Ecoute is a brand new application for playing your iTunes library without having iTunes open. Its a super lightweight music player that can do everything from music, movies & tv shows. Not only that, but it has an iTunes controller (think Bowtie) built in.
Since Rexcon is my favorite Bowtie skin (no bias, I assure you 
), I felt I had to port it over to Ecoute, since I’ve been using it so often. For now this is just the SW version, but it includes ratings, controls, and a progress bar.
Many thanks to Louka Desroziers from the Ecoute team for all the help getting this working with Ecoute’s theming code. Hopefully porting over some more stuff will be much easier now that the groundwork is done. 
#1 by zep3 at July 16th, 2009
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You can find you skin on guipulp.com
#2 by Lee Porter at July 16th, 2009
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Is there any chance of developing this for windows? It’s annoying enough that we don’t get bowtie.
#3 by Matt at July 16th, 2009
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Probably something you’d have to ask the developer of the app! :p http://www.ecouteapp.com
#4 by Lee Porter at July 16th, 2009
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not funny man, I don’t wanna have to buy a macintel. I still haven’t gotten over the heartbreak of losing my powerbook
#5 by Matt at July 16th, 2009
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I wasn’t joking! Haha, I have no control over the app going to windows.
#6 by Patrick Thompson at July 17th, 2009
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Is there a certain font I need to have installed? The band and album info look very blotchy and blury when they go beyond the controllers default size: http://bit.ly/zCYWw. I love this controller the best, but that is kind of annoying. Thanks.
#7 by Matt at July 17th, 2009
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You probably have to adjust your font smoothing in System Preferences. If you set it to Font sizes 4 and smaller, it should display fine.
#8 by Patrick Thompson at July 17th, 2009
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Awesome. That worked. Thanks!
#9 by Fredd-E at November 18th, 2009
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Great skin! I’m currently using it.
Only one (small) request which I think is feasible. Could you make it so that the progress bar is clickable so you can skip to certain positions in the track?
I found a method in http://www.ecouteapp.com/ecoute/help/ which might do the trick?
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(void) Ecoute.setPlayerPosition(integer aNumber)
This methods sets the player position to the number of second since the beginning of the song. Can be used to make a clickable progress indicator in your theme.
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Keep me posted, thanks!
#10 by SF at December 3rd, 2009
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Love this skin, it’s the only one I use. Would it be possible to fix the ampesand problem though? http://grab.by/Xe1
Thanks!