Dock Party

Music visualizer and controls

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

Control Apple Music and Spotify playback 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 and “Like” songs with clickable controls that are always visible. • Compatible with macOS 14+ (Sonoma, Sequoia, Tahoe, Golden Gate) • Works with Spotify and Apple Music desktop apps New: Dock Pics! Sign up for a free Dock Pics account to share photos and music with other users. Dock Pics features a unique Pic Parade that expands Dock Party’s music visualization and colorful animations around your photos, shared tracks, and web pages. Dock Party is a 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 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. Features: • Track details and album art next to the Dock with player controls on the other side • Smooth, controllable track progress bar along the edge of the Dock • Amplitude, Pitch, and Waveform visualizers in the Dock • Track progress visualizer in the Dock • Heart button to like songs in Spotify and Apple Music • Share photos with Dock Pics buddies • Share your currently playing Spotify or Apple Music track with 2 clicks • Subscribe to Apple Photos Shared Albums: Photos shared by members of the album appear directly in your Pic Parade • Subscribe to a buddy’s currently playing music and most recent listening history • Immediately play received tracks in either Spotify or Apple Music, regardless of how they were shared • Flash a buddy: Send a Dock Pic that disappears after being viewed • Share web page links • Buddy contact cards with nicknames, custom profile pics, crews, and buddy-specific settings • Support for high resolution, high quality image formats • Mark pics as winners • Widget for "Newest Dock Pic" (Desktop and/or Notification Center) • Cloud storage and local image cache • Dock color styles: Choose from a variety of colors, gradients, and animations • Automatically adjusts to the height of your Dock • Runs in the background as a status item in the menu bar with no icon taking up space in the Dock • 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 Downloads directory with the Save Album Cover button • Buttons to search song and artist info on DuckDuckGo, YouTube, songsterr, WhoSampled, and BandsInTown • Display song title, artist, and/or album name in the menu bar • Less irritating than the standard macOS song change notifications • Scrolling marquee with customizable message • ”Send with Dock Party“ from Share menu in Finder or Photos app • Meets Swift 6 strict concurrency requirements

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• Subscribe to a buddy’s currently playing music and most recent listening history • Dock Party remains visible even when the Dock is hidden or positioned on the side of the screen • Capture Dock Pics directly with your Mac’s camera and optionally apply filters • Flash a buddy: Send a Dock Pic that disappears after being viewed • Pin up to 3 Dock Pics to the front of the Pic Parade • New “Blue Wave” animated background option • Additional tools in the viewer: Zoom, Reply, Forward, Hide, Delete, Get Info, Add to Photos, Save to File, Set as Wallpaper, Copy, and Share • Display detailed camera and image data • Widget for "Newest Dock Pic" (Desktop and/or Notification Center) • ”Send with Dock Party“ from Share menu in Finder or Photos app • Sent Dock Pics appear in Pic Parade across multiple active sessions • Image quality enhancements: Preservation of transparency, color space, and color depth, including wide gamut and high bit depth; end-to-end HEIC image support; end-to-end lossless image support • Seamless design across Dock level, progress bar, and Pic Parade • ⌘W keyboard shortcut to close open windows such as the viewer, buddies list, camera, and settings • Select any folder to download the currently playing track’s album cover artwork to • Menu bar popover appearance now matches the system’s light or dark mode setting • Toolbar refinements for Tahoe and Golden Gate • Corrected link to privacy page in About Dock Party window • Performance upgrades

The developer, Dax Mackenzie Roggio, 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 Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers

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Provider
Dax Mackenzie Roggio
Size
6.1 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.2 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.2 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
9+
  • 9+
  • Infrequent
    Mature or Suggestive Themes

    Contains
    Messaging and Chat
    User-Generated Content
Copyright
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