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coltca Author

Level 1

12 points

Show Current iTunes Track In Menu Bar

After searching for an iTunes menu bar application which displays current track information, I didn't find an application which was as basic as I prefered, showing song title also artist name, not showing anything else. Due to this I decided to create a simple application which does this, thanks to help from some online articles/tutorials and information.

This is a simple iTunes menu bar application which displays current track (song - artist) playing in iTunes in menu bar.

I added this application to login items.

I hadn't found a decent place to upload, also give people access to this application, which caused me to decide to make this post.

http://www.2shared.com/file/lh5sIufi/Simple_iTunesapp.html

MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Apr 9, 2013 5:50 PM

18 replies

Feb 13, 2016 3:04 PM in response to coltca

I launched it after iTunes was already running and a track was playing, so I think that your reply addresses why it didn't work as I expected. A quick ping on launch to see if something is already playing and report back wouldn't seem to be terribly CPU-intensive and would be (IMHO) more user-friendly, but totally up to you. When I used it the way I described, I thought it wasn't working and so it didn't make a good first impression, so I thought I'd mention it. 🙂

coltca Author

Level 1

12 points

Feb 13, 2016 2:59 PM in response to Brent Rossow

sounds good, i appreciate it, ill look into it

Oct 29, 2016 3:11 PM in response to coltca

Thanks, this app is great Exactly what I was searching for!

Wishing you a ton of success.

Show Current iTunes Track In Menu Bar