SmashTunes for Music & Spotify 4+
tunes in your menu bar
Hendrik van der Linde
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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 use SmashTunes for an hour, after which you are prompted to take a subscription for a year.
SmashTunes follows the standard Apple End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
What’s New
Version 5.2.1
Fixes for users that experienced problems with the new Spotify like feature. The preferences pane now gives some insight into the result of the last call to the API .
Ratings and Reviews
Subscription not recognised
Overall the app works quite well but even though I have paid a subscription I keep getting a message to subscribe, i.e. the track isn't displayed and the message instead. The developer has ignored all three of my messages so far poitning out this issue, hence the three stars as I don't think it's good enough to ask for a subscription when that has already been done.
Developer Response ,
In some cases the verification would fail. The process has been made more robust and should not occur anymore (provided the subscription was successful).
Insgesamt OK
Über den Preis kann man streiten angesichts diverser kostenloser Alternativen. Doch ein kleines leichtgewichtiges Programm, das stabil läuft und macht, was es soll, hat seinen Reiz. Insbesondere wenn es genügend Konfigurationsoptionen gibt.
Einzige Kritik bisher: Das Trennsymbol wird in der Menüleiste immer mal wieder ohne die Leerzeichen vor und hinter dem Trennsymbol angezeigt, so dass z.B. der Interpretenname und der Titelname nicht weit genug (=unübersichtlich) auseinander angezeigt werden. Dann ein oder zwei Titel später funktionierts wieder wie gewohnt.
Nett wäre auch eine weitere Option, mit der man festlegen könnte, dass die Titelwertung nur dann angezeigt wird, wenn sie gleich oder grösser X Sterne ist.
Insgesamt aber OK.
App Privacy
The developer, Hendrik van der Linde, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Hendrik van der Linde has not identified itself as a trader for this app. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, consumer rights do not apply to agreements between you and the provider.
- Size
- 4.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2008-2024, SmashBits / Hendrik van der Linde
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- SmashTunes 1,29 €
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.