GrowlTunes

Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
• iTunes
• Growl

Installing GrowlTunes

Place GrowlTunes in your Applications folder by dragging and dropping it from the Growl disk image. GrowlTunes comes on the Growl disk image, in the Extras folder.

Using GrowlTunes

Once you have installed GrowlTunes, double click it. This will put the headphones shown here in the menubar at the top of your screen. From here you can control GrowlTunes.

For users of iTunes 4.7 and later, that is all you have to do to get GrowlTunes working. Note: GrowlTunes does not poll for its information with iTunes 4.7 and later.

For iTunes 4.6 and below, the most important part of using GrowlTunes is the polling button at the bottom of the menu. This allows you to turn on and off polling of iTunes (asking it what song is currently being played).

Once you get GrowlTunes to start polling, you should see a bubble like the image below. You will see one of these each time the track changes in iTunes.

Artwork

Starting with Growl 0.6, GrowlTunes can get artwork from Amazon.com. (Growl 0.5 came with a version that did not have this capability.) If GrowlTunes does not see artwork in the current track playing, and it also does not see that the album artwork was previously downloaded, it will download the track. GrowlTunes does not write this information to the track, but instead to files on disk. GrowlTunes will place the downloaded artwork in your home directory, in Library/Images/Music.