Looking at the number of controls for iTunes, it seems that people are not satisfied with the standard iTunes control. I am one of them. The reason is that I want the song title and artist to be shown all the time. So I took a look at this one and it almost fulfilled the wish I had. The one missing thing was that it did not work properly for streaming channels.

So I extended it with some code from the "iTunes Radio Lover" widget. Maybe the code will go in a future version of tis widge…t?

In case somebody is interested, here is a patch:

onLoad.js:

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
var nowPlayingArtist;
var nowPlayingAlbum;
var nowPlayingTrack;
+var theTrack = "";
var currentTrackTime;
var trackLength;
var prevTrackID = -1;
var currentTrackID;
+var currentTrackClass;
var currentPlayMode;
var currentVolume;
var iTunesRunning = 0;
@@ -134,14 +136,31 @@
playState();
if (currentPlayMode != "stopped") {
currentTrackI More