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The Arc Menu Launcher Suite V.4.6.3

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UPDATE: 7/1/2020 - Fixed the Weather App again due to weather.com site changes


PLEASE NOTE: The official Spotify plugin is no longer supported by it's creator. As such, the compatibility is hit and miss.
There is no solution for full Spotify/Rainmeter compatibility at the moment that I am aware of.


Introducing The Arc Menu Launcher Suite. An all in one menu launcher for your desktop.


MAIN MENU
The menu bar contains 6 customizable menus
Right click on any menu to open the respective folder path
Each menu option displays the menu items to the right. Click on the icon of the item to launch the respective item

QUICK LAUNCH BAR
You may have up to 12 quick launch icons. Hover over the icon for application name
Right click on any Quick launch icon to open the Quick Launch folder

SCROLL BAR
Scroll up/down to scroll through the items
Scroll left/right to scroll a page at a time
Change scroll speed from single to page
Click on any item's icon to launch it
Click on folders to see their contents
Displays separate icons for folders and files
Right click on any item's icon to see their context menu

START MENU BUTTON
Opens your windows start menu
Acts like your windows start menu
Click on the "..." button to go up a folder level
Right on start button to open a new search window
Click on the sort icon to cycle sorting menu items by Name, Date, Size, and Type
Use the ascend and descend buttons to change sort order

AUDIO VISUALIZER
A round VU meter around the entire skin that can be turned on or off using the EQ button in the music control bar
Now with VisBubble visualizer fully integrated into skin | Thanks to undefinist for letting me use his awesome skin!

APP CHANGER
The inner most ring of The Arc gives you quick access to 6 useful apps:
Album Art: Displays art and track info for current track | Displays last album released with release date and link to buy on iTunes | Left click to open player | Full screen mode | Glow mode in settings
Artist Info: Displays the biography of the current artist with iTunes link | Shows 5 similar artists with links to iTunes | Change from bio to similar artists and toggle full size image using the circles
Reddit Slideshow: Randomly cycles through 24 images from your favorite subreddit | Right click to cycle image | Left click to view full size | Change subreddit on mouse over or through settings menu
Weather: Displays today/tomorrow/day after weather forecast with details | Toggle background image of current condition | Click on city name to launch your weather.com local forecast
Reddit Reader: Displays 6 articles and images from 4 of your favorite subreddits
Clock: Shows current date and time in 12H or 24H | Shows sunrise and sunset times for today | Shows the quote of the day from brainyquote.com | Toggle background image of reddit slideshow

MUSIC CONTROL BAR

The bottom center ring contains basic music controls (Prev | Play/Pause | Next) that work with most music players
Use the EQ button to turn on/off the VisBubble audio visualizer | cycles skin color/album art color/off
Use the EX button to change the background of the Arc to the current album art (Works best with Arc Menu color set to black) screenshot | cycles album art/slideshow art/off
Clicking on AT launches Album Tracker which displays latest iTunes release for your entire music library (Make sure to specify your music library folder in Settings menu)
Clicking on AF shows the current album's key background color or art faded around the skin | cycles album art color/album art image/off

RAM/CPU STATUS BAR
Customizable RAM/CPU indicator bar

SETTINGS MENU
Customize everything using the Settings Menu
The Settings Button is located at the top of the app changer
Hover over each option to see the default value

The Arc Menu is completely customizable through the Settings Button located at the top of the app changer circle.


Note  The default folder locations for your Bookmarks, QuickLaunch and Controls shortcuts are "Rainmeter\Skins\ArcMenu\Folders\". This can be changed in the Settings Menu.
Note  You can customize the color of every individual part of the skin using the COLORIZE menu option
Note  The Arc Menu displays separate icons for folders and files, allowing you to browse your files much more easily
Note  In order for this skin's apps to display properly using Rainmeter's image mask feature, you need Windows 7 or higher. Win 7 users may also need this windows platform update


If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to post!



CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

Visbubble Visualizer skin created by undefinist
Album art and music controls re-purposed from rabra's CoveR
Clock app re-purposed from twistlemon's Elegant Clock
Weather app re-purposedfrom evertonstz's July Flat'ish
RSS app re-purposed from InteractEight's FLaTT's *FINAL*
The RAM/CPU bar was inspired by Jkon00's "Pog Pack"
Wallpapers shown in preview: Jarvis Logon | Deep Sea | Cosmos | Simple Retro | Bokeh
Scroll Wheel Icons: Bookmarks | Downloads | Games | Applications | Folder | Controls


------------------------------------ CHANGE LOG ----------------------------------------

4.6.3
Added: Quick color change options for every quick launch icon background
Fixed: Weather app (again)
Fixed: Clock app sunrise/set times
Fixed: Artist Info image not parsing
Fixed: Artist image scraping for full screen mode in albumart app
Changed: Artist Info app bio now parsing from iTunes rather than last.fm

4.6.2
Fixed: Weather app (switched from depreciated service to weather.com)

4.6.1
Fixed: Album Tracker broken scraping issues not returning any results

---------------------------- Full change log in skin folder -------------------------------
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cant get code for weather