You can easily call Mucoce over a status item:
It shows you the current tracks name, artwork, rating and artist . You can also see how long the track has been playing as well as its total duration.

You can open the menu by rightclicking the icon in the menubar or by pressing control + leftclick on the icon in the menubar.

If you're using Growl, this application also has another nice feature for you:
It notifies you over Growl when another track starts playing.

Features:

• lets you control iTunes®
• lets you use keybord shortcuts
• lets you rate the current track
• shows the current track's name, artist, artwork and rating
• shows how long the current track has been playing as well as its total duration
• notifies you over Growl when another track starts playing (can be toggled)

• English
• German
• French
• Romanian
• Russian
• Swedish

If your language is not supported, would you consider making a translation for it?
Contact me, making sure you add the subject-line "Mucoce Translation"!

• OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion support