v0.2.9

What's New in v0.2.9

🎤 Lyrics Plugin Enhancements

• Auto Size: auto-adjusts font to fill available row height – larger for short lyrics, smaller for long wrapped text (6px–15px range)
• Line Height: configurable line spacing multiplier (0.8–2.5, default 1.35)
• Font Size lock: when Auto Size is on, Font Size setting is disabled in settings
• Settings reordered: Auto Size → Font Size → Line Height → Alignment → Text Color → Sync Color → Offset
• Smart font scaling: uses FormattedText binary search for optimal fit without oscillation

🐛 Fixes

• Right-aligned plugins no longer get extra horizontal shift from Padding setting
• Center-aligned plugins receive a slight left nudge (−2px) for better visual centering
• Auto-size now triggers after layout pass (Loaded priority) so ActualWidth/ActualHeight are valid

v0.2.8 - Lyrics Plugin

What's New

Lyrics Plugin

• Real-time synced lyrics display from LRCLIB API (free, no auth)
• Optional Spicetify WebSocket for sub-second position accuracy on Spotify
• Text wrapping with configurable alignment (left/center/right)
• Auto-switches between Spicetify and SMTC when changing audio sources
• Caches lyrics per track (max 20)
• Settings: Font Size, Text Color, Synced Line Color, Offset (ms), Text Alignment

Spicetify WebSocket Setup

• Install spicetify-websocket-client extension
• Lyrics plugin hosts WebSocket server on port 9090
• See README.md for full setup instructions

Bug Fixes

• Fix text wrapping not working in vertical StackPanel
• Fix lyrics persisting when switching audio sources
• Fix text being clipped before line wrap

v0.2.7

v0.2.7 � Adaptive Background fix

Fixed

• Adaptive Background now persists on pause � background no longer reverts to solid color when media is paused. Caches the last extracted album art color so play/pause transitions are seamless.
• Settings window preview now correctly shows adaptive color when Adaptive Theme is checked on first load (was loading before checkbox state was applied).
• BgColorCombo + R/G/B sliders are now disabled (greyed out) when Adaptive Theme is checked.

Changed

• Adaptive background logic now checks cached color first, then falls back to current media album art, then to solid color config.

v0.2.6

v0.2.6

Fixed

• Start with Windows now works correctly � switched from registry HKCU\Run to Task Scheduler (schtasks /sc onlogon /rl highest) to support admin elevation
• Corner Radius properly applies to album art avatar and taskbar widget even without Acrylic/Mica backdrop
• Album Art Corner Radius slider now works as expected

Removed

• Mica / Acrylic background effects (incompatible with AllowsTransparency=True)
• Game Mode (auto-hide on fullscreen) � detector was running but handler was empty
• Check for Updates checkbox � setting was stored but no actual update logic existed

v0.2.5

What's New

Animated Gradient

• Smooth color cycling across all themes with 3 direction modes: MoveLeft, MoveRight, Wave
• Adjustable speed (0.1–5.0)
• Wave mode uses sin reflection for butter-smooth transitions (no hard color jump)
• Works with Custom theme when 2+ gradient colors configured

Multi-Color Custom Theme

• Up to 10 custom gradient colors with individual R/G/B sliders
• Dynamic rows generated in code-behind (Add/Remove buttons)
• Seamless gradient interpolation across all custom colors

MediaPlayer Plugin

• Play/pause/next/previous media control buttons
• Playing/idle/hover color customization
• Icon size & spacing configuration
• Auto-hide when idle

UX Improvements

• ComboBox dropdown now properly closes on window scroll, but allows scrolling inside the popup
• MaxDropDownHeight=160 on all ComboBoxes (shows ~8 items with scrollbar for more)
• Use Album Art Color now properly clears custom gradient colors to avoid overriding album art
• Album Art Color and Animated Gradient are mutually exclusive (checking one disables the other)
• All changes apply immediately — no Save button needed

Full Changelog

v0.2.4...v0.2.5

v0.2.4

What's Changed

• Crash fix: Removed WH_MOUSE_LL hook — no more right-click crash
• Admin requirement: App now runs as Administrator via app.manifest
• Right-click menu: Re-added widget context menu (Settings, Restart, Exit)
• Uninstall: Removed auto-launch on uninstall; must close app manually
• Build fixes: Removed dotnet-run option from installer, cleaned up dead code

v0.2.3

v0.2.3 (2026-05-27)

• Power Button: Shutdown button (⏻) in Settings title bar with red accent color, centered vertically
• Settings UX Polish: Title bar buttons aligned and styled consistently
• Widget Right-Click: Removed custom popup menu, right-click passes through to system

v0.2.2

v0.2.2 (2026-05-25)

🖱 Widget Click/Hover Events

• Single/double/right-click actions (open URL, run program, open settings)
• Hover events with tooltip support for widget and plugins
• Plugin widgets support \OnMouseClick, \OnMouseDoubleClick, \OnMouseHover\ callbacks
• Plugin tooltips via \SetTooltip()\

🎨 Album Art Settings

• Configurable size (16–48px), corner radius (0–24), and opacity (0.1–1.0)
• Independent Show Album Art toggle

🎚 Visualizer Height

• Adjustable height slider (10–48px) in Visualizer tab
• Window auto-sizes to content

📻 Separate Media Controls

• Show Song Title and Show Album Art are now independent toggles
• Media info card renamed to TITLE

🏃 Marquee Scrolling

• Long song titles scroll left-right with 1.5s pause at each end
• Auto-enables when text overflows

🔌 Plugin Improvements

• Better lifecycle management, async initialization
• Nullable reference type cleanup
• Simplified IPlugin interface

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Visualizer mode switching now correctly applies the selected mode
• Adaptive theme timing improved
• Audio freeze workaround

AetherBar v0.2.1

What's New

• Plugin System: Added plugin architecture with System Monitor (CPU/RAM) and Custom Text demo plugins
• Plugin Settings UI: New Plugins tab in settings for per-plugin alignment, padding, ordering
• Restart Option: Added Restart button to tray icon context menu
• Audio Stability: Fixed visualizer freeze when new audio streams appear — auto-recovery watchdog + exception handling
• Removed Wave & Ripple modes: Simplified to 6 visualizer modes (Bar, Line, Dot, Circle, Mirror, Blocks)

AetherBar v0.2

Highlights

• Added plugin system UI support with runtime enable/disable, ordering, alignment, width, and custom settings.
• Added Custom Text plugin with text, font size, vertical offset, and text color settings.
• Added System Monitor sample plugin with CPU/RAM display and separate CPU/RAM colors.
• Added shared plugin project targets and plugin development documentation.
• Improved plugin widget text layout to avoid clipping at larger font sizes.

Assets

• AetherBar-Setup-0.2.0.exe: Windows installer.
• AetherBar-Release-win-x64.zip: self-contained win-x64 portable package.