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 ?
This versions adds support for Volumio. SmashTunes not integrates with it. After entering your Volumio's URL in the settings, you can control it, via SmashTunes. Of course SmashTunes displays the currently playing track in the menu bar. Most SmashTunes features are supported, like skipping to the next track, changing shuffle and repeat settings, changing the volume (which I felt was needed for a Volumio integration ;-) )
Depending on demand, I may add other features like, favouriting tracks, or adding them to playlists, things that are already possible for Apple Music.
Note, that I tested this in my setup only, and with my music service only (Qobuz). Let me know if you are missing things, or find that something is not working as expected.
