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Edit: (2022.07.18)


- rhiimoot is completely portable now. Check #11 for rhiimoot v1.4.0.0

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rhiimoot is a mini controller software for Spotify® on your Windows® computer making it easy to control playing songs without using the main Spotify window.

Features:
--Basic functionalities such as "previous, play/pause, next"
-Shows playing song title & artist info
-Works offline
-OSD (on screen display) on song change
-Cache & temporary data cleaner
-Sleep timer for closing Spotify
-Vu-meter & 10 themes
-No installation needed

Website: https://www.locusmare.com/rhiimoot.html

License: Freeware
(Donations are welcomed but not mondatory. Nothing is restricted in the program.)

Tested on:
Windows XP 32bit --> not working because Spotify doesn't supoort OS
Windows 7 32bit --> works as intended
Windows 7 64bit --> works as intended
Windows 8 64bit --> works as intended
Windows 8.1 64bit --> works as intended
Windows 10 64bit --> works as intended

Requirements:
.NET Framework 4.5 or higher (if not installed already)

Installation:
Not needed. Extract to folder and run exe file.





rhiimoot v1.1.0.0 released see post #5

rhiimoot v1.0.0.1 released
##[1.0.0.1] __ [2020.10.19]###
### Changed
- Minor code improvements
### Added
- Option to remove program setting files from %User%\AppData\Local\ folder (reset)
- Crypto donation link
### Fixed
- VU-Meter giving an error on occasion
- OSD giving an error on occasion
- Browser cache cleaning giving an error even though it's working

# rhiimoot v1.0.1.0 released
##[1.0.1.0] __ [2020.11.17]###
### Changed
- Minor code improvements
### Added
- Album art for playing song (needs internet access)
- Data is beautiful
- Share on social media buttons
- Behaviour information message for first use
- An Easter egg for the ambitious
### Fixed
- Release Spotify button needing a second click to function properly when Spotify is minimised

# rhiimoot v1.0.2.0 released
##[1.0.2.0] __ [2020.12.30]###
### Changed
- Minor code improvements & bug fixes
### Added
- Album name for playing file **
- Total time spent listening with rhiimoot

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Review by Majorgeeks https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/rhiimoot.html

Review by Softpedia https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedi ... moot.shtml

rhiimoot v1.1.0.0 released
### Changed
- Main window album art section is fixed from now on **
- Rhiimoot FAQ on website updated with latest version changes
### Added
- Current track information (duration, album name, album type, release date, track no, total tracks no, disc no)
- Playlist info (only visible if playing from a playlist)
- Ability to show all the artists (in album art window)
- Bigger album art support
- Album art saving option
- Album art loading bar

I'd normally have responded to this thread by now, but I'm not a Spotify user and wasn't planning on signing up. It's one of the issues with submissions tied to a specific service like the DI Radio player: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2661 ... Hopefully someone else will be able to give this a try and be able to evaluate it.

webfork wrote:I'm not a Spotify user...

Ditto here...

rhiimoot v1.2.0.0 released
### Changed
- Added default image in main window album art section for cosmetic reasons
### Added
- Quick link to visit current artist's Spotify page from album art window*
- Quick link to visit current album's Spotify page from album art window*
* click on artist or album name in album art window
### Fixed
- Album art window not showing the correct album name in task manager
- OSD icon not showing in task manager

webfork wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 10:37 am I'd normally have responded to this thread by now, but I'm not a Spotify user and wasn't planning on signing up. It's one of the issues with submissions tied to a specific service like the DI Radio player: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2661 ... Hopefully someone else will be able to give this a try and be able to evaluate it.

Thanks for noticing my program if you ever want to try it in the future please remember it works with both premium and free versions.
And yeah an evaluation would be good.

rhiimoot v1.3.0.0 released
### Added
- 'Favorites list' added for easy access to your favorite playlists/albums/artists/podcasts**
- 'Favorites list' added to main & albumart window*
* single click to 'open' or 'bring to front if already opened'
### Changed
- About icon replaced with 'Favorites list' on main windows
- About section merged with 'Settings screen'
### Fixed
- Minor code improvements on update checker

rhiimoot v1.4.0.0 released
# v1.4.0.0 | 1.42MB | Release Date: 2022.07.18
### Changed
- Now rhiimoot can control Spotify playback without taking over the Spotify window. This works with both "Legacy" & "Modern" player windows.
- Double click on albumart now shows "Modern" player (instead of "Albumart window")
- rhiimoot is completely portable now. It saves user settings in an xml file in the folder where rhiimoot is located
- Settings window arangement
### Fixed
- Albumart not showing at all
- Code improvements all over
- Code cleanup
- Always on top bug
### Removed
- sleep timer (temporarily)
- saving listened song titles to a txt file (temporarily)
- song details like album name, track number etc. (Spotify changed many things so it is removed for now)
- albumart window (replaced with "Modern" player)
- total time listened
- saving albumart image
- favorites list
- saving settings in /Local/ folder (replaced with settings.xml)



*can someone using Spotify evaluate this please? Much appreciated

--- NEW RELEASE ---
# v1.4.2.0 | 1.42MB | Release Date: 2022.09.24
### Added
- rhiimoot remembers last position. This works with both "Legacy player" & "Modern player"
(you can double click albumart to switch to modern player)

### Fixed
- OSD not turning off
- Always on top is working properly when OSD is off.
Other OSD fixes and changes will be done in next releases.

Download: https://www.locusmare.com

--- NEW RELEASE ---
# v1.4.3.0 | 1.51MB | Release Date: 2022.10.05

### Added
- "Legacy player" & "Modern player" have system wide volume controls
(Click on the yellow Volume button to open up 'volume down, volume up & mute' controls)
- Vumeter has been added to "Legacy player"

### Fixed
- Always on top is not working properly when OSD is on

Download: https://www.locusmare.com

--- NEW RELEASE ---
# v1.4.4.0 | 1.6MB | Release Date: 2022.12.02

### Fixed
- Previous & Next buttons not functioning sometimes in both players
- Legacy player showing wrong albumart
- Legacy player disappearing when clicked on "always on top" button
- Multiple OSD showing in modern player
- OSD showing wrong song title

Download: https://www.locusmare.com/download.html

--- NEW RELEASE ---
# v1.4.5.0 | 1.6MB | Release Date: 2023.04.24

### Added
- Option to remove "Your version of Windows is out of date" warning when launching Spotify.
### Fixed
- Minor code improvements

Download: https://www.locusmare.com/download.html