Hardcover
2.2
Hardcover
2.2Serious nostalgia for iTunes.
Overview
Hardcover is a polished new iTunes visualizer exclusively for OS X bringing all your music back to life. The visualizer takes the album cover art of the current track you're listening to and inserts it into a high quality better-than-life rotating CD jewel case. It’s a simple and aesthetic way of giving your music new life with a serious touch of nostalgia.
What's new in Hardcover
Version 2.2:
- Added highly requested contrast between the track information and the frequency spectrum in Hardcover [Aurora]
- Performed major performance optimization ensuring that Hardcover runs perfectly smooth on any Mac sporting an Intel processor (and hopefully also on any supported Mac sporting a PPC processor)
- Performed major codebase reorganization
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Free
App requirements:
- Intel 64
- Intel 32
- PPC 64
- Mac OS X 10.5.0 or later
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Apple removed support for 3. party visualizers from iTunes 12.6. As such, the requirements for Hardcover 2 remains iTunes 7.4 to iTunes 12.5 for the time being (see description above).
Sincerely,
Bry, M.D.
Nevertheless, it seems to be a nice idea.
Hardcover uses the standard signal iTunes broadcasts every time a new track starts playing. Until iTunes 11 this signal would also be broadcasted one extra time whenever you activated a visualizer, but iTunes 11 or later doesn't seem to bother with that anymore.
As such, try changing tracks (or stopping and then starting again the currently playing track) once Hardcover is active, an you'll be able to enjoy Hardcover in its full glory.
Sincerely,
Bry, M.D.
All my apps are written purely for myself and my love for the Mac community. They are all completely free of charge as a nod to all the wonderful freeware I myself have enjoyed on the Mac throughout the past 25 years.
The difference between 'Hardcover [Basic]' and 'Hardcover [Advanced'] is purely cosmetic and is a result of Apple's neglect of visualizers in recent versions of iTunes. This is explained in 'About Hardcover' in the download.
As for the ratings, I was not aware there were any for Hardcover yet. Are you sure you're commenting on the right application?
Have a nice summer.
Sincerely,
Bry, M.D.
I've looked into the ratings you were talking about, and you're correct. It seems that every application on MacUpdate is flooded by irrelevant ratings for irrelevant version numbers. I assume this must be a bug in their rating system. Perhaps someone at MacUpdate can clarify this one?
Oh, yeah, and a big thanks for the heads up on colored icons for 'Functional' some years back. I added those in the successive update in large part due to your feedback back then.
Sincerely,
Bry, M.D.