🎶 Control Apple Music right from your macOS menu bar.

was working fine on Catalina. upgraded to Big Sur now doesn't show anything in menu bar and only shows track time when I click it in menu bar and even that is not accurate

Relaunching the app results in a repeat of the behavior; I was only able to get it to work on the first click. ENV: macOS 10.15.7 (19H15) on MacBookPro15,1

The album shown when clicking on the music bar doesn't always match the album that it is really from, as shown in the music app.

For example, listening to "Dirt (Acoustic)," from the album Acoustic Sessions by Florida Georgia Line, shows as "Dirt (Acoustic)," from the album Dirt (Acoustic Remix) - Single.

Can't see the setting icon, I knew the setting button is located at right upper corner after watching the demo video, while clicking at that position, the setting items can pop up.

Sometimes I will click on the menubar icon to show/control playback and when I click away the artwork/control window will not disappear. Also it would be nice if clicking the menubar icon would toggle show/hide. Currently if you click it when the window is open, it re-opens instead of hiding.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click MusicBar menu icon to open MusicBar
2. Click MusicBar menu icon a second time to close MusicBar, does not close it.

Being able to close a menubar menu by clicking it again is considered standard behavior.

The app is shown in Mission Control and it should not be since it is just a menu bar app. In Mission Control, you can see just the app name "Music Bar".

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I find the controls (and associated opacity layer) over the artwork aesthetically unpleasing and would prefer to have them in below the artwork. However, as a compromise could they not appear until the pointer is actually over the artwork? Often I'm just clicking the menu item to see the artwork, I don't need or want to see the controls yet.

Some songs crash Music Bar reliably for me, for example: https://music.apple.com/at/album/highway-song/193126473?i=193126933&l=en

Excerpt from the crash report:

Crashed Thread:        6  Dispatch queue: NSOperationQueue 0x7faccd428940 (QOS: UNSPECIFIED)

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process:   exc handler [16629]

Application Specific Information:
Fatal error: 'try!' expression unexpectedly raised an error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Invalid value around character 0." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Invalid value around character 0.}: file /Users/musa/xcode/Music Bar/Music Bar/Extensions/URLSession+Music-Bar.swift, line 20
 

Firstly, thanks for adding Mojave support, that's been the biggest barrier to trying MusicBar so far! I have, however, noticed some major issues with functionality.

What does work:

• playing and pausing by clicking on the album art
• skip previous and next

What doesn't work:

• album art (it never loads)
• song information (it doesn't display in the window or menubar)
• playback status (the scroller is always 0:00, track length is always 3:26)
• play/pause button state (it always stays on ▶)

Regarding the album art, it might be interesting to look at the implementation used by NepTunes.

Ultimately, if NepTunes had a menubar window, in addition to its floating desktop window, this would almost make MusicBar/alternatives superfluous. Have you thought about integrating your MusicBar functionality together with the NepTunes? (On a tangent, their Spotify support might also be interesting.)

Hello,

thanks a lot for this really nice app and for the latest updates. A nice add-on to the current version would be the possibility to trigger the launch of Music directly from the MusicBar menu, since MusicBar seems to be "frozen" every time Music is closed.

Best!

I am using some menu bar organized app, so I have to put Music Bas's icon in always display area, but when I am not playing the music, the icon still shows in the menu bar, making the menu bar seems not that clean and simple. It would be nice if the bar icon hid when the music stopped playing.

I would like to suggest adding a right-click context menu to make it easier to quit the application.

Thank you @musa11971 for creating this useful application.

M1 MacBookAir 12.5 Beta (21G5063a)

Within the past few weeks, MB has not been displaying the current song. Icon is in the menubar but comes up with no cover and no song.

Hi and thanks for developing this great little app. It would be great if there was a volume control option too. If I am playing music on Apple Music I am unable to control the volume of the music from my keyboard or my dashboard. i actually have to switch to Apple Music and adjust the volume in the app which is completely crazy. I can control volume in other apps via the keyboard or the dashboard as normal but not Music.

Just used your app and it works great so far! But when I like the song I'm hearing, I have to go to the main app to add it to my playlist. If there is an integrated feature to add the current playing song to our desired playlist, I think the app will have that extra fantastic!

Best wishes,

Henry(PocketTurtle)