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Aetheris 1.3.0
Aetheris v1.3.0
Aetheris v1.3.0 is a major update focused on song-request reliability, playback tracking, YouTube Music Desktop integration, OBS presentation, customization, diagnostics, and Windows usability.
🔐 Release Verification
The final Windows installer and installed Aetheris executable were both submitted to VirusTotal as part of the v1.3.0 release verification process.
Installer
File: Aetheris-Setup-1.3.0.exe
SHA-256:
7F949AFB4E8E5E3D43911EBEB2C12D537ABBE580DAC2A65A9A9846CC712A16A8
Installed Application
File: Aetheris.exe
SHA-256:
C344CB8DE7662AA6D6B8975B1783F077C6B4794ABBD1D730DFD85E2E514435FB
View Installed Application on VirusTotal
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What's New
🎵 Song Requests & Playback
- Expanded automatic request handling and safer request fallbacks.
- Improved Up Next behavior, queue persistence, and playback tracking.
- Added requested-song logging for easier troubleshooting and review.
- Improved playback source handling and overall playback reliability.
🎶 YouTube Music Desktop
- Improved Companion Server realtime connection handling.
- Better offline and reconnect behavior.
- Improved playlist rejoining and shuffle behavior.
- More reliable startup and playback-state tracking between Aetheris and YTMD.
- Improved handling when YTMD or its Companion Server is unavailable.
💬 Twitch
- Aetheris can remain connected while the Twitch channel is offline.
- Bot replies and announcements are suppressed while offline by default.
- Added an optional testing mode to allow bot messages while offline.
- Improved Twitch live-status detection and logging.
- Improved startup reliability so Twitch issues don't prevent other Aetheris services from starting.
📺 OBS Overlay
- Improved packaged-build overlay resource handling.
- Improved OBS preview matching and sizing.
- Improved true 1:1 overlay presentation.
- Improved scrolling behavior for long song titles.
- Better handling of short titles without unnecessary scrolling.
- Improved packaged-resource handling for the external OBS overlay.
🎨 Customization
- Added a redesigned Aetheris color picker.
- Added saturation/value selection and hue adjustment.
- Added exact editable HEX color values.
- Added a vertical brightness control directly inside the color picker.
- Added a new default theme for fresh installations.
- Improved theme-aware update indicators.
🖥️ Interface & Setup
- Redesigned the Commands section.
- Streamlined YouTube setup and tutorial flow.
- Improved the compact Now Playing area.
- Improved statistics and readiness information.
- Cleaned up Twitch OAuth and related settings behavior.
- Added support/feedback information to What's New.
🔽 Windows System Tray
- Closing the Aetheris window now sends it to the Windows system tray instead of immediately shutting down.
- Clicking the tray icon restores Aetheris.
- Added Open Aetheris and Exit Aetheris tray options.
- Exit Aetheris fully closes the application and stops background request handling.
- Added packaged-build tray icon handling.
- Tray initialization can no longer prevent the main Aetheris window from opening if the tray encounters a problem.
🛠️ Reliability, Diagnostics & Developer Tools
- Expanded runtime diagnostics and error logging.
- Improved packaged-resource handling.
- Improved Developer Mode and local update support.
- Improved startup error isolation.
- Added additional safeguards around renderer and integration startup.
- Fixed a packaged-build issue that could cause Aetheris to open to a blank window because the main UI resource wasn't available at the expected runtime path.