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JewelCase 2.1

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A visual jukebox for iTunes. Shareware ($10)

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Optical Alchemy

JewelCase is a plug-in that turns iTunes into a visual jukebox, displaying each song in a virtual CD jewel case, complete with album cover art, lyrics, artist and album information... It's just like viewing real CDs in your collection.

JewelCase is the tangible connection to your digital music collection.

What's New

Version 2.1:

Intel support, song lyrics, random layouts and fonts.

Requirements

PPC / Intel
Mac OS X 10.3 or later
iTunes 7 or later

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ver. 2.x:

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mpangasa commented on 11 Sep 2009

Okay for some reason it appears the website www.opticalalchemy.com is down -- Google search results say the site has a virus and warns against navigating to www.opticalalchemy.com/about.html or /products.html.

When going to www.opticalalchemy.com directly am taken to a page saying the site is under construction or to a military contractor website.

Mark, if you can shed some light on what is happening asap that would be great.

[Version 2.1]

LenrdZelig commented on 08 Aug 2008

Anyone know if they are going to update this, or if there is another visualizer that does what Jewel Case does? I like this visualizer best hands down for my workplace. But, it seems that the current version of iTunes causes Jewel Case to crash approx. 5 days after install. When I go to turn the visualizer on, it will open safari and attempt to open the preference page over and over and over, and I can't close it down. My system becomes unstable and I'm forced to force quit iTunes.

I attempted to contact Optical Alchemy several times about this, but they never respond. I guess they got my money and don't care.

[Version 2.1]

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+10

chloe replied on 27 Apr 2009

There is a newer version (v2.1.1 as of this writing) of JewelCase available for download on the author's website: www.opticalalchemy.com

This is the release notes for version 2.1.1 according to the website:

- iTunes 8.1 Compatible
- Intel Mac Support
- Improved Song Lyrics
- Random Layouts & Fonts

So, maybe you could give it another try, as it appears to be compatible with the current version of iTunes.

+70

Schmelding commented on 31 Aug 2007

Loved it when it was free. Ain't paying $10 for it -- overpriced. $2 is more reasonable for what it does, IMHO.

[Version 2.1]

EJ1 commented on 20 Feb 2007

Audio momentarily drops out when album art is first sweeping onto the screen. Face of album spins much faster than the back.
The last version always caused iTunes 7 to crash on my 800mhz iMac G4, this version runs good except as noted above.

Nice eyecandy.

[Version 2.0.1]

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jewelcase commented on 21 Feb 2007

Let's solve this one.
Send me an email:
mark@opticalalachemy.com
so we can figure it out.

-Mark

jewelcase (developer) commented on 19 Feb 2007

IntelMac Support
Now in JewelCase 2.0 !
:)
-Mark

[Version 2.0]

blaughlin reviewed on 21 May 2006

Great plugin, is it coming to intel Macs?

[Version 1.8]

1 Reply

jewelcase (developer) replied on 19 Feb 2007

IntelMac Support
Now in JewelCase 2.0 !
:)
-Mark

Dmetzcher reviewed on 24 Mar 2006

Great plugin. The text that displays the album, artist, and song info to the right of the CD (by default) is very tiny and blurry, but this is still a great addition iTunes. This feature should have been included with iTunes in the first place, and I'm glad someone wrote it.

[Version 1.8]

Anonymous reviewed on 03 Oct 2005

Works with iTunes 5 here! wow! lol. iTunes plug-ins are great! lol Eyedrophene! Kaleidostrobe! JewelCase, the app(soon to be plug in) that lets you flip through the covers!!!!, plus so many others even Apple's is great! has anyone tried to project any of these? i want to have a party with friends.. even a dinner! with these as a back drop! wow!! lol this one is great! opengl is great...... aw man i'm just melting... i love the way it places the cover art in the CD case.... track listing... which track is playing... next great thing would be to open the case... and show the lyrics, now that iTunes 5 supports lyrics for the tracks! awww i'm falling in love with iTunes and these plug ins... this.. this put me over the top again! wow... it's so clear!
C'mon now... stop spending the money on illegal substances... just use iTunes plug ins... keep your mind, job, family... and just feel iHappy!

[Version 1.8]

Anonymous reviewed on 29 Sep 2005

Does not seem to work with iTunes 5. Has anyone been able to get it to work with iTunes 5?

[Version 1.8]

Anonymous reviewed on 22 Jul 2005

For album information listed on the back, could it simply draw that from the album? It seems right now it looks for songs on the same album AND same artist (not every album has one artist).

[Version 1.8]

+27

vitaly had trouble on 13 Dec 2004

artwork appears in jewelcase only for songs ripped in itunes 4 and later. songs converted using earlier versions of itunes show song list etc., but not the artwork

[Version 1.4]

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