Release v0.2.2

Caution

IMPORTANT: Go into the game's In-Game Audio Settings and TURN OFF the DJ Voice.

🚀 Day one working on bugs and features with the new Audio Core Engine we released over the weekend!

Remember the new shared Audio Core Engine from the last update? This is what it can do. On the very first day of working with it, we went after the known issues that have been around since the start of this mod, and knocked them out. 🎯

⏸️ Music pauses at race start
⏪ Music pauses during rewinds
🎰 Music pauses during wheelspins

No settings, nothing to switch on. It just works out of the box. 🙌

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🛠️ v0.2.2: Bug Fixes

Three long-standing pause issues, tackled in one go:

🏁 Pause on race start

Your Spotify song now pauses during the pre-race countdown and picks back up when the race begins (or when you back out to free roam).

⏪ Rewind pause

When the game mutes the music for a rewind, Spotify pauses too, including cancelled rewinds and View Replay. When the rewind is done, your song carries on from the same spot.

🎰 Wheelspin

The same fix covers wheelspins: the music pauses during the wheelspin and resumes when you claim your prize.

All three aim to keep your song from playing on in the background while the game goes quiet. They're always on.

🎵 NEW: Custom Start Screen Music (LOCAL MUSIC ONLY)

YOU PICK THE INTRO SONG! OR A BUNCH AND THEY WILL SHUFFLE EACH GAME LAUNCH! 🎉

Put your songs in spotify-radio\MUSIC\TITLE SCREEN. They play on the start screen, fade out when you press Start, and never play on the radio.

Settings in spotify-radio\config.ini, under [custom title screen music]:

• custom_start_screen_music: 0 = off, 1 = on (default)
• title_screen_source: 1 = the TITLE SCREEN folder (default), 2 = your whole MUSIC folder, shuffled

No songs in the folder? The game's own start screen music plays as usual.

🧰 Fresh new config.ini

config.ini got a full makeover: settings are now grouped into clear sections (Your Station, Local Music, Skip Song Button, Loudness, Spotify Connection, Custom Title Screen Music, Advanced) with simple notes on what each one does.

⚠️ Known issue: choppy audio

In rare cases the music can turn choppy mid-song. Switching to another station and back should fix it.

⚠️ Known issue: won't connect?

In rare cases the phone's Spotify app stays stuck on "connecting". Force-quit the phone app and connect again.

⚠️ One radio mod at a time

This uses the same D3DCompiler_47.dll as the YouTube Music version, FH2 Streaming Radio YTM, so you can only run one of the two. They use separate folders, and you can copy your MUSIC folder between them.

Install / update

1. Drop D3DCompiler_47.dll and the spotify-radio folder next to Azimuth.exe and replace the old files.
2. Heads-up: replacing config.ini resets any settings you changed by hand. Your MUSIC folder, logo.png and login cache are never touched.
3. Turn DJ Voice OFF in the in-game Audio Settings, then switch to Horizon XS.

Something wrong?

Set log_level = debug under [advanced] in spotify-radio\config.ini, play, then send spotify-radio\spotify-radio.log. Put it back to info afterward.