SwinsianDiscord is now updated to support the Music app under macOS 10.15 Catalina. Note that there is one limitation that elapsed time will not show since the app doesn’t provide this information. This update will appear in the AppCast for software updates later today.

Change log is below.

Adds support for the Music.app under macOS 10.15 Catalina. Note that elapsed time does not work with Music.app since the app does not provide this information.

SwinsianDiscord requires macOS El Capitan (10.11) or later.

New Features

• Music.app support added (macOS 10.15 or later)

 

With 2019 coming to a close, it’s time to take a look at what we have accomplished:

• Raised about $374 in donations for 2019
• So far, 4 active patrons supporting the development monthly.
• Refined the releases of Shukofukurou for iOS/macOS and Hachidori
• Implement MultiScrobble feature in Hachidori (including support for MyAnimeList as well)
• Created a title id mapping service to help aid in episode notifications, exporting to MAL XML from AniList/Kitsu lists and also future implementation of list syncing between services
• Restored MyAnimeList support (finally!). The macOS versions with MyAnimeList support is still in beta testing.
• Added iOS 13/iPadOS 13 support for Shukofukurou including native dark mode support
• Improved Patreon benefits unlocking (users can unlock donor features easily by using a Patreon key from the portal)

Of course, 2020 will be a big year. While I will be working full time, I will still actively develop the software on whatever free time I have after work, including weekends. These are what I want to implement in the near future:

• List Syncing support in Shukofukurou.
• History syncing between devices and the Mac version.
• Implementing the finer social features such as the activity timeline in AniList/Kitsu and Forums in MAL (When the API becomes available).
• Restoring Tags support for MyAnimeList
• Possibly Expanding legal stream support with the Scrobble share extension in the iOS version of Shukofukurou. We are still investigating creating an in-app web browser to provide similar functionality as Hachidori for legal stream detection.
• Improved Local List Statistics.

Since I will still be actively using the apps I develop, expect semi-fequent updates (at least once or twice a month) for the apps going forward. With that, I thank everyone who help support the development of these apps from downloading it off the App Store, obtaining a donation license or becoming a Patron. We hope to keep providing helpful apps that help you track of your anime and manga progress.

Due to controversial changes to Paypal, in protest of them forcing a fee to refund (although we don’t do refunds on donations), in principle, we cannot accept donations through Paypal until they reverse this change that hurts customers and sellers. However, Fastspring, which is our payment processor for donation licenses are not affected by this.

You can see the video why we are doing this. If you want to support development, you may still do so by obtaining a donation license, through the Tip Jar on the iOS/macOS apps or supporting us through Patreon.

For developers who are using Tom Harrington’s original PHP-based backend, you should know that the last compatible PHP version that works with this script, 5.6 is now end of life. Since the script uses the out of date mysql_* methods and PHP 7 removed this entirely, the script will not work. Now, I updated the script to use mysqli_* so it can run on PHP 7 in addition to PHP 5.x. You can get it here.

I will be making future improvements such as refactoring the script and update it to use prepared statements for additional security against SQL Injection.