Note: Menu-bar *only* app

I was looking for an app that would let me see and control iTunes current status from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

(I know I can control iTunes from the dock, but I keep that on auto-hide in some contexts. The menu bar is visible far more often.)

So, when you start it up, you get a little musical note in the menu bar. (Some of the other reviews have complained that double-clicking the app does nothing; it is not clear to me whether they overlooked the change to their menu bar, or if something is different about their system so that there is no change to their menu bar.)

When you click on the musical note in the menu bar, you see the album art in a square drop down from the menu item, with the name of the current song overlaid in the bottom left corner.

In that drop down, you can scrub the song, zipping backwards or forwards in time. If you click the three horizontal lines in the upper right corner, the square flips over to give you a track listing.

So, pros:

1. The eye candy is very nice. I can imagine cases where access to scrubbing is nice.

2. Access to the track list is also nice.

However, I was surprised that there is no play/pause functionality available in the menu item. Ive looked around and theres lots of other stuff (e.g. Plug-out, Notify track changes), but I cannot see play/pause, except for a button that will bring up iTunes (and then I can play/pause there). Also, nothing to control the volume of iTunes (e.g. if I want to keep other system alerts at the same level).

So, for viewing the current status, the app is great. For *controlling* the status, it is not quite what I had expected, but still potentially useful.

pnkfelix about Muzzy for iTunes