JewelCase2.1

Version 2.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4 and newer, iTunes 10.1 compatible

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.

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

IntelMac Support Now in JewelCase 2.0 ! :) -Mark

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.

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!

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

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).

Awesome visualizer, I absolutely love it! I agree, that if there is multiple artworks with a song, could it display the second (or even third or fourth) picture on the back of the CD? If there are more than two or three songs, what about a picture in the background flying by occasionally with the third or more pictures on it? (also, I can see why some people would want an installer, but I'm *very* glad you gave a URL to download the bundle by itself - thanks for being a pro-user friendly developer!)

Wow, thanks for such a great plug-in, it's so professionally done, as a suggestion, it would be cool if a secondary picture would be shown as a back cover instead of a blurred front cover, of course for those songs with two or more pictures stored.

The plugin is awsome, but it slows my computer really really bad. That didn't happen with 1.7 on Panther. I have a 1.5Ghz G4 and 768 mb ram.

Very very cool. Doesn't support Japanese ID3 tags yet, just lists "?????". How am I supposed to tell who's singing which track on my Katamari Damacy soundtrack album???

About as cool as cool gets! Kudos to the developer for making it and double love for making it FREE!

Oh my GOD!!! This is really a great plugin. Thanks guys!

Astounding! Really amazing. The first time I ran this pluging, I asked myself Where did it get the covers? They're better than the originals! Definitely the best itunes pluging.

awesome! really fun! thank you!

Really Cool ! wish it wouldnt make such a load noise in my G5 Processor. A Screensaver Version would be Sensational.

installation work after i restart on a volume with tiger. Installation worked on a disc starting under tiger. But, I dont understand, this disc is a clone of my system 10.3, on which I do an update install of Tiger

Pretty and free. What more can you ask? Even runs on my old TiBook with just 8MB of video memory, although that's not officially supported.

1.7 breaks during installation for me also. Shows that I can not install on any volumes. 10.3.9 400 MHz G4 640 MB memory 16 MB ATY Rage128 video

It rawks. If only it came as a screensaver (hint-hint).

WHOW!! Incredible little app. Best I´ve ever seen for iTunes. Smart integrated, I love such programmers. And (unbelievible) it´s for free. A MUST TRY !!!

First of all: a very nice app. Here are my mac's features: 800Mhz PowerPC G3; 128 MB; 18 GB diskspace: 1. At the end of a song the cover is changing. That's all OK, but until the appearance of the cover of the next song dures about 10 seconds in general while the song struggles and interrupts several times due to cover loading. A bug to be fixed as soon as possible! 2. The playlists of the back covers are either incomplete or list songs of other albums. (For example, I got an album called "Live!" by Bob Marley and an album called "Get Down Live!" by KC and the Sunshine Band. When I play a KC song, the playlist gets mixed with Marley songs) A bug to be fixed in the near future. 3. There are the options to see on the back cover a) just the song name, b) song name and track number, and c) song name, track number and running time. But there's no option to have just the song name and the running time. A feature to be included, if possible. 4. The loading time of the covers are quite OK, but when a song has no cover image in the iTunes cover box in the lower-left part of the iTunes window and I activate JewelCase, then the loading time of a one-color cover is very long. After deactivating JewelCase, iTunes goes on much slower than it did before activating JewelCase. An annoying bug to be fixed as soon as possible. Overall, I must say, JewelCase has had a very good beginning, but for me it's important to see these 4 bug observations being fixed. Then, I'd say the plug-in is really an useful funny thing. I hope the developers are going to fix these bugs soon.

This is awesome! Great! Thanks! However, I would LOVE this thing to work fullscreen on a 2nd display while working with iTunes on the 1st.

This little plug-in is just incredible! It's not useful, and it's not practical, but I'll be darned if it's not awesome. It shows (in place of the songs and source sections, much the same as a large visualisation) a 3D render of a jewelcase filled with the album art you have in your library for that song. The textures are very realistic, with the front and back plastic reflecting very much as a real case does, and viewed from either the front or the back, there's a realistic gap where the sides' plastic shows through. The whole case looks very, very realistic, yet renders very quickly for each song (no more than two seconds, including gathering all the song titles on that album on my 1GHz PowerBook G4). The interface is fully customisable, which is nice; the CD case and accompanying text can be scaled with a simple slider, and all the fonts and blurs are editable. All in all, a very worthwhile download. The developer is also supremely responsive when it comes to suggestions! The only reason it didn't get a 5 for features is that it's not DESIGNED to be feature-packed. It's a plug-in. And a truly extraordinary one too!

Can you give 6 out of 5 ? I think this is the best concept and execution of an iTunes Visualiser plug-in I've ever seen, and I've downloaded a few...

great product, but unfortunately does not support unicode, as my files with Russian tags show up as question marks :(

Simple, elegant, familiar & novel, ENJOYABLE! This iTunes visualizer really works for me.

This has got to be the coolest visualizer that I've seen for iTunes yet. Great work!

WOW ... O.O i just want to drop a note cause the work you did really is great ^_^ its the best plug i ever seen for using cover in itune, it really look so cool :D thank you thank you thank you ^_^ It really is great for me as i listen mostly Asian Pop music and 90% of the time i dont have the original CDs... so with your plugin its allmost like having them haha ... thank you i love it ^^

New Version 1.5.2 is linked to download "Copy Tracks" bug fixed. Improved Stability. JewelCase Menu removable. Faster Transitions.

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