Goal

Build a desktop app to show what music is playing and detect its genre in real time, in a clean overlay-style UI.

Setup

• Created a WPF app using .NET
• Confirmed blank window worked

UI

• Added basic dark UI in XAML
• Showed song title, artist, and genre
• Started with fake test data

Song Detection

• Used Windows media session API
• App now detects Spotify, YouTube, etc.
• Updates when song changes

Genre System

• Integrated Last.fm API
• Fetches genre from artist name
• Returns “Unknown” if no data

Current State

Working MVP:

• Live song detection
• Artist + title display
• Genre lookup working
• Auto-updates on song change

To Do

• Overlay popup UI (FluentFlyouts style)
• Album art(maybe)
• Skip, back, pause buttons
• Caching + performance improvements