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We use this a lot in my house. There are 4 Airport Expresses in the house, all connected to speakers of some sort. Playing to all 4 of them at once works great on our network, so long as you are plugged in through ethernet, the wireless speeds just don't cut it, too much latency.

So we use NetTunes to remotely control the iTunes of a desktop mac that is always plugged in via ethernet. Much more convenient than repeatedly connecting your laptop to the network via ethernet, just for that one purpose.

NetTunes seems a little neglected these days, but it still works great. I think its basically a custom VNC server that is only serving the screen space containing the iTunes window. Clever.

p.s. it's also completely possible to use iTunes Music Sharing to stream music from the laptop to the desktop and then have the desktop ethernet connected mac stream the music to the 4 remote Expresses.

DiskWarrior has made me look like a rockstar on many occasions.

I've been a user of DiskWarrior for many years and I can attest to its effectiveness at solving disk-related issues - it's been a lifesaver on several occasions.

A Leopard-compatible version has been available for some time now, but the updater still hasn't been made available to existing users. The "Free CD Updater Available soon for Version 4.0" text on their website is getting a little old.

Alsoft, I encourage you to support users like myself who have paid for several upgrades and want to be able to use your software on Leopard without having to boot off the 4.0 CD.

I switched from the old Synergy to CoverSutra and I've really enjoyed its feature set and interface. I love its integration with last.fm, I never liked having iScrobbler running in my menubar for no reason other than to communicate tracks to last.fm, having CoverSutra take care of this for me is welcome. Registered.

I also switched from Synergy. I bought CoverSutra for 7.95€ in the Back to School promo. This is a sexy app but IMHO there's no way that an iTunes Controller worth more than 10€.

I.E. Synergy costs 5€, is really CoverSutra 3 times better than Synergy? I don't think so.

BTW I love this app and I also will love some custom cover support (like vinyl replacement) anytime soon :)

Wow! Sophie, I am sorry, but 15 euors for a software that offers little feature over open or free alternative. I know developers have to live, but all common sense and market rules go against such products....

The screenshots looks really cool and it looks like there is a bit more than what Quicksilver, SizzlingHotKeys, Proxi, etc... can do in CoverSutra. You should start by rewriting the description to put that forward and try to make a difference in the features you offer if you really want to ask a price that high!

I love CoverSutra. I bought it about ten minutes after I ran the demo for the first time. This program is basically the rest of iTunes to me.

regarding 2.0: i think the whole point of growl notifications is so that applications don't have to have their own notification system, and everything looks standardized. and also, it won't show growl notifications when you, the user, change the song. only when it completes a song and then goes to the next song. i understand you can disable the coversutra notifications, but then you don't know what song is playing when you fast forward, except by listening. i'm sure the pretty graphics could be put into the growl notifications, and if you want the bezel style, you can have it in growl. but why force us?

and also: you can't select a single key as a hotkey, it has to have a modifier. i like to use the tilde key, personally.

until these problems are taken care of, i'll stick with totaltunes control.

I also like to have all the notifications taken care of by growl. The best solution for me so far is Menuet. Shows growl notifications an let's me set Hotkeys to control iTunes.

Does this handle any cover art functions besides showing it in the display?

It always amazes me that people use Quicksilver to control iTunes. I love Quicksilver, and I tried using it to control iTunes - it's terrible! The plug-in seems to just be a pile of applescripts, and is an ungodly slow way to do things in iTunes. When someone is trying to talk to me, and I hit pause, I want it to pause now. Coversutra is quite quick at this. I couldn't justify the price before, but now that v2 has searching, I'll rarely even have to use the iTunes interface. That makes it worth the price to me. That said, the searching UI could use some improvements... IMO, it should behave more like spotlight, where enter plays the top hit. Also there should be a way to play album in iTunes instead of song (from the search dropdown) without using the mouse. It really is lovely software though - both visually and functionally.

Is Coversutra 2 going to be available to 1.2 owners?

Whats up with the hating? Coversutra is a nicely designed app, thats pretty low price and does what it says.

Is Coversutra 2 going to be available to 1.2 owners?

Yes version 2.0 is a free upgrade for existing customers. You should have received your new serial by mail.

I bought this, received a code for 2.0 but as I am running OSX 10.4 I need to use the older 1.2 version. Whilst I am able to download this version my serial number does not work and the author has not responded to the multiple support emails I have sent so sadly I cannot use this software, even though I have paid for it.

I bought this, received a code for 2.0 but as I am running OSX 10.4 I need to use the older 1.2 version. Whilst I am able to download this version my serial number does not work and the author has not responded to the multiple support emails I have sent so sadly I cannot use this software, even though I have paid for it.

May you please download version 1.2.1 from my website (http://coversutra.com/get/1.2/). This version accepts both the 1.x and the new 2.x serial numbers.

I'm sorry that you didn't received any reply from me. I always reply to support stuff like this so I guess either your mail to me or my e-mail to you got lost.

Thanks very much! I'll be sure to give that a go.

Thanks. Just tried that and all is well.

I've been reading about CoverSutra for awhile now, but Synergy + Growl made it unecessary for me.

I purchased the MacHeist bundle which included CoverSutra, and now that I've given it a try, I'm very happy with it. Good job!

This is one of those applications that once you've used it, you'll love it. But its not a necessity.

I tried it before but I didn't like its appearance, but now it seems to have gotten a new skin, the little heart icon and the search "pop up" you get when you click it is excellent

now I've had it for a while, and the conclusion: definitely worth it's money, better last.fm support than the official plugin (which doesn't really work well with Leopard)