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Smart Tunes is a small tool to monitor, manage, save, and restore the state of the iTunes/Music application from the macOS status menu as iTunes currently lacks these basic features.
Currently available features
• Automatic starting and stopping of iTunes/Music at Smart Tunes startup and exit
• Monitoring, saving, and restoring iTunes/Music last played track and playing/paused state on
⁃ Computer waking up
⁃ Computer lock/unlock
⁃ User session activation
• Customizable displaying iTunes/Music and currently played track status in the macOS status menu
• Controlling iTunes/Music via a nice mini app embedded in the macOS status menu
• Searching iTunes/Music tracks from the macOS status menu using customizable hot-key
• Having a dedicated lyrics editor/viewer window with always-on-top option, customizable look, and hot-key
• Automatic searching and updating of empty lyrics of the currently played track
• Searching the web for lyrics of the currently played track using customizable hot-key
• Quick update the lyrics of the currently played tracks using macOS copy clipboard and copy selection services
• Searching the web for album cover artwork of the currently played tracks using customizable hot-key
• Quick update the album cover artwork of the currently played track or its entire album using copy/paste and drag&drop support on mini player artwork image and application status menu item, also via macOS copy clipboard and copy selection services
• Support of restoring legacy behavior of media key handling as in macOS 10.13 High Sierra the OS started to direct media key events to the active application without user consent instead of letting it be handled by iTunes/Music (or at least giving a choice to the users to select the default behavior)
• Quick activation/deactivation of AirPlay output devices
• Detachable status menu popup window as a dedicated mini-player panel with several customizable behaviors and hot-key
Known Issues
• There is no option (for a sandboxed app, the one that you are downloading from the Mac App Store) to control iTunes/Music if it is showing a modal window (e.g. a notification about syncing with your phone is interrupted) as in such case commands to the iTunes application cannot be delivered, if you find that commands from Smart Tunes does not work please check the iTunes/Music application state and respond/close those modal windows
• Smart Tunes uses Apple Scripting Bridge to control iTunes/Music that has no reliable, officially supported solution updating artwork images and lyrics texts of tracks managed by a cloud-based service, like iTunes Match or the Apple Music Store, modifying the artwork images and lyrics is enabled only for locally stored iTunes track items if you have cloud synced items, please download them first in the iTunes/Music app to be able to modify the artworks and the lyrics of them!
Any feature requests or bug reports are highly welcome!
