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Synergy - 0.9.9

Menubar controls, hotkeys and cover art downloads for iTunes

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 0.9.9:	(4.9)
Selected Version:	0.9.9
Release Date:	2003-05-06
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 0.9.9):	1,234
Downloads (all versions):	165,286
Price:	$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 even automatically download and 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 (USD).

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 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:

[Feature] Now checks iTunes for album cover art before searching Amazon (iTunes 4 only).
[Feature] Playlists submenu in Global Menu now active.
[Feature] New option in "Advanced" tab of preferences: "Bring iTunes to front when switching playlists" (defaults to off).
[Feature] Global Menu now integrated into Play/Pause button (menu no longer appears as a separate item in menu bar, but instead is accessed by clicking-and-holding the Play/Pause button; it can also be accessed by control-clicking or right-clicking).
[Feature] New button sets, "Safari" and "Safari Aqua", by Damon Vaughan. "Safari" now replaces "Standard" as the default button set.
[Feature] New item in Global Menu -- "Show Album Covers Folder" -- shows the folder where Synergy caches its album cover images (useful for people wishing to drag album images into iTunes 4).
[New] French localization by Herv� Bismuth and Fr�d�ric Latour (documentation and parts of Preference Pane not yet localized).
[Enhancement] Rating stars in floaters now look more "solid".
[Enhancement] Minor performance optimisations.
[Note] Documentation and website extensively revised in preparation for Synergy version 1.0.
[Note] This, and all previous versions of Synergy, work with Apple's new iTunes 4; iTunes 4 is a recommended upgrade to all Synergy users, as it offers increased performance and eliminates some limitations in iTunes 3 (such as the inability to interact with Synergy while displaying a visualiser).
[Bugfixes] Fixed visual glitches in preference pane when switching button sets and at least one control button is not enabled; Removed harmless console warnings when releasing mouse button outside of Menu Bar controls, and warning at startup, "Font GB18030Bitmap: in _readBasicMetricsForSize, claims 0 max advance but is fixed-pitch"; worked around Apple bug which produced occasional "_DPSDiscardEvents: ignoring eventTime endpoint" warnings in console; Global Menu now uses a bitmap graphic rather than a font-based icon, so displays correctly even on machines with non-standard fonts; worked around changes made by Apple to Cocoa in Mac OS X 10.2.5, ensuring that Synergy menu bar buttons behave like the buttons in iTunes, and improving button responsiveness on all versions of Jaguar; now only displays feedback windows for "Previous" and "Next" track Hot Keys if iTunes is running (when iTunes is not running, those Hot Keys have no effect); ordering of Global Menu Items is now correctly preserved when changes are made to the menu "include" settings; fixed tooltips in preferences (duplicates, typographical errors).

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 0.9.9:
Overall Rating:	(4.9)	Features:	(4.8)	Support:	(4.5)
Ease of Use:	(4.9)	Quality / Stability:	(4.8)	Price:	(4.9)

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Wincent, very unfair !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Version: 4.1.1b, 10/22/2009 05:16PM PST

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I've purchased Synergy with 'free updates for a lifetime!' (your terms) long time ago. I don't see why I should pay for a version with no new features. 3.4 and 3.5 never worked flawlessly and now I have to pay for 4.0? No thanks. Good bye, I switch to Tune•Instructor (it's FREEE). A disappointed customer

Snow Leopard ONLY!!! - Version: 4.1, 10/6/2009 07:16PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

RussA--2008

The description says it is for 10.5 and later. The program will in actuality require 10.6 or later. Please fix this.

Uncool - Version: 4.0.1, 9/10/2009 10:18AM PST