GrowlTunes

Karl Otto Henriksen: I have a feeling that the reason you are getting duplicate growl notifications on top of each other is that there are multiple GrowlHelperApp processes running concurrently. To check this, what you should do is either launch Terminal [Applications > Utilities > Terminal] and run top. When top is running, check to see if there are multiple lines that say "GrowlHelpe" under command. Or if you don't feel so comfortable with the shell, you could always run Activity Monitor [Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor]. Activity Monitor is basically just a GUI slapped on top for the most part. You can sort by process name and see if there are multiple GrowlHelperApp processes running. If so, Stop > Quit, each one. Then, open up your Growl Preference Pane [Applications > System Preferences > Growl], wait a second for the main button in the middle of the pane to refresh, if it does not refresh to say "Stop Growl", then click "Start Growl" and you should be good to go (NOTE: Growl may automatically start again, so make sure you don't launch a second Growl process when you go into the preference pane).

ScottBruin: No, GrowliTunes does not map global hot keys. I use Quicksilver to control iTunes. Quicksilver's iTunes plugin is excellent. The advantage of using GrowliTunes for iTunes notifications over the Quicksilver iTunes plugin for iTunes notifications is only that GrowliTunes grabs album art and displays them in the notifications, something the iTunes plugin for Quicksilver does not do.

I get multiple messages!! The same messages screening twice over eachother.

GrowlTunes will not have controls. There are apps out there that do the job already. I happen to prefer x-tunes. GrowlTunes is just for monitoring iTunes, nothing else. You can disable the menu item. Please search on the Growl forums for how to do this. It is a quick 1 line command in a terminal. GrowlMail options have changed, please read the readme in order to enable it with 10.4.1.

Tom-- I know what Growl is, thank you, since I use it with Adium. Does GrowliTunes allow you to map system-wide hot keys for controlling iTunes? That's where I feel there's a huge advantage with SizzlingKeys and it's not like it has a big RAM footprint.

ScottBruin: Growl is a notification system (it is free also, btw) not an iTunes controller. GrowliTunes is an iTunes controller that happens to use Growl to display notifications about what song is playing. You can use Quicksilver (free as well) to control iTunes. Chris: I use Quicksilver right now with the iTunes plugin to control iTunes and display notifications, but GrowliTunes goes to the web and grabs album art, which is a really neat feature that the iTunes plugin for Quicksilver doesn't support. If you use GrowliTunes for iTunes notifications, you could still use Quicksilver to control iTunes and just not have it display notifications.

But it puts more clutter in my menu bar! I refuse! I got too much in theres anyway.

If you're using Quicksilver already why not just let that handle the notification rather than running yet another program? Also, if you're looking for on the fly iTunes ratings I highly suggest iTunesRating. http://www.stolaf.edu/people/handley/projects/itunesrating.html I like it because it just pops all 5 stars in the menubar and you just click once. No need for clumsy dropdown menus. One caveat though about using QS to handle iTunes notifications is that it doesn't show star ratings. There was a big request for this but it seems to have stalled. Either way iTunesRating shows the rating in the menubar anyway.

I use sizzling keys too. I love it!

Janeiro, make sure you follow the instructions in the read me file for the new version as there are new Tiger-specific Terminal bits you need to execute to get it working. It's working great for me.