13.09.2005 | 23:40
CoverFlow, Tech Demo August 2005
Thanks for trying out CoverFlow. Things to note:
• This is a tech demo, and does not necessarily represent the final product. It's probably going to crash and/or not work on a variety of people's machines.
• It will stop working on the 14th September. There may or may not be a new version out by then.
If you're not comfortable with any of the above, don't use it.
There are two reasons for this release:
• To try and catch bugs and figure out what does & doesn't work on various people's computers. If it crashes, tell me. However, I'm going to want a crash report from you (click the 'Report' button and cut & paste the entire text from there), and any relevant looking text that appears in Console (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app)
• For you to tell me how I can improve CoverFlow. Feature requests can be submitted on the CoverFlow site, and if enough people think it's a good idea, I'll try and add them.
Visit
www.steelskies.com/coverflow for more.
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Instructions
Load CoverFlow, and wait while it gathers your album artwork from various sources. Currently, CoverFlow supports reading artwork from your MP3 tags, Synergy, Clutter, and Amazon.
You can navigate through your albums using the arrow keys, by clicking/dragging the slider, or simply typing the text of the album title.
Double-click an album to play it in iTunes.
Right-click an album to give options for web searching. You can drag an image onto an album to replace the artwork.
Check out the Preferences to allow you to filter your albums through various criteria.
Any problems, email us at
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Changelog
1.7
-New and exciting text field for searching, which supports éxtendêd charäcters and all that juicy goodness.
-Reduced CPU usage while idle
-Mighty Mouse support
-Redundant Amazon checks shouldn't happen so much
-Sorting bugs fixed, and 'The' bands ignored (like iTunes)
-Aliased music folders now work, regardless how many levels of alias you have
-Added Genre filtering in the preferences window
-ARTchive support
1.6
- iTunes-style filter searching. (Simply type to invoke, and hit Escape to clear. Searches artist, album, and genre)
- Mousewheel can now be used for scrolling
- Fixed a variety of exciting crashes
1.5
- Amazon searching is much improved, and will no longer spawn hundreds of threads
- Right click -> Delete artwork
- Support for compilation albums
- Jump-to-here scrollbar behaviour now matches whatever's specified in the System Preferences
- Fullscreen mode is disabled for now. Too many problems.
1.4
- Lowered CPU usage while idle
- AAC support
- Antialiased cover borders for most graphics cards
- Support for aliased iTunes dirs
- Support for foreign iTunes installations
- Added sort-by-artist (still ropy, and searching won't work properly with it)
- Added fullscreen mode (still working on getting rid of those flickers...)
- Bunch o' fixes
1.2
First public release.
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Credits
Concept by Andrew Coulter Enright (
thetreehouseandthecave.blogspot.com)
CoverFlow makes use of the FreeType library (
www.freetype.org)
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Redistribution without permission is prohibited.
CoverFlow and its contents Copyright © 2005, Jonathan del Strother.