OnDeck displays album artwork for the currently playing iTunes album, can upload the artwork and track information to an FTP or web server and provides a sleep timer. OnDeck now displays both embedded artwork and image files that are saved in the same album folders as your music files.
The emphasis of this program is on elegant functionality:
- Fast updates with minimal CPU usage (barely one tenth of a second of CPU time per track).
- Displays album artwork from iTunes or your hard disk, in a neat semi-opaque window, with a fullscreen mode.
- Customisable track information display and Growl notifications (great with the Music Video display), including artwork, rating, genre, comments and other tags.
- Upload album artwork and track information to a website (by FTP, HTTP, local file copy and Last.fm).
- Includes a sleep timer and can also speak track information.
OnDeck is currently shelved. This means there have been no updates for some time, and it may or may not work (I still use it myself). Although I plan to rewrite and extend it considerably, I honestly cannot say when or if this will actually happen.
(28/10/05) information upload problems corrected and now using UTF-8 encoding. (27/10) v1.9.3 restores compatability with OS X 10.3 and corrects some general misbehaviour. Other changes in v1.9.x include a sleek new look with full-window artwork resizing magic, a novel fullscreen mode, and a new memory architecture.
Simply launch and leave running whilst playing music in iTunes. Please refer to the built-in help which covers use of variables for customising the display and the upload functions, however you would also be wise to read the documentation to get the most out of OnDeck.