https://github.com/russelg/musicbar

A macOS menu bar item which shows your currently playing music. Broken in Catalina.
https://github.com/russelg/musicbar

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A macOS menu bar item which shows your currently playing music. Broken in Catalina.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/russelg/musicbar
• Owner: russelg
• Created: 2018-09-08T18:53:03.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-06-09T18:46:50.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T09:03:41.504Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 61.5 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# MusicBar

A macOS menu bar item which shows your currently playing music.

![Screenshot](https://sgfc.co/YbBH.png)

Compiled app bundles are available under the Releases tab.

## Player Support

Currently, the only tested players are **iTunes** and **Swinsian**.

It has the ability to also support Vox and Spotify, but these have not been well-tested as I do not use them.

I am welcoming any PRs to fix support for these players (if needed), as well as requests (submit an issue) to support any other player.




# Developers

This is untested on anything below Python 3.7. I can guarantee this will not work without modification on anything below 3.6 due to format strings.

Do not use standard python that comes with macOS, install python ~3.7 with pip usually in `/usr/local/bin/python`, for example python from the brew package manager, e.g. `brew install python` or from the official website.

## Dependencies

`pyobjc`, `rumps` and `py-applescript`.

Install dependencies using pipenv:


`pipenv install`

## Building, developing and distributing

A macOS .app executable (for distribution) can be made using:


`pipenv run python setup.py py2app`

A macOS .app executable (for development) can be made using:


`pipenv run python setup.py py2app -A`

Do not distribute the development .app bundle as this is non-portable.