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Music

What's playing in Music or Spotify, with play, pause, skip and volume.

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  • Signed by navbytes
  • Runs in its own sandbox
  • v1.0.0
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Music's panel

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.

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).

Commands

Play or Pause Music, Next Track, Previous Track, Copy Current Track.

Agent tool

now_playing describes the current track.

Install

Two clicks in Stackbar.

  1. Open Stackbar → Settings → Store.
  2. Find Music and choose Install.
  3. It appears in your menu bar, panel, desktop widget.

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Or from a terminal
stackbarctl install --index https://navbytes.github.io/stackbar-plugins/index.json io.navbytes.stackbar.plugins.music
Version
1.0.0
Updated
November 1, 2026
Category
Productivity
Shows in
Menu bar, Panel, Desktop widget, Settings page
Requires
Stackbar 0.11.0 or later
Publisher
navbytes
Bundle
sha256 2fff4fd6ffcb…

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