AoE4 Spotify 1.1.0

AoE4 Spotify 1.1.0

A full rewrite in Rust. Same look, same settings, much lighter and faster.

What's new

• Faster and smaller. The panel opens in about 50 ms. The installer is under 8 MB.
• Almost nothing runs in the background. Only the copy that Steam starts with the game does any work, and it closes when the game closes. The settings panel does nothing while it's idle.
• Finish song first (cog menu). When a change is due and the current song has 60 s or less left, it plays out before the switch. Otherwise the change happens right away.
• Music in replays (cog menu). Choose whether replays get music or leave Spotify alone.
• Age intros fixed in matches. The age's intro plays first, then the age playlist. Pausing holds the playlist, skipping moves on, and your repeat setting is put back afterwards.
• Smoother fades. Fades use Spotify's Windows app volume (local, 60 fps). If a fade is interrupted, the volume is restored the next time the app starts.
• Fixed a panel redraw glitch after minimize/restore.

1.0.9 vs 1.1

	1.0.9	1.1.0
Panel startup	~300 ms	~47 ms
Idle RAM (panel)	74 MB	40 MB
Background RAM while gaming	–	14 MB
Idle CPU	0.26 %	0.01 %
Installer	26.4 MB	7.7 MB

Upgrading

1.0.9 updates itself automatically. You can also run the installer over your current install. Your settings, playlists, intros, Spotify login and Steam launch option are kept.

Windows may show a SmartScreen warning, as before. Click "More info" → "Run anyway".

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.9

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.9

• Age Intros now opens inside the main window; switching back and forth is smooth, with no flicker, and the title bar stays put.
• Octopath Traveler intro pack with its own emblem: click it to fold the portraits away or bring them back.
• Presets save automatically.
• Music in replays.
• Playing song: the glow no longer covers neighbouring portraits, and the play icon is always visible.
• Cleaner main panel layout.
• Updating: the installer closes the panel and reopens it afterwards, and won't update while the game is running.

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.8

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.8

• Internal cleanup so the app can support other games later.
• Music now always starts at match start, even if Spotify was paused.

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.7

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.7

• The access screen now says you'll get access in about a minute.

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.6

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.6

• Access requests now go through capstar.app.
• No secret key in the app anymore.

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.5

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.5

• Small security hardening.

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.4

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.4

• When AoE4 restarts, the app now fully forgets the previous session's match, so music and updates behave correctly in the menus.

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.3

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.3

• Fixes the app reading the previous game session's log when AoE4 starts (it no longer reacts to old matches).

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.2

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.2

• Updates itself automatically while you're in the game menus (never during a match).
• Reconnects to a game that is already running when the app is opened or updated.
• Wakes an idle Spotify app so music starts without playing a song first.
• Fixes for login, deleted playlists, shuffle start, quick game restarts and uninstall leftovers.

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.1

AoE4 Spotify 1.0.1 - fixes a login failure when Log in was pressed more than once.

• Only one login runs at a time; old login tabs are ignored.
• Clearer login error messages.
• Login codes are no longer written to the log.