The CD Art Display 2.0 developement started right after CD Art Display 1.0 release back in 24Aug2007.
And now CD Art Display 2.0 Beta 4 is ready for testing and it reflects what can be the final version.
What is CD Art Display? It is a skinnable application that shows the now playing song cover on your desktop. It fully supports AlbumPlayer, Helium Music Manager, iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player 11, foobar2000 and partially supports MediaMonkey, MP3Toys, qmp and musikCube. See Readme.txt inside the zip for requirements.
It's a major, major upgrade with several new and improved features including:
100% real time preview Skin Editor
drag and drop a zip or rar to install a skin
smooth horizontal and vertical text scrolling
full screen skin (download a full screen skin here)
screensaver module
custom picture slideshow when player is stopped or not running
cover search timeout (CAD will not freeze while searching)
lyrics search timeout (CAD will not freeze while searching)
Windows Vista Aero blur support
new skin elements
new elements transitions
translation support (German and Portuguese-Brazil included)
see complete list here
Download CD Art Display 2.0 beta 4 here
Make sure to see Reame.txt inside the zip!!
There are a lot to explore and the best way is trying the new skins. So visit CD Art Display Skin Gallery for latest and 100% 2.0 skins!
Read my blog article about CD Art Display 2.0 beta 4 for more details.
Here's a full screen skin by OtisBee screenshot (working in progress):
Click the image for a 1680x1050 preview
Have fun!