Dock Party
macOS / Musique
Turn your macOS Dock into a dynamic light bar that syncs with your music and brings your Dock to life. Display track details and album cover art right beside the Dock. Control music playback with clickable controls that are always visible. Like songs. Or simply customize your Mac by giving your Dock a fresh color.
• Compatible with macOS 14 Sonoma and macOS 15 Sequoia
• Works with Spotify desktop app or Apple Music desktop app
Dock Party is a lightweight Spotify and Apple Music playback controller that offers a variety of ways to display album cover art, song details, and track progress for the currently playing track. Dock Party runs in the background as a menu bar status item that doesn’t take up any space in the Dock. It also features a unique audio visualizer that turns the Dock itself into a dynamic show of color and rhythm in sync with your music.
A key advantage of Dock Party is that the controls, track details, and visualizer are always visible as long as the Dock itself is visible. It doesn’t matter what app you’re working in; you can see what song is playing without a single click.
Dock Party runs quietly and efficiently in the background with low impact on system resources. Settings options and other features can be accessed from the Menu Bar icon. Most interface elements can be turned on or off or customized.
It is important to note that the Dock music controls and visualizer will not be visible unless the Dock itself is visible, for obvious reasons. If you always keep your Dock hidden or always run your apps in full-screen, this is probably not the app for you, although the menu bar features will still work just fine. Dock Party also works best when the Dock is positioned in its default location at the bottom of the screen, ideally with some space to spare on each side. Consider removing the icons of infrequently used apps if your Dock stretches all the way from edge to edge across the full-width of your screen. You can also opt to hide the track details completely and still see album cover artwork and visual effects. Track details can also be displayed within the Dock Party progress bar and/or in the macOS menu bar.
It is also important to note that by default the Dock Party music visualizers use your Mac’s built-in microphone as the audio source, which means the visualizers won’t sync with your music if you are listening through headphones. However, Dock Party can now be used along with third-party audio routing software that allows the visualizers to run off of your system audio directly.
Features:
• Resizes automatically along with the size and position of your Dock
• Track details and album art next to the Dock with player controls on the other side
• Silky-smooth, controllable track progress bar along the edge of the Dock
• Amplitude, Tone, and Fourier visualizers in the Dock
• Track progress visualizer in the Dock
• Dock tint: Choose from a variety of colors and gradients or cycle through colors continuously
• Runs in the background as a status item in the menu bar with no icon taking up space in the Dock
• Much less irritating than the standard macOS song change notifications
• Menu bar drop-down displays song details and provides its own controls
• Shuffle and repeat controls
• Save full-sized album cover image file to your Download directory with the Save Album Cover button
• Buttons to search song and artist info on DuckDuckGo, YouTube, Genius Lyrics, Ultimate Guitar Tabs, and BandsInTown
• Display song title, artist, and/or album name in the menu bar
• Scrolling marquee with custom text message
• Coded in pure, modern Swift to run efficiently
• Universal binary for native performance on Apple Silicon (ARM64) and Intel (x86-64) CPUs
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
• Scrolling marquee with customizable message
• New dock background animations: “Emergency” and “Cylon”
• Compatibility with third-party software to route audio directly to music visualizers rather than relying on microphone input
• Reorganized Settings window
• Significant performance and stability improvements
