MyTunes | ||||||||
A 'What's Playing' for iTunes on Windows | ||||||||
Freeware for PC/Windows 10 - version 1.1 | ||||||||
DEVELOPMENT NEWS | ||||||||
Version 1.1.0 released [25 February 2018] |
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WHAT MYTUNES DOES... | ||||||||
So you have iTunes running on an old (or new) laptop, a DAC capable of receiving the digital signal directly from your laptop and the DAC hooked up to your audio system (or no DAC at all, directly out to in from laptop to amplifier), possibly operating iTunes through Apple Remote or an Android remote on your mobile phone, and you think: wouldn't it be nice if I could actually see really big on the laptop screen what's playing? Well, that is my situation and exactly what I was thinking. But strangely enough, I couldn't find any applications out there doing that. Eventually, tired of my unproductive search, I decided to write my own.
So, if you ever had the same thought and couldn't find the right software, try MyTunes.
And to give you an impression of how complex this can get, see the CIEDE2000 algorithm. MyTunes uses the CIE94 method, to make sure text color is a certain distance apart from the background color, but that doesn't really help the nasty combinations of say red text on a blue background or green text on a yellow background. They can be apart far enough, but still not look very pleasant. I have not found a good solution for that specific problem yet. The following screenshots were mostly taken with the default Times New Roman font (you can change that to any font or size you want, limited to a max of 72 points) - except the last three - and the composer / technical field turned off - except in the first one. The bar under the cover art is the progress bar (it shrinks during playback). The last two screenshots have a bigger cover art size (you can set it from extra small to extra large). |
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SCREENSHOTS VERSION 1.0 | ||||||||
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REQUIREMENTS | ||||||||
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CONTACT | ||||||||
ememsoftware@gmail.com |
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CHANGELOG | ||||||||
Version 1.0 - 29 May 2016 | ||||||||
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