Evilander/newamp

[1.14.0] - 2026-07-02

Fixed

• The player's clock no longer freezes when you can't see it. The audio
  engine polled currentTime on requestAnimationFrame, which Chromium
  stops entirely for occluded or minimized windows — so the moment the
  projector covered the main window (single monitor, projector fullscreen)
  or you minimized to the tray, everything gated on that clock silently
  stalled: the projector's scrub bar and time readout, gapless prepare and
  crossfade handoff, cue-sheet segment advancement, the sleep timer,
  scrobbling, and resume-state persistence. The clock now runs on a 100 ms
  timer — the UI notify path was already bucketed to 100 ms, so nothing
  renders more often; it just never stops. This was the root cause of most
  "player + projector at the same time" weirdness.
• The projector's control bar resets when playback stops. Clearing the
  queue or running it out no longer leaves the projector frozen on the last
  track's title and timestamp forever; the producer now ships an explicit
  idle signal and the bar returns to its resting state.
• Unplugging the projector's monitor now actually rescues the window.
  The display-removed recovery compared against a display id that could
  never match (the display is already gone from the list when the event
  fires — the check was dead code). It now asks whether the window still
  intersects any remaining display and snaps it to the primary when not.
• Eviland Live clips record what's actually on screen. Recording in
  eviland-live captured only the raw MilkDrop iframe — NewAmp's scene
  overlay and reactor event layers were silently missing from every saved
  clip. The recorder now composites the full layer stack live (audio muxed
  as before), so the clip matches the screen.
• The projector respects the low-quality tier. Its scene overlay ran at
  hardcoded high quality forever, regardless of the quality the main window
  pushed; it now skips entirely on low and re-scales on quality changes,
  matching the main window's performance floor.
• Closing the projector no longer briefly re-enables the toggle against a
  still-closing window, and reloading the main window while the projector is
  open no longer leaks a MessagePort per reload.

Added

• Eviland sees the record sleeve. The dominant colors of the current
  album art are extracted per track and blended into the palette that drives
  the scene overlay, the reactor events, and the projector — a red album
  burns red, a teal album glows teal, in both windows, with zero configuration.
  Grayscale sleeves gracefully keep the theme palette. MilkDrop presets ship
  fixed colors; Eviland now paints with your collection's.
• A second scene, played by the drums. On the high quality tier, Eviland
  Live composites an independent accent scene over the base scene, its
  opacity driven live by kick/snare/vocal onset envelopes — it materializes
  on the hits and evaporates in quiet passages, and rotates on its own
  cadence so the base × accent pairing keeps recombining. Two full presets
  at once, mixed per-instrument: structurally impossible in a single
  MilkDrop preset.
• The scene walk remembers too. Scene rotation is now seeded by the
  track's visual-memory lineage (generation × root seed), not just the track
  id — when a favorite evolves a generation, its scene deck reshuffles,
  identically in the main window and the projector. The 1.12.0 "Eviland
  remembers" promise now covers every layer of the composition.
• The projector is a real player now: volume. The floating control bar
  gained a volume slider (0–200% perceptual, live-mirrors the main window),
  joining play/pause, prev/next, scrub, and fullscreen.
• Song search results you can click. Album-search matches on a song
  title (the ♪ line under a card) now open that album with the matching row
  scrolled into view and flashed. New TrackLink navigation everywhere:
  queue rows link their artist; Sounds Like rows, Album Context credits,
  same-year albums, bookends, longest cut, and the mini tracklist all link
  to their artist/album/track (double-click a mini-tracklist row to play
  it). The Now Playing album card's artist and album are links as well.

Performance

• Hoisted per-frame getComputedStyle reads out of three visualizer render
  loops (the canvas-2D catch-all, particle-flow, and the shader modes) —
  theme colors now refresh twice a second instead of forcing a style recalc
  60×/s, and a dead variable that survived only via void suppression is
  gone.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Evilander/newamp/compare/v1.13.1...v1.14.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Evilander/newamp/compare/v1.13.1...v1.14.0