What's new in DesktopLyrics 2.6.16
Sep 3, 2018
- Fix 'Set Lyrics' feature not setting the lyrics permanently since v2.6.13
- Fix 'Network Lyrics' only working for songs with album-art since v2.6.8
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.15 (Apr 26, 2018)
- Fix problem with cut-off lyrics when setting horizontal text alignment to 'right'.
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.14 (Apr 4, 2018)
- The 'Network Lyrics' feature is now free, and not an in-app purchase
- Automatically detect incompatibility with 'LiveDesktop' and 'EarthDesk' apps
- Fix lyrics-tooltip position when using 'Bartender'
- Fix problem where lyrics-tooltip may not be positioned completely correctly
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.13 (Mar 17, 2018)
- Fixed problem where next/previous page buttons can not be clicked
- Fixed rare problems when lyrics are cut onto a very large number of pages
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.12 (May 30, 2017)
- IMPORTANT: The minimum system requirements have been raised to macOS 10.10
- Fixed possible problem with in-app purchases
- Added complete German localization
- Translated main menu into 34 languages
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.11 (May 3, 2016)
- Fixed problem with 'network lyrics' displaying other Mac's lyrics.
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.10 (Mar 23, 2016)
- Added experimental support for the music player 'Swinsian'
- Added retina version of menu bar icon
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.9 (Dec 22, 2015)
- Allow remembering lyrics for tracks where iTunes does not allow this (streamed music)
- Add option to add 'Play Count' and 'Last Played' to the displayed song-info
- Cache lyrics transformation (Python) results for increased performance
- Fix problem where album cover/artwork would be 'behind' the lyrics background
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.8 (Oct 24, 2015)
- Make recording of page-turns emit a helpful on-screen user-notification
- Fix recording of page-turns with song that have been paused or fast-forwarded
- Fixed crash when moving DesktopLyrics while it is running
- Updated documentation for correctness of Terminal-codes
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.7 (May 22, 2015)
- Fixed problem where page change buttons could not be clicked anymore
- Fixed display of tooltip on Macs with 'Retina' screen
- Improvements to the welcome assistant
- Include our 'privacy policy'
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.6 (Feb 2, 2015)
- Fixed problem with superfluous log messages
- Expanded ReadMe and FAQ
- Detect problematic configuration with DesktopLyrics being in the 'Login Items'
- Provided hidden option to refresh cover for every song and not for every album: defaults write org.corecode.DesktopLyrics HiddenOptionAlwaysUpdateCover -bool true
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.5 (Oct 27, 2014)
- Added support for 'Dark Mode' in Mac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"
- Improved performance and memory usage
- Added possibility to close the "set lyrics" window
- Fixed rare problem where DesktopLyrics could freeze and eat up much memory
- Fixed problem where cover would not appear in presentation mode
- Added more text transformation options when setting new lyrics
- Provided hidden option to start DesktopLyrics in 'hidden' mode: defaults write org.corecode.DesktopLyrics HiddenOptionStartHidden -bool true
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.2 (Sep 4, 2014)
- Fixed problem where the presentation mode popup would be disabled
- Made presentation-mode settings apply immediately if mode is currently enabled
- Made it obvious that 'presentation mode' needs to be activated to be in effect
- Fixed problem where the lyrics in the tool-tip would be editable
- Made tool-tip invokable with shortcut when displaying icon in dock and not in the menu bar
- Expanded documentation with respect to viewing lyrics when covered by other windows
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.1 (May 6, 2014)
- Fixed problem where some fonts could prevent the main window showing
New in DesktopLyrics 2.6.0 (Apr 28, 2014)
- Added HotKey combination to toggle the tooltip
- Added options to configure font smoothing&anti-aliasing
- Added option to make the presentation mode hide all apps
- Show font names in the preferences in their respective fonts
- Prettified tooltip on the menu-bar item (showing the lyrics)
- Added helpful information to prevent mis-configuration
- Improved handling for tracks from shared libraries
- Fixed regression with tooltips not showing immediately
- Fixed problem with set-lyrics hot-key not showing up
- Allow positioning of album art on different display
New in DesktopLyrics 2.5.5 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Added option to split lyrics non-evenly across multiple pages
- Improved stability
New in DesktopLyrics 2.5.1 (Dec 12, 2013)
- Added option for showing the "action-button" when not displaying in Dock or Menubar
- Fixed "action-button" being available even when no lyrics are displayed
- Fixed placement of the page-choose-buttons when not displaying song-info
- Fixed problems when the 'Arial' font is not available
New in DesktopLyrics 2.2.0 (Apr 29, 2013)
- Add option to control whether to display lyrics on all spaces or just on a single one
- Add "Presentation Mode" to show lyrics while hiding the Desktop
- Usability improvement for hiding the text related to empty lyrics
- Added ability to display the song composer and genre in the song info
- Added smooth animation between album covers
- Added support for line breaks in song info
- Performance improvements
- Warn when the Tryout version is still installed and running in addition to the full version
- Add keyboard shortcut to close the window to change song lyrics
- Fixed placement of the page-choose-buttons
- Automatically record page-turn timecode by holding down shift while clicking 'next page'
- Prevent misconfiguration when changing screen resolution or lyrics screen
- Added options to rate the app on the MacAppStore or on MacUpdate
- The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.6.8
New in DesktopLyrics 2.1.0 (Nov 21, 2012)
- Added support for showing the song rating
- Added support for searching for song lyrics
- Added support for setting/modifying the song lyrics
- Added support for lyrics sharing with the "Mountain Lion" native sharing options
- Added HotKeys for searching lyrics or setting new lyrics
- Fixed possible crash related to (dis)connecting additional displays
- Fixed ugly black window on launch with the system setting "reopen windows"
- Fixed opening preferences window on launch with the system setting "reopen windows"
- Fixed cosmetic problem related to the Exposé "Show Desktop" function
- Improved usability by preventing setting problematic configurations
- Fixed a problem with the HotKeys
New in DesktopLyrics 2.0.1 (Aug 13, 2012)
- Now works with Mac OS X "Mountain Lion" 10.8
- Displaying lyrics on other monitors now works
- Fixed album cover artwork not displaying under Mac OS X 10.6
- Fixed issue where changing the song info size or content would not work
New in DesktopLyrics 2.0.0 (Jul 7, 2012)
- REDESIGNED: completely overhauled user interface to be more capable and easy to use
- Performance, stability and memory usage improvements
- The displayed lyrics now "flicker" less when changing songs or "pages"
- Added convenience options for sharing the current lyrics by:
- Printing the lyrics
- Copying the lyrics to the clipboard
- Sharing the lyrics via email/twitter/facebook
- DesktopLyrics functions like toggling visibility or lyrics sharing can now be invoked by:
- The Dock menu (if displaying in the Dock)
- The Menubar menu (if displaying in the Menubar)
- The "action-button" embedded between the song title and lyrics
- Added option to display DesktopLyrics in the menubar instead of the Dock
- Added option to display current song artwork (cover) in addition to the lyrics
- Added option to use a different font for the song information than for the lyrics
- Added option to define custom time-codes for lyrics page-switching
- DesktopLyrics can now hide its Dock icon without having to restart itself
- Fixed cases where the lyrics could be smaller than the defined minimum font size
- DesktopLyrics is now "sandboxed" for maximum security
- The system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.6.6 with a 64-bit processor
New in DesktopLyrics 1.3.7 (Jul 7, 2012)
- Improved compatibility Mac OS X 10.8. "Mountain Lion"
- Visual improvements for Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" and newer
- Improved stability
- Default to running in 64-bit mode
- Fixed the "hide lyrics" HotKey to last permanently and not only until the next song
New in DesktopLyrics 1.3.6 (Dec 7, 2011)
- IMPORTANT: The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.6.
- Since defining HotKeys makes these key-combinations unusable in all other apps:
- HotKey controls have been changed to require at least the Command-key (⌘) to be used
- Added a lengthy explanation that chosen key-combinations stop working in all other apps
- Fixed a problem where no lyrics would be displayed on Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion"
- Fixed compatibility with other desktop-displaying apps like EarthDesk on 10.7 "Lion"
- Fixed behavior on Mac OS X 10.6, lyrics would be displayed above folders on the Desktop
New in DesktopLyrics 1.3.5 (Aug 30, 2011)
- Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" (makes the page-choose-buttons work)
- IMPORTANT: please have a look at our new game CoreBreach to support CoreCode and help cover DesktopLyrics development costs so it can stay free
New in DesktopLyrics 1.3.4 (Jun 30, 2011)
- Fix the placement of the page-choose-buttons when not displaying the song-info
- Expanded the FAQ
- Provided hidden option to disable font anti-aliasing: defaults write org.corecode.DesktopLyrics disableAntiAliasing 'YES'
New in DesktopLyrics 1.3.3 (Feb 28, 2011)
- Improved stability
- Option to configure the lyrics line-spacing
- Fix the placement of the page-choose-buttons for narrow lyric window configurations
- Fix the height of the gap between the lyrics header and the actual lyrics for large font sizes
- Improved localizations
New in DesktopLyrics 1.3.2 (Oct 21, 2010)
- Increase maximum lyrics font size from 30 to 100
- Fixed donation option not to send users to the german paypal website
- Fixed automatic update-check which would not work automatically in some cases
- DesktopLyrics code is now signed with a digital certificate
- Fixed a problem where automatic updates would result in a broken installation, necessitating a re-download
New in DesktopLyrics 1.3.1 (Sep 2, 2010)
- Fix a problem with the automatic page-turning not turning beyond page two
- Handle case when DesktopLyrics is launched from its disk image
- Handle case when DesktopLyrics is moved while active
New in DesktopLyrics 1.3.0 (Jul 27, 2010)
- Hide / Show the lyrics or turn over the lyrics pages with customizable "hot key" combinations
- Option to customize the song-info-header
- Option to automatically turn the pages of multi-page lyrics
- Fixed problem that the help menu would not appear
- Live updating of the preference setting of the indenting from the screen edges
- Provide facility for more extensive localization
- Removed broken option to change the current lyrics page with the arrow keys (hotkey functionality replaces this)
New in DesktopLyrics 1.2.1 (Jan 4, 2010)
- Fix a bug where DesktopLyrics would display a dash when iTunes is not running
- Improved stability
- Added link to "Get Lyrical"
- DesktopLyrics automatically restarts itself when turning off visibility in the Dock
New in DesktopLyrics 1.2.0 (Sep 18, 2009)
- IMPORTANT: The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.5.
- IMPORTANT: Do not directly upgrade from a release older than 1.0.2, or your preferences won't be taken over.
- Completely reimplemented the communication with iTunes based on the "ScriptingBridge" for improved performance and reliability.
- Added 64-bit support (on Intel), but by defaults starts in 32-bit mode. To change this use the "Get Info" panel in the Finder on SMARTReporter.
- Added option to change the current lyrics page with the arrow keys (when DesktopLyrics is the front application).
- Added the specified text shadow to the page index text as well.
- Fixed the CrashReport sending facility to only send "real" crashes.
New in DesktopLyrics 1.1.1 (Feb 24, 2009)
- IMPORTANT: Users of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" have to update manually to this release since the update check has been disabled on this platform already.
- Fixed multiple issues where the page-choose-buttons would be positioned incorrectly, possibly obscuring the lyrics display.
- Fixed possible crash.
- Fixed the update-check, which would still check for updates even if disabled (sorry!).
- Fonts unsuitable for lyrics display are filtered-out.
- Restrict font minimum and maximum size to 3 - 30 to prevent problems.
New in DesktopLyrics 1.1 (Dec 28, 2008)
- IMPORTANT: The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.4.
- IMPORTANT: Users of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" have to update manually to this release since the update check has been disabled on this platform already
- Added minimum font size:
- Minimum font size prevents lyrics from becoming unreadable small
- Lyrics not fitting in the destination area with the minimum size are are displayed on multiple "pages"
- The currently viewed lyrics page can be toggled with small buttons embedded in the lyrics display
- Fixed the "Start on login" feature on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" through a new Leopard-specific implementation (again)
- Fixed hyperlink to "Harmonic" in the ReadMe (again)
- Hide the dummy lyrics iTunes sends for OGG-files ("(null)")
New in DesktopLyrics 1.0.6 (Aug 21, 2008)
- Disable the update-check on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 as those won't be supported in future releases
- To automatically update to future releases you must first update to this version
- Updated "Sparkle" (the Framework used for Version Checking and Automatic Updates), to fix possible crashes
- Fixed a problem where DesktopLyrics might display the lyrics of the previous song because iTunes was busy while being asked for lyrics
- Fixed a problem where DesktopLyrics would still display lyrics after iTunes was quitted when not using the option "Hide lyrics when iTunes is paused"
- Added French translation (thanks to Pierre Rudloff)
New in DesktopLyrics 1.0.5 (Feb 28, 2008)
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: Fixed crash-on-launch on 10.3.x and 10.4.x
- Fixed possible crash while sending CrashReports
New in DesktopLyrics 1.0.4 (Feb 22, 2008)
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: REALLY fixed the crashes on 10.3.x this time.
New in DesktopLyrics 1.0.2.1 (Feb 7, 2008)
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: Disabled the new Leopard-specific "Start on login" as it seems to crash
New in DesktopLyrics 1.0.1 (Oct 4, 2007)
- Updated all hyperlinks in the application and the documentation because of the move to a new hosting for website & e-mail
- Added German translation (Thanks to Thomas Meyer)
- Added a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions - with answers ;-), separated the History into a file and expanded the ReadMe
- Fixed icon which was wrong at small sizes
- Fixed file permissions which could cause DesktopLyrics to fail/crash for unprivileged users
- Fixed hyperlink to "Harmonic" in the ReadMe
- Refined defaults for better first-use experience