If the song you’re looking for isn’t on Spotify, you can add it from an outside source. In order to do that, open the app and go to Settings. Keep scrolling down till you find Local Files. After you turn on Show Local Files, you’ll see an Add Source button under it. Click it to add non-Spotify music. Listen To Spotify In Uber. Add Spotify controls to your Mac's Menu Bar with SpotMenu Mac users with a preference for streaming their favorite music tracks via Spotify instead of Apple Music are going to love an extension for macOS dubbed SpotMenu. Written entirely from Swift, this app is a combination of two older apps known as Trayplay and Statusfy.
How to add a Spotify widget in iOS 14: Make sure your phone is running iOS 14 and Spotify is updated to version 8.5.80 Tap and hold the home screen to make the icons wiggle.
There is at least one non-Apple program that does what you describe, but it modifies OS X and as such I am not willing to recommend it. If you want to do that anyway, search for a program called 'Mail Unread Menu', but beware that software not obtained from the Mac App Store involves a degree of risk due that only you can decide to accept.
If you listen to music on your Mac as often as I do, you’ve probably recognized the need for more accessible music controls. Switching from your active app over to iTunes or Spotify to control the sound just doesn’t cut it, and the few keyboard keys don’t offer everything I need.
Instead, try putting your music controls right in the menu bar. This makes them accessible regardless of whatever app you’re using without disrupting your workflow. With just one click, you can play, pause, skip, go back, scrub through and more. Here are four Mac apps that can do that for you.
SkipTunes
SkipTunes acts as a mini media player in your menu bar. It gorgeously displays album artwork of the current song you’re listening to, plus provides controls to play/pause, skip ahead, go back, scrub through the song, adjust volume and more. You can even enable pause and skip right inside the menu bar alongside the icon. The best part is that it works with both iTunes or Spotify so you can control either source of music.
In addition, SkipTunes has built-in push notifications that let you know when a new song has started playing plus the title and artist. This is optional, but it’s a neat little feature that remains fairly unobtrusive.
SkipTunes is fantastic for music lovers, but it’s the most expensive Mac app on this list at $2.99.
Note: SkipTunes is currently experiencing a bug in which it can not pull album artwork from Spotify.
Controls+
Controls+ is a bit of a multi-tasker. On top of letting you control your music from the menu bar, it also lets you adjust the brightness of your Mac, set a screensaver to start playing, set a timer or stopwatch and more. It’s about the closest you can get to having Control Center on a Mac.
As far as the music controls go, you can play/pause, skip ahead, go back, adjust volume and view album artwork. Unlike SkipTunes though, Controls+ only works with iTunes. But the other built-in productivity features are great in making the most of the tiny space granted by a menu bar window.
Controls+ is available in the Mac App Store for $0.99.
Muzzy
Muzzy is the prettiest of all the apps on our list, but it’s the one with the least amount of functionality. What it seems to do is only include the features that aren’t already available to you on your Mac’s keyboard.
For example, you can skip back, skip forward, play/pause and adjust volume from your keyboard. But what you can’t do is scrub through a song, view album artwork, or view your current album or playlist and select songs on demand. Muzzy lets you do all of that and none of the keyboard stuff.
While it’s kind of annoying to not be able to do something as simple as pause the music from Muzzy, its minimalism makes it fast and uncomplicated. Muzzy works only with iTunes and is free in the Mac App Store.
BarTunes
BarTunes is basically like a control-click menu of controls for your menu bar. There is no album artwork on display (though you can oddly show it as a tiny icon within the menu bar — a bit counterintuitive) and no visual controls. Just click the BarTunes icon to see the song currently playing and textual menu items for Play, Next, Previous and Rating.
What’s nice though is that like SkipTunes, you can add controls for play and skip right alongside the menu bar icon too. One less click to deal with.
It’s far from elegant, but it’s basic and perfectly functional. BarTunes works only with iTunes and is free in the Mac App Store.
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Plex is fully featured that can do a lot much more than transfer downloaded content. By making use of Plex plugins, it is easy to access to multiple media resources on your devices. Both official and unofficial plugins can be added into the Plex channel for usage. The former ones are available through the 'Plex Channel Directory' while the unofficial ones are only accessible from an unsupported app store.
If you're a subscriber for Spotify Premium, it is supported for you to add the unofficial plugin to sync Spotify playlist with Plex. To a large extent, it looks the same as the official app, providing almost full access to your content. Once you log into Spotify on Plex, you can always obtain the same content as you using Spotify. Check these few steps to add Spotify plugin on Plex:
Step 1. Enter into the Plex app and find out the built-in app store to download the plugin. You'll get it in the 'What's New' section.
Step 2. Go back to the Music menu and select Spotify. Sign in with your existing Spotify account and authorize it to Plex.
Step 3. Set the total space you'd like to use for Spotify's cache and browse your playlists. And Everything is done.
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Note: This Spotify Plex plugin only works for Spotify Premium. The free users of Spotify can't use it at present.