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@LoZazaMastro LoZazaMastro released this 16 Jul 01:30
2.0.0
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This is the biggest update ever done for Now Playing.

It turns Now Playing into a complete music experience for Windows, with built-in local playback, integrated Spotify (totally indipendent from the Spotify Windows App), richer artwork, smoother controls, and a new Big Picture interface designed for the sofa.

What’s new

  • Your Music is a complete local music player inside Steam. Add your folders, browse artists and albums, search your library, access the queue, and play your own files without keeping another music app open.
  • Spotify is now built into Now Playing with Home, Search, Library, artist, album, and playlist pages made for TV and controller use. Playback can use the private Now Playing Spotify Connect device on your PC.
  • SpotifyScraper support handles compatible public catalogue requests before the official Spotify Web API (that is used as a fallback), helping reduce API usage without adding faster polling.
  • New fullscreen music experiences combine album artwork, animated glow, track information, playback controls, time, and optional Weather data from the Weather plugin!
  • Artist backgrounds can be discovered and chosen through fanart.tv (API required) and TheAudioDB, previewed safely, cached locally, and selected for both Spotify and Your Music.
  • A new Restart plugin services recovery flow and expanded diagnostic report make it easier to recover media detection without restarting Windows.

Fixes

  • Album artwork, glow, title, artist, and album information no longer flash or disappear during play, pause, shuffle, repeat, volume, or track changes.

Install or update

You can install or update Now Playing from the Playhub Plugin Store in the Playhub app.
You can also download Now-Playing-decky_Installer-2.0.0.zip below and install it through Decky Loader developer mode.

Existing settings, Spotify authorization, music folders, caches, selected backgrounds, and saved volume levels from now one will be preserved.

Now Playing 2.0.0 is a Windows-only plugin.
Spotify browsing and playback require Spotify Premium and a personal Spotify developer Client ID (all the step-by-step instructions are visible in the plugin settings page). Your Music, Tidal, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon Music and SoundCloud obviously remains available and perfectly usable without a Spotify account and API.

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