Song Announcer For Mac

Song Announcer is a powerful iTunes controller and notifier that can verbally announce which song just started playing. Moreover, it also provides basic playback control buttons and displays a song’s lyrics as soon as it starts playing.

The application provides icons on Mac’s your menu bar for each of the 3 functions. Thus, you will be able to see the playback buttons, lyrics icon and the app’s icon that opens the control panel on the system bar at the top.

Announcing songs is done both visually and verbally. When a song starts playing, a popup notification at the top right corner of your screen displays the name, artist, length, album and rating of the song. A robot voice will speak the name and artist of the track, which is useful when you are not at your computer and want to know which song is playing.

The app’s menu also enables you to quickly access your iTunes music playlists with only 2 clicks. Also, the lyrics of the track will be displayed in a dark transparent window on your desktop, if the lyrics are available in the song’s tag information.

Another interesting feature is the ability to only play a 10 seconds intro from each song in a playlist. Song Announcer also allows for controlling the playback via basic play / pause, next and previous buttons from the system bar.

To conclude, Song Announcer is quite a powerful OS X application that enables you to control iTunes music playback, view and hear notifications and read lyrics. The combination of these features plus others make Song Announcer stand out from the rest of iTunes companions and is worth a try.