May 15th, 2012· Added preference to disable pop up iTunes controller
· Increased menu bar alert duration from 5 to 7 seconds
May 2nd, 2012· New pop up window with simple playback controls and album cover art
· New unrated song alert in menu bar
· New preference to set keyboard shortcut to set the rating to zero
· New preference to enable half-star features
· New preferences to not alert when playing movies, TV shows, and iTunes-U tracks
· Instead of double-clicking to assign a half-star rating, you can now click in between stars to set half-star ratings, if half-stars are enabled.
· If half-stars are enabled, pressing the keyboard shortcut for a rating twice results in a half-star being added to the rating instead of subtracted.
· Bug fixes
March 29th, 2012· Removed preference to set as start at log in
· Fixed iTunes getting relaunched after quitting iTunes
· Fixed iTunes notifications getting logged to the console
December 10th, 2011· No longer launches iTunes when I Love Stars is launched
December 2nd, 2011· You can now rate songs stored in iCloud.
· Fixed a bug where two tracks were rated sometimes.
· Performance improvements when dealing with huge iTunes libraries.
· I Love Stars now runs in a sandboxed environment to provide more security
June 8th, 2011· Fixes a bug that could cause the system to hang while showing the spinning beachball when switching the system language input method.
April 6th, 2011· The previous version was delaying the creation of the menu item so that I Love Stars would end up as the left-most menu item. This version exposes a hidden preference to disable that feature.
To do so, quit I Love Stars then paste the following to the terminal:
· defaults write com.potionfactory.ILoveStars.mac launchAtLoginDelay -float 0
February 11th, 2011· Fixed a bug with the stars being blurry sometimes.
January 7th, 2011· NOTE: I Love Stars is now available exclusively at the Mac App Store for the price of $1 USD.
· Delays showing the menu bar item when launched at log-in so that it ends up being the left-mode menu bar item.
· Menu bar item is always visible by default. You have an option to hide it just as before.
· Preference to start I Love Stars at log in
· New animation to transition from the always visible menu bar item
May 12th, 2010· Fixed compatibility problem with Mac OS X 10.5
· Ask if it should move itself to the Applications folder
May 10th, 2010· Preference to increment and decrement by half star rating using the keyboard
October 7th, 2009· Use Lucida Grande Bold for the 1/2 character to look more like iTunes 9.
· Don't draw the dot behind the 1/2 character.
· Draw white shadow to match the look of other menu bar icons.
August 24th, 2009· Snow Leopard compatibility.
· 64-bit support.
December 25th, 2008· Alert on unrated songs
· Custom keyboard shortcuts for changing the rating
· New preferences window to customize above new features
· Minor bug and memory leak fixes
May 19th, 2008· I Love Stars hides itself when iTunes is not playing and it does so with a nifty animation
· You can assign half a star rating by clicking on the last star
· It is smaller and requires less memory
· 1 bug has been fixed