evilpro/taskplay

Taskplay is a small utility which adds media playback controls to the Windows System Tray

Taskplay

Taskplay is a small utility which adds media playback controls to the Windows System Tray

Info

Taskplay is written in C#

It is currently targeting .NET Framework 2.0 so it should be compatible with most Windows versions.

Download

To download Taskplay, please go to the Releases tab of this repository.

taskplay's Issues

taskplay detected as malware by malwarebyte and crashing PC

After i quarantine taskplay, my PC went back to normal

[Minor] Clicking GitHub link on Settings shows an XP style link cursor than native

I'm an user with an eye for details and design so this kinda minor, but I'll still report this. The GitHub link on the Settings dialog, or presumably any new text link that could implemented shows an XP style or old link cursor style than following the current or native Windows 10 cursor settings. Fix this

Option for Taskplay to disappear or grey out icons when there's no media input

It would be nice you'll implement some way for Taskplay to hide or disappear completely from the Tray to conserve Tray screen estate when there's no media input, or just an option for the icons to grey out (means they're disabled). I also suggest for a tooltip on the event saying "There's no media input" or something better UX English

Spotify 'Like' button?

This little app has been such an awesome tool to prevent distraction of having to reach for the Spotify app and click. the only thing I'd want extra is the a 'like' / heart global control for Spotify. Willing to pay for the project. Send me a note, and a great job!

Volume buttons

Hi,
Can we have volume +/- buttons or slider?

Overlay timeout setting

Would be nice to add timeout setting for overlay window.
With option to put in 0 to disable it completely.

[Feature] The ability to change the icons to black for white theme

That does not look amazing, does it?

Play/Pause icon change

It would be helpful if "play"-button (triangle) would change to "pause"-button (double vertical line), when playback is put on pause.

Ability to edit resource icons or Theming implementation

Here's my suggestion for Theming implementation. I suggest for a TrayBin inspired implementation.

On Taskplay's Program directory, there should be a "themes" folder where all themes are stored.
Here's how I'll suggest the icon pack or theming implementation: Inside the "themes" folder, there will be folder, where every folder represent an icon pack: say there's folder named "Windows 10 MDL Icon Style by Evil Pro", inside it is where you'll find a 8 icons and an .ini file. The first four files are for the active icons for Previous, Play, Pause, Next, the next fours are for disabled or greyed out icon "Previous_disabled", "Play_disabled", "Pause_disabled", Next_disabled". the ini file is names as "info.ini" where inside the name and infos of the theme folder is listed as it follows:

[Taskplay-theme]
name=Windows 10 MDL Icon Stlye"
version=1.0
copyright=©2017 EvilPro
website=http://twitter.com/evilpro

On Settings there should be a new Tab named as "Theme" where the user could select all the theme folders installed on that "themes" folder in a dropdown box, Under it is where the user could preview the selected theme icons, all the icons both on active and disabled state. I suggest to render it under a Black Windows 10 Taskbar picture to really represent the icon as it is, and so themes that is rendered in pitch white could be seen instead of just showing it an standard Win32 white dialog box background where it's contrasting and hard to see. Under the icons is the Name of the theme file, it's version, copyright and link to the website which is optional. I also suggest to already apply the icon live on the taskbar if that's possible or if you can even when you're just selecting from the dialog box. I also suggest a new button on under it y where you could easily launch and open the "themes" folder of Taskplay. Named as "Open themes directory" at the bottom. And a subtitle text below it teaching and describing the user how to create their own Theme or icon pack. The only thing missing is an "Apply" button. Even if what I suggest Taskplay Live preview of the icons on the taskbar is being shown, if the user clicks X or Cancel it will revert to previous design

I also suggest for already built in two theme created by you that'll ship together with the app, the hollowed styled icon from Windows 8.1 tray icon and the Windows 10 MDL Style that'll perfectly fit along the Windows 10 Tray icons. Name them whatever you want. I suggest to make "Windows 10 MDL Icon Style" the default upon install

Keep on innovating

wrong button on start app

if a music is playing when app starts, the play/pause button is wrong.
Windows 11

Song Title + Artist?

Are you able to add song Title + Artist info next to the controls?
This would be great.

play/pause icon is switching randomly, while playing regularly

The play / pause icon is randomly switching, while spotify is playing. It's just the icon, so playback is fine. But the constant blinking of play/pause can really make you go crazy...
v1.2.1 / Windows 10

Update releases

The pre-built version in the release tab is not up to date anymore.

Add a dark icons

When the taskbar is white its a little bit hard to visualize.

Program stopped working after update

Program worked perfect before KB4023057 update on windows 10 20H2, now it shows but do nothing.

Yandex Radio/Music

Hi, @evilpro

add, plz, "Next" feature for radio.yandex.ru/*

Thax )

HotKeys

How about having customizable HotKeys to for each button? Is it possible?
For instance:
(Win+F6): Prev
(Win+F7): Play/Pause
(Win+F8): Next
And can be changed by the user.