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%nickname% - October 16, 2007
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piroman3145:
You can hide the widget with one of the following solutions:
1) Click the close button (top right corner). This will close the main widget window to an icon. Right click the icon and select "Hibernate Widget" if you don’t want the Now Playing Window to pop up on track change. To show the widget again, just click the icon.
2) Right click the Widget Dock icon and select "Hide Widget". To show the widget again, right click the Widget Dock icon and select "Show Widget".
If you have any other suggestions on how you want the auto hide feature to work, let me know by e-mail.
This comment applies to version 2.3.1 |
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piroman3145 - October 15, 2007
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I really enjoy this widget, but i wish there was some way to auto hide it, so it's completely out of the way when it's not needed. It would be amazing if there was.
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%nickname% - June 3, 2007
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...continued from previous post...
2) Current iTunes state:
The internal object in YW that keeps track of the iTunes state gets out of sync when iTunes is closed and then restarted while YW are running. To fix this issue you have to restart the widget and sometimes you also have to restart YW.
I have sent a bug report to Yahoo Support concerning the two issues I’ve mentioned. I’ve heard nothing since the initial response so I will have create a workaround for the two issues in the next release.
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%nickname% - June 3, 2007
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Aswitzertwiz (and others having problem with out of sync issues):
This widget depends on two things to stay in sync with iTunes. Sadly, both seems to contain a bug or not work properly in Yahoo! Widgets version 4.0.x:
1) Track change notification:
This widget receives and responds to iTunes events on every track change to update information in the Track Display and to pop-up the Now Playing Window. As far as I know there are two things that stop these events from being received by the widget:
a)The events can get lost if you upgrade iTunes to a new version. To fix it you have to do a Repair install of iTunes.
b) After Yahoo Widgets 4.0.x was released some have more trouble then others receiving the iTunes events. Some don’t receive iTunes events at all, some receive the events once in a while, and some experience no problem. I have no idea of what is causing the problem, but I do know that if you revert back to YW 3.x the events from iTunes will be received
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%nickname% - June 3, 2007
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series7:
Thanks for your comment and rating. There will be no more resizing options in the 2.x versions. I’m considering adding scaling or some other resizing options in version 3.x.
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aswitzertwiz - May 22, 2007
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This is a great widget with tons of cool features. I just want a widget that shows the coverart of the currently playing song in iTunes. This widget seems to be the only one to attempt that. Unfortunately, it crashes all the time and hardly ever stays in sync with what iTunes is playing after the initial song. Is there a new version coming? I've tried everything you suggested to others here - reinstalled iTunes, computer, Yahoo! Widgets, but nothing seems to work.
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series7 - April 18, 2007
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LOVE IT!! But is there a way to scale the size up? I want to use it as the main player
on my Car PC's tiny 7" touch screen. That would be awsome man!
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rapanuy33 - April 15, 2007
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Hi Thomas.
thx for your comment.
As far as I researched, it is the PDM (a Proactive Defense Module) in connection with the cmd.exe.
From an external FAQ: "KAspersky PDM updated for RootShell: no more alerts on cmd.exe - parent process will be dispalyed. Try to check build 278 or higher"
I guess this explains the problem.
Thx for your work and widget,
Mike
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%nickname% - April 15, 2007
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diana1680:
As far as I know, the key to fixing the problem is to do the right combination of restarting Yahoo! Widgets, repairing iTunes and rebooting your computer to make everything work together again.
If there are any more who have problems with getting updated track information when iTunes changes track, let me know by e-mail.
Rapanuy33:
I never tried Kaspersky and are not sure what the definition of a ROOTSheel activity is. I guess it's complaining about the thumbnail generation for the album artwork. This is done by calling an exe file with runCommand and runCommandInBg.
Edward:
Thank you for the rating and suggestion. I want that feature myself, but are worried about the amount of CPU it will require during browsing and the code complexity. But I will see if I can make it work somehow.
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diana1680 - April 14, 2007
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I read what you wrote to Arun about the Now Playing pop-up not changing when the song changes, and I tried all three things you said, but it's not changing. I love the Widget and if I can get the pop-up to work correctly, it will be my favorite widget so far! Please help.
Thanks
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rapanuy33 - April 14, 2007
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Hi.
Kaspersky AntiVirus recognizes your widged as ROOTSheel activitiy!!!
Greets,
Mike
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%nickname% - April 13, 2007
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This is a really well written Widget. Great work!
Could I suggest some animation to make the cover art slide more like the "cover flow" feature in iTunes? That would make this perfect!
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taragonuk - March 5, 2007
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Hey Thomas,
What program did you use to create your widget? I'm trying to create one but not sure where to start.
Thanks
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taragonuk - March 5, 2007
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Hey Thomas,
What program did you use to create your widget? I'm trying to create one but not sure where to start.
Thanks
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%nickname% - February 26, 2007
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cdc2426:
An option to override the display time and keep the Now Playing window open all the time will be in the next version.
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cdc2426@sbcglobal.net - February 24, 2007
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i like it a lot but i wish that you could keep the now playing window up all the time instead of just 20 seconds. that would be great
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%nickname% - February 19, 2007
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Arun:
The Now Playing Window should appear on every track change if the "Enable The Now Playing Window" option is set in the Behaviors preference page.
But this might fail for one of the following reasons:
1) iTunes is closed and re-started while the widget is running. Close and re-open the widget to reconnect it to iTunes.
2) iTunes COM interface is not working (might happen after an iTunes upgrade). Start the iTunes installer program and choose the repair install option.
3) The YWE has crashed or thrown some error message. Close and re-open the widget, and if that doesn’t work, close and re-start the Yahoo! Widget Engine.
If you still are having problems contact me by e-mail for more support (See the "About" box for my e-mail address).
This comment applies to version 2.1.1 |
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%nickname% - February 17, 2007
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I want this widget to show the album art for every song. Why doesn't the "Now Playing window" appear automatically each time? Also the album art does not change for the current song. Some how the program seems to missing to detect the change of songs in iTunes. Will be happy to know the resolution and use this widget.
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%nickname% - January 23, 2007
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aarontang100166624:
Thanks for the rating. This widget works with both iTunes 7 and iTunes 6. If you are experiencing a problem with this widget (or any other iTunes widgets) after upgrading to a newer version of iTunes, a repair install will fix your problem. Just start the iTunes 7 installer program and choose the repair option.
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aarontang100166624 - January 21, 2007
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this is a great widget for itunes. I had a question though; will this ever work for itunes 7? I realize itunes 7 has the album browser but I love the pop-up that shows the current track a lot. thanks a lot.
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browntown181 - January 8, 2007
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i looked at the album and realized thats the album i'm listening to Trendy By RBF.. also saw em in concert so im in full support of this widget.. thats great
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Thomas Nordvi - November 17, 2006
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Tony van Kessel:
Thanks for your comment and rating.
Since Pandora is flashed based and has no public API to connect to it would be difficult to create a widget for Pandora.
If you are using windows the program Pandora's Box might be what you are looking for: http://www.cfdan.com/index.cfm?tag=Pandoras%20Box
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Tony van Kessel - November 16, 2006
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Hi Thomas
Your widget was the only hit when I searched the widget library on "Pandora". I just discovered Pandora and love it, but I don't use iTunes so it looks like using your most excellent widget won't work for me.
Have you thought of creating a separate "Pandora" widget, ideally very clean and simple, just a few controls: play, pause, skip, thumbs up, thumbs down and Menu, plus display the Station name, artist and song title.
Keep up the great work!
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Thomas Nordvi - October 11, 2006
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Yi-JIe:
Version 2.0 has the options to customize hotkeys. I’m currently writing the "about" document and finishing off the code review. After some final testing it will be released.
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Yi-JIe - October 9, 2006
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is there a way to override the shortcuts ?
I'm using Mozilla FireFox and whenever I wanted to open a new tab (Ctrl+T) it now shows 'Now Playing', the 'Now Playing' is very cool but I can't open a new tab in firefox anymore. It would be good if the user can change to whatever shortcut key we want.
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Thomas Nordvi - September 25, 2006
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Brett:
Actually, the correct situation is that this widget was inspired by a freeware program called CoverFlow (Mac only). CoverFlow has since been sold to Apple and integrated into iTunes 7. http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/
PC KING:
Thanks for your rating and the great ideas. I have made a note of your ideas and added them to my feature list. I will try to include them somehow at one point or another.
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Brett - September 24, 2006
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Very great idea, in fact it was so good that apple finally copied your idea and now it is integrated within iTunes.
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PC KING aka Nathan Smith - September 4, 2006
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Can you try and make it so when you click on the album it will fade the other albums and list the sings and other info.
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PC KING aka Nathan Smith - August 17, 2006
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also try to add an announcer thing using an computer voice, so when you play a song the volume fades to around 25% then the announcer then fades back up to the default volume.
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PC KING aka Nathan Smith - August 17, 2006
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I like you idea very much but you should make it as an navagation system. Like only list the albums on the main window then if the user clicks it, it lists the songs. It will be better then having all your songs listed all at once. I hope you like my idea :)
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Thomas Nordvi - July 4, 2006
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Darklord:
Some more input would be appreciated. I'm guessing that you are only seeing the default artwork picture (white or black with "No Artwork" text on it)?
Could you contact me by email (the address is in the About document included in the download) or let me now how to contact you so we can find the solution to your problem.
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Thomas Nordvi - July 4, 2006
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tsunami99:
Good to hear that you worked out your artwork problem. Customizable hotkeys will be in the next version.
Todd Lininger:
Thanks for the rating. Customizable hotkeys will be in the next version.
m:
I have contacted the support team in an effort to figure out what might be causing the crash. It seems that other widget developers are experiencing the same problem, so it seems to be a bug in the Widget Engine or the iTunes COM. I have noted your input about the scrolling and will see if I can do something about that. The Keyboard shortcut problems are now fixed and will be included in the 1.2 version.
A display for track and length information + iTunes controls is under development.
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Darklord - July 3, 2006
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ALL of my albums showed just ONE picture!
>:-(
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tsunami99 - June 28, 2006
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(see below)...artwork that I had added manually. Not really sure why some artwork was lost and not others, must be to do with how the iTunes Companion stores them.
So yay, congratulations on a great widget, and apologies.
Three complaints though: The "CTL T" command has disabled New Tab in Firefox, its still scroll a little fast, and this widget is so good and I want to use it so much that I am now going to manually add all the artwork to my 4596 tracks in my library. Dammm yoouuu..... :)
This comment applies to version 1.1 |
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tsunami99 - June 28, 2006
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Okay, so regarding my earlier comment, here's the update. I've been fiddling around trying to work out what happened, and found out it had nothing to do with this widget (yay). Here's the long version if anyone is interested, bored or may have the same problem.
I got most of my album covers using the iTunes Companion widget , and only manually added any album covers that the widget couldn't find. Unknown to me at the time, this widget sets the id3 tag of the mp3 to version 2.1. When I play my mp3s out of the house I use a smartphone with a program called OggPlayer, which only reads id3 tags properly if they are version 1.1. For a while I couldn't work out why albums that I had already converted to 1.1 kept changing back to 2.1, and probably a day before the new version of iTunes Album Browser was released I did a bulk convert of my library for luck. Apparantly this removed the artwork of any albums that had been sourced from the iTunes Companion widget, but not ar
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Todd Lininger - June 27, 2006
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Great widget. I have an issue with the new hotkeys in version 1.1, though. I can no longer open new tabs in Firefox with Ctrl-T when this widget is open because it's usurped it. Can you make the hotkeys optional and/or customizable? Thanks.
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m - June 21, 2006
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man, this is such a great idea. i'm really looking forward to future versions.
my troubles:
-crashes fairly regularly when i doubleclick to play a new album. i have to restart the widgit. (i use random order + autoscroll, if that helps).
-scrolling. it's sort of hard to navigate between albums with the automatic side-of-the-window scroll. i can't get it to start and stop properly, so i end up having to use the arrow buttons anyway. it also scrolls a lot when i don't want it to (i.e., i'm just trying to get to a menu or something)
-firefox keyboard shortcuts (i know you're fixing this one)
there's the possibility of replacing the itunes window altogether here! i still need it now for track information/length + the skip track buttons.
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darkangel - June 19, 2006
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happily holding 1000 albums now. just dont have blank album names. works really well. best way to pick music to play.
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Amin Issa - June 12, 2006
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Thank you, sir. Needless to say, I'm greatly enjoying your widget. Good job, my friend.
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Thomas Nordvi - June 12, 2006
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Amin Issa:
I'm sorry about that. I will add option to disable and customize keyboard shortcuts in the next release.
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darkangel - June 11, 2006
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repeated experiments tell the same story. the widget will only hold 361 albums without issue.
after a re-index brings back 2000+ albums (45min), at some point shutting down and re-starting resets count to first 361 (A-C) only.
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Amin Issa - June 11, 2006
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Is there a way to disable keyboard shortcuts? I listen to music while web browsing, and in Firefox, CTRL + T opens a new tab. However, I have to do it via menu when I have your widget open, because CTRL + T brings up the track pop-up. Any help?
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Thomas Nordvi - June 9, 2006
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Found this one today. Check out "The Worst Album Covers in the World":
http://www.bizarrerecords.com/gallery.html
Just in case you were missing some of these covers :)
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Thomas Nordvi - June 9, 2006
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JuryDuty:
You will get the "Play Album: No Tracks added" message for one of the following reasons:
1) The album title or artist name the widget operates with for an album has been changed in iTunes.
2) Settings in the Playlist preference group exclude tracks added to the playlist. Check your setting on the a) Playlist filter and b) Only add checked tracks fields against the track rating and checked for playback for all tracks in the album where you get the message.
3) Your settings to include or exclude compilation albums will also work for tracks added to the playlist. If you have selected to exclude compilation albums, no tracks checked with part of a compilation are added to the playlist.
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JuryDuty - June 8, 2006
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Very cool widget! On a lot of albums, when I double click them, I'm getting a "Play Album: No tracks added" error though. Will be excited to see where this widget goes!
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Thomas Nordvi - June 8, 2006
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darkangel:
You can use the email address located in the About document (included in the download).
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darkangel - June 8, 2006
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happy to help. let me know what email address to use.
bugs are a hidden blessing in the end. going through such a large collection as my own makes me realise I do not want every 2 bit album in the album browser. so using import all would in truth make a mess I would spend months cleaning up.
I plan to slowly add albums then turn auto import off.
btw the new menus and fuctions are top shelf.
WELL DONE!
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Thomas Nordvi - June 8, 2006
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darkangel:
Could you contact me by e-mail so we can discuss the problem more in detail then this forum? I would appreciate your feedback and help in finding a solution to the problem you’re experiencing.
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darkangel - June 8, 2006
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1st let me say...best widget idea ever. now after waiting so long, auditing my entire collection to be ready for the new version (the entire month) I waited through the 45 min re-index.I so wanted to say YES YES YES...
instead its NO NO NO
after the re-index I could see 2,230 albums but all the controls did not work. no next, back sort etc worked. no scroll or any other control.
shut down widget and re-start. it came back with no albums at all!!!
as I play iTunes it imports the album ok and I have tested, with shut down and re-start and it keeps this info so and this point I'm hitting next next next in iTunes as the import method.
will see if I feel keen enough to try a re-index latter. will report results back.
stil best idea ever, ver 1.0 no bugs but slow. ver 1.1 dang bugs!
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Thomas Nordvi - June 8, 2006
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tsunami99:
I have no idea what could have happened. Since the artwork is no longer in iTunes my first thought was that another program/widget had made changes to your library.
You might recover some of the missing artwork from the Covers folder (saved there from the 1.0 version). Use the "Locate Artwork Folder on Disk" option to view the artwork. From there you can add them to your iTunes library again.
I have also read somewhere that the artwork could be in the MP3 files, but the iTunes library hasn’t been updated to reflect that there is an artwork in the file. This could happen if another program has been used to update the artwork. Send me an e-mail if you can’t find a solution.
Justin Miao:
Thanks Justin. I'm planning something that will have this feature, but it might take some time. So in the meantime I might add an option to keep the Now Playing window open all the time (in the next version).
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tsunami99 - June 7, 2006
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Yay, version 1.1
Has all the features we needed ( I think)
runs faster and smoother. Nice
One problem though. The first time I ran it, I lost over half of my album covers. They're no longer in iTunes or the widget. Seem to have been chosen at random. Any idea how this could have happened/can be fixed?
Cheers
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Justin Miao - June 7, 2006
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I love this thing. But is there a way to keep the mini one open all the time? I mean the thing that tells you what song is playing when you change songs.
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Justin Miao - June 7, 2006
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I love this thing. But is there a way to keep the mini one open all the time? I mean the thing that tells you what song is playing when you change songs.
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Thomas Nordvi - June 6, 2006
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Dylan and darkangel:
I uploaded the 1.1 version on Sunday. So it should be out as soon as it’s approved.
Be sure to reindex your iTunes Music Library after starting the 1.1 version.
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darkangel - June 5, 2006
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right, collection fixed with 'compilation' ticked where needed....dying for ver 1.1
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Dylan - June 5, 2006
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I Really love this widget, any chance of a 1.1 version with support for compilations soon??
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kgprodigy - June 2, 2006
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My apologies Thomas,
I should have researched it more before posting that feedback. I think I was just screwing at the fact the library was dead.
I'm gonna try and recreate it on my other PC to see if it happens :-)
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Thomas Nordvi - May 30, 2006
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kgprodigy:
This widget never touches the iTunes Music Library file directly. All interactions with iTunes are done through the COM interface. For the most part this widget only reads data from iTunes. The only actions I can think of that can alter the iTunes Music Library file are when the widget’s playlist are created/renamed or when tracks are added to/deleted from that playlist.
Unless you experienced an error of some sort on any of those actions I find it difficult to believe that this widget caused the problem. But of course something unexpected could have happened on your system that caused the iTunes Music Library file to be corrupted.
After googling your error message my impression is that the error is mostly caused by hardware errors or low disk space.
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kgprodigy - May 29, 2006
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This worked great when I used it :-)
Word of warning/comment though... iTunes is no longer recognising my library file and says "library file cannot be saved".
Have to import my mp3s again.
Great widget though!
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Thomas Nordvi - May 29, 2006
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Thanks for the comments and rating.
Michael:
The next release (version 1.1) supports compilation albums. It will be uploaded sometime this week if everything goes well.
Dave3:
I'm not sure if your request will make it into production. I will add your request to the feature list, but I will have to think about it some more.
Poncho:
The popup icon feature is a good idea. I'm currently finishing the 1.1 version, so your feature request will be added to the 1.2 version.
MikeO:
I'm planning on adding options to resize the widget. Not sure what version it will be in or how it will be implemented yet. But some resizing options will make it into the 1.2 version.
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Michael - May 29, 2006
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Hi, a really useful application. I too miss browsing through my CD collection and the feel of the widget is great.
I would, however, like to add my voice to those below for an improved way of handling compilation albums. Compilations take my 300CD collection to over 900 entries in the Album Browser - simply too much and too messy to be useful.
Keep up the good work!
Michael
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Dave3 - May 28, 2006
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Great Indeed.. could you make it go vertical, like an "album sidebar".. would be nice if it worked like the vista side bar..
ta.. Dave
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Dave3 - May 28, 2006
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Great Indeed.. could you make it go vertical, like an "album sidebar".. would be nice if it worked like the vista side bar..
ta.. Dave
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Poncho - May 27, 2006
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Nice.. One thing though, it's a bit big.. could you make it resizeable and/or pop-up from a small icon like the flickr album widget.. Other than that, perfect..
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MikeO - May 25, 2006
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Great Idea, loved the widget.. Any options you can add to make it resizable/skinable would be fantastic
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Thomas Nordvi - May 24, 2006
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SteveZ:
Good to hear it’s working! My best guess is that the COM interface to iTunes wasn’t registered properly. Reinstalling iTunes probably fixed it.
Thanks for the rating and enjoy the widget
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SteveZ - May 24, 2006
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Fixed it!
I simply uninstalled and reinstalled Itunes. Now the widget works fine. Not sure what was wrong.
Steve Z.
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SteveZ - May 24, 2006
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Thomas:
Thanks for the response. Of course, now the issue has chnaged slightly. the wodget can no longer start itunes. Actually, let me clarify. Once the widget starts, there is a process running called itunes.exe, but it never shows up as a running application and no itunes windows ever appear. if I clsoe the widget, the itunes.exe is removed from the processes list. I can still open itunes fine via a normal shorcut.
I deleted the widget data file, manually opened itunes and started the widget. The debug window shows "_error indexing itunes music library" (see screen shot)
http://home.sc.rr.com/szurlo/graphics/widget.jpg
Thanks,
Steve
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Thomas Nordvi - May 23, 2006
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SteveZ:
I'm puzzled by the problem you are experiencing. Especially since you mentioned that the widget launches iTunes with no problem. If iTunes is running and the widget is connected the "Reindex Itunes Music Library" option should be enabled.
As long as a track has a value in the Artist/Album fields and it’s not a podcast, the track should be indexed. I don't believe this is the problem on your system, so I can only recommend that you index your library again. You can force the widget to reindex your library by deleting the widget data file and restarting the widget. The file (library.xml) is located one folder up from the Covers folder (use the "Locate Artwork Folder on Disk" option to go to the folder).
If it's still not working you have to open up the widget in debug mode and see if there are any error messages that can guide me in the right direction. See the previous post for instructions to open up the Widget Engine in debug mode.
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Thomas Nordvi - May 23, 2006
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Missacula:
I am guessing that the problem is related to the Japanese character set and filenames. I think the problem is either that an error is occurring when an artwork image is saved to disk (during indexing) or when the file path is read from the widget data file.
Could you use the "Locate Artwork Folder on Disk" option to go to the artwork folder and see if there are any images in that folder? And could you open up the widget in debug mode and see if there are any error messages that can guide me in the right direction?
To set Yahoo! Widget Engine in debug mode:
1) Close the widget.
2) Hold Ctrl+Shift and click the Yahoo! Widget Engine icon in the taskbar.
3) Select the Debug Mode option.
4) Open up the widget.
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Thomas Nordvi - May 23, 2006
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Peter:
Thank you for the rating! The next release handles compilation albums.
tsunami99:
Keep the requests coming! I'm planning on adding iTunes controls to the main widget window. I haven't thought about adding iTunes controls to the popup. I use the iTunes toolbar to do what you described. It's located on the taskbar and gives you access to the iTunes controls without maximizing iTunes. Right click the Taskbar. Select Toolbars > iTunes. Then minimize iTunes.
Dave:
Thanks! I will look into the scroller and animation request. The rest is already finished or on the agenda.
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Thomas Nordvi - May 23, 2006
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CamonZ:
No, I haven't thought about it.
darkangel:
Limit albums by x number of tracks would only improve the read time and not the indexing time. But I can see that for the collectors with a lot of albums the option to cut down on albums is a nice feature. The feature is already on my todo list (along with limit albums by playtime), but it's listed with a low priority. If it's a wanted feature I can boost it up.
lommers:
Thanks! I do believe Apple would have made this much better than me :)
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SteveZ - May 21, 2006
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Not sure what the deal is but I only get one tile with no album art, and when I right click the widget "Reindex Itunes Music Library" is dimmed out (disabled). It's like it thinks I don't have Itunes, or there are no songs in the library, however, the widget launches Itunes fine and Itunes itself works fine and shows my 2000+ songs....
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Peter - May 20, 2006
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Compilations should just be shown as one album, and not every artist by himself who is on a compilation.
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tsunami99 - May 19, 2006
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One more request Thomas, just to give you more work. Dave listed pretty much everything this widget wants, but one thing that would be great would be iTunes controls on the popup. I often play my whole library or select playlists through Party Shuffle, and being able to go "meh, skip" to certain tracks without having to maximise iTunes would be ace.
Lovin having this widget
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Dave - May 19, 2006
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The idea of this program is brilliant. Congratulations for a good execution. May I suggest a few things (some have already been said) which would make it even better:
If compilations would be listed as such
If albums with only a few tracks could be excluded
If the scroller could be moved more sensitively - I have too many albums to move easily
If the albums had an animation as you scrolled, like on OSX dock
If the albums could be ordered randomly
Thanks for a good widget. I look forward to updates!
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CamonZ - May 18, 2006
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Hi Thomas, excellent work!!!. have you thought of releasing the source for this widget?
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Missacula - May 15, 2006
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Thank you for answering. I checked everything you noticed but still I do not see any artworks. an artwork is only displayed on the popup window when I played an album for the first time. Because my windows is Japanese Edition, the widget is not suitable.
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darkangel - May 13, 2006
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another trick would be to limit 'albums' to ones with 'x' number of tracks. this way the total number of albums and hence load times can be tuned for each user.
looking forward to ver 1.1
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lommers - May 13, 2006
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Very cool widget...If this was combined with the cpabilities of the "iTunes Companion" widget, it would next to perfect. Even Aple would be jealous!
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Thomas Nordvi - May 12, 2006
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Missacula:
You will see the default "no artwork" image if one of the following conditions are true:
1) The format of the artwork is returned as "Unknown artwork format" from iTunes. The formats supported by the COM interface are: jpg, png and bmp.
2) The image path to the album artwork saved in the widget data file does not exist. This could happen if you renamed or moved the folder where all the artwork is saved after indexing.
3) An error occurred when the artwork was saved to your disk.
4) There are no artwork saved in the fist track the widget finds in an album (the widget only check the first track for artwork to save processing time).
Check the folder containing the artwork and see if there are any images there. If you are using the latest version of iTunes and added the artwork in one of the supported formats everything should work fine. But there might be some special circumstances that I don't know about that are causing the problem on your syst
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Missacula - May 12, 2006
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I've added album artworks to every songs with itunes but none of them are shown on your widget. It only shows hundred of "no artwork" icons.
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Thomas Nordvi - May 12, 2006
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politicalslug:
Thanks for your honesty.
I do agree, for the collectors out there this may not be the widget for you. But I think your suggested 100 album limit is to low. I personally have 300+ albums and it's working just fine (otherwise I wouldn't have published it). I believe the recommended album limit should be close to 500-600 albums (for this version). With the improved read time and hopefully a fix to the "part of a compilation" problem in the next release I hope this can even be higher.
The initial indexing and reindexing does take some time depending on the size of your library. This is because every track has to be indexed to get the album track count and rating.
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politicalslug - May 12, 2006
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Sorry to have to be the one to say it, but this widget is crap for anyone with a large library. This would probably work well if I only had ~100 albums. Considering I have closer to 3500 albums this is simply the most inefficient iTunes widget I've ever used.
I suggest that people interested in this widget check out the iTunes Companion or the iPod Video widgets. Those perform better and are tailored to large libraries.
Sorry for the honesty. Keep up the good work and maybe one day this will become an alternative to those I've listed above for use with large libraries.
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darkangel - May 12, 2006
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sadly 45mins....look forward to the update!
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Thomas Nordvi - May 12, 2006
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darkangel:
I do hope you mean 4 to 5 minutes and not 45 minutes…
I didn't realize the amount of time it took to read 1500+ albums from the data file (I only tested on 300+ albums). Because of your feedback I did some code optimizing and speed testing last night and managed to speed up the read time considerably. So the next release will be a lot faster reading your data file at startup. Thanks for the heads up!
tsunami99:
The random feature is implemented and will be in the next release. I got inspired by your request and even added a "show random album" option (with hotkey) in your honor.
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darkangel - May 11, 2006
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perhaps in lue of "part of a compilation" (at least in the sort term) the list could be 'indexed' on album name only?
PS
closing widget and re-opening took the same time as a re-index, about 45mins on my system. Is this normal for 18k worth?
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darkangel - May 11, 2006
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perhaps in lue of "part of a compilation" (at least in the sort term) the list could be 'indexed' on album name only?
PS
closing widget and re-opening took the same time as a re-index, about 45mins on my system. Is this normal for 18k worth?
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darkangel - May 11, 2006
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perhaps in lue of "part of a compilation" (at least in the sort term) the list could be 'indexed' on album name only?
PS
closing widget and re-opening took the same time as a re-index, about 45mins on my system. Is this normal for 18k worth?
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darkangel - May 11, 2006
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best widget concept 'ever' (major congrats and well done)but without "part of a compilation" working, its just a nightmare for my collection. a 'right click' check box for "part of a compilation" would also be ideal (I do not look foward to updating 18,000 songs).
still awsome work so far and will watch this space with extreme interest.
PS
the random idea is brillant as well.
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Thomas Nordvi - May 11, 2006
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Thanks for all your comments!
tsunami99:
Good idea. I'll see what I can do about the random feature.
Graham:
I don't think this is possible because of the strain on the CPU it would require. But I can add the option to choose different default images to show on the albums that don't have any artwork.
Brendan:
This feature is planned for a future release (not the next release). For now you can use another widget (like iTunes Companion), freeware programs or web sites to download your album artwork. There are some really good options out there.
Dan: Thanks :) I agree... CoverFlow rocks! What more can I say.
Dave: Thanks!
David:
Is there any particular function you want integrated?
I am working on the option to delete artwork from an album in iTunes (from all tracks in the album) based on your feedback. Hopefully it will make it into the next release.
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tsunami99 - May 11, 2006
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Nice widget. The only one I've bothered downloading in months. Aside from fixing the compilations as said earlier, a nice feature would be a "random" organisation. Would make flicking through your music collection more enjoyable than having everything always organised. Also a smoother scrolling function would be nice. Looking forward to updates, keep up the good work.
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Graham - May 11, 2006
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I think this has real potential and you've done some really good work so far, might I suggest that in cases where there is no artwork available instead of simply having "no artwork available" sign perhaps have it replaced by a black artwork with the artist name and album - that would make make it much easier to differntiate between songs.
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Brendan - May 10, 2006
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I think this could be very useful if it had a button that would go out and find the artwork and lock it to that particular album. I only have a few albums that have artwork.
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Dan - May 10, 2006
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Pretty lame Coverflow ripoff.
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Dave - May 9, 2006
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I have a fairly tidy iTunes library with all the artwork, so this works great. This is the kind of iTunes widget that I'll actually end up using on a regular basis... Good work, thanks!
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David - May 9, 2006
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Thomas: really great. I already use iTunes Companion and Sing that iTunes and I wonder if any of their functions can be integrated? As to your widget, it may help me solve a problem I have with iTunes. For an unknown reason, some of my artwork is corrupted. The same 5 or 6 covers are misplaced into many albums where they don't belong. The error becomes even more obvious with your widget since I see those same covers repeating frequently. The corruption must have been a one time event because I can change the art manually. I was hoping your widget would allow me to do that more easily. When I find a corrupted cover in your widget, I can click on it and the song plays, but then its a few steps to get to the actual song then to get to the artwork dialog box to delete. Sometimes I can delete from iTunes Companion with the "dismiss artwork" feature, but I was hoping to get something similar in this widget. I hope the solution to this problem is not unique to me.
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Thomas Nordvi - May 9, 2006
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rick:
This widget is inspired by the functionality to browse albums in iTunes from the beautiful CoverFlow application. Credit to Jonathan del Strother is mentioned in the "about" document included in the download.
Wootness:
I'll try to include "part of a compilation" in the next release. It's on my to-do list.
Martin Cannings:
A Mac version is not on the agenda yet. I am considering a Mac purchase in the future so it's not impossible. But don't get your hopes up.
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rick - May 9, 2006
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mate..wtf?
http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow
<<<<hope you asked the author for permission
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Wootness - May 8, 2006
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I like it but I'd like it to filter out songs that are "Part of a compilations" because I have lots of soundtracks with various artists, and it would display ALL of the individual tracks and call it an album.
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Martin Cannings - May 8, 2006
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aww no, can you please try and make this for the mac too, looks like an awesome widget, great job, this is the type of widget the gallery should have more of
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Ricky Romero - May 8, 2006
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Incredible! Now I finally have a reason to add album artwork to my songs.
Wonderful job. I like the classy interface. :-)
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