AudioTwizz reads whatever your Windows music player is playing and shows it on your Discord profile: title, artist, album, cover art and a live progress bar. All taken from your own files.
AudioTwizz is Windows-only. It needs Windows 10 or 11, so open this page on your PC to install it.
Free for Windows 10 and 11 · v8.0 · 272 KB · no admin rights needed
New in v: All changes
Works with anything in your Windows media controls
A ten second look: the song changes in your player, and your Discord profile updates a moment later.
Drag the slider, or use the arrow keys, to compare.
No streaming account needed. If your player shows up in the Windows media controls, AudioTwizz can read it. Hover the cards below to see mini mode, game hiding and privacy mode in motion.
Reads tags in mp3, flac, m4a, ogg, opus and wma, then falls back step by step so there's a cover whenever one can be found.
Templates, presets, and Title - Artist order.
Pick an accent colour for the app, let it follow the cover art, or go all in with a theme.
Closes to the tray, can start with Windows, can show a small notification when the song changes, and on pause either clears your status or keeps it with a pause badge.
A small always-on-top card of your status that stays above everything else. Ctrl+Alt+M opens it.
Pick apps that hide your status when they open, and it comes back when they close.
Flip privacy mode from the tray icon whenever you want your status gone.
Small things you notice after the first week. They start moving when they scroll into view.
{title} - {artist}{artist} · {album}{title} ({duration})See exactly what Discord receives while you edit, so you can fix a layout before anyone sees it.
Pick the hours your status stays hidden. It comes back by itself when they end.
Save your whole setup under a name and switch back to it with one click.
If Discord closes or restarts, AudioTwizz reconnects automatically. Nothing to click.
Put the current song on your clipboard from the app or the tray menu.
AudioTwizz now supports custom themes: your colours, a header logo, your own labels and decorations that move. It ships with one that goes all the way, Halloween: a moonlit graveyard with a haunted house, cobwebs, jack-o’-lanterns, bats, a dangling spider, a drifting ghost, fog and embers.
Example only, with a made-up track. In the app, the bats, ghost, spider, fog and embers move in the window itself.
Halloween isn’t just a recolour. It adds the scenery, flying bats, a ghost, a dangling spider, a pumpkin logo and spooky labels like Now Haunting.
The theme maker has colour pickers, decoration switches, your own pictures, a logo, custom labels and a live preview.
Save a theme as a .twizztheme file and send it to a friend. They press Install from file.
A theme is a small file in your themes folder. It can’t run code, and you can edit it in any text editor.
Open Settings, then Appearance. The Theme section is at the top. Choose Halloween and the whole app changes at once.
Press Make a theme, choose colours and decorations, add your own pictures if you like, then save. You see it change as you go.
Press Share this theme to save a .twizztheme file. A friend uses Install from file and it appears in their list.
Pick AudioTwizz in the list to return to the original look. Your own accent colour setting is kept.
The colours of the whole app, the header logo, the glow behind the window, labels such as “Now Playing”, and decorations: cobwebs, a moon, stars, a graveyard with a haunted house, jack-o’-lanterns, your own pictures, and moving bats, a spider, ghosts, fog, embers or snow.
No. A theme is only data: colours, numbers, text and pictures. AudioTwizz ignores anything else in the file. Extensions are different, because they are code, and ask you first.
They’re a few small pictures moved about 15 times a second, and only while the window is visible. They pause when the window is hidden or being resized. If you’d rather not have them, pick Classic or make a theme with the moving decorations switched off.
A theme can fix its own accent (Halloween uses pumpkin orange) or leave yours alone. Switch back to another theme and your accent setting is back.
In a themes folder next to your AudioTwizz settings. Press Themes folder in Settings, then Appearance, to open it. Each theme is a folder with a theme.json and any pictures it uses.
Extensions that use AudioTwizz’s own colours follow the theme too, so their tabs don’t clash.
AudioTwizz now has extensions. The first one is FL Studio: it reads your project name and shows Working on your project, with a live timer and a picture you choose.
Example only. The picture is the FL Studio logo that comes with the extension. You can swap in your own.
Picks it up from the FL Studio window. Changes when you open another project.
Counts from when you opened the project, or when FL Studio started. Your choice.
Hide the name and it just says “Working on a project”. Line 2 turns to Idle after the minutes you choose.
It’s a second status, so your music status stays as it is. It follows Pause, Privacy mode and auto-hide.
It’s in the AudioTwizz sidebar. Everything available is listed there with a Download & install button, or use Install from file for a .twizz you downloaded.
Every download is checked against its SHA-256 before it’s installed. Extensions can add their own tab, like FL Studio.
In the Developer Portal make an application named FL Studio and paste its ID into the tab. That name shows after “Playing”.
Turn it off in its own tab, or press Remove on the Extensions page. The rest of the app isn’t touched.
Yes. Install the FL Studio extension from the Extensions tab in AudioTwizz. It shows Working on your project name with a live timer, and it needs its own Discord application named FL Studio.
Extensions run code on your PC like any program, so only install ones you trust. Downloads are checked against a SHA-256 fingerprint before they install, and each extension is a single .twizz file (plain Python code) you can read in any text editor first.
No. It reads the project name from the FL Studio window title, so nothing is added to FL Studio and nothing is hooked into it. You can hide the project name or turn the extension off.
You choose it. FL Studio's logo belongs to Image-Line, so AudioTwizz doesn't ship it. Pick your own copy in the FL Studio tab, or upload it as an art asset on your Discord application.
The second extension is Le Twizz: a small Windows program made for AudioTwizz that blocks the ads in the Spotify desktop app. It’s built into the extension, and gets a tab inside AudioTwizz with install, start, stop and status.
Example only. Nothing is downloaded or run from this page. Tick the box to try the buttons.
Install, start, stop and remove Le Twizz, with a plain status line that says what’s happening.
Optional. It can start with AudioTwizz and stop again when AudioTwizz closes. It also has its own tray icon to exit.
Nothing is downloaded. The program is stored inside the extension, and its SHA-256 fingerprint is checked before it’s saved to your PC.
Off until you turn it on. It has no update check and sends nothing anywhere. New versions arrive as updates to the extension.
Open the Extensions tab in AudioTwizz and press Download & install on Le Twizz, or use Install from file for a .twizz you downloaded.
Open its tab, read the warning, then turn the extension on, tick I understand and press Save.
Press Install to save Le Twizz to your PC, then Start. If Spotify was already open, restart it once.
Press Stop any time, or Remove to delete it. Turning the extension off leaves the rest of AudioTwizz untouched.
A small Windows program made for AudioTwizz that blocks the ads in the Spotify desktop app by hooking into it. The extension carries it inside one .twizz file of plain Python, and checks its SHA-256 fingerprint before saving it to your PC, so nothing is downloaded.
Spotify’s terms of service don’t allow it. Using this extension is your own choice and risk, which is why it stays off until you opt in.
Le Twizz works by injecting code into the Spotify app, and some antivirus programs flag that kind of program. The extension never installs anything until you tick the box and press Install.
No. Everything runs on your PC. Le Twizz has no update check, and the extension downloads nothing. New versions arrive as updates to the extension.
Le Twizz replaces it. Installing Le Twizz stops and removes the older program that extension set up, so the two don’t fight over Spotify.
The third extension is Watching: when you play an episode or a film in your browser or a video app, your Discord profile shows the show, season and episode, its thumbnail and a progress bar. Nothing is shown until you press Allow.
Example only, with a made-up show. Press a button to see what each one does.
Read from what the site reports to Windows: the show’s name, S2 E4 and the episode’s own title. If the site doesn’t say, it can read them off the page.
The episode thumbnail as the picture, with a real bar and the runtime. If the site gives no picture, a poster or episode image is looked up (you can turn that off). It follows you when you skip ahead or pause.
A new site waits in the tab until you press Allow, Only this or Ignore, the same buttons as the music player list.
It reads what Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave and video apps already report to Windows.
Open the Extensions tab in AudioTwizz and press Download & install on Watching, or use Install from file for a .twizz you downloaded.
In the Developer Portal make an application named what people should see after “Watching”, for example TV, and paste its ID into the tab.
Start a video in your browser. It shows up under Playing now in the tab, with what the site reports about it.
Allow shows it, Only this shows nothing else, Ignore never shows it. Turn the extension off any time.
Anything that reports to the Windows media controls, which many streaming sites do in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi, and video apps like VLC. Sites differ in what they report: some give the show and episode separately, some put it all in one title. The tab shows exactly what each source reports, and the two lines are templates you can change.
Not your history, and not your pages in general. It reads the title, show, thumbnail and position the site publishes to Windows, plus the browser window’s title to work out the site’s name. If the episode isn’t in either, it can look on the page for a line like “S2 E4” through Windows’ accessibility interface, the one screen readers use. Nothing else from the page is read or kept, and you can switch that off. Only sources you’ve allowed are ever sent anywhere.
The text you see in the preview, and the thumbnail, which is hosted the way cover art is so that Discord can show it. Unless you switch it off, the show’s name is also sent to tvmaze.com to look up a poster and the episode’s name. That only happens for sources you’ve allowed. Everything else stays on your PC.
Discord shows one status per application, so the music status and this one stay separate. The application’s name is what people see after “Watching”.
Yes. Every tab that’s playing something is its own row under Playing now, so a football match, a series and a YouTube video in the same browser each get their own Allow, Only this and Ignore. Each row has a menu for what the buttons apply to: this video (the default), this site or the whole browser.
A video you’ve allowed in Watching is left out of your music status automatically (you can switch that off in the extension). On an older AudioTwizz, add the browser to Ignore these in the media player settings. Newer versions also accept title:south park there, to ignore one video instead of the whole browser.
The same list you see in AudioTwizz > Extensions. Each extension is a single .twizz file hosted on GitHub Pages. It’s plain Python code with its own file extension, so you can open it in a text editor and read it before you install it.
Install from inside AudioTwizz: Extensions > Download & install, or Extensions > Install from file for a .twizz you downloaded here. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Image-Line or FL Studio.
You can, if Spotify is all you play. Discord's connection only knows about Spotify. AudioTwizz covers everything else you listen to on your PC.
| AudioTwizz | Discord's Spotify connection | |
|---|---|---|
| Music from your own files | Yes | —Spotify tracks only |
| Which players | VLC, MusicBee, foobar2000 and other players that show in the Windows media controls | —Spotify only |
| Cover art | Read from your own files | —Spotify's artwork |
| Live progress bar | Yes | Yes |
| Pause badge and player badge | Small icon on the cover | —Not customisable |
| Account needed | None | —Spotify account linked to Discord |
Type the name of the player you use.
You'll get a yes or no here.
What else it needs: Windows 10 or 11 and the Discord desktop app running. Regular Discord, PTB and Canary all work. Discord in a web browser can't show it, because browsers aren't able to receive a status from another program.
Most players work the moment you press play. If yours doesn't, find it below. Each card shows what AudioTwizz looks for and what to do about it.
Start any track in foobar2000.
If the song name shows above the slider, you're done. AudioTwizz can already read it.
foobar2000 reports to Windows media controls through an SMTC component, so install one. Without it AudioTwizz falls back to the title bar, which has to end in [foobar2000], so keep that default.
Start any track in MusicBee.
If the song name shows above the slider, you're done. AudioTwizz can already read it.
If the volume flyout stays empty, AudioTwizz reads the title bar instead. Leave it ending in - MusicBee and don't hide the title.
Start any track in VLC.
If the song name shows above the slider, you're done. AudioTwizz can already read it.
If the volume flyout stays empty, AudioTwizz reads the title bar instead. Leave it ending in - VLC media player, which is VLC's default.
Start any track in AIMP.
If the song name shows above the slider, you're done. AudioTwizz can already read it.
If the volume flyout stays empty, AudioTwizz reads the title bar instead. Leave it ending in - AIMP.
Start any track in PotPlayer.
If the song name shows above the slider, you're done. AudioTwizz can already read it.
If the volume flyout stays empty, AudioTwizz reads the title bar instead. Leave it ending in - PotPlayer.
Start any track in MPC-HC.
If the song name shows above the slider, you're done. AudioTwizz can already read it.
MPC-HC doesn't report to Windows media controls, so AudioTwizz reads the title bar, which ends in - MPC-HC. Discord then shows an elapsed timer instead of a progress bar.
Still nothing? Open Settings in AudioTwizz and check Window title order, which tells the title-bar backup which way round your artist and title are. Then try the troubleshooter.
Two files, nothing else. AudioTwizz checks for updates on start and every six hours, and asks before it installs one.
Installs AudioTwizz for the current Windows user.
AudioTwizzSetup.exeWindows may say “unknown publisher”. AudioTwizz isn’t code signed yet. Choose More info, then Run anyway, and compare the SHA-256 below.
VirusTotal scan reportRemoves the app, shortcuts and startup entry.
AudioTwizzUninstall.exe VirusTotal scan reportWindows only. These files won't run on Mac, Linux or phones.
Antivirus warnings: Because AudioTwizz isn't code signed yet, a few antivirus engines may show a false detection on the installer. Open the VirusTotal report to see exactly which engines and what they say, and compare your download's SHA-256 with the one above to confirm it's the real file.
Discord needs an "application" to show your music under. It's free and takes about two minutes.
It installs into your user folder, adds a Desktop and Start menu shortcut, and installs Python if you don't have it. No admin rights needed.
Open the Discord Developer Portal, sign in, and choose New Application. Its name is what shows after "Listening to" on your profile.
On the General Information page, copy the Application ID. It's a long number made only of digits.
Paste it in the installer when it asks, or later in Settings, then press Save.
Start any music with the Discord desktop app open. Your status shows up within a couple of seconds.
New versions reach everyone without a new download. AudioTwizz asks first and checks every file. If a new version misbehaves, one button takes you back to any earlier version.
Open Settings, then About, press Go back to an older version and pick any earlier version. Your settings are backed up first, and the newer version isn’t offered again until you check for updates yourself.
On start and every six hours, or press Check for updates in Settings. You get a single “Update now?” with what’s new, and it won’t ask again until you restart.
The download is verified against its checksum first, so a bad download can’t break your install.
They live in their own folder, separate from the app files an update replaces.
Update prompt. Try it.
Going back to an older version. Try it.
Four quick checks fix most problems. Answer each one and the fix appears under the step that needs it.
Open it first. Start AudioTwizz from the Desktop or Start menu shortcut. It closes to the tray, so check there too. Once it is open, make sure it says presence is on.
Turn it on. In the Discord desktop app, open User Settings, then Activity Privacy, and switch on the option that shows your current activity. Then pause and play your song again.
Your player is not telling Windows. AudioTwizz reads the same media controls that flyout uses. Turn on the media controls option in your player (some players need a plugin for it), or try a player that reports to Windows, like VLC or MusicBee.
Your status is being hidden on purpose. Press Ctrl+Alt+H to toggle the hide hotkey, then check Settings for rules that hide your status while chosen apps run, in fullscreen, or during quiet hours.
Check that the Discord desktop app is running, that AudioTwizz shows presence as on, and that Discord's Activity Privacy setting allows sharing your activity. You also can't see some details on your own profile, so ask a friend to look.
No Application ID is saved yet. Paste it in Settings and press Save first.
AudioTwizz can't find the Discord desktop app. Open Discord, and AudioTwizz connects on its own a few seconds later.
AudioTwizz isn't sending your status right now. Switch presence back on in the app.
None of the image hosts answered. Your status still works without a cover, and it tries again on the next song. You can also turn off cover upload in Settings.
The ID is wrong. Copy it again from General Information in the Developer Portal. It must be digits only, with no spaces.
The installer looks for a compatible Python and installs one for you if it can't find it. This happens once.
Yes. Anything that reports to the Windows media controls works, and streaming songs get a button that opens the song.
Yes. Press Ctrl+Alt+H, or set it to hide automatically while certain apps run, in fullscreen, or at set quiet hours.
AudioTwizz checks for a new version on start and every six hours, asks before installing, then closes and reopens by itself. You never need to download the installer again.
Yes. Open Settings, then About, press Go back to an older version, and pick any earlier version. Your settings are backed up first, and AudioTwizz won't offer the newer version again until you check for updates yourself.
Run AudioTwizzUninstall.exe from the download section above.
Your music files stay on your computer. To show a status, AudioTwizz does send a few things over the internet. Here is exactly what, and how to switch it off.
The song title, artist, album and progress, so Discord can show them on your profile.
Discord can only show a picture it can download itself. So a cover read from your file is shrunk to 512x512 and uploaded to an anonymous image host (litterbox, catbox, uguu, tmpfiles or 0x0.st), and the link is passed to Discord. Anyone with that link can see the image. This is on by default. Turn it off in Settings with Upload covers from my files so Discord can show them.
The song title and artist are sent to iTunes and Deezer to fill in missing covers, albums and lengths. Switch it off with Fill in missing covers, albums and lengths. Links for the "Open this song" button come from song.link.
Extensions: the list and downloads come from the AudioTwizz update site. The FL Studio extension reads your FL Studio window title on your PC. If you choose a picture for it, only that picture is uploaded to an image host so Discord can show it. Your project name goes to Discord as the status text, unless you hide it. The Le Twizz extension runs entirely on your PC: it downloads nothing and sends nothing anywhere. The Watching extension reads the media controls and browser window titles on your PC (and, only to find a season and episode number, lines on the page that look like “S2 E4”, through Windows’ accessibility interface), and only for sources you’ve allowed sends the show name, episode text and a thumbnail (hosted like cover art) to Discord and, unless you switch it off, the show’s name to tvmaze.com to look up a poster.
The app asks the update server whether a newer version exists, and which older versions you can go back to. Your settings, including your Application ID, stay in a folder on your PC.
Three steps take AudioTwizz and what it stored off your PC.
Close AudioTwizz (your Discord status disappears with it), then run AudioTwizzUninstall.exe. It removes the app, its shortcuts and the startup entry.
Settings, logs and cached cover links live in their own folder. Paste %APPDATA%\LocalPresence into the File Explorer address bar and delete the folder. It holds your settings, your Application ID, the error log, your music library cache, the cache of cover links and, if you connected Spotify, the saved sign-in.
If you left cover uploads on, small copies of your covers were put on anonymous image hosts, and AudioTwizz can't delete them for you. Most expire on their own: uguu after about 3 hours, tmpfiles after 1 hour, litterbox after 72 hours and 0x0.st after about 20 days. Only catbox keeps files until someone removes them. Switch off Upload covers from my files so Discord can show them in Settings, then Display, before you uninstall if you don't want any more uploaded.
Tried the checklist above? Message me on Discord. In AudioTwizz open Settings, then About, press Copy diagnostic information and paste it in your message.
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