Spotifybar is a small tool to monitor, manage state of the macOS Spotify client application, search lyrics and album cover of the currently played track, all from the macOS status menu and via assignable hot-keys.
Features:
- Automatic starting and stopping of Spotify Client app at Spotifybar startup and exit
- Customizable displaying status od Spotify and the currently played track in the macOS status menu
- Controlling Spotify via a nice mini app embedded in the macOS status menu
- Detachable status menu popup window as a dedicated mini player panel with several customizable behavior and customizable hot-key
- Searching the web for lyrics of the currently played track using customizable hot-key
- 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 Spotify (or at least giving a choice to the users to select the default behavior)