About this project

Music Presence is a desktop application that displays the music you are currently listening to as a Discord status. According to its README, it works with any media player, including Apple Music, Spotify and foobar2000, and currently supports over 100 different players. When playback starts in a supported app, the track is detected automatically and appears in the system tray menu and in the user's Discord status. Key capabilities described in the README: - Album cover display: the project claims it shows the correct album cover for every media player without relying on external image sources. - Playback position: shows the exact current playback position with a progress bar when the media player supports it. - Per-application control: users can choose which applications are shared and configure settings individually per media player. - Tray icon state: the tray icon reflects whether sharing is active, waiting for playback, or disabled. - Status text options: the text after "Listening to" can show the artist name, song title, player name or media type. - Animated artwork: for supported players such as Apple Music and TIDAL, animated album artwork can be shown; this is disabled by default and converted on the fly. - Paused media: paused tracks can remain visible in the status. - Spotify synergy: podcasts can be shown with a "Listening to a Podcast" label, which the README notes the official Spotify integration does not display. - Buttons: a "Play on Apple Music" style button is available for Apple Music, TIDAL, Deezer and Spotify, subject to API rate limiting. - Updates: in-app and automatic updates are supported. Distribution and installation: prebuilt downloads are offered for Windows (installer and zip, x64), macOS (DMG for arm64 and x86_64) and Linux (AppImage, deb, rpm and tar.gz, x64). The README also mentions installation via Homebrew on macOS and an unofficial AUR package on Arch. Documentation links cover installation instructions, supported media players, troubleshooting, third-party integration and verifying releases. The project is developed by a single developer and funded through Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, GitHub Sponsors and LiberaPay. A Discord community server is linked for support and discussion. The README includes a disclaimer that the software is not affiliated with or endorsed by Discord or any streaming service, media player or music distributor. It also lists media mentions and links to bug reports filed to improve metadata reporting in media players, such as a Chromium MediaSession API issue regarding album names on Windows.