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Display and control songs from the Windows taskbar

v0.9.4

4 years ago

Updates

General

  • (Fix) Fix proxy not working with Spotify

Notes

Requires .net framework 4.7. Windows 10 This is a prerelease so things may break.

Installing

Download the installer (.msi) under assets and run it. If you have used the manual installations from previous versions (before v0.9.0-preview3), the new installer will not detect it. Either uninstall the old version first, or run the .msi installer and then restart windows explorer.

v0.9.3

4 years ago

More bug fixes

Updates

General

  • (Fix) Fix errors with loading older settings #208
  • (Fix) Fix Spotify refresh token not being saved until a manual save was done.
  • (Fix) Fix settings window jumping around when moved to another monitor with a different dpi #202.
  • Add better unhandled exception handling to prevent crash loops #167

Text labels

  • (Fix) Fix text labels not saving some of their settings #206

Notes

Requires .net framework 4.7. Windows 10 This is a prerelease so things may break.

Installing

Download the installer (.msi) under assets and run it. If you have used the manual installations from previous versions (before v0.9.0-preview3), the new installer will not detect it. Either uninstall the old version first, or run the .msi installer and then restart windows explorer.

v0.9.2

4 years ago

Fixes and add a new text format. Internally, I refactored more of the project as part of an ongoing effort.

Updates

General

  • (Fix) Fix crashing if an image for the button could not be found.

Text labels

  • (New) Add a {remaining} placeholder value that shows the remaining time left in the song
  • (Fix) Fix new text labels not displaying placeholder information until a refresh

Notes

Requires .net framework 4.7. Windows 10 This is a prerelease so things may break.

Installing

Download the installer (.msi) under assets and run it. If you have used the manual installations from previous versions (before v0.9.0-preview3), the new installer will not detect it. Either uninstall the old version first, or run the .msi installer and then restart windows explorer.

v0.9.1

4 years ago

Ignore the missing v0.9.0. I messed up the versioning.

Updates

General

  • (Fix) Fix combo box closing right away when clicked in some cases
  • (Fix) Fix labels not updating when profile changes

Notes

Requires .net framework 4.7. Windows 10 This is a prerelease so things may break.

Installing

Download the installer (.msi) under assets and run it. If you have used the manual installations from previous versions, the new installer will not detect it and overwrite it.

v0.9.0-Preview3

4 years ago

Finally got around to creating an installer so installation should be easier.

Updates

General

  • (New) Add background color option for the toolbar
  • (New) Add relative positioning options to some controls

Custom labels

  • (Fix) Fix crashing if scroll timing is given empty input (#170)

Notes

Requires .net framework 4.7. Windows 10 This is a prerelease so things may break.

Installing

Download the installer (.msi) and run it. If you have used the manual installations from previous versions, the new installer will not detect it and overwrite it.

v0.9.0-Preview2

4 years ago

Another preview version with some fixes and additions. Note that things will change between preview versions and settings may be removed or added.

Updates

General

  • (New) Add light and dark theme support. #158
  • (New) Add accent color support
  • (New) Add a repeat mode button
  • (New) Add a shuffle mode button

Custom labels

  • Change scrolling to start from the beginning instead of the edge
  • (New) Add a text fading effect to scrolling text
  • (Fix) Fix overlapping text when scrolling (hopefully for good this time)

Notes

Requires .net framework 4.7. Windows 10 This is a prerelease so things may break,

Installing (Installer coming soon.)

Download the zip file in the assets section below.

  1. Windows may block downloaded files. Right click the zip archive and select properties and then click unblock if the option is available
  2. Unzip contents into a directory
  3. Run install.cmd as an administrator.
  4. There should be a pop-up asking if you want to add the toolbar. Press yes and it should appear in the taskbar 3.5. Audioband can manually be added by right clicking the taskbar > Toolbars > Audio Band
  5. Right click the audio band toolbar and select Audio Source > Spotify (currently the only available option)

Updating

The easiest way to update is to:

  1. Run uninstall.cmd as administrator.
  2. Restart explorer.exe if it doesn't.
  3. Replace contents
  4. Run install.cmd
  5. Check that the correct version is installed in In Audio Band Settings > About tab (Sorry! this is the easiest way to update currently)

The install script is a very simple one. It assumes you have .NET framework 4 and are running a 64 bit machine.

v0.9.0-Preview1

5 years ago

Preview release of the next version since its getting big. Probably has some bugs and some requirements have changed. This update was developed for windows 10 1903.

Updates

General

  • Dpi scaling requirement moved to creators update (1703) as it relies on Per monitor v2.
  • Toolbar re written in wpf instead of winforms.
  • Settings window and dialogs have updated visuals.
  • Positions and sizes or controls are no longer locked to integer values.
  • (Fix) Fixed not being able to use tab navigation in the settings window (#71)
  • (Fix) Fix crashing that could occur when switching audio sources (#110)
  • (New) Add profiles that can be imported and exported. Does not export audio source settings, only control settings. (#44)

Text labels

  • (New) Text styles can now be combined in the format string. (#107)
  • (New) New options for text scrolling behavior (#85)
  • (Fix) Time formats will show the hour digit (#117)
  • (Fix) Fix text that would overlap when scrolling if back to back text required scrolling. (#100) | (Issue) can still overlap in other cases
  • (Fix) Scroll speed can be set to 0. (#75 @chippleh1392 )
  • Font sizes use pixels now (default wpf font size unit) instead of point size.
  • Scroll speed now refers to the amount of milliseconds it takes for the start of the text to across.

Playback buttons

  • (New) Add option to use text instead of an image for the button (#79)
  • (New) Add support for svg images.
  • (New) Add new customization options.

Progress bar

  • (New) Add hover color option
  • (New) Add ability to seek to a position in the song by clicking on the progress bar.

Album art popup

  • Y position off is now relative to the top left corner of the album art and and can be a negative value

Notes

Requires .net framework 4.7. Windows 10 This is a prerelease so things may break,

Installing (Installer coming soon.)

Download the zip file in the assets section below.

  1. Windows may block downloaded files. Right click the zip archive and select properties and then click unblock if the option is available
  2. Unzip contents into a directory
  3. Run install.cmd as an administrator.
  4. There should be a pop-up asking if you want to add the toolbar. Press yes and it should appear in the taskbar 3.5. Audioband can manually be added by right clicking the taskbar > Toolbars > Audio Band
  5. Right click the audio band toolbar and select Audio Source > Spotify (currently the only available option)

Updating

The easiest way to update is to:

  1. Run uninstall.cmd as administrator.
  2. Restart explorer.exe if it doesn't.
  3. Replace contents
  4. Run install.cmd
  5. Check that the correct version is installed in In Audio Band Settings > About tab (Sorry! this is the easiest way to update currently)

The install script is a very simple one. It assumes you have .NET framework 4 and are running a 64 bit machine.

v0.8.0

5 years ago

.Net framework 4.7 or higher is now requried.

New

  • High DPI support is now available for Windows 10 anniversary and higher (Tested, but it may work for earlier versions). If you previously scaled the ui components in the settngs, you should scale it back down or everything will be the wrong size.

Notes

Requires .net framework 4.7. Requires Win 10 anniversary or higher for high dpi support This is a prerelease so things may break,

Installing (Installer coming soon.)

Download the zip file in the assets section below.

  1. Windows may block downloaded files. Right click the zip archive and select properties and then click unblock if the option is available
  2. Unzip contents into a directory
  3. Run install.cmd as an administrator.
  4. There should be a pop-up asking if you want to add the toolbar. Press yes and it should appear in the taskbar 3.5. Audioband can manually be added by right clicking the taskbar > Toolbars > Audio Band
  5. Right click the audio band toolbar and select Audio Source > Spotify (currently the only available option)

Updating

The easiest way to update is to:

  1. Run uninstall.cmd as administrator.
  2. Restart explorer.exe if it doesn't.
  3. Replace contents
  4. Run install.cmd
  5. Check that the correct version is installed in In Audio Band Settings > About tab (Sorry! this is the easiest way to update currently)

The install script is a very simple one. It assumes you have .NET framework 4 and are running a 64 bit machine.

v0.7.9

5 years ago

New

Add IAudioSource nuget package for audio source development

  • link here
  • Documentation pages coming soon. The nuget package should come with intellisense support

Fixes

  • Spotify should be able to update progress playback progress within the same song.
  • Local files in Spotify should be displayed now. #87

Notes

This is a prerelease so things may break,

Installing (Installer coming soon.)

  1. Unzip contents into a directory
  2. Run install.cmd as an administrator.
  3. There should be a pop-up asking if you want to add the toolbar. Press yes and it should appear in the taskbar 3.5. Audioband can manually be added by right clicking the taskbar > Toolbars > Audio Band
  4. Right click the audio band toolbar and select Audio Source > Spotify (currently the only available option)

Updating

The easiest way to update is to:

  1. Run uninstall.cmd as administrator.
  2. Restart explorer.exe if it doesn't.
  3. Replace contents
  4. Run install.cmd
  5. Check that the correct version is installed in In Audio Band Settings > About tab

The install script is a very simple one. It assumes you have .NET framework 4 and are running a 64 bit machine.

v0.7.6

5 years ago

New

  • Add iTunes as an audio source. #11
  • Add musicbee as an audio source. #19

Notes

This is a prerelease so things may break,

Installing (Installer coming soon.)

  1. Unzip contents into a directory
  2. Run install.cmd as an administrator.
  3. There should be a pop-up asking if you want to add the toolbar. Press yes and it should appear in the taskbar 3.5. Audioband can manually be added by right clicking the taskbar > Toolbars > Audio Band
  4. Right click the audio band toolbar and select Audio Source > Spotify (currently the only available option)

Updating

The easiest way to update is to:

  1. Run uninstall.cmd as administrator.
  2. Restart explorer.exe if it doesn't.
  3. Replace contents
  4. Run install.cmd
  5. Check that the correct version is installed in In Audio Band Settings > About tab

The install script is a very simple one. It assumes you have .NET framework 4 and are running a 64 bit machine.