Changelog

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New Features

• Added more mini player size options

General Improvements

• Updated settings templates for popovers

Bug Fixes

• Fixed menu bar playback buttons scaling issue

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New Features

• Added a new setting to fine-tune trackpad gesture sensitivity

General Improvements

• Improved album art animations
• Improved previous/next song button animations
• Improved rendering for shuffle and repeat buttons
• Improved notch notification scrolling speeds and animations
• Added text transition for non-notch screen song info detail section
• Notch notification no longer force triggers live activity

Bug Fixes

• Fixed notch haptic feedback being triggered twice in one edge case
• Fixed notch animation when notch hover duration is set to 0
• Fixed small typo in the notch context menu
• Fixed notch notification animation being ignored in one case
• Fixed an issue with Apple Music permission request during onboarding in some cases
• Fixed an issue where the mini player menu bar toggle did not stay in sync when the mini player was toggled from settings
• Fixed notch click to open for macOS Tahoe
• Fixed notch live activity spacing for macOS Tahoe

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New Features

• Tuneful can now connect to both Spotify and Apple Music in parallel
• Added a new keyboard shortcut to toggle the music live activity in the notch

General Improvements

• Notch animations have been cleaned up, and feel much more consistent now
• Notch animations are now slightly bouncier
• Optimised some background tasks for better idle performance
• The onboarding flow now includes a more detailed permissions section

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a notch sizing issue in one edge case
• Fixed an issue where Tuneful couldn’t fetch album art for local music in Apple Music in some cases

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New Features

• Vertical swipe gesture now also works for regular mouse scrolls
• Added new animation to song and artist titles when the song changes
• Added new animation for song slider

General Improvements

• Enhanced notch swipe gesture animations
• Notch animation is a bit snappier

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the notch right-click menu to glitch during music playback
• Fixed possible performance issues

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General Improvements

• Tuneful now consumes significantly less CPU resources on idle which results in near-zero battery usage
• Improved notch swipe gestures animation
• Sligthly increased padding for notch song details
• Font for notch song details is a bit smaller now
• Slightly updated notch radius
• Notch album art corner radius was slighly adjusted

Bug Fixes

• Fixed notch swipe gestures not being detected in one edge-case
• Fixed notch click action not being detected in one edge-case
• Fixed volume slider not being synced with player app in one case
• Fixed menu bar popover not always closing when clicking outside of its frame
• Fixed notch player settings being disabled in one edge case

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New Features

• New "Visibility on non-notch displays" setting with three options: always visible, visible when playing music, or visible on mouse hover; this option also replaces "Hide notch when not used"
• New option to display song details directly on the unused part of the notch on non-notch displays
• New option to set the notch width on non-notch displays
• New volume control secondary playback button - this allows for easy volume settings directly from notch, popover, or mini player

Bug Fixes

• Fixed mouse hover issue when the notch was hidden
• Fixed an issue where the next/previous song buttons would not appear during a horizontal swipe gesture on the notch in a specific edge case

Other Improvements

• Notch scrolling notifications now look a little better
• Improved animation of notch opening using vertical swipe gesture
• Improved haptic feedback trigger algorithm for the notch
• Small UI mini player window improvements
• Improved slider interaction for mini players
• The animations were unified for more coherent feeling
• Updated logic for Spotify installation path - Tuneful now detects Spotify even if it's not installed in the root Applications folder
• Horizontal mini player now contains volume control slider

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New Features

• Spotify web API integration is here - you can now add and remove songs from favorites directly from the notch player, menu bar player or mini player
• It's now possible to hide mini player window if the music is not playing
• It's now possible to fine-tune the notch height by ±5px
• Menu bar song info can now be set to fixed size. This setting prevents popover "jumping" around when song info lenght changes while skipping tracks
• Vertical mini player now has volume control slider
• Added righ-click menu to notch, menu bar and mini player to quickly switch between Spotify and Apple Music

Bug Fixes

• Fixed typo in mini player right-click menu
• Fixed animation loop when hovering the notch in one edge case
• Fixed notch music slider not being updated in one edge case
• Fixed a bug when haptic feedback was triggered when the notch player was opened by clicking

Other Improvements

• Notch animations are a lot more satisfying and smooth
• More intuitive settings for secondary playback buttons
• Minor UI enhancements in onboarding
• Album art is tiny bigger in Compact and Horizontal mini players
• Fixed slight offsetting of music seeker as the song progresses
• Slightly improved swipe gesture detection
• Settings window is optimised for smaller screens

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New Features

• Added new Simple mini player type without album art for those who like minimalist look
• New setting to show playback control buttons directly on menu bar
• Notch player waveform can now be set to monochrome
• It's now possible to customize secondary playback buttons (shuffle and repeat) and replace them with "Add to favorites" button
• Tuneful now shows dock icon when setting window is opened
• Email template for bug report now prefills useful data
• Enhanced onboarding experience with beautiful animations

Bug Fixes

• Fixed settings window opening more than once if already open
• Fixed menu bar item forgetting its position when "Hide menu bar item when nothing is playing" option was turned on
• Fixed a bug when notch live activity waveform continued animating after the player app was killed while playing music
• Fixed small animation glitch when hovering over the notch notification in some edge cases
• Fixed song notifications in notch not showing in some edge cases
• Fixed music live activity not showing when notch was hovered in one edge case

Performance Improvements

• Optimised some background tasks which results in lower CPU usage

Other Improvements

• Album art transitions are now smoother
• Adjusted mini player and popover windows transparency to more native look
• Adjusted notch height for non-notch screens to match menu bar height exactly
• Notch is a bit narrower for non-notch screens
• UI of all mini players is now a bit more polished
• When music player is not opened, hovering over the notch just expands it instead of showing music live activity icons
• Settings window now displays always on top of other when opened
• Menu bar item has a bit nicer spacing now

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed Tuneful crashing on macOS Ventura when settings were opened

Other Improvements

• Added buttons to report a bug and request a feature to right-click menus and to the settings

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New Features

• New notch trackpad gesture to swipe horizontally to skip tracks
• New notch trackpad gesture to swipe vertically to open/close notch
• New trackpad gestures for popover and mini player to skip tracks
• Notch can now be show on all screens, in addition to main screen and notch screen
• It's now possible to right-click the notch to hide it or disable music live activity
• Menu bar waveform icon can now be set to single color, in addition to album art colored overlay

Bug Fixes

• Minor UI fixes in gradient mini player and gradient menu bar player
• Fixed an issue when notch player remained opened in some cases if notch hover duration was set to 0
• Fixed mini player window padding and background when music player was is closed
• Fixed slight album art flicker when opening with notch hover duration set to 0
• Fixed a crash in case a local music was played through Apple Music

Other Improvements

• Notch animations are now a bit smoother
• Enhanced the algorithm for detection of album art colors
• Improved podcast handling
• Minor performance improvements

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New Features

• New Gradient Blur mini player
• New Gradient Blur popover type that goes hand in hand with the new mini player
• Notch has more polished animations
• Notch Auto hide feature for non-notch screens is now out of beta
• New settings pages for Mini player and Popover to make the design selection more interactive
• Reintroduced podcast support - when playing podcasts, forward and backward buttons are replaced by buttons to go forward and backward by 15 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with missing notch animation in some edge cases

Performance Improvements

• Tuneful now needs less resources (CPU) when using mini player

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New Features

• Added trackpad haptic feedback on notch hovering and opening
• Song notifications are now scrolling if the text is too wide for the notch
• It's now possible to set notch hover duration to zero to open notch player immediately
• It's now possible to show notch either on main screen or on the screen with notch
• It's now possible to hide menu bar item altogether and have only notch and/or mini player enabled

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where notch would sometimes get stuck in open/close loop if hide option was enabled
• Fixed notch hover behavior for some edge cases

Performance Improvements

• Notch functionality was fully rewritten and optimised to use less resources

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New Features

• New option to auto-hide the notch for non-notch displays so it doesn't overlap menu bar items
• New option to hide album art and equaliser from the notch when music is playing
• New option to set custom song change notification duration
• New Horizontal Slim mini player style, inspired by the 4x1 player from iOS Control Center
• Subtle adjustments to the alignment of album art and equaliser in the notch for non-notch displays
• Shuffle and repeat buttons are now less visible if the shuffle/repeat are not enabled

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where notch hover duration was affecting notification duration by mistake

Performance Improvements

• Tuneful now fetches song information from Spotify and Apple Music more efficiently when the app is launched while music is already playing

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue when physical notch was overlayed over notch player when More Space display scaling was set
• Added Attribution section to the settings with the list of libraries that are used in Tuneful

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New Features

• Notch Player has been completely redesigned to resemble the Dynamic Island music player from iOS
• Notch now displays album art and equalizer icons on its sides to indicate when music is playing
• It's now possible to open the notch by clicking on it or hovering over it for a configurable number of seconds
• Notch Player features a new colorful music slider, with colors dynamically extracted from the album art of the currently playing song
• While music is playing, you can hover over the album art or equalizer icons on the Notch to play/pause the track or skip to the next one
• All interactive elements in the UI now feature smooth animations
• Changing songs triggers a 3D album art flip animation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the bug when notch was initialised even if it was disabled in some cases
• Fixed the bug when Cmd + Comma shortcut was set globally

Performance Improvements

• Optimised unnecessary fetching of song data in some edge cases

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New Features

• New notch integration now allows you to control the music from notch. For non-notch Macs, this is available on hovering over new song notification
• New ability to resize mini player to 3 sizes - regular, small, and large
• New music slider which now looks and feels native
• New popover and mini player background type
• New UI animations so the app feels more fluid
• New vertical mini player type
• New enhanced onboarding experience

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the bug when Spotify was opened in the background even if killed by the user
• Fixed the bug when mini player floating preference was ignored on app restart
• Fixed the bug when Tuneful wasn't fetching Apple Music song favorite info correctly when changing songs
• Fixed the bug when previous song button didn't rewind the song to the beginning if some part already played for Apple Music
• Fixed bug when Cmd + comma shortcut opened blank window; now it opens settings window

Performance Improvements

• Refactored the logic that fetches song information which makes the app feel snappier
• Tuneful uses fewer calls when customising UI in the Tuneful settings and relies more on native SwiftUI