iTunes Player 2 for Rainmeter by maxvanijsselmuiden

iTunes Player 2 for Rainmeter by maxvanijsselmuiden

Updated version of my original iTunes Player skin (siesie.deviantart.com/#/d38jyp…

Skin for rainmeter, should work on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. On mouse-over, current track time and volume control will be displayed. Also, the album art is larger than the original skin. You can still choose weither to display art or not.

Update:
CPU usage of 50% was caused by "update=1". Now Fixed.

Update 2:
Changed the 'bg.png', now the skin looks a little more stylish when there is no album art available. Check the preview

Update 3: Right align version:
siesie.deviantart.com/art/iTun…

Update 4:
Also check out my latest all-in-one skin. It supports several music programs, including iTunes:

siesie.deviantart.com/art/All-…

Credits

Some code is from this deviation by ~toastbrotpascal
toastbrotpascal.deviantart.com…

Icons edited from fav.me/d2mhn7l by *fediaFedia

Enjoy!

Having problems?

- Make sure you have the latest version of Rainmeter installed:

builds.rainmeter.net/ (last downward)

- Windows Vista / 7 / 8: Make sure you are running both programs (the music player and Rainmeter) as an Administrator.

tchuai1009 Featured By Owner Sep 23, 2018

I hope that the play button and pause button can be combined into one.

dopewalkaa Featured By Owner Oct 19, 2014

Hey, i installed it and it looks fine. but it doesnt communicate with itunes. it doesnt show the song name and the buttons dont work. do i need any plugin or somethin? both is opend as adminsitrator, and rainmeter is updated. what to do? please help

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Oct 21, 2014 Student Interface Designer

It could be that Apple has made some small changes in iTunes which causes this skin to not work properly anymore. I suggest trying my latest skin, which is using the NowPlaying.dll plugin of Rainmeter. Link: maxvanijsselmuiden.deviantart.…

dopewalkaa Featured By Owner Oct 21, 2014

thanks

i´ll try

rico90909 Featured By Owner Jun 9, 2014 Student Artist

It works beautifully. If you want it to stay even if Itunes is off, right click, go to "edit skin," and get rid of the bit of code that says "[mPlaying]" all the way to "[mPositionPercent]" (leaving in the "[mPositionPercent]," of course.

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Jun 11, 2014 Student Interface Designer

Thank you.

Matt1JG1 Featured By Owner Apr 26, 2014

No problems. it works perfect

Chocomok-kun Featured By Owner Dec 21, 2013

why does it off when I close iTunes?

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Dec 24, 2013 Student Interface Designer

Because that's how I programmed it. Take a look at the code, it can be easily edited.

LevelOne-art Featured By Owner Aug 27, 2013 Student Digital Artist

Requesting CAD/Foobar version.

GTMK Featured By Owner Oct 6, 2012

Awesome skin - having an issue though where it doesn't seem to be able to go past 940 left-to-right coordinate, it's acting like there is an invisible boundary there even though my other skins can snap to the right side of the screen. Tried changing the coordinates manually in the settings window rather than dragging but to no effect. Any advice?

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Oct 23, 2012 Student Interface Designer

Hmm, you should try to edit the width of the skin, not the coördinates. Goodluck!

Scottovan Featured By Owner May 8, 2013

Go into the variables file and edit the width to a smaller number. I used 100 and it works.

FishStew Featured By Owner Sep 11, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

i downloaded it alright, but it wont load for some reason. any suggestions?

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Sep 17, 2012 Student Interface Designer

- Restarting PC
- Reinstalling Rainmeter (latest version)
- Updating iTunes
- Reingstalling skin

benjamin9731 Featured By Owner Sep 1, 2012

so how about foobar version？

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Sep 1, 2012 Student Interface Designer

Foobar support is included in: [link]

FoxedRod Featured By Owner Aug 21, 2012

will this work with Rainmeter 2.3.3 i have trouble installing it, it doesn's show up after installing rather. i already refereshed all, nothing. please help, this looks so sweet!

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Aug 30, 2012 Student Interface Designer

I have absolutely no idea. It should work with the latest version of Rainmeter & iTunes..

scon1662 Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2012

Hey is there anyway to make it larger? like i want this widget to fit 1/4 of my screen

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Aug 12, 2012 Student Interface Designer

Yep, you'll have to adjust the widths, font sizes, x and y-axes...

hippogriff-hunter Featured By Owner Jun 15, 2012

This is the most elegant looking player. BUT, it looks ugly when iTunes isn't on. The white box replacing album art takes away the awesomeness from my desktop. Anyway to hide the player when not in use?

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Jun 15, 2012 Student Interface Designer

Yes, I totally agree with you on that. There's a way to hide the player when not in use, but it takes a lot of code. I'll be working on that!

hippogriff-hunter Featured By Owner Jun 18, 2012

Also, did you remove uppercase from the all in one player? Was a bit diappointed. It looks the neatest.

Anyway, if you edit mPrev to "BackTrack" from "PreviousTracck" it works like iTunes should

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Jun 18, 2012 Student Interface Designer

Yes, I did.. Okay thanks!

stijn22 Featured By Owner Apr 24, 2012

I putted the download in my skins folder, and enabled it. But nothing is showing up. The artwork.jpg is being updated however. I'm currently using itunes 10.6. Also, the rainmeter log says this:
Image: Unable to open: C:\Users\Username\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\iTunes Player 2\.png
!HideMeter:[VolumeUp] not found in "iTunes Player 2"
!HideMeter:[VolumeDown] not found in "iTunes Player 2"
!HideMeter:[Artist] not found in "iTunes Player 2"
!HideMeter:[Track] not found in "iTunes Player 2"

Sorry, i'm a bit of a noob with rainmeter

It's probably just a stupid fault. I've already tried restarting my computer.

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Apr 26, 2012 Student Interface Designer

It should work just fine, out of these data I can't say what the problem is. I'm currently using iTunes 10.6 and everything is working. Maybe you could re-download the skin and re-do all the steps in the readme file? Otherwise: try out my new skin: [link] it uses a new plug-in so that should work

Good luck!

jaywright777 Featured By Owner Mar 21, 2012

Have windows 7 and the latest version of iTunes.

No album art appears at all for me, and the mouse over does not work either.

Help please.

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Mar 22, 2012 Student Interface Designer

Try the new skin: [link]

jaywright777 Featured By Owner Mar 21, 2012

never mind this, I am an idiot

jaywright777 Featured By Owner Mar 21, 2012

also, I edited my skin so that the "PreviousTrack" option was "Backtrack" allowing the user to go to the beginning of the song they are currently listening to before going backwards through the playlist.

skelters Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2012

Is there a version Last.fm?

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2012 Student Interface Designer

Yes, I'm currently working on a new all-in-one player which will include last.fm

skelters Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2012

Awesome! I guess that means I have to watch you!

2Sugars Featured By Owner Feb 26, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Can't install this on rainmeter for some reason

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Feb 27, 2012 Student Interface Designer

What's happening? What did you do? Did you follow the steps in the readme?

2Sugars Featured By Owner Feb 27, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

I worked out how to install it, forgot to read the readme

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Feb 29, 2012 Student Interface Designer

Cool

celedhel Featured By Owner Feb 22, 2012

itunes version was 10.5.2.11; is now 10.5.3.3 along with latest RM beta version. Still no text appears.

maxvanijsselmuiden Featured By Owner Feb 27, 2012 Student Interface Designer

That's strange. I've got the 10.5.3.3 with the latest Rainmeter beta version running, on my PC. It's working just fine. Maybe you should try reinstalling the beta, reinstalling the skin and perhaps reinstalling iTunes.