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🎵 Now Playing

A lightweight tray application that displays media information from all applications broadcasting on GlobalSystemMediaTransport.
It also provides basic media controls such as Play, Pause, Next, and Previous.


✨ Features

  • 🎧 Displays real-time media info from apps broadcasting via GlobalSystemMediaTransport
  • 🖼️ Shows thumbnail, title, and artist name
  • ▶️ Basic playback controls:
    • Play / Pause
    • Next track
    • Previous track
  • 🧭 Cross-app control support (where the media source allows it)

🎥 Screenshot(s)

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0.2.0

📦 Installation

uv tool install git+https://github.com/raffleberry/now-playing

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