CD Art Display 1.0 (24Aug2007)

[Carlos11]

CD Art Display 1.0 (24Aug2007)

CD Art Display is a skinnable application that shows the now playing song cover on your desktop. It's an addon that fully works with AlbumPlayer, Helium Music Manager, iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, MediaMonkey and partially supports qmp, MP3Toys, musikCube and foobar2000 (Winamp API Emulator plugin).

History note

The first CD Art Display alpha was released in 25Feb2005. It was just for Winamp and that's why it was named Winamp CD Case (WCC) back then. The case was just a bmp file and folder.jpg was the only option for a local cover.

After more than 2 years CD Art Display 1.0 is a bit better, stable and supports more players.

That's all. Today, 24Aug2007, is the official CD Art Display 1.0 release!! :)

What's new?

- New engine: mirror, rotation, shear, round corners, blend and cover transition

- New toolbar with repeat and shuffle support

- New player volume

- New Panel and extended panel feature

- New text soft shadow and scrolling features

- New seek/progress bar feature

- New mixed progress bar

- New lyrics viewer

- New rating and custom text rating

- New skin appearance settings

- New skin Styles

- New context menu

- New Options and Skin Editor instead Control Panel

- Added Helium player support

- Improved stability

- Fixed bugs

Requirements

- Windows Vista or Windows XP

- Visual Basic run-time 6 SP6

- Visual Basic run-time 5 (just if you're using Windows Vista)

Download

Full setup: cad1setup.zip - 1.03MB

Main executable (*): cad1.zip - 0.76MB

(*) copy "Default" skin into CAD "Skins" subfolder

Skins

Check Skin Gallery at CD Art Display forum so you can test all new features.

Screenshot

Acknowledgment

I'd like to thank you all for support CAD in any way.

Specially I'd like to thank OtisBee for all his ideas and help regarding all new features.

:)

Edited August 25, 2007 by Carlos11

[noroom]

And 1.0 is here.

Spread the word.

[ThePitt]

Thanks!. A long wait now finally here!

[GEIST]

Carlos, you are the man. Thanks so much for putting so much work into this excellent little program. :D

[fred65]

Cool... does CDAD have it's own website?? Or is it just on Neowin?

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[Scirwode]

Ah, the journey ends, or in this case is just beginning :p . Thank you.

Scirwode

[Jase]

congrats on getting this far! (Y)

[noroom]

Cool... does CDAD have it's own website?? Or is it just on Neowin?

http://www.closetosoftware.com/

[Wildies]

Really u done alot of work in this project carlos , great work man (Y)

[Rob2687]

Hot stuff!

[Toology]

I don't think I've used this since last November. Good job; especially with getting some sexy skins. :)

[ROM3000]

Great program, thanks carlos. Been waiting for this update for a while.

[andy_rose]

Yeah, thanx for the final version.

I see the new Winamp beta has a built-in cover-art feature, but yours is much better. But of course, using the built-in uses less resources.

Anyway, thanx for finally finishing V1 :)

Andy

[beautiful.blood]

i loved this program on my old windows computer am hoping in some way that it will be able to be used on a mac

[Carlos11]

Thank you all for your kind words! They are an impulse to keep the project alive! :)

[Randolph]

I seem to be having a little trouble. How do I make it so it downloads covers for each CD I load?

Do I change the circled?

[ThePitt]

you mean in the same directory?

%songfolder%folder.jpg

[Carlos11]

In addition, see Help for details and examples. :)

[ThePitt]

I see the new Winamp beta has a built-in cover-art feature

But the skin has to support it?

Dunno about the new winamp releases because I use an old one and is enough for me.

[Carlos11]

Tho Winamp has cover art support CAD will still use the same procedure to find and load the cover. Nothing changed regarding that.

[filter04]

Carlos11, excellent program. I've used it for sometime.

The only improvement that I can suggest is that you somehow use Apple's CD art library as an automatic download source, as their CD covers are high resolution.

For example: http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/

Again, excellent program!

[Carlos11]

Thanks filter04.

By the way, there are really high resolution covers in thejosher.net, wow! :)