Now Playing song displayed in toolbar

How can you get the Now Playing song to be displayed in toolbar?
Thanks,
Brandon

bman99 wrote:
When I'm playing a song in iTunes, I want to know how to display that song in the toolbar(like where the time, and your username is)…
Then you mean the menubar, not toolbar, and it is basically off limits. You can search Google to see if there are any 3rd-party utilities that will perform this function, but Apple does not support it in iTunes because adding clutter to the menubar is bad user interface design.

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