CD Art Display RC5

[Carlospr]

CD Art Display RC5 (28Sep06)

About

http://www.closetosoftware.com/?s=cdartdisplay

What's new?

Improved support for AlbumPlayer, Winamp, foobar2000, iTunes and MediaMonkey

Added support for Mp3Toys and QMP (QCD)

Improved skin engine

Three independent text lines

Support skin with mirror effect

Support skin with rotation

Support vertical ratings

Notifier background

Improved transition effect

Opacity is part of the skin not a general setting

Opacity for case/cover

Opacity for Fancy ratings

Opacity for Progress bar

Opacity for each text line

Added more fine skin elements position adjustments

Windows Live Messenger interaction (display picture and personal message)

Lyrics (read, download and submit thanks to LYRDB.com)

New "Read cover" procedure

New save downloaded cover procedure

Improved ID3v2 v2.4 reading

Progress bar: Left click: Fast foreward (not all players)

Progress bar: Right click: Rewind (not all players)

Troubleshooting section added in Control Panel>Options

Improved Control Panel

Improved context menu

General improvements

Bugs fixed

Help file updated

Note

If you experience any issue (e.g. with QMP) please try the "Troubleshooting" in "Control Panel>Options" first.

Download

Full setup:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/CD_Ar...ay/1109367710/1

Just the main executable (for those testing the last RC4 build):

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc5b1.zip

Screenshot

[alpha2zulu]

Awesome thanks for the release! I'm putting this on Winamp asap!

[theaulddubliner]

thanks once again Carlospr

development of software like this is so beyond me but watching it develop is very very interesting

if only other developers listened to users like you !

[firecracker6]

Carlospr, Congratulations on your new release. You are truly a dedicated individual and it's always a pleasure to use your software.

regards

[Carlospr]

CAD RC 5 Build 3 (01Oct06)

- Automatic cover download bug fixed

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc5b3.zip

1.0 final is really close now!

Thank you all for your kind words! Without you CAD will be nothing!

[brok3n]

Tnx a lot man i love your job

[Dragnarock]

i love your app, its great and your some great developer because you just dont give up

[Carlospr]

CAD RC5 Build 5 (03Oct06)

- Added "Search cover" hotkey

- Added "Lyrics" hotkey

- Added "Play" hotkey

- Added "Next" hotkey

- Added "Previous" hotkey

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc5b5.zip

And let's test it please in order to release 1.0 final!!

[tehloxely]

Oh man I am loving this right now. I love where this has went. Great work Carlospr.

[San Antonio]

Carlospr,

As you remember I'm a foobar user. I've one bug in all versions - choosing foobar in config - no cover & tag in result. But works well if winamp chosen.. It's not a problem, just a little miss.

+ I've only one wish remaining - to make it more lightweight in resources.. For me it's about 11MB of RAM & 0-2 CPU! It eats more than player)) I'm using my own skin for case - about 150px and mirror effect.. But I'm sure it's not only because of it. Maybe some code optimization?

[Carlospr]

Sorry man... If you think 11MB is something on a system running XP then I can't do nothing about it.

[tehloxely]

I just installed it and was fooling around with the settings and I have one thing to add.

Would it be possible to add how much of a mirror of the cover you want? I keep my cad in the bottom right of my desktop and the mirror (I think) is too much for what, I think. Maybe you could add how much of a mirror the user chooses?

[Carlospr]

tehloxely: for now it's not possible.

CAD RC 5 Build 29 - WMP 11 basic support thanks to zachdms

- Playback buttons enabled

- Search cover should work

- Lyrics should work

- Cover will be changed if album is changed

- "Control Panel" was not updated yet (to show only WMP supported features)

Use this build as an alpha (just WMP11 initial support).

zachdms Song Signature plugin is required and it is available within Winter pack:

http://www.wmplugins.com/ItemDetail.aspx?ItemID=737

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc5b29.zip

[tehloxely]

Alright, just keep it in the back of your brain

[chermany4ever]

Hi Carlos. I wanted to ask you when CD Art Display is going to work for Foobar2000. I mean, the app is great but, there's no way to make it work with Foobar properly. Playing around with it, I've realized that the only thing I can do is make CD Art run Foobar, and then I will have the two apps running together, but it's embarrassing.

The best way should be, having CD Art always running in background minimized, so, everytime I run Foobar, CD Art would recognize it, and appear.

Let me say it again:

there should be an autohide feature, so CD Art would hide when there's no Foobar (or another players) action, like some applets and widgets do, unfortunately they don't support Foobar. :/

Would you like to be the first man to make a CD Art Display for Foobar?

[Carlospr]

CAD is a stand alone application. So it will always be another process (player + CAD = 2 running applications). There's nothing wrong with that.

CAD works with foobar2000 0.9x with most of the features using a third party plugin. There isn't a third party Visual Basic 6 class (or any interface) to handle foobar2000 as we have with Winamp, AlbumPlayer, MP3Toys, MediaMonkey and even iTunes. There is a lack of an interest regarding making foobar2000 Visual Basic 6 easier to support.

Audohide: I think it's a nice suggestion that could be used with all players; I'll add it to my to do list. Thanks.

[chermany4ever]

It's ok. I understand what you mean. I didn't wanted to say that CAD should be like a widget, it is not, but, with autohide, it could act like one. I would use it because there's no cd art widget or applet for Foobar.

The main feature for me is that, when I run Foobar, and I choose what to listen, CAD should appear just then, when the albums starts playing. And, when it ends, CAD should hide. That's it. Thank you for understanding.

[theEVILcube]

Thank you for the update. Your work is much appreciated.

[Carlospr]

New build (same build of the RC5 topic by the way):

- Mirror effect bug fixed

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc5b72.zip

Hint: I made some CAD tweaks so you can use it as a notifier:

1) set its window "Always on Top" (mouse right click)

2) "CP>Options" and check "Show notifier for" and "Hide case too"

That should do the trick!

[tehloxely]

Hey Carlos (is that your name?) I would really love for you to add a "stop" button to go along with the "previous, play/pause & next" buttons. I use the Winamp agent to keep it in the systray and just use CAD on my desktop. And when I leave the computer for a while, I would like to be able to stop the track from playing (instead of pausing it).

/.teh

[Carlospr]

tehloxely,

...

"You can also use mouse right click on area 2 to use stop playback functionality."

...

(from CAD Help)

area 2 = play/pause area

[tehloxely]

Ahhh I get it now. Thanks!

[Carlospr]

CAD RC 5 Build 96 (11Oct06)

- Improved WMP support

- Improved qmp (QCD) support

- Improved foobar2000 + Column UI support

- Added mouse wheel volume control for foobar2000

- Fixed pin to desktop + minimize all (not tested on a dual monitor yet)

- Other small bugs fixed and some general improvements

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc5b96.zip

[Fosbury]

Problem with Foobar2000 0.9.4 and rating TAG.

If the rating tag is already filled CAD don't display it but when I change the rating, then go to next song and return to the first one, the rating stars are displayed correctly...

Sorry for my poor english

[Carlospr]

Can you send me one of you files with rating?

support@closetosoftware.com