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ByteController 0.8.6

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ByteController is a small user interface utility for controlling iTunes. ByteController gives you three buttons in your menu bar: Previous Song, Next Song and Play/Pause. Holding the Previous Song and Next Song buttons plays fast forward or rewinds.

ByteController has hot keys for all button actions plus hot keys for controlling volume, and controlling ByteController.

ByteController has Growl support.

What's New

Version 0.8.6:

Fixed Intel Crash
A few new skins plus one user-submitted one
French localization
Traditional chinese localization

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2 or later

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chambone reviewed on 05 Feb 2012

Great! Works on both my laptops running 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

[Version 0.8.6]

Mimiton reviewed on 19 Jun 2010

Works fine even in Mac OS X 10.6.4.
Thank you!

[Version 0.8.6]

+52

funjoy reviewed on 23 Feb 2008

As of today (23 Feb 2008) my main controller, GimmeSomeTune freezes with iTunes 7.6.1, so I started looking for an iTunes menu-controller.

This free app does a great job at it.

[Version 0.8.6]

Quantum commented on 08 Oct 2007

Wonderful applet.

I've just switched from iTunes to VLC though, and ByteController is the only thing I miss.

Doesn't seem to be any way to contact the dev for request. What to do?

[Version 0.8.6]

1 Reply

+334

MacUpdate Lon replied on 08 Oct 2007

Try this address for the developer.

HackaN reviewed on 18 Aug 2007

This app is a "must-have" for any iTunes user.
It's kept in a nice not disturbing way in the menu-bar with the opportunity to only be visible when iTunes is running.

A very nice feature is If you choose to have it load at "startup" or any way have it running while iTunes is not and press the hot-key for "play" it will open iTunes and play right away. That was just a key-press and you didn't even have to take your eyes of what you were doing in the first hand.

It's very user-friendly, forget "mini-player-mode" or some widget - cause it doesn't get easier or more simple and fast than this.

Indeed this app should be built in OS X.

[Version 0.8.6]

Ringhorne reviewed on 10 Feb 2007

I began using ByteCon .6 and it worked smoothly, as good as I could want. For the longest time, it was one of my startup items, when I was doing a lot of iTunes listening. Version .6 had only minor issues that never hurt the actual function (its buttons were at times inconsistent -- play-pause mode icons reversed). This is an EXCELLENT tool: simple, flexible (can pick from many looks), complements my tasks with ease when I am on two monitors and iTunes is hidden. No iTunes butting in my space, and no getting in the way of other menus!

[Version 0.8.6]

apple-project.com commented on 06 Dec 2006

Less is almost always more.

I tried Synergy, but found it more than I needed. ByteController is a simple iTunes menu controller, and it does its job in a quiet, elegant manner.

Blogged : http://www.apple-project.com

[Version 0.8.5]

turim reviewed on 08 Sep 2006

Very easy to use, and should be included in Apples next OS, because it´s useful when working in other applications and you don´t want to leave that special application over iTunes to pause/skip a track.

I use this with Growl - nice combination!!!

And you can´t complain about a pricetag - bacause it´s free :-D

Thanx!!!!

[Version 0.8.5]

smpdigital commented on 29 Mar 2006

Is ByteController planned to be universal?

[Version 0.8.5]

ptrix commented on 03 Dec 2005

great software! however, one feature I'd like to see would be the abilty to choose between having the Rewind button go to the previous song, or going to the beginning of the current song before going to the previous song. other than that, this utility is excellent! Keep up the great work!

[Version 0.8.5]

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ptrix replied on 03 Dec 2005

Ok, me again. I did a little research and discovered that this could be accomplished in Applescript by having the rewind button call the "Back Track" command instead of the "Previous" command. Only thing I need is a tutorial for performing that change in ByteController, which the author didn't include, (or if he did, he made it VERY difficult to find). If anyone would be willing to lend a hand with that, could you please reply here? Thanks! :D

-Ptrix

+18

IanWeir commented on 05 Dec 2005

This is actually quite simple.
First, control+click on the ByteController application and choose 'Show Package Contents'.
Then, open the 'Contents' folder, and then the 'Resources' folder.
Then open the file 'previous.scpt' in Script Editor, and change it to this:

tell application "iTunes" to back track

Save, and you are done.

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