0.3.3
- "Notch Mode" is back at one click, in the menu bar item next to "Stay on Top".
Oto · Changelog
What's new
Release notes for Oto, the now-playing widget with live synced lyrics for Spotify and Apple Music.
0.3.2
- The menu bar item is now Oto's own vinyl record instead of a generic music note.
0.3.1
- "Stay on Top" is now in the menu bar item, with a check mark showing its current state — no need to open Settings to flip it.
0.3.0
- Settings is now a proper window instead of a nest of context-menu items — every preference in one place, in five sections.
- A menu bar item: what's playing, play, pause and skip, and a way into every window Oto has. It's always there, so the app can no longer end up with nothing you can click.
- Oto now tells you when it can't read your player. Instead of "Nothing playing" forever, it names the player and offers a button straight to the right settings pane.
- Controls that can't reach your player now look like it — dimmed and unresponsive, rather than pretending to work.
- A song whose lyrics failed to load is retried, so a moment of bad network no longer costs you the whole track.
- The mute button follows your player's real volume, including changes you make in Spotify or Music. It can no longer jump the volume to a level you never chose.
- Full-screen lyrics and the notch bar now follow display changes — plug in a monitor and they resize instead of staying wrong.
- Making a lyric card while the song changes no longer mixes one song's words with another's artwork.
- Every control now has a name for VoiceOver, and lyric lines announce as the buttons they are.
- Reduce Motion is respected everywhere; two hover animations used to ignore it.
- A translated line that failed can be translated again, instead of staying blank for the rest of the song.
- Plus a stale track that is now dropped rather than left on screen, a lyrics cache that clears out expired entries, and a good number of smaller corrections.
0.2.3
- Float on track change: when the widget lives behind other windows, it now pops to the front for a moment whenever a new song starts, then tucks itself back — with a configurable float duration.
- Float above full-screen apps, so the widget can appear over full-screen windows.
- Hide the widget when nothing is playing, with an optional reveal while you hover where it lives.
- Pin the music source to Spotify or Apple Music instead of automatic switching.
- Choose what double-clicking the artwork does: full-screen lyrics or show the music app.
- Optional Dock icon, with the current album art as the icon.
0.2.2
- Automatic updates: Oto now checks for signed updates and installs them in place.
0.2.1
- More reliable track following — fixed races and dropped player notifications that could leave lyrics on the previous song.
0.2.0
- Redesigned onboarding with a shared design language across app and site.
- Notch Mode: a lyric bar that extends the notch, with expanded playback controls.
- New "Lacquer" vinyl app icon.
- Signed, notarized release builds.
0.1.0
- First release: a tiny desktop widget with live synced lyrics.
- Follows Spotify and Apple Music, whichever is playing.
- Full-screen lyrics mode (⌘L), lyric share cards, romanization and translation.
- Stay on Top and desktop-level window modes.