Game update6 Sep 20266.8 - Frame Pacing, Artwork & Popout FixesImproved frame pacing to respect your selected FPS limit, fixed incorrect YouTube artwork appearing on local audio files, and improved popout resilience during brief connection delays. Minor interface cleanup included.
Now 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…
Performance · 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. ·…
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…
- 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.
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