My Mac Apps » Menu Spot II
Summary
Menu Spot II is a full-featured player for the Spotify® music streaming service that runs in your Mac's menu bar and my first Mac app. It has the following features:
- See the title and artist of whatever song or podcast is currently playing at all times (updates in the background)
- Removes extraneous title details – eg. remaster, year, etc. to free up as much precious menu bar space as possible
- View album or podcast artwork right inside the menu bar
- See full details about the currently playing song or podcast, including its duration, its popularity among the Spotify user base, and more right from the keyboard
- Pause playback from the keyboard
- Restart playback of the last song or podcast from the keyboard
- Shuffle your music from the keyboard
- Copy the current Spotify URL to the clipboard
- Choose to use the artwork of the currently playing song or podcast as your Desktop background
- Choose whether or not to close Spotify when exiting the program
- Works in macOS' Dark mode
- Optionally mutes audio and video ads (for free-tier users)
- Fast and compact; no 30+ MB application baggage
- Runs on macOS Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, and Sonoma
- Universal binary: runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon CPUs