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DockArt 2.1

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Displays cover art from current iTunes track in Dock. Free

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Greg Weston

DockArt replaces iTunes' dock icon with the cover art for the current iTunes track.

What's New

Version 2.1:

Added an option to show a progress bar.
Added an alternate icon display similar to iTunes 10's standard icon.

Requirements

PPC / Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 or later
iTunes 10.4 or later

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Commercial $.99

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NUmB reviewed on 25 Nov 2011

Great plugin! Just one thing, when the track changes and you have on random play the previous album cover is shown when information about the song playing pops up from the dock. Otherwise it's really good!

[Version 2.1]

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Greg Weston (developer) replied on 09 Mar 2012

Sorry, didn't see this comment until just now. Even sorrier: I can't reproduce the behavior you're describing. If you see this, please write to me directly and we can try to get it figured out.

Gmax reviewed on 21 Nov 2011

This is one of those "useless" apps that's a must-have on everyone's Mac.

[Version 2.1]

Shidong reviewed on 12 Nov 2011

super plug in...
love it :-)))

[Version 2.1]

Lex Yu reviewed on 12 Nov 2011

5-star app!!

I have a suggestion regarding the new progress bar feature.

How about adopt this design?

http://img.skitch.com/20111112-rq646whmyyip4m3kxmj3uaebma.jpg

It is intuitive and also go great together with OS X's default UI.

[Version 2.1]

2 Replies

Greg Weston (developer) replied on 12 Nov 2011

Interesting idea. In your concept, is that image showing that the track is 1/3 done or 2/3? I suspect 1/3, but I want to make sure I'm seeing what you're trying to convey.

Lex Yu replied on 12 Nov 2011

It goes along with clockwise. So, it's 1/3 done. :)

drezha reviewed on 01 Nov 2011

Excellent. Version 2 works fantastically well. Glad I found it as I missed it after updating to Lion and the 64 bit iTunes.

[Version 2.0.2]

+10

Zoidbert commented on 01 Oct 2011

Curious as to when we might see a 64 bit version; I'd rather not run iTunes in 32 bit to make it work. Great addition; Apple should buy it from you and implement it as a feature.

[Version 2.0.2]

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David Livingstone replied on 08 Oct 2011

I agree, but then I understand the buzz an author gets by his free contribution. I really miss it since my Lion update.

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Tipp-Flo replied on 30 Oct 2011

Works in 64 bit here.

Greg Weston (developer) replied on 08 Nov 2011

The 2.0 release in August added 64-bit support.

+10

Zoidbert replied on 08 Nov 2011

Thanks to all -- indeed, the August update does work with Lion.

+683

Jazzyguy reviewed on 13 Aug 2011

The Developer not only solved the problem of the unexpected quit (due to a corrupted preference file) but I had an additional problem of iTunes taking a long time to launch and quit. He solved that also. The Developer is extremely helpful,cooperative and I was astonished as I never expected this sort of help from a "Free" application. I must say he is a credit to the Mac Community.

[Version 2.0.2]

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zeroskie replied on 18 Aug 2011

No, seriously. The developer seems to be very dedicated in supporting his work. If only everyone were like that.

+683

Jazzyguy commented on 10 Aug 2011

I figured out what is wrong here and why the new version doesn't work. I have iTunes 10.4.3 not the newest version. DockArt does not show in my list of visualizers and the options button is grayed out so there is no way I can enable it.

[Version 2.0.2]

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+80

MacUpdate-Warren replied on 10 Aug 2011

I'm having the same issue.

+683

Jazzyguy replied on 10 Aug 2011

The old version still works good but every once in a while I get an error message that on quit that itunes unexpectantly quit because of the Dock Art Plug in but this is on rare occasions.

Greg Weston (developer) replied on 10 Aug 2011

As noted above, DockArt 2 requires iTunes 10.4. Due to changes in the way iTunes interacts with plugins it would be very difficult (at best) for a single build of DockArt to work with both current and prior iTunes releases. I won't say today that DockArt 1.x won't get any new development - I'm seriously thinking about the art cycling thing - but it's probably not going to be a high priority. Except for bugs. If Jazzguy wants to contact me directly we can try to work out the source of the unexpected quits; I've not heard of that before.

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Jazzyguy replied on 10 Aug 2011

I see that I don't have the proper version of iTunes. I have 10.3. That explains everything. Thank you for answering but I looked on your web site for an eMail address but couldn't find one. If you can post one I will be happy to write you.

Greg Weston (developer) replied on 10 Aug 2011

support at splook dot com

+683

Jazzyguy replied on 11 Aug 2011

The Developer is working hard to find out what is going on with my DockArt plug in. He is a great guy!

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Maylbu commented on 10 Aug 2011

Great app, working fine.

[Version 2.0.2]

+683

Jazzyguy commented on 10 Aug 2011

It Didn't work in 10.6.8 I had to put the old one back in.

[Version 2.0.2]

Autumnzen had trouble on 12 Sep 2005

I looked in iTunes in Library, but there's no plug-ins folder. An I missing something?

[Version 1.0.4]

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Anonymous commented on 25 Sep 2005

Go to ~(user)/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins

No problemo if that folder does not exist, simply create a new folder under the ~/Library/iTunes and name it: iTunes Plug-ins

(That is what some of the behind the scenes installers do: check to see if the expected folder exists, if it doesn't create it, then move the plug-in module/program to that folder)

Then put the dockartplugin.bundle there.