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6.7 - Fix: wrong cover art & stuck popout controlsNow 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 browser window had a YouTube video open. - Fixed the card jumping to another tab's video, and the cover fading in and out…6.6.0 - Popout rendering and control fixesFixes the visualizer going blank in the popout and staying blank, and popout controls staying stuck on screen after reopening.Spectral 6.5.0Performance · 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 indefinitely with no way to notice or recover. It now detects this and restarts its metadata helper automatically. ·…
| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game update | 6.2.0 - Popout dropdown fix Fixed · With the pop-out locked, dropdowns in the app (Layout and others) could close as soon as they were opened. | — | |
| Game update | 6.1.0 — Auto-Detect fix (Spotify) 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. · Auto-Detect's audio helper is given more time to start on the first launch after an update, so a slow antivirus… | — | |
| News | Spectral is out now — 15% off launch week 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 • Art Sync — recolors itself from the album art, every song • Custom covers — images, GIFs, MP4s • Live audio spectru… | — | |
| Game update | 5.8.0 - 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 own buttons may bring it to the front. | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.