Bowtie 1.5 - Changelog

What's new in Bowtie 1.5:

February 24th, 2012

Bugs Fixed:
· Fixes Player.show() with Spotify (always opened iTunes)

Features Added:
· Adds support for Sonora, a beautiful, lightweight iTunes replacement
· Adds support for Rdio, a music streaming service with free and paid plans

What's new in Bowtie 1.4:

January 24th, 2012

Bugs Fixed:
· Fixes the inability to move the Bowlet when stuck to the desktop on Lion
· Fixes the display of artwork with iTunes on Lion
· From beta: adds support for beta versions of Spotify

Features Added:
· Adds support for the Spotify music service as a source
· Bowtie now automatically fetches missing artwork from Last.fm
· Adds support for Player.name() to get the name of the current music player, and BTMinimumVersion to restrict themes to newer Bowtie builds; for more information, see the list of API changes since 1.3
· Implements version 2.0 of the Last.fm Scrobbling protocol for more reliable scrobbles
· Miscellaneous other improvements

Features Dropped:
· This version of Bowtie drops support for Mac OS X 10.5. If you use Leopard, do not upgrade to this version of Bowtie.
· This version of Bowtie drops support for the iPhone app. If you rely on this app, do not upgrade to this version of Bowtie.

What's new in Bowtie 1.4 Beta:

July 24th, 2011

Bugs Fixed:
· Fixes the inability to move the Bowlet when stuck to the desktop on Lion
· Fixes the display of artwork with some betas of iTunes on Lion

Features Added:
· Adds support for the Spotify music service as a source
· Bowtie now automatically fetches missing artwork from Last.fm
· Miscellaneous other improvements

Caveats and Known Issues:
· This version of Bowtie does not work with the iPhone app. If you rely on this app, do not upgrade to this version of Bowtie.

What's new in Bowtie 1.3.1:

February 8th, 2011

· Minor bugfixes, including a fix for people using the OS X Firewall.

What's new in Bowtie 1.0 Beta 2:

December 28th, 2008

· Fixed crashes when iTunes quits
· Hotkeys, Hotkeys, Hotkeys!
· Alphabetized theme list 'til we can build a better browser
· No Dock icon, menubar option
· Added option to auto-start at login
· Dragging script no longer required by theme developers
· Bowlet can now be locked in-place on desktop
· Contextual menu on Bowlet, Bowlet hiding
· We're officially calling it a Bowlet now :)
· Lower/no CPU usage while idle
· Easy volume control: two-finger scroll/scrollwheel up/down over Bowlet
· Added √ºber-fast PowerSearch
· Fixed positioning issues/gave each theme its own stored position
· Added BTArtistURL and BTThemeVersion to Info.plist
· Added theme-specific preference API