Xdeskcover 1.1 Beta Released (Free)

[xwidget]

XDeskCover is a free desktop widget program that shows the current song cover in a customizable skin.It fully works with Windows Media Player, Foobar2000, Winamp,iTunes.

XDeskCover also has a powerful Skin Editor with real time preview.

Features:

.Instant Player Controls

.Skinnable with SkinEditor

.Popup BalloonTip with Album Cover

.Online search album cover tool

.Cover as system tray icon

.Free! No spyware or adware!

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XDeskCover Website: http://www.xwidget.com

Registration: FREE

You can download XDeskCover ver1.1 from HERE (2.58 MB).

Get more XDeskCover Skins from HERE

All feedback is appreciated!

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Update Log:

1. Add iTunes support

2. Add Lyrics

3. Compatible Win7

4. 120+ Skins

5. Add Skins Browser

6. Add Text Scroll

7. Add MultiLanguage support

8. Add pin to desktop support

9. fixed some bugs

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Videos:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ1NDc5OTA0.html

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ5NTU0MzU2.html

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ1NTUwODUy.html

ScreenShot:

Balloon Tip:

Config:

Online AlbumCover search tool:

Skin Editor with real time preview:

Edited March 17, 2010 by xwidget

[iJesse]

This is simply amazing!

[PoulNyrup]

Interesting.

Edited March 16, 2010 by PoulNyrup

[Ghostwalker]

Very nice using it now.

[xwidget]

some Animate Videos:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ1NDc5OTA0.html

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ5NTU0MzU2.html

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ1NTUwODUy.html

[Ghostwalker]

As for the lyrics, will it pull them from the net or get them from iTunes,WMP and so forth? It would be nice if it downloaded the lyrics but all in all you have created a very nice app.

[xwidget]

Today, software download site http://www.baixaki.com.br (ALEXA rankings NO:248) take XDeskCover displayed on its home page.
/>http://www.baixaki.com.br/download/xdeskcover.htm

Feel so lucky

Edited March 19, 2010 by xwidget

[vespalino]

Sadly XDeskCover doesn't support Mozilla's songbird. What about the next release?

[iJesse]

Any possibility for Hot-Keys? Like next song previous song ect. That would be amazing!

[xwidget]

Any possibility for Hot-Keys? Like next song previous song ect. That would be amazing!

Hotkeys options will be add, perhaps the next version

[andykamezou]

xwidget, thanks for replying my email.

XDeskCover read ID3V2 when ID3V1 not exists.

It doesn't work for me. my XDC always use only ID3v1.

If I remove all ID3v1, XDC doesn't view v2 tag at all.

See here :

Does XDC support Japanese and Korean tag?

[xwidget]

xwidget, thanks for replying my email.

It doesn't work for me. my XDC always use only ID3v1.

If I remove all ID3v1, XDC doesn't view v2 tag at all.

See here :

Does XDC support Japanese and Korean tag?

1. XDC will add an option of read tag "ID3v1->ID3v2" or "ID3v2->ID3v1" in next version

2. XDC can support Japanese or Korean tag

[andykamezou]

XDC can support Unicode tag when player is WMPlayer or iTunes, because the foobar's remote-control plugin not support unicode.

what player are you used? thanks.

I'm using Winamp.

2. XDC can support Japanese or Korean tag

When I'm using Winamp 5.572 :

- When mouse over at XDC icon, can view Japanese tags, but not on XDC skin

When I'm using WMPlayer 12 :

- When mouse over at XDC icon, cannot view Japanese tags, same as XDC skin

- Not show embedded cover or folder.jpg or cover.jpg

- Update : After re-check... XDC shows embedded cover or folder.jpg or cover.jpg for certain mp3, but some of them XDC won't show.

I'm using Windows7 x64, regional settings set to Japanese..

There's also another user from another forum that having problems viewing Unicode tags..

Edited March 22, 2010 by andykamezou

[xwidget]

I'm using Winamp.

When I'm using Winamp 5.572 :

- When mouse over at XDC icon, can view Japanese tags, but not on XDC skin

When I'm using WMPlayer 12 :

- When mouse over at XDC icon, cannot view Japanese tags, same as XDC skin

- Not show embedded cover or folder.jpg or cover.jpg

- Update : After re-check... XDC shows embedded cover or folder.jpg or cover.jpg for certain mp3, but some of them XDC won't show.

I'm using Windows7 x64, regional settings set to Japanese..

There's also another user from another forum that having problems viewing Unicode tags..

thanks for your feedback,I will try to fix unicode problems next version.

[andykamezou]

I guess this is another bug..

When I 'Enabled mp3 Embedded Cover' options, XDC will export the embedded cover to the folder that I've set (G:\My Mp3's\#xdesk cover).

But sometimes the exported cover is somehow corrupted.

The cover embedded in the mp3 is not corrupt, just the one that XDC export.

[emey87]

What the hell? Porting my skins to that CAD clone, giving no credit and without ssaying something to me? I don´t like that. The funny thing was that in one of my skins on the gallery says that the original author was "El guincho" the name of the artist of the song played on the preview, lol, and on most of thems the contact was a chinese GUI forum very well known by stealing other people work.

I could say that the 90% of the skins of that gallery are (bad) ports or (bad) mods made without permission of original authors. If I were you I will seriosly take care of this before it becomes a trouble...

Anyways, in the case you gived credit to me, I would never allow my skins to be used on a CAD clone. ¬¬"