It writes down what you actually listen to. Whatever is playing on your machine, whether that is Spotify, a browser tab or any other player, turns up in Risocast, and rating it is one click from the bottom of the window. You stop having to remember to keep the log.
Run the installer and Risocast lands in your Start menu with a shortcut on the desktop, the same as any other program. It uninstalls from Add or Remove Programs.
Windows keeps a media session for whatever has the sound. It is the same one your keyboard’s play button talks to, and Risocast reads it. A track counts once it has played for a minute, then appears in the strip along the bottom of the window with a row of stars beside it.
A browser tab cannot see what other programs are doing. That is the reason the desktop app exists.
You rate what you are already listening to, instead of trying to remember at the end of the week what was worth logging. That gap is where most people give up on keeping a log.
A record you keep going back to is drawn larger and nearer the middle, and climbs above the records you gave the same score and left alone. Without this, the app only knows what you told it. With it, the app knows what you did.
Its own taskbar entry, with a title bar that drives the real window instead of imitating one. Everything else is the site you are reading now, so it updates itself and there is nothing to re-download.