v1.1.0 Integrate with ANNA

New

• FH2 ANNA menu. With FH2 ANNA installed, its menu (D-pad down) now has Xbox Music Radio:
  • Next Track and Previous Track. ANNA stays open, so you can skip several songs in a row.
  • Playlist: pick what the radio plays, from the same list as Audio Options (Horizon 2 Mix, Spotify, YouTube Music, NetEase Cloud Music, QQ Music and your music folders).
  • It's greyed out unless the radio is on Xbox Music.
• Previous Track works for your music files, Spotify, and the music apps.
• Refresh Music. The useless Launch Xbox Music (X) button in Audio Options now:
  • scans your music folder again
  • reloads the playlist list, so apps you opened after the game show up
  • if Spotify is chosen, moves Spotify playback to FH2 Radio
• The mod's text follows the game's language: the Mods page rows, the X button, "All music" and the ANNA menu. It covers English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Russian, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese, and every character was checked against the game's fonts, so there are no boxes. The Mods page switches to your language from the second start, once the mod has seen which language the game uses.

Fixed

• Xbox Music greyed out in Audio Options, and Spotify not picked up, after starting the game. The game sometimes read its Xbox Music settings before the mod was ready. The mod now catches up on whatever it missed.

Settings

• New prev_key under [netease] and [qqmusic] (default Ctrl+Alt+Left): the app's "previous song" shortcut, for when the app doesn't respond to Windows' media controls. It's added to your existing XboxMusicRadio.ini automatically.

Upgrading

Replace XboxMusicRadio.dll in fh2-mods. Your settings are kept.

v1.0.2 Hotfix

Fixes

• The Xbox Music row in Settings → Audio is no longer greyed out on saves early in the campaign. The game only enables that row after the campaign unlocks Xbox Music, so on a newer save you couldn't choose a playlist, even though the station played. The row now works on any save.
• No more repeated errors filling the log when your music folder is empty.

Install / update

1. Download XboxMusicRadio.dll below.
2. Put it in the fh2-mods folder (not mods; that folder belongs to Extra Options) and replace the old file.
3. Restart the game.

v1.0.1

New: Spotify switches to FH2 Radio by itself

You no longer need to pick FH2 Radio in the Spotify app every time you play. When you switch the in-game radio to the Spotify station, the mod moves Spotify playback to FH2 Radio and starts it.

• First time only: you still pick FH2 Radio once in the Spotify app (phone or PC) so Soloist can sign in. It stays signed in after that.
• It switches once each time you tune in. If you move playback back to your phone while driving, it stays there until you leave the station and come back.
• To turn it off, set auto_activate=0 under [spotify] in XboxMusicRadio.ini. Your existing ini gets the new setting the next time you start the game.

Upgrading

Replace fh2-mods\XboxMusicRadio.dll with the one in this zip. Your settings, soloist.exe and Soloist login are kept.

v1.0.0

XboxMusicRadio v1.0.0

The first release. Forza Horizon 2 on PC never had the radio's Xbox Music station; this mod turns it on and plays your music on it, chosen in Audio Options just as you'd have chosen an Xbox Music playlist on Xbox One.

What it plays

• Your music files: the MP3, FLAC and WAV files in your Windows Music folder. Each folder in it is a playlist; All music (or the game's own Horizon 2 Mix) plays everything. Titles and artists come from the files' tags.
• Spotify (Premium), through Spotify Soloist, Spotify's own headless Spotify Connect player. Pick the device FH2 Radio in the Spotify app.
• YouTube Music, in a browser or installed from the browser as an app.
• NetEase Cloud Music and QQ Music desktop apps.

Features

• The song and artist on the radio display.
• F6 skips to the next song; change the key, or add a controller chord, on the Mods page.
• Spotify and the music apps pause while you're on another station and carry on when you come back.
• While the radio plays Spotify or a music app, the app's own sound is turned down, so you only hear it on the radio. It's put back when you pick something else or close the game.
• Played through the game's radio, like any station, including at festivals and car meets.
• New music shows up the next time you open Audio Options; no restart needed.

Install

1. Extract XboxMusicRadio-v1.0.0.zip into your Azimuth folder (next to azimuth.exe).
2. Make sure XboxMusicRadio.dll ends up in fh2-mods, not in Extra Options' mods folder.
3. Start the game, get in a car and switch the radio to Xbox Music. To choose what it plays: Pause > Settings > Audio Options.

Spotify needs a few extra steps (a free Soloist API key and downloading soloist.exe from Spotify): see the README.

Requirements

• Azimuth 1.0.1 or later.
• Windows 10 version 2004 or later, for Spotify and the music apps.
• Spotify Premium, for Spotify.

Known limitations

• The radio display only shows plain letters: Chinese, Japanese and other scripts don't show there (the log has the full names).
• YouTube Music records the whole browser, so other tabs that make sound are on the radio too. Use a browser just for it, or set app= in the ini.
• NetEase Cloud Music is controlled through its global shortcuts, so keep them on in its settings.
• Soloist builds expire after 90 days; the log tells you when to download a new one.

Thanks

The station itself is ported from FH2_SpotifyMin, which builds on Bullet4fun's spotify-radio mod. GPL-3.0-or-later.

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中文说明见 README.zh-CN.md（zip 里也有 README.zh-CN.txt）。