MKD Software - iMote - Control iTunes with your fingertips

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Version 2.3.2, 756KB

What is iMote?

iMote is a simple, elegant, and lightweight program for controlling iTunes from just about any application. Play/pause, change tracks, select playlists, adjust volume, rate tracks, and more using fully customizable hot-keys or a universal menu bar item. iMote includes a beautiful iPod-esque floating window, indicating current track information, and Growl support if you want an even more streamlined experience with your other Growl-enabled applications. Written using Cocoa, iMote is lean and mean, consuming minimal system memory and CPU time. iMote is the original iTunes controller.

The Menu

iMote's menu gives you quick access the the everyday iTunes features you use, right from the menu bar. You can rate tracks, change shuffle and repeat setting, change the current playlist and more with just one click.

HotKeys

The coolest thing about iMote are its HotKeys. Say you're typing a letter to a friend in Safari or Mail, and you want to skip iTunes to the next track -- don't touch the mouse! Just hit a key combination and the track changes! The same can be done with just about any basic iTunes functions, including skipping back and forth through tracks, pausing and resuming, adjusting volume, rating tracks, and changing shuffle or repeat settings. All of these HotKeys can be customized to your preference.

The Floater

The Floater is a great thing iMote provides for your musical enjoyment -- it's a floating window that shows you the current track's name, artist, album, rating, and album artwork. By default the Floater pops up whenever the track changes, a rating is set, or music is played from pause -- it fades away a few seconds later. Both the menu and hot keys also allow you to open the Floater on-command.

Tricks

iMote provides some pretty straight-forward features, but it's also got some other neat stuff.

The Floater can hide out anywhere on the screen you like. By default it ignores mouse clicks so as not to get in the way when it rears its head -- but you can set it to respond to clicks and drag it around the screen to just where you like. It's even smart about how is resizes itself on the edges of the screen so as not to clip itself off the screen. If you decide you like its default position best, just double-click it to put it back at center stage.
A song comes on that you like, and the Floater pops up? Rate it just by clicking the starts on the floater.
If you use Growl, enable Growl notifications in iMote to keep all your cute little windows consistent.
Writing down recorded audio content? Use iMote's StepBack feature to pause, and "step back" a few seconds and resume, to review audio piece-by-piece. It's great for journalists or anyone doing recorded interviews!
Don't like clutter in your Mac's interface? (Hey, neither do we!) Set the menu is hide itself when iTunes isn't open.

Languages

Engligh
Spanish - Thanks to Radu Dutzan
French - Thanks to Benoit
German - Thanks to Niels Heidenreich
Japanese - Thanks to Kazuma Kadowaki
Bulgarian - Thanks to Ventsislav Zhechev
Portuguese - Thanks to Cassio Diego and Patricia Daibes

Add your language!

What Users Are Saying

"Apple should build this [into] iTunes." - Pedro Estarque
"Wow, so simple yet so helpful. Thanks!" - Alexander Klar
"Forget any other iTunes remote! If you need a simple, elegant, light remote for iTunes, try iMote! I JUST LOVE THIS SOFTWARE. Big thanks to the developer." - Softbend
"You won't think you need iMote until you use it... it makes iTunes SO much easier to use." - Anonymous

New in Version 2.3.2

Fixed a bug introduced in version 2.3 that would cause the Floater to continually report "Quiet" when music was paused (as opposed to only when stopped)
Fixed a minor bug allowing for horizontal scrolling in the Hot Keys preferences
Added a Portuguese localization, thanks to Cassio Diego and Patricia Daibes

System Requirements

Mac OS 10.3.9 or later and iTunes

Technical Support

For technical questions or assistance, please contact support.