intelliTunes – iTunes addition

intelliTunes - GimmeSomeTune clone.

Download the latest version here !

Since this is I-needed-it-so-I-build-it-ware you can always email me if you have a question / suggestion or found a bug ! The application is basically a port of the functionality I miss when I am on my windows machine and that the GimmeSomeTune application gave me on OSX. You can see intelliTunes as a GimmeSomeTune for Windows. Do let me know if you find a bug, or would like to see a feature added.

intelliTunes

With its unique set of features, intelliTunes for windows is the perfect companion for your music collection in iTunes, on your iPod and your iPhone.

Fetch artwork.
No other software we know of lets you fetch artwork for your songs in iTunes for Windows so easily and quickly as intelliTunes.

Just start playing a song - intelliTunes will do the rest. After all, that's what you have a pc for.

Fetch lyrics.
In the same, easy way intelliTunes fetches artwork, it also fetches lyrics for your songs.
More accurately than any other software we know about.

Info window

The info window.
intelliTunes gives you an unobtrusive, non focus stealing, out-of-the-way and beautiful info window that displays the artwork and track info.

Info window

The lyrics window.
intelliTunes presents you with your lyrics in a quickly accessible, on-demand window.

Info window

Credit where Credit's due
Coding : Stefan Venken
Icon set : Flarup
Basic idea : GimmeSomeTune by EternalStorms for Mac

Requirements
Windows XP / Vista / 2000
Recent version of iTunes
.net Runtime 3.0 (free download of microsoft)

How does it work ?

Download the zip file containing the setup.exe here, and install the application.
I would advise to add the application to your windows startup folder. The application will not auto start together with iTunes, so I should be started manually (or through your startup folder).

Doubleclicking the tray icon will start iTunes if it wasn't running, or play/pause if it was already present. Rightclicking the tray icon will give you the option to change the settings, review trackInfo or view lyrics.

Drop me a line if you have any remarks / comments.

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adult
October 25th, 2008 - 12:48

6 dollers a month adult

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Paul
July 4th, 2009 - 23:20

you are officially the man for writing this

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Zach
September 2nd, 2009 - 07:03

Updating the info, the server returns a bad response. I think this isn’t functioning anymore…

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damian
September 22nd, 2009 - 08:07

ok why does it say it wont work?

used to be the best

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Stefan V
November 16th, 2009 - 23:51

Just updated the intellitunes client again, sorry it was broken for the time being, did not have a lot of time recently.

What changed/was added

- support to process the complete library in one run (right click and select process all files)
- supported new way of artwork fetching for amazons webservice (they changed their rules)
- removed lyricwiki api support and parse them by lyrdb now

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Fmc159
December 23rd, 2009 - 16:03

Wow, have been waiting for this for so long after leaving mac! It’s fantastic, Though could I suggest some ideas for future updates which were great in gimmesometune? First, hotkeys to show/hide lyrics window And scroll up and down lyrics windows and to control iTunes (as many windows pcs have no keys for play, pause, next, fastforward etc). This is a feature in minilyrics which is great. Also, would it be possible to allow movement of the lyrics window?

But this really is fantastic and I’m very grateful!!

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Stefan V
December 28th, 2009 - 15:06

Glad you like it,
will take a look at your feature requests to see what I can do about it.

Kind regards and have a great sylvester !

Stefan

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McNinjaman
January 12th, 2010 - 13:51

This may be because I’m a total noob, but I cannot figure out how to start this thing… I have installed it fine, but If I start up intelliTunes nothing happens. Please tell me how to get this to work!

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Stefan V
January 12th, 2010 - 14:52

did you doubleclick on the icon in the right corner ?

Or right mouse on it and then play…

Kind regards, stefan

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Colin
February 25th, 2010 - 20:48

It seems like some characters don’t work for fetching lyrics. All of the songs I tried with an apostrophe in the title were unable to find lyrics. This might be true of songs with a hyphen as well.

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Stefan V
March 2nd, 2010 - 11:36

Hi,

Thanks for your comment, can you give an example of a title, so that I can create a test for it, will try to fix it in the weekend and update you here.

Thanks for letting me know.

Kind regards, S

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Colin
March 8th, 2010 - 20:46

Example: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by The Beach Boys

Before, the lyrics would simply be left blank. I’m not sure if you changed anything, but now intelliTunes is dumping a bunch of warnings into the lyrics form. Below are the first few lines. I can post the whole thing or email it to you if that helps.

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) in /home/wwwroot/lyrdb/_ldb_conn.php on line 5

Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/wwwroot/lyrdb/_ldb_funcs.php on line 33

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Stefan V
March 15th, 2010 - 18:30

Hi Colin,

I’ll investigate it further this week and let you know, the fact that this message gets stuffed in your lyrics is probably due to an error on the lyricdb site, will take a look at what they changed too.

Thanks for letting me know, will try to update here as soon as I can.

Kind regards,
Stefan

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Bayden
March 20th, 2010 - 09:36

just wondering, when i press process all files does it just get the artwork and lyrics for every song and if so, it only did about 100 of my 800 songs? When I hover over the tray icon it says “Ready Processing all files!” does that means it is slowly getting data for each song

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Benni
April 9th, 2010 - 12:14

Hello, some german letters are converted to html, as sample
ß -> ß
ä -> ä

etc.

Can you fix it? Thanks.

regards benni

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Dylan
May 13th, 2010 - 06:37

Seems that my comment/question has been removed; so I’ll repost it.

The program doesn’t seem to be working for me on Windows Seven Ultimate 32-bit. It isn’t getting lyrics or album art. I’d really like to know how to get it to work properly. I’ll test it if you make a new version that is supposed to fix this issue.

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Stefan V
May 31st, 2010 - 17:06

@Dylan,

Sorry have been quite busy lately. WIll create a new version probably by the end of the week to fix the issues with the german characters and such. Will test this version on a windows seven machine to see what is going on.

Hope to able to support your version soon, was not aware of this problem, I am sorry if I removed your comment by accident.

Kind regards, Stefan.

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Nicole
June 13th, 2010 - 16:18

I don’t think this works with windows 7

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Stefan V
July 12th, 2010 - 14:41

Finally found a pc with windows 7 to test it on, worked like a charm.

Do keep in mind that when you start it the first time, the icon will get moved to the unused icons list for some reason, you can choose to adjust this and make it visible at all times, after this change you can just double and right click as in any other windows version.

If problems should pop up, just drop me an email and I will take a look at it.

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Jakob
August 15th, 2010 - 01:19

Great work!! Thank you very much!

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Jakob
August 15th, 2010 - 01:31

hey, could you tell me were this program fetches the lyrics from? ..so maybe i can support the database.. just tried different artists and mainstream-lyrics are known (tried with david guetta and muse) but when you come to more experimental stuff (e.g. animal collective) there dont seem to be lyrics in teh database

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Warchild
September 12th, 2010 - 16:01

Hi,

Good effort, thanks! GimmeSomeTune is one of the things I really miss from my Mac. Two suggestions:

1. Is it possible to add key shortcuts to rate the songs? Really miss that…

2. Ability to resize the album cover. Mines are huge somehow and really take a lot of space on the screen…

Regards

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Stefan V
October 14th, 2010 - 10:24

Hi Warchild,

Will take a look at your request. Adding key shortcuts however is something I’d rather not do. The idea was to create an app that is not intrusive in any way while you are doing actual work and listening to music.

But I will see what I can do in a few weeks.

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Gringo Chaz
November 28th, 2011 - 08:30

Here it is almost 2012 and intelliTunes – iTunes additionintelliTunes – GimmeSomeTune clone is awesome. I just recently added iTunes and my music library to my windows laptop. I was seriously missing the OSX version and whala! I found it here. Thanks. Awesome effort. Still working great. Thanks again.

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Terri
January 17th, 2012 - 01:14

This app sounds fabulous but it’s not working for me (Windows 7). The app installed correctly, but when opening the executable from the taskbar and Start Menu, the icon is highlighted but nothing opens. Then I open iTunes and the icon is no longer highlighted. Is it because my framework updated to .NET 4?

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