Welcome to the online home of iTunes2MSN – a program that works with MSN Messenger and iTunes to set your display picture to the currently playing album art. This project is written by myself acting under the name “VBE Software”, it is coded in Visual Basic 6.0 and the source code is freely available from my development site.
About
When MSN 7.0 introduced the “Now Playing” feature, it occurred to me that to synchronise the display picture with album art would be a logical progression. I was sure something like this had already been made – but after some time googling I had found nothing…. so I made it myself. The full development history of this project in its early stages can be found here.
This program has evolved with lots of user feedback from Mess.Be’s forums and many pre-release versions exist (ranging from just a handful of lines of code, right up to the Beta which is only slightly different to the final version). Can I make it absolutely clear at this point that it only works with iTunes – not other media players! This is the most common feature-request for the project, and whilst I have looked into it I have no intention to widen the scope of this project to other media players.
Features
- Sets your MSN Display Picture to the album art of the currently playing song in iTunes
- When no album art is available it will randomly pick an item from a user-defined list of default images
- Has the option to make a display picture if no album art is available by generating a bitmap with the song details written on it
- Can export the currently playing song’s details to a .txt file.
- All images are stored on the disk in such a way that you could use them for other things, for example as your avatar on forums.
- Fully flexible, with a pleasant and easy-to-use interface.
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Legal Bits
You are free to use this software without charge at your own discretion. You use this software at your own risk and as the programmer I claim no responsibility for any effects as the result of using or misuing the program, whether intended design features or unexpected bugs.You may redistribute this software, but please honour my rights as the programmer and inform me of where you are distributing and for what ends.
This program is (c) Paul Nicholls 2005. All things mentioned may be trademarks of their respective things.
Please ensure you have checked the legal terms as downloading and using this software indicates your acceptance of these conditions
Support
If things go wrong the program now has a built in troubleshooter to help advise on common problems and their solutions. When this is not enough, or if you cannot get as far as the troubleshooter, please check out the development site at tracking.r9paul.org – you’ll find a wiki, forums and the option to submit a bug or support issue.
