28 Sep 2006 - RC 5

  • Improved support for AlbumPlayer, Winamp, foobar2000, iTunes and MediaMonkey
  • Added support for Mp3Toys and QMP (thanks to Tokelil)
  • Improved skin engine
  • Three independent text lines
  • Support skin with mirror effect
  • Support skin with rotation
  • Support vertical ratings
  • Notifier background
  • Improved transition effect
  • Opacity is part of the skin not a general setting
  • Opacity for case/cover
  • Opacity for Fancy ratings
  • Opacity for Progress bar
  • Opacity for each text line
  • Added more fine skin elements position adjustments
  • Windows Live Messenger interaction (display picture and personal message)
  • Lyrics (read, download and submit thanks to LYRDB.com)
  • New "Read cover" procedure
  • New save downloaded cover procedure
  • Improved ID3v2 v2.4 reading
  • Progress bar: Left click: Fast foreward (not all players)
  • Progress bar: Right click: Rewind (not all players)
  • Troubleshooting section added in Control Panel>Options
  • Improved Control Panel
  • Improved context menu
  • General improvements
  • Bugs fixed
  • Help file updated

26 Apr 2006 - RC 4

  • New name: CD Art Display
  • Support for Winamp, AlbumPlayer, iTunes and Winamp API players enabled such as foobar2000 and MediaMonkey
  • Control Panel (options and skin settings)
  • Context help added (Help link or F1 key while in Control Panel)
  • Help file improved
  • Rate song by clicking the fancy rating
  • Right click fancy rating to set no rating
  • Fixed balloon bug
  • Improved toggle on top (hotkey) feature: now it toggles even when pinned to desktop
  • New contex menu
  • Browse Amazon and Google added to context menu
  • On the fly changes (context menu) for window level, lock position and magnetic borders
  • Improved hotkey feature
  • Hotkeys for rating
  • System tray will detect an Explorer crash
  • Option to use multimedia keys for Winamp (default for AlbumPlayer and iTunes)
  • Improved Winamp plugin
  • Fixed balloon tip bug

02 Apr 2006 - RC 3

  • Main core rewritten
  • New notifier text engine
  • Set any font, color, size and style
  • Set shadow, outline and upper case
  • Set outline color
  • Two independent lines (different fonts can be used)
  • %newline% tag is back
  • Redesigned progress bar
  • Set progress bar and back color
  • Progress bar styles: borderless, Filling, Modern, Slider, Solid and Transparent
  • Added Fancy rating (part of the skin now)
  • Progress bar/Fancy rating: pad top and left
  • Added Lock position to the context menu
  • Added option to disable the hotkey
  • Bicubic filter is used to resize case itself and fancy rating
  • Improved pin to desktop feature
  • Improved ID3v2 cover tag reader
  • Improved Winamp plugin
  • Improved Web Radio support
  • Most of the options moved from registry to a settings.ini
  • Skin settings stored in a skin.ini now
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Readme.txt updated
  • Aura skin addededesigned notifier 

10 Mar 2006 - RC 2

  • Added remaining time
  • Added pad text left and top
  • Added more progress bar options (transparent, borderless, solid, custom height)
  • Added option to show cover for video files
  • Fixed bug due Visual Basic run-time SP6
  • Fixed the title not changing bug (after double clicking the case)
  • Fixed search cover error result bug
  • Fixed auto-exit bug
  • Fixed dual monitor and pin to desktop bug
  • Fixed pin to desktop and Winkey+D bug
  • Fixed the "Show time" bug
  • ID3v2 Unsyncronized error is not reported anymore
  • Corrupted or zero byte jpg error is not reported anymore
  • Improved video files support
  • Readme.txt (Help) updatededesigned notifier 

27 Feb 2006 - RC 1

  • Redesigned notifier 
  • Redesigned "Options" dialog 
  • Redesigned "Skin Manager" dialog 
  • Redesigned right click context menu 
  • Png as font (foreign font can be done in the future) 
  • Current cover as the system tray icon 
  • Improved "Prompt before download" cover feature (download up to 6 covers) 
  • Set Opacity 
  • Show current song's time 
  • Show progress bar 
  • The main system tray icon is part of the skin 
  • Readme.txt updated 
  • Lots of small improvements 
  • Lots of small bugs fixedservice updated

20 Oct 2005 - Beta 10

  • Amazon.com service updated
  • Small bugs fixed

05 Aug 2005 - Beta 9

  • Amazon.com service updated
  • Mouse hover (to show notifier)
  • New tooltip (will show current volume / mouse wheel...)
  • Notifier can be placed at left or right of the case too (Options>Notifier)
  • When mouse is hovered over WCC it will get focus
  • Now you can set a custom "Covers' folder" (Options>Read cover")
  • "Options>Player": "Follow player window state" added
  • Rate song (context menu)
  • Read and set Winamp song rating
  • Own data base for rating, play count and last played date
  • Skin Manager>Zoom: notifier zoom added
  • Options: "Notifier text" tab added
  • Options>Notifier text> customize notifier text with fields (%title%...)
  • Options>General: data base location added
  • Drop image (jpg) over case/cover area to set the image as the song's cover
  • Drop a mp3 over case/cover area will add it to Winamp's playlist
  • Options>Notifier text> %newline% field added
  • Options>General>Window level: pin to desktop added
  • Skin Manager>Text: "Don't wrap text" improved (multi line ready)
  • Skin Manager>Text: "Hide notifier image"
  • Skin Manager>Text: Right alignment added
  • Options: "Skin Manager" button added
  • Skin Manager: "Options" button added
  • Some improvements
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Readme.txt updated

14 Jun 2005 - Beta 8

  • Mouse wheel: turns volume up and down
  • Options: General: Lock position added
  • Options: Read cover: alternative cover accepts wildcards
  • Options: Read cover: "Covers' folder" improved
  • Options: Read cover: "Covers' folder" bug fixed
  • System resources usage reduced
  • Notifier flickering bug fixed
  • Some improvements
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Readme.txt updated

08 Jun 2005 - Beta 7

  • Added fade effects (case, cover and notifier)
  • Options>General: "Fade cover" added
  • Options>General: "Fade case" added
  • Options>General: "Fade notifier" added
  • Options>Read cover: "Covers' folder" added (cahce covers in one folder)
  • Options>Read cover: Up and Down buttons added
  • Skin Manager>Text: "Show track" added
  • Skin Manager>Text: "Show album" added
  • Audio CD support
  • Ogg tag support
  • Steal focus bug fixed
  • Overflow bug fixed
  • Some improvements
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Readme.txt updated

01 Jun 2005 - Beta 6

  • Skin Manager added (context menu)
  • Four skins included: Case, Aero, Milk and Glow
  • Skin Manager: Zoom case and cover
  • Skin Manager: Set cover position and size
  • Skin Manager: Text position and size
  • Options: Cover: Read cover from: set read type and order
  • Context menu: Add to playlist
  • Context menu: Open playlist
  • Context menu added to case area
  • Start Winamp when press Play
  • Invisible buttons improved (case and cover area)
  • Plugin won't start WCC if it's already running
  • ID3v2 cover bug partly fixed (some ID3v2 tags still can cause the issue)
  • System tray tooltip bug fixed
  • Workaround regarding Exit Winamp feature
  • TopDesk and Entbloess compatibility improved
  • Foobar2000 compatibility (with Winamp API Emulator)
  • Some improvements
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Readme.txt updated

07 May 2005 - Beta 5

  • XP theme support for Options' tabs
  • Some improvements
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Readme.txt updated

23 Apr 2005 - Beta 4

  • Options: Cover: scan "Artist - Album.jpg"...
  • Options: General: Only one instance
  • Delete local cover procedure improved
  • Read ID3v2 tags improved
  • XP theme
  • Some improvements
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Readme.txt updated

15 Apr 2005 - Beta 3

  • Read cover from ID3v2 too
  • Options: Winamp: Start when Winamp is started (plugin required)
  • Added Winamp plugin (Winamp CD Case starter)
  • Alert when an important program file is missing
  • Added context menu in cover area (right click)
  • Context menu: Open folder
  • Context menu: Open cover
  • Options>Download>Delete local cover
  • Options>Download>Advanced log
  • Options>Download>Clear log
  • Some improvements
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Readme.txt updated

07 Apr 2005 - Beta 2

  • Download cover by reading ID3v2 and ID3v1 tags
  • Options: Cover: scan for any image
  • Options: Cover: scan for folder.jpg
  • Options: Download: Download cover automatically
  • Options: Download: show searching image
  • Options: Download: prompt before download
  • Options: Download: prompt after download
  • Options: Download: search by folder's name instead ID3
  • Options: Download: create download log
  • System tray: search cover
  • System tray: view log
  • Font selection improved
  • Color selection improved
  • Italic font support added
  • About moved to an Options' tabadded
  • Readme.txt updated

02 Apr 2005 - Beta 1

  • New engine
  • Transparent PNG support for case
  • Transparent PNG support for notifier
  • Read hidden image files too
  • Options: General: Show balloon (title and artist)
  • Options: General: Magnetic borders
  • Options: General: Toggle on top
  • Options: Case: five case sizes now
  • Options: Font: shadow for title and artist separately
  • Options: Notifier: Always hide
  • Options: Notifier: Show at top
  • Options: Notifier: Show for (seconds)
  • XP icon added
  • Mouse hover bug fixed
  • Magnetic borders bug fixed
  • Auto exit bug fixed
  • Small bugs fixed
  • Some improvements
  • Readme.txt updated

 

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