What's new in Ecoute 3.0.8
Feb 19, 2014
- This update should now works on OS X 10.6.8
New in Ecoute 3.0.7 (Sep 17, 2012)
- Ecoute is now free until v4.0. More details at http://www.pixiapps.com/blog/?p=158 .
New in Ecoute 3.0.6 (Jul 28, 2012)
- Fixed an issue with the player upon quit
New in Ecoute 3.0.5 (Jul 24, 2012)
- Fixed an issue when running on OS X 10.8+
- Added support of Growl 1.3+ with sandboxing
New in Ecoute 3.0.4 (May 21, 2012)
- Fixed a possible issue with Adobe CS6
- Added Sandboxing support
New in Ecoute 3.0.3 (Jan 17, 2012)
- Fixed an issue with streams
New in Ecoute 3.0.2 (Dec 17, 2011)
- Fixed a crash when iTunes Match is enabled
New in Ecoute 3.0.1 (Nov 13, 2011)
- Fixed an issue with corrupted libraries
- Fixed an issue with Shuffle/Repeat shortcuts
- Fixed an issue with the widget controller
New in Ecoute 3.0 (Nov 12, 2011)
- New:
- 64-bits compatible binary
- Multi-column navigation mode
- Artwork view (+ the ability to automatically display the artwork view after a period of inactivity)
- Queue-list: re-organize what you are currently listening to!
- Multiple selections
- OS XLion Fullscreen support
- Shuffle by albums
- Improvements:
- Faster UI
- OS X Lion optimizations
- Gapless playback
- Minimal mode
- Search results improved
- Fixed:
- Facebook auth
- Growl issues
- Get album artwork
- Sorting issues
- .. and many others
New in Ecoute 2.0.91 (Jun 7, 2011)
New in Ecoute 2.0.9 (Jun 6, 2011)
- Fixed a global issue which makes Ecoute unusable (empty window)
- Improved Distributed Notifications for third party apps
New in Ecoute 2.0.8 (May 2, 2011)
- Added 'Take Five' API support (v1.1 minimum required -- not available yet) http://takefiveapp.com
- Added 'unplayed' info on Podcasts
- Fixed Twitter's API issues
- Fixed No Artwork & Playing issues with iTunes libraries located on another Mac OS X hard drive
- Fixed an issue with the iTunes status in iChat
- Fixed a random crash when selecting a theme
- Fixed a bug with the volume slider not responding to click events
- Fixed a bug with title bar
- Removed 'Hide icon from Dock' option, which is not allowed by Apple Guidelines
- Improved Growl notifications: instant display and unique notification
- 'Last played' tracks are now sorted from the most recent to the older one
- Improved artworks quality a little bit
- Rating is now hidden from the player view if disabled
New in Ecoute 2.0.7 (Apr 9, 2011)
- Fixed GrooveShark's API issues
New in Ecoute 2.0.6 (Jan 24, 2011)
- Added the ability to fix "unknown" tracks' locations.
- Fixed "Hide icon from Dock" option
- Fixed Album's artwork not showing in Dock
- Fixed a sorting issue with TV Shows
- Fixed shuffle issues
- Improved keyboard navigation
- Reduced CPU usage while playing
- Removed iTunes U from "Music" sorting
- Improved "Genres" navigation
New in Ecoute 2.0.4 (Jan 17, 2011)
- Added 'lyrics' property for desktop widgets (refer to documentation from http://www.pixiapps.com/theme-center/Doc/)
- Added the ability to reset all themes position on screen
- Added 'all tracks' listing when right-clicking on an artist/album/composer/genre
- Added the ability to disable rating from UI
- Added the ability to play your entire library randomly (hold the 'alt' key and click on the shuffle-mode icon from the navigation bar)
- Fixed a bug with Themes Preferences not listing variants
- Fixed an issue with last.fm where it was submitting tracks every time
- Fixed a sorting issue with album artists
- Fixed crashes with Twitter Auth
- Fixed a slow-motion issue if the 'toggle show/hide Ecoute' shortcut is binded with the SHIFT modifier key flag
- Fixed a bug with the Dock icon
- Fixed content ratio when running a fullscreen video
- Fixed a bug with Desktop Controller unexpectedly moves when toggling show/hide Dock
- Improved search results. You can combine, an artist name + album name in order to get better results. (e.g 'Metallica enter sandman')
- Desktop Controller now appears on all spaces
- Smoothest scrolls
- Desktop controller no longer hides with Ecoute's main window
- Closing the movie player's window no longer stops the movie
New in Ecoute 2.0.3 (Jan 5, 2011)
- Added the ability to lock the desktop controller frame
- Added a 'clean' button in search field
- Added half-star rating support
- Fixed playlists sorting issue
- Fixed shortcuts issues
- Fixed a crash that may occur during Twitter authentication
- Fixed social sharing issues if username is "Unknown"
- Fixed a progress update issue with some Themes
- Fixed a lot of issues with Themes preferences panel
- Fixed an important bug that makes Ecoute unusable (no content)
- Fixed 'Play Next' issues (In search results and when shuffle mode is disabled)
- Fixed some issues when double-clicking on search results like 'Composers' and 'Genres'
- Fixed visual issue when lyrics are visible and player is hidden
- Fixed issue with last.fm scrobbling Movies/TVShows/Podcasts
- Fixed some issues with 'Current iTunes Song' in iChat status
- Fixed a small memory leak
- Fixed an 'out-of-bounds' insert point in search field
- Fixed facebook issues (2.0.3)
- Fixed artworks issues (2.0.3)
- Hiding Ecoute using shortcut now deactivates the application
- Improved desktop controller
- Drag & Drop is now allowed in Themes preferences panel for adding a new theme
- Smoothest scrolls
- Ecoute now recognizes lyrics from M4A audio files
- cmd F now toggles the search view
- Binded ESC key to hide the search view
- Swipe-left gesture to hide the search view
- Time column content is automatically resized
New in Ecoute 2.0.1 (Jan 3, 2011)
- Free update
- New User Interface
- Fixed an important bug with the search
- Fixed Twitter connection issues
- More consistent UI
- New social engines
- Lyrics are no longer loaded from web, but picked up from ID3 tags
- Less memory usage with huge iTunes libraries
- CPU usage improvements with huge iTunes libraries
- Better audio streaming
- And so many other improvements
New in Ecoute 1.3.8 (May 5, 2010)
- Currently working on Ecoute 1.4 which should implement a new way to navigate into your music! Stay tuned!
- Fixed scrobbling encoding issues
- Fixed lastfm disconnections
New in Ecoute 1.3.6 (Mar 28, 2010)
- Added Chinese localization
- Added Love & Now listening to lastfm scrobbler
- When the repeat mode is set to "repeat one", clicking on "next" will now play the next track instead of playing the same track again and again
- Gapless when playing an album from Compilations
- Fixed last.fm iTunes plugin crashes
New in Ecoute 1.3.5 (Dec 8, 2009)
- Ecoute window is no longer visible at login.
- Now using LyricWiki again to find your lyrics.
New in Ecoute 1.3.3 (Nov 21, 2009)
- Fixed a random playing issue when right-clicking on mini-controller and choosing a song from multiple CDs albums.
New in Ecoute 1.3.2 (Nov 3, 2009)
- Fixed issues with Adobe Creative Suite and some other software while Apple Remote was activated.
New in Ecoute 1.3.1 (Nov 2, 2009)
- New lyrics search engine
- Fixed Rating shortcuts that wasn't working for some localized interfaces
- Some other minor bug fixes
New in Ecoute 1.3 (Oct 19, 2009)
- Shortcuts to rate tracks
- Manually add artworks with drag&drop
- Ability to quickly switch between recents iTunes libraries
- Repeat mode and Shuffle mode added in Dock menu
- Multitouch support for 10.5 or later (Swipe left-right to navigate, Swipe up-down to hide/show track list when on player view, Pinch in/out on player view to resize the window)
- New Lastfm scrobbler
- Added Portuguese-European localization
- Added Portuguese-Brazilian localization
- Added Spanish localization
- Current album's tracks now correctly sorted when right-clicking on the mini-player
- Updated lyrics search
- Fixed a window behavior when searching for tracks
- Fixed a iTunes crash while using Ecoute + Last.fm scrobbling
- Some other minor bug fixes
New in Ecoute 1.2.6 (Sep 20, 2009)
- Improved songs search.
- Improved missing album art search (Now compatible with iTunes 9).
- Fixed a crash when adding searched album arts.
- Fixed a pixellised "no-artwork" on Snow Leopard.
New in Ecoute 1.2.5 (Sep 2, 2009)
- Improved lyrics search (eg: "Big Girl [You are beautiful]" -> [] will be ignored and thus will only search for "Big Girl").
- Fixed lyrics parsing.
- Fixed issues with Facebook on Snow Leopard.
New in Ecoute 1.2.4 (Aug 28, 2009)
- Fully ready for Snow Leopard.
- Added the ability to remove social buttons from the controller.
- Added Composers sorting in Musics.
- Automatically resume Podcasts, TV Shows, and Movies.
- Improved gapless playback.
- Improved Ecoute Helper (Now located in the app support folder of Ecoute).
- Fixed some bugs on Snow Leopard.
- Some other minor bug fixes.
New in Ecoute 1.2.3 (Aug 23, 2009)
- Added Adium "I'm listening to" status support (Just select the "iTunes" status in Adium).
- Added the ability to easily choose a track album from the mini-controller (Right-click on it).
- Updated Artworks search to support new Amazon API.
New in Ecoute 1.2.2 (Aug 18, 2009)
- Improved sharing feature.
- Fixed a bug with the "Suggest" feature.
- Fixed a bug with the sharing feature that wasn't able to display the track name, artist, and/or album.
New in Ecoute 1.2.1 (Aug 14, 2009)
- Improved gapless playback : Now only use the gapless playback feature when you are playing an album, with shuffle mode disabled.
- Fixed a bug when you skip a radio while buffering.
New in Ecoute 1.2 (Aug 10, 2009)
- Added "Share" : Share what you are listening to on Twitter & Facebook
- Added "Video" : Quickly watch a music video/concert of the current song you are listening to, using YouTube
- Added "Suggest" : Get an iTunes Store link of the song you are listening to and paste it to a friend
- Added "Social" pane in preferences (includes last.fm, Twitter, Facebook)
- Added the ability to display elapsed time or total time instead of remaining time
- Added some new graphics
- Improved Albums sorting : All Unknown Albums are now grouped into a unique album called "Unknown Albums"
- Improved List view : Scrollbar is automatically ajusted to selected row
- Improved search
- Improved fade in/out of track controls
- Fixed non-played songs which are stored on external hard-drives
- Fixed a "no-artwork" bug with some songs stored on external hard-drives
- Fixed a sorting issue in tracklist view while playing a song from a playlist
- Fixed window-display issue while requesting search bar when Ecoute is hidden
- Fixed some UI glitches
New in Ecoute 1.1.93 (Aug 5, 2009)
- Fixes a bug that makes the mini-controller unavailable.
New in Ecoute 1.1.92 (Aug 3, 2009)
- Reduces memory usage with mini-controller.
New in Ecoute 1.1.9 (Aug 3, 2009)
- Added the ability to use "esc" key as the "back" button.
- Improved navigation.
- Fixed random glitches after performing a search.
- Fixed a small glitch while hitting the search button quite fast.
- Fixed a bug with "Enter" key that couldn't play some selections.
New in Ecoute 1.1.8 (Jul 30, 2009)
- Should fix lastfm scrobbling issues (if not, please contact the support).
- Albums from the pop-up are now listed alphabetically.
- iPhone-like scrollbar for lyrics.
New in Ecoute 1.1.7 (Jul 26, 2009)
New in Ecoute 1.1.6 (Jul 22, 2009)
- Added the ability to play/pause a track with spacebar
- Added the ability to increase/decrease system sound volume with Apple Remotes
- Type-select now ignores "The" (ie : you should type "Beat" instead of "The beat" to get "The Beatles")
- Mini-controller with Normal/Top window behaviors should now stay visible even if you hide Ecoute with the specified shortcut
- Displaying lyrics from mini-controller should now bring Ecoute window on front
New in Ecoute 1.1.5 (Jul 21, 2009)
- Added the ability to play/pause a track with spacebar
- Added the ability to increase/decrease system sound volume with Apple Remotes
- Type-select now ignores "The" (ie : you should type "Beat" instead of "The beat" to get "The Beatles")
- Mini-controller with Normal/Top window behaviors should now stay visible even if you hide Ecoute with the specified shortcut
- Displaying lyrics from mini-controller should now bring Ecoute window on front
New in Ecoute 1.1.4 (Jul 20, 2009)
- Better navigation for music genres
- Fixed a bug with tracks in pause
- Some other minor improvements