Spotify might not have made it across the pond just yet, but that doesn’t mean millions of Mac users aren’t getting their music fix via the ad-supported or premium streaming service.
A new Mac App Store app called SpotiMy aims to enhance the Spotify experience of Mac users by letting them control playback right from the menu bar. The little app adds a menu bar icon with drop-down previous, pause/play and next track buttons.
Unfortunately that’s about all you’re going to get for your US$0.99. In fact you can easily and quickly control Spotify playback using the existing media keys on any Mac keyboard, which makes the app practically redundant for anyone with said keyboard.
SpotiMy shows that there is potential for Spotify add-ons like the plethora available for iTunes. At the moment SpotiMy doesn’t bring anything you can’t do better with a keyboard to the table and therefore I can’t recommend it. But the developer is keen to add to the app, with its current form very much a simple start. If track selection, or playlist support, along with what’s playing and some other control features make it into the app, a menu bar Spotify control app could be really useful. One to watch but not buy, unless you desperately want Spotify menu bar playback control right now.
SpotiMy brings Spotify playback control to the menu bar, but that’s it originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 23 May 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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