CD Art Display RC4 (formerly Winamp CD Case)

CD Art Display (formerly Winamp CD Case) RC4 was released today (26 Apr 2006)

Visit the new home page that includes a Forum and a Skin Gallery!

http://www.closetosoftware.com/

What's new?

New name: CD Art Display

Support for Winamp, AlbumPlayer, iTunes and Winamp API players enabled such as foobar2000 and MediaMonkey

Control Panel (options and skin settings)

Context help added (Help link or F1 key while in Control Panel)

Help file improved

Rate song by clicking the fancy rating

Right click fancy rating to set no rating

Fixed balloon bug

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

New context menu

Browse Amazon and Google added to context menu

On the fly changes (context menu) for window level, lock position and magnetic borders

Improved hotkey feature

Hotkeys for rating

System tray will detect an Explorer crash

Option to use multimedia keys for Winamp (default for AlbumPlayer and iTunes)

Improved Winamp plugin

Improved ID3v2 cover tag reading

Fixed balloon tip bug

Download Forum Build - if you already have installed RC4

CAD RC4 Build 21 (29 Apr 2006) = see post at page 3

CD Art Display RC4 Build 63 (2 May 2006) = make sure to read the changes in build 21 at page 3 of this topic

- iTunes interface improved (thanks to firecracker6)

- Support for ID3v2 v2.4 UTF-8 Unicode

CAD RC4 Build 132 (11 May 2006) = make sure to read the changes in build 21 at page 3 of this topic

- iTunes support improved (thanks to firecracker6)

- Progress bar: Left click: Fast foreward (*)

- Progress bar: Right click: Rewind (*)

- Some improvements

- Small bugs fixed

(*) available for Winamo, MediaMonkey and iTunes.

CAD RC4 Build 176 (06Jun06)

- New "Read cover" procedure (*)

- Custom save downloaded cover procedure (*)

- Some bugs fixed

(*) for Winamp, MediaMonkey and foobar2000

CAD RC4 Build 207 (08 Jun 2006)

- Support vertical ratings (*)

- Opacity is part of the skin not a general setting

- Opacity for Case/cover

- Opacity for Fancy ratings

- Opacity for Progress bar

- Opacity for Line 1

- Opacity for Line 2

- Added "Just Cover" skin with vertical ratings and the special text settings (see screenshot below)

(*) it's a skin design matter: CAD will recognize if the image is vertical or not.

CAD RC4 Build 212 (10 Jun 06)

- Fixed some Cover's folder bugs

CAD RC4 Build 246 (18Jun06)

- Fancy rating bug that could crash CAD fixed (*)

- Updated "Read cover" tags

(*)The update is recommended for all of you!

Note that you may need to update the progress bar pad left and fancy rating pad left. All skins settings will be updated when RC5 is ready.

CAD RC4 Build 330 (27 Jun 2006)

- Added Windows Live Messenger (WLM) interaction level

- Added default Display Picture (*)

- WLM interface improvements

- Drop image over CAD feature improved

- Small bugs fixed

CAD RC4 Build 365 (04 Jul 2006)

- Added the third independent line! (*)

(*) now you can set 3 different lines each one with its own font, font size, font color etc.!

CAD RC4 Build 543 (22Aug2006)

- Quintessential Media Player (formerly QCD) support

- If player is exited CAD will show the nocover image or keep the last cover ("Control Panel>Interaction")

- "Control Panel>Options": added "Reload cover after track change" instead album change

- Small changes in Control Panel

- Some improvements

- WLM bugs fixed

- Bugs fixed

CAD RC4 Build 613 (08Sep06)

- Notifier text background (*)

- Small improvements

(*) CAD now accepts skin with a "background.png"; once the file is found CAD will draw the text, fancy rating and progress bar considering the "background.png" dimensions; the "Max letters" should be considered when creating a skin with background or editing one; the download includes a simple skin I made (Small Fade) then you'll have a better idea on how the new feature works.

CAD RC4 Build 758 (11Sep06)

- Morrir effect added (*)

- Improved notifier background support (**)

- Small bugs fixed

(*) there is no user interface to add or adjust the mirror effect (just the "skin.ini"); the mirror effect may depend on the case image itself; with the zip two skins using the mirror: "Cover Mirrored" and "Case Mirrored" (this by Zaft).

(**) the 2005 default CAD skin is back!

CAD RC4 Build 905 (14Sep06)

- this build should use less system resources

- the transition effect (fade) will occur only in cover area now (see ReadMe inside the zip)

- added "Centre Pin" skin so you can test the new rotation feature

- Changed the treeview control for a Microsoft one (*)

(*) you may need to copy and register it (e.g. if Control Panel doesn't show up); see Readme.txt for details or wait "RC5 Preview" with a full setup

CD Art Display Build 974 (22Sep06)

- Lyrics (*)

- Small bugs fixed

(*) Thanks to Flavio González Vázquez search engine from LYRDB.com CAD has a simple search lyrics feature:

1) Settings:

"Control Panel>Download" = here you can set the lyrics folder

"Control Panel>Options" = you can set "Lyrics" to the case double click

2) Access:

Right click case/cover or tray and select "Lyrics"

If you let the Lyrics window open CAD will keep searching and saving the lyrics

3) More: you can edit the lyrics (click "Save" once done); if lyrics is not found you then you can click the status label to browse Google for lyrics (then you can copy/paste and click "Save" once done); click "Details" to change what CAD is searching or select another Result.

More about LYRDB: http://www.lyrdb.com/

CAD RC4 Build 1085 (27Sep06)

- Lyrics improvements

NOTE: see Readme.txt in zip file if you can't open Control Panel or wait RC5.

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b1085.zip

Screenshot

Have fun!

#383507

WOO WOO! Thank you man

#383513

Thanks for enabling Itunes support

#383519

Nice homepage but it's a mess I think. I cannot even find the d/l button for it there. Love the update list though.

#383549

hi carlospr...

there is a bug, look here:

this was still in rc3, but i thought i wait for rc4 in hope this bug would be gone, maybe. unfortunately not

this error messages appears when i try to move it from the default position.

some facts: i'm using win xp home sp2, systemlanguage is german. if you need more informations tell me.

any ideas??

#383592

Thank you。 nice

#383594

hi carlospr...

there is a bug, look here:

...

this was still in rc3, but i thought i wait for rc4 in hope this bug would be gone, maybe. unfortunately not

this error messages appears when i try to move it from the default position.

some facts: i'm using win xp home sp2, systemlanguage is german. if you need more informations tell me.

any ideas??

Move from the default position... So you can't move CAD?

Since it's a run-time error try to update your Visual Basic run-time files:

1- download and install Visual Basic run-time 6: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

2- restart your PC

3- test it again.

If it didn't work please send me your settings.ini

My email: support@closetosoftware.com

#383601

I did a mod of the Noire skin (bah, nothing impressive, just to show you how I like your program)

Thanks!

#383614

Nice Blade. Sometimes I use CAD at right. This mod can be useful. Where can I download it?

#383648

Hi...

just one question...I'm making a skin and I want integrate the ratings in some part over the cover area, but when i put the cursor over the ratings keep hiding.... Is there anyway that the ratings keep on top always? It's only a suggestion...maybe not practical or possible, but just asking

#383653

@ karlitoz

For now, text, rating and progress bar are separated from case/cover.

Check "Noire" skin by KSoft, maybe it can give you an idea to bypass this limitation.

http://www.closetosoftware.com/?s=cadskins

Thank you for your great skinning work!

#383658

Thank you for your quick answer...I've think about transparency, but maybe no fits in the kind of skin I'm making....Anyway CDAD rocks!

#383659

thanks! works great!

#383663

Thanks again Carlos for your efforts

#383673

Woo-hoo! Thank You, Carlos!

#383678

Nice Blade. Sometimes I use CAD at right. This mod can be useful. Where can I download it?

Thanks!. Nope, I havent uploaded yet. If you want add this mod into your skin section, PM me and I will send it to you

#383737

@ Blade: you can send it to me, my email: support@closetosoftware.com

#383738

well, i did what you suggest - upgrading the visual basic run-times files, but nothing changed.

with the default position i mean this here pic 1 (this is what it looks like after opening cd art)

and when i try to move it, it looks like this pic 2

my settings.ini is here

i hope you can help me out, thank's in advance

#383754

well, i did what you suggest - upgrading the visual basic run-times files, but nothing changed.
with the default position i mean this here pic 1 (this is what it looks like after opening cd art)
and when i try to move it, it looks like this pic 2
my settings.ini is here
i hope you can help me out, thank's in advance

Thank you for the screenshots, they always help.

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the bug.

Please try this test build: removed.

I've changed some lines in the move procedure.

#383768

wow!!!

that's working fine. no error message or anything else.

thank's a lot for helping me and that great app !

#383784

is there I should specifically do before installing? I have the old RC3, I guess I have to remove that before installing this one.

#383800

I recommend you to uninstall your previous version.