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Now Playing - 1.1.2.1

publish current iTunes song info to blogs or sites

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All Time:	(5.0)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.1.2.1
Release Date:	2008-03-10
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	1,071
Downloads (all versions):	4,085
Price:	$10

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Product Description:

iTunes allow you to create plugins that can do various tasks for you. The Now Playing plugin monitors the song you are listening to and publishes the data in various ways:

Creates a XML file with information on that song. A file called now_playing.xml is created in your iTunes Plug-ins directory.
The plugin also offers you the ability to FTP that file to a server of your choosing after it is updated.
Create a ping with the song information.

The idea is that you publish the XML up to your web server and then through some scripting magic, you can display your currently playing song or your recently played tracks. To make your web site more interactive, the plugin also retrieves the following information for you to use:

URL of the album image cover art from Amazon.com (if found).
Link to the Amazon.com product page for the CD (if found).
Link to the Apple iTunes Music Store product page with the song highlighted within iTunes (if found).

What's new in this version:

Fixed bug that caused plugin to crash iTunes when opening plugin preferences.

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

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Mystery App - Version: 1.1.0.4, 7/14/2007 11:34AM PST

(3 of 5 users found this comment useful)

artcop

since the bundle includes no instructions, no ReadMe, and no other types of clues. A pop-up window appeared once after installation, but rather than follow my preferences dumped an xml file in my User folder instead. There's no visible application or plug-in to work with this hack and therefore would get trashed if I could find whatever the hell installed on my drive.

Further, I probably would have paid the required 10 bucks for this piece of grief back in the day when the wow factor was impressive, but today there's too many truly useful shareware programs worthy of paying the same for.