Rota 2.3.0 — always alive

👻 Ghost mode — with Music closed the widget keeps showing the last album cover; hover reveals a one-click Resume that reopens Music and picks up the same song.

▶️ Reliable start-from-widget — play with Music closed or an empty queue now launches Music and keeps nudging until playback actually starts (targeted by track ID, library fallback).

🍺 Install via Homebrew: brew install --cask aalemoro/tap/rota --no-quarantine

🌐 Website: https://aalemoro.github.io/Rota/

macOS 14+.

Rota 2.2.0 — behaves like an official widget

📐 Three fixed sizes (right-click → Widget Size) matching macOS widget footprints, with adaptive layouts.

🧲 Drag-and-snap into the native desktop-widget grid.

🖼 Artwork always resolves — iTunes Search fallback for streaming tracks with no local cover.

🚫 No close dot, no menu bar icon: chrome-free like the system widgets. Reopen Rota from Spotlight to bring it back.

Requires macOS 14+.

Rota 2.1.0 — gallery widget & hover-only design

🧩 Real WidgetKit widget: add Rota → Now Playing from right-click on the desktop → Edit Widgets (3 sizes, working buttons).

🖼 Hover-only chrome: at rest the desktop widget is pure album art; controls fade in on hover.

🧊 Locked position (⌘-drag to move), drawn above system widgets, pixel-exact placement via rota://move.

🔁 Launches at login automatically. Requires macOS 14+.

Rota 2.0.0 — desktop widget rewrite

🎡 Complete rewrite.

• Floating desktop widget for Apple Music: cover-first design, draggable seek bar, shuffle/repeat, volume, favourite
• 🎤 Synced lyrics mode (LRCLIB) with karaoke highlighting and click-to-seek
• Reliable Apple Events bridge — no MusicKit, no sign-in, zero dependencies
• rota:// URL scheme for scripting
• One-command install, or download the zip below: unzip, drag to Applications, right-click → Open

See CHANGELOG.md for details.