[Release] Winamp CD Case RC 3

[Carlos11]

Winamp CD Case RC3 released (03 Apr 2006)

What's new?

Main core rewritten

New notifier text engine

Set any font, color, size and style

Set shadow, outline and upper case

Set outline color

Two independent lines (different fonts can be used)

%newline% tag is back

Redesigned progress bar

Set progress bar and back color

Progress bar styles: borderless, Filling, Modern, Slider, Solid and Transparent

Added Fancy rating (part of the skin now)

Progress bar/Fancy rating: pad top and left

Added Lock position to the context menu

Added option to disable the hotkey

Bicubic filter is used to resize case itself and fancy rating

Improved pin to desktop feature

Improved ID3v2 cover tag reader

Improved Winamp plugin

Improved Web Radio support

Most of the options moved from registry to a settings.ini

Skin settings stored in a skin.ini now

Small bugs fixed

Readme.txt updated

Aura skin added

Download

Full (*): http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Winam...se/1109367710/1

(*) skins settings were updated

Forum build (not officially released)

RC 3 Build 10 (05 Apr 2006)

- Fixed balloon bug

- Set song's rate by clicking the fancy rating

- Right click the fancy rating to set no rating

RC 3 Build 37 (08 Apr 2006)

- New possible name: CD Art Display

-Control Panel instead Skin Manager, Options and About windows

RC 3 Build 64 (09 Apr 2006)

- Improved toggle on top (hotkey) feature: now it toggles even when pinned to desktop

- Moved "Lock position" from "Options" to context menu (on the fly change*)

- Moved "Window level" from "Options" to context menu (on the fly change*)

- Moved "Magnetic borders" from "Options" to context menu (on the fly change*)

- Internal changes due new name

- Winamp plugin updated due new name (see Readme.txt inside the zip!)

* No need to reload the entire program

RC3 Build 93 (09 Apr 2006)

- Improved hotkey feature (CP>Options>Hotkeys tab)

- Set hotkeys for rating

- Context menu changes

RC3 Build 229 (14 Apr 2006) - See Readme.txt inside the zip!

- Control Panel redesigned (tree view added, cleaner interface)

- Hotkeys improved and more was added

- New Help file and context Help added (click "Help" link or press F1 while in Control Panel)

- Some general improvements

- Small bugs fixed

RC3 Build 299 (18 Apr 2006)

- A full setup is ready for this build;

- This build supports Winamp, AlbumPlayer and iTunes!

Full setup (913KB): http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc3b299.zip

Please test this build! Your feedback is important so we can release a stable RC4!

RC3 Build 314 (19 Apr 2006) - For those already using RC3 Build 299!

- "Search Google" link added in Search Cover window (the default browser will be started)

- Minor bugs fixed

RC3 Build 345 (22 Apr 2006) - For those already using RC3 Build 299 (link above)!

- "Cover" context menu item added (Search, Browse Amazon, Browse Google, View, Open folder, Save As..., Delete, Reload)

- System tray will detect an Explorer crash

- Help file updated

- Winamp plugin improved (*)

- Minor improvements

(*) Note: the zip file has a folder named "plugin"; this folder is created when you install CAD; you can copy this folder into CAD main folder replacing the old one; inside the "plugin" folder: you have the plugin dlls plus a small application to uninstall your old CAD/WCC plugin and install the new version.

Download: http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc3b345.zip

Screenshot

Have fun! :D

wccrc3.zip

Edited April 22, 2006 by Carlos11

[noroom]

Fantastic work. :)

Anyone interested in my port of Lucid for Rainlendar, click here.

Preview:

[fAlCoNNiAn]

Amazing as always, keep up the great work (Y)

[HipHopaholic]

oooooooooo sweet!

[Purple Haze]

For me, this version works the best out of any. If this were the official 1.0 release, there wouldn't be any disappointment from me. Kudos and thanks!

[Lee G. Veteran]

Amazing, thanks :happy:

[Meshuggah]

updated, thanks :)

[illicit]

For me, this version works the best out of any. If this were the official 1.0 release, there wouldn't be any disappointment from me. Kudos and thanks!

Yup, I am with you on that.

Awesome work as always. :D

[Hawk999]

Fantastic work. this version is definitely the best! Now I can center the text. :)

Thanks Carlos.

[hotdog666al]

I just spent about 3 Hours sticking album art on my 21GB music library.

That was SO worth it!

I LOVE this program!

[Lee G. Veteran]

I just spent about 3 Hours sticking album art on my 21GB music library.

That was SO worth it!

I LOVE this program!

Yeah - that's the main reason I use it; it's great for searching for album art and viewing it when each song plays.

[ThePitt]

Thanks! :D

[Carlos11]

Thank you all for you support and feedback! :D

What about a little history since WCC is one year old!

Alpha Zero (Feb 2005):

- I'm testing it for the first time

- Cover resizing without bicubic filter

Alpha 1 to 9 (Feb to Mar 2005)

- Althought released as an Alpha program a FileForum user said it was the worst program ever :)

- During Alpha stage several options were added and a real simple skin support implemented

- Cover resize with bicubic filter

- Case just a gif image (no transparency)

Beta 1 to 11 (Apr to Dec 2005)

- PNG support for case an notifier

- Added new options

- Better skin support

- Some users still like Beta 10 due some radical changes in RC 1! :)

RC 1 to 2 (Feb to Mar 2006)

- PNG used as font

RC 3 (Apr 2006)

- Thanks to KSoft help the notifier text was implemented the way I've always wanted

- Lots of new features that you're testing right now! :D

More than one year of work, great feedback and some new friends!

Thank you again and... well you know... Have fun! :D

[Eli]

Fantastic work. :)

Anyone interested in my port of Lucid for Rainlendar, click here.

Preview:

http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/2847/preview9jz.jpg

How did you get it so that it's the same height as rainlender? Mine is bigger.

[cchasem]

would it be possible to get this to work with foobar, or is that.. you know.. stupid? :/

[Carlos11]

WCC works with foobar2000 0.8x and the new 0.9.

Just install the Winamp API Emulator plugin for Foobar2000: http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/foobar/

:)

[noroom]

How did you get it so that it's the same height as rainlender? Mine is bigger.

That's weird. Make sure the Zoom is set to 100% in the 2nd tab of the skin manager.

Edit: Oh! Duh! Sorry guys, but for that Lucid skin to be the same size as Rainlendar, you have to pick the Large days subskin of Lucid, in Rainlendar. I didn't know it was bigger than the regular one, and I made the Lucid skin to be the size of the Large days one. You can try using the zoom feature (as described above) to adjust the size

Edited April 4, 2006 by noroom

[Wildies]

Great update Carlos (Y)

and thanx noroom for the Luicd skin..

[Dazzeh]

Hey, i got a feature request...

Can you make it so you can right click while a tracks on and have an option to bring up the ID3 tag details and ability to change them and save.

I type all my tags in, beacuse they're usually blank when i get them, so i spend hours changing them all, but i make the odd mistake..

So when i see this mistake, i would like to alter it while its there, rather than go through hunting for the file..?

I would of thought this would be quite easy but would be essential for me!

-Thanks :D

[noroom]

Can you make it so you can right click while a tracks on and have an option to bring up the ID3 tag details and ability to change them and save.

Whoa.. Um, if you use Winamp, all you have to do is double click the song ticker. My winamp is set to always on top in windowshade mode, up there in the titlebar area of maximized windows, so editing ID3 tags is a double-click away for me. In the worst case, it'll be 4 clicks for you: 1. Unhide tray icons, 2. Click the winamp one, 3. Double click the song ticker.

And to edit ID3 tags, I recommend MP3tag. I wouldn't use any other software.

[Dazzeh]

Ah cool, never seen that before!

Looking very pro now;

[Carlos11]

Dazzeh,

1) tag question: you can also right click the WCC case and select "Open folder": the song's folder will be opened and the song will be highlighted.

2) Did you make your fancy rating images? Can you share with us? Cool screenshot!

:)

[Gavin001]

Also i'd like to know wat font that is ur usin Dazzeh :)

[Dazzeh]

The font is Acens (Click to download)

Have attatched the rating images in a zip , Its only (0,2,4,6,8,10).png because thats all i could select anyway, So didnt bother with the rest

Glad you liked :)

Rating.zip

Also, Carlos...Have you thought about a website for this program, think it would make it much more accessable rather than 3/4 topics on a forum? If your intereted let me know on msn (added you today) and we'll talk.

Edited April 5, 2006 by Dazzeh

[Dazzeh]

Update

Install instructions : Extract to skins/case and overwrite previous folder

Download : ratings.zip