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M-Beat 3.0 for Mac

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Date added: October 17, 2005
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From The Little App Factory :

M-Beat is flexibility for iTunes. You're in the driver's seat with the ultimate iTunes Companion Application, featuring one-click menu items, hot keys and floating windows. Best of all, it's completely customizable.

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Version: M-Beat 3.0

"Packed with great features missing from iTunes."

by markbult on October 28, 2005

Pros: Adds a tiny dropdown icon and controller to the menubar at the top of OS X's screen that lets you: pause and play iTunes, skip back or forward, change volume level, access playlists from the dropdown, apply star-ratings, and buy the album from Amazon.com.

You can do even more if you open the Preferences pane and poke around, like one-click access to album artwork from Amazon.com which you can then apply to your iTunes library (well, maybe it's two clicks).

Overall, a very cool little app, well designed and discreetly small and unobtrusive.

Cons: I like that themes are available, but I wish more than one theme came with the installer.

I also really like that it retrieves album artwork, but there needs to be an option in the Prefs panel to make it automatically apply the artwork to iTunes' library.

Another suggestion: The dropdown that shows the ratings doesn't actually show my current rating of the playing song. Just the ones that I can apply.

The Volume Mute option needs an un-mute option, otherwise I have to switch back to iTunes to do it; and the Volume Up and Down options are kinda worthless without a slider.

The Song Information option doesn't seem to do anything at all.

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