• If Audiopath ever quits unexpectedly or stops responding, it now offers to send a crash report so the problem can be found and fixed. You can read the report first, and nothing is sent unless you agree.

• Did you know? With Pro, Listening Stats now finds a surprising fact about your top album on Wikipedia, picked out by Apple Intelligence. • Better recaps on macOS 27: with Pro, your recap is written with Apple’s Private Cloud Compute when it’s available, and on your Mac when it isn’t. • Stats open in seconds: Audiopath reads your listening from this Mac. Connect Last.fm and it offers to copy your whole history across first. • A cleaner Listening Stats header, with your top album leading On repeat.

Fixes a window asking where Spotify is when Audiopath opens on a Mac without Spotify installed.

Bug fixes.

Audio Path is now Audiopath 3.0, and it's free to download. • Listening Stats, reimagined: your week, month or year told in album artwork, with top artists and tracks on the move, listening hours and genres. • New share cards for Messages, Instagram, TikTok and more, in story, portrait or square. • With Pro: a recap of your listening written on your Mac by Apple Intelligence, plus when you listen, new artists, deep dives and your album of every year. • Scrobbling, your listening history, stats and collages are free, with or without a Last.fm account. • New: Audiopath Pro, a one-time purchase that unlocks the VU meters, Floating Card, Signal Path, your listening story and history backup. Try it free for 14 days. • Already using Audiopath or ScrobbleMate? Everything is unlocked for you, including all the new features, at no cost. • New XXL Floating Card with giant analog dials.

Bugfix for VU meters in macOS 27

/* Minor bugfix */ plus everything from 2.1.0! ScrobbleMate is now Audiopath. The old name described one job: sending plays to Last.fm. Audiopath now follows more of your music's journey. It shows what is playing, measures live levels, explains the signal path, keeps a private listening history and still scrobbles when you want it to. This is the same app you bought. Your settings, Last.fm login, ratings and existing data carry over. Only the name and icon have changed. YOUR OWN LISTENING HISTORY • Audiopath now saves plays after they meet your listening threshold. A Last.fm account is optional. • Stats, recent plays and collages work from local history. • New local insights show your top album by year, listening habits, discoveries, rediscoveries and streaks. • Choose how long to keep history, export or import a backup, and copy your existing Last.fm history to the Mac. • Signing out of Last.fm no longer removes local listening history. APPLE MUSIC AND SPOTIFY • Audiopath now follows either player automatically. • It can scrobble, display and meter music from both players. • Offline scrobbles wait safely on your Mac and submit when your connection returns. SIGNAL PATH • See where audio is going and whether macOS is mixing or resampling it. • Inspect device, transport and stream formats, then copy diagnostics in one click. • Switch your Mac's audio output without leaving the menu. • When macOS or a player does not expose a detail, Audiopath says so instead of guessing. VU METERS AND FLOATING CARD • Add a stereo VU meter to the menu bar in three styles. • Open an always-on-top card with artwork, track details, signal quality and twin analogue dials. • Meter response follows the IEC VU standard, and you can calibrate it for your setup. • Audiopath measures levels in memory. It never records or saves audio. The VU meter and Floating Card remain optional and off by default. Last.fm is still fully supported, but Audiopath is useful without it. Thank you to everyone who tested this release and helped shape it.

ScrobbleMate is now Audiopath. The old name described one job: sending plays to Last.fm. Audiopath now follows more of your music's journey. It shows what is playing, measures live levels, explains the signal path, keeps a private listening history and still scrobbles when you want it to. This is the same app you bought. Your settings, Last.fm login, ratings and existing data carry over. Only the name and icon have changed. YOUR OWN LISTENING HISTORY • Audiopath now saves plays after they meet your listening threshold. A Last.fm account is optional. • Stats, recent plays and collages work from local history. • New local insights show your top album by year, listening habits, discoveries, rediscoveries and streaks. • Choose how long to keep history, export or import a backup, and copy your existing Last.fm history to the Mac. • Signing out of Last.fm no longer removes local listening history. APPLE MUSIC AND SPOTIFY • Audiopath now follows either player automatically. • It can scrobble, display and meter music from both players. • Offline scrobbles wait safely on your Mac and submit when your connection returns. SIGNAL PATH • See where audio is going and whether macOS is mixing or resampling it. • Inspect device, transport and stream formats, then copy diagnostics in one click. • Switch your Mac's audio output without leaving the menu. • When macOS or a player does not expose a detail, Audiopath says so instead of guessing. VU METERS AND FLOATING CARD • Add a stereo VU meter to the menu bar in three styles. • Open an always-on-top card with artwork, track details, signal quality and twin analogue dials. • Meter response follows the IEC VU standard, and you can calibrate it for your setup. • Audiopath measures levels in memory. It never records or saves audio. The VU meter and Floating Card remain optional and off by default. Last.fm is still fully supported, but Audiopath is useful without it. Thank you to everyone who tested this release and helped shape it.

VU Meter realism updates.

The audiophile update: real VU meters, a floating now-playing card, and Signal Path. NEW • VU meter in your menu bar — true needle ballistics, a proper non-linear scale, peak hold, 0 VU aligned to −18 dBFS. Three styles: Retro LED, Gradient Bar, Classic VU, with adjustable width • The Floating Card — an always-on-top mini display you can drag anywhere: album artwork, track info, a live quality readout, and twin analogue needle dials on rendered hardware faceplates. Three sizes, position remembered • Signal Path — a plain-English verdict on where your audio is going ("System mixer in path", "Resampling 44.1 kHz → 48 kHz", "AirPlay — lossless, capped at 16-bit/44.1 kHz"), backed by the raw evidence: device, transport, stream formats, hog mode, buffer size • Copy Diagnostics — one click produces a forum-ready text summary of your entire audio chain • Audio output switcher in the menu — move sound between your DAC, speakers, display, or a connected AirPlay speaker in one click • Source quality readout — bitrate and sample rate when Apple Music reports them, and an honest "not reported" when it doesn't • Rate ScrobbleMate… in the menu — if this app earns a place in your menu bar, a rating genuinely helps THE DETAILS AUDIOPHILES WILL NOTICE • It's a real VU, not a level bar: RMS-driven, symmetric rise and fall, the correct gentle overshoot • Over AirPlay, the meter delays itself to roughly match what you actually hear • If Music streams directly to an AirPlay speaker, the audio never touches your Mac — ScrobbleMate detects this, says so plainly, and shows the one-click way to reroute so the meter works • Nothing is ever guessed: when macOS doesn't expose a value, ScrobbleMate says "unavailable" rather than making something up UNDER THE HOOD • Near-zero cost: meters render with Core Animation and idle at exactly zero when playback stops • Instant reaction to output device changes — including working around a macOS quirk where switching to AirPlay isn't announced by the system • macOS asks permission to observe system audio the first time you enable a meter. Levels are measured on-device and never recorded, stored, or transmitted Scrobbling itself is untouched and rock-solid. The meters and card are opt-in and off by default; the Signal Path panel can be switched off in Settings if you prefer the classic menu. Thank you for using ScrobbleMate. Bug reports and feature ideas always welcome.

Bugfix for high CPU

Stats page redesign — a much nicer place to look at your listening life. NEW • Beautifully redesigned Stats window with restrained, Apple-style typography and spacing • "When you listen" hourly heatmap showing exactly when in the day you press Play • Hover any bar in either chart for an instant tooltip with the precise count • Adaptive All Time chart — automatically picks year buckets or month buckets based on how long you've been on Last.fm • Live Now Playing card at the top of the Stats window updates the moment your track changes • Faster long-period chart loading — 6, 12 and All Time periods now load in a fraction of the time IMPROVED • Activity chart bars are properly rounded at every period (no more egg-shapes on long timeframes) • Both charts now share the same visual language and corner radius • 3-month view no longer shows a phantom empty bar at the start • Hour histogram now uses your full listening history, not just the last 30 days • Smoother, snappier hover interactions across the whole window FIXED • Now Playing on the Stats page no longer goes stale when you skip tracks • The hour histogram correctly renders bars for accounts with deep history • Long time-range loads no longer time out on accounts with thousands of scrobbles Thank you for using ScrobbleMate. Bug reports and feature ideas always welcome.