Tunes: Your iTunes Controller
UPDATE: Added some more pictures. 
UPDATE: The app is now known as Bowtie.
Over the past couple of days, I’ve been working in collaboration with my favorite graphic artist Laurent Baumann to create something neither of us has ever been able to find: the perfect iTunes controller.
The goal is simple: create an iTunes controller that’s both incredibly simple, and incredibly flexible. The result is Tunes, a small EyeTunes-using local iTunes controller that creates its interface entirely from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Anyone can create their own theme, it’s surprisingly easy if I do say so myself. 
Shown above is Tunes running with the default “iPhoney” theme Bowtie running with an assortment of included themes (designed, of course, by Laurent Baumann).
It isn’t ready for public consumption yet, and is (of course) Mac-only, but expect this handy (and free) little app to be out in the near future! Oh, and also keep an eye out for some of the other projects I just might be working on. (*ehem*).
August 12th, 2008 at 1:40am I cannot wait for this to become available, Mat. It's really looking fantastic so far and should solve an unfortunately existent gap in this arena for a lot of people. Will music search be an included feature?
August 24th, 2008 at 2:24pm This will replace Cover Stream in a heartbeat, really.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:12pm Any chance of music search and track/artist info in the menubar? these are two features that I think have yet to be implemented well (Tuenbar's search kinda sucks, and coversutra doesn't have a menubar mode). Thanks for making this cool new app, looking forward to trying it out.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:47am I already say it to Laurent: It will be gorgeus.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:59am This app looks delicious! When will it be ready for public test ?
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:16pm I'm absolutely stoked for this release. Let me know if you need any beta testers!
November 27th, 2008 at 12:33pm Matt!
I'm using Bowtie with the Wet Floor theme. Everything looks great, but there are two issues to point out.
1: iTunes suffers from an issue when an iPhone is docked which causes iTunes to not respond to the spacebar and playbutton when the users want to start playing a song. If song allready is playing, this is not an issue. The solution is to choose a playlist (instead of the allready chosen iPhone on the left hand side of iTunes) and double click a song from there. Bowtie also suffers from this bug. To sum up: If iTunes is running, but paused, and you dock an iPhone. Bowtie will not be able to make iTunes resume or play the song.
2: I'm a power user, and I press ALT + CMD + H at least 50 times a day - to hide all other applications than the one I'm using at a given moment. When I do this, I don't want Bowtie to get hidden because I've set Bowtie's window to desktop-level, so it's never in the way for me. And to me it makes sense that a desktop-level application is stuck on the desktop at all times, if the users wants it to.
Fix this, mail me, I'll donte via PayPal.