Signal - The Ultimate Remote Control for Your PC's Media Player

This release resolves a speaker selection compatibility issue with iTunes 8, a display issue on Nokia internet tablets, and includes a number of other minor bug fixes. The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.

Note for Leopard users: Signal’s application binary is now signed by a trusted certificate authority, allowing it to be added to the system firewall rules automatically. If you have manually added a previous version of Signal to the firewall you may be prompted to re-authorize it, or in some cases you may need to remove Signal under System Preferences > Security > Firewall and then launch the new version.

Signal 1.1.3 is available via software update and direct download.

iTunes 8 was released yesterday, and after testing the new release one compatibility issue was found: multiple speaker selection currently does not work. A fix is being worked on and will be released as soon as it’s ready – iTunes 8 offers improved accessibility exposure which may allow for a better overall solution to the continued lack of a proper speaker selection API.

All other features appear to be working properly against the new release.

Update: The speaker selection bug was fixed in Signal 1.1.3.

One thing to be aware of is that the new grid view is not well suited to remote control clients. When a playlist is displayed in the grid view within iTunes, playing that playlist will only play the tracks within the selected grid item, and this is also true when playing the playlist through Signal. You can start the playlist and jump to a particular song, but only the artist/album/genre that song is contained within will be played. If the playlist is in the list or Cover Flow view then iTunes will play back the entire playlist as it normally would.

A quick heads-up for Mac users: starting with version 1.2 Signal will be ending support for OS X 10.3. The new release has started using system APIs that are only available on 10.4 and later and offer performance improvements, lower memory use, and a reduced application footprint.

In general support will be provided for the current and prior OS releases, creating a good balance between compatibility with a wide range of systems and moving the application technology forward to take advantage of the latest OS improvements. If you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact support.