Audio Band

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Last updated: Sep 21, 2023 Certified 100% FREE MIT License

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View information about your music in the taskbar and control playback, with this clever open-source tool that currently only supports Spotify. #Song Information #Taskbar Toolbar #Control Playback #Toolbar #Playback #Music

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No matter how advanced music players are, users are rarely happy with the playback controls and song information features that are on offer. Thankfully, there are lots of third-party utilities that can help fill this gap.

Audio Band is an interesting option, enabling you to see information about songs and manage playback with the help of a taskbar toolbar. It only offers support for Spotify at present, and it is still in the early stages of development, but it works well enough.

Audio Band doesn’t come with a classic installer, but you can set it up by simply running the install.cmd batch file as an administrator. Once installed, it will be added to the Toolbars taskbar menu, although you may need to open the menu a few times for it to show up.

When enabling the toolbar, it will be displayed on the right side of the taskbar, next to the system tray. Next, you should select the preferred audio source from the context menu. Because of recent changes to Spotify, setting it up is a fairly difficult process that involves creating a new app from the Spotify dashboard. You can read the full instructions here.

After configuring everything, the toolbar should display information about the current song in the taskbar, and it also enables you to start/stop playback and skip to the next or previous track. Progress is also displayed, but seeking is not supported.

At the moment, Audio Band only works with Spotify. Unfortunately, we noticed that the song information displayed in the toolbar froze occasionally, at which point we had to re-select the audio source to get everything back up and running.

When it comes to visuals, we were quite pleased with the design of the toolbar, and you can also customize the color and dimensions of pretty much every UI element, as well as select a different font.

In short, Audio Band is a pretty impressive tool that provides you with a unique way of managing playback and viewing information about your music. It is still in the early stages of development, but it looks very promising.