Desktop widget
Now playing, on your desktop
About
What’s playing in Music or Spotify, in the menu bar. Click it to play or pause; right-click for the panel with the track, Previous, Next and volume.
Gallery
Every place it shows up.
From anywhere
Run it without opening it.
music⌥ Space
- Play or Pause MusicMusic
- Next TrackMusic
- Previous TrackMusic
- Copy Current TrackMusic
Every command is in Stackbar's palette, and can have its own hotkey, a stackbar:// link, or a Shortcuts action.
Inside
Everything it does.
How it checks
every 5 seconds, and only players that are already running; it never opens one.
Settings
which player to follow (whichever is playing, Music or Spotify) and what the menu bar shows (title and artist, title, or just the icon).
Agent tool
now_playing describes the current track.
Install
Two clicks in Stackbar.
- Open it in Stackbar, or open Stackbar → Settings → Store and find Music.
- Choose Install.
- It appears in your menu bar, panel, desktop widget.
Don't have Stackbar yet? Download it free.
Or from a terminal
stackbarctl install --index https://navbytes.github.io/stackbar-plugins/index.json io.navbytes.stackbar.plugins.music- Version
- 1.3.0
- Updated
- November 4, 2026
- Category
- Productivity
- Shows in
- Menu bar, Panel, Desktop widget, Settings page
- Requires
- Stackbar 0.17.0 or later
- Publisher
- navbytes
- Bundle
- sha256 38ad2241932c…
Version history
What's new
1.3.0Latest
- Store screenshots now show it in use, with sample data, instead of its first-run screen.
1.2.1
- Its own icon and colour in the Store and in Settings.
More productivity