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# Dashboard, Tray & Quitting

## The menu bar icon

Amee runs with a menu-bar icon for its entire lifetime. Clicking it shows a menu with:

* **Show Player** — shows and focuses the floating mini player (useful if you've hidden it).
* **Settings…** — opens the Dashboard.
* **Version: X.X.X** — the running build's version (for quick reference without opening About).
* **Check for Updates…** — manually triggers an update check.
* **About Amee** — opens the Dashboard and selects the About tab.
* **Quit Amee**

## The Dashboard

The Dashboard is Amee's settings window, opened from the menu-bar icon. It has four tabs:

* **General** — behavior toggles (below) plus mini-player position controls. See [The Mini Player Window](/features/mini-player-window.md).
* **Skins** — the skin switcher, with install/export/delete for skins you've added. See [Skins](/customization/skins.md).
* **Appearance** — the theme switcher, with import/export/delete for themes. See [Themes](/customization/themes.md).
* **About** — version info, update status, and links.

### General settings

Settings are organized into two groups:

**Mini player:**

* **Auto hide when not playing** — hides the floating mini player after 10 seconds of nothing playing, and brings it back as soon as playback resumes. See [Now Playing](/features/now-playing.md#auto-hide-when-idle).
* **Always return to the app I toggled from** — controls how `toggleNowPlayingApp()` behaves when you've manually switched apps in between. See [Now Playing](/features/now-playing.md#playback-controls).

**App:**

* **Auto pause currently playing music when app quits** — on by default. See [Now Playing](/features/now-playing.md#auto-pause-on-quit).
* **Launch at login** — starts Amee automatically when you sign in. This stays in sync if you change it instead from **System Settings → General → Login Items**.
* **Auto check for updates** — silently checks for a new version when Amee starts. The About tab's "Check for updates" button still works either way.

### About tab

Shows Amee's version number, update status (with download/install controls when an update is available), a short description, and links (email, website, project page). The update check can also be triggered from the tray menu's "Check for Updates…" item.

## Quitting Amee

You can quit from the menu-bar icon's "Quit Amee," the app menu, or ⌘Q — all behave the same way:

1. If **auto pause on quit** is on, sends a pause command to whatever's playing first.
2. If the active skin supports it, gives it a brief moment to finish up (a fade-out animation, a final save) before actually closing.

Quitting again while Amee is still finishing up closes it immediately, rather than making you wait.


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