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p/dock-partySpotify+Apple Music visualizer & controls IN your macOS Dock
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Dax Roggio

Dock Party 3.0 - Spotify+Apple Music visualizer & controls in your macOS dock

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Turn your macOS Dock into a dynamic light bar that syncs with your music. Display track details and album cover art right beside the Dock. Control music playback with clickable controls that are always visible. Like songs. Or just give your Dock a fresh color.

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Dax Roggio
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With this major update, Dock Party now taps into macOS system audio directly to monitor the Spotify and Apple Music audio streams. No more microphone access required! This offers a number of benefits: Visualizers now work even when you’re using headphones; there’s no drop in audio quality (“call mode”) when listening through duplex Bluetooth devices; and visualizers now respond directly to the music without interference from ambient sounds. Version 3 also includes a new Dock background animation called “Neon”, enhanced pitch and waveform visualizers, and greater leveraging of the GPU to boost the efficiency and responsiveness of the visualizers and animations. The app is fully sandboxed and available in the Mac App Store.
Jun Shen

Loving the Dock integration; it enhances my music experience! 😄

Dax Roggio
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@shenjun That’s the hope! 😁🎵
Dax Roggio
Maker

Some rapid fire updates based on user feedback:

3.0.3

• New appearance option for player controls: “Backlight”

• Right-clicking Dock Party in status bar now shows menu options for Settings, About, and Quit

• More accurate matching of main window dimensions to Dock size

• Fixed a bug that could cause track info text in the menu bar to get cut off

3.0.2

• New scrolling marquee option to display artist, song, or album

• More scrolling marquee font options

• Dock area album info text size now adjusts dynamically in proportion to window height

• New size options for menu bar track info text

3.0.1

• Fixed a bug that prevented Dock Party from hiding along with the Dock if the active app entered full screen mode

Dax Roggio
Maker

3.0.4

  • Fixed a bug that was causing the album name to appear in menu bar instead of artist name

  • Like button now works with the latest version of Apple Music

  • Better responsiveness to changes in Dock position and size

  • Fixed an issue that would cause Dock Party to steal focus from the active app when clicked