I've been looking for something like this, here are some suggestions:
- system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible
- possibly some kind of current track menu item (I wrote one for iTunes here: http://silentmac.com/?p=470 ), requires Cocoa. Just to display the current song (some of my music has long, quiet intros, and I'm not sure what song is playing in the beginning), this might go against your idea of minimalist though
system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible
This worked fine on Leopard, but on Snow Leopard the play button on the MacBook keyboard just launches iTunes. I usually chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes to suppress this annoying behavior (my default music player is Songbird).
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I've been looking for something like this, here are some suggestions:
- system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible
- possibly some kind of current track menu item (I wrote one for iTunes here: http://silentmac.com/?p=470 ), requires Cocoa. Just to display the current song (some of my music has long, quiet intros, and I'm not sure what song is playing in the beginning), this might go against your idea of minimalist though
- shuffle functionality
But it looks great so far!
system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible
This worked fine on Leopard, but on Snow Leopard the play button on the MacBook keyboard just launches iTunes. I usually chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes to suppress this annoying behavior (my default music player is Songbird).
Shuffle is something that can be done easily.
As for the other requests, you are right it may not be quite minimalist :). But will keep them in mind.