Spytify Files

Better recording quality, OpenGL fixes, and Linux support.

• Recording quality: records at the device's own rate with no double conversion; Normalize is off by default and never compresses; low-quality output (a Bluetooth headset in a call) is flagged and skipped.
• OpenGL: without a graphics driver, Windows draws in software, and the app says why when it can't open its window.
• Linux: packages for Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian 12 and newer, with the dock and tray icons.
• Stability: no more crash or hang when quitting; a full disk or a lost output folder stops the session cleanly.

[!NOTE] The macOS app is not notarised ($99 USD/yr, so no!): the first time, allow it in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway.

The Windows files are not signed ($129 USD/yr, so no!), so SmartScreen warns before the first run. Click "More info", then select "Run anyway".

What's Changed

• windows-smoke: record once the tone plays, not after a fixed 4 s by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/545
• CI: pipewire-gate in three parallel jobs; apt gets 5 minutes a try by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/546
• Keep anyway for a track cut short; drop Minimum track length and Record everything by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/547
• App: say to extract the archive when it runs from inside it by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/551
• Output folder lost: stop at once, Record off until it's back; temp folder made again by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/550
• Programs spytify starts open no console window on Windows by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/560
• The recorder no longer dies when the app that started it quits by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/555
• AAC keeps the extra part of the title by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/556
• A broken WAV header is an error, not a panic by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/557
• Temp takes a forced stop left behind are removed at start by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/558
• The cover size setting shrinks the embedded cover by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/559
• Logs and crash traces nobody wrote to for 30 days are deleted by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/561
• The app keeps at most 200 covers in memory by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/563
• MP3 from an 88.2 or 96 kHz source is saved again by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/564
• Decomposed accents no longer hide a duplicate by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/565
• Names Windows refuses get an underscore by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/566
• A full disk ends the session instead of leaving it stuck by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/568
• The folder picker opens larger, centred, at the output folder by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/570
• Artist folders: the main artist, or all artists by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/571
• CI gives up on a stalled apt mirror quickly and falls back to the main archive by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/573
• A take kept after the recording stopped gets its cover by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/574
• Opening Spytify again brings back the window hidden to the tray by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/575
• Normalize tests for every format: off keeps the loudness, on reaches the target by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/578
• Spytify.exe shows the Spytify icon in Explorer, shortcuts and Task Manager by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/577
• Reports no longer read the system's region setting by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/579
• Functional tests for every setting, and the output folder let go when idle by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/569
• Spytify.exe says why it can't open its window instead of closing without a word by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/582
• A warning when the player's output device records in low quality, such as a Bluetooth headset in a call by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/580
• Without an OpenGL driver, Spytify.exe draws its window with Mesa's, in software by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/584
• Windows capture no longer drops or adds a frame when a packet's timestamp is off by one by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/585
• Tracks recorded in low quality are skipped, and can still be kept by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/583
• The Bitrate setting shows each choice's file size per minute by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/588
• Linux capture test: bit for bit with the graph at 44.1 kHz, converted twice at PipeWire's default 48 kHz by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/587
• macOS records at the rate of the device the player plays to by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/572
• Recordings from a device above 48 kHz are written at half its rate, losing nothing below 22 kHz by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/590
• Windows records at the mix rate of the device the player plays to, so nothing is converted twice by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/586
• Normalize volume is off by default, so a recording keeps the player's exact sound by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/591
• Normalize volume applies one gain per track and never compresses it by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/593
• The Logs tab says when Normalize volume leaves a track under its target by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/601
• Linux records at the rate PipeWire runs at, so nothing is converted twice by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/594
• Linux capture is not moved to the output's monitor when the player's stream goes away by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/595
• A saved recording says Saved, whatever found its tags by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/596
• A title ending in two parenthesised extras moves both to the subtitle by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/602
• The recording card says when the file is written at a lower rate than the capture by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/592
• The Linux dock shows Spytify's icon: its desktop entry is named after the app ID by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/607
• The Record and Library lists show a track's title, then its artist on a line of its own by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/598
• Every setting shows a short note under its label by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/597
• Linux: the packages bring Mesa, and without OpenGL the app says what to install by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/603
• The Linux packages are built on Ubuntu 22.04, so they install on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 and newer, checked in CI by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/604
• windows-smoke records the tone once Windows plays it, and counts the seconds it hears by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/608
• Minimize to tray shows its icon on Linux, and closing quits where the desktop has no tray by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/609
• Quitting stops the recorder and saves the preferences once Fyne's loop has returned, so the quit no longer crashes, hangs or skips them by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/611
• MP3 at 160 kbps is the default output format by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/612
• golang.org/x/image and golang.org/x/net are updated past their known vulnerabilities by @jwallet in https://github.com/spytify/spytify/pull/613

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spytify/spytify/compare/2.0.0-alpha.1...2.0.0-alpha.7