Free app which shows song name in menu bar

There are a lot of apps that show which song iTunes playins in different fancy pop-ups (using Growl i guess) but I need only a song name in menu bar and nothing else.

There are NowPlaying and emcee but they are non-free. Then, there are free apps like CoverSutra but those don’t do what I want exactly.

Is there free app which shows name of the song that VLC or iTunes plays in menu bar?

Try the following freeware/open source tool: QuickTunes.

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Elderly, but may work fine still.

My minimalistic solution involves using GeekTool to display a geeklet like the one I made on top of the menu bar. It runs an AppleScript every 10 seconds and will unobtrusively display nothing when iTunes is not running or not playing, otherwise just show the current track's name.

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Advantages: you can resize, position and format the text of the geeklet as you wish (e.g. put it in the very center of the menu bar – something the freeware programs discussed here can't do), as well as have it display additional info such as album, artist, etc. by editing the AppleScript. See here for ideas.

Disadvantages: The geeklet's position is fixed. When your front application uses a lot of space on the left-hand side of the menu bar, the geeklet will be shown on top of the rightmost menu items. This problem is, of course, more relevant for small display sizes.

I've just found Tune Buddy which does exactly what I wanted:

Tune Buddy screenshot