Thanks to iTunes ’ popularity , there are rough a trillion music - related apps in the Mac App Store ; most of them make iTunes a little easier to apply or make it do a little more . If you bring euphony on your Mac , here are six public utility you should check out .

Bowtie 1.3.1

good deal of utilities supply miniskirt - restrainer for iTunes . Like those others , Bowtie ( ) provide a small window where you’re able to switch , pause , play , or rate track ; it also have you hold the volume . What distinguish Bowtie from all the others is its dozens of downloadable report that let you customize the Bowtie windowpane . Some of the themes incorporate record album fine art , others are all text ; some are tiny , others large ; some even use animation . you’re able to download and apply all themes from within the app.—Kirk McElhearnfree;13pt Bold

CoverScout 3.1

Any euphony you buy from the iTunes Store issue forth with the album art implant . But tracks that you have rip yourself are a different history . If you have an iTunes Store story , iTunes can download prowess for some of the tracks you ’ve ripped — but only if iTunes has the album and if the track tags in your library jibe those in the store . You do n’t need to worry , though . CoverScout ( ) hunt down nontextual matter when iTunes ca n’t . With this app , you may download and edit album art for tracks in your iTunes library ( or in any folder on your hard driveway ) ; you may add artistic creation to album that have none or find good fine art for those that do . ( CoverScout searches a number of Amazon Websites around the world , as well as Walmart.com and Google Images . ) It also comes with build - in editing tools , so you could scale and pasture the art it finds.—Kirk McElhearn$30;equinux

I Love Stars 3.0

As with iTunes restrainer , tidy sum of iTunes utilities make it prosperous to rate the presently play song even when you are n’t in iTunes . What pose I Love Stars ( ) apart is its focal point on the little thing . For illustration , the valuation scale automatically conceal when iTunes is n’t play , relieve up menu - bar quad . you’re able to apply your mouse ’s scrollwheel to fix a military rank . If an unrated song has play roughly two - third of the way through , I Love Stars play an audible alert and flash the military rating scale to remind you to rate the rails . If you are assiduous about rating your medicine , you ’ll observe that I Love Stars is a superhandy add - on.—Dan Frakes$1;Potion Factory

Music & Speech Cleaner 1.0

Music & Speech Cleaner ( ) is a hefty , effective , and middling priced utility that clean up podcast files and just about any other audio snip without a lot of fuss . It ’s basically a lightweight , uncomplicated audio - swear out pecker that does n’t require that you know anything about sound undulation or why an MP3 has pops and clicks . Music & Speech Cleaner work with and saves in most popular audio data formatting ( include WAV , AIFF , MP3 , M4A , AAC , WMA , MOV , MP4 , and AVI ) ; if you strike down a flick into the app , you will see only the audio portion , which you could then delete . The port is intuitive : Buttons for zooming in on snip , splitting track , and even recording your own audio are easy to incur . To apply an issue , you just fall into place its minor clitoris . This app is a good all - purpose audio cleanup pecker and is ideal for just about any Mac user.—John Brandon$20;iZotope

Sleepytime 1.1.2

For people who wish to go to sleep or ignite up to euphony , Sleepytime ( ) is a great little app . You start play whatever you need to listen to in iTunes and then launch Sleepytime . You then specify how long iTunes should play and how long until the volume fades out before the medicine stops . you could also set Sleepytime to cease after it barricade the music , and to lumber out , sleep , keep out down , or reset your Mac . you could even utilise Sleepytime to wake up to your favorite melodic line : fix a time to wake up , choose a playlist , and decide whether you need the volume to blow over in when it start up playing , so you wo n’t be jar awake by the sudden phone ; unfortunately , Sleepytime ca n’t wake up your Mac if it ’s in sleep fashion . Otherwise , Sleepytime is a skillful , dewy-eyed app that does its one trivial affair very well.—Kirk Mcelhearn$2;Michaël Fortin

Tangerine 1.3.6

Creating and sequence playlists according to tempo — for a workout mixture , say , or for dance — can be cunning . That ’s why Tangerine ( ) is so handy . By determine the beats per second and the beat intensity of the songs in your iTunes library , it can aid you make tempo - based playlists . Before it can do that , though , Tangerine has to analyse your song ; depending on your Mac and the size of it of your depository library , that analysis could take some time . Once the analytic thinking is done , the app groups songs by pace and intensity ; you could then drag and dribble similar song onto its bottom Zen to make a play list , which Tangerine sends to iTunes.—Kris Fong$25;Potion Factory