v2.5.0

Astraeus 2.5.0

New

• A Widgets page. More than 80 widgets in a searchable gallery: clocks, weather, timers, notes, system rings, stocks, and accounts you connect with your own keys. Make each one small, wide or large, and drag them where you want them.
• A display dashboard. Give a whole screen to a grid of tiles you arrange yourself, with its own layout for each monitor.
• Accessibility. High contrast, a text size that can follow Windows, full keyboard navigation, and support for Narrator, NVDA and JAWS. Find it under Settings → Advanced.
• Pick your lyrics. If a song's lyrics are wrong, move the mouse in the fullscreen player and use the small icon in the top right corner to choose another version, or none. Your choice is remembered for that song.
• Other media playing. Right-click the album cover on the Media page to see everything else that's playing and switch to it.
• The album cover thumps with the beat in the fullscreen player. Turn it off in the Visualizer card under Settings → Advanced.
• More visualizer options. A waveform across the player, and Any volume, which keeps the visualizer moving when Windows plays quietly.
• More ways to show the panel. A narrow column layout, a panel that stays pinned open, and a floating card clear of the screen edge.
• Report a problem. Settings → Advanced copies a short report to your clipboard, with your name taken out. Nothing is sent: you read it, then paste it where you choose.

Better

• Lyrics line up more often. Astraeus now compares the copies it finds from each source and passes over one that disagrees with the others, so a copy with missing lines no longer wins.
• Starts sooner at sign-in. Astraeus no longer waits in line behind Windows' other startup apps.

Privacy

Widgets only connect to the service they show, only while the panel is open and the widget is on your Widgets page. Keys you enter are encrypted with Windows, and Export leaves them out. The full list is in the Privacy section.

Note

The executable is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may show an "unknown publisher" warning the first time. Click More info → Run anyway.