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Album Art Widget. Show off your albums. Rate your music. Find missing artwork. All in a tiny pacakge.

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Introduction

A fast and compact album art and song rating displaying widget. It displays the album cover art of songs playing in iTunes. It can automatically fetch album art from internet sources and save them to iTunes. Additionally, you can jump easily to the iTunes Music Store page of the current playing song or artist, rate your songs with a single click and pause/skip/play songs without opening the iTunes window.

Features

  • Display album art from iTunes.
  • Display and rate songs (and also unrate!)
  • Display the same tracks of the playing album.
  • Optionally fetch album art from Amazon, Google and YesAsia.
  • Save fetched artwork to iTunes directly.
  • Customisable interface.
  • Control iTunes via keyboard shortcuts (space = pause/play, '<' = previous, '>' = next)
  • Jump to iTunes Music Store to find the playing song.

Latest Version (2.9.5)

  • Fixed Google Images album art fetching.
  • Fixed Amazon album art fetching.
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JW says
50
Not working for me, either. I get the "iTunes not playing" message. I just re-downloaded 2.9.5. I'm running 10.4.11 with iTunes 9.0.2.
  • 2 weeks, 6 days ago (19/01/2010)
Tiki_Man says
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This have been been my fav for a long time, with rarely a problem. I've added to my desktop instead of my dashboard. Make the 1/2 stars rating with I've activated would be nice.
  • 3 weeks, 5 days ago (14/01/2010)
Angel75c says
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This product has never worked for me. I just downloaded the latest version, and was hopeful that it would finally start to function as advertised. Amazon Album Art works much better and has successfully found 95% of the art work I was looking for and only had to revert to a google search the remaining 5%.
Mid 2007 iMac with SL 10.6.2, I have been using the widget praying it will start working since I was running 10.5.4, through several version of the widget.
  • 1 month ago (10/01/2010)
Budzeg says
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I just installed v2.9.5 today and i guess it now works SL 10.6.2
Thanks for making this lovely app work again!!!
  • 1 month, 3 weeks ago (18/12/2009)
voo says
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Mine is busted as well, Terry. I only noticed recently v2.9.2 had stopped displaying any artwork but displays the track information no problem. While v2.9.5 wont recognize iTunes is running, so no artwork either. This is on Leopard 10.5.8, iTunes 9.0.2.

I guess Apple loves changing things?
  • 2 months ago (10/12/2009)
Terry says
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I have the latest version of the widget. It says that Itunes is not playing while I am playing Itunes.
Advice?
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (04/12/2009)
WebBetty says
44
This was a fantastic widget for years, until it stopped working. Now it just displays the art and doesn't let me add it to the track(s). Guess it's back to the Amazon album art widget. :(
  • 3 months ago (09/11/2009)
MIke Linz says
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Hi, grate widget!
Would't it be nice to have a checkbox like 'add artwork automatically if none is set'?
So one does not to have click 3 times to add it?!
Bye,
mike
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (03/11/2009)
Max says
42
once I upload an imagine I'm not able to change it if it is wrong...
can you helèp me please?
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (03/11/2009)
Paul says
41
What still does not work is when you select "show album tracks". The widget flips around but shows nothing.

Thanks.
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (02/11/2009)
Paul says
40
Re-installed it, and seems to be working now. Thanks.
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (02/11/2009)
Paul says
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Worked fine in OS 10.4. Now with OS 10.6, it doesn't fetch the artwork! It just displays artwork that is already on the song that is playing. Thus artwork that is missing it does not fetch!
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (02/11/2009)
Alastair Tse says
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The previous versions are available in the "Previous Releases" link on the right. Sorry, I don't have the resources to test on 10.4.x. Are all of you who are having problems on 10.4.x?

  • 3 months, 2 weeks ago (27/10/2009)
TR says
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After trying to download and reinstall the new version several times with no success, I found the older version on your website. Downloaded &amp; installed and it is working fine. (I'm running 10.4.11 and iTunes 9.0.1 (9))
  • 3 months, 2 weeks ago (27/10/2009)
TR says
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How do I go back to version 2.9.2? Just added latest version and get message that "iTunes not playing" bummer
  • 3 months, 2 weeks ago (27/10/2009)
Horst says
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Hi Achim, same with me. App saying "itunes not playing" - which definetly is wrong.
  • 3 months, 2 weeks ago (25/10/2009)
achim says
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i tried 2.4 and it did only show artwork that was already in itunes.

now i upgraded to 2.9 and it shows nothing more at all. in fact i get the message "itunes not playing"

totally useless app. at least with osx 10.4
  • 3 months, 2 weeks ago (25/10/2009)
Designer Glasses says
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Maybe your re installation was not perfectly done and that might have caused it not to work properly.Try to do it again and surely it will work as I find here working here good without any troubles.
  • 3 months, 2 weeks ago (24/10/2009)
HotTie says
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Is there a way to automatically integrate album artwork to the songs?
Pretty tedious if i have to click the "save album artwork" thing for every new album.
  • 3 months, 2 weeks ago (22/10/2009)
Alastair Tse says
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Hi all.

I've just released a new version of this widget that fixes the Amazon album art fetching. If you have been having problems with the Amazon album art fetch,g please download 2.9.4.

The problem was due to a change in the Amazon protocols which meant I had to write and test a new implementation of the fetching code.

Many Thanks,

Alastair
  • 3 months, 3 weeks ago (19/10/2009)
gochi says
30
I also tried reinstalling the iTunes version 8.0 but still the widget seems not working at all.What might be the reason behind it?Could anyone specify?
  • 3 months, 3 weeks ago (18/10/2009)
shari says
29
mine doesnt get artworks from the internet???
  • 3 months, 4 weeks ago (13/10/2009)
Mauby says
28
I miss this little guy...
  • 4 months ago (11/10/2009)
Josh Capistrant says
27
Yeah, fix it, and I'll be clicking that little "make a donation" box. Right now I don't know anything else that works this well.
  • 4 months ago (09/10/2009)
sjc says
26
completely useless at this point.
  • 4 months, 2 weeks ago (28/09/2009)
rage against the machine says
25
Reinstall itunes 8.0 but the widget still doesnt work anymore.
They must be something else
  • 4 months, 2 weeks ago (25/09/2009)
ppp says
24
stop working since update to itune 9
  • 4 months, 2 weeks ago (24/09/2009)
Vogie says
23
Not workin what's the story?
  • 4 months, 2 weeks ago (21/09/2009)
jkaaz says
22
It stopped working!!
  • 4 months, 3 weeks ago (17/09/2009)
MTS says
21
Now that iTunes supports half-star ratings (once you know how to turn them on), it'd be great if I could set them with this widget, too.
  • 4 months, 3 weeks ago (14/09/2009)
chrissy says
20
i used to use this ALL the time. but now its broken for me. :( need new update? grabbing art work from itunes store would be great improvement
  • 4 months, 4 weeks ago (12/09/2009)
Katy says
19
NOT WORKING?????
  • 4 months, 4 weeks ago (12/09/2009)
MrSlash says
18
Hey what's happened it doesn't work! :(
  • 5 months ago (12/09/2009)
el jara says
17
it used to work perfectly... but now it is dead...
sad...
  • 5 months ago (12/09/2009)
Eric says
16
This app don't work. I tryed with many different songs. Somebody can help me?
  • 5 months ago (11/09/2009)
steve says
15
This was working great for a while, a sweet widget. Now it serves no purpose other than to show me the art I already have. What gives?
  • 5 months ago (06/09/2009)
Jimbo says
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When is this going to be fixed for Amazon?
  • 5 months ago (05/09/2009)
MikeCZ says
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/amazonalbumart.html

THIS APP WORKS GREAT :)
  • 5 months, 1 week ago (02/09/2009)
MikeCZ says
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THIS APP WORKS GREAT
  • 5 months, 1 week ago (02/09/2009)
MikeCZ says
11
NOT WORKING!!!???
  • 5 months, 1 week ago (01/09/2009)
Mau says
10
will this be fixed soon? its not working now.
  • 5 months, 1 week ago (01/09/2009)
bugged says
9
Is it just me or is this widget not working?
  • 5 months, 1 week ago (01/09/2009)
anonymous says
8
Doesn't work on amazon anymore! Whyyy?
  • 5 months, 1 week ago (31/08/2009)
yes says
7
please fix this, this is depressing.
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (28/08/2009)
Mik says
6
Google images fetching stopped working as well - at the same time!?
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (27/08/2009)
Alastair Tse says
5
Yeah, I think amazon did change something on their side. I'm going to look into whether it is a quick fix or something more substantial.
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (24/08/2009)
Doug says
4
Yes, I loved this program for what it was. Is there going to be an update on when it will be fixed?
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (24/08/2009)
Claude C says
3
Worked fine for over a year and a half, until yesterday. Has Amazon changed something to their setup?
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (23/08/2009)
Lysa says
2
I'm in agreement with Rick. Pretty useless in my opinion
  • 5 months, 3 weeks ago (18/08/2009)
Rick says
1
How do I enable the widget to add artwork automatically to my iTunes songs? Not much use if I have to sit and monitor it for each song that plays. Thanks.
  • 5 months, 3 weeks ago (17/08/2009)