4.1.2 stops NepTunes from cutting words off song titles when it scrobbles. • With "Cut out extra tags" turned on, NepTunes could drop real words from the end of a title. For example, "Set The Twilight Reeling" was scrobbled as "Set The Twilight". It now removes only tags set apart from the title, such as "(Live)" or "- Remastered 2011". • A song that was scrobbled with a shortened title is scrobbled with its full title the next time you play it.

4.1.1 keeps widgets where you put them, keeps the widgets and the Dock icon running, and does less work in the background. WIDGETS STAY WHERE YOU PUT THEM • Widgets no longer drift away from screen corners or toward the Dock. Showing, hiding or moving the Dock, or the menu bar hiding itself, no longer moves any widget. • A widget keeps its exact spot, even partly behind the Dock or past the edge of the screen. If the Dock later grows or moves, it may cover part of a widget instead of pushing it away. • When you connect or disconnect a display, or open or close the lid, widgets on a display that stays connected stay put. A widget moves only to a spot you chose yourself for that display setup, or back onto a display that has just reconnected. • The widget you last clicked or dragged stays on top, and the order in which widgets overlap is remembered across restarts, display changes and pauses. WHAT THIS MEANS AFTER UPDATING • Nothing moves when you update. • NepTunes 4.1 didn't record which saved spots you chose and which it saved by itself, so 4.1.1 treats them all as saved by itself. The first time you change your display setup, widgets may stay where they are instead of returning to an older layout. Drag them once to where you want them for that setup, and they'll go back there from then on. • A widget that 4.1 already pushed against the Dock stays there until you drag it once. WIDGETS AND THE DOCK ICON KEEP RUNNING • Widgets set to stay on screen when nothing is playing no longer vanish now and then. If the widget process quits unexpectedly, NepTunes starts it again. • The NepTunes Dock icon comes back if it quits unexpectedly during playback. If you quit it yourself, it stays closed until playback stops, and returns the next time you play. LESS WORK IN THE BACKGROUND • NepTunes and its widgets wake up far less often, which saves energy, especially on battery. • Scrobbles and Charts no longer ask Last.fm for updates every 30–60 seconds. They refresh right after Last.fm accepts a scrobble, and every five minutes to pick up scrobbles from your other devices. After a failed load they wait longer before trying again, and they don't retry at all while you're signed out of Last.fm. • Updated Headline, Strip, Vinyl and CD Case widgets look the same but use much less processor time. ALBUM COVERS • NepTunes asks Music for covers far less often. It no longer searches your whole library for streamed songs and radio stations, which could make Music freeze briefly now and then. • A cover found through Spotify no longer stops NepTunes from finding the same album's cover in Music, and the other way round. • A cover lookup that fails is tried again on the next song instead of being given up on.

4.1 adds the menu bar feature many of you asked for, and opens up more of NepTunes to widgets. MENU BAR • Click the menu bar item to play or pause. Right-click opens the panel. Turn it on in Settings > Status Bar. MORE FOR WIDGETS The widget API can now read your listening history, your Last.fm stats and charts, and where the pointer is over a widget. Widgets can also stay up when nothing is playing and show animated album covers. That made room for new widgets, ready to install from the gallery: • Listening Clock: a 24-hour ring showing when you listen, over the last 7 days, 30 days or all time • Genre Trends: your top five genres day by day, on a plays-per-day scale • Listening Activity: a day-by-day grid of your listening • Charts and Scrobbles: your Last.fm top lists and latest scrobbles WIDGETS • A widget can stay on screen when nothing is playing, with a button that opens your music player. You choose this per widget. • Animated album covers play in Sleeve and V3. Each widget has its own switch. • Widgets remember where you put them for each display setup. Dock, undock or close the lid, and they go back to where you left them for that setup. • No more flicker between songs. • Widget updates are signed and matched to your NepTunes version. • Card widgets now match the shape of macOS's own widgets. Each one has an optional shadow you can turn on in its settings. • Artwork cards can have less rounded corners, so more of the cover shows. Turn on "Reduce corner rounding" in the widget's settings. • Resizable widgets show a grip in the corner when you hover over them. Drag it to resize. • Clicks on a widget's transparent edges now go through to whatever is underneath. • Album covers are more reliable. The previous song's cover no longer lingers, and when no still cover can be found, a frame from the animated cover stands in.

4.0.3 brings a new first-run setup and clearer handling of widgets made for newer versions. • The setup that greets you on first launch is redesigned. Once you connect Last.fm, it shows your scrobble counts and your last 30 days of listening. • Setup now shows what Pro unlocks, and lays out the free trial as a timeline, including the date of the first charge. • A widget that needs a newer NepTunes is no longer reported as damaged. The install sheet names the version it needs, and the gallery marks an update that needs a newer NepTunes instead of offering to install it. • Album covers: NepTunes prefers the cover stored with your library track, no longer shows the cover of another release when it can't confirm the album, and the cover appears sooner after a track changes. Everything below arrived with NepTunes 4. NepTunes 4 is a rebuild. Every part of the app is new code written for modern macOS, and every screen, control and animation was redrawn. THE APP ITSELF • Rewritten player observation, so what is playing shows up faster and stays correct • Localized into 14 languages, now including Arabic and its right-to-left layout • Every icon-only control in the player, Settings and the paywall now carries a VoiceOver label THE MENU BAR PLAYER • A redesigned popover with full album artwork, a scrollable history of what you have been playing, and play, pause and skip inline • Choose what the menu bar itself shows, and rearrange it to taste A WIDGET ON YOUR DESKTOP • A native macOS widget for the desktop and Notification Center, in small, medium and large • Each placed widget is configured on its own: layout, the rows it shows, how many controls, and what a click does • Play, pause and skip from the widget itself ONE LINK, WHATEVER THEY LISTEN ON • Copy a link to a track or an album and it opens in Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music, matched on the recording so it is the version you heard • Artwork appears when you paste it into Messages LAST.FM • Faster, more reliable scrobbling, with an offline queue that holds your listens until the connection comes back • A scrobble threshold you set • Your scrobble, loved-track and artist counts, without opening a browser AROUND THE SYSTEM • Rebuilt global hotkeys: play and pause, skip, volume, and bring your player to the front • On-screen confirmations for volume and playback, which fade away on their own • Track-change notifications with artwork NEPTUNES PRO • Live widgets on your wallpaper: animated, interactive covers and visualizers, built on an open JavaScript API, so you can write your own • Animated album covers: Apple Music motion artwork in the player • A top albums grid from your Last.fm history • Similar tracks for whatever is playing • Album art in the Dock • "Now Playing" in the menu bar, in your format, with inline controls • Pro hotkeys: switch player, add to library • Available as a one-time purchase as well as a subscription Requires macOS 26.

4.0.2 fixes scrobbling at a 100% threshold, and a hang at launch. • With "Scrobble after playing" at 100%, nothing scrobbled at all. It now scrobbles just before the track ends. • NepTunes no longer scrobbles a track it only caught part of. • The app could hang on launch, with no window, while macOS sat on an Automation permission check. That check now runs in the background. • When the Dock icon failed to draw, the tile showed the app icon for the rest of the track. It now retries on the next update. • Diagnostics collection is now off by default, and you choose whether to turn it on. In TestFlight builds it stays on. Everything below arrived with NepTunes 4. NepTunes 4 is a rebuild. Every part of the app is new code written for modern macOS, and every screen, control and animation was redrawn. THE APP ITSELF • Rewritten player observation, so what is playing shows up faster and stays correct • Localized into 14 languages, now including Arabic and its right-to-left layout • Every icon-only control in the player, Settings and the paywall now carries a VoiceOver label THE MENU BAR PLAYER • A redesigned popover with full album artwork, a scrollable history of what you have been playing, and play, pause and skip inline • Choose what the menu bar itself shows, and rearrange it to taste A WIDGET ON YOUR DESKTOP • A native macOS widget for the desktop and Notification Center, in small, medium and large • Each placed widget is configured on its own: layout, the rows it shows, how many controls, and what a click does • Play, pause and skip from the widget itself ONE LINK, WHATEVER THEY LISTEN ON • Copy a link to a track or an album and it opens in Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music, matched on the recording so it is the version you heard • Artwork appears when you paste it into Messages LAST.FM • Faster, more reliable scrobbling, with an offline queue that holds your listens until the connection comes back • A scrobble threshold you set • Your scrobble, loved-track and artist counts, without opening a browser AROUND THE SYSTEM • Rebuilt global hotkeys: play and pause, skip, volume, and bring your player to the front • On-screen confirmations for volume and playback, which fade away on their own • Track-change notifications with artwork NEPTUNES PRO • Live widgets on your wallpaper: animated, interactive covers and visualizers, built on an open JavaScript API, so you can write your own • Animated album covers: Apple Music motion artwork in the player • A top albums grid from your Last.fm history • Similar tracks for whatever is playing • Album art in the Dock • "Now Playing" in the menu bar, in your format, with inline controls • Pro hotkeys: switch player, add to library • Available as a one-time purchase as well as a subscription Requires macOS 26.

4.0.1 refines the app icon. Everything below arrived with NepTunes 4. NepTunes 4 is a complete rebuild. Every part of the app was written again from the ground up for modern macOS, and every screen, control and animation was redrawn along the way. THE APP ITSELF • A native, modern macOS app throughout, with a new look and new animations • Rewritten player observation, so what is playing shows up faster and stays correct • Localized into 14 languages, now including Arabic and its right-to-left layout • Every icon-only control in the player, Settings and the paywall now carries a VoiceOver label THE MENU BAR PLAYER • A redesigned popover with full album artwork, a scrollable history of what you have been playing, and play, pause and skip inline • Choose what the menu bar itself shows, and rearrange it to taste A WIDGET ON YOUR DESKTOP • A native macOS widget for the desktop and Notification Center, in small, medium and large • Each placed widget is configured on its own: layout, the rows it shows, how many controls, and what a click does • Play, pause and skip from the widget itself ONE LINK, WHATEVER THEY LISTEN ON • Copy a link to a track or an album and it opens in Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music, matched on the recording so it is the version you heard • Artwork appears when you paste it into Messages LAST.FM • Faster, more reliable scrobbling, with an offline queue that holds your listens until the connection comes back • A scrobble threshold you set • Your scrobble, loved-track and artist counts, without opening a browser AROUND THE SYSTEM • Rebuilt global hotkeys: play and pause, skip, volume, and bring your player to the front • On-screen confirmations for volume and playback, which fade away on their own • Track-change notifications with artwork NEPTUNES PRO • Live desktop panels: animated, interactive covers and visualizers on your wallpaper, built on an open JavaScript API, so you can write your own • Animated album covers: Apple Music motion artwork in the player • A top albums grid from your Last.fm history • Similar tracks for whatever is playing • Album art in the Dock • "Now Playing" in the menu bar, in your format, with inline controls • Pro hotkeys: switch player, add to library • Available as a one-time purchase as well as a subscription Requires macOS 26.

NepTunes 4 is a complete rebuild. Every part of the app was written again from the ground up for modern macOS, and every screen, control and animation was redrawn along the way. THE APP ITSELF • A native, modern macOS app throughout, with a new look and new animations • Rewritten player observation, so what is playing shows up faster and stays correct • Localized into 14 languages, now including Arabic and its right-to-left layout • Every icon-only control in the player, Settings and the paywall now carries a VoiceOver label THE MENU BAR PLAYER • A redesigned popover with full album artwork, a scrollable history of what you have been playing, and play, pause and skip inline • Choose what the menu bar itself shows, and rearrange it to taste A WIDGET ON YOUR DESKTOP • A native macOS widget for the desktop and Notification Center, in small, medium and large • Each placed widget is configured on its own: layout, the rows it shows, how many controls, and what a click does • Play, pause and skip from the widget itself ONE LINK, WHATEVER THEY LISTEN ON • Copy a link to a track or an album and it opens in Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music, matched on the recording so it is the version you heard • Artwork appears when you paste it into Messages LAST.FM • Faster, more reliable scrobbling, with an offline queue that holds your listens until the connection comes back • A scrobble threshold you set • Your scrobble, loved-track and artist counts, without opening a browser AROUND THE SYSTEM • Rebuilt global hotkeys: play and pause, skip, volume, and bring your player to the front • On-screen confirmations for volume and playback, which fade away on their own • Track-change notifications with artwork NEPTUNES PRO • Live desktop panels: animated, interactive covers and visualizers on your wallpaper, built on an open JavaScript API, so you can write your own • Animated album covers: Apple Music motion artwork in the player • A top albums grid from your Last.fm history • Similar tracks for whatever is playing • Album art in the Dock • "Now Playing" in the menu bar, in your format, with inline controls • Pro hotkeys: switch player, add to library • Available as a one-time purchase as well as a subscription Requires macOS 26.

• Copying an Apple Music link now works for nearly every track. It used to come up empty for most songs, and so did opening a similar track in Music. • Songs missing from Apple's search are now found through their album. • The Spotify link is offered only for tracks you played in Spotify, where there is actually a link to copy.

• Bugfixes

• Fixed the crashes reported in 3.2.8 • Slow work no longer blocks the main thread, so the menu bar stays responsive • Lower CPU use while music is playing

• Bugfixes

⋅ Bugfixes

• option to send crash reports for improved future stability

• Bugfixes

· Fixes a bug where the app could decrease the volume of Spotify/Apple Music. · The theme preview with a wallpaper now works on macOS Sonoma. · The theme on the desktop won't change position upon appearing. · Fixes a bug where liking a track on Last.fm didn't work when music was playing from Spotify, and the 'like track on both Apple Music and Last.fm' feature was enabled.

• Fix for macOS Monterey

• Ukrainian localization • Fixes volume popover on the V1 widget when using Spotify • Bugfixes for macOS Sonoma • Improves in-app purchases reliability • Improves handling position of the widget

• bugfixes • a new "add to the library" shortcut for Apple Music • you can now open the app menu from track's title in the status bar (with a Ctrl + click, right click etc.)

• repeated tracks are now scrobbled

• Dutch localisation • UI improvements for macOS Ventura • fixes a bug where in-app purchases network error could end up spamming with HUD notifications

• Spanish and Catalan localization • "cut extra tags" feature improvements

• Removes redundant requests sent to Last.fm servers

• Further improvements for cooperating with Last.fm's API • Fixes a regression from version 3.1.1. Unfortunately it'll require to sign in again to Last.fm

• temporarily solves the problem with the rate limit • minor text layout improvements

• Italian and Chinese localization • the new shortcut to dislike a track • fixes a bug where not scrobbled but saved tracks weren’t scrobbled