After nearly a year and a half, the next release of iTunesCheck (0.91) seems to be ready. I can’t even begin to describe what’s changed since 0.8, it’s been so long since that went out on the web and I develop so sporadically (sporadic motion, see?). This release seems to work well with Tiger, and it uses the iTunes notifications to determine song changes so it won’t hog your CPU watching iTunes anymore. The window positioning, sizing, and displaying code has been rewritten several times since 0.8, and the album art should be much higher quality now. There is now the option to have your info window have a different background color from your other windows, so you can make your info window clear if you want. Uhh… there are other changes. I’m not sure what they are. We’re starting to move into the realm where the goals are application stability and performance rather than feature additions. So you people who have Macs, let me know what you think. Those of you who don’t, don’t follow that link because the software won’t work for you. I’m sorry — you should have bought a better computer. *elitist asshole shrug*
as seen through the storm age eight five
January 21st, 2006 at 1:56 am
I know my computer is junk. That’s about the only thing I understood in that post, guess thats why I don’t live in Scott Hall….
January 21st, 2006 at 8:40 am
Dude-Way cool mods-Everything seems to work well. I can now show off to my friends again how my geek brother created this nifty lil’ program. I’ll be the most popular kid on the ol’ block!
January 21st, 2006 at 11:53 am
Hey man, that’s some great stuff, and some funny writing up in there, but yeah you rawk.
Dan J.
January 21st, 2006 at 7:16 pm
I like the new version – it’s now almost as good as PTH. I’d still like more control over the type and the ability to center the window horizontally. Also, sometimes the artwork does not appear although the space where it goes does – usually when the info panel is user activated. Good work, though.
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:00 am
I dig it. I was tired of 0.8, but I wasn’t going to bother you about updating it since it worked. I was just hoping that 0.9 hadn’t been the default download for people that whole time.
January 25th, 2006 at 3:43 am
great work ! I was using YouControliTunes, but that was slowing down the performances of my G4 powerbook;
iTunesCheck is a lot more faster ;-) One thing was good on control : if you are using the computer at the same time, you can click on the info panel and it disapears (I like to put 15 secs time to not ruffle an artwork or the name of the song)… anyway, thanks for your work and sorry for bad english