Quicktunes
I listen to a lot of music. When I visit friends, I often invite them to drop random discs they think I’d like into iTunes for a rip. Combine that with my cd habit (“I can quit anytime!”), and I have a fair bit of music that I don’t recognize quickly. So I just found Quicktunes, a menu-bar controller for iTunes. It’s not as elegant looking as X-Tunes, which I’m keeping around because I like it. But it puts the current song in the menu bar, where I can glance at it effort-free.
I use Synergy, which is elegant and puts the current song in a floating transparent window, which I let sit alongside the dock in otherwise unused space–and it also supports setting hotkeys for iTunes controls like play/pause, rate current song, etc.
http://synergy.wincent.com/
Thanks!
On a 12″ screen, its tiny window is too big. I don’t have that much space.