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- Tie new licence keys to email address rather than machine ID (old licence keys tied to machine ID continue to work though).
2.1.48
- Option to push artwork to image file in album folder rather than embed within mp3s.
2.1.47
- Change payment method to EUROs.
2.1.46
- Make it scan xml via a text scan if xml parse method fails due to invalid format/characters.
2.1.45
- Dont stretch cover image even when original is smaller than display size.
2.1.44
- Prevent blurry cover images after switching to larger cover size.
- Ensure bespoke taskbar icon.
- Size artist/album text to fit (if too long) in standard covers and playlist.
- Fix random play mode.
2.1.43
- Free unrestricted beta trial until end of May 2007.
- Increase limits of restricted trial version to 30 albums and 30 plays.
- Fix album size changes.
2.1.42
- Fix squashing of album art after shortcut link clicked.
- Options on playlist context menu for submission of queued tracks to local SlimServer for playing on wireless Squeezebox device (if detected).
2.1.40
- Quicker queuing of tracks that reside on network drives.
- Try to start iTunes if not already running when iTAB started.
2.1.39
- Handle UNC file paths stored in iTunes - those that start with network path (//qnap/Public/music/), rather than drive name (H:/music).
- New MINIMAL Album Size in menu - shows more albums at once but no text detail or average rating is shown.
- Handle date/time decoding errors from iTunes database.
- Update all internal links to new website location.
2.1.38
- Only scroll pages via mouse wheel when mouse IN the paged panel.
- Allow alternative iTunes XML File to be specified in Options.
- Backwards compatibility with iTunes 6 (some users dislike the album art feature and gapless playback determination loop - myself included!).
2.1.37
- Allow click on Album in Maximised Now Playing panel to popup the album control (this includes the list of other albums at the bottom).
- Suppress track listings for other albums by artist at bottom of Maximised Now Playing panel (since this can now be obtained by clicking on the covers).
- Improve quality of thumbnails on other albums by artist at bottom of Maximised Now Playing panel.
2.1.36
- Fix bug with next queued track not being refreshed after shuffling the remaining playlist tracks.
- Show album artist after album name in Full Screen Now Playing panel, when it's different to the track artist.
- Add option whether to check for updates automatically on startup, and add manual option to check in menu.
- Add support for half stars - click on the last star again to toggle between full and half star.
- Improve display of track stars on standard Now Playing panel.
- Change rating by key to F1-F5, rather than 0-5 which interpreted filter key presses (must change to 0-stars by click).
2.1.35
- More fixes and enhancements to Maximised Now Playing view, including fade in transition effect when changing album.
- Avoid memory leaks in GDI+ routines.
- Use simpler machine fingerprint (not sensitive to network status changes): changes the licence key but system will accept old and new keys.
- Configure whether to check abum track counts with Amazon (in Preferences).
- Redesign Preferences window with Tabs.
2.1.34
- Some more fixes for non-square album art.
- More minor fixes to Maximised Now Playing view.
- Move amazon track listing to main Now Playing frame (from the links frame)
2.1.33
- Add a summary of other albums (in your iTunes collection) from the playing artist, in the Maximized Now Playing Panel.
2.1.32
- FEATURE: Maximize Now Playing Panel. To turn on (via View menu or small icon in Now Playing panel) when you are done browsing, your playlist is set up, and you just want to sit back and enjoy the music. Displays artist, album, track, rating, cover art, reviews, links, reviews, and lyrics. You can change the rating of the current song by clicking on the star rating. An alternative to iTunes visualiser. Links you click on in the left panel will be opened in the right panel, just click on the top link to go back to the Now Playing information. Revert to standard view via the View menu or clicking the small icon in the top right corner.
- Allow links in Now Playing panel to open in the main album browser panel (controlled via a new Preference).
- Change the rating of the current song by pressing numeric buttons 0,1,2,3,4, or 5 (even in the new Maximized Now Playing panel).
2.1.31
- Add "Clear & Refresh" option to artwork menu - clears cached artwork and forces re-evaluation as if it were a new album.
- Maintain aspect ratio on non-square artwork.
2.1.30
- Fix Clear Playlist button.
- Save playlist before shuffling or clearing (track, album or whole playlist) so that "Restore Last Playlist" functions correctly.
2.1.29
- FREE beta test (full functionality) to 5th January 2007. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- ASK user if the track count is to be updated if the proper count is detected from the Amazon track listing. Will not repeatedly ask, only once.
2.1.28
- Do not play tracks in random play mode after clearing them from the playlist.
- Allow you to clear auto-queue playlist.
- Show total number of tracks for the album on the album detail popup (if different to number of tracks in the database), update this from Amazon track listing if found (and different).
2.1.27
- Allow return key in lyrics editing.
- In Album Score, assume any missing tracks (those in the album but not in your database) are rated 2 stars each.
2.1.26
- New "Hide Album" option on album context menu. This unchecks all the songs in iTunes and so won't display in iTAB again. Use for albums you HATE!
- Lyrics are now editable. Just click in them and edit as required, press TAB and they will be saved in the iTunes track.
- Use "Album Artist" field if specified to collate albums.
2.1.25
- Free beta test period until 15th September 2006, to cover down-time.
2.1.24
- Clear Artwork option on right-click context menu (no longer a "no picture" option on Amazon lookup).
- Include link to online documentation in Help menu.
- Allow 2 different licence keys to be stored and used to support two alternate machine configurations.
2.1.23
- Allow push artwork to iTunes immediately after obtaining artwork from a file.
- Extend free test period to 2nd August 2006.
2.1.22
- Free beta-test period to 30th July 2006.
- Resize album artwork down to 300x300 on pushing to iTunes (when stored artwork is larger) - saves space in mp3 files.
- Only provide "Push Album Art into iTunes" option on Album view (not genre or artist).
2.1.21
- Make sure machine reference number visible in "Re-Request Licence Key" mail body (and on Licence Key entry window as backup).
2.1.20
- Add full licencing and trial features but keep beta test expiry date (for now). Now runs under one of 3 licence states:
- BETA: Full functionality before beta test expiry date, after that reverts to TRIAL mode. NB. Beta test expiry date may be different for each version (see Help/About).
- TRIAL: Limited functionality (only first 20 albums displayed under each sorting criteria, only 10 album or track plays permitted on each run).
- LICENCED: Full functionality, lifetime License embedded. License key must be purchased or (if you have made a donation already) requested, and then embedded (see Help menu for these options).
2.1.19
- Extended licence to end June 2006.
2.1.18
- Improved look on NP panel (default blue theme).
2.1.17
- Allow Amazon server to be specified on Preferences: determines which Amazon server (.co.uk, .com, .de, .co.jp, .fr or .ca) is used to fetch album covers, reviews, listmania lists, similar albums, & prices.
2.1.16
- Costmetic issues addressed.
2.1.15
- Star rating on a separate line on Now Playing header (always available), larger font.
- Show Album information from Amazon under the album cover in Now Playing panel (previously was wasted space) - this is encouragement to Amazon not to block future web requests, since these links should promote sales.
2.1.14
- Quicker refresh of playlist (current track highlight) on track change.
- Refresh star rating on playlist when updated through iTAB.
2.1.13
- Extended licence to 30th May.
2.1.12
- FEATURE: Allow tagged albums to be written to playlist (File menu).
- Allow default album play icon/action to be configured via Preferences (Play NOW or Add to Playlist).
- Change "Add to Playlist" icon with something less ugly.
- Fix unintentional "Play Album" invocation when clicking on partially visible album in scrolling display.
2.1.11
- Higher quality thumbnails on plotting covers.
- FEATURE: Drag an album to the playlist to enqueue it.
- FEATURE: Drag an album to the Now Playing window to play it NOW (clears playlist).
- Fix queue single track NEXT in playlist option.
- Split artist and track name on playing timeline.
2.1.10
- Do not queue up dead tracks, messes up playing playlist.
- Show track timeline even when paused.
- Changes to the way albums and tracks are queued:
- Play Album NOW icon [>] always clears the playlist and plays the selected album immediately (stops any other track playing).
- New [+] icon on detail popup (and album context menu) used to add Album to playlist (by default at the end, if control or shift held down queues NEXT after playing track). Current track keeps playing.
- Click on single track adds it to the end of the playlist, or NEXT if control or shift held down. Current track keeps on playing.
- More images added to menus.
2.1.09
- Highlight Playing Track in Playlist with green background.
- Deal with nulls in loading playlist.
2.1.08
- More minor playlist fixes.
- Show single tracks in playlist with single (pale) background colour, looks simpler.
2.1.07
- Show album cover even for single tracks in playlist (smaller than album header though).
- Show full track name on hover over truncated name in album detail.
2.1.06
- Show next auto-queued track semi-transparent. Replace this with manually queued track if added before it plays (hence no need to wait til half way thru last track til it auto-queues).
- Only show disc separator in album view.
- Show covers even when playlist loaded from file.
- Show track# in album detail in grey box. More width for track# on 120dpi screens.
- Fix pause/play.
2.1.05
- Option to hide played tracks (NB. Incompatible with random play mode, setting one turns off the other).
- When AutoPlay ON and NEXT hit on last track in playlist (even in first half of track), queue up a random song and play it.
- Option to Restore Last Playlist (eg. after exit and re-entry, or accidentally clearing the playlist).
- If PLAY is hit when nothing in playlist and Auto-Queue is on, queue up a random track and play.
- If you exit iTAB while playing, send the remaining tracks in the iTAB playlist to iTunes so that it can continue playing without iTAB. Refresh these on re-entry to iTAB if still playing.
2.1.04
- Show track number in album detail popup (separate discs with horizontal line).
- Option to SHUFFLE remaining tracks in the playlist. NB. This is subtly different from RANDOM play mode.
2.1.02
- Rename Shuffle to "Random Play", and ensure no repetition until everything played.
- Move all playlist options to within the playlist itself (including Auto-Queue option, no longer in preferences).
2.1.01
- FEATURE: Ability to Auto-Queue a track from an iTunes Playlist when the iTAB playlist runs out of tracks. Will be auto-queued when more than half way through the last track. iTunes playlist to use specified in Preferences.
2.1.00
Whats New In Version 2.1.00 :
- FEATURE: Reorderable playlist (can be docked to left or right via
Preferences). Playlist can be sorted manually via drag/drop (single
tracks or whole albums). Selected tracks or albums can be deleted via a
right-click context menu. Playlist can be put into Shuffle mode via header context menu.
Playlists can also be saved and later reloaded ("Saved Playlist" is automatically saved in case you close iTAB).
NB. The iTunes special playlist is retained to ensure
smooth track transitions but is not meant to be viewed, the playlist
is managed by iTAB (option to play in Party Shuffle removed) .
- Play buttons on albums now enqueue the album at the end of the playlist, shift-click or
control-click the play buttons to "Play Now".
- FEATURE: Can now filter by year (just enter year as filter text
eg. "2005", "1996") or decade (eg. "1990s", "2000s"). So now you can
find your top 10 albums of any year or decade by applying such a
filter and then ordering by Score.
- Distribute example "Steel" theme (similar to iTunes appearance)
as alternative to default XP Blue. NB. Rename it if you want to edit it, to avoid changes being overwritten on future upgrades.
- Track listing removed under now playing or selected album cover
in left panel. Track listing now obtained by clicking on the cover in the left panel (allows rating changes).
- Simplify theme editing by removing user-controlled positioning
(size,location,anchor and dock).
- Higher quality thumbnail images.
- Smoother timeline (eliminate flashing).
- Button added to invoke iTunes Graphic Equaliser (NB. May appear underneath iTAB, will
be replaced with proper equaliser later).
- Previous Track button removed: if you want to go back to replay a played track
double-click on the playlist on the desired track.
- Fixed Choose Album Art From Amazon feature (thanks to Vader).
2.0.33
- Fix retrieval of artwork from iTunes tracks.
- Only get more artist tracks when Artist tab of NP window visible.
- Fix TextAlign theme-edit property.
2.0.32
- More memory issues (different xml parsing routine so report any issues found via forum - revert to 2.0.31 if necessary).
- More 120dpi issues fixed (show all 5 stars in album detail).
- Ignore tracks that are disabled (unchecked) in iTunes.
- Extension of beta licence to end April 2006
2.0.30
- Address further issues running on 120dpi screens.
- Search for covers via Amazon for new albums automatically in the background (reinstated preference to do this).
- Check if iTunes is running on startup, error message if not so.
2.0.29
- Address various issues running on 120dpi screens (maybe not all yet, much improved though).
- Improved current song highlight in Now Playing album track listing.
- Release now includes setup.exe, for non-XP clients.
2.0.28
- Remove playlist queue threading (2.0.26) since with large libraries this can actually make it slower - to be investigated.
2.0.27
- Add uninstall option to program group. Move debug icon to start menu. Change program icon.
2.0.26
- Check for updates on startup.
- Show Internet Connection status on message line.
- Thread playlist queueing to make iTAB more responsive.
2.0.25
- Revert to using Date Added for "most recent" albums rather than Date Modified.
2.0.24
- Make tags user-specific.
- Rename own playlist to "iTAB Playlist"
- Remove Auto-Lookup Artwork option - slows down painting thread.
- Allow you to view other possible compilation albums (same album name with tracks from different artists, that are NOT marked with the compilation flag) via special filter and then mark the tracks in these with the compilation flag (via right-click menu) so that they are picked up automatically from then on.
2.0.23
- New look volume control and time-line for current track (simpler, cleaner).
- More standard looking play/pause/next/prev buttons.
- Mute and full volume icons either side of volume control now respond to mouse clicks.
2.0.22
- Only auto-start EvilLyrics if not already started!
- Prevent looking up artwork from iTunes tracks every time if missing. Do this check only on getting all covers.
- Add Play/Enqueue Album right-click options to "Now Playing" album (in cases where you aren't playing from an album and want to play the whole album including the current track).
2.0.21
- FEATURE: Allow albums to be tagged (via right-click menu): Can filter to show tagged albums only. This can be used to tag your favourites, those that you intend to listen to soon, or any other reason. Tagged albums are shown with a large yellow star (top left) in album cover view.
- Highlight current track in current album track listing.
- Auto-start EvilLyrics if integrated.
2.0.20
- Allow to filter albums by track name (within an album) by putting search string in double quotes.
- Use modified date for most recent albums not date added (sometimes you have to add old albums again).
- Interpret blank compilation flag as false.
2.0.19
- Backed out the mod that allowed drag/drop between albums: too many problems.
2.0.18
- Reinstate right-click menu on albums.
- Remember theme.
2.0.17
- Fix serious bug falling over on new installations (since 2.0.0!).
2.0.16
- Drag a cover image from one album to another to copy artwork.
2.0.15
- Open properly when iTunes is playing a CD.
- Show artist in Now Playing panel even if it doesn't fit.
2.0.14
- Fix bug introduced in 2.0.13 : Save override of image.
2.0.13
- Extend beta test licence expiry to end of March 2006.
- Allow unselected order-by/group-by image templates to be configured in a theme.
- Allow image to be reset once it's been changed from default.
2.0.12
- Add "Copy to Desktop" option to images in theme editor. Will force embedded image to be saved as a .png file on the desktop and then put into standard png editor (using the .png file association). Transparency should be preserved. NB. You still have to override the image in the theme editor with the edited image by pulling from the desktop once edited and saved.
- Rename \Flavours subfolder to \Themes and rename .img files in a theme to .png (will do this automatically).
2.0.11
- Fix next page icon.
- Fix startup error when track in no album playing when starting.
- Don't show playlist when playing from main library.
2.0.10
- Make more images configurable via theme (Play Now and Enqueue buttons on album detail still to be done).
2.0.09
- Turn off Visible property configurablility - has strange effects when switching themes.
- Make picture file search pick up other picture formats by default.
- Refresh album properly when new cover image is selected via drag/drop or file search.
2.0.08
- Album detail display now configurable too.
- More stable highlight rectangle around configurable controls in theme edit mode.
2.0.07
- Save ForeColor and Text property overrides in theme edit properly.
- Allow album display properties (font and colours) to be edited as part of a theme (album detail display still to be made configurable, however).
2.0.06
- Avoid FreezePaint on startup too.
- Save side panel width when window maximized.
- Fix progress bar display problem.
2.0.05
- Avoid FreezePaint on page refresh to try to avoid Beam's display problem?
- Fix * display in queue.
- Fix push artwork from preferences (COM error)?
2.0.04
- Fixed the window resize issue.
2.0.03
- Open up the properties to give much more power to theme editors.
- Reset/Clear options via right-click menu on theme property editor.
- Clear option can clear the default Image or Background Image property.
- NB. The new version of .NET may have screwed up window resizing. I'll check this fully when I can. For now you can edit the registry settings Width and Height in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\iTunesAlbumBrowser then restart iTAB.
2.0.02
- Smoother screen transformations (less painting while screen is being changed, on switching themes for example).
- Save edited theme info in named folders: will make subsequent sharing and distribution easy.
- Remember selected theme between sessions.
2.0.01
- Fix page shortcut forecolor in default theme.
- Fix the window size on theme edit (will prevent items being lost).
- Maximize will not take over taskbar.
2.0.00
- FEATURE: Themes. There are no predefined themes but this feature allows you to edit your own. Try out the View/Themes menu. It's not quite complete yet but will let you have a play around with it to see how it flies.
1.0.90
- Albums with "Various Artists" or "Various" in tracks' artist fields treated the same as compilations (put under @ shortcut in artist sort order)
- Album/Artist starting with number put under "#" shortcut (before "A").
- Don't show album text under play icon.
- Show compilation artwork in More tab.
1.0.89
- Refresh playlist on adding album/track.
- Add Clear (Track) and Clear All options on playlist (via right-click context menu).
- Always show current track on timeline.
1.0.88
- Album Track Listing put under album art in Now Playing Detail tab (when album is recognised in your collection).
- Fix: Cure ever-increasing mousewheel paging increment.
- Add option for mousewheel page movement : one page per click or one page per group of clicks.
- Get album review text from Reviews folder cache.
- FEATURE: You can now expand the "Next" box height to show more tracks in the playlist queue (NB. Can't display anything if the playing playlist is in Shuffle mode).
1.0.87
- New "Auto" paging option: forces single scrolling page if <= 100 filtered albums, otherwise forces paged view. NB. This is now the default on new installations.
- New option to force shortcut links to be interpreted as Pages (the default). So, for example shortcut link "P" when ordering by Artist will show all albums on a single scrolling page for Artists starting with the letter P. Next/Previous Page buttons work in this mode too. Click on "All" shortcut link to revert to standard paging/scrolling. NB. Thanks to Beam's girlfriend for the idea!
- Time elapsed/remaining on timeline.
1.0.86
- Move iTunes control buttons to top panel, and add Volume and TimeBar sliders.
1.0.85
- Various minor fixes.
- Control-click or Shift-click in Selected Album mode forces lookup of album reviews from Amazon. Otherwise doesn't look up because of potential delay.
- Cleaner lines. Remove standard windows frame. (NB. Resize is now via bottom right corner only)
1.0.84
- Accept ENTER key on changing filter as well as TAB.
- FEATURE: Transform the Now Playing panel into a generic Detail panel which can work on a Selected album, or the album currently playing in iTunes. The user can switch the display as required between these two (similar to the cover artwork option in iTunes itself). When in "Now Playing" mode, the album detail popup functions as it did before, but in "Selected Album" mode, the album detail is now displayed within the Detail panel. This panel is now docked on the left rather than the right.
- Order tracks by Disk No. then Track No in More tab.
- Show >30 tracks in Album Detail.
1.0.83
- Fix white text in More tabs.
- Show ampersands properly in album/track/artist labels.
- Reflect any change to artwork on repainting browse window.
1.0.82
- Extended iTunes control, showing artist and name of next track.
- Show iTunes playlists in filter presets (still applies album qualification check).
- Attempt at "tabs within tabs" view for More detail when artist has lots of albums.
- Allow drag of image into cover on NP panel.
1.0.81
- Nicer page header.
- For scrolling pages make mouse scrollwheel scroll the page the user is on.
- Fix: Avoid upper truncation of now playing album text.
- Tracks from the NP album that are in iTunes now go under NP cover, rather than in More tab (things in here are now the OTHER albums from this artist).
- NB. Track listing (from Amazon) now shown as popup tooltip on NP cover.
- Nicer filter preset list (ready to plug playlists in).
1.0.80
- Reinstate the iTunes control buttons that went missing in 1.0.79.
1.0.79
- FEATURE: Provide options for scrollable pages.
- Provide touch-screen-friendly larger paging buttons.
- Spread the albums out evenly over the available space.
- Highlight the selected album, shortcut links now go to page the album is on rather than forcing it to start at that album, so this highlighting is important.
- Only fetch art from mp3s for albums, not best of artist/genre compilations.
1.0.78
- FEATURE: Full-screen Jukebox Mode, takes over entire workspace (press ESC to cancel). NB. Does work on secondary screen provided the window is on that screen when you invoke fullscreen mode.
- When single track queued and iTunes not playing, play it.
1.0.77
- Remove lyrics search, rely on EvilLyrics cache only now.
- FEATURE: Provide filter presets, including "Albums with No Covers", star ratings, and genres.
- Remove filter Apply and Cancel text buttons, small cancel button now clears the filter, just changing the text and tabbing off it applies the filter.
- Fix: Improve the internal iTunes track searching function.
1.0.76
- Additional tooltip hint text.
- Enforce 1 request per second rule to Amazon web service.
- FEATURE: Add option to search the EvilLyrics cache for lyrics.
1.0.75
- Order tracks in More tab (by track number in albums, by name in [All]).
- Also show in More tab: tracks which do not belong to an album.
- Remove title and picture from More tab (keep it simple).
1.0.74
- Improve the look of covers with no album art.
- When compilation album is playing, show correct cover in Now Playing panel.
- Fix display of stars in reviews panel.
- FEATURE: First attempt at a "More" tab in the now playing panel: Allows you to see at a glance all the tracks you have in your collection for the playing artist, grouped by album (including albums that don't qualify for display in the main window). Click on any track to add it to the playing queue.
1.0.73
- Show page links for #plays sort option.
- Show blank artist for compilations rather than "Various Artists", show these at the end on Artist sort (under "@" page link). Order by album name only for these compilations, not by year.
- NOTE: Your cached artwork for compilations (and best of artist collections) will no longer match the new naming mechanism. You can rename files manually in the Program Files\JezSoft\iTunesAlbumBrowser\Covers folder if you want to rectify this: rename "Various Artists - [albumName].jpg" to "[albumName].jpg", and "[Artist] - .jpg" to "[Artist].jpg".
1.0.72
- Add #plays to sort options (album plays = total track playcount / #tracks). NB. Only evaluated on startup.
- Reshuffle the tracks after playing album when playlist is in shuffle mode.
1.0.71
- Change rating of track in NP Panel updates the album/track rating.
- Fix to catastrophic error introduced in 1.0.70 (I hope).
- FEATURE: Write lyrics to iTunes track on stopping playing rather than when started, to prevent hiccup/skip.
- FEATURE: Option to get highest quality artwork from Amazon.
1.0.70
- Fix Google Image Search String.
- Control or shift click on Track in Album Detail adds to playlist and forces it to be played.
- Fix to get correct album art from mp3s when same track in several albums.
- Retrieve track lyrics from iTunes when present in the song file. If lyrics search is on, will also write lyrics to iTunes track if new option is set (don't want to do it by default since playing track "hiccups" when you write information to it).
- Remove space-saving options (except for delete album). If anyone really wants them, can add registry entry Admin=True.
- Make album detail pop up under the mouse within the main window (so will work when main window is on secondary monitor).
1.0.69
- Show time of each track in album detail.
- Change the way tracks are grouped into albums. The album key is now Artist + Album Name, unless the "Part of a Compilation" flag on the tracks is on, then the key is Album Name only. This replaces the "Split Album" functionality that attempted this without the Part of a Compilation flag.
- Allow more info (full track listing, reviews, cover) for ANY album to be shown in NP panel (via new right-click option, or double-click in inactive area).
- Use only standard windows fonts Tahoma, Verdana and Courier New to avoid runtime errors.
1.0.68
- Don't try to look up best of genre album cover.
- Never delete iTunes artwork, only add to it if import forced.
- Get artwork embedded within MP3 files automatically (gives up if not found in first 3 tracks). If found will not try to auto-fetch from Amazon (if this is turned on).
1.0.67
- Minor fixes.
- More debug on startup to help fault diagnosis.
1.0.66
- Allow grouping by Genre.
- Album detail now available via click in active area rather than hover, and it is INTERACTIVE (allows queue of single track or change of ratings).
- Play/Pause/Next/Prev iTunes control buttons in NP panel.
- Start visualizer in full screen mode via button in NP panel.
- Show what song is coming next and allow user to skip it.
1.0.65
- Reduce threading issues.
- Save reviews for each album in separate files.
- Jewel case on NP Cover view.
1.0.64
- Replaced Now Playing & Lyrics secondary slide-in windows with a panel, docked on the right hand side of the main window.
- Moved lyrics and cover art web lookups in Now Playing panel to a background worker thread to avoid delay on track change (main window stays responsive).
- Added Amazon Reviews to Now Playing panel.
- Form menu replaces less frequent operations, plus provides
- Help/About (version number) and web link.
1.0.63
- Order by Album Year / Group by Artist combination not allowed.
- Hour glass on dragging image from web to cover.
- No icons on context menus.
- Fix to COM error on importing into iTunes (with long album names).
1.0.62
- Show on (bottom) right the value that the current ordering has used for each album.
Planned Enhancements
- Proxy settings for web access behind a firewall ?
- Winamp/WMP integration as alternative to iTunes - will make this a generic album browser
- Handle COM errors gracefully while iTunes busy.
- Documentation/Help