This update comes with a feature many of you waited for: "Listening to Artist"! Instead of the player name you can now show the artist you are listening to or even the title of the song after the "Listening to" text under your name. You now also have the option to use the "Watching" activity type and I added new controls in the "Discord" and "Services" settings tabs. For Apple Music users, there are also animated album covers now!
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Changelog
- Added "Listening to Artist" and "Listening to Title" options to the settings, which show the name of the artist or the media title in the text under your name respectively, instead of the player name. This setting is located under the new "Display text" option in the Discord "Appearance" settings and is enabled by default. Note that this shows the entire line that contains the artist or title. Implements #229
- You can always go back to showing the player name or "Music" after "Listening to" by setting "Display text" to "Player name" or "Media type" in the "Appearance" settings
- If you do show the artist or the title, you can also configure whether the media player name or the media type shows in the activity on your profile card with the "Profile display text" setting
- Thank you to @foxfirecodes and @advaith1 for making the necessary changes in the Discord API!
- Added animated album covers for Apple Music. You need to enable this manually by checking "Get animated album covers" in the new "Music API configuration" section of the "Services" category in the settings. Animated album covers may take 10-20 seconds to load at the moment, but this will be improved. The "Apple Music API" must be enabled under "External services" for this to work. This feature is experimental and may stop working in the future or be removed entirely without notice. Powered by ungive/video-conversion-service. Implements #123
- Added "Watching" as an option under the new "Activity type" setting. You can now choose between all available activity types: "Listening", "Watching" and "Playing". Currently all players use "Listening" by default. Better defaults for video players will be added in a future update. Implements #297
- Added new settings under the "Discord" category: You can now see all enabled media players at once and enable or disable them without having to play media first. Players can also be disabled by default and you can reset all player states back to their default setting. This should make it much clearer what media will be shared and which won't. Implements #300
- Added new settings and improvements for external services and music APIs: You can now select which music API data is used for your status and what data is sent to these APIs. Your country code is also not leaked through external links in your Discord status anymore. See the full changelog for details
- Various bug fixes and other small improvements. See the full changelog for details
- New languages: Turkish, Belarusian, Hebrew, Chinese (Simplified)
- Added media players: Windows: Bandcamp, Namida, Pandora. Mac: Apple Books, Musicer
Read the full changelog here or inside the app.