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 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/.
What’s New
Version 5.4
Adding Apple Music tracks to your music library, was possible from SmashTunes by either using the menu or keyboard shortcuts. It was also possible to add tracks directly to playlists this way. Since some more recent version of the Music app, this functionality has been broken.
With this version this functionality is restored again, with a small caveat. In order for this to work, you have to check the Favorites checkbox of Music’s “Add songs to library when adding” setting. You can find more on this on SmashTunes’ support page.
Next to adding tracks to the library, without having to favorite them, SmashTunes will now also add Apple Music tracks to library when you give them a rating.
All of the above only applies to the Music app. For Spotify some preparations were made to also offer this kind of functionality in a future version of SmashTunes.
Apart from this improved add to library functionality this version solves a few problems as well:
* It is now possible to use Asian keyboard layouts when setting shortcuts
* A potential problem was solved with unliking Spotify track
* Syncing Spotify tracks that were already liked in Spotify did not always work correctly anymore after the internet connection had been lost.
Ratings and Reviews
What a Marvalious App!
I was looking for an easy way to see what was playing and rate my music. I didn't expect convenient features of hot keys (they work for me Meemaw312), easy customization, great readable font, and even cover art if you want it. Five stars if my suggestions for time remaing count down and dimmed stars for no rating make it. :)
Excellent App that is Better Than Apple Music
This app fulfills a huge gaping hole in the current functionality of the Mac. Currently, there is no way to keep an ever-present display of your misic on the screen. Now, with SmashTunes there finally is! I love being able to see the full name of the track, artist, and album—as well as duration. And with one click I can see the album artwork—something that is completely missing from Apple main Music app right now. With SmashTunes I barely have to interact with Apple's Music app and that is a good thing!
Playlists from the Menu Bar!
The functionality of this app goes above and beyond similar menu bar iTunes controllers that just let you pause and skip. You can see a menu of all your playlists as well and start them directly from the menu bar. This is way more efficient than going back into iTunes just to change a playlist.
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, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Hendrik van der Linde
- Size
- 4.7 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 $2.99
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.