Minor Improvements

More changes are in the pipeline, so stay tuned

• Added multiple new languages, thanks to our translators!
• Musicbee will default to use Album Artist when track artist is not found
• Added support for some new players and formalized support for Amazon Music

Multiple Audio Output Support

Lot of small things going on here, and they add up.

• We have attempted a fix for those using voicemeeter #70
• Added a new debug setting debug missing player (see readme for more info)
• added ANOTHER NAME FOR WMP ON WIN 11. If it still doesn't work, then you're SOL. WMP in some builds does not report itself to Windows Media Center, and there is just no way to get around this
• Amazon music #68 is kinda supported but I won't push it since nobody has tested it. Message me for help
• Improved remote art finding a bit
• Added turkish language.

If you use remote art and musicbee, it is recommended that you update the plugin.

Auto Art fixes and more

This release requires that the DLL's be updated! Please download the zip and copy the MDRP folder over. A full reinstall is not required

Bugfixes

• Fixed an error where the album art would disappear when pausing
• Fixed run in background, and changed the kill hidden to use curl instead of taskkill in order to more reliably end MDRP

Improvements

• Added a setting to better handle libraries with a high concentration of japanese songs (#64)
• The paused image and background images have been converted to using configurable url's or asset names. See the readme for more on that.

Other notes

The electron apple music player is no longer supported as it was replaced by cider. You may pester me and open an issue to get it back, and if nobody does, then it will continue to be gone.

Spotify-style album arts

Yes indeed, the rumors are true! With the biggest update to MDRP ever I am so excited to announce that MDRP has made some huge strides in the quest to mimic Spotify's native DRP

Changelog:

• New readme
• Now there are settings that will enable MDRP to find the album art online, and use it as the big image.
• Updated the libraries so you need to copy those over, no more just copying in the new exe.
• When MDRP finds an image online, it will key that album with that image (optional) so that you dont have to do anything!
• New album art keying format:

*=* //this enables this file to be for all players
id=default //use the default id for every player
Album Title==<url to online image>==Artist Name

and

*=music.ui,spotify,apple music //this enables this file for groove, spotify, and apple music
id=12345 //use app with id #12345 for each player (so you could use Music instead of Groove Music)
Album Title==<url to online image>==Artist Name

are supported. Note that all past keying schemas and dat files will still work.

Windows Media Player fixes

See 1.6.3 for more bugfixes. Fixed WMP issue that caused wmp to be unkeyable with the wrong artist notification but now keying for groove will properly apply to wmp as well.

Bug fixes

At long last I tracked down those pesky 🐛 everyone was finding because I was able to replicate the issue.

Resolves #57 where sometimes the DRP would just not show, particularly on the default groove app. I suspect that this has to do with more people using MDRP since the problem was that some DRP clients were becoming disconnected which did not happen in the olden days.

When you have MDRP open already and create a new one, the new one will ask the old one to close, and you will no longer get that annoying error. Also will be more flexible if the port 2357 is already in use on your machine

Removed stray quotes in the english and spanish lang files

Thank you all for using MDRP, if you have questions or would like to say hi, I have a discord you can join.

New Players and Languages

Now supporting:

• Windows Media Player (Windows 11 version of groove see #50 )
• Tidal Music
• Wave Link

New Languages:

• English
• Spanish
• German
• Dutch

More to come, I just need bilingual people to help make them

Add link with system start feature

Also add link to WMP (I can add Tidal and Wave linkers if asked for)

Updated Launcher

Include new linkers

No longer will cause your computer to get up and dance away

👀

DRP customization improvements & bug fixes

This release fixes an unreported minor bug that caused the console to not reset properly when using MusicBee (no effect on DRP), and this release also allows more customization with the Title and Artist lines.

Before:

After (mimicking Spotify's presence):

Now you can do almost anything you want there, and the ini contains the template for both styles so just remove the one you dont want (and also remove the //)

Musicbee overhaul, bugfixes, new features

Sorry for such a long break, but here we are, the long awaited 1.6.0 release of MDRP! Let's review whats new:

• New Musicbee integration! MB now requires a different plugin that I made. This will bring a time remaining count only for musicbee (see #46 for an explanation)
• Customizable artist and title tags, perfect if you would like them to be in a different language, or if you think they just get in the way, see the DiscordPresenceConfig.ini to change that
• The artist and title length have been increased, so this should reduce getting cut off unnecessarily.
• A lot of behind the scenes changes should reduce resource consumption, and for those that would like to make changes to the code, should now be able to.
• We ditched the groovyrp name, this should have been done earlier, but better late than never.

I fully expect at least 5 new issues in the next week between this and the plugin, so please dont be shy if you are having problems, as there are likely many people with the same problems.

Bugfixes from excessively long strings

Mostly to help prevent another #40, this prevents albums longer than 128 characters from breaking it. If your mdrp works, you don't need to update. Also readds overcharacter warning for keys longer then 32 chars