Songify v1.8.7

✨ Features

• Windows media session picker (#194)

  • When several apps use the Windows Playback API (SMTC), you can pick which session Songify follows
  • Selection is shown on the main window and persisted in config

• Spotify Test Mode and fetch gating

  • Gating is on by default — Spotify playback fetching only runs while you are live, in Test Mode, or if you turn it off in Settings → Spotify using bypass Spotify fetch gating
  • Test Mode toggle on the main window turns on Spotify playback fetching for 5 minutes for quick testing
  • New setting to bypass Spotify fetch gating so fetching can run when you are not live (with tooltips in Settings)
  • Settings UI updated for the new options, including localized strings

⚠️Dev note: Songify polls the Spotify Web API on a timer. If the app stays open 24/7 while you are not streaming, that steady traffic adds up and makes Spotify rate limits / throttling more likely. Gating limits polling to when it usually matters for overlays.

• Pear / YouTube Music
  • Better correlation between now playing and the Pear queue (including current item ID) for reliable track changes and cleanup of finished or skipped requests
  • Full YouTube metadata for WebSocket-backed requests so behavior matches other request paths
  • Song info uploads can include next track details for richer overlays and integrations

⚡ Improvements

• Web server / API response

  • JSON is grouped into clearer sections: UserInfo, SongifyInfo, Track, and Queue for easier client consumption
  • Twitch user payload simplified by trimming unused fields on SimpleTwitchUser

• Security for settings sync

  • API token is sent with Authorization: Bearer instead of as a URL query parameter when saving or restoring user settings

• Documentation

  • New WebSockets.md with connection examples, response shape, and behavior
  • Wiki source under docs/wiki plus scripts/Sync-Wiki.ps1; Getting Started page filename normalized (includes #190)

• Localization

  • Belarusian updates via Weblate (about 96.8% of strings)

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed the main window overwriting a custom Twitch status when linking Spotify — the default “Play some music :)” / generic artist–title text is only applied when the current status still matches that pattern

🛠️ Internal / Dev Changes

• Version bumped to 1.8.7.0
• Removed unused SpotifyApiClient.cs; related Spotify handling adjusted in the remaining code paths
• Resource .resx files reformatted across locales (line endings / structure; no intentional string changes where only formatting moved)

Full Changelog: v1.8.6...v1.8.7

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