This is a big release that adds a lot of new features, such as notch integration, new mini player, sleeker UI and contains a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements.
- 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
- 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
- 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
Mini player improvement and various bug fixes
- Fixed issue when Tuneful was crashing on launch if Spotify is not installed
- Fixed notch notification appearance for Light Mode
- Fixed accent color in settings window
- Mini player now remembers its position after relaunching Tuneful, huge thanks to @itssali
- Minor player manager optimisation
Song change notifications, UI improvements and others
- New feature to display notification when song changes. For Macbooks with notch, this is displayed as beautiful notch animation; for non-notch Macs, its shown as a small floating window
- Redesigned settings with sleaker UI
- Fixed coloring of playback buttons in light mode
- Fixed menu bar playback buttons
- Updated icon with better resolution on retina and non-retina displays
Small fixes
- Fixed issue when opening Apple Music via menu bar click
- Fixed menu bar icon behvaiour when set to Hidden setting
Better podcast handling, more native UI and more
- When podcast is playing, 15-sec rewind buttons are displayed instead of forwads/backwards buttons
- Updated playback buttons to use more native icons
- Playback buttons now animate on mouse hover
- Improved hadnling of menu bar information for podcasts
- New keyboard shortcut to show/hide popover
- Lowered minimum menu bar item width from 100px to 75px
- Code is a bit more optimised to make less background calls to Spotify/Apple Music
- Background code maintenance and cleanup
Bug fixes and minor improvements
- Fixed a bug where menu bar info wasn't currently updated when music player was killed
- Fixed a bug where equaliser animation preference wasn't correctly udpated on the settings window
- Made a small improvement to equaliser animation
- Settings window spacing is a bit improved
Colored menu bar equaliser
- Menu bar equaliser animation is now colored based on album art
Various smaller features and bug fixes
- New option to show animated equaliser in menubar (instead of albumart/app icon) when music is playing
- New ability to add keyboard shortcut to show/hide menu bar item
- New option to disable popover window altogether - when enabled, music player will be opened insted of the popover window
- Fixed bug with scrolling Open Apple Music text when Apple Music is quit
- Smaller under the hood improvements
Fixed blank window on launch
- Fixed opening a blank window when starting Tuneful
Option to disable scrolling menu bar text
- Added new option to disable scrolling menu bar text as it may be distracting
- Fixed bug when the text was scrolling even if the width of menu bar item was large enough
New popover style option, menu bar customization and more
- New minimalist popover option - you can now customize the look of the popover by selecting from 2 styles
- New option to hide menu bar item when the music is not playing
- New option to hide the icon/album art in the menu bar item and only display currently playing song info
- Slight improvement to the look of a full-sized mini player, making the controls a bit wider
- Slight improvement to the look of menu bar items
- Fixed behaviour when closing the popover by clicking on the menu bar item, which would close and re-open the popover before - thanks to @robbiewxyz for fixing this!
Playback controls in menu bar
- New feature to control playback by new menu bar control buttons
- Ability to set behaviour of mini player window to act as a normal window
- Menu bar item width now resizes when the song information is smaller than max width set in settings to avoid empty bezels on the sides
Scrolling menu bar text
- Menu bar text is now scrolling if it does not fit the max width
- New option to hide menu bar text when nothing is currently playing
- New keyboard shortcut to quickly switch between Spotify and Apple Music
- Ability to switch between Spotify and Apple Music from new menu bar submenu
- Minor settings improvements
- Minor mini player improvements
- Fixed an issue when incremental volume increase would break the UI on max volume
- Fixed an issue when progress bar would not update until the mini player window is displayed for the first time
New mini player options and volume adjustments
- New feature to customize the look of mini player - you can now choose from 2 styles
- You can now hide mini player window by right-clicking and choosing Hide window option
- Mini player is now easier to move around
- Volume slider now adjusts Apple Music/Spotify instead of a system volume
More customization and Apple Music favorites fix
- You can now choose if you want to have a transparent background or blurred artwork of current song as a background, both in menu bar popover and mini player window
- Fixed a bug where songs were not being added to Apple Music favorites after clicking heart button
- Changed Add to Favorites icon from heart to star to make it consistent with Apple Music
Keyboard shortcuts
- New feature to setup global keyboard shortcuts to control music and toggle mini player window
- Fixed a bug where opening settings would crash the app for some users
- Fixed a bug where the app did not open for some users
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
Song information in menu bar
- New feature to display song information directly in menu bar
- New settings window with ability to customize information displayed in menu bar
- Fixed a bug where progress bar and play time were not sometimes updated
- Popover UI tweaks
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements