Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Fetch Art 1.2 and iTunes 7

Today apple announced iTunes 7. I'm currently at work and cannot test it with Fetch Art (although I am downloading the new version, it's going slow, the servers must be busy.) However, they claim they've added an album art download feature which may make Fetch Art obsolete.

I'll have to do some testing to see how it works (and how well it works) to see if this will signal the end of development on Fetch Art which of course will break my heart.

UPDATE: I've completed testing with iTunes 7 on several PowerPC Macs and am happy to report Fetch Art runs great on all the machines I tested on. Still working towards Intel Mac support though.

I'd love to hear you comments as well. Let me know if you think the new feature of iTunes successfully replaces Fetch Art or if there are still reasons to continue developing the application.

7 comments:

jfp said...

Same error and same comments as below. Please continue the support of this nice application.

Rob said...

Some people also simply don't have a creditcard or similar and thus not the option to create an iTunes store account ¬.¬

Please, keep up the great work! <3

Aric said...

Hey all. I've gotten lots of feedback (not just at this blog, but through email too) since the iTunes 7 release.

I am working to catch up with all correspondence, so please be patient.

My goals are to work to debug the increase in Perl errors that are getting reported as well as to evaluate the interest in continuing development. So far most people have asked me to continue development for various reasons, one of them being, that Apple's music store often doesn't find artwork for songs as well as Fetch Art.

Aric said...

Also, for the record, I have completed my testing on iTunes 7 and have found Fetch Art to be 100% compatible and working great on the systems I tested on.

Greg Beason said...

I have a LOT of music that iTunes 7 did not find the art, but FetchArt did on Amazon.

Many thanks.

Aric said...

Beta Testers needed:

See my new post here: http://aricsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/fetch-art-beta-testers-needed.html

Anonymous said...

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