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

Album Art Widget Screenshot

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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WebBetty says
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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. :(
  • 2 weeks, 5 days 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 weeks, 4 days ago (03/11/2009)
Max says
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once I upload an imagine I'm not able to change it if it is wrong...
can you helèp me please?
  • 3 weeks, 4 days ago (03/11/2009)
Paul says
47
What still does not work is when you select "show album tracks". The widget flips around but shows nothing.

Thanks.
  • 3 weeks, 5 days ago (02/11/2009)
Paul says
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Re-installed it, and seems to be working now. Thanks.
  • 3 weeks, 5 days ago (02/11/2009)
Paul says
45
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 weeks, 5 days 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?

  • 1 month 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))
  • 1 month 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
  • 1 month ago (27/10/2009)
Horst says
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Hi Achim, same with me. App saying "itunes not playing" - which definetly is wrong.
  • 1 month 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
  • 1 month 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.
  • 1 month 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.
  • 1 month, 1 week 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
  • 1 month, 1 week ago (19/10/2009)
gochi says
36
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?
  • 1 month, 1 week ago (18/10/2009)
shari says
35
mine doesnt get artworks from the internet???
  • 1 month, 2 weeks ago (13/10/2009)
Mauby says
34
I miss this little guy...
  • 1 month, 2 weeks ago (11/10/2009)
Josh Capistrant says
33
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.
  • 1 month, 2 weeks ago (09/10/2009)
sjc says
32
completely useless at this point.
  • 2 months ago (28/09/2009)
rage against the machine says
31
Reinstall itunes 8.0 but the widget still doesnt work anymore.
They must be something else
  • 2 months ago (25/09/2009)
ppp says
30
stop working since update to itune 9
  • 2 months ago (24/09/2009)
Vogie says
29
Not workin what's the story?
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (21/09/2009)
jkaaz says
28
It stopped working!!
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (17/09/2009)
MTS says
27
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.
  • 2 months, 2 weeks ago (14/09/2009)
chrissy says
26
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
  • 2 months, 2 weeks ago (12/09/2009)
Katy says
25
NOT WORKING?????
  • 2 months, 2 weeks ago (12/09/2009)
MrSlash says
24
Hey what's happened it doesn't work! :(
  • 2 months, 2 weeks ago (12/09/2009)
el jara says
23
it used to work perfectly... but now it is dead...
sad...
  • 2 months, 2 weeks ago (12/09/2009)
Eric says
22
This app don't work. I tryed with many different songs. Somebody can help me?
  • 2 months, 2 weeks ago (11/09/2009)
steve says
21
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?
  • 2 months, 3 weeks ago (06/09/2009)
Jimbo says
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When is this going to be fixed for Amazon?
  • 2 months, 3 weeks ago (05/09/2009)
MikeCZ says
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/amazonalbumart.html

THIS APP WORKS GREAT :)
  • 2 months, 3 weeks ago (02/09/2009)
MikeCZ says
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THIS APP WORKS GREAT
  • 2 months, 3 weeks ago (02/09/2009)
MikeCZ says
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NOT WORKING!!!???
  • 2 months, 4 weeks ago (01/09/2009)
Mau says
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will this be fixed soon? its not working now.
  • 2 months, 4 weeks ago (01/09/2009)
bugged says
15
Is it just me or is this widget not working?
  • 2 months, 4 weeks ago (01/09/2009)
anonymous says
14
Doesn't work on amazon anymore! Whyyy?
  • 2 months, 4 weeks ago (31/08/2009)
yes says
13
please fix this, this is depressing.
  • 3 months ago (28/08/2009)
Mik says
12
Google images fetching stopped working as well - at the same time!?
  • 3 months ago (27/08/2009)
Alastair Tse says
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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.
  • 3 months ago (24/08/2009)
Doug says
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Yes, I loved this program for what it was. Is there going to be an update on when it will be fixed?
  • 3 months ago (24/08/2009)
Claude C says
9
Worked fine for over a year and a half, until yesterday. Has Amazon changed something to their setup?
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (23/08/2009)
Lysa says
8
I'm in agreement with Rick. Pretty useless in my opinion
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (18/08/2009)
Rick says
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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.
  • 3 months, 1 week ago (17/08/2009)
widgets says
6
Great tool for creating my own album art.
  • 4 months, 1 week ago (22/07/2009)
Ed. says
5
Nice! I like the look nice big window, I prefer this one over the boring Amazon version!
  • 5 months, 2 weeks ago (13/06/2009)
Kwaut_Lizard says
4
On Leopard ... works fantastic.
Thanks for adding the choices under artwork sources, nice touch.
  • 6 months ago (30/05/2009)
Dev says
3
is it free ?
  • 6 months, 2 weeks ago (17/05/2009)
Anton says
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Just used this link with a new Imac works fine, but struggles with compilation artwork and seems to pick only the individual track or artist any way of getting round this
  • 6 months, 3 weeks ago (07/05/2009)
Chris says
1
Leopard. Doesn't work.
  • 7 months, 1 week ago (21/04/2009)