• 2008.3.24 Update v0.6.5 - Moved to Amazon ECS4. Fixed preference conflict with JewelCase.
• 2007.12.28 Update v0.6.3 - Moved to iTunes Plugin API v.1.2. Mac OS X 10.5 compatible.
• 2006.5.13 Update v0.6.2 - Added traditional Chinese localization. Thank you, Jack ! 10.3.9 compatible.
• 2006.3.9 Update v0.6.1 - Universal binary.
• 2005.9.10 Update v0.6.0 - Type "L" key to display lyrics registerd by iTunes 5.
• 2005.7.19 Update v0.5.9 - Fix lyrics alignment bug.
• 2005.7.17 Update v0.5.8 - If there is lyrics by TunesTEXT, type "L" key to display it.

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Install

launch "Installer". It copies Jacket plugin into following place and setup iTunes visual effect.

• When you drop image to "Jacket" from Finder or Web browser, "Jacket" save image file as according to following rules. It makes relation to current playing song.
  
  • Drop into song title - "Artist-Albun-Song"
    
  • Drop into album title - "Artist-Album"
    
  • Drop into artist name - "Artist"
    
  
  
• When you make image files by yourself
  
  • Save files as QuickTime readable format - jpg/gif/tiff/pgn/pict/pdf etc. I recommend PDF format for displaying lyrics - beautiful scaling. You can easily make PDF file on Mac OS X using TextEdit, print and "Save As PDF".
    
  • Save files into specified folder in "Setup" panel. To open setup panel, push "Option" button(placing top-right of iTunes main window). Don't include ".mp3" in file name.
    

When you click on main window, "Jacket" send song information to Web browser and search in Amazon web site. Clicking place select keyword to send, Artist/Album/Song title send it respectively, other place send Artist + Song. Option + click go to search lyrics with same keywork for artwork. Command + click opens image folder in Finder.

"Jacket" selects image file for song by following rules, number is priority. "Artist-Album-Song" is the first candidate.


1. "Image folder layout" is Hierarchical
   
   
   
2. "Image folder layout" is Flat
   
   

• 0.5.8 - If there is lyrics by TunesTEXT, type "L" key to display it.
• 0.5.7 - Compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.
• 0.5.6 - High resolution display at full screen mode. Fixed aspect rate on 2nd wide screen monitor. From this version, Jacket plugin will not work on Mac OS X 10.2.x.
• 0.5.1 - Fixed window resize problem of embeded artwork in song file.
• 0.5.0 - Added "iTunes' music sharing" support. You can display and register image file for sharing song. Image file is stored in your specified folder. You can share image folder with iTunes server via file sharing. But embeded artwork in song file like iTMS's one is not supported. It's iTunes' limitation.
• 0.4.9 - Fixed wasting CPU problem.
• 0.4.8 - Fixed shrink algorism of font size to fit window.
• 0.4.7 - Mac OS X 10.2.8 compatible.
• 0.4.6 - Set rating by keybord 0-5, Rating and comment display option, Fit font size for long text automatically, Artist image display while searching web service and it failed, Adjust aspect rate automatically for wide screen while fullscreen, Fixed full screen issue for second monitor.
• 0.4.4 - Added "Wide screen" option. In full screen mode, correct aspect rate of artwork. Short-cut is 'W'.
• 0.4.3 - Moved artwork place to other side of text('C' key to toggle). Fixed resize problem. Keep artwork to display when song is stopped. Added on screen help, type '?' key.
• 0.4.1 - Panther(Mac OS X 10.3) compatible. Added Lyrics search via web browser (option+click, jp:music.j-total.net, other country:astraweb.com). Automatic image search for Radio is available. When radio station is sending song information like Frequence3, it will work fine. Registering image file for Radio in not available.
• 0.4.0 - Added cancel button to alart panel. Eliminate automatic search when it is not set.
• 0.3.9 - Updated URLs for Amazon Web Service v.3. While Jacket is inactive, stop the automatic search.
• 0.3.8 - Automatic search works for compilation album now. Random song selection change was fixed, works with Input Method. Fixed non-thread safe case. Better "Replace arlert".
• 0.3.7 - Fixed crash bug at initial install. I'm very sorry !!
• 0.3.6 - Fix selection order of music file's artwork, now it is after local images file for album.
• 0.3.5 - Background WebService search for no wait operation. "e" key for toggle expand image or not. Please turn of Input Mehod.
• 0.3.4 - Fix search mode of fr/de.
• 0.3.3 - WebService for jp/uk/de are ready, fr/ca are still connect to us. When large image not found, go to search for middle size. Correct decomposed Unicode string of search keyword. Fade-in and fade-out in fullscreen mode. "i" key for toggle text. Fix 2 bugs.
• 0.3.2 - When no image is found in image folder, 0.3.2 displays "Artwork" in the song file (= iTunes 4 artwork).
• 0.3.1 - When folder structure is "Flat", looking for "artist-album-song.xxx" first. File name registerd by drop always include 2 hyphen(-), omit is "*". For example, when only album name is valid, the file name is "*-album-*.jpg". File extention is necessary.
• 0.3.0 - Added auto look-up using Amazon Web Service, it takes 2-3 sec. When this option is ON, Jacket does not search "Artist" image. It may be buggy, I keep old versoin 0.2.2, too. Also added German localize, thank you Markus!
• 0.2.2 - Added Amazon country selection(US/UK/France/Germany/Canada/Japan) for we search. Also added "Hide album named 'Single'".
• 0.2.1 - Added line "Alignment" setting, Left/Center/Right. Also added "Any image take for album in album folder", when there is no album image in album folder, it will display image file in album folder ignorring it's file name.
• 0.2.0 - First english version. When user is "English", "Jacket" searches in "amazon.com".

• Images on web has it's web sites's copyright.
  
• I tested only on latest Mac OS X + iTunes
  
• No OS 9 version
• Jacket is free ware but when you buy something in Amazon from "Jacket" search session, I will receive referral fees from Amazon :-)
  

• Version Tracker - Post bug report or enhancement request
  
• iTunes - Apple
  

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