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Spectral 7.5: Taskbar Fixes Bigger seek bar: when you hover the taskbar player, the song's time and the seek bar now take the place of the title and artist, so they're bigger and easier to grab. Narrow players keep the song name: below 240px wide, the seek bar hides and hovering
Spectral 7.4: Taskbar Seek Bar Seek from the taskbar: hover the taskbar player to see the song's time and a seek bar. Click or drag it to jump anywhere in the song. On by default. You'll find both options in Settings under Taskbar.
Spectral 7.3: Taskbar Player New Taskbar player: a now-playing strip built into the Windows taskbar. Hover it for previous, play/pause and next, scroll it to change the app's volume, and click it to open the popout. Choose the side, the monitor (or all monitors) and the width. Po
• Fixed an issue where Spectral could show another video’s thumbnail. • High-resolution artwork is now checked against the browser’s thumbnail before being displayed. • Added caching and limited background retries to reduce repeated lookups.
Optimized Art Sync transitions, with less background rendering and lower-rate duration-bar updates. Fixed OBS card-glow color mismatches and added a dedicated gradient frame-rate control.
Improved spectrum drawing efficiency, reduced sweep and Warp animation overhead, and improved graphics resource cleanup. Added a dedicated gradient frame-rate control under App Settings, defaulting to 30 FPS across preview, popout, and OBS while keeping spectrum FPS independent.
Improved frame pacing to respect your selected FPS limit, fixed incorrect YouTube artwork appearing on local audio files, and improved popout resilience during brief connection delays. Minor interface cleanup included.
Now Playing Fixes - Fixed the wrong cover art appearing for browser sources — a stream or video with a very short title could pull an unrelated thumbnail from a YouTube search. Short titles are no longer guessed at. - Fixed a Twitch tab being treated as YouTube when another brows
Fixes the visualizer going blank in the popout and staying blank, and popout controls staying stuck on screen after reopening.
Performance Spectral now does much less background work when nothing is playing. Leaving it running in the tray overnight is significantly cheaper on your system. Reliability Fixed a case where, if Windows media service stopped responding, Spectral could sit on the last track ind
Fixed With the pop-out locked, dropdowns in the app (Layout and others) could close as soon as they were opened.
Fixed: Auto-Detect could fail to pick up Spotify (and other apps with a packaged/Store install) until another source was played first. The spectrum stayed idle while the track info showed correctly. Fixed: an unrecognized app could be shown on the card as a raw system identifier.
Spectral is out! It reads whatever Windows is already playing, so there's no API key and no Premium account — Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, TIDAL, SoundCloud, local files and more. Drop it into OBS as a browser source, or pop it out as its own always-on-top window. What's in it
- Fixed: after closing and reopening the popout while it was locked, the lock and close buttons stopped responding — the popout could not be unlocked or closed. - Locked popout controls now take focus when clicked. If you run Spectral over a fullscreen game, pressing the popout's