AlirezaKJ/BetterSoundCloud v0.9.0

BetterSoundCloud 0.9.0

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What's Changed

• Keyboard shortcuts you choose (#127):
  play or pause, next track, previous track, and volume up, down and mute, with keys you set in
  Settings → Shortcuts, and each one can work while another app is in front. They reach SoundCloud
  the way your keyboard's media keys do. The window's own keys can be changed too, and there are new
  ones: reload, back, forward and zoom.

• The tray menu plays, pauses and skips.

• A new icon of our own: an orange record sleeve with the record drawn out of it, in place of
  SoundCloud's cloud. Each size is drawn for the size it's shown at, so the taskbar and tray icons
  are sharp at every display scale, and the record shows on a dark taskbar too.

• A welcome on first launch: one question at a time, with pictures, about blocking ads, light
  or dark, a theme, Discord and Last.fm, where SoundCloud opens, closing to the tray and updates,
  then signing in. Enter keeps the answer shown, and Skip setup is always there. Settings →
  About shows it again.

• Settings is a page now, not a small box: it fills the window under the top bar, with the
  sections down the side, and every setting says what it does in a sentence or two. Search
  at the top of the sidebar (Ctrl+F) finds any setting, theme or plugin and takes you to it.
  Ctrl+, opens and closes it from anywhere.

• Themes are pictures: each one in Settings → Themes shows the whole app wearing it, and
  once you've tried a theme, the picture is your own window in it. Light or dark, and the Background,
  are picture tiles too, and the layout settings show a small drawing of what they change.

• Switches for every on/off setting. A setting you've changed is marked, with Reset to put
  it back, and one that waits for a restart or a reload offers to do it now.

• About (in Settings): the version and its updates, what's new in it, and where to report a
  problem. Discord shows the card your friends see, with what's playing now.

• Import browser sign-in (Settings → Advanced): signed in to SoundCloud with Google in your
  browser? Export soundcloud.com's cookies with Cookie-Editor and choose the file; the app takes
  the sign-in from it and nothing else. By @Jeter361 in #126.

• Glass (Settings → Themes, Windows 11): SoundCloud and the bars around it sit on a live,
  blurred view of whatever is behind the window, and stay that way when another window is in
  front. The glass is dark, so SoundCloud shows in its dark colours while it is on, with any
  theme. If it can't show, in safe mode or with hardware acceleration off, Settings says why.
  By @Jeter361 in #126.

• Hide the top bar until you point at it (Settings → Appearance): SoundCloud's header and the
  window buttons slide away, and come back when the pointer touches the top edge of the window.
  The header stays while you type in its search box. By @Jeter361 in #126.

• Themes now reach SoundCloud's newer pages too, such as a track's page when signed in, which
  SoundCloud draws in a frame of its own. By @Jeter361 in #126.

• An equaliser, like Spotify's: six bands from 60 Hz to 15 kHz, presets, and a curve you drag
  or move with the keyboard. It shapes everything SoundCloud plays, protected tracks included,
  without touching SoundCloud's page. It is a built-in plugin, off until you turn it on in
  Settings → Plugins, and turning it off puts SoundCloud's own sound straight back
  (#101).

• Pitch: move everything SoundCloud plays up or down by up to an octave, a semitone at a time,
  at the same speed. Another built-in plugin, off until you turn it on, and it works alongside the
  equaliser: the key moves first, so a bass boost stays on the bass
  (#124). Playback speed is not
  possible: SoundCloud's player can't be reached from outside its page.

• A visualizer: what SoundCloud plays, drawn as it plays, in three places. In the full-screen
  view: bars, a fringe around the artwork, or a waveform, in the view's own colours. Standing on
  the player while you browse: bars or a waveform, stepping aside when you point near them. And in
  a view of its own over the page, opened from the player bar, where the arrow keys change the
  look. And MilkDrop: its classic presets, in the full-screen view and in the view of its own,
  changing every 30 seconds, with each track or only when you press ↑ and ↓ (it needs hardware
  acceleration). A built-in plugin, off until you turn it on in Settings → Plugins, with a
  choice for each place, and it listens only while one is on screen.

• Plugins can shape the sound too, with the new audio permission
  (guide).

Thanks

To @Jeter361, whose pull request brought the browser sign-in import, Glass, the top bar that hides
until you point at it, and themes on SoundCloud's newer pages
(#126); and to @funqu, @yamidarkmagician
and @gyatt936, whose requests became the equaliser, Pitch and the shortcuts
(#101,
#124,
#127).

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0