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Show Current iTunes Track In Menu Bar?

Is there a VERY simple application or widget that will show me the currently playing track up in the Menu Bar, next to my Bluetooth, WiFi and iChat icons? I know there are very advanced ones that do more than that, but now that the Apple Keyboards have full iTunes transport controls, all I want in the Menu Bar is the name of the currently playing track.

17" iMac 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jan 5, 2008 4:47 AM

17 replies

Feb 17, 2008 8:55 PM in response to Klaus1

This program is great! Thanks for the link.

Tarif

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Apr 4, 2008 5:29 PM in response to Reuben Feffer

no scrolling no windows floating around (although there's the option for one)...and FREE as well...

Quicktunes: http://www.dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=QuickTunes

You can disable the ugly window, and actually edit the font size and color of the text in the menu bar...and one possible bad thing about it is that it doesn't display the length of the song...but after looking for so long, I don't really care

and oh, it has just about the ugliest icon I have ever seen on a mac app.

iTunes Current Song Menu actually worked with Leopard just fine but it costs like $20 and has about a 3-4 second delay...Quicktunes actually changes the name before the song has the time to play...

Enjoy!

Show Current iTunes Track In Menu Bar?