Sonear 0.4.0

A new mini player

The mini player has a cleaner layout, and a lot more it can do.

• Lyrics: the microphone button switches it to a taller card with synced lyrics. The current line stays in view, and clicking a line jumps there.
• Volume: a volume slider sits next to the controls.
• Resize it: drag any edge or corner. Each mode remembers its own size.
• See through it: Settings > Playback > Mini player opacity fades the whole window, down to 40%.
• Stays out of the way: clicking or dragging it no longer takes the focus, so a game in borderless or windowed full screen stays in front and the taskbar stays hidden.

Click the song title to open it in Spotify.

Logs

Sonear now keeps logs on your computer, so problems are easier to report.

• Find them in Settings > Storage > Logs. They're kept for 7 days and never sent anywhere.
• If Sonear crashes, the next launch tells you and offers to open the logs.
• Detailed logs adds more detail when you're tracking down a problem.

Delete all Sonear data also deletes the logs. The privacy policy lists them.

Fixed

• The history setting now says "1 month", "1 year" and so on, instead of bare numbers.
• Two settings saved at the same moment could fail with "The system cannot find the file specified". Saves now happen one at a time.

Installed copies update on their own: look for Restart to update in the sidebar.

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

Sonear 0.3.0

Radio

Start Spotify's radio from any song or artist, and it keeps going with music like it.

• From a song: right-click it and pick Start radio. The song you picked plays first, and if the radio brings it up again later, Sonear skips it.
• From an artist: press Radio next to Play on their page.
• From what's playing: Start radio from this song is in Ctrl+K. Give it a key in Settings > Keyboard if you use it a lot.

The queue shows which radio is playing. Spotify doesn't shuffle radios, so shuffle is off while one plays.

Right-click a song

Every song list has a menu now: Start radio, Add to queue, Go to artist, Go to album and Open in Spotify.

Minimize to the tray

Settings > Playback > Minimize to the tray hides the window in the tray when you minimize it, instead of leaving it on the taskbar. It's off by default and separate from the X button's setting, so you can send either one, both or neither to the tray.

Fixed

• With shuffle on, clicking a song in search results, an artist's popular songs or a Home row played a random song from the list instead. It now plays the one you clicked.

Installed copies update on their own: look for Restart to update in the sidebar.

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.3.0

Sonear 0.2.2

Pick where Sonear plays

Settings > Playback > Output device lists every connected speaker and headset, plus Windows default. Pick one and Sonear moves there right away, picking the song up where it was.

• Unplugged? If the device you're listening on disconnects, Sonear pauses instead of carrying on somewhere you can't hear it.
• Plugged in? When a new device connects while music is playing, a small popup in the corner asks whether to switch to it. Ignore it and nothing changes.

Sonear in the volume mixer

The Windows volume mixer now lists Sonear by name, with its icon, instead of "Soloist".

Installed copies update on their own: look for Restart to update in the sidebar.

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

Sonear 0.2.1

Lighter in the tray

When you close Sonear to the tray, it now lets go of the cover art it was holding, so memory drops back down. Covers come back from the disk cache as soon as you open the window again.

Sonear has a website

sonear.hypox.studio has the setup guide, the changelog and the legal documents, in English and Spanish. The app points there now:

• Website in Settings > About.
• Open on the website in the end-user agreement and privacy policy.
• Need help? Read the setup guide on the Spotify and Soloist key steps.
• What's new opens the changelog on the site.

Updated privacy policy

The privacy policy now covers the website. The app handles your data the same way as before. You'll be asked to accept it once after updating.

Installed copies update on their own: look for Restart to update in the sidebar.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

Sonear 0.2.0

Sonear now speaks Spanish

Sonear is available in English and Spanish. Setup asks first, with your Windows language already picked, and you can switch any time in Settings. The installer, tray, error messages and the end-user agreement and privacy policy are translated too.

A proper first run

• Setup has its own window with a step list, instead of sitting inside an empty app.
• Waiting for Spotify's approval gets its own screen, with a button to open the browser again.
• When your Spotify session expires, logging in again is one click.
• Press Enter to submit the Client ID or the Soloist key.

Login

• The page your browser lands on after approving is now a real page, in your language.
• Sonear comes back to the front once you approve, so you don't have to find it again.

Installed copies update on their own: look for Restart to update in the sidebar.

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.2.0

Sonear 0.1.1

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

Sonear 0.1.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/HypoxStudios/sonear/commits/v0.1.0