Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause; as well as providing you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune. The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide Hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes, or access its Dock menu.

New in v3.5a6

• Fix iTunes respawn bug introduced in 3.5a3.
• Fix corrupt Portuguese localizable strings.
• Update all other localizable strings files.
• Note: iTunes 7.6.1 is not recommended for use with this or any other version of Synergy because it introduces a bug which often prevents Synergy from retrieving artwork; I have a workaround in mind which involves delaying artwork queries, but I am hoping that Apple will fix the issue in the next iTunes release.
• Note: the crashes caused by NSAppleScript under Garbage Collection remain; I am still working on switching to alternative APIs. If you are experiencing these crashes often with this alpha release you may consider switching to the stable 3.2 series instead, which can be downloaded from here.