Copyright © 2004-2008 Snarb.tk
TOO MANY COMMANDS? GET RID OF THEM!
TOO FEW COMMANDS? ADD SOME MORE!
HOW DO I CONTROL THE iDISCO
PHONE EVENTS HANDLER?
HOW DO I CHANGE THE BACKGROUND IMAGE?
WHERE AND WHAT IS THAT DARN ÓMORE MENUÓ!?
HOW DO I KNOW WHEN
THEREÕS A NEW VERSION AVAILABLE?
GETTING HELP FROM WITHIN iDISCO
iDisco
is a fast, feature-rich and simple to use iTunes controller for Salling
Clicker. With more than 80 commands we feel safe to say that iDisco pretty much
does it all. Features include:
¥ Complete
player control
¥ Browse
& search music library with lightning speed, multiple browse options,
reversible sorting and numerous play/queue options
¥
Automatically fetch artworks, lyrics and missing ID3 tags from the web
¥ Advanced
track and playlists management
¥ Automized
ID3 tag editing
¥ iPod
extracting and management capabilities
¥ Advanced
phone events handler
¥ Sleep /
Shut down timer
¥ Hotkeys
¥
Automatically fade out music & update play count of skipped tracks
¥ Music quiz
¥ Fully
customizable to make iDisco behave and look just the way you want it
¥ Extensible
through Menu Extras
1.
Drag ÓiDisco.cgzÓ to the left-side list (ÓClicker ItemsÓ) in the first tab of
Salling ClickerÕs preference pane.
2.
Click the second tab (ÓPhone EventsÓ). Drag ÓiDisco Phone Events Handler.cgzÓ
to the list of phone event handlers. Make
sure to uncheck ClickerÕs default item ÓPause iTunes while on the phoneÓ!
3.
Hit the ÓApplyÓ button.
Keys
1-9, 0 and * are Hotkeys. This means that you may assign any commands you like
to these keys, even your own scripts (see Menu
Extras). To assign a new command to a hotkey, open the More
menu (Option key). Select Preferences. Select Hotkeys.
Select a hotkey. Select a new command to assign to the hotkey.
The
More menu is automatically populated with every command
that is not assigned to a hotkey. If you prefer to populate the More
menu with all commands, you may do so disabling the "More Menu"
filtering option in the Preferences.
OK: PLAY / PAUSE / HOLD TO
TOGGLE VISUALS
Navigator
Left / Right:
REWIND / FAST FORWARD
Navigator
/ Slider Up/Down:
iTUNES / SYSTEM VOLUME CONTROL
Option
key: MORE MENU (MORE COMMANDS AND SETTINGS)
Camera
button:
STOP, CLEAN UP, TRIGGER TIMER ACTION /
HOLD TO QUIT
C: MUTE
1: FIND MUSIC (Hotkey)
2: BROWSE LIBRARY /
CURRENT PLAYLIST (Hotkey)
3: SELECT PLAYLIST (Hotkey)
4: NEXT ALBUM IN PLAYLIST
(Hotkey)
5: FADE TO UPCOMING (Hotkey)
6: DELETE UPCOMING (Hotkey)
7: ADD TO FAVORITES (Hotkey)
8: SUPER SHUFFLE (Hotkey)
9: PLAY RANDOM ALBUM (Hotkey)
*: RATE TRACK (Hotkey)
0: RATE ALBUM (Hotkey)
# / Help
Key:
SHOW HELP MENU
iDisco
has more than 80 commands. Most are quite self-explanatory and very simple to
use. YouÕll always find a brief description of each and every hotkey command in
the Help menu from within iDisco itself. HereÕs a more lenghty one:
¥ ADD TO FAVORITES: Add current track to a
"Favorites" playlist. Of course, the tracks doesn't neccessarily have
to be your favorites... Consider it your One-Click-Playlist. You can choose
which playlist to use as your favorites playlist from the Preferences
menu. Once you have selected a favorites playlist, the command will be
known as "Add to [name of that playlist]".
¥ ADD TO PLAYLIST: Select which playlist
to add the current track to.
¥ AIRTUNES (Menu
Extra):
See below.
¥
BROWSE MUSIC: Browse the music library
hierarchically by Playlist, Artist,
Album, Song, Genre or Composer. All browse menus can be reverse-sorted, and you can always choose to return to top at the end of a list.
The Playlist option is a quick and convenient way to browse
a lenghty playlist hierarchically (eg. by Artist->Album->Song) rather
than by track order (as is the case when using the "Playlists"
command).
If
the player is stopped, your selection will start playing right away. If iTunes
is "Party Shuffling" or playing some other regular (not smart)
playlist, you will be presented with various playing/queuing options. The
options depend on what you have selected to play/queue. They are:
¥ Play
Song Next
in the current playlist
¥ Play
Album(s) Next
in the current playlist (starting with the selected song)
¥ Add Song to the current playlist
¥ Add
Album(s) to
the current playlist (starting with the selected song)
¥ Queue
Song in
the current playlist
¥ Queue
Album(s)
in the current playlist (starting with the selected song)
¥ Play SongÕs Album. Duplicates all the
tracks of selected trackÕs album to the current playlist. Useful when browsing
by Song, or if youÕve found a song with a certain tag that doesnÕtapply to the
rest of the tracks of that album. Playback starts with the selected track, but
the tracks are duplicated to the playlist in Album order.
¥ Add
SongÕs Album
to the current playlist (starting with the selected song)
¥ Queue
SongÕs Album to
the current playlist (starting with the selected song)
¥ CURRENT PLAYLIST: Browse the current
playlist. If the current playlist is the library playlist, or if there is no
active playlist, the "Browse Library" command is implemented
¥ DATE & TIME
(Menu Extra):
See below.
¥ DELETE PLAYLIST: Deletes the current
playlist
¥ DELETE
TRACK/ALBUM:
Removes the current track from the current playlist (if any), then asks you if
you want to delete the track in your library and move the file to the trash.
Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ DELETE UPCOMING: Brings up a list of the
ten next upcoming tracks. Select a track to remove it from the playlist
¥ ENABLE / DISABLE
TIMER:
Toggles the timer on/off. The timer can be set to put your Mac to sleep when
iTunes stops playing, or to shut down the system. If you are the owner of the
iTunes alarm clock utility iSleep,
you may prefer to disable this command in the Preferences menu
and use the included iSleep menu extra instead.
¥ TAGS & SETTINGS: Menu to edit/update/toggle the currentlly
playing trackÕs ID3 tags and settings. Contains the following commands:
¥ Helper Scripts: A set of commands to
automatically perform a variety of common editing tasks, namely:
¥ Capitalize Tags: Capitalize first
letter of every word of all tags (eg. Ósome trackÓ of Ósome albumÓ by Ósome
artistÓ -> ÓSome TrackÓ of ÓSome AlbumÓ by ÓSome ArtistÓ). Optionally
applies to whole album.
¥ Uncapitalize Tags: Convert all tags
to lowercase (eg. ÓSOME TRACKÓ -> Ósome trackÓ). Optionally applies to whole
album.
¥ Trim Title from Start: Deletes [x]
characters from the beginning of the title tag (eg. Ó01. Some TrackÓ ->
ÓSome TrackÓ). If the deleted part
contains a track number, it will automatically be added to the track number
tag. YouÕll be given a preview of the new title before applying trim.
Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Trim Title from End: Same as above,
but from end of title, and without the track number part. Optionally applies to
whole album.
¥ Replace in Title: Replace a portion
of the title tag with something else. Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Replace in Artist: Replace a portion
of the artist tag with something else.Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Replace in Album: Replace a portion
of the album tag with something else.Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Fix Combined Tags: Automatically
scans a combined title tag (eg. some or all of the following: Ó01 – Some
Track – Some Album – Some Artist – Maybe a commentÓ) for a
delimiting character, tries to figure out what part is what (based upon the
tags of the other tracks of the same album), and then extracts the tags. If
there are no other tracks to compare with, youÕll be asked which portion is
which. The ideal look is an album with
combined title tags but proper artist and album tags. Portions of the tag
that arenÕt title, artist, album or track number is placed in the trackÕs
comments. Optionally applies to whole album. Use with caution!
¥ Convert to V/A: Convert to Various Artists format (eg. ÓSome TrackÓ of
ÓSome AlbumÓ by ÓSome ArtistÓ -> ÓSome Track – Some ArtistÓ of ÓSome
AlbumÓ by ÓVarious ArtistsÓ.
¥ Title <-> Artist: Switch mixed-up tags
¥ Artist <-> Album: Switch mixed-up tags
¥
Album <-> Title: Switch mixed-up tags
¥ Title: Edit the title tag of the
currently playing track. Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Artist: Edit the artist tag of the
currently playing track. Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Album: Edit the album tag of the currently playing track.
Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Year: Edit the year tag of the currently playing track.
Optionally applies to whole album.
¥
Composer:
Edit the composer tag of the currently playing track. Optionally applies to
whole album.
¥ Grouping: Edit the grouping tag of
the currently playing track. Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Grouping
Presets:
Select grouping to apply to track or album from list of presets (previously saved
groupings). Select ÓClear PresetsÓ to delete all previously saved groupings.
¥ Comment: Edit the comment tag of
the currently playing track. Optionally applies to whole album. Optionally
saves new comment as comment preset (see below)
¥ Comment Presets: Select comment to
apply to track or album from list of presets (previously saved comments).
Select ÓClear PresetsÓ to delete all previously saved comments.
¥ Genre: Select genre from list of
available genres. Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ EQ Preset: Select EQ preset from list of available presets. Optionally
applies to whole album.
¥ Volume Adjustment: Slider to set
volume adjustment. Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Reset Play Count: Set played count to
0. Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Enable / Disable Shufflable: Toggle current trackÕs
shufflable status (eg. if it will appear in Party Shuffle or not). Requires
iTunes 5 or later. Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Enable / Disable Bookmarkable: Toggle
current trackÕs bookmarkable status (eg. if it will start playing from
beginning or where it was last left off). Requires iTunes 5 or later.
Optionally applies to whole album.
¥ Enable / Disable Track: Toggle current trackÕs checkmark
(disabled tracks are ignored by iTunes unless manually played). Optionally
applies to whole album.
¥ EQUALIZER: Menu to
control iTunesÕ EQ window settings. To permanently assign a certain EQ preset to a specific
track, use the "EQ Preset" command in the Tags &
Settings menu.
¥
Enable / Disable EQ: Toggles iTunes EQ on/off
¥
(List of available EQ presets): Select which EQ preset to use.
¥ FADE TO UPCOMING: Brings up a list of the
ten next upcoming tracks. Select the track you wish to play. The current track
will fade out and your selection start playing. You may disable the fade effect
in Preferences, where you can also set fade speed.
¥ FIND MUSIC: Search your music
library for Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs, Composers or Genres. If the player is stopped, your selection will start playing
right away. If iTunes is already playing, you will be presented with various
playing/queuing options (see Browse Music).
¥ GET ARTWORK: Searches Slothradio.com for the album artwork of
the currently playing song. If found artwork is dismissed by the user, or if no
artwork is found, search is continued on Yahoo.com,
first for medium sized images, and then, as a last resort if no image is found,
for images of all sizes. You can choose to add the found artwork to the current
track or the entire album. Requires an internet connection.
¥ GET LYRICS: Searches Seeklyrics.com,
Getlyrics.com, Astraweb.com, AbsoluteLyrics.com, Oldielyrics.com and Leoslyrics.com for the lyrics of the
current track and displays it on the screen of your handheld. Found lyrics are
pasted into the lyrics window of the current track (requires iTunes 5 or
later). If the current track already has lyrics, youÕll be prompted to
continue. Requires an internet connection.
¥ GET MISSING TITLE: Searches FreeDB.org for the title of the current
track. Useful for automizing the tiresome task of tagging manually ripped CDs,
whose tracks usually are titled something in the manner of ÓTrack 01Ó, ÓTrack
02Ó, etc. For this command to work, the track must have proper Artist and Album
tags as well as a track number. The track
number may also be somewhere in the title tag (eg. ÓTrack 01Ó OR Ó01 UnnamedÓ, etc). YouÕll be prompted before
the tag is updated. Requires an internet connection.
¥ iPOD CONTROL (Menu
Extra): See below.
¥ iSLEEP CONTROL (Menu Extra): See below.
¥ MUSIC CALENDAR (Menu Extra): See below.
¥ MUSIC QUIZ: Music guessing game
similar to the one found on your iPod.
¥ MUTE: Toggles sound on/off
¥ NEXT ALBUM: Fade to the next album
in the current playlist. You may disable the fade effect in Preferences,
where you can also set fade speed.
¥ NEXT CHAPTER: Skip to next chapter of
an audiobook or a bookmarkable track.
¥ NEXT TRACK: Skip to next track.
Hold to fast forward the current track. Disabled
by default (since its already assigned to the navigator right key on most
clients)
¥ PLAY RANDOM ALBUM: Fade to some album in
your music library selected by chance. You may disable the fade effect in Preferences, where you can also set fade speed.
¥ Hotkeys: Lists the current hotkeys.
Select the command you wish to replace, then select a new command from the
command list. Select "Restore default" to delete your customized
keypad setting and restore the default keypad setting
¥ Commands:
¥ Enabled: Select command to disable
¥ Disabled: Select command to enable
¥ More Menu: Enable Hoteky filtering to
display only non-hotkey commands in the More Menu. Disable to populate the More menu with all available commands.
¥ Menu Extras:
¥ Add Command: Add menu extras
¥ Remove Command: Remove menu extras
¥ Auto Fade: By
default, iDisco automatically fades out the current track when you run commands
like Next Album in Playlist or Play Random Album, or perform a search. If you
turn this option off, it won't. This also means that the Fade to Upcoming will
Skip to Upcoming instead. Next Track, Previous Track or track selected in the
current playlist will never trigger a fade out
¥ Update Play Count: When this option
is enabled, iDisco will automatically update the Play Count and Last Played
Date of all skipped tracks. These properties are normally only updated by
iTunes when the entire song has been played. You may choose to update these
properties if the skipped track has played more than 1/4, 1/2 or 3/4 of the
track length. Select
"Always" to update all skipped tracks, "Never" to disable
¥ On Screen Display: Turn screen
feedback on/off (on your Mac's display, that is).
¥ Live
Update:
Turns the live updating track info on your handheld's display on/off. Live
Update will drain the battery of your handheld faster that if option is
disabled
¥ Favorites: Select your Favorites
playlist, eg. the playlist which to duplicate songs using the Add to Favorites
command. The default name is "Favorites". Once changed, the name of
this command will be updated accordingly (eg. ÓAdd to My PlaylistÓ).
¥ Phone Call Handler: Select ÓPause
iTunesÓ to suspend playback during phone calls, ÓSoften VolumeÓ to lower the
listening volume during phone calls, or ÓDo nothingÓ to disable phone call
handler. If you choose to ÓSoften VolumeÓ youÕll be asked to select the
decrease in volume percentage. To change the fade speed, or disable fade, use
the ÓAuto FadeÓ preference (see above).
¥ Background Image: Select either one
of the two included images, or pick your own custom background image using the
built-in filebrowser. Select ÓNoneÓ to disable background image completely and
get a white background. This preference
only apperas on handhelds that support graphical images.
¥
Image Style:
Select the keypad layout. ÓFill ScreenÓ puts the scaled image in the
background, ÓFloat LeftÓ will disable the background image and only display
thumbnail artwork to the left of the track info. ÓFloat w/ IconÓ is the same as
ÓFloat LeftÓ but will display the iTunes icon if track has no artwork. ÓFloat
w/ Niqu IconÓ uses NiquÕs (vanillasoapdesign.com) alternative iTunes icon.
¥
Check for Updates:
ÓAutomaticallyÓ checks for iDisco updates at launch. Use ÓManually (now)Ó to do
a version check just this once.
¥ PREVIOUS ALBUM: Fade to the previous
album in the current playlist. You may disable the fade effect in Preferences, where you can also set fade speed.
¥ PREVIOUS CHAPTER: Skip to previous
chapter of an audiobook or a bookmarkable track.
¥ PREVIOUS TRACK: Skip to beginning of
current track, or previous track if already at the beginning. Hold to rewind
the current track. Disabled by default (since
its already assigned to the navigator left key on most clients)
¥ RATE ALBUM: Slider to set the
rating of the album of the current track
¥ RATE TRACK: Slider to set the
rating of the current track
¥ REFRESH PLAYLIST: Delete all tracks in
any smart playlist
¥ REPEAT MODE: Set the repeat state of
the current playlist to Off / Repeat Song / Repeat Playlist
¥ PLAYLISTS: Select the playlist to
play. If the selected playlist is "Library", the Browse Library
command is implemented
¥ SHUFFLE PLAYLIST: Shakes up the current
playlist real good
¥ TRACK INFO: Displays all available information about the current track, such as tags,
play count, date added, shufflable, bookmarkable, volume adjustment, EQ preset,
etc. If some entry isnÕt displayed, it simply means there is no such tag or
setting (eg. no Play Count means that the track has never been played). Use
Edit Tags & Setting to edit the info displayed.
¥ TRACKÕS ALBUM: Play the entire album of
the current track. The currently playing track will be duplicated to the iDisco
playlist along with the rest of the album, and playing will continue (almost)
seemlessly from where we left off. Useful when Party Shuffling or playing a
single track in some other playlist, instead of browsing for itÕs album.
¥ VIEW LYRICS: Displays lyrics of
currently playing track. If there are no lyrics, youÕll be prompted to do a Get Lyrics.
¥ VISUALIZER: Menu to toggle visuals,
set visual size, toggle fullscreen, select visual plug-in.
iDisco
has more than 80 commands. You may not need them all. Hence, iDisco lets you
disable the ones you donÕt feel inclined to use. To disable a command, simply
go to the Preferences menu, select ÓCommandsÓ, ÓEnabledÓ
and then the command you want to disable. To re-enable a command, select
ÓDisabledÓ and then the command you want to enable. Once a command has been
disabled, it will disappear from the More menu.
Tip 1: Disabled commands assigned to hotkeys will still work. This means that you may
use the disabling function to simply get rid of a certain command from the More
menu (whether More menu filtering is enabled or not), without ditching it completely.
Tip 2: Three commands are disabled by
default: ÓNext TrackÓ, ÓPrevious TrackÓ and ÓStop/Clean Up/QuitÓ. They are
disabled since most users already have them assigned to the navigator and
camera button on their clients. However, on some clients (such as the P900 et
al) you canÕt access the navigator in flip-closed mode, and the camera button
isnÕt programmable. So if you want to be able to skip/scan tracks, or stop or
quit iTunes, in flip-closed mode you can simply enable these commands and
assign them to some hotkeys to get that missing functionality. Further, you can
disable them again after assigning them to hotkeys in order to not clog the
More menu with unneccessary items (if More menu filtering is disabled).
iDisco
is extensible through Menu Extras.
This means that you can add as many action scripts as you like to the command
list. To add an action, go to the Preferences menu and
select "Add Menu Extra". This will bring up a list of every available
action script category of Salling Clicker. Select the category containing the
action script you wish to add to the command list, select the action script,
and voila! A new menu called ÓExtrasÓ
will now appear in the More menu. The ÓExtrasÓ menu will bring up a list of
all available menu extras.
Tip: Each and every Menu Extra may also be assigned to Hotkeys.
Or, if you prefer, you can assign the ÓExtrasÓ command itself to a hotkey.
Tip 2: The Menu Extras functionality
of iDisco is also a convenient way to enable action scripts that are currently
disabled, eg. scripts that arenÕt neccessarilly useful within iDisco but that
you, in the comfort of your sofa, just realized that you have disabled for some
reason but now feel urged to use again. Instead of having to get up, open
ClickerÕs preference pane, locate the script, drag it to the menu list and
apply your changes, you can simply add it as a Menu Extra, execute it and then
(if you so wish) disable it again.
The
download package comes with a few Menu Extras, to be installed if you like (see
above). They are:
¥
AIRTUNES:
Select which AirPort Express speaker(s) to use for audio output. Requires
iTunes 7.1 or later.
¥ iPOD
CONTROL: Menu
to manage your (or somebody elseÕs...) iPod. For the import/export commands to work, your iPod preferences (in
iTunes) must be set to "Manually manage songs and playlist".
¥ Import Track: Extract the currently
playing track from an iPod to your Mac. The track is placed in a folder called
ÓiDisco ImportÓ on your Desktop.
¥
Export Track:
Copy the currently playing track from your Mac to an iPod.
¥
Import Playlist:
Extract all the tracks of an iPod playlist to your Mac. The tracks are placed
in a subfolder with the same name as the imported playlist in the ÓiDisco
ImportÓ folder on your Desktop.
¥
Export Playlist:
Copy any playlist from your Mac to an iPod.
¥
Clone iPod Playlist:
Duplicates any iPod playlist on your computer. The tracks in the iPod playlist
must be in your music library. A simple way to reproduce the On-The-Go playlist
on your Mac.
¥ iSLEEP
CONTROL: Menu
to control the iTunes alarm clock shareware utility by Nousoft & Blazing
Mouse Software. Please note that this
command will automatically change your iSleep preferences to ÓPut computer to
sleepÓ & ÓWake up and start playingÓ!
¥ Status: Current iSleep status.
Displays count-down, remaing time and scheduled wake time.
¥ Go to bed: Trigger count-down.
¥ Snooze: Pause iTunes for five
minutes.
¥ Stop: Disable count-down.
¥ Sleep delay: Time selector widget to
set sleep delay.
¥ Wake up time: Date & time
selector widget to set wake up time.
¥ Wake up playlist: Select what music
to wake up to.
¥ MUSIC
CALENDAR:
Simple implementation of the Unix command displays todayÕs events in the
glamourous history of rockÕnÕroll. Requires the BSD subsystem.
¥ DATE & TIME: Displays the current
date and time
iDisco is fully customizable. Keys 1-9 + * are hotkeys, which means you can assign any commands you like
to these keys - even your own scripts (see Menu
Extras). You can even disable the
commands you donÕt need. The Preferences menu contains
numerous settings to make iDisco behave just the way you want it to. Here you
can control the iDisco Phone Events Handler;
select your keypad layout and default background image, either one of the included images or
your very own using the built-in filebrowser; choose to automatically fade out playing music, and - if so - how fast; automatically
update the Play Count and Last Play Date of skipped
tracks; toggle On Screen Display; select your one-click Favorites playlist; turn Live Updating
off to preserve battery life, manually check for iDisco updates or turn on
automatical version check on launch.
The
iDisco Phone Events Handler is controlled from within iDisco itself (see the Preferences menu). This means you never have to edit the
script manually to change your settings, as is the case with all default phone
event handlers of Salling Clicker. In the Phone Events Handler preferences
item, you can choose from time to time whether to pause iTunes while on the
phone, soften the listening volume to any level of your choice, with or without
fade effect, or simply disable it completely. Far more convenient than having
to do it manually from ClickerÕs preference pane.
The More menu is perhaps the most important aspect of
iDisco. This is where all the commands that are not assigned to hotkeys are
listed (or simply all commands if More menu filtering is disabled in Preferences). If you havenÕt found it youÕve missed most of
iDiscoÕs functionality. It is accessed by pressing the Options key (usually the
top right key). Some users may miss it since the More menu is not labelled on
the screen of all clients.
By
default, iDisco displays a full-screen background image if the current track
has no artwork. iDisco has two different background images. You can choose
which one to use in the Preferences menu, where you can also choose the keypad
style: if artwork/background image is to be displayed full-screen in the
background or if a smaller image (artwork only or artwork and iTunes icon/
NiquÕs iTunes icon) should float to the left of the track info. You can also
choose to disable background images completely.
Tip: If you prefer to use your very own background image, you can
easily do so. Simply select ÓCustomÓ in the ÓBackground imageÓ preference, and
then pick the image of your choice using the built-in filebrowser.
In the Tags & Settings menu you will
find a sub-menu called ÓHelper ScriptsÓ. These are provided to automize the
tiresome task of fixing mixed-up, misspelled or somehow incorrect ID3 tags of
tracks in your music library. Please refer to the section above
for a detailed description of their usage. Use
with caution!
Go to Preferences, select ÓVersion CheckÓ, and then
ÓManually (Now)Ó to check if your version of iDisco is up to date. Select
ÓAutomaticallyÓ to automatically check for updates on launch.
You
can get a brief description of every command that is currently assigned to a
key on your client (eg. the programmable hotkeys, the
navigator keys, the camera button, the slider keys, etc) by pressing the Help or # key. The rest of the commands that are listed in the More menu have no help page. Once you assign a new command to a hotkey, the help menu is updated
automatically updated with the corresponding help page.
¥
Mac OS X 10.2 or later (10.4 preferred)
¥
Salling Clicker 3.0 or later
¥
iTunes 4.5 or later
¥
Supported Bluetooth device (See Salling
Clicker home page)
None.
Please
send comments, questions and bug reports to snarb.tk@gmail.com. If you think that you have found a bug, please have
a look at the Applescript log
(accessible from Clicker's menu bar item) and include any logged error message
(if any) in your bug report.
iDisco
is shareware. The registration fee is $ 9.95 (USD). Demo versions of iDisco
will not expire but have somewhat limited functionality. The More
menu will contain a "Purchase license" item until iDisco has been
registered. Once you have purchased a license through PayPal, a
license key will be sent to you within 24 hours. Paying through PayPal is free, secure and only takes a minute. Check Snarb.tk
for discounts!
iDISCO
IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS" WITHOUT ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER SHALL NOT BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
¥
Fixed compatibility issues wiith iTunes 8 (Fetch Artwork and Airtunes)
iDisco 2.5
¥
Updated Fetch Lyrics HTML parsing to reflect changes in searched databases
¥ Allows reviewing fetched lyrics before
adding lyrics to track
¥ Fully compatible with Japanese
environment
iDisco 2.4
¥ Compatible with iTunes 7.1
¥ AirTunes action allows selection by
speaker name
¥ AirTunes action allows multiple
speakers selection
iDisco 2.3
¥ Improved AirTunes menu extra
iDisco 2.2
¥ Improved AirTunes menu
extra. Works with Music Store enabled. Works on both Intel and PPC Macs.
Requires installation of scripting addition (included)
iDisco 2.1
¥ Updated "Fetch Lyrics" and
"Fetch Artwork" to reflect changes in searched web resources
¥ Added "AirTunes" Menu Extra
(basic support for selecting AirPort Express speakers)
¥ Added "Go to..." menu item
to all browse menus
iDisco 2.0
Rewritten
from scrath for optimal performance and full compatibility with Clicker 3.0.
Faster, better, more good looking and with lots of new features. Highlights
include:
¥ Brand new search engine. Even faster!
Supports scattered library
¥ Browse by Artists, Album, Song, Genre,
Comper. Even by Playlist! Reversible sorting and many new play/queue options
¥ Automized ID3 tag editing with more
than 20 new commands
¥ Fetch missing track titles from the
web
¥ Fetch lyrics – now from 6
databases
¥ Fetch artwork - now from 2 databases
¥ Change Phone Event Handler settings
on-the-fly
¥ iPod extracting capabilities
iDisco 1.7.2
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Compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger". Requires Salling Clicker 2.2.1
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Fixed "Music Quiz" (broken in 1.7.1)
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Phone Event Handler does not kick in if iTunes is muted
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Phone Event Handler sets volume during calls in percentage
iDisco 1.7.1
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Improved URL formatting for "Get Artwork" and "Get Lyrics"
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All popup dialogs now allows Yes/No answers
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Fixed bug where "Get Artwork" could suddenly stop working, returning
"Could not complete operation"
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Fixed bug where keypad image wasn't updated after adding artwork
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Fixed bug where Upcoming Tracks info wasn't updated when refreshing playlists
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Fixed bug where Upcoming Tracks info wasn't updated when queuing/adding search
result to playlist
iDisco 1.7
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Added "Get Lyrics" to command list. Searches Leoslyrics.com for the
lyrics of the current track and displays it on terminal screen
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Improved "Get Artwork" command (better results)
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Added optional fading effects to "Soften iTunes during calls" phone
event handler (edit the code manually to change the default settings)
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Adresses a startup issue in iDisco 1.6 experienced by some users
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Minor bug fixes and improvements
iDisco 1.6
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Added "Get Artwork" to command list. Searches Slothradio.com for the
CD cover of the current track and adds the artwork to the entire album.
(Requires QuickTime Player)
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Further improved browsing capabilities
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Added "Soften iTunes during calls" phone event handler
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"Refresh playlist" no longer deletes the current track, i.e. mimics
Party Shuffle's Refresh button
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Added "Music Library" to Preferences, to change the path to iTunes music
library
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Added "iSleep" menu extra, a set of commands that gives you full
control over iSleep 2.5 or later
iDisco 1.5.1
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Adresses a startup issue in iDisco 1.5 experienced by non-admin users
¥ "Remove Upcoming" now
refreshes menu instead of dismissing it when track to remove has been selected
¥ "Refresh playlist" now allows
refresh of Party Shuffle as well as smart playlists
iDisco 1.5
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GREAT SPEED INCREASE: "Browse Library" now allows INSTANT, or almost
instant, artist selection (The difference will not be noted on first try, since
iDisco will be updating its settings)
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"Search Library" is much faster, especially when searching by artist
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"Search Library" allows artist, album and track selection
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Added "Visualizer" menu, containing "Toggle visuals",
"Set visual size", "Toggle fullscreen" and all available
plug-ins
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Added "More Menu" to preferences, allowing user to populate the More
menu with all commands - not only the non-hotkey commands (per user request)
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Displays volume percentage on terminal when player/system volume is changed
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Current track is now preselected when opening a playlist containing that track
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Improved energy saver
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Activates iTunes when enabling visuals
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"Current playlist" implies "Browse Library" if there is no
active playlist
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Fixed issue related to composer and genre searching
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Remembers last selected item in preferences menu
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Fixed issue where trying to browse the library playlist of other sources than
the main library would display the main library playlist
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Minor improvements and bug fixes
iDisco 1.4
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Added "Equalizer" menu, containing "Toggle EQ" and all
available EQ presets
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"Select Playlist" executes much faster
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"Select Playlist" allows song selection before playing
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"Select Playlist" allows source selection
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Added "Date & Time" menu extra
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Fixed an issue where "Select Playlist" wasn't working when selected
from the More menu
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Fixed an issue where sound volume wasn't reset after fading out to a random
album
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Fixed an issue where iDisco would get in conflict with Jon's Commands scripting
addition (or rather, the other way around) in regard to iTunes sound volume
handling
iDisco 1.3
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"Browse Library" now allows user to select "All (x albums)"
on album level, to find songs without album tag
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"Browse Library" now displays artist level when selected, instead of
the level last browsed by the user
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Fixed an issue where "Fade to Upcoming" and "Remove
Upcoming" would not function as expected when less than five songs
remained in the playlist
iDisco 1.2
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"Browse Library" now presents the user with the options to Fade &
Play, Play Next or Queue the selection in the current playlist if iTunes is
already party shuffling or playing
some other regular (not smart) playlist - just like when searching for a
single song
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Various improvements and bug fixes
iDisco 1.1
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Next Album now executes faster and works in library playlist as well
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Added Previous Album command
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Enable Timer is now displayed as Disable Timer when timer is activated
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Fixed a bug where Refresh Playlist wasn't working
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Fixed a bug where More menu items would be duplicated on PDAs
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Fixed a bug where Restore Default Hotkeys wasn't working
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Registration reminder no longer asks for a code when dismissed
iDisco 1.0
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First public release