The Taskbar Music Lounge mod is no longer maintained by its original author, who confirmed they are no longer able to maintain it. The mod is no longer receiving bug fixes, updates, or new features.
Since the mod became unmaintained, several forks and derivative versions have been submitted:
- #3523 - Spotify Taskbar Widget
- #3532 - Taskbar Media Widget
- #3581 - Taskbar Music Lounge Pro
- #3633 - Taskbar Media Beacon
- #3701 - Taskbar Music Lounge Multiple
- #3715 - Taskbar Media Bar
- #3722 - Taskbar Media Player
- #3728 - Taskbar Music Lounge fixes
- #3755 - Taskbar Music Lounge - Fork (Enhanced Version)
- #3976 - Spotify Lyrics Capsule
- #4016 - taskbar-music-lounge-ae
- #4025 - Floating Lyric Bar
- #4246 - Taskbar Music Deck
While this shows that there is demand for this kind of functionality, most of these forks are too narrow in scope — targeting a specific app, a specific visual style, or a specific use case. As noted in one of the reviews, having dozens of near-identical media widget mods is not sustainable and creates a poor experience for users, who have to compare multiple similar-looking mods without a clear way to tell which one to pick.
Rather than accepting many fragmented forks, a single high-quality successor mod is welcome. Ideally, such a mod would:
- Be actively maintained by its author.
- Support a reasonable set of customization and theming options to cover the common use cases that the various forks have been trying to address individually.
but, how to integrate into the taskbar? I research the https://windhawk.net/mods/taskbar-desktop-indicator mod, but it seems just insert some text depends the time block. I try to insert other blocks into the taskbar's uxml tree but never successed.