TuneBar

The interface of this little utility is really elegant and enticing, really nicely conceived. It functions on precisely the same principle as the dock (cursor over defined area brings up "control bar"). And so far the utility seems to do what it says it will. However, it is unobtrusive to a fault. There are no preferences to speak of, and the controls the utility gives you over iTunes are spartan. Some added controls would be a drop-down menu to browse through songs and playlists, and buttons for launching, quitting, showing and hiding iTunes. A volume panel wouldn't be entirely extraneous. A missing option is the ability to disable the song information that pops up as every new song starts.

Why would the developer of TuneX rename his app to TuneBar when there's already an app called TunesBar with similar functionality? Where has the originality gone these days?

a lot of iTunes controllers search functions got messed up when iTunes 7.7 was released, I'm guessing that's the issue

tunebar 3.5. -- search function -- is not working on my macbook intel 13.3" whenever I search for a song, nothing happeny no matter which preference setting - search function doesn't work at all. As to me this would be the killer feature, I have to delete the app and use SizzlingKeys again

I emailed the author about this but received not reply. It appears that using TuneBar to switch playlist doesn't actually switch the playlist in iTunes. If I start a playlist in iTunes and then use TuneBar to switch to another playlist that part works. However, if I pause the tune in the new playlist when I unpause it the paused tune does not resume. Instead the original playlist starts over.

To Ivanovitch: I run TuneBar (2.7.2) on a dual monitor set up and it seems fine. This is on a DP G5, not an Intel. I also have it installed on an MacBook Pro, but I haven't used it there other than to start it up, set my preferences, and make sure that it worked. Can you be more descriptive about the instability you see? One thing I did notice is that if you use the standard TuneBar notification (instead of growl), then it does assume the left side monitor isn't there (it slides the notification off the right monitor and onto the left monitor). However, that's not a really a problem, and if you switch to using Growl notification, then it's not an issue at all. In terms of the CPU issues I saw with earlier versions, that seems to be resolved. I still see CPU usage spike up, but that's to be expected. The constant CPU usage I saw before isn't happening.

Warning: not just unstable, but doesn't play nicely with dual-screen setups (plugging in an extra monitor causes problems, removing a monitor causes system instability).

I have just received a number of emails since releasing 2.6.2 stating that a few bugs seem to have surfaced for some people. If your experiencing any kind of problems with this version of TuneBar could you please email me any details of your system that you feel will be useful and I will fix the problem as soon as possible. Thanks, Tom

this program is pretty slick - i like the GUI design and its functionability my one suggestion would be this: add hotkeys for volume control!!! you have hotkeys for everything else, so why shouldnt you be able to adjust the volume the same way? this is the only thing keeping me from making this my main itunes window program - right now i am using x-tunes and it has everything i need but the GUI is ugly as hell and i would much rather use TuneX.