SmashTunes for Music & Spotify
macOS / Musique
SmashTunes is a very nice menu bar item that lets you control Music as well as Spotify. It displays information about the currently playing song as well and can also display artwork.
SmashTunes offers shortcut keys to control Spotify or Music too. These hot keys control both apps system wide. Besides that, SmashTunes makes sure that Spotify is paused when you start listening to Music and the other way around.
Apart from these basic functions there's a lot more:
- Song information in the menu bar
- Music and Spotify control from the menu bar
- Artwork display
- System-wide shortcut key support for all control functions
- Song ratings and love tracks
- Direct playlist selection
- Automatically rate tracks that are loved (and love tracks that are rated)
- Dislike tracks
- Volume control
- Count down of song time
- Add tracks to the library or playlists (if you want through configurable hot keys)
You can try SmashTunes for 30 days, after which you have to take a subscription for a year. It's a small fee to help me cover costs and be able to enjoy a new vinyl record now and then. I helps me enjoy my side project even more.
SmashTunes follows the standard Apple End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
The following things are improved in this version:
- Under Tahoe, the functionality for playing back the last played playlist was a little too enthusiastic, causing issues with resuming playback. It turned out that it Apple Music under Tahoe was not always giving back the correct status. I disabled the functionality.
- Adding tracks to playlists that are not in your library should be better now. Adding to a playlist, depends on the track being in the library. Because adding tracks to the library is not the smoothest operation (which is beyond my control), adding tracks to playlists sometimes failed. I added a retry mechanism.
