Synergy 4.1b released

Synergy, the lightweight, highly-customizable iTunes controller has just been updated to version 4.1b. The 4.0 series is a brand new line of development especially for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

The 4.1 release features a major overhaul of the Amazon cover art download engine. It uses lighter network requests, parses the information returned by Amazon more robustly, and handles tracks with incomplete ID3 tags much better than before. The 4.1b release includes a bug fix for the "Transfer cover to iTunes" menu item.

Note that the 4.0 series will only run on Snow Leopard. (Version 3.4.1, the last release in the stable series will run on all versions of Mac OS X from 10.2.8 upwards.) A full changelog appears here.

For many users this release will be a free upgrade: see this blog post to find out whether you qualify. If you got Synergy through the MacHeist Giving Tree bundle see the MacHeist FAQ.

The Synergy product pages were recently completely revamped for 4.0, so be sure to check them out.

You can download the new release from the download page and purchase a license using this page.