Carlospr Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 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 Link to comment
alpha2zulu Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Awesome thanks for the release! I'm putting this on Winamp asap! Link to comment
theaulddubliner Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 thanks once again Carlosprdevelopment of software like this is so beyond me but watching it develop is very very interestingif only other developers listened to users like you ! Link to comment
firecracker6 Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Carlospr, Congratulations on your new release. You are truly a dedicated individual and it's always a pleasure to use your software. regards Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 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! Link to comment
brok3n Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 Tnx a lot man i love your job Link to comment
Dragnarock Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 i love your app, its great and your some great developer because you just dont give up Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 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!! Link to comment
tehloxely Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 Oh man I am loving this right now. I love where this has went. Great work Carlospr. Link to comment
San Antonio Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 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? Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 Sorry man... If you think 11MB is something on a system running XP then I can't do nothing about it. Link to comment
tehloxely Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 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? Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 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 Link to comment
tehloxely Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 Alright, just keep it in the back of your brain Link to comment
chermany4ever Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 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? Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 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. Link to comment
chermany4ever Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 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. Link to comment
theEVILcube Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Thank you for the update. Your work is much appreciated. Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 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! Link to comment
tehloxely Posted October 11, 2006 Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 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 Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 tehloxely, ... "You can also use mouse right click on area 2 to use stop playback functionality." ... (from CAD Help) area 2 = play/pause area Link to comment
tehloxely Posted October 11, 2006 Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 Ahhh I get it now. Thanks! Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2006 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 Link to comment
Fosbury Posted October 12, 2006 Report Share Posted October 12, 2006 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 Link to comment
Carlospr Posted October 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2006 Can you send me one of you files with rating?support@closetosoftware.com Link to comment
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