If you have unearthed a bug, an odd behaviour, have a question or feedback then please get in touch. See below for planned features and a full version history.
Licence
As of v2 the program will be 'partially' shareware with a very small fee of around $5. The basic function (display of artwork) will not be restricted, however all information display (including upload and iChat status) will infrequently replace the $artist or $trackartist variables with 'Holocore OnDeck' in unregistered versions. I feel this represents a fair balance for both myself and users between appreciating freeware and creating some marginal incentivisation to continue development (which has run into a considerable amount of my time...).
- upload image may be slightly smaller or larger than your preferred width (see caveats)
- Complex multi-byte Unicode characters (e.g. Chinese) are not supported in folder names, but are supported in file names
- track information is only uploaded when the album changes (not the track) which is the same behaviour as the artwork, this is not a bug but let me know if you would like it uploaded for every track during album playback
If you have a feature request do let me know and I'll be happy to consider implementing it. Please note that I do not intend to add automatic artwork download functions. At present I envisage the following schedule.
- Version 2.0; several significant new functions:
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- Setup assistant for first-time users
- Set your IM status
- Drag and drop artwork addition
- FTP track information upload template (and better phrase generation)
- Album artwork upload options (more format support, missing artwork image selection)
- Save (extract) embedded artwork to disk automatically
- Unicode upload support
- Ideas; to be added as-and-when:
- Global keyboard shortcuts/hotkey for iTunes control
- Gobal hotkey for temporary bring-to-front window display
- Support for managing a shoutcast broadcast playlist -an easy way to broadcast what you are currently listening to and manage a broadcast in iTunes, potentially including
- Play albums by browsing their artwork
- Highest-rated and most-listened albums reports
- Upload support for AudioScrobbler
- Support images without extensions
- Speech Recognition for iTunes control (if possible)
- Resume playback on launch
- Styleable window information text