iTunesCheck 0.91 review
DownloadiTunesCheck is a program that I wrote after checking out several other programs and not finding exactly what I wanted.
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iTunesCheck is a program that I wrote after checking out several other programs and not finding exactly what I wanted. It provides global hot keys for controlling iTunes without switching to it, it provides a hotkeyable floating window that shows the currently playing song, and it provides a hotkey for quickly finding a song without switching to iTunes.
Yes, all of these things are, of course, available directly in the iTunes interface. But I find it cumbersome to have to switch to iTunes just to figure out what song is playing. This is faster.
What's New:
Modularized display options for easy expansion.
Fixed bug where iTC would launch iTunes if you set the info window to show all the time. Fixed associated bug where you couldn't quit iTunes if iTC was running.
Fixed a bug where iTC would crash if you set it to display the last played date and the current track didn't have one.
Added Read Me button to About tab.
Added "Increment Play Count" hot key.
Rewrote info window controller. Artwork should be higher quality, you can choose from three sizes, and there is an option to look inside the file's folder for artwork (in case that's how you roll).
Updated the title, artist, and album scripts to work more intelligently with streaming data.
Changed iTC to work with the notifications iTunes now sends out when it changes songs. No more processor-intensive polling of iTunes, awww yeah!
Fixed the crashing bug related to iTC being open too long that everyone who ever used the program reported. Thanks guys. But thanks to Guy Brooker for being a stud and fixing it!
Added a "while playing" display option.
Miscellaneous other improvements made over a year of poking around, of which there are a lot.
Requirements:
iTunes 4.5 or later.
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