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can not be hold liable for any good or bad outcomes caused by using this program. PLEASE USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! 

This program is a controller for your official ¹Spotify® desktop application installed on your computer. It offers basic music 
player controls like: play, pause, previous, next. It does not use any Spotify API therefore does not need your Spotify 
credentials to work. However, a working Spotify desktop client installed in default folders is needed. 
"rhiimoot" can not see your credentials and does not collect any kind of data. A network connection is needed only to check 
for possible updates & possible developer messages after the launch of the program.

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You can not modify it or sell it or rent it.

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################################ CHANGELOG: [version] __ [release date (yy.mm.dd)] ################################
##[1.4.5.0] __ [2023.04.24]########################################################################################
### Added
- Option to remove "Your version of Windows is out of date" warning when launching Spotify.
### Fixed
- Minor code improvements

##[1.4.4.1] __ [2022.12.14]########################################################################################
### Fixed
- Another bug making rhiimoot disappear

##[1.4.4.0] __ [2022.12.02]########################################################################################
### Fixed
- Previous & Next buttons not functioning sometimes in both players
- Legacy player showing wrong albumart
- Legacy player disappearing when clicked on "always on top" button
- Multiple OSD showing in modern player
- OSD showing wrong song title

##[1.4.3.0] __ [2022.10.05]########################################################################################
### Added
- "Legacy player" & "Modern player" have system wide volume controls
  (Click on the yellow Volume button to open up  'volume down, volume up & mute' controls)
- Vumeter has been added to "Legacy player" 
### Fixed
- Always on top is not working properly when OSD is on 

##[1.4.2.0] __ [2022.09.24]########################################################################################
### Added
- rhiimoot remembers last position. This works with both "Legacy player" & "Modern player" 
  (you can double click albumart to switch to modern player)
### Fixed
- OSD not turning off
- Always on top is working properly when OSD is off. 
  Other OSD fixes and changes will be done in next releases.

##[1.4.0.0] __ [2022.07.184]########################################################################################
### Changed
- Now  rhiimoot can control Spotify playback without taking over the Spotify window. This works with both "Legacy" & "Modern" player windows.
- Double click on albumart now shows "Modern" player (instead of "Albumart window")
- rhiimoot is completely portable now. It saves user settings in an xml file in the folder where rhiimoot is located
- Settings window arangement
### Fixed
- Albumart not showing at all
- Code improvements all over
- Code cleanup
- Always on top bug
### Removed
- sleep timer (temporarily)
- saving listened song titles to a txt file (temporarily)
- song details like album name, track number etc. (Spotify changed many things so it is removed for now)
- albumart window (replaced with "Modern" player)
- total time listened
- saving albumart image
- favorites list
- saving settings in /Local/ folder (replaced with settings.xml)

##[1.3.0.0] __ [2021.06.21]########################################################################################
### Added
- 'Favorites list' added for easy access to your favorite playlists/albums/artists/podcasts**
- 'Favorites list' added to main & albumart window*
* single click to 'open' or 'bring to front if already opened'
### Changed
- About icon replaced with 'Favorites list' on main windows
- About section merged with 'Settings screen'
### Fixed
- Minor code improvements on update checker

##[1.3.1.0] __ [2021.07.24]########################################################################################
### Fixed
- Albumart window not showing some info about the song

##[1.3.0.0] __ [2021.06.21]########################################################################################
### Added
- 'Favorites list' added for easy access to your favorite playlists/albums/artists/podcasts**
- 'Favorites list' added to main & albumart window*
* single click to 'open' or 'bring to front if already opened'
### Changed
- About icon replaced with 'Favorites list' on main windows
- About section merged with 'Settings screen'
### Fixed
- Minor code improvements on update checker

##[1.2.0.0] __ [2021.03.17]########################################################################################
### Changed
- Added default image in main window album art section for cosmetic reasons
### Added
- Quick link to visit current artist's Spotify page from album art window*
- Quick link to visit current album's Spotify page from album art window*
* click on artist or album name in album art window
### Fixed
- Album art window not showing the correct album name in task manager
- OSD icon not showing in task manager

##[1.1.0.0] __ [2021.03.07]########################################################################################
### Changed
- Main window album art section is fixed from now on **
- Rhiimoot FAQ on website updated with latest version changes
### Added
- Current track information (duration, album name, album type, release date, track no, total tracks no, disc no)
- Playlist info (only visible if playing from a playlist)
- Ability to show all the artists (in album art window)
- Bigger album art support
- Album art saving option
- Album art loading bar

##[1.0.2.0] __ [2020.12.30]########################################################################################
### Changed
- Minor code improvements & bug fixes
### Added
- Album name for playing file **
- Total time spent listening with rhiimoot

##[1.0.1.0] __ [2020.11.17]########################################################################################
### Changed
- Minor code improvements
### Added
- Album art for playing song **
- Data is beautiful **
- Share on social media buttons
- Behaviour information message for first use
- An Easter egg for the ambitious
### Fixed
- Release Spotify button needing a second click to function properly when Spotify is minimised

##[1.0.0.1] __ [2020.10.19]########################################################################################
### Changed
- Minor code improvements
### Added
- Option to remove program setting files from %User%\AppData\Local\ folder (reset)
- Crypto donation link
### Fixed
- VU-Meter giving an error on occasion
- OSD giving an error on occasion
- Browser cache cleaning giving an error even though it's working

##[1.0.0.0] __  [2020.09.19]########################################################################################
First version of rhiimoot is released.

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