Sprote Rsrch. celebrates the one-month anniversary of the resurrection of Clutter by releasing Clutter version d18 ! This time you get improved playlist support, localizations, and more tweaks and speedups. Viz:

• Clutter is now fully localizable, and Japanese and French translations have been added thanks to Yuzuru Shiraiwa ( Read more... )

At long last, after days of coding and debugging: Clutter version d17 is now available! It's just more of the same, really -- more bug-fixes, more speed-ups, even yet another new feature. Ho hum. At least it's a free upgrade...

• There is now a pref to put the CD covers on the desktop (behind all other windows). You Panther (OS X 10.3) users can ( Read more... )

One more thing Steve forgot to announce today: Clutter version d16 is now available!

It's faster! Even more bug-free! Smaller than an iPod Shuffle! Cheaper than a Mac Mini! And totally unpredicted by ThinkSecret!

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"It's Like Shuffle Play For Your Desktop!"

One of the most common support questions we get is "Clutter used to show me what's playing in iTunes but now it doesn't anymore. How do I make it do it again?" The answer is "Sounds like you closed the Now Playing window. Re-open it by selecting Now Playing from the Window menu ( Read more... )

Has it been a year and a half since the last version of Clutter was released? How time flies!

I was fortunate enough to get a Squeezebox for Xmas, and no sooner had I set it up and started grooving to MP3s on my stereo, then I started to wish that I could use Clutter to control it. The remote control is handy, and the SlimServer web UI is useable ( Read more... )

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... Is this thing on? There's so much dust ...

... Ah! that's the switch! ...

Attention all citizens! This bourgeois media outlet of "Sprote Rsrch" has been seized by the People's Revolutionary Source Code Front! The monopolistic running-dog closed-source abandonware known as "Clutter" will now be liberated as ideologically pure open source! ( Read more... )

Clutter d14 is ready. This release fixes the recent problems with Amazon lookup, greatly improves the user interface for those lookups, adds an iTunes library browser window, and fixes a bunch of bugs. Enjoy ( Read more... )

Yes, we finally figured out how to export cover art to iTunes 4. (The only tricky part was converting it to PICT format, which is not easy from a Cocoa app.) So now there is a "Copy Cover To iTunes" command in the File menu.

But that's not all! We've also added the following:

• More fixes for HTTP proxy support ... maybe now it'll really work ( Read more... )

Clutter d12 is out ( Read more... )

We note with interest and excitement Apple's new music-related announcements, especially the cover-art support in iTunes 4. However, currently iTunes and Clutter store the cover art in different locations, so they aren't compatible with each other. (And dragging a cover picture from Clutter to iTunes merely creates a new CD window ( Read more... )