I Love Stars Changelog

What's new in I Love Stars 4.4.1

Oct 23, 2013
  • Fixed iTunes getting relaunched after it's quitted.

New in I Love Stars 4.4 (Oct 16, 2013)

  • Better compatibility with iTunes 11.1 and iTunes Radio

New in I Love Stars 4.3 (May 22, 2013)

  • "Show album cover" keyboard hot key hides the controller if it's already visible.

New in I Love Stars 4.2.1 (Apr 6, 2013)

  • Bug fixes

New in I Love Stars 4.2 (Jul 13, 2012)

  • Retina display support
  • You can now assign a keyboard shortcut to show album cover

New in I Love Stars 4.1.2 (Jun 22, 2012)

  • When double clicking on artwork, bring iTunes forward ignoring other apps.

New in I Love Stars 4.1.1 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Fixed double-click on album artwork not revealing the track in iTunes
  • Ignore natural scrolling preference when adjusting ratings by trackpad or mouse scroll
  • When scrolling to adjust rating, do it by half-stars if half-star ratings are enabled

New in I Love Stars 4.1 (May 15, 2012)

  • Added preference to disable pop up iTunes controller
  • Increased menu bar alert duration from 5 to 7 seconds

New in I Love Stars 4.0 (May 2, 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

New in I Love Stars 3.6.2 (Mar 29, 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

New in I Love Stars 3.6.1 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • No longer launches iTunes when I Love Stars is launched

New in I Love Stars 3.6 (Dec 2, 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

New in I Love Stars 3.5.4 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Fixes a bug that could cause the system to hang while showing the spinning beachball when switching the system language input method.

New in I Love Stars 3.5.3 (Apr 6, 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

New in I Love Stars 3.5.2 (Feb 11, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug with the stars being blurry sometimes.

New in I Love Stars 3.5.1 (Jan 7, 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

New in I Love Stars 3.4.1 (May 12, 2010)

  • Fixed compatibility problem with Mac OS X 10.5
  • Ask if it should move itself to the Applications folder

New in I Love Stars 3.4 (May 10, 2010)

  • Preference to increment and decrement by half star rating using the keyboard

New in I Love Stars 3.3 (Oct 7, 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.

New in I Love Stars 3.1 (Aug 24, 2009)

  • Snow Leopard compatibility.
  • 64-bit support.

New in I Love Stars 3.0 (Dec 25, 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

New in I Love Stars 2.0 (May 19, 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