Christmas wish (Request): Support for iTunes/Apple Music about spotmenu HOT 27 CLOSED

How should this work, should it automatically detect which player's info it should show/control (iTunes or Spotify) or should there be a switch somewhere in the app?

I think it would be best if:
If Spotify is open then Spotify is used
If iTunes is open then iTunes is used
If they're both open and none of them or both of them are playing music-> Spotify is preferred
If both are open and only one is playing music -> the one that is playing music (or atleast the last one that was playing music) is used

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The player I used before I discovered SpotMenu was "MiniPlay" from Denys Star (twitter: @zyafa) which can handle both iTunes/Apple Music and Spotify. However the development of app seem to be stopped. Maybe Denys could help to implement AppleMusic/iTunes support.

Oh and MiniPlay has a great animation in the widget when pressing play :) Check it out ! :)

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I also found this 😊
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer

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This would be awesome! Currently using also "MiniPlay" which is available in the MacApp Store.
Which bugs were fixed... But this app to be seems very nice. iTunes Support would be the cherry on the cake though.

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Yeah that sound very good. Maybe there could also be an indicator in the widget or menu bar which player is currently used (e.g. Spotify icon or iTunes/Apple Music icon and also the button in the left upper corner of the cover). Or maybe the color of the slider (time)
could be blue for iTunes and green for Spotify or something like that.
Maybe the preferred player if both are open and none playing could be selected in the settings.

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Apple seems to work on its Music Widget as well. But no idea if they support 3rd party apps like Spotify.
https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/24/macos-high-sierra-beta-4/

But SpotMenu does already look much better :)

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Another interesting project: https://github.com/xzzz9097/Muse

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@fabi94music Nice! if I can ever afford a touch bar Macbook, I'll keep that project in mind! (Looks almost as awesome as Spotmenu :D)

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Any updates on that? :)

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Hey i am currently working on ditching SpotifyAppleScript and using ScriptingBridge instead. I have some working code, but i need to port it to swift 4.0

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initial support for iTunes has been added
SpotMenu.zip
👆🏻here's a sneak peek
it is being developed on music-controls branch

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SpotMenu.zip
ive improved itunes support

known issue:

• if neither player was playing before spotmenu was opened -> play, next, prev buttons dont do anything until music is started manually (by keyboard keys or from the music player)

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It does not open on my Mac. :(

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SpotMenu.zip 👈🏻 this should work
yep, sorry, I just noticed I forgot to embed the music player framework in the app, thats why it didnt open.

edit: fixed broken link

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with that version the Notification Center widget freezes and seems not to update anymore.

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Sorry, mea culpa. Easy fix though.
SpotMenu.zip

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Thanks, now it doesn't work with iTunes :) The menu bar widget works fine with iTunes :P It would be nice to have an indicator on the Notification Center widget as well which player is currently playing. Don't know of you could change the icon of Notification Center widget.

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SpotMenu.zip

if neither player was playing before spotmenu was opened -> play, next, prev buttons dont do anything until music is started manually (by keyboard keys or from the music player)

fixed this

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sorry to bug you again, but I think this didn't solve the issue I was having. I attached a screenshot. The menu bar widget does well but the notification centre widget seems to struggle 🙈

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did you completely delete SpotMenu.app from your Applications folder and replace it with the new version?

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yep, and I even removed it with AppCleaner, that removes additional files.

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does it work with Spotify?

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Yes it works with Spotify 😃 !

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okay, then i know what the problem is. i just need to fix it now 🤦‍♂️

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SpotMenu.zip
how about now? this should fix it hopefully 🙏🏻

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Perfect :) Only a quick link to iTunes (in the menu bar widget its the upper left icon on the album art) in the notification center widget would be great :) I have added German translations on the localisation issue :)

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SpotMenu.app.zip
that was a bug 🐛💥🔨

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