Looking Glass for Spotify 4+

Control music from menu bar

Marco Albera

    • 4.7 • 17 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Note: if you use Apple Music, please check out "Looking Glass - Music Remote" instead

New: Last.fm support: connect via the "More..." menu and your tracks will be automatically scrobbled when playback reaches half time

With Looking Glass you can control playback from Spotify and save the current track to your library. You can also search for tracks, albums, artists, playlists and recommendations and start playing them right away.

The app can be reached from the menu bar or with a custom keyboard shortcut, which you can customize from the Preferences window.

When you open the menu, you can immediately start typing to search in your library; press ⇥ (Tab) to search in catalog and show recommendations.
The search results can also be played next with ⌥ (Option) + Click/⏎ or opened in Spotify with ⌃ (Control) + Click/⏎.

The app can be reached from the menu bar or with the mini player and keyboard shortcuts, which you can customize from the Preferences window. The mini player window provides additional shortcuts:
- "s" or space bar: toggle playback
- "a" or left arrow: jump to previous track
- "d" or right arrow: jump to next track
- "l": love the current track and add to Library
- "r": reveal the current track in Spotify window

Notes: 
- if you use a non-latin language and have issues with search, try enabling "Activate search field" in "Preferences" → "Advanced"
- if the app does not appear in the menu bar and you are using menu bar hiding apps, please quit them and restart

For more information and bug reports, contact at eighty_._six@icloud.com

What’s New

Version 1.2

Compatibility with macOS Sonoma

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

Luke//codex ,

Great!

I love this, it's very well thought out, and while it could use a few more improvements, I think its really solid! Unfortunately, I keep running into a bug where the track indicator in the menu-bar disappears when the music is playing, and whenever its paused, only the app icon appears. It's acting in the reverse of how its supposed to! Still, I believe this might be a localized issue because I haven't seen any other complaints, so I'll give it a 4/5. If this could be fixed, that'd be awesome!

Developer Response ,

Hello and thank you for the feedback. The behaviour you’re experiencing might be due to the fact that macOS tends to hide long menubar items (such as a song title). This is especially evident on MacBooks with notch. To mitigate this you can try moving Looking Glass to the right in the menubar by pressing Command while dragging the cursor; you can also make the song title shorter within Looking Glass’ preferences.

Marucla ,

Fantastic, more than fair price

Amazing menu bar app that made my music listening life better in ways I didn't even know I wanted. Well worth the $1 price tag, trust me, you'll love it.

jacobspratlin ,

Great at reducing distraction!

10/10 worth the $1

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