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Bowtie 1.4

January, 23rd 2012 - 3.46 MB - Freeware

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Bowtie 1.5
Operating System

Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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Author / Product

Bowtie Team / External Link
Filename

bowtie-1.4.zip
MD5 Checksum

cc89230adc54052adea17abf64af76fd

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What's new in this version:

Bowtie 1.4 is an official, non-beta release of Bowtie. It offers full compatibility with OS X 10.6 and 10.7 (important: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is no longer supported). New features include support for Spotify, and bug fixes for OS X 10.7 Lion.

Bugs Fixed
- Fixes the inability to move the Bowlet when stuck to the desktop on Lion
- Fixes the display of artwork with iTunes on Lion
- From beta: adds support for beta versions of Spotify

Features Added in 1.4
- Adds support for the Spotify music service as a source
- Bowtie now automatically fetches missing artwork from Last.fm
- Adds support for Player.name() to get the name of the current music player, and BTMinimumVersion to restrict themes to newer Bowtie builds; for more information, see the list of API changes since 1.3
- Implements version 2.0 of the Last.fm Scrobbling protocol for more reliable scrobbles
- Miscellaneous other improvements

Features Dropped in 1.4
- This version of Bowtie drops support for Mac OS X 10.5. If you use Leopard, do not upgrade to this version of Bowtie.
- This version of Bowtie drops support for the iPhone app. If you rely on this app, do not upgrade to this version of Bowtie.

Caveats and Known Issues
- Bowtie is no longer available in the Mac App Store. This build reintroduces the built-in software updates via Sparkle.