[Carlospr]

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.

[davidsword]

I've been waiting for this!

[delta909]

Carlos thank you very much for this great app ...

[idawn]

Wonderful... thks for the great finish

[nessa]

Yes, I've been waiting for the final version to try this. Thanks!

[fattieslim]

Love the program, just one thing. It doesn't seem to show special characters correctly :[
If this gets fixed I'll be using the program all the time

[TuxmanXP]

Great, I think I'll drop that odd Winamp cover plugin for this... thanks.

[Sranshaft]

Great stuff mate. This is truly excellent software. Thank you very much for the time and effort you have put into this and congratulations on the 1.0 release.

[Lykos]

This is great. Thank you for your dedication to this program.

[Carlospr]

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

[detee]

Great program! Thank you for sharing it with us. Using it with WInamp.

[Di7ra]

That's great work! Thanks. Especially good for Foobar2k because AveTunes doesn't support player.

[Carlospr]

Thanks detee.

By the way Di7ra there's a CAD user making a foobar2000 component that will give a full integration with CAD.

[chermany4ever]

Great work Carlos! Near to perfection!
This app is totally enjoyable! :mad:
I use foobar2000 so I'm specially glad about the new component coming. :cool:

[Carlospr]

Thanks chermany4ever!

The new component is ready and working great!

Soon CAD 2.0 beta will be available for all users:

http://www.cdartdisp...forum/index.php

[BabboNatale]

I already know it and I like it so much.
Xion support is a feature of 2.0?

[MacRulesWorld]

amazing! One thing can i save the downloaded lyrics to my itunes lyrics section of each song, if not any program recomendations?

[Carlospr]

BabboNatale;486274 said:

I already know it and I like it so much.
Xion support is a feature of 2.0?

Not planned yet.

MacRulesWorld;486352 said:

amazing! One thing can i save the downloaded lyrics to my itunes lyrics section of each song, if not any program recomendations?

I can take a look if it's possible to do.

[NetOperator Wibby]

first, i would like to say thank you for making this app. second, i would like to ask: is the plugin for foobar done yet? does the developer need beta testers?

[Carlospr]

Yes the new foobar2000 component is ready thanks to eyebex!

A public beta of CAD 2.0 will be available soon (I hope in February).

I'm still waiting for some translations and I still have small issues to fix.