Lyrical is a Notification Center widget for OS X Yosemite (yes, written with Swift) that displays your iTunes lyrics and various song information like artwork, artist, and song name. It even lets you control the playback, sound, and set ratings for the song! This is incredibly useful if you are using multiple apps and need quick access to iTunes controls or information.
You can also choose to view or hide the current song's lyrics. You can toggle lyrics with just a click, and Lyrical will elegantly expand and collapse to fit the song lyrics.
Lyrical also features Last.fm integration! You can use Lyrical's menu bar app to scrobble (publish), love or ban the current playing track with Last.fm. Simply open preferences by clicking on Lyrical's menu bar icon, authenticate with Last.fm, and you can then Love/Ban tracks. Lyrical will automatically scrobble the current playing track and provides an ability to disable it if you wish.
What is new in this release:
As promised in the previous update, this version is a MAJOR update to Lyrical that introduces some fun new things.
* Last.fm integration!
- From Lyrical's menu bar app, you can scrobble[1], love or ban the current song with Last.fm.
- Ability to disable scrobbling and only enable Love/Ban feature.
* Added support for iTunes Radio and Home Sharing.
- Yes, you can even scrobble them. (Even the official Last.fm app can't do this!)
* New App and Menu Bar icons!
* Clicking on the Album Artwork will now open iTunes (or switch to it if it's already open).
* Reduced the overall size of the widget to save space.
- Further reduction in size when iTunes is not playing will come in a future update.
* Tweaked the look of the playback controls.
* Added a window at launch that shows how to enable the widget.
* The 'Rate' button in Lyrical's About window now actually works.
* A lot of bug fixes and improvements, including latest Swift compatibility.
Phew, now that's what you call an update! Look forward to the next version which will support scrubbing with the progress bar! If you like using Lyrical, please consider leaving a review. Thank you and enjoy using Lyrical!
[1] scrobble: To automatically add the tracks you play to your Last.fm profile. If I'm not scrobbling the music I hear, it doesn't count! - Last.fm
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