GrowlTunes

After installing Growl 0.7 yesterday, I decided to install GrowlTunes as well, just to see what it is like. You'll find GrowlTunes inside the Extras folder on the Growl 0.7 disk image. Simply drag GrowlTunes to your Applications folder to install. Launching GrowlTunes registers it with Growl and places a small GrowlTunes icon in your menu-bar.

My first impressions: really cool. In the Growl control panel in System Preferences, I clicked on the Applications tab and selected GrowlTunes from the list. I then changed the Display settings for Changed Tracks and Started Playing to Music Video. Now a small bar pops up at the bottom of my screen with all the info about the current track whenever it starts playing (see the pic at the end of this post).

Even better, the menu-bar GrowlTunes interface lets me start iTunes, rate the current track on the fly, and browse through recently played tracks. Pretty sweet. Check it out.