CD Art Display 2.0 (CAD) development started right after 1.0 release last year. Initially it was labeled 1.1 but the number of features are too high for such small increment. Yes! 2.0 fits better indeed.

Right now there are tons of new and improved features in CAD 2.0 (beta 2) and, of course, bugs fixed. Here just a small list:

• Skin Editor with real time preview: if making a skin for CAD was not that hard now it's really easy because if you make a setting change you will see it in your skin in the same time! As part of making skinner life easier CAD 2.0 beta introduces a new Batch Tool so you can assign some setting for several styles at the same time! OtisBee's Avalon skin was the inspiration for such tool... Guess why!
• Mouse over: I remember OtisBee once asked me about a mouse over effect in his awesome thaSphere skin. Well, now CAD has several mouse over effects all over its interface: rating, hotspot, toolbar, progress bar and volume. All with a nice and customized fade in/out effect.
• More buttons: the toolbar has now 10 buttons that a skinner can use including close CAD, minimize, lyrics, show/hide player and more.
• Engines: CAD 2.0 has updated and added several new internal engines to better handle text (shadow and smooth scrolling with mask/overlay features), progress bar and volume (now what you can see in your image editor is what CAD will reproduce) and skin transition (no more image number limitation).
• Special Effect and Windows Vista Aero Blur are the new items you can use to give an extra touch to your skin

That's it! Go and download CAD 2.0 beta 2 and if you like go and join Premium User group to help keep this project on line.

 Have fun!