TunesArt

Perfect companion for iTunes

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Overview

TunesArt offers new features for iTunes : display cover art and track information on your desktop (many themes are available and new ones can be downloaded), get notification on track change, display bezel notifications on player actions such as play or pause, search your iTunes Library, scrobble to Last.fm, display/edit lyrics, support for Growl notifications, artwork fetching… and other features to discover!
 

Main features

Cover art
Display current track’s artwork, right on your desktop, and choose a skin among many available (classic, CD case, Vinyl cover… others to download above). Information displayed under the cover art are fully customizable (track name, artist, rating…). And you can display iTunes player controls when hovering cover art.

Notifications
When a new track starts playing in iTunes, a beautiful notification can be displayed in the top-right corner, under TunesArt icon in menubar. Then, you’ll know the track name, artist, album, duration, rating and even cover art. If you’d prefer, display a Growl notification instead of TunesArt own notification !

Fast search
Instead of opening iTunes to play a particular track, use the TunesArt ‘fast search’ feature : open the search window with Cmd+S keyboard shortcut, enter your keyword, for example a part of track name or artist name, and results will be displayed instantly! In addition, everything can me performed just with your keyboard.

Keyboard shortcuts
Have you ever been frustrated to quit your keyboard just to perform some basic actions, like volume control, playing next track or changing rating? With TunesArt, you’ll save your time with keyboard shortcuts, available for main features. And all shortcuts are customizable and are available everywhere, everytime.

Lyrics
You love to sing on your favorite tracks? Then, TunesArt is just what you want! A specific window can be opened, with tracks’ lyrics inside and if the track has no lyrics, you can edit them and even launch a search on LyricWiki, Google or Bing. With one click, you can paste & save the clipboard content.

Last.fm
You dreamt of your own radio station? With Last.fm and scrobbling feature of TunesArt, it will now be possible! You’ll be able to publish track name and other information, right on your Last.fm profile. Three modes are offered: normal, ‘Now Playing’ and hybrid mode. And last but not least: TunesArt is able to scrobble tracks played on your iPod!
 

Other features

Post current song’s name on Twitter
Automatic download of artwork when a song has none
Rate current played song ‘on-the-fly’
Growl notifications support
Fast access to your playlists in a submenu
Get visual feedback for most common operations (volume, play, rating…)
Automatic launch at login

Release notes

Version 1.5 (05.08.2011)
- Now compatible with Lion and iTunes 10.4+
- Added Tags manager
- Added Twitter support
- Added new theme “Minimalist”
- Previous/Next buttons can now rewind/fast forward when held down
- Added optional ratings in menu bar
- Added a time progress bar to desktop cover controls
- Revamped controls on desktop cover
- Lyrics can be now pasted from Clipboard and saved with one-click
- Search window now returns Playlists too
- FIX: Fixed improper height of search window in particular situations
- FIX: Fixed impossible drop of artworks on cover with iTunes 10.2+
- FIX: Fixed some other small bugs

Version 1.2.2 (11.04.2011)
- Fixed a bug preventing artworks to be saved with iTunes 10.2.x
- Fixed a bug causing default artwork to be sometimes flipped

Version 1.2.1 (20.02.2011)
- Can now search for ‘Gracenote’ version of lyrics on LyricWiki
- Incomplete lyrics from LyricWiki are not displayed anymore
- FIX: Fixed incomplete localizations
- FIX: Fixed some glitches

Version 1.2 (29.11.2010)
- Revamped Last.FM scrobbler, now supporting Love & Ban features
- Added a basic « Exclusions » feature for Last.fm scrobbler
- New feature to display track’s name in menu bar
- Now looks for album artwork too, if a track has no artwork
- Search window is now organized by album and shows track number
- Added a panel showing artist’s information from Last.fm
- Added a Last.fm submenu
- Growl will now use an unique notification window
- FIX: Fixed a display bug related to desktop cover’s title
- FIX: Radio tracks, podcasts and audiobooks are no longer scrobbled to Last.fm
- FIX: Fixed some bugs
- FIX: Search window position is now saved between launches