[Release] CD Art Display RC6


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CD Art Display RC6 (15Mar2007)

CD Art Display RC6 was officially released today.

Soon 1.0 final will be released.

About

CD Art Display (formerly Winamp CD Case) is a skinnable display that shows the now playing song cover on your desktop.

CD Art Display supports Windows Media Player 11, Winamp, AlbumPlayer, MP3Toys, iTunes, MediaMonkey, foobar2000, musikCube and QCD/QMP.

What's new?

Added support for Windows Media Player 11

Added support for musikCube

Added more hotkeys

Added text lines Pad Left

Added custom text area width

Added custom text area height

Added Browse Discogs (context menu)

Improved ID3 cover extraction

Improved cover transition effect

General improvements

Bugs fixed

Help file updated

Download

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/CD_Ar...ay/1109367710/1

Have fun! :)

CAD RC6 Build 1071 (05May2007) released

Details in post #73: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...amp;p=588531355

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Edited by Carlos11
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I have a confusing problem;

I have CAD set to open itunes when it opens, I always had it set like this, it always worked fine. But I just a tried to start it up now and and it refuses to open itunes with it. Whats with this I havn't changed anything at all... worked fine yesterday.

Thanks for WMP11 support!

I was waiting for this since I got my Zen (Moved from Winamp as main player)

Just an idea, could you make a player selection menu in the right click menu? Would be quicker to change player when you use more than one player.

Or even better, an option to grab any CDarts from all programs so no need to change players, it will simply change to the latest song played from any player.

Btw, to you have any guide to make a skin? Pretty confusing the ini thing :s

That won't happen because it will be a completly new program in another programming language. :rofl:
I don't know about programation, but if you make it hide the main program and make it output it's interface you could grab it in your sidebar gadget... no? I don't know how to explain it, but I know that Samurize do it via it's Server. Don't know me... but I agree that I would like to get my CDart in the sidebar :)

@Nienor

It seems that you use a lot of players! :D

You can see CAD Help or visit CAD forum for how to make a skin:

http://closetosoftware.com/forum/index.php

Anyway, you don't have to look at the ini file since CAD has the Control Panel from where you can adjust the skin settings (excepting for rotation and mirror effect).

Did you set CAD to exit when player is ended?

Its fine now thou :) i deleted everything and reinstalled althou for some reason when i go to 'Select Player' i cant choose

foobar2000

Location:C:\Program Files\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe

i have to choose winAMP for it 2 work

winAMP

Location:C:\Documents and Settings\Gavin\Application Data\foobar2000\winamp.exe

i dont even have winAMP installed :s when i choose the foobar2000 option and apply it doesnt seem to recognize foobar playing and just closes itself after a couple of seconds!

And yes i have set it up to exit when player is ended!

Its fine now thou :) i deleted everything and reinstalled althou for some reason when i go to 'Select Player' i cant choose

foobar2000

Location:C:\Program Files\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe

i have to choose winAMP for it 2 work

winAMP

Location:C:\Documents and Settings\Gavin\Application Data\foobar2000\winamp.exe

i dont even have winAMP installed :s when i choose the foobar2000 option and apply it doesnt seem to recognize foobar playing and just closes itself after a couple of seconds!

And yes i have set it up to exit when player is ended!

Some foobar2000 mods + plugin can trick CAD. In your case CAD can only see the Winamp "window" created probably by a plugin and not the foobar2000 original window...

If you want you can download the tool below then drag the mark (a bull eye alike in the main interface) over your foobar2000 main window title. After that take a screenshot of the results and send it to my email: [email protected]

Maybe I could make CAD see your foobar2000....

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/wingrabber.zip

By the way, thank you all for your feedback! :)

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