iTunes "now playing" album art as wallpaper?
David Glover
am amazed that I haven't been able to find one.
I want a program that simply takes the album art from the currently
playing track in iTunes, and sets it as my wallpaper. Some of my tracks
have multiple pictures embedded inside, so it would be nice if for
those tracks, I could get it to cycle between each picture like the
"change picture" function does in the desktop picture prefs.
Does something like this exist? If not, does anyone feel like writing
it? :)
Gregory Weston
"David Glover" <use...@davidglover.org> wrote:
I might take a stab at it later. Should be a fairly simple variation on
DockArt.
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Adrian
This isn't exactly what you are looking for but it is delightful:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/jewelcase.html
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Adrian
David Glover
> I might take a stab at it later. Should be a fairly simple variation on
> DockArt.
Excellent, thanks. :)
David Glover
> This isn't exactly what you are looking for but it is delightful:
>
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/jewelcase.html
Yes indeed it is, I've tried it already. Pretty, but not quite what I'm
after. :)
DJ Craig
that program ;-)
Read this thread from this newgroup a couple months ago:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/browse_thread/thread/52008be41dd8d643/9aee173ca8d72fdc
Gregory Weston
"DJ Craig" <sp...@djtricities.com> wrote:
I'm mostly done adding David's request for a near-future release of
DockArt. It displays the (first) embedded image as wallpaper. It's just
not pretty because right now it's letting the system do whatever it
likes to it, which seems to default to non-uniform scaling to fill the
screen. When your original is 128 pixels square or so, it's ...
suboptimal.
David Glover
> I'm mostly done adding David's request for a near-future release of
> DockArt. It displays the (first) embedded image as wallpaper. It's just
> not pretty because right now it's letting the system do whatever it
> likes to it, which seems to default to non-uniform scaling to fill the
> screen. When your original is 128 pixels square or so, it's ...
> suboptimal.
Happily all my album art is high resolution, so should look good as
wallpaper as long as it doesn't change the aspect ratio...
Gregory Weston
"David Glover" <use...@davidglover.org> wrote:
Last night I finally got working the ability to restore the original
wallpaper on quit. Setting it is, of course, no different than setting
any other picture, but finding a supported way to determine what it was
in the first place ....
Anyway, I was focussed on that since it was a functional issue. I'll
work on the stretching problem today if I have a chance and hopefully
have an update at VT and MacUpdate by tomorrow morning.
Greg
Gregory Weston
"David Glover" <use...@davidglover.org> wrote:
It's done, but not uploaded yet. I have to make sure I haven't broken
backward compatibility, and I'm not up for that tonight. I don't expect
I've caused any new issues, but I'll give it a quick run under 10.2 and
10.3 tomorrow and probably post it within 12 hours from now.
Gregory Weston
Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
> In article <1120125775.1...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> "David Glover" <use...@davidglover.org> wrote:
>
> > Gregory Weston wrote:
> > > I might take a stab at it later. Should be a fairly simple variation on
> > > DockArt.
> >
> > Excellent, thanks. :)
>
> It's done, but not uploaded yet. I have to make sure I haven't broken
> backward compatibility, and I'm not up for that tonight. I don't expect
> I've caused any new issues, but I'll give it a quick run under 10.2 and
> 10.3 tomorrow and probably post it within 12 hours from now.
Okay, DockArt 1.0.4 is available at
<http://www.splook.com/macware/dockart-104.dmg>. The app is unchanged
except for having been built with XCode 2. The plugin has the requested
display-on-desktop behavior and a couple of minor bug fixes.
David Glover
> Okay, DockArt 1.0.4 is available at
> <http://www.splook.com/macware/dockart-104.dmg>. The app is unchanged
> except for having been built with XCode 2. The plugin has the requested
> display-on-desktop behavior and a couple of minor bug fixes.
This is brilliant, thank you. :)
Is there any way of getting the desktop picture to fill the screen
(cropping it), instead of leaving black bars?
Gregory Weston
"David Glover" <use...@davidglover.org> wrote:
It'll take some more coding, but not much. I erred on the side of
showing the whole thing for the initial release mostly because while I
was testing I found it really annoying to lose the top and bottom edges
of most of the covers I saw.