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PlayStatus 3.1.3

On macOS 27 you can click the menu bar item again when nothing is playing, and drag the detached player again. And if Music is stopped on a playlist or an Apple Music page, Play now starts it.

Fixed

  • Clicking the menu bar item when nothing is playing. On macOS 27, with the player stopped and only the icon showing, a left-click anywhere on the item failed to open the player, and a greyed-out control could flash under a click aimed somewhere else. Clicks now land where you aim. Clicking a greyed-out control opens the player instead of doing nothing.
  • The menu bar Play button works when Music is stopped. It sent play-pause, which Music ignores when nothing is loaded. That left it as the one button still lit when stopped, and it did nothing. It now starts playback the same way the player's Play in Music button does.
  • Play starts the playlist you're looking at. If Music was stopped and showing one of your playlists, Play could leave it stopped, because Music had nothing loaded to resume. PlayStatus now tells Music to play that playlist, and it starts right away.
  • Play is offered on Apple Music pages that can play. 3.1.2 treated every page PlayStatus couldn't read as unplayable, so an Apple Music album showed Shuffle Library where Play would have worked. The player now offers Play. If a press starts nothing, it switches to Shuffle Library for the next 30 seconds and then offers Play again, because you may have moved to a page that can play.
  • The detached player can be dragged again. On macOS 27, dragging the empty parts of the detached player stopped moving the window. It moves again, and the buttons and progress bar still respond to their own clicks.

New

  • playstatus://idleplay presses the idle player's play button from Shortcuts, Raycast, or a script. It isn't the same as playstatus://playpause: when Music is stopped with nothing loaded, only idleplay starts it.

Also new in 3.1.2

Updating from 3.1.1? 3.1.2 kept paused songs in the menu bar and made the player much lighter.

  • Paused songs can stay in the menu bar. Turn on Show title when paused in Settings → Menu Bar.
  • Far less CPU at rest. With a song playing and the player closed, PlayStatus uses about 0.5% of a CPU core, down from 9%.
  • Never stuck waiting on your player. A busy Music or Spotify can no longer freeze the menu bar.
  • Menu bar controls work again on macOS 27, and grey out a button that would do nothing.
  • Two crashes fixed. One happened while the player resized on macOS 26, the other when hovering the menu bar controls.

Requires macOS 15 or later. Works with Apple Music and Spotify.

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