Swinsian 1.5.0 is out and it comes with several new features. The biggest change is the removal of the search menu, which has been replaced with the quick controller window. Other new features include a new duplicate finder, find and replace for bulk tag editing and regex support in the search field.

I’m currently looking for a few volunteers to help test beta versions of Swinsian. If you are interested send an email to support@swinsian.com

The latest update to Swinsian (1.3.3) includes a new feature that many people have been asking for: the ability to display album art for the currently playing track on the desktop. Enable ‘Show current track on desktop’ in the general panel of the preferences to turn it on. A couple of basic themes come built in that let you pick from a variety of different transition effects: fade, flip or slide.

Swinsian 1.2.0 is now out and it includes support for AirTunes, which means you can play back music over an Airport Express (and in the future hopefully other devices that support Airtunes such as an AppleTV). This feature is still experimental; it has only been tested with Airport Express devices so far. If you are interested in using Swinsian with other Airtunes compatible devices, please get in touch and let me know what works or doesn’t work. To enable Airtunes playback, select the device from the list in the ‘Controls’ menu, to switch back to normal playback select ‘None’.