Just launch this Widget and your iChat tells people what music you're currently listening to. Your icon becomes the album artwork (taken from iTunes) and your away message becomes the song name and artist!
It's great when it works! But once it hits a song with no album art, it keeps the previous cover, even if subsequent songs do have cover art. Sometimes it does change eventually but not reliably. It usually misses the first album art that comes up after getting stuck.
Here's a typical scenario, which just happened to me now.
album with cover X -- cover X
album with no cover-- cover X
album with cover Y -- cover X
album with cover Z -- cover Z
Couple tracks with no cover came next, so… it stayed on cover Z, then one track with cover A and it's still stuck on cover Z. Then a track with cover B and it changed to cover B. Maybe it just misses the first one after getting stuck. I usually quit the Widget Engine to get it to wake back up, but that's kind of harsh.
I wonder if there are some types of album art that the widget can't recognize? Cause now I'm playing a song with cover art, right after one with cover art, and it's still stuck. That's extra weird; it usually behaves well as long as all the songs have art. I give up.More
this is a nifty widget that works quite well, although i am noticing today that it has stopped updating album art. song titles continue to change as songs change, but the album art sticks.
is it possible that a cache file is filling up? has anyone else axperinced this? this was after playing several hours worth of songs on shuffle the other day. (a couple hundred songs/album covers.)
January 13, 2005 ·
version 1.0 flakaddict
It's also crashing a lot, too...would really appreciate that being fixed as well.
December 14, 2004 ·
version 1.0 flakaddict
Would very much appreciate being able to set custom away messages (but have iTunes "Available" messages). Also, I'd like to have my usual buddy icon if I'm playing a track that doesn't have an album cover.
Thanks for the awesome widget! I'll definitely begin using it once I can set my away message.