iTunes 11.1 finally brings Now Playing Notifications to Notification Center on Mavericks

Apple’s latest iTunes 11.1 Beta, which is now available for the developers, brings a new feature which I’ve always wanted, which is to display a notification of the current song which is being played.

While I am yet to risk my huge iTunes Library with the beta build from Apple, a reddit user has posted a screenshot of iTunes displaying a notification in the Mavericks Notification Center, for the current song which is being played from the library.

iTunes 11.1 Notification Center Mavericks

iTunes 11.1 brings iTunes Radio to the desktops, which I thought would be a iOS only exclusive. The company seeded the developer build of iTunes this week, along with iOS 7 Beta 4 for all the compatible mobile devices.

The Apple’s Developer Portal is not fully up and running yet, but the company has put out a tracking page which lets the developers and users to see the services which are up and running in the portal.

There was a terminal command which did this earlier on Mac, but this is pretty cool since it comes bundled with Mavericks and iTunes 11.1. I also found a funny comment in reddit which said that the notification feature works for Nicki Minaj and One Direction.

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