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Synergy - 3.5a7

iTunes menubar control, hotkeys, cover art downloads

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All Time:	(4.6)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	3.5a7
Release Date:	2008-04-29
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	2,743
Downloads (all versions):	153,639
Price:	EUR 5.00

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Product Description:

Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause; as well as providing you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune. Synergy can display the cover of the currently playing album. The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide Hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes, or access its Dock menu. Synergy is only 5 Euros.

Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar. It provides you with ultimate control over iTunes even while you're working in other applications. The Synergy global menu provides you with quick access to recently played tracks and playlists, and the floater displays album covers (automatically downloaded by Synergy, or embedded in the tracks by iTunes) and provides information whenever a new track starts playing.

An online tour is available to take you through Synergy's features.

What's new in this version:

Changes in 3.5a7 (alpha series):

Work around missing cover art problem caused by iTunes 7.6.1 and 7.6.2 (fixes bug #668).
Speed up cover art retrieval.
Catch NSGenericExceptions thrown by Leopard Script Bridge (fixes bug #657).
Note: the crashes caused by NSAppleScript under Garbage Collection remain; Apple has confirmed that this is a Leopard bug and intends to fix it, although hasn't announced when the fix will be made available. If you are experiencing these crashes often with this alpha release you may consider switching to the stable 3.2 series instead, which can be downloaded from here.
For a list of code-level changes for this release see either the short summary or the detailed log.

Changes in 3.2.1b (stable series):

Work around missing cover art problem caused by iTunes 7.6.1 and 7.6.2 (fixes bug #668).
Speed up cover art retrieval.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

iTunes

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Crashes - Version: 3.2, 5/12/2008 01:21AM PST

garfield_matt

It's nice, the button's are cool, and the features are great, but it has made my Mac crash. I had to boot from the Panther (10.3) install CD to remove it; I couldn't actually start up. Other than that, it's pretty good.

Crash!!! - Version: 3.5a5, 3/31/2008 07:14AM PST

kinofistimages

After using Synergy for years w/Tiger. I just turned on iTunes for the first time since installing Leopard last week....and crash! In fact it crashed so bad the pref application disappeared to. I will try again as I really like rating with my function keys from any app.

Synergy & iTunes - Version: 3.5a5, 1/24/2008 12:00AM PST

Doug_in_UK

Every time I restart my iMac or log out / in, iTunes fires up, which I do not want to happen.This problem started after the installation of Synergy 3.5a5. I have now stopped using Synergy until said annoyance has been sorted out.

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