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Good news everyone. The app Emcee that we made together with Alexey Blinov, now works in macOS Ventura:<\/p>\n

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If you didn’t know about Emcee:<\/p>\n

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Other apps distract with semi-transparent widgets over what you do. Yet, when you wonder what’s playing, there is no ansnwer on the screen.<\/p>\n

Emcee is always visible. The song name does not scroll, it stands still.<\/p>\n

Click for playback controls. Alt-Click for needle drop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The way the menu bar works on the Mac is that if any item on the right no longer fits, it simply disappears. To prevent the OS from hiding Emcee entirely, it adapts its content based on the available space. For example, if the both the artist and the track name don’t fit, Emcee only shows the track name; if it still doesn’t fit, Emcee would at least show its icon.<\/p>\n

Ventura sadly no longer lets menu items adapt their content based on free space in the menu bar, so Emcee was always just showing its icon. In the new version, we no longer try to adapt the content in Ventura, so if it doesn’t fit, it disappears entirely. In older macOS versions the behavior is unchanged.<\/p>\n

We’ve also updated the app’s icon.<\/p>\n

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The new version of Emcee has been released with support for macOS Catalina’s new Music app. Other changes include better Dark Theme support and bug fixed. The app is now called Emcee for Music, but it still supports iTunes in earlier versions of macOS. Developed by Alexey Blinov, directed by myself.<\/p>\n

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The new version works well with Yosemite, including Dark Mode:<\/p>\n

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Buy in the App Store<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>", "summary": "The new version works well with Yosemite, including Dark Mode", "date_published": "2014-11-22T01:22:29+03:00", "date_modified": "2014-11-22T01:22:26+03:00", "tags": [ "Emcee", "projects" ], "image": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/emcee-2-0.jpg", "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sat, 22 Nov 2014 01:22:29 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "186", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [ "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/emcee-2-0.jpg" ] } }, { "id": "162", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/emcee-1-8\/", "title": "Emcee 1.8 supports Spotify", "content_html": "

Alexey Blinov has updated our app Emcee<\/a> with Spotify support.<\/p>\n

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An update to Emcee adds the ability to set a song’s rating right from its menu:<\/p>\n

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A small update to Emcee is out. It is an app that displays the currently playing iTunes song title in the menu bar.<\/p>\n

We have fixed a crash and other bugs related to iTunes 11.0.3 and also fixed an issue which could prevent iTunes from quitting while Emcee was running.<\/p>\n

Buy or update in the App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n", "summary": "A small update to Emcee is out. It is an app that displays the currently playing iTunes song title in the menu bar", "date_published": "2013-06-01T14:48:53+03:00", "date_modified": "2013-06-01T14:50:45+03:00", "tags": [ "Emcee", "projects" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:48:53 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "99", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } } ], "_e2_version": 4269, "_e2_ua_string": "Aegea 12.0a (v4269e)" }