What's new in Bowtie 1.5
Feb 24, 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
New in Bowtie 1.4 (Jan 24, 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.
New in Bowtie 1.4 Beta (Jul 24, 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.
New in Bowtie 1.3.1 (Feb 8, 2011)
- Minor bugfixes, including a fix for people using the OS X Firewall.
New in Bowtie 1.0 Beta 2 (Dec 28, 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 über-fast PowerSearch
- Fixed positioning issues/gave each theme its own stored position
- Added BTArtistURL and BTThemeVersion to Info.plist
- Added theme-specific preference API