Signal - The Ultimate Remote Control for Your PC's Media Player

A common request for the Mac version has been to move Signal to a menu bar icon so that it no longer takes up space in the dock. In the past most of the development focus has been on building up the web interface, so admittedly the Mac interface was put together quickly so that more time could be spent on making the web interface look good and perform well.

I’m happy to say that not only has your request been heard, but done one better - in the upcoming 1.2 release Signal is moving to a System Preference Pane. This allows Signal to run completely in the background with no UI whatsoever unless called upon. As an added bonus Signal will now start when your Mac starts, so it’s always available whenever you need it.

The main addition to Signal 1.1 was the ability to control AirTunes speakers, something I was very happy to finally be able to offer as it was by far the most requested feature over the life of the application. Of course, with this implemented one of the new most requested features is “show which speakers are actually active!”. This is something I’d very much like to see added myself, and the reason it’s not supported stems from the same limitation of the iTunes programming interface that caused AirTunes control to be delayed for so long.

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