Anyone else tired of limping along with a 5-year-old iTunes plug-in? One that
is utterly confused by the presence of those new-fangled videos and PDFs in
your library? And what the heck is an “album artist”? I have good news for you.
Here's a summary of changes (released earlier today):
* Complete documentation (use the info button in the Plug-ins prefs)
* Major speed increase when playing
* Major speed increase when “right arrowing” into iTunes.app
* New actions
* Open Booklet(s) (for albums that include PDF booklets)
* Reveal in iTunes (for playlists)
* Add to playlist… (select a playlist in the third pane)
* Album Artist is now respected when browsing and playing
* Multiple tracks, albums, artists, etc. can now be selected and acted on
using the comma trick
* Video support
* Poster frame is used as the icon
* iTunes becomes the active application when playing video
* Videos are identified by type (Music, Movie, TV Show, etc.)
* A preference allows videos to be ignored when playing an album/artist
that includes them
* Artwork for an album is no longer broken for those containing videos
* Party Shuffle renamed to iTunes DJ
* New "Random Track" proxy object
* Booklets are ignored when playing an album
* Show Playing Track always works (no longer requires the Monitor Recent
Tracks preference)
* iTunes won't launch unless you explicitly do something that should launch it
* Volume control is finer grained (jumps by 5% instead of 10%)
* Preferences cleaned up
* Triggers (and their default keystrokes) cleaned up
* Various names and details cleaned up
* Better memory management
And not that anyone but me cares, but I was able to rip out almost all
AppleScript (which partially explains the speed improvements).
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Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>
