Synergy

Synergy Publisher's Description:
Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause; as well as providing you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune. Synergy can display the cover of the currently playing album. The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide Hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes, or access its Dock menu. Synergy is only 5 Euros.

Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar. It provides you with ultimate control over iTunes even while you're working in other applications. The Synergy global menu provides you with quick access to recently played tracks and playlists, and the floater displays album covers (automatically downloaded by Synergy, or embedded in the tracks by iTunes) and provides information whenever a new track starts playing.

An online tour is available to take you through Synergy's features.

What's new in this version:

Changes made since the last beta release:

* [Enhancement] Optimizations and source-code clean-up in NSApplication subclass.
* [Enhancement] Now attempts up to three handshake retries if AudioScrobbler returns a "BADAUTH" response; should fix issue with last.fm now requiring periodic re-logins (apparently once per week; see this forum thread for more information).
* [Bugfix] Corrected incorrect encoding on various localized InfoPlist.strings files in both the Synergy preference pane and in the main application.
* [Bugfix] Corrected minor typographical errors in AudioScrobbler logging.

Changes made during the beta cycle
:

* [Bugfix] Corrections to Spanish translation (bug #528, "Translation errors in Spanish version of Synergy").
* [Note] Third-party "AutoRate" script (see "Sample Track Change Items" folder on the Synergy disk image) compatibility updates by Glenn McDonald.
* [Note] Additional translations by Sebastian Sparrer added to the German localization (bug #519, "Non-translated strings in Synergy 3.1").
* [Note] Minor update to the Russian localization by Alexander Vasilyev.
* [Note] Two new button sets by Evan Robert added to the online gallery of free button sets.
* [Note] Qualified for use with the just-released iTunes version 7.1.