Weird issue, not sure exactly when it started but I just noticed it — PlayStatus is not pulling track info or album art from Spotify. It pulls the track length and progress and the in-app media controls work, but the PlayStatus area shows only the Spotify icon and the album art area just shows the default picture of a dock on water.

Everything works fine with Apple Music.

Can you reproduce this or is my MacBook just insane?

Feature description

Under "Menu Bar Title Options" the user should have the option to select "Only Display logo".

Problem and motivation

As song titles and also artist names can get quite long sometimes, PlayStatus is regularly hidden from the menu bar & I can't interact with it. For me personally, it's more important that I always have the possibility to click on the logo in the menu bar and skip/pause the song, than seeing the song title or the artist name. So I toggle on "Only Display logo" only the logo of either Spotify or iTunes should be shown, just like when no song is playing.

Is it possible to add universal hot keys for music controls that can be used when any app is active? This is my most missed feature from the once amazing Finely Tuned.

I noticed PlayStatus on MacOS 10.15.7 was taking sitting at 17% CPU usage and causing my fans to spin, even though there wasn't any music playing in Apple Music. I wonder if you had any thoughts about that. Thanks

Love the app, have been looking for replacements for SpotMenu. That said —

It looks like this app pulls album art from some internet source rather than the file? For example, when I play a live/concert version of a song in my Music library, rather than displaying the embedded album art it's displaying the album art for the studio/album version of the song. Is it possible to display the embedded art?

If I have both Spotify and Music open, and I open the PlayStatus dropdown and hit the pause button, the track I'm listening to in Spotify stops and the Music app starts playback. I'm guessing PlayStatus is sending the play/pause command to both apps?

This is easily avoided by simply not having both apps open simultaneously — but I'm guessing it's not the intended behavior, so I wanted to make you aware of it.

When I do not have a music app open, and click on the PlayStatus (ex. Play, Music Icon, etc.) it opens Apple Music by default. Since I Prefer Spotify to be the player of choice, I would love it were configurable in a settings page or something.

PlayStatus is using 1.15 GB of RAM on my machine right now. I have 16GB RAM so it's not a big deal for me, but it seems excessive for a menubar app so I thought I'd bring it to your attention.

Titles work great when music is being played from the library or playlists, but anything played through Apple Music's Listen Now and Browse do not show up. This includes music being searched up through Apple Music. Only live Radios show up, custom radios do not show up.

Thanks!

It came to me just after you closed the previous one, but can you add hotkeys for the volume, where you can choose the active volume control to be either from the player (iTunes/Spotify) or the main system volume?

PlayStatus crashes under macOS Monterey 12.1 on a MacBook Air 2020 (M1), when a local file is listened on Spotify.

Before crashing, it correctly shows the name of the track in the status bar, however, as soon as I click on it, it crashes.

I'm running macOS 12.6.1 on a 2022 MBP

App description says it supports Apple Music (I assume this is the app and not the just the service but Apple is terrible at naming of late) and iTunes (again suggests the app supports local music playback).

App shows"No Music Playing" while playing music in the macOS Music app and when the clicked repeatedly opens a dialog box to find Spotify (which I do not have installed or any interest in).

Am I missing something?