from Amazon just fine, but the artwork never appears to get associated with the songs in the iTunes UI. Otherwise, great widget!
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Litil - August 17, 2005
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Thanks for this widget, it's a must have for itunes. It looks fantastic and is a way to have all images of prefered music.
Thanks a lot! Best regards.
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Knut August Johansen - August 16, 2005
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I don't know what's happening here, but it's the same problem when you download the Mac version you get the Windows version. Until it's fixed you can pick it up here:
http://homepage.mac.com/knut/filechute/iTunes%20Companion%202.5.5.zip
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Knut August Johansen - August 16, 2005
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Lechu, you'll follow the development here. I just had to make the Mac version available elsewhere because of a problem here. But you are welcome to send me emails (knut@mac.com). I try to answer them all, but I get a lot of them these days and it takes more and more of my time, so please be patient :-). I haven't found a way yet to get rid of the dialog saying there is an app. using the scripting interface, but I have made a choice in my new version for Windows to turn off the automatic launching of iTunes when my Widget is opened. I uploaded it yesterday, but it can take some time before it appears here.
Bart, I have changed the way I do this, so I think it will work much better in my new version. It's hard for me to test though, since I don't have a PC.
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zutme - August 15, 2005
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One of my favorites
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Lechu (again) - August 12, 2005
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(this comes from the next comment entry, sorry for its length, thought it could be useful for more people)
- when I start windows the widget loads, but as I have it configured not to be shown if iTunes is not playing what is does is to load iTunes (due to the call to the previous mentioned scripting interface) and then it detects iTunes is not playing, so it goes away, leaving the main iTunes window opened. any way of working around this?
ding, I am using the "export artwork to iTunes" option in the "artwork" section of the "widget preferences" while playing the music on my iPod and the artwork is getting stored somehow in the ID3 tag (actually there's a little updating time while the info gets stored), and from then on the artwork is retrived from the file itself!
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Lechu - August 12, 2005
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first of all I would like to thank Knut for such a great widget. thank a lot! I was looking for a widget like this one since all the programs like Konfabulator started, and this one is just awesome. wicked!
I will try to follow this widget development (shall we just pay attention to this widgetgallery site or is there any other place where we may see the current project status, send you feedbacking emails or so?), and I will address here some issues I've found using version 2.5.4 of the widget with the 2.1.1 version of Konfabulator:
- sometimes, mostly when the next song has no artwork available, the empty CD case is not shown, and the previous artwork is still on display. maybe an updating bug?
- when I try to close iTunes while the widget is open it arises a dialog saying that there are applications using the scripting interface. isn't it possible to get rid of this message and close everything? (btw, I'm using the "hide widget when iTunes is not playing)
- whe
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Knut August Johansen - August 10, 2005
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scooterbaga, that's strange. I renamed a track I have to artist: Powerman 5000 and album: Anyone For Doomsday? and it works fine for me. Why is it that everything work fine for me but not for anybody else :-(. I will try to finish and post my new version this week, so hopefully it will work better for all of you. I will do the google search thing you suggested.
robmadry, thanks, I'm flattered. I Hope my new version will work for you.
Karen, you open the drawer by clicking on the arrow on the left side in the control panel.
ding, that's not possible to do.
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scooterbaga - August 10, 2005
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Jeez... somebody has a popular widget. I got tired of scrolling through, so hopefully this isn't a repeat. I've noticed that when the album ends in something like a question mark (ie "Anyone For Doomsday?") that ITC has issues with the album art. Even if a proper file is in the CDCover folder, ITC ignores it next time that album plays.
Also, it'd be nice to be able to do the google search thing even while there's artwork, in case it's wrong or you want to change it.
Thanks for a bomb ass widget!
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robmadry - August 9, 2005
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Help! iTunes Companion is the only thing that makes my Windows machine tolerable! For some reason, it suddenly won't work with the new version of Konfabulator.
Help me Obe Wan Kenobi... you're my only hope! <G>
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Bart - August 9, 2005
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Excellent Widget. On my WIN it crashes/locks up though when i try to access the library and change album through the side window - only way out is to kill konfabulator. So I can only change album through the original itunes window. What can be the problem?
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Karen - August 8, 2005
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Excellent widget. However, I cannot access the side drawer. When I click on the upper left corner, it only resizes the widget. please help!
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dingo - August 6, 2005
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also have a request:
i would like to be able to drag the ard from the widget to itunes, I play my music from my ipod and it can't apply the artwork when playing from an ipod
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dingo - August 6, 2005
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where is the mac version?
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satch - August 6, 2005
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I continue to be frustrated with almost-instantaneous crashes of this widget in OS X. I am using the most recent versions of OSX and the iTunes Companion, and I downloaded the Mac version via the link you provided. I cannot keep this widget working for more than maybe a minute at a time, tops.
The Windows version seems to work for me without any problems whatsoever. Please let me know how/if I can help get the problem corrected on the Mac version so that I can enjoy it on OSX!
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rod - August 6, 2005
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Ok... my fault... just downloaded the mac version you indicated in a previous comment, and relaunched Konfabulator... Grreeat :D
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Rod - August 6, 2005
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Coolest widget in my mind, but.... since i downloaded the latest version (2.5.4), it seems to be launched but is invisible... Still i have a mac, and i just received the windows version, i don't know how to kill the windows bugged invisible one... Expecting the mac one very soon, i now can't live witout it... :D
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Jerry Kindall - August 4, 2005
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Okay... so how do I get the Mac version? I have clicked the download link five times and still am getting the Windows version. Or, where is a link to the developer's site so I can go get it directly from the source?
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Maeve O'Hara - August 4, 2005
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I love iTunes Companion...when it works. It lags a lot when changing tracks in iTunes (using XP pro & iTunes 4.9), and isn't that good at fetching Classical Album Covers.
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Maeve O'Hara - August 4, 2005
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I love iTunes Companion...when it works. It lags a lot when changing tracks in iTunes (using XP pro & iTunes 4.9), and isn't that good at fetching Classical Album Covers.
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Knut August Johansen - August 2, 2005
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I just wanted to say that it seems to be something wrong with the download here so you get the Windows version even if you wanted the Mac version. Until it's fixed you can pick up the Mac version here:
http://homepage.mac.com/knut/filechute/iTunes Companion 2.5.4 Mac.zip
Also, to those having problems with the Windows version freezing or using lots of CPU: Uncheck "export artwork to every track on current album" in Preferences. I haven't found an efficient way of exporting artwork to every track on Windows yet, and it seems it makes a lot of problems on some systems.
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WilloToons - July 29, 2005
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FANTASTIC!!! I wrote up a full review on my site w/ more screenshots. You can see it here: http://www.willotoons.com/2005/07/coolest-widget-ever.php
Thanks Knut, I love it! :)
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Michael - July 28, 2005
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This widget has problems- it is cool yes but it does not work in the XP sp2 iTunes 4.9 environment consistantly.
Is there a way to get this working?
Thank you very much
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Frad - July 27, 2005
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Great Widget... I just switched to iTunes so I gave it a shot and it works perfectly for me. I am using Windows XP and iTunes 4.9
One small asthetic issue though... When I run the mouse from the bottom of the widget to the top about mid way the progress bar and title info overlay will flicker.
Also I think it looks really smooth and cool when the title info fades in (when you have it set to do so automatically on a track change) and thought it would be neat to have the option fade in as well when you hover over it rather than have the info just pop up as it does now.
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Diego Eis - July 27, 2005
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Just need a publication HTML file in FTP!
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Mike Orren - July 27, 2005
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Itunes 4.9 and Windows XP. For first few days I had it, it was great at finding art from Amazon. But for past three days, it isn't finding anything, even obvious titles, properly tagged. Have updated all my ID3 tags to 2.4, and I know I'm online.
Amazingly great widget, though.
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tc60045 - July 27, 2005
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update: ITcompanion hangs *only* when import artwork for every track on the album is checked
Additional problem: if artwork for a track in the itunes database is incorrect, and then is deleted, itcompanion will continue to show the old artwork
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Alexandre Giess - July 27, 2005
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Information: XP SP2, ITunes 4.9
It worked for 2 days (slow...) then suddenly it woould not load itself anymore.
"It works fine for me with iTunes 4.9 and Windows XP in Virtual PC."== Maybe Knutl you should try on another machine...
Otherwise: Great tool
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tc60045 - July 27, 2005
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Seems to hang often when the "import artwork into itunes" is set to on (windows version, latest version of widget / konfab)
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teacher24_70 - July 26, 2005
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Am using version 2.5.4 with Konfabulator 2.1 and iTunes 4.9. (and Mac OS 10.3.9). In addition to the questions/problems about the cover art (as discussed in another recent comment post), I've discovered another problem. When I click on the drawer icon for "libraries/playlists", it says "Applescript error: no user intera. . ." What could be causing this error?
Should I be able to control the playlist or artist that I want to play from this widget--or are those only controllable from iTunes itself?
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JoeBob - July 26, 2005
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Love, love, love, this widget. But noticed that today, it's suddenly importing the wrong art into iTunes. It's either bringing in a screenshot of the 'Quicktime Promo' page or the previously played song. I'm on a Mac running 10.4.2 with QT 7.0.1. This doesn't happen every time, but enough to be mighty annoying. Any thoughts on this bug? Thanks in advance...
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Lunchburger - July 26, 2005
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Amazing widget all around. Slight problems on Windows XP when:
a) going through tracks quickly (skipping) - it has trouble catching up to the proper album art and/or title
b) quitting iTunes without closing the widget. when re-opening iTunes, the widget doesnt work (stays on the CD, without a case actually) unless restarted
c) brutally high CPU power when switching songs / album art.
Aside from these things its a totally great widget and I use it all the time.
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Aob - July 26, 2005
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Truly cool little thing!
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teacher24_70 - July 25, 2005
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Just posted my comment, but forgot to mention that I'm running OS 10.3.9--if it matters.
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teacher24_70 - July 25, 2005
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I just downloaded Konfabulator 2.0.1 for the first time. I also am running iTunes 4.9. The widget shows, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. The disk shows, the track shows, but NO cover art. It also doesn't seem to allow me to change/control the music played. When I click on another artist in the drawer, nothing happens. Am I doing it the wrong way?
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M. Weterings - July 23, 2005
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I too had the problem of some cover art not showing, just an empty jewel-case (OSX 10.42)
Selecting al the songs in my iTunes library and converting their ID3 tags to v2.4 seems to have fixed it though :-)
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Knut August Johansen - July 14, 2005
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Wow, this page has grown. I just want to thank you all for your comments. It would be nice if you could mention the system/computer you use. If you send me an e-mail (knut@mac.com), maybe I can find out why it's not working for you. I can't answer everybody here. I will post an update soon, but I don't understand why it doesn't work for you with iTunes 4.9 on Windows. It works fine for me with iTunes 4.9 and Windows XP in Virtual PC.
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Mattie J - July 14, 2005
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i just downloaded this and love it. I too hav the problem with artwork missing causing all other album covers after that to not load either. Also, the hotkey function would be a nice addition, but it seems to be broken as well.
P.S. I also have iTunes 4.9, but I had it when it first loaded the widget, which may explain why it has worked for me almost flawlessly. Great job.
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Adam - July 13, 2005
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Ok, NVM my first rating. This works fine with iTunes 4.7 and 4.8 . After searching google for 10 minutes, I FINALLY found a download link for iTunes 4.7-4.8! This is for Windows. Make sure you un-install 4.9 before installing 4.7-4.8. Link: http://appldnld.m7z.net/content.info.apple.com/iTunes4/WW/win/019-0312.20050111.MmVrT/iTunesSetup.exe
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Adam - July 13, 2005
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It is really nice. And it DOES work with iTunes 4.9, but it is verrrry buggy, it freezes on me most of the time. :-( . Thanks for a great widget, though.
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Michael Gall - July 11, 2005
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Dido Leonardo D., I reaaly love this program, but since Itunes 4.9 came out it won't work anymore. Are there any plans for another update?
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Leonardo D - July 1, 2005
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Hi. I've been using this widget for a long time and it's been working perfectly with the itunes 4.8 and i looove it, BUT.... now that i just updated itunes to the latest version (4.9) it just doesn't work, it doesn't even start!!
I checked a few old comments about this problem, when you try to open the widget it says "itunes companion was unable to load itself succesfully", so i guess maybe it's not the new itunes version
So please if somebody knows what's the problem let me know or maybe the creator can explain it, because maybe we need an update
take care
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DJ - June 26, 2005
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Great Widget but big resource hog-can u clean it up any?
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Chris - June 26, 2005
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Only one problem: Is there anyway to have the widget open/close whenever I open/close iTunes??? Annoying to have to restart iTunes Companion everytime I start iTunes. When I close iTunes I get the following message:
"One or more applications are using iTunes scripting interface. Are you sure you want to quit? If you do nothing all applications that are using the scripting interface will automatically be disconnected in XX seconds." Any idea how to get around this?
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xplodr - June 22, 2005
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nice widget!
It will be very useful, if you make a Winamp version too!
p.s. sorry for my english
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Benno - June 20, 2005
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Not working properly for me since recent update.
If a song doesn't have complete info (i.e no album name), cover art won't load properly, and then subsequent songs that do have complete info fail to display properly. The cover art slides in and then straight out again, leaving the empty jewel case.
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Jazbo8 - June 20, 2005
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Upgraded to the latest version as well as Konfabulator 2.0.1. recently, now the program runs much slower and eats up all the memory on my XP machine. When it does work, it is by far the best program out there for displaying album art. Thanks for your wonderful widget.
Also when you get around to it, could you enable the option to pick up graphic file in the folder if it is available. Like many people, I store my MPs in seperate folders, and have album cover image saved there already.
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Tony - June 20, 2005
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I REALLY love this widget, and it would be a permanent fixture on my desktop if it wasn't for one thing. It's soooo sloooow!
Why is it that "iTunes bar" can change tracks and cover art so quickly, and "iTunes companion" takes up to 10 seconds, even if I remove all of the fancy functionality.
When there's no re-writing of track info, no downloading of images etc, but it still takes up to 10 seconds to update the display when changing tracks!.
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Al Martin - June 19, 2005
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Just about perfect for my needs.
Only thing: it should check more fields to decide which cover to display. For example, I had a song from Robert Palmer's "Secrets" followed by Toni Braxton's "Secrets", and it didn't change the display. (When I went to a differently named album and then back to Toni Braxton, the correct cover was displayed. This is a problem because I have a lot of albums named "Greatest Hits".
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Elle - June 18, 2005
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To my disappointment, I couldn't get iTunes Companion to launch. I'm using K-2 on an iMac running Panther.
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Chris - June 17, 2005
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It seems like it doesn't take into consideration the artist name when checking "Export artwork to every track on current album." For example, I was playing a song from Aerosmith - Greatest Hits. It added the album art to all the songs on that album, but also for the same named albums from Boston, the Eagles, etc etc.
Another "fix" might be to somehow add album art to iTunes without having to stop playback. I understand you can't alter a file in use, so maybe it could cache the file information?
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Aussie - June 14, 2005
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Totally does not work (grab artwork) maybe the rare one in 30 and even then it takes about 2 minutes to get the artwork (very slow). I would like to use this widget for it's features. But looks like i'm going to have to stick with sputnik (works great) till you sort out what's wrong. By the way i'm using windows xp and konfab. 2.0.1.
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Shane - June 14, 2005
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One thing though.... can you add a preference so that if it finds a higher res photo it will overwrite??... It'll save me from having to go back through my whole gallery :)
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jaylo - June 13, 2005
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DAW, I get an error saying that 'itunes companion could not load itself properly.' how do i fix the problem?
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Jeff Thielen - June 12, 2005
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This widget is great when it works. I'm ready to go back to 2.5.3. It has a tendency to run away with the CPU. It seems to do this when adding new art from Amazon. It never recovers and must be terminated through the "task mangler". Every time it goes put to get artwork it locks up.
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Jeff Thielen - June 12, 2005
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This widget is great when it works. I'm ready to go back to 2.5.3. It has a tendency to run away with the CPU. It seems to do this when adding new art from Amazon. It never recovers and must be terminated through the "task mangler". Every time it goes put to get artwork it locks up.
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jeremy - June 7, 2005
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this is an excellent widget. however, i am looking for a widget that can display multiple artwork images on the desktop like the mac's clutter; i'm on a winxp cpu. if anyone knows please let me know.
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Adam Jones - June 7, 2005
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Amazing, total genius, exactly what i was looking for.
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Jon - June 7, 2005
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Stability problems from the 2.0 update of Konfabulator seem to be mostly licked. The preferences pannel is beautiful. Nice touch with multiple location lookups. I will need to try some of these new features. OS-X 10.3.9
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emil - June 7, 2005
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four stars if it'd work, but as I'm hoping the errors will be recitified, I still give it four... my problems are quite a few... the program hangs when I want Companion to export album art to the whole album in iTunes. it hangs at strange letters (I think that's what it is), like when I'm listening to µ-Ziq. I had so many problems browsing via Companion that now I'm just using it to show and export album art (which still is buggy). many times when it hangs, it f's up the registry so that I have to delete all Companion keys in regedit before it works properly again (downloading + exporting album art from Amazon). great program, but it needs more work (these comments apply to the latest PC version).
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David - June 6, 2005
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The concept is great, and it rocks when it works. However, it mostly just ties up iTunes so that between the widget and iTunes, my CPU usage is at 100%. It was working fine to start with, then I quickly skipped tracks before the widget finished getting the art for the current track, and it's basically been flaky ever since. I don't know if that would have anything to do with it. Even killing the widget from Task Manager (I'm using Windows XP and most recent Konfab.) and reopening it doesn't help. It will go out and get the art for the current track and then immediately locks up.
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M Golden - June 6, 2005
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WoW! Best widget ever! Very useful, does exactly what I want, fills a big hole in iTunes. I echo the idea of having other artists, etc, but that would be absolute nirvana. Am having a few weird issues with 2.5.4 not pasting art (not a permission problem). On XP. Again, kudos!
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Thomas - June 5, 2005
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The very best. 'Best of Konfabulator' Award.
Thanks K.J. Johansen iTunes Companion is tops.
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ggentry11 - June 5, 2005
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Downloaded the new version, unzipped it to my widgets in my documents, opened widget getting error message "iTunes Companion was unable to load itselve successfully.
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Jay - June 5, 2005
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I just love this widget, and the new version, together with Konfab 2.0.1, fixes the bug that was causing the flicker and lockup.
One question/problem, however: for reasons I cannot figure out, my iTunes companion will periodically just quit. Just disappear from the screen when music is still playing. So far I have not been able to discern a pattern of what might be causing this. Any ideas? I can re-start the widget and it will work again for a while, but the dropouts happen often enough to be a concern (I use the Mac version). Thanks.
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ToddJ - June 1, 2005
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I love this widget!! One thing that would be a great addition to it is when you open the side window (that displays other albums from the artist playing or other songs on the album) it would be cool if you cdouble licked on one of those songs, that it would play next in party shuffle mode. that way you could finish listening to the song playing.....awesome job on the widget!!
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Nik - June 1, 2005
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Great widget, well thought out, easy and reliable to use. Soon my iTunes library will be CHOCK FULL of artwork. How fun!
Konfabulator 2.01 fixed the weird flashing problems and I can now use hotkeys. The author says he has a point release update to take advantage of some Konfabulator 2.01 additions.
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marCus - May 31, 2005
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Great widget, just updated. The flicker issue should be fixed apart from that, great stuff.
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marCus - May 31, 2005
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Great widget, just updated. The flicker issue should be fixed apart from that, great stuff.
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marCus - May 31, 2005
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Great widget, just updated. The flicker issue should be fixed apart from that, great stuff.
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Jay - May 29, 2005
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Merely wanted to add an echo to others who love the widget, but seem to have problems with "flicker" and lockups as a result.
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Hackit98 - May 26, 2005
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I agree Cruciarius. Maybe I should have worded that better. It's great to get feedback on problems and such. I was merely refering to the people that go over that boundry. Like that commercial where everyone stops to complain about the trash on the ground.. but no one picks it up. Like that. Either event, I appologize if I offended anyone. I emailed the author with my modifications. I would hate to post a full update without his revision of the code I modified. Plus it really should be released by him thru this site. Look for it soon.?
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Nik - May 25, 2005
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I'm getting the same weird flashing which ties up the whole widget. Mousing over to display the controls doesn't seem to work consistently. They appear and then quickly vanish.
Album art works fine, and if I'm lucky, I can operate the controls and work iTunes from it. But it's basically broken.
Running Konfabulator 2 under Tiger. Might just need an update to support the latest stuff.
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nickm - May 22, 2005
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Tried another version, couldn't get it to work. Tried this and yay, it works and it works well. good job!
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Justin - May 21, 2005
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I bought Konfab for just this widget. What great widget, heres to hoping that in the future you can give the current playlist (like Party Shuffle) in the side panel. Thank you so much.
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Cruciarius - May 21, 2005
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my issues with this widget...
- it won't display custom album art, even if the art is dragged into it repeatedly.
- still no option to disable the artist info or controls (i just want album art. nothing else).
sadly, this is the only partially functional album art widget. sputnik doesn't even work and its the only other widget out that looks good and claims to show album art.
plus, IF i knew how to edit this widget to fix the issues, i would. shouldn't call people lazy, just because they know nothing about programming a widget.
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Patrick - May 20, 2005
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Any idea when an update for iTunes 4.8 and/or Mac OS 10.4.1 will be ready?
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Greg - May 20, 2005
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I'm seeing exactly the same behaviour as Chris (Thanks for the excellent description Chris) and I haven't done any clearing or re-adding to my library. I do have a library of over 1600 songs... but somehow I suspect that's not it. Other than that, this is the coolest widget ever!
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sfschier - May 19, 2005
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This widget is why I purchased Konfabulator! Having some issues with new 2.0 version though. Album info at bottom starts flashing and locks everything up.
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DL - May 18, 2005
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I've been waiting a long time for someone to finally make this. It finally validates the hours I've spent ensuring all of the 1,000's of MP3's in my collection have relatively complete tags (including embedded album art).
If only Amazon could guarantee large images of all albums, so the image would be crystal clear, even when iTunes Companion is at full size.
One request - a refresh button for the art. Sometimes if I've replaced the album art while the track is playing, I want to refresh the image in iTC. Also, there are times when a track which lacks art will just keep the art from the previous song. That's a small bug that could use fixing.
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Chris - May 18, 2005
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I have been using this Widget for about 4 months. All of a sudden today Everytime the track Changes in iTunes a Windows Scripting Host Window (looks like a DOS window) appears and steals focus and then dissappears (stays on screen from 1/2 second to 3 seconds). This widow appears again and behaves the same way again after The Album Art appears.
I am using iTunes 4.7 and have been for quite a while. I have not upgraded to 4.8 yet because of other apps that interface with iTunes.
Has anyone else seen this behavior?
The Only thing I did recently was clear my iTunes library and re-add all my music (plus some more) Does the Companion have a problem with a large library? (42,000+ songs) (i did all of these things while Konfabulator was closed)
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nrector - May 18, 2005
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does totaly ignorant of how to reprogram this widget (or any thing else for that matter) count as lazy? Ü I'm trying to grab the "fixed" version off your site. Having a bit of trouble. Giving me this error....(and I still plead ignorant!)
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nrector - May 18, 2005
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does totaly ignorant of how to reprogram this widget (or any thing else for that matter) count as lazy? Ü I'm trying to grab the "fixed" version off your site. Having a bit of trouble. Giving me this error....(and I still plead ignorant!)
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Hackit98 - May 16, 2005
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Nice cop-out. It's NOT 4.8, it was poor programming. I'm no going to get in a flame war with you. This is a great widget, I'll state that again. The only thing is that it appears to have been written to taylor the mp3 collection of guy that made it. The main problem was that it was not putting the album cover on the mp3 AFTER it set the name of the album on the track. Almost my whole collection doesn't have album names on them. A temp fix was to force it to getcover() right after it sets the name. This makes the album 'slide' twice, so it's not a permenant fix, but it works. It now works on every single track.. with naming and all. The updated file is still at the same link below on my site. Maybe the author will fix that problem... Either way, I'm going to eventually make an app to take care of my entire library.. or wait until Fetch Art is updated... which ever comes first.
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Rafy - May 15, 2005
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nrector: It wont export to itunes beacuse you have the latest itunes version. Its not yet compatible with the new itunes 4.8 which was just released.
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Hackit98 - May 14, 2005
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Another note... yes it still sometimes downloads the wrong image. It also does still put the album art on the wrong song if you select another song really quickly after it downloads the previous artwork. I'll work on the wrong image issue and just update the same kon file on my site. Expect it in a week or so when I have time to research the code... I'm sure it's probably the way the song file is looked up / how amazon handles that info. May not be an easy fix. The other problem... stop changing the song so darn quick! Problem resolved.
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Hackit98 - May 14, 2005
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Take it from me... if it doesn't work the way that you want... fix it your darn self! Stop complaining that it doesn't work if you won't take the time to fix it. By the way. Thanks to the developer of this widget. I had the same problem described before, that it would not export artwork sometimes. I have a fixed revision of the kon file. It's hosted on my site here: (http://www.hackit98.com/Files/iTunes%20Companion%20253M.kon) for all you lazy people wanting a fix. If you can't put this file where it belongs then give up now, sell your Mac, and do us all a favor and go buy a PC. Two things, 1.) This was NOT cleared by the dev, as it does break some functionality I kinda guess he wouldn't approve. 2.) ALWAYS make a backup before you go screwing around. Of course, you could always redownload it from here if you manage to screw it up competely.
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Cruciarius - May 11, 2005
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sometimes when skipping thru songs fast, itunes companion gives the album art to the wrong songs and even replaces the right album art, sometimes. this is annoying.
it also grabs the wrong album art sometimes.
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Phil - May 8, 2005
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I find the image sliding distracting-- I would like the option to have images just change, or maybe fade in/out. Ditto for the jewel case; I'd like to see a simpler frame, or none at all.
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Mike - May 7, 2005
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I like it, but I am not very fond of the CD case graphic. (My hatred of jewel cases fuels my love of mp3s.) I also find the sliding drawer behaves erratically; I have trouble getting it to stay open. Very nice overall.
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Matt - May 7, 2005
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Thank you! I really like it. Saves lots of work.
I would like to see more information on how the widget decides what to name an image file-- in particular, the way it handles special characters (commas, parentheses, etc.). There are a lot of songs it does not find artwork for, even when I can see the image on Amazon, or worse still I already have the image in the folder. I have guessed some of the rules, like the sometimes use of a double underline __ to replace characters it does not like, but I still do a lot of guessing. For example, I can't figure out how to name "Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)" so that it won't confuse it with "Weezer - Weezer (Green Album)." It also doesn't like the name "XTC." I don't want to change my id3 tags just to satisfy the widget's quirks.
In fact, I would like to be able to control how files are named. No offense, but I prefer my own logic. Programs to use as models would be CDex, EAC, etc., where you can specify %A - %T, and the like.
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nrector - May 6, 2005
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Tried that. The albums are not there. Its not saving them to my machine at all. (except for 2.. which I have no idea why those 2 worked)
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Answerer - May 6, 2005
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nrector: If you can't get it to work directly, go to your My Documents/My Pictures/CDCovers Folder (Or the equivalent on Mac) and drag the files from there into your iTunes
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nrector - May 6, 2005
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(Sure could use some help!) Definetly a cool widget... I just can't get the thing to work. I wish there was a support place for these things. I've posted on the Konfabulator board and though Ive had almost 70 views.. no answers. I can't get the album art to transfer over... though it finds it fine. I got Konfabulator for this widget also... but it does not work. Am I just out of luck?
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Max - May 5, 2005
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Thank you so much for this widget. It is awesome!!!!
I use it to complete the missing info in my iTunes. Here's one wish for future versions: If a song has no album, the album is added, but the artwork is not exported to iTunes (it's on in prefs). I have to re-play the song for the artwork to be exported.
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-X-Naught - May 4, 2005
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I totally love this widget!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS GEM!!!
only slight grumble is that it pauses the music (i believe its when it copies the new cover to itunes) but apart from that this is amazing!!
Thanks again!
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Akela - May 4, 2005
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One thing I forgot: the slideout window with the album track listing and other buttons doesn't work when playing songs off my iPod, either. I click the arrow, and the window slides out, but then it immediately disappears again. Just fyi... thanks!
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Akela - May 4, 2005
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I've had the same problem as Mancide... album artwork update doesn't work if I'm playing songs from my iPod through iTunes connected via USB, and the artwork doesn't export after the first song, even with the export option checked in the widget. Also, the mouseover controls don't always work, or work properly (like trying to change the song rating; often I'll click and nothing happens).
Regardless of all that, though - I love the widget!! It sits on my desktop almost constantly, and is one of the reasons I paid for Konfabulator. Great work, and keep it up!
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John - May 3, 2005
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WOW! This is one cool widget! I absolutely love it :-)
One small feature request: I would like to get the "large" picture from amazon regardless of the size of the widget. That way the quality in itunes will always be the best.
Greetings from Denmark
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Lunchburger - April 27, 2005
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Brilliant. Works perfectly and barely uses any CPU power at all.
This widget is the SOLE reason I downloaded Konfabulator in the first place.
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red_indian - April 27, 2005
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Probably the best Konfab widget I have seen till date. Could be an application in its own right!
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red_indian - April 27, 2005
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Probably the best Konfab widget I have seen till date. Could be an application in its own right!
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Skorobeus - April 26, 2005
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This is by far one of the most useful widgets I've come across, and for that I thank you for all your hard work!
I seem to be having a problem with the album art export, however. It worked exactly once, it appears, and not since. The album names themselves are being successfully updated with no problem, but I am artless for the tracks that don't already have it.
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nrector - April 25, 2005
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I cant get the album art to export to iTunes even though I have that set in preferences. I assume it is an automatic export and I dont have to do anything myself... though I cant see where I would anyway.
Appreciate any help on this.
Thanks!
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Byran - April 12, 2005
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This is officially the most pimpin', most usefull, and generally best piece of software ever invented. I've wanted something like this forever. Thank you. Only one thing I can think of changing- an option in addition to the "fade in when the track changes"- a fade in/fade out. I would love it if the widget would come up for a few seconds, then fade out to obscurity. Other than that, and the brief pause that I hear when it's fetching the art, I love it.
It's so cool I wanna keep it to myself, so all my friends can marvel at it...
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Sean - April 11, 2005
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Its great except that it really pulls down your processing power...
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Woody - April 6, 2005
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One of the finest widgets ever! It's awesome "out of the box", but I found even more when looking over the readme. Excellent work!
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pintinho - April 1, 2005
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great widget. personally, though, I would like it to have a "Avedesk-look". I´d like to see the name of the artist, the title of the song and of the record on the desktop, beneath the widget. The rating stars are not that important. (to me). Otherwise, again, Knut, marvelous. Splendid job.
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Scot - March 22, 2005
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I'm using version 2.5.3
I notice that the timer counts up to 29 and then clicks over to 1:30 which is a little odd. I also noticed that there seems to be a pause about 5 seconds after a track starts. I tried going back to my previous verison and the problem goes away.
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Scot - March 22, 2005
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I'm using version 2.5.3
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LMF - March 20, 2005
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Btw, the shuffle button only works when changing from non-shuffle to shuffle. It doesnt work the other way round.
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LMF - March 20, 2005
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Fantastic widget! It'll be even better if you can optimize the code so that the album cover shows up faster when the song changes, right now there a 1-2 second delay. There is some syncing delay with the progress timer as well, sometimes it will not show the correct progress time.
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Cruciarius - March 17, 2005
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awesome widget! i just have a few problems with it...
- it doesn't load some album art that i made myself for tracks with no album art, even though, i put the art on the tracks in iTunes.
- option to disable the roll over controls and track info would be great.
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mancide - March 15, 2005
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In the newest version on Windows, if I play off of my iPod connected via firwire, iTunes Companion no longer attempts to get album art to display. It works fine on any files played from my harddrive however. Previous versions were able to get artwork reguardless of where the song was played from.
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Felipe - March 14, 2005
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Excelent Widget, it is very useful specially the download artwork function. It would be great if in future versions you could add support to growl, instead of the bring to front feature maybe. Well, anyway. Congratulations.
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Alejandro Vigo - March 13, 2005
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Sencillo, elegante, vistoso...¡Excelente!
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Alejandro Vigo - March 13, 2005
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Sencillo, elegante, vistoso...¡Excelente!
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Bryan - March 11, 2005
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Thank you, sir, for such a wonderful widget. I am using the Windows version. I found that, in my laptop, which is running very high resolution (1400x whatever), I get a longer Widget Preference box with lots more checkboxes such as Show control panel, Show title, etc. In my home PC, I am using 1024x768 resolution and these checkboxes were missing from the Widget Preference box. I had to raise the screen resolution higher to see them.
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Bryan - March 11, 2005
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Thank you, sir, for such a wonderful widget. I am using the Windows version. I found that, in my laptop, which is running very high resolution (1400x whatever), I get a longer Widget Preference box with lots more checkboxes such as Show control panel, Show title, etc. In my home PC, I am using 1024x768 resolution and these checkboxes were missing from the Widget Preference box. I had to raise the screen resolution higher to see them.
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belfong - March 11, 2005
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Thank you.
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Andy - March 9, 2005
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Awesome - the only widget that I've ALWAYS kept using in 1.5 years...
A couple of wish lists...already stated but better album searching - seems it got "looser" and now I have to delete half I import since they're wrong. Also, could the image import be the largest available at the site it's coming from? Currently, I just figured this out, it copies to iTunes the size you have displayed in iTunes Companion...If you make iTunes Companion bigger on the desktop it exports a bigger pic to iTunes..or smaller. When smaller I get that "white border" around the art work usually...Perhaps as an option in the prefs list? Export = Desktop Display size? = Smallest Size (for those with hard drive storage issues) etc.
An Awesome piece of work Thanks!
Andy
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Santiago - March 9, 2005
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Thx a lot great widget. Wait for a better search for the covers.
Looking forward to updates
regards.
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Dave - March 8, 2005
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Could we have the option of pulling the album art from iTunes rather than amazon? When you have a laptop thats seldom connected to the internet its a shame for this widget not to be useable
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NonyMouse - March 8, 2005
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I have a couple of requests; can you include an option that disables the mouseover information and controls? While they are useful, I have a problem with them 'sticking' and not disappearing when I move the mouse off of the widget.
Also, it would be cool if you could integrate Growl notifications when the tracks change--I haven't found one yet that can properly show the track and artist from streaming audio.
I'm using a Mac, BTW--thanks for the making and continued development of this widget!
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frank - March 7, 2005
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I would just like to know if you can send me that empty jewel case image. I couldnt find it anywhere online. You should look into making a widget like Export Artwork (http://www.dizzypenguin.com/automac-it/) for Windows that would basically automatically update by parsing the playlist, getting the image from the id3, and moving them to a folder locally. I could make a script to put my playlist online with the album art image underneath it. Shouldnt be hard from what you have already done. Email me at frank.denbow at gmail.com if you can help me with this. Peace
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Dennis - March 7, 2005
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Im not sure wahts wrong.. but its not workin. it gives me this error message:
Cannot load widget in /Users/Dennis/Documents/Widgets/iTunes Companion 2.5.3 Mac/iTunes Companion.widget/Contents/iTunes Companion 253M.kon.
XMP parse error 1 : error parsing element?
anyone willing to help? thanks!
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Jay Norman - March 2, 2005
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Love the widget - would love it if the on-line search for Album covers could search ALL of the regions instead of just one at a time - would save me having to change my region depending on where my music came from ie, canada vs us vs uk, etc.
Would also love the option to turn off the controls and have it just sit on my desktop showing the cover art without the control popping up whenever my mouse passed by.
that said - this is still by far the best of the breed
merci bien
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Sunil - March 2, 2005
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Great! Replaces Synergy and/or Sofa for me. Does the job better than either of them... and looks much better.
Great work. Reason enough to buy Konfabulator.
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BobSakamento - February 28, 2005
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Any chance of making the graphic counter clickable to navigate the song?
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FOOOD - February 25, 2005
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Fantastic widget! :D
A couple of requests/suggestions:
I'm in the UK & listen to a lot of UK specific music, but I also listen to a lot of US music that we don't get so much here.
It would be great if we could tick what countries we want the widget to search (e.g. UK & US, UK & Japan etc.)
Also it would be great if you could turn off the 'Artwork not available' cover.
So that you just see the CD case (I think it looks a lot better than looking at the 'no artwork' cover all the time).
Or have it as an option to show the cover for an amount of time (changeable in options) & then fall back to the CD case only image.
And/or have it as an option to set your own default cover if there isn't one available .
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Knut August Johansen - February 24, 2005
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stinky, I will make that as an option in my next version.
Phil, do you have "Export artwork to iTunes" on when it pauses?
Ratboy, you must check for "Export artwork to iTunes" in Preferences.
Jeff, I don't think I will make it work for any other player. You know, it's called iTunes Companion :-).
reverand, you can see a listing of the hotkeys it accepts in the file "About iTunes Companion" which comes with the widget. Artwork to iTunes works fine for me. Are you using a Mac or a PC?
NickA, there is no other way to export to iTunes than to embed the images into the tracks. All the cover art you see in iTunes are embedded into the tracks. The cover art images my widget uses are saved in the CDCovers folder. Do you mean you would rather have them in the same folder as the tracks? What do you mean by you can't get the drawer to work? Doesn't it open or what? And what other files are you referring to?
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reverand - February 24, 2005
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Bit more info on my errors. I think the problem only occurs when BOTH the album name AND album art need to be updated. When i play a song that is missing both, only the album name is updated. if i play another song, then come back to the original song, it then updated the album art.
hope this helps!
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NickA - February 24, 2005
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Works pretty well. I can't get the drawer to work. And tehre are no instructions about what to do with the other files in the zip.
My BIGGEST complaint is that if you tell it to add the covers to iTunes, it adds them to the MP3 as Meta-data. This has REALLY screwed some things up for me. Plus, it makes the files larger. It would be SO much nicer if it could add te album artork to the album folder.
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NickA - February 24, 2005
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Works pretty well. I can't get the drawer to work. And tehre are no instructions about what to do with the other files in the zip.
My BIGGEST complaint is that if you tell it to add the covers to iTunes, it adds them to the MP3 as Meta-data. This has REALLY screwed some things up for me. Plus, it makes the files larger. It would be SO much nicer if it could add te album artork to the album folder.
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reverand - February 23, 2005
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as usual, need to start any comment with the usual superlatives... best widget ever! ;)
is there a listing of the hotkeys?
artwork is no longer being sent to iTunes on my machine. it was working great for a month, and now stopped. i checked settings, read-only attribute, restarted, etc. nothing. Album name is being set, but not artwork...
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Jeff - February 21, 2005
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Any chance you could work this up for Winamp, or just the default player? (don't know how difficult it is to grab the current music stream) Perhaps just allow the user to select the player in settings for those that use WMP or Winamp or iTunes or whatever). I love this widget. Too bad about it being a widget, and not a stand alone app too. I don't always want the overhead of the entire Konfabulator app going, would be nice to run this app alone when i need resources. Either way, nice app!!!!
jeff
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Jeff - February 21, 2005
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Any chance you could work this up for Winamp, or just the default player? (don't know how difficult it is to grab the current music stream) Perhaps just allow the user to select the player in settings for those that use WMP or Winamp or iTunes or whatever). I love this widget. Too bad about it being a widget, and not a stand alone app too. I don't always want the overhead of the entire Konfabulator app going, would be nice to run this app alone when i need resources. Either way, nice app!!!!
jeff
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Ratboy - February 17, 2005
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Awesome widget, but how do I get these pictures into my iTunes art thingy?
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Phil - February 15, 2005
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Good job! Great widget. Controls work fine. However, due to my strange tastes in music pretty often the cover art fails to appear. Maybe Amazon...
More importantly, the player pauses at the beginning of the track even though "Announce Track" is unchecked...
Overall very cool!
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stinky - February 14, 2005
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I really love your widget and I'm using it extensively.
But there is one thing about the new version that annoys me: iTunes Companion filling in album names where none are defined. Could you make a preferences entry to switch off this feature in the next version? Because, since most of the time I don't agree with the choice the Companion makes, I would rather do this myself.
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Knut August Johansen - February 13, 2005
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Geoff, Erik and Matthew, can you send me an email (knut@mac.com) and I will try to answer your questions by mail. This page has grown so big, so I prefer that.
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Matthew Lee - February 10, 2005
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I tried all iTunes related Windows widget here and I think this is the best!
However, it doesn't work fine...only the "next" and "previous" button work, "play/pause" button not working, no album cover displayed, not tag info displayed. Is there any way for me to download those previous version to try? I'm now using WinXP SP2, iTunes 4.7.1.30, iTunes Companion 2.5.3. All other iTunes widgets work completely fine, but ONLY iTunes Companion can load local album cover from library.
Thank you. ^_^
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Eric Harmon - February 8, 2005
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Great widget, makes me keep coming back to Konfabulator, however I do have an issue. I tell it to bring the Widget to front on track change, but nothing seems to happen when the track changes (besides current window losing focus). Am I missing something? I'm using Windows. Thanks for making this, the ability to pop over and tell me what is coming next is just icing on the cake.
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Geoff Gentry - February 8, 2005
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I downloaded this widget today at work and home and the options look more extensive when I uses it a work. But my real issue is this. I've loaded Artwork for all of my tracks in iTunes. But for one CD in particular your widget is displaying the wrong album art. It is showing the art for another CD by that artist. In iTunes it shows the correct album art. I have export to iTunes turned off in your widget settings.
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Knut August Johansen - February 7, 2005
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Thank you all for your comments.
Nathan, the shuffle problem is an issue with Konfabulator for Windows. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Do you have Export artwork to iTunes on? If so the pause is normal behaviour when embedding an image into a track.
Peter, it detects the process, so it shouldn't matter where you have it installed. Which system are you running?
Hitomi, my Widget reads the iTunes Music Library.xml file to get the tracks to be displayed in the drawer, so they must be in the library. Maybe I will include an option to use Applescript instead in a future version like I used to have in earlier versions. Are you using it on a Mac? I don't understand why the cover isn't displayed in vers. 2.5.2. Does it work for you in 2.5.3?
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Nathan - February 6, 2005
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Very useful widget. I noticed some of the problems mentioned before (shuffle button, last artist name etc., using art already in iTunes), but haven't read this one:
With this Widget on, iTunes briefly pauses a couple of seconds after each track is started. Anyone alse have that?
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Peter - February 5, 2005
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Does the widget detect the system process or does it have to be installed in the default C:Program..... ? I cant get it to work. Says I dont have itunes installed, yet i do.
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Hitomi - February 4, 2005
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Weird, 2.5.1 works nicely for me
2.5.2 don't work at all...no cover displayed :(
How can I have tracks displayed on drawer (does the tracks have to be absolutely in the library, mines are only in my iPod and i play them via iTunes)
Thanks for you job, I stay on 2.5.1 for now...
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Dennis - January 30, 2005
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This is an absolutely amazing widget and I love it. But I discovered a bug. I'm using Windows XP Pro, SP2, and I've noticed the the shuffle button is a little picky. When it's not in shuffle mode, and you click it to put it into shuffle mode, the button changes but it doesn't put iTunes into shuffle mode. Also, when you click the button again it doesn't go back to normal.
Does anyone else have this problem?
E-mail me with any tips, solutions of updates: thebigdeal.chaves@gmail.com
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Rey - January 29, 2005
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THe info box works. Apparently when it oppened on top or adjacent to another widget, it would close automatically.
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outrider04 - January 29, 2005
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Works as designed and solves the PITA of hunting for artwork for that one tune...I don't really need the track selectors, yet, but that will change I'm sure. Great piece of work, thanks man.
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Rey - January 29, 2005
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Works well, but it has a few things not working correctly in Windows Xp. When you ar ein the max size, you cannot get the information window (left arrow) that gives you infor on the album, library, etc... It works on the other sizes. Also, when it plays the next song, the track is correct but not the artist or the album (it shows the previous one). Other than that it's a great widget!!!
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Knut August Johansen - January 27, 2005
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Oops! I did some last minute changes and I didn't test the track announcing. Thanks for reporting this, it will be fixed in the next version.
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reverand - January 26, 2005
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First off, AWESOME widget. It's the sole reason i paid for Konfabulator!
One tiny issue with the latest version is that (at least under Windows), the track announcing announces the artist of the previous track, but the track title and album of the current track!
thanks so much for all your work!
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august - January 26, 2005
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great app...
you got the same name as me!
are you from Denmark?
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Walter - January 16, 2005
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This is a terrific widget. Apple's dashboard won't come up with something that small and convenient at the same time. You must have spend a lot of energy for track announcing although I can't imagine anyone really using that. The widget could still be more responsive. Sometimes it's just too busy searching for cover art so that it doesn't process mouse clicks. So, there are still one or two things that need improvement, but it definitely is the best iTunes widget around. Also, it got better and better with each upgrade. Keep up the good work.
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Matloc - January 14, 2005
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Excellent ! This is the best iTunes widget I've seen up to know.
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Grey Randall - January 11, 2005
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So far, this is my favorite, since I've been able to get it to work on my windows machine, and it's been the most consistent.. If I could only get it to recognize the fact that iTunes is indeed running on my Mac, I'd be happy!.
Ezra, yes, you can drag the image from iTunes onto iTunes Companion and a .bmp copy shows up. AND so long as there already is an image in the CDCovers folder, it doesn't keep trying to replace the image!!
now if I could just get this to work under Jaguar on my Mac, I'd be a happy camper.
(Knut, I sent you a screen capture of what happened with the version you mailed to me)
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Alexander - January 9, 2005
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This seem like a really nice widget, love the features.
However, like smoeone before me, I already took the time to find every last one of my album covers. Is it possible that this widget would take the folder.jpg from the directory in windows?
Because this is how many peoples library's are set out...
Thanks! Great widgets.
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Ezra - January 8, 2005
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Hey, great widget. Am I missing something though, or is there really no way to add the image once loaded to iTunes? So far I have only been able to add the image to iTunes when it can't find the image itself and makes me search through google. I almost prefer that. Is there no way of just letting us drag and drop, or clicking some button to have it go into iTunes?
Love the very basic part though of downloading cover. Other software hasn't worked as well. Thanks for the hard work!
-Ez
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Artful Dodger - January 6, 2005
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This is an excellent widget. Just handle the importing of album art into iTunes for Windows and this little beauty will be perfect.
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Knut August Johansen - January 6, 2005
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Rev Dr J Flash: You get the size of the image you are exporting to iTunes. Nothing I can do about that. If you export while the Widget size is medium or large, you will get a larger image in iTunes (unless you have dragged and dropped a small image onto the Widget).
Grey Randall: I am aware of the problem with Jaguar. There are some new javascript calls in Konfabulator that doesn't work with 10.2. If you want a version that works with Jaguar, just send me an email.
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Grey Randall - January 6, 2005
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Well, it sort of works with WIndows XP, It's rather annoying, however, when it keeps replacing existing artwork with new, or completely unrelated artwork.
However, Mac OS X 10.2.8, it keeps telling me that iTunes is not running, even though launching this widget starts iTunes up!
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Rev Dr J Flash - January 4, 2005
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got it working perfectly, only suggestion would be one that was requested before; make the picture fill the whole album art screen in itunes, right now i get a white border around the whole image which i can deal with but ideally having full size album art would be best. great job though!
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Chris E Boy - January 2, 2005
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Absolutely brilliant, after i found the "dont connect to internet" option which slowed things down quite a bit.
Keep up the good work!
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JohnB - January 1, 2005
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Excellent. Thank you
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anon - December 30, 2004
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does not seem to work?
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Knut August Johansen - December 30, 2004
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Thank you all for your comments. Maybe you could email me (knut@mac.com) if you have any problems, as I have taken up too much space here already?
John B: My next version will do that. Coming soon.
John W: If you are on a Mac, you can hold down option-shift while you choose Preferences to get a smaller window.
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JohnB - December 28, 2004
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Any chance of exporting artwork to iTunes with the Windows version?
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John W - December 26, 2004
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Sorry Knut - forget both of my commnets - just realised pressing enter sets the prefs. What an idiot! Now I WILL donate.
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John W - December 26, 2004
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Knut
Further to my comment above, I found your previous advice on this, followed the instructions and switched the relevant commands in the plist to 0 - but it hasn't altered the preference pane! And your upgrade hasn't either, I'm afraid. Is this some peculiarity to do with the the size of my screen?
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Noah - December 22, 2004
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Great Widget. Noticed one issue: When preference is set to hide while itunes is not playing, it will flash on and off for a second. This seems to be triggered by itunes cycling from artist name to track title even while paused.
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Ken - December 22, 2004
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Doesn't work. Widget waits a while between launching and appearing, and then claims that iTunes isn't installed on my computer (even though launching the widget causes iTunes to come to the foreground). It's pointed to the correct xml library file, but it's having trouble interfacing with iTunes (version 4.7.0.42 for windows) The empty jewelcase looks nice however. =(
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John W - December 20, 2004
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This is brilliant Knut and works perfectly except for one thing. When I click on preferences, the preferenc3e pane is too big for the screen and I cannot get to the 'okay' tab to set the prefs and clear the window. I know it's there because I did a screen grab. I get the pregfs window as far down as the opacity control - the rest is off the bottom of the screen. Can you help? Fix this for me and I promise I'll donate - I think its just great!
Cheers - John
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shelt - December 18, 2004
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This is a GREAT widget!! My only problem is that I have all of my music stored on my server's network (XP) drive. mp3's are stored in an Artist/Album folder structure, and every album folder has a folder.jpg cover art image.
The widget won't find ANY of my album covers, but it does parse the "songs on albums" and "albums by artist" info correctly. I can't figure out why it won't use my album art, and it's driving me nuts!! I end up dragging and dropping from my album folders on the 25% or so of songs that Amazon doesn't find (BTW, "turn off internet" has no effect - it still goes to Amazon!). Also, it doesn't recover in "hide widget mode" when I restart iTunes - it stays invisible... Thanks for the hard work!
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HarkJohnny - December 14, 2004
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I requested a size option to have a smaller version because I don't use any of the stuff that shows song info. I just want it to show a CD cover.
A bug i'm having with 2.5.1:
about every six seconds when iTunes isn't playing but is open the CD tray image (with no cover, just the inner tray one) pops up and then disappears. very annoying! all options are off except the two "hide" options.
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Richie - December 14, 2004
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Well, now it almost work :)
I mean, I can drag and drop the cover now and it looks nice but the widget don't "remember" the cover when I play the same song later. It writes the right file into the cdcovers folder but it don't show any cover if I don't drag it into it.
Amazon stuff doesn't work either :(
I'm running XP SP2 BTW.
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drew - December 14, 2004
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this is awesome, thank you!
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nature - December 11, 2004
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This widget is awesome but right now I'm feeling like not the sharpest knife in the kitchen. Is "Export Artwork to iTunes" also suppose to Import IN to iTunes. IF so, I'm doing something wrong. I've got about 40 quicktime windows open (with my new artwork showing up with Party Shuffle) but no artwork associated. If I drag it over from the CDCovers directory to the itunes window it works. An I missing something?
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aasun - December 9, 2004
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i like! very functional! it would be nice to remove the previous song(s)' cover, if the current song's artwork can't be found... otherwise i'm looking at cover artwork that isn't correct..
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Sven Rafferty - December 8, 2004
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Exactly what I was looking for! Looks like I plucked the CD onto the screen. I love it.
The author has been very responsive to my bugs and requests and I can see this becoming the best iTunes accessory widget after the mini-remote!
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DR - December 8, 2004
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It appears that the Windows zip file for this widget actually contains the Mac files (resources files, etc.). The zip file does contain an "iTunes Companion.kon" file, but no .widget file. Looks like other users have had similar problems. I know this will be a great Windows widget once this issue is resolved. I loved the widget when I ran it on my Mac. Hope the Windows side gets fixed soon.
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Davidoff - December 8, 2004
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Im dissapointed with this widget, used the version before and it worked well. Im having serious problems in importing the artwork to my iTunes player, it's a bug which displays a white image instead of showing the downloaded image. Real BUG
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Nick - December 6, 2004
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I dont know what the deal is with copyrights and stuff, but since the code is easily accessible, i just took a look at it and I found some of the bugs (changing the star rating doesn't work -- fixed that; the annoying fading in and out of the title which freezes up the widget)
some other bugs -- it lists track titles as undefined if it doesnt have them
when you go to medium or large size, the cover art slides into the wrong position
i think the extra animation aesthetics take away from the usability and practicality of this program -- there really isn't a need for the sliding and the fading in and out of stuff... sputnik did it well with the fade transition between images
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dehyde - December 6, 2004
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it has a lot of potential but somehow it all blows away.
first off, its buggy, for example every time i place the mouse pointer over the progress bar it starts flashing.
second, it does find even the most well-known albums.
third, when it searches, the inside disappears and only the window frame stays.
moreover, the shuffle doesnt return to regular play mode, the drawer has many bugs when it exits to the right (that is when the widget is at the left of the screen) and the buttons are very roughly placed.
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maxr - December 6, 2004
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This is a really great widget. I don't see anywhere else for bug reporting so... this is about v2.5 on Windows:
The widget does not properly hide itself when iTunes is not running or not playing when it is told to hide in the prefs. The new size feature has two probs on Windows: It relocates the widget to screen 1 when using multiple monitors and it does not properly position the album art (it's shifted to the left so only about 1/4 of the art is visible).
Thanks for a nice widget.
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AD++ - December 6, 2004
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Hi,
I like this software. Compared to Sputnik, which I´m using right now, I miss two things:
a) an even smaller size
b) support for uploading the cover, song title and band name, plus the stars on to a FTP server (as an html page with an non-changing filename to include that in one´s weblog).
c) Support for Amazon Germany.
d) Presenting the artwork stored only in iTunes (and not available on Amazon) doesn´t work.
iTunes, Konfabulator 1.8.2., Windows XP SP2
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Knut August Johansen - December 5, 2004
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pranav: I will upload a new version very soon with proxy support.
HarkJohnny: Half the size would be a little impractical. You wouldn't be able to read the text and I would have to redesign the whole thing.
Cliver: Thank you!
Gilbert: Streaming radio is working fine for me. Not all stations are sending out info about the tracks they are playing. I have fixed it now so the track info don't fade out when you have the info alway on.
Dan: As I wrote, I didn't test it on a PC before I posted it. I only have Virtual PC and it is painfully slow and almost impossible to test it with. But now I have had somebody to test it for me and I have fixed the cover art alignment and the drag and drop on Windows. I will upload a new version very soon.
Richie: I don't know why it doesn't work for you. At least the drag and drop will work in my next version.
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Richie - December 3, 2004
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Hi Knut.
This one would be my all time favorite widget if I could make it work. :(
I mean, the widgets run without any error but doesn't show any cover nor write anything into CDCovers folder (althrough it creates the folder). I'm not behind a a proxy or firrewall. Sputnik does retrieve the covers from Amazon so internet is avalable. Anyway the point of this widget to me is the image drop on cover... ...and it didn't work!!
I tried jpg, png, bmp... nothing. No image, no file in CD Covers folder. What am I doing wrong?
I'm using XP SP2 with Konfabulator 1.8.1.
Thx.
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Dan Kordik - December 3, 2004
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Wow this plugin is great! Mine is behaving a little strangely in Windows though-
-The cover is out of the frame at the larger two sizes. It is properly aligned for the small size.
-I am unable to drag and drop images to it.
But even with these issues, I still love this thing! Keep it up!
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Gilbert - December 2, 2004
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Knut,
Great update as always. The size options is great as said by another user. It's ability to know where to place itself is also great.
The streaming radio portion doesn't seem to be working. Not sure if this is by design since the change to have track info fade in and fade out. Now when I listen to internet radio, iTC only shows the blank jewel case.
Was there a specific reason that track info can no longer be displayed all the time? I actually preferred having it displayed all the time without having to mouseover the album cover.
Thanks again for a great widget!
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Cliver - December 2, 2004
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How Cool Is This Thing?!
Great way to dazzle and ammuse all your friends
Small enough to stick in the bottom corner of the screen and not get in the way, itunes controls and info appear on mouseover so no need for additional itunes remotes taking up space (unless you really like clutter).
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HarkJohnny - December 2, 2004
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I really like this one... but I'd like to see a scalable size option... I want it smaller... about half of the current size
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pranav - December 2, 2004
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hi! really cool stuff. However I m not able to get it to work . its not showing any info just a white blank picture :(. I am behind a proxy, could this be a problem ? And I m using Windows XP sp1, and k1.8.1
Also as mentioned by someone else before, I took cannot drag and drop covers :(
Thanks for help.
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Knut August Johansen - November 29, 2004
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Correction to my answer to tigerKR. You were right, the drag and drop doesn't work in Konfabulator 1.8. I hadn't noticed that. I think it will work again when Konfabulator is updated.
Gilbert: I can add that to my next version.
I have uploaded my new version. Hopefully it will be here soon. It has to be reviewed by the Konfabulator team first.
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Gilbert - November 28, 2004
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Knut,
Thanks for the response and looking forward to the next release.
A new behavior I have noticed, is that sometimes the widget changes transparency on its own. It usually happens if I pause iTunes or quit iTunes then when I relaunch, the widget is really transparent. The weird thing is that even if I open the preferences and change it to no transparency, it still is somewhat transparent (I usually keep it around 75%).
A feature request - I like the progress bar, but would prefer to not have the numbers appear, rather, just see a visual representation of where the song is. Perhaps offer an option to have the progress bar with or without numbers.
As before, thanks for a great widget that always gets positive comments, esp. from PC users.
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Knut August Johansen - November 24, 2004
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Rusty: I will look into that and maybe I will make it in a future version.
gena: It took a little bit longer than anticipated. I will post it this week.
ZenZen: If you look inside the CDCovers folder in your Pictures folder, can you find your missing covers there? Do you have the same setting "Include artist's name in image name" as you had when the images were created? I have made that setting default.
TigerKR: I have discovered that you have to drag the image from the top side and just a little bit into the cover for it to work. If you drag it further the exit is triggered even if you don't exit. I don't know why this is happening. I have added the fade in/out on track changes in my new version. Why the track info/controls appear without any mouse-over, I don't know. It has never happened to me.
Gilbert: I hope this doesn't happen with my new version.
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Rusty - November 22, 2004
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Hello Knut, Thank you for making such an awesome widget!
While using I realized that I have several misnamed songs or songs without album names that prevent Companion from finding the artwork. I searched google for the [wrong] song name and the artist and many lyrics sites came up and with this approach I could figure out the real song name and album name.
I thought it might be relatively simple to add the option for Companion to search a lyric website with any information in the songs tag and to at least open the site if not automatically correct the songs tag when the "no artist/no album name" appears. You would probably need a dialogue box to verify the change. Maybe you could get some code from the Lyrics widgets out there. It is probably obvious how powerful this would be! Thanks for such a great product!
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gena wenli - November 17, 2004
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where is the new version!???
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ZenZen - November 14, 2004
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I'm also having a cover problem....Maybe as Onatopa
Every new cover that I had in iTunes 4,7 aren't showing in the widget... But other cover show perfectly....
I'll be waiting for a new version.....
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TigerKR - November 12, 2004
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In addition to my previous comments from a couple of days ago, I am also experiencing the itunes re-launch problem, and also the controls and/or track info will spontaneously appear without my mouse-overs. I still think its a great widget, and I look forward to the next release.
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Niall Eoghan - November 12, 2004
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Thanks Knut! I'm waiting with baited breath for the release!
-Niall
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Gilbert - November 11, 2004
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Love this Widget! The only issue I am experiencing is that when I quit iTunes and am using iTunes Companion, iTunes will immediately re-launch. I then have to quit iTunes again, and then it stays closed.
I saw another user posted similar behavior, but don't know if the reason is known.
Thanks for the great work!
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TigerKR - November 9, 2004
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Nice widget! I downloaded it last night and have liked using it a lot. However, I have a bug report, and a feature request. •Bug report: I came across an album for which iTunes Companion could not download art. So I went onto Amazon, and found the art myself. I clicked on the cover (at Amazon) to get the larger version, and then I saved that file to my Desktop. I then tried to drag it onto the widget, but nothing happened. I tried it a few times, but no dice. •Feature request: I would like for the track info to fade in, remain on for 5 seconds, and then fade out as the track changes. Thanks!
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Knut August Johansen - November 2, 2004
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Onatopa: I am using iTunes 4.7 without any issues. If you send me an e-mail (knut@mac.com), maybe we can sort it out.
gena and Niall: I will add that option to my next version, and also the fade up function.
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Niall Eoghan - November 1, 2004
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I agree with Gena. Please add that option. Also, you know when the track is announced, the volume goes straight from low to the way it was before announcing? Well, if this is an option, could you have the volume gradually increase until it is at default? I know you can't make it fade up, but you can emulate that by having it increase incrementally. Thank You!
-Niall
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gena wenli - November 1, 2004
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this is a cool widget. can you please add an option in the announcing to just say the song, album, and artist with nothing inbetween? That would be cool! Thanks!
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Onatopa to Knut J. - October 30, 2004
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Another issue I'm having is that the drawer will not stay open. Again, I have NOT had any issues with this widget until I installed or upgraded to iTunes 4.7. Apple is not helping me with these issues. Could you pls advise?
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Onatopa to Knut J. - October 30, 2004
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I love this widget. ..however, things are goin' a bit goofy of late. It seems my artwork is getting very mixed-up with the sonfs that are actually playing. I've had a problem until I ungraded to iTunes 4.7. Are you hearing of the same from others Knut? I've asked them about and they are pointing their finger at something the widget is doing....comments welcomed soon!
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Knut August Johansen - October 30, 2004
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Crimson: If you don't see the OK/Cancel buttons you can press return for OK or command - . (period) for Cancel as you can with most dialogs. No need to restart the computer. And as I said, you get a smaller Preferences window if you hold down option-shift while choosing Preferences. I thought the new Konfabulator would open a smaller Preferences window automatically on smaller screens, therefore I removed the function I had that did that. My next version will have a smaller window. I think I misunderstood what he ment. I thought he ment that the window should close itself after clicking in a check box.
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Crimson - October 29, 2004
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I just downloaded it and tried to change the preferences. The Preferences window opens to *full screen size* and offers no way to close it! I have to restart my computer. I don't get your comment, "it is not supposed to go away after making check box adjustments" Why in the world would I want the prefs pane to remain open all the time? Or as the previous poster said "am I missing something?"
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Knut August Johansen - October 24, 2004
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Thank you, guys.
Arvid, thank you for reporting this. I thought the non-english character problem was fixed. Can you give an example of a track that makes it crash? I am working on a new version, and I hope to have that fixed before i release it.
Brian, it is not supposed to go away after making check box adjustments. If you don't see the OK/Cancel buttons, hold down option-shift while you choose Preferences, then you will get a smaller preference panel. I will make it smaller in the next version.
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Brian Pearson - October 24, 2004
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This is an excellent widget. I'm haviving a small problem though. The preference pane doesn't go away after making check mark adjustments_ No OK or cancel buttons. Am i missing something??
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Arvid Kahl - October 17, 2004
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Really nice widget, it just has some serious issues concerning non-english characters. That mostly results in the widget crashing, or sometimes not displaying anything. Otherwise, it's pretty neat. I hope that the language issue will be fixed, cause that is certainly keeping alot of non-english users from constantly using (and manually restarting ;) ) this awesome widget.
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isb - September 30, 2004
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I use it all the time and... I love and !
I just need now to adjust a smaller size just sometime...
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isb - September 30, 2004
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I use it all the time and... I love and !
I just need now to adjust a smaller size just sometime...
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Niall Eoghan - September 17, 2004
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Thanks, that works really well!
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Knut August Johansen - September 7, 2004
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Niall, I have made a new version where you can choose among different phrases. Also fixed it so it doesn't spell words. I will post it this week.
Thanks, dennis! Do you still have the problems if you only have my widget open and no other iTunes controller? And are you working on 10.3.5 and Konfabulator 1.7.1?
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dennis - September 6, 2004
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great work!! highly recommended.
however, i have some issues. (i think its just me).
1) why does it always say 'no artist/album name' ? its blockin my picture!
2) i cant seem to get the play button and all that working already. i have itunes mini remote on as well.do i off that?
thanks! other than that.. its great!
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Niall Eoghan - September 6, 2004
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after using the annunciation for 2 days, I have some suggestions:
have the mac say the artist, then the album (i.e. "You're listening to <$title$> by <$artist$> from <$album$>"). you also might want to include, in the prefs, a feature to specify the phrases between the title, artist, and album. also, I've noticed when it can't pronounce a word, it spells it. all the other track annoucing widgets persist with the word, even when they don't know how to say it. is there a workaround to this? also, will you please include some sample code that I can put in the KON file to make the mac pronounce certain phrases differently. by this I mean if iTunes came to the name "bubba" as the artist, it would use the KON file to pronounce it "booba", because it found a condition there that told it to. if this is too much trouble, I fully understand. let me say now this is the greatest iTunes widget I've ever seen. (make that the greatest itunes anything I've ever seen!) thank you !!!!!!!!! if there was
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Niall Eoghan - September 4, 2004
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thank you!!!! now I can close that worthless "itunes remote" widget with opacity 0% I only used for announcing. I also seem to be having plastique's problem with itunes never shutting down. I can live w/ it though... Thanks!!!
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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plastique - September 4, 2004
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Yes, I'm still having problems with iTunes restarting on its own, and I've closed all other iTunes-related widgets, so I'm only assuming it's this widget--I'm really not sure.
In any case, I think it would be a nice option to have the widget disappear when iTunes isn't playing, as a couple of the other iTunes widgets which I run have that option and it would be nice for them to all have matching behavior. I really appreciate your responsiveness and willingness to take input on features--thank you!
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Knut August Johansen - August 31, 2004
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askfee, it doesn't do that on my system. I have monitored it for some time now. Are you running 10.3.5 and Konfabulator 1.7.1?
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askfee - August 31, 2004
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after testing i found out that it sucks memory.
after every cover it gets my available memory gets less.
memory isnt given free again :((
is it a bug?
but at all the best widget i found for itunes.
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Knut August Johansen - August 30, 2004
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Thank you, Niall. I uploaded a new version with track announcing on Saturday. Hopefully it will be here soon.
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Niall Eoghan - August 26, 2004
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This is the best iTunes widget ever!!! There's on ething it needs... track announcing. I tried to take apart the "iControl" widget and stitch it up w/ iTC, but my feeble programming skills just cldn't make it work... ;-) PLEASE ADD THIS!!!
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Knut August Johansen - August 26, 2004
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Thank you very much, Ian. It makes me happy when others find it useful. That is what makes me want to develop it further.
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Ian R. - August 24, 2004
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I just wanted to thank you for this widget. Widget creation seems to be a pretty thankless job around here. I've really enjoyed the addition of finding album covers for streaming channels. When I re-live my youth by listening to club977.com, I enjoy seeing the images that go along with each song they play.
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Knut August Johansen - August 18, 2004
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Thanks, Sascha.
1: As you already know, my next version will have that option.
2: I’ve had several requests for bigger cover art, so I’ll see if I get the time to make an option to choose different sizes soon. (Hint: If more people did what you did, then I could justify spending more time on functions I don’t need myself ;-) ).
3: I have put this on my list, but I can’t promise anything.
Thanks again for your donation. I really appreciate it.
plastique, do you still have problems with vers. 2.2.3 not letting iTunes shut down? I have made some modifications to the code in my next version, so hopefully it will let iTunes shut down for you. Do you want it to hide itself when you pause or stop playpack even if it will let iTunes quit?
@a, Press command-shift-spacebar to bring the Widget to the front.
This comment applies to version 2.2.3 |
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@a - August 17, 2004
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I was wondering if you can assign a HotKey to bring the app to the front. I wasn't able to figure that one out. Thanks.
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plastique - August 15, 2004
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Thanks for including the "pop-up" option on track change. However, one more request; could you please set an option for hiding the widget when iTunes is not *playing*? One of my iTunes widgets (maybe this one, I'm running a couple of others) won't let iTunes shut down, and that means this widget won't disappear like the others (progress bar, iTunes display) when I pause or stop playback. Since you have a similar option for hiding when iTunes is off, I hope you can include this feature easily.
This comment applies to version 2.2.3 |
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Sascha Tausend - August 12, 2004
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Great Widget!!
I run Version 2.2.3, I have some requests.
1. Option to turn of the search on the internet. I really prefer to scan my own covers and i don't like things opening connections in the background.
2. Size option, not needed to have it fully scaleable, but at least 3 fixed sizes would be nice.
3. Nice to have: Turn over the jewel case to see the rear cover, or some way to display more than one cover (booklet images) if present in iTunes.
In case you like to make the covers as acurate as possible, here are some Industry Standards for cd covers (metric in mm is more acurate than inches):
CD Cover: 121mm x 120mm / 343p x 340p @72dpi
Tray Card w/o Spine: 138mm x 117.5mm / 391p x 333p @ 72dpi
Thanks for the great Widget, Donation is on it's way.
This comment applies to version 2.2.3 |
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Knut August Johansen - August 3, 2004
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Sorry about that. It used to work, but I have been busy getting the radio streaming to work and then I have messed it up a little bit. I will upload a fix to that very soon.
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ScalaP - August 3, 2004
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ckicking on the artist name do not work :(
"Click on the people icon to show all artists in your library sorted alphabetically. When you click on an artist it will start to play the first track on the first album by that artist. "
try to fix the bug, however it's great :D
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Knut August Johansen - July 14, 2004
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I see that the "itunes re-open bug" have started to happen again after I added the hide/show widget function.
ShareCrazy: Sharing is good :-). It’s fixed in the next version.
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Knut August Johansen - July 14, 2004
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Åke and Kananga: I don‘t have much control over the preference panel design, so to make it smaller I have to hide some of the items there. It’s hard to choose which one to hide, because people have asked for all the controls. My next version (which I will post this week) checks the available screen height and hides the following controls if there’s not enough space:
Show progress bar when the cursor is over the cover.
Show track, artist and album names when the cursor is over the cover.
Show control panel when the cursor is over the upper part of the cover.
Their values can still be changed if you open the plist file (~/Library/Prefrences/Konfabulator/iTunes.companion.widget.plist) in a text editor. They are called: progInfo, trackInfo and controlPanel respectively. Change the values from 1 to 0 to turn the options off.
Krempa: Strange, my preferences says "artist’s name", but I have changed it from curly to straight quote now, so it hopefully will display right for everyone. I se
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ShareCrazy - July 9, 2004
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This is a great widget, but for one problem. Most of the time I listen to shared libraries from other machines. The widget does not seem to be able to find the cover art or download, nor can it get album tracks. Hope this feature will be coming soon.
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Åke - July 7, 2004
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Please, redesign the preferense window. As for now i can't save as my 15" imac screen can't show the whole window. Besides that it is a great widget.
This comment applies to version 2.2 |
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krempa - July 6, 2004
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version 2.2 seems to be very nice, however there are some reproducable bugs:
. the widget crashes, if artist or album name has special chars like "é" in it (i include the artist's name in the cdcover images)
. the "itunes re-open bug" is still present
. in the preferences it should say "include artist's name" instead of "include artist,Äôs" name
i'm working on 10.3.3, if that helps. keep up the good work on this widget!
This comment applies to version 2.2 |
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Knut August Johansen - July 4, 2004
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Correction: It doesn't search only 5 albums, it searches the first 5 pages of information. Each page contains 10 albums.
This comment applies to version 2.2 |
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ZX81 - June 30, 2004
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Something wrong here.. no artwork is displayed!
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Kim-A - June 30, 2004
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i've got the same bug now after konfab1.7. It's not downloading new coverart, just displaying the previous albums coverart. i think it's a bug ;)
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MacFly - June 29, 2004
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Really Nice
What would be great is to make the cover bigger !
and i have a probleme when switching from an album with cover in iTuns to an album without cover the previously displayed cover stays ... is it a bug ?
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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BC - June 28, 2004
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I just downloaded 2.1.9, but the "About" screen says 2.1.8----?
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Kim-A - June 27, 2004
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This is an excellent widget, but theres one change i would like (i do it myself usually, so it's no biggie): instead of saving the file in a fixed location, i'd rather have it save the file in the same folder as the mp3. Since collections are ordered by artist - albums anyhow, this would be a nice choice, and one has everything regarding that track/album in one place.
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Jon - June 25, 2004
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Excellent widget I use it all the time for my music library. You are always prompt with updates too... Thanks!
Two requests, I would love to use this widget while I am using online radio. Unfortunately, it will not look up a graphic, or display the song title correctly. Even if the title is correctly viewed in iTunes. iTunes Radio Lover sometimes works... But I would love to use fewer widgets.
One other thing, would it be possible to somehow add a click directly into iTunes music store for the song/album?
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Brian - June 21, 2004
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Suggestion:
Perhaps offer different skins, or rather, a lack thereof. The only thing that I use this widget for is for displaying cover art, none of the fancy stuff. If it could just set just the cover art on the desktop with a subtle drop shadow (no CD case) and just fade in and out rather than sliding to the right, that would be perfect, imo.
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Plastique - June 16, 2004
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Have you considered addding a bezel-type function where the widget pops to the top when the track changes and displays the art and track name? It would be a nice option...
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Toby Baier - June 15, 2004
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Great widget! Can you add Walmart.com for cover searches? Walmart has far better scans of covers than amazon has. Check it out!
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Plastique - June 15, 2004
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This widget is just great! Only suggestion I have is a 'hide when iTunes is not running' instead of closing the widget altogether (so it appears/reappears with iTunes). It would also be nice to have a size option for the widget, so it doesn't get tiny at high resolutions.
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Rainer Schmid - June 14, 2004
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Good widget. Best cover loading iTunes control I have seen so far.
Unfortunately I listen a lot to streaming radios and this widget doesn't work with it. I believe it shouldn't be too hard to extend it to support streaming as well (an example of how this can be done is the radio lover widget, which does not work with "normal" files).
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Kananga - June 13, 2004
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This is a great widget. I especially dig how it can export to iTunes. Just one suggestion: redesign the preferences window -- it's too tall to view on my 12" PowerBook.
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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dp - June 5, 2004
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the facility to select amazon.com or amazon.co.uk would be great.
i just bought some cd's today and the widget came up with the wrong album cover (whereas when i ran Clutter (by Sprote Research), which lets you select amazon.co.uk, the correct cover was found.
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dp
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luxuryluke - June 4, 2004
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Beautiful. Absolut beautiful. Please fix the auto-iTunes relaunch problem. I can never log-out or restart because it causes iTunes to relaunch everytime i quit iTunes.
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dp - June 3, 2004
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RE: last post by david
- http://free-st.htnet.hr/crni/Samurize/CDCoversBOX.gif
looks fantastic!
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dp
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David - June 1, 2004
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This is a very cool mini app. I would like to just make one suggest Knut August Johansen, that in the next revision that you could make it look more like this app.
http://free-st.htnet.hr/crni/Samurize/CDCoversBOX.gif
Bye.
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David - June 1, 2004
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This is a very cool mini app. I would like to just make one suggest Knut August Johansen, that in the next revision that you could make it look more like this app.
http://free-st.htnet.hr/crni/Samurize/CDCoversBOX.gif
Bye.
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dp - June 1, 2004
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Awesome widget - I actually register my copy of Konfabulator because of it!
I'd like the option of the widget not creating images files of the cd covers.
in my pictures/cd covers folder i have 100's of images (all ~180K PNG files).
The option of switching this off or selecting a much smaller filesize would be great.
Also the playback control buttons on the widget are hard to click - you have to get the mouse of the exact (white part) of the button... would be better to have a larger hotspot
anyway brilliant work so far!
This comment applies to version 2.1.8 |
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Leenus - May 29, 2004
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This is the error I get sometimes: http://leenus.com/images/companion_error.jpg
This comment applies to version 2.1.8 |
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Michael Sallee - May 25, 2004
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Any chance of iTunes inet radio support??
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Knut August Johansen - May 25, 2004
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Thanks, Mike. The reason is that the images it fetches from Amazon are only 130 x 130 pixels. If you know how to open the .kon file, you can change ImageUrlMedium to ImageUrlLarge and you will get images that are 300 x 300 pixels. Or you could send me an e-mail, and I can do it for you.
This comment applies to version 2.1.8 |
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Mike - May 24, 2004
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Cool widget... I use it primarily as an album art exporter straight to iTunes. The one concern I have is that it exports the album art as a pretty small file into iTunes--it doesn't fill the whole album art space. Any reason why, and any workaround to fix?
Thanks for the nifty widget!
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Leenus - May 23, 2004
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Sweet update! Now I can add artwork. Thanks a lot.
I sometimes get the an error that goes something like:
jada jada script error: expected".
I can't reproduce the error right now, but I'll submit the exact message when it happends again.
This comment applies to version 2.1.8 |
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Leenus - May 22, 2004
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It still doesn't work for me. Well, I'll just wait for the update.
Since I installed iTunes Companion, I've stopped using Synergy. There's just one feature I miss. Sometimes a song is playing and I want to know the name of the song and the artist. I'd love a keyboard shortcut that brings iTunes companion in front of other windows. Is this possible?
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Old_Mac_User - May 22, 2004
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Concept is GREAT. For this to be my preferred image displaying app it needs two things: 1. Ability to increase the size of the displayed CD cover, and 2. display in the artwork's aspect ratio. Most of my album covers are non-standard aspect ratios and this widget changes them to the standard aspect ratio.
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Knut August Johansen - May 19, 2004
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Leenus and Clasu. If you play another track and then go back to the track that you have manually added cover art to, it will display the cover art you dropped on it. I made it so that if you change your mind and don't drop the image it will display the previous image (or nothing if it was empty) when you drag the image out again, but it mistakenly does that even if you drop the image. I have fixed that in my new version which I will post this week.
Marco, that would be nice, but the widget can’t start itself if it’s not running. To do that it must be in some sort of idle state. Maybe I will do that later.
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Clasu - May 19, 2004
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I have the exact same problem as leenus. not being able to manually ad cover art...
This comment applies to version 2.1.7 |
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Leenus - May 15, 2004
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Great widget, but I'm having problems with adding cover art work manually. I drag an image on to the widget and it displays allright. But when I release the mouse button it disapears. Am I doing something wrong here?
This comment applies to version 2.1.7 |
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Marco - May 8, 2004
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Thanks Kurt!
An already excellent widget just got better!
I like the option to quit the widget when iTunes quits (I think I requested that feature?!). How about starting the widget (if it is not running) when iTunes is started???
Thanks & keep up with the good work.
Marco
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Knut August Johansen - May 5, 2004
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That’s strange, DarylF2. It works for me. I renamed a track I have to album name ""Rank"" and artist name The Smiths and it fetches the right album cover art from Amazon for me.
robmadry, I am running iTunes 4.5 together with iTunes Companion with no problems.
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robmadry - May 5, 2004
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Is iTunes Companion not recognizing or working with iTunes 4.5? I'm trying to discern if it's just my system or if it's a general "not working yet with a new version" issue. Help me Obi Wan Johansen! I don't think I can sit at my desk and work for 8 hours without iTunes Companion... <G> Thanks for all your hard/great work--
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robmadry - May 5, 2004
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Is iTunes Companion not recognizing or working with iTunes 4.5? I'm trying to discern if it's just my system or if it's a general "not working yet with a new version" issue. Help me Obi Wan Johansen! I don't think I can sit at my desk and work for 8 hours without iTunes Companion... <G> Thanks for all your hard/great work--
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DarylF2 - May 3, 2004
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I found one more bug! They're getting pretty rare now. :-)
I have an album titled ""Rank"" by The Smiths (the inner double quotation marks are actually part of the title). iTunes Companion appears to have trouble with these double quotation marks; it doesn't crash, but it doesn't display the album art, even after I drag to correct JPEG on it.
This is my only album causing any problems with iTunes Companion now.
This comment applies to version 2.1.6 |
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emeff - April 29, 2004
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nothing more to say: perfect, perfect, perfect
This comment applies to version 2.1.6 |
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wbe - April 25, 2004
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This is a great widget. I have a suggestion for your consideration: some people prefer to pick an album by visual appearance and find the logical/schematic iTunes skin to be impersonable, cold and difficult to navigate. Would you ever consider making this interface able to search for an album by appearance? There are alot of non-computer types out there using computers, and if this widget allowed searching by album cover they'd be happier-
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Knut August Johansen - April 21, 2004
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ib, I will add hotkeys in my next version.
mpmchugh, it actually consumes much more resources when iTunes is not running. On my system when iTunes is playing it uses about 1-2%, max 3.9% when it is idle, and a peak of 14,9% when it changes cover. It checks iTunes every 5 seconds and I think that this is a good compromise between cpu usage and function.
This comment applies to version 2.1.6 |
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mpmchugh - April 21, 2004
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I love this widget, though I really only use if for displaying album covers, but even when iTunes isn't running it's always sucking 13-15% CPU.
Is there any way to make it consum less system resources?
This comment applies to version 2.1.6 |
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ib - April 18, 2004
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love it. i wish it only were visible when iTunes is running. add hotkeys (like command-space to play/pause) and i'll trash all the other iTunes widgets.
radio support would be great too
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Knut August Johansen - April 16, 2004
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Thank you, guys. I have uploaded a new version that is compatible with Konfabulator 1.6. It will be here soon.
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David Sinclair - April 16, 2004
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I confirm that it doesn't seem to work anymore with Konfabulator 1.6. Hopefully it will be fixed soon; I really like this widget.
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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Leonardo Cecchini - April 16, 2004
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I have just downloaded the new vs of Konfabulator (1.6) & IiT Companion is no longer loading album cover. Is it just me?
PS. A useful added feature (if possible) would be to see in which playlist(s) the current song is and/or if it could be added to a chosen playlist
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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Edgar Rodriguez - April 10, 2004
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Amazing widget, it works wonder, and with the fast drawer option works even better, i tried many itunes app, and this is one of the best
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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Mattnh - April 9, 2004
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It's great and works fine with iTunes.
Thanx
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luxuryluke - April 7, 2004
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5 stars, finally someone that had time came up with a itunes widget for the rest of us. Yes sputnik was okay and did what it said, but this widget has grown and grown, and is a staple for me. Please fix the special characters such as apostrophe and quotes in id3 tags still auto quit this widget. but still a strong KO to other contenders. this is QUITE useful!
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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Shapoopy - March 13, 2004
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First off, this is the best widget ever made, and it does everything I'd ever want it to do.
That said, I have one small problem.
The widget is not letting me, under any circumstances, quit iTunes. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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Robert Hemphill - March 10, 2004
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All my previous problems with this widget have been addressed in full. Easily the best CD Cover widget around!
I love it! Great job!
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Ayman - March 8, 2004
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Again man, Awesome widget!!! Could you make it work better when using Rendezvous sharing. It used to work great, but now it refuses to. Please take a look at how much CPU it uses as well.
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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@a - March 5, 2004
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Fantastic update. Fixed all my problems with the special characters and side panel not displaying anything. This makes my other widgets look sad and pathetic. Weeeeee for iTunes Companion!
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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Mike M - March 4, 2004
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excellent tool, sometimes it momentarily halts iTunes, the song will stop then continue...i wonder, issue on my end or yours? i'm on DSL,. it seems to do it when loading album info other than the cover art.
thanks!
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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N. Langel - March 3, 2004
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Thanks, it's a fantastic widget, it really looks great, and saves me a lot of time looking or scanning for pictures for the records I rip !
This comment applies to version 2.1.4 |
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Knut August Johansen - February 27, 2004
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Thanks to everyone for your comments. I have just uploaded a new version, and hopefully it won't crash for you. It would be nice if you could note down which artist/album names you have that make it crash and send that information to me at knut@mac.com. Then maybe I can trace down your problem.
This comment applies to version 2.1.3 |
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David Sinclair - February 27, 2004
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A very useful widget. I can confirm others comments about it unexpectedly quitting, though. It does it consistently for several albums. It seems to do so when any diacritical characcters or quote characters are in the artist or album names.
I'd guess that has to do with including those characters in the file path, so I'd suggest filtering them out. Better to omit them than to cause failure.
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mpmchugh - February 22, 2004
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oops... guess it does get art from the library first... but it still quits/disappears from time to time.
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mpmchugh - February 22, 2004
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Very nice feature set, but it quits on me as well.
The one thing it's missing, like the rest of its ilk, is the ability to read the album art from the mp3/aac file itself rather than going to Amazon, which is often wrong or unavailable.
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Martin Elburn - February 20, 2004
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Great, but it just keeps closing all by itself! I've got all the artwork together in one place, sometimes it finds it, sometimes not.
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Håkan - February 16, 2004
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The best artwork widget!
My only problem is that it sometimes crashes when the Swedish characters å ä ö are in the album name.
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Pigbat - February 12, 2004
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Great Widget, but it won't work for me or my friend for some reason. (I'm running OS X 10.3.2 on a G5.) At best, it'll run until the end of a song and when the art changes, it crashes. I really want this widget to work. It would be my best friend forever and ever. Please fix the bugs!!
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jim c - February 12, 2004
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new to widgets. this is a keeper.
couple things i would like have been mentioned before but:
- way to control display size of jewel case. want to make it larger. (by pixels, or sliding scale).
- doesn't work over my network of shared libraries. am i missing something?
keep up the great work.
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Knut August Johansen - February 9, 2004
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Marco, it is possible to do that, but I like to be able to start to play music from the Widget without having to switch to iTunes. At the same time, I like your idea. Maybe I will make it as an option in a future version.
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Knut August Johansen - February 9, 2004
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Thank you all for your kind words.
krempa, I feel a little embarrassed for not having fixed this properly. I am Norwegian, so I have æ, ø and å's in my library and also some Swedish songs with ä and ö. But those special characters are making my hair turn grey. I just found out that if I change the order of which character gets converted first, it behaves differently. I think I have fixed it now.
DarylF2, I have a PayPal donate link in the "About iTunes Companion" document that comes with my widget. Donations are of course very welcomed.
@a, having a large library will make it slower. You could try to check the "Faster drawer display" if you don't have any special characters in your library to see if that helps, if you haven't already tried that.
Mike, I will fix that in the next version.
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Mike Wessler - February 8, 2004
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Great Widget! But... it crashes if the "use artist in image name" option is checked and the artist has quotes in his/her name: 'Willie "THE LION" Smith' makes the widget go "poof!"
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@a - February 8, 2004
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Awesome update Knut! I'm able to see the contents of the Control Panel drawer now. Only it's extremely slow for some reason when updating. Does having a large iTunes library make it slower?
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DarylF2 - February 8, 2004
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I'd like to contribute to Knut via PayPal for his tremendous work on this widget... Anyone know how to do this?
It would be nice if this official web site had a "donate" link available for those authors with PayPal or similar accounts.
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Marco - February 8, 2004
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Knut,
you have done a terrific job - your widget is an absolute MUST!!
I was wondering whether it would be possible to let the empty CD disappear from the desktop as long as iTunes is not playing any song.
What do you think?
Anyway Keep up with the good work.
Cheers,
Marco
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krempa - February 8, 2004
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actually there is still one noticable problem with characters like "ä", "ö" and "ü" (i.e. arvo pärt's tabula rasa), where the cover can't be dragged onto the jewel case. maybe you can fix this too in your next revision? thanks again for your time.
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krempa - February 8, 2004
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finally, the special character support is working without any glitches, so this widget became even better now - thanks a lot for your efforts, knut! your awesome work is really appreciated!
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tommy@ebbesen.as - February 4, 2004
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Nice peace of work.!!
Er du norsk? Har problemer med at bilder jeg legger inn blir strekt hvis den ikke passer inn.
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Knut August Johansen - February 3, 2004
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DarylF2, I uploaded 2.1.2 on Sunday, so it shouldn't be long ( I have uploaded 2.1.3 today). Expect it to be here at the end of the week.
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DarylF2 - February 3, 2004
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Any idea when version 2.1.2 will be ready? I've temporarily stopped playing my Sinéad songs, and I miss her... :-)
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@a - January 30, 2004
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I forgot to add that when I play a song that has special characters, like Sinéad O'Connor or Björk for example, the widget crashes. It just quits and it will not reopen unless I switch to another non-special character song.
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@a - January 30, 2004
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Thanks for responding Knut. I don't have 'Faster drawer display' checked. It is unchecked currently since I have special characters in my library, like Björk. Unfortunately my problem exists at all times, not only when listening to tracks that have special characters. For instance, I'm listening to Nick Drake right now and all 3 errors show up in the 'Control Panel.' Hopefully you can resolve this issue in a future release. Keep up the great work!
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Knut August Johansen - January 29, 2004
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@a, iTunes Companion pulls the info from the xml file if you have checked for Faster drawer display, otherwise it uses AppleScript to pull the info from your main iTunes Library. Do you get the 'error' if you uncheck Faster drawer display? Are there any special characters in your artist names/album names?
DarylF2, you're right. I didn't test it enough. I have fixed this in version 2.1.2.
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Dan Sroka - January 29, 2004
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Wow. This is exactly what I wanted. Unobtrusive, elegant. I love that it doesn't automatically add the images to the MP3 files (which bugs me). I do wish Amazon had more of my odder music titles (who doesn't carry Solex?? ;-)) Great job all around.
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DarylF2 - January 22, 2004
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Gosh what a great widget!
I have a bug report that is similar to that of krempa from January 1, 2004. Whenever iTunes Companion is running when a song by "Sinéad O'Connor" (note the accented 'é' character) is played, iTunes Companion crashes. Only songs by this artist crashes iTunes Companion, but this is the only artist in my collection with an accented character in her name.
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@a - January 22, 2004
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I can't get the 'Tracks on this album,' 'Albums by this Artist' or 'All artists in Library' features to work. It keeps saying 'error' underneath the title. Do I have to manually create a Playlist so that iTunes Companion can find all the songs? Where does this widget pull the info from? I'm thinking my iTunes Library.xml file might be corrupt. Anyone else having similar problems? Other than this little snag, I think it's a great widget!
This comment applies to version 2.1.1 |
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Knut August Johansen - January 21, 2004
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Lots of comments here. I‘ve been a little busy lately. Thank you all. I am happy that so many of you find my Widget useful.
kelly, it does search the mp3/aac file for artwork before downloading.
Jon, you can set rating on ratings meter. Just click and drag on the dots/stars to reveal/hide stars.
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DarylF2 - January 21, 2004
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Correction! iTunes Companion does support saving the cover art with the artist name! Unfortunately, the maximum rating is only 4 stars, but I've upped my rating to this maximum.
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DarylF2 - January 21, 2004
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Great, except that it doesn't use the artist name when storing the CD cover art, so all "Greatest Hits" albums use the same cover art (that of the first "Greatest Hits" CD played with iTunes Companion active). Fix this and I'd up the rating to 5 stars.
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kelly - January 18, 2004
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i like this because it seems to be the least buggy widget for me, the only real improvement i could see would be to get it to search the mp3 or aac or whatever file for artwork before it downloads a seperate image file.
This comment applies to version 2.1.1 |
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David - January 11, 2004
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Nice Widget, would still like the option to make the cover art bigger...
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Jon - January 5, 2004
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My application of choice for itunes.
What I like:
- Awesome all in one tool!
- Continuously being updated (Thanks)!
What I would like to see:
- Better cover art search engine. I would like this because it doesn't work for many Asian or European titles.
- Ability to set rating on ratings meter. (Surprised me to see it)
- A selectable id3 tags update option for cover art or other information.
- Please read the comment by luxryluke!!!
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krempa - January 1, 2004
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frankly, this widget is just totally awesome!
i've noticed only one slight problem that is quite annoying: if i drag an image over the jewel case, it's not accepted, when the artist or album name include special chars like "é", "ö" etc.
would be great, if you could implment recognition for these characters too!
btw, another "potential" issue: since a ":" character in an album name is changed into a "/" of any image in the cdcovers folder, there may come up some compatibility problems, when konfabulator is ported to windows, where "/" won't be allowed in any filename. just my two cents... cause in future i'd love to use itunes companion on windows too and due to my lazy nature i just want to copy my cdcover folder from mac to pc :)
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krempa - January 1, 2004
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frankly, this widget is just totally awesome!
i've noticed only one slight problem that is quite annoying: if i drag an image over the jewel case, it's not accepted, when the artist or album name include special chars like "é", "ö" etc.
would be great, if you could implment recognition for these characters too!
btw, another "potential" issue: since a ":" character in an album name is changed into a "/" of any image in the cdcovers folder, there may come up some compatibility problems, when konfabulator is ported to windows, where "/" won't be allowed in any filename. just my two cents... cause in future i'd love to use itunes companion on windows too and due to my lazy nature i just want to copy my cdcover folder from mac to pc :)
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Brian - December 31, 2003
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Love it, still no export to iTunes. That would be the sweetest ever.
Quicktime processing should definately be a background process.
If you could pull it off, I also would "register" for it!
This comment applies to version 2.1 |
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Debiko - December 30, 2003
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I really like the widget... but.... I'm REALLY getting a little tired of it opening the Quicktime Player everytime it changes the album art! Did I miss something? I'd like to be able to reposition the widget when in the "Floating" mode.
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Daniel Dickison - December 23, 2003
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Great improvements. Like some others here, export to iTunes stopped working. By doing some debugging I see this: NSAppleScriptErrorMessage = "QuickTime Player got an error: An error of type -9995 has occurred."; This happens on the copy command but I can't figure out why. Hope you can find a cure for this, as it would be cool to be able to export any kind of image.
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Tim McCracken - December 23, 2003
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I found that Quicktime began to launch with Album Covers picts, and then it still would not import the coverinto I-tunes. I don't know if that was the intent or not. But I reverted to the earlier verision. But still great.
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Ayman - December 23, 2003
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This is an awesome widget. I love being able to see my album covers on my desktop. I would like to be able to click on the widget and it display a larger version of the cover as iTunes does. Also, I find that it uses a few too many CPU cycles, probably because it keeps checking with iTunes to see if anything has changed. Could you maybe put a bar that lets me choose how frequently I want to interact with iTunes. Check out Synergy. Also, when an album has a lot of songs, there is no scrollbar in the drawer that lets me see past the first 6 songs. Once again, I love this widget.
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Robert Hemphill - December 22, 2003
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Still very buggy.
1. The drawer is way too sensitive to this auto choose side thing. It doesn't work right. It will refuse to open on the left even though there is ample room for it to do so. It's just gets confused and will neither open left or right. Lose this annoying "feature" and let the user choose the drawer's side.
2. When the drawer is on the right, the arrow overlays for current tracks still print on the left side over nothing.
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Ken Winke - December 22, 2003
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Great widget still... One thing which seems odd from the 2.0 version. Album art lookup fails (no "Cover art not available" message) when the playlist is on a remote computer over the network...one cool feature of iTunes. It doesn't display anything in the spot. Art is displayed from the local machine's playlist. I think this worked in 2.0.
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Knut August Johansen - December 16, 2003
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Thank you for your comment, luxuryluke. It does points 1, 2 and 3 on your list now. Or do you mean to say that those don't work for you either? I will look at the possibility to include search at allmusic.com in a future version. I plan to make an image with ”Artwork not available" and a message that says you can scan it yourself.
I will post an update this week where the export function hopefully will work for you all.
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luxuryluke - December 14, 2003
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Please update this widget as the other two itunes coverart widgets are still a bit buggy. one will find the art, the other won't... etc. The one that claims to add the artwork to your itunes mp3 doesn't do it consistently.
Here's what we need:
1. looks on mp3 for artwork, if not, then:
2. looks on harddrive for artwork (photos/cdcovers/), if not, then:
3. looks on amazon.com for artwork, if not, then:
4. looks on allmusic.com for artwork, if not, then:
5. displays a standard "Artwork not available" image.
Also, option to add artwork to MP3 in iTunes.
Do this, and I'll paypal you for your efforts! That's a PROMISE!
Good luck!
luxuryluke
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Knut August Johansen - December 9, 2003
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Thank you for your observation, Brendan. I didn't know that.
Morgan, it doesn't matter where your tracks are. What I wanted to know was what the album names are in iTunes?
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Morgan - December 8, 2003
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nope, my tracks are all in one folder
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Brendan McKinley - December 7, 2003
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To all who are having trouble with some songs working and some that aren't. One thing I have noticed is make sure your ID3 Tags are set to version 2.4 this can be done under the advanced menu in iTunes. I had a Counting Crows album that just stayed blank in the Widget while playing even though the artwork showed up in iTunes, but worked fine after I updated the album's ID3 Tags and cleared the CDCovers Folder. (It dosen't seem to make a difference if you update the tag after you unsucesfully played it, without starting over with the widget's storage folder.) Keep up the great work Knut!
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Knut August Johansen - December 5, 2003
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Sorry, I ment Greatest_Hits.jpg (with underscore).
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Knut August Johansen - December 5, 2003
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Morgan, I don't understand why you have that problem. I have renamed my tracks the way you have them, and they work fine here. How are your discs named? The Wall - disc 1 and The Wall - disc 2 or something like that?
Thank you info_fiend!. I know there is a problem when albums have the same name (I don't have any "Greatest Hits" so I haven't had the problem). I will make it an option to include artists' names in the image names in maybe the next version. In the meantime the only thing you can do is to put a blank image named "Greatest Hits.jpg" in the CDCovers folder or give your albums slightly different names
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info_fiend - December 4, 2003
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Great Widget, but sometimes it pulls the wrong album art. Most times, its because I have several "Greatest Hits" albums. The problem I have is that once the widget pulls some art, I can't change it. I've deleted the artwork file in the CDCovers folder, but to no avail. Any suggestions?
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Morgan - December 4, 2003
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I have the trcks named like this:
1-01 In The Flesh?.m4a
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Knut August Johansen - December 3, 2003
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Blockhead, thank you! It’s not a bug. The artwork in iTunes is embedded in the id3 tag of the mp3/aac audio file. I have to convert that data to an image file to make it appear on the widget.
Thomas, it works very well on my machine. The only thing I have noticed is that option-click to change system volume does not work when the num lock key is on.
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Knut August Johansen - December 3, 2003
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I don‘t know if you come back here to read this, but I'll try to answer some of your questions:
Morgan, I have The Wall and other 2 disc albums and I don‘t have the problem that you have. How are the discs named?
Jon, the export of artwork to iTunes is a bit tricky. The image data has to be calculated, converted and put into the tags of the album tracks. I have tested it on a lot of images and it works with every image on my Mac. But it take some resources and I haven‘t had a chance to test it on so many other Macs. I will look at the code and see if I can make it more efficient.
TWRetchless, it's so frustrating to hear that it doesn't work for some people when it works with no problems whatsoever on my Mac. I have to test it on more machines to see what the problem is. I hope at least the error in the drawer has disappeared if you have downloaded the latest version.
Lau, it’s supposed to export artwork automatically when you check "Export artwork to iTunes" in Preferences.
Blockh
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Thomas - December 2, 2003
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"Volume control: Click + or - to adjust volume, option-click adjusts system volume"
This doesn't work on 2.0
I click + / - and the volume will switch almost to max!!
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Blockhead - November 26, 2003
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I love this widget, the best of its breed. I just thought you might like to know it exports the artwork to home/pictures/cdcovers. I think this is probably some kind of a bug because it searches for the files in the itunes dir. I hope this helps for the next update.
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Fox Neilson - November 25, 2003
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This last update helped a lot. Its still got a few little quirks, but for the most part I love this widget. I never close it. With the last version itunes would skip when the album art was downloaded. Now it doesn't seem to.
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Lau - November 21, 2003
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OK,
[supa-cool widget]
I've searched hi and low.
How do i get it to export the cover images to iTunes, or does it do it automatically, and if it does, when does it do it?
Haven't been able to get it to do it as yet, nor has it done it on it's own.
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TWRetchless - November 21, 2003
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Where is the consistancy of presentation? The cover art is clearly correct in iTunes but nada or hit and miss in the widget. Very Cool when it works, annoying when it does not. BTW, kudos on the design/interface - nicely done.
Also the "drawer" too often shows "error" in this version (1.6.6)
Running a G5 w/Panther and all Apple Updates as of 11/21/03.
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Dave Abramowitz - November 20, 2003
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Never mind - I found it....now running into a corner to hide...
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Dave Abramowitz - November 20, 2003
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Very cool - one thing: I must be missing something - how does one make the drawer appear? I can't seem to get it no matter what I click on...
Feeling dumb,
Dave
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Morgan - November 20, 2003
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nnow i just realized that it does that with everything that's 2 discs
there. hopte i'm done
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Morgan - November 20, 2003
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i just realized that it also repeats the tracks another two times, but still just the tracks on the second disc
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Morgan - November 20, 2003
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Thanks! I turned off fast drawer display and it worked!
BUT:
Now I have new problem. For The Wall, by Pink Floyd, when I use the drawer to navigate to it, it starts playing normally, but in the drawer it only shows me the tracks on the second disc. Any help?
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Jon Baumgartner - November 19, 2003
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Just saw this in my console. Dunno if it helps?
2003-11-20 00:20:08.488 Konfabulator[26638] [iTunes Companion.widget] Global/OnLoad:54: can't convert parseInt(playerPosition * 1.28) to an integer
Also, turning off "Export artwork to iTunes" stopped the constant cycling.
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Jon Baumgartner - November 19, 2003
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Cool widget. Right now I'm listening to "Wish You Were Here." The album cover keeps sliding off to the right, and then sliding back in. It's doing this every 25 seconds.
Also, I have "Export artwork to iTunes" selected, and it's not doing that. Nothing shows up in iTunes.
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Knut August Johansen - November 19, 2003
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Hi Morgan,
I need more information to be able to find out what’s wrong. Do you have "Faster drawer display" checked in Preferences? Does it work when you uncheck that? Are there any special characters in the Artist//Album//Track names in those not working?
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Morgan Hamill - November 18, 2003
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Great widget.
I have only one problem. For some artists, I have massive amounts of music. When I try to click on one of those artists in the drawer, nothing happens. If that was fixed, this would solve all my problems. Thanks.
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Knut August Johansen - November 16, 2003
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Thanks, Greg. The problem is to get all the features into such a little space without making it too messy. But I am working on a new interface at the moment, so I will look at it.
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Greg Townsend - November 14, 2003
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Great work! I've tried all of the iTunes widgets, and this one definitiely suits my needs best. I have one feature request - I'd like to be able to rate songs as I hear them without going back to iTunes, and doing so through this widget would be ideal. Thanks for your past, present, and future efforts!
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Knut August Johansen - November 14, 2003
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Thank you, Marco! I am glad you like it. I planned to make the drawer expand to the right side automatically when there is too little space on the left side. Maybe I will do that soon. Stay tuned!
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Marco - November 14, 2003
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Knut,
this widget is super cool, or as my kids say: mega cool! I have tried may iTunes wigets, but yours is the best!
I like to have the widget on the far left side of the screen, so the song list is not visible. Is it possile to have the songlist expanded to the right side instead of the left?
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Marco - November 14, 2003
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Knut,
this widget is super cool, or as my kids say: mega cool! I have tried may iTunes wigets, but yours is the best!
I like to have the widget on the far left side of the screen, so the song list is not visible. Is it possile to have the songlist expanded to the right side instead of the left?
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Knut August Johansen - November 9, 2003
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Thank you for your comments. It’s good to get feedback so that I can make it better.
Manfred, I will make it look for artwork in the same folder as the album tracks before going to amazon.com in the next version.
BuckisCool, in an earlier version, I used AppleScript to get information from the iTunes Library. It is slower, but it shows the non-English names correctly. I think I will make it as an option to use that method in the next version.
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Daniel Dickison - November 9, 2003
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Latest version is great -- the ability to export artwork to iTunes is a killer. That code looks intense, too!
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BuckisCool - November 8, 2003
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An exellent widget. The interface could be a little cleaner, IMHO. Also, I have some non-English albums sung by artists with non-English names. These infomation could not be displayed correct in the widget.
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Manfred - November 8, 2003
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Hi Knut August,
Your Widget is really cool! The only problem: I don't want a Widget to DOWNLOAD the artwork because it is already stored in the albumfolder where my tracks are. Are you thinking about a feature that iTunes Companion will check this folder first before downloading new Artwork?
Hoping for positive answer
Manfred
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Knut August Johansen - October 21, 2003
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Daniel, I am aware of the problem. My last "fix" was not very reliable. Thank you for offering your code, but I found a very simple solution to the problem. It is fixed in version 1.6.3.
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Daniel Dickison - October 20, 2003
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1.6.2 still has the iTunes-can't-quit problem. I coded a fix for the bug (mostly copy-and-pasted from iTunes Bar), as well as a preference option to disable control buttons. It's not quite polished yet, but Knut, email me at danieldickison [at] cmu [dot] edu for the modified .kon file (you might wanna include your email address somewhere in the widget about box...)
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Ian - October 16, 2003
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Thank you so much for this widget. I love the way that it looks and operates. It's a nice addition to the corner of my screen.
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Knut August Johansen - October 15, 2003
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Robert, I have tested it on the same model iBook and system that you have and it works very well. Do you have the iTunes Library.xml file in Music/iTunes folder in your home directory. If not, go to iTunes Companion preferences and choose your active iTunes Library.xml file there. Please let me know if it still does'nt work.
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RJB - October 15, 2003
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I'm having the same problems that Robert Hemphill is having. Currently, clicking any item in the left panel will highlight the item, but do nothing else. iTunes doesn't respond at all. I cannot change tracks, albums or artists with this view, although I can display them. The widget functions normally in every other way. Any ideas what's going on here?
This comment applies to version 1.6.2. Bugs fixes. |
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Andy Dickson - October 13, 2003
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Great Widget. Is there anyway to make the Album cover "dragable" to iTunes Artwork or have it automatically added in future builds?
This comment applies to version 1.6.2. Bugs fixes. |
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Nik - October 13, 2003
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Have to agree that it shouldn't re-launch iTunes on a quit. I had to kill Konfabulator before I could reboot my Mac because it kept re-opening iTunes as soon as it had quit, keeping my machine from shutting down!
This comment applies to version 1.6.2. Bugs fixes. |
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Charles Hawtrey - October 12, 2003
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Great Widget! It instantly replaced my former regular.
My only complaint is that if iTunes is not hidden, the itunes window comes to front whenever you click on a new track. A small quibble, though.
-Stridey
This comment applies to version 1.6.2. Bugs fixes. |
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PJC - October 10, 2003
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This has become my main iTunes controller. Love it.
This comment applies to version 1.6.1 |
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Robert Hemphill - October 9, 2003
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Here are my machine specs to see if you can figure out why it's not working right on mine.
iBook G3 500
384mb ram
Latest Jaguar
Latest Konfabulator
Music stored on external 120 gb firewire drive
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Knut August Johansen - October 9, 2003
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I don't know why it is not working on your machine, but it is supposed to be playing the tracks that you click on.
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Robert Hemphill - October 8, 2003
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I ment that it would be nice to have it play a clicked track in the drawer, when it shows other songs on the album. Right now clicking on a track there seems to do nothing.
Scrolling text is a CPU hog normally, and bogs down my poor little G3, and I like to turn it off when possible.
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Knut August Johansen - October 8, 2003
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Thank you for your comments.
Daniel, I had already fixed the problem with iTunes not quitting in vers. 1.6.2, which I have posted. Hopefully it will be out soon.
Robert, I don‘t understand what you mean by "Allow clicking on other track in album display to start playing that track". Do you mean to have the tracks listed under each album when the drawer shows "Albums by this artist"? The text scrolling is only active when you hold the mouse over the text for some time and the text is too big to fit. Why do you want to turn that off? Maybe I will allow for resizing in a future version (wish I had a 23" Cinema Display).
This comment applies to version 1.6.1 |
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Robert Hemphill - October 7, 2003
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Add size option, I like my cover art larger.
Add option to choose what buttons and features are active.
Add option to turn off name scrolling.
Allow clicking on other track in album display to start playing that track.
These and more options might then convert me from my current favorites "Album Cover" and "iTunes Bar"
Looking forward to updates
This comment applies to version 1.6.1 |
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Nik - October 7, 2003
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Works well. Frequently fails to get cover art. Would be nice if it added the cover to the iTunes cover database.
This comment applies to version 1.6.1 |
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Daniel Dickison - October 5, 2003
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This is an excellent widget. I would actually prefer for it to have a less cluttered interface -- i.e. no drawer and track control, because I have a separate widget for that -- but by no means does this diminish how cool this widget is.
My only real gripe is that it often causes iTunes to relaunch when after quitting. Knut, this can be fixed easily by tweaking the AppleScript code a bit. Check out the iTunes Bar code.
This comment applies to version 1.6.1 |
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