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March 3, 2008

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First look at Delicious Library 2.0, scheduled to ship in March

Posted Mar. 3, ’08, 11:07 AM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Software

Delicious Library 2.0 previewOne of the first applications I like to show to people when they ask me what “this Mac thing” is all about is Delicious Library. Delicious Monster’s premier media cataloguing application has always been great demo material and as far as “switcher bait” applications go, it’s right up there with the iLife suite.

Ever since I upgraded to Leopard, I’ve been waiting to hear some definitive news about the upcoming release of Delicious Library 2, which was supposed to be filled with Core Animation goodness and exclusive to Leopard. The powers that be have finally answered my prayers today as AppleInsider brings us their first look at the next generation of Delicious Library and the release date of March (they don’t mention the year but for the sake of my sanity, I hope it is 2008).

So what’s new in this version of Delicious Library? From what we’ve seen so far, there seems to be plenty. The interface has undergone Leopard-ification (bye bye, brushed metal; hello, unified aqua) and looks more clean and elegant now. To the list of items that Delicious Library 1.0 already handled, namely books, movies, games, software, and music, this version adds toys, gadgets, tools, and apparel. That day isn’t far when you’ll be managing your toothpick collection using Delicious Library.

One feature that I sorely missed in the previous version was its inability to play the media I had in my catalogue directly from its own interface. The second iteration solves this problem by integrating with iTunes, which allows it to automatically catalogue all the media in your iTunes library and play them at will.

Furthering its integration with Amazon, it will allow the user to directly buy any items in their catalogue from Amazon’s online store (though it’s unclear to me why anyone would want to do that) and even put used items up for sale.

It will also ship with a bevy of publishing options allowing you to directly publish your slick, AJAX powered library to a .Mac account, send it to iWeb for further editing, publish it to your own FTP server or to a local folder on your Mac.

The list of new features and improvements seems endless—Bonjour network sharing, improved bar code scanning, items can be dragged into the Finder as individual entities, support for Quick Look, use of CoreData, etc.. Among the various Core Animation powered glitzy effects are ghostly outlines of loaned items, x-ray representation of successful bar code scans and deleted items bursting into confetti.

The upgraded Delicious Library will sell at the same price of $40 and, assuming that AppleInsider is right, will ship in less than a month from now. I just can’t wait, and rarely do I utter that phrase with so much meaning. Make sure that you check out the full article with great screenshots on AppleInsider.


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