News

• Sun, Feb 14, 2021

  Release 1.5.3 Beta (457)

  • Added: option to sort albums by date (Settings → Behavior → "Albums sort order") Requires MPD v0.21.11 or newer.
  • Added: option to apply albums grouping in inner lists, for example: group genre albums by album artist. (Settings → Behavior → "Apply group-by to inner lists")
  • Fixed: incorrect player queue duration.
• Mon, Feb 1, 2021

  Release 1.5.2

  • Improved internal player for HTTP streaming (using ExoPlayer instead of MediaPlayer API).

    The new internal player starts playback with shorter delay, and works consistently better on different devices.

    The buffer size is configurable (Settings → "HTTP Streaming" → "Player buffer size"). Select between 1, 2½, or 5 seconds buffer size. The default is 1 second.

  • Detail tabs can be re-ordered.
  • Touch volume popup has new look.
• Mon, Jan 25, 2021

  Release 1.5.2 Beta (452)

  • Improved HTTP streaming internal player (using ExoPlayer instead of MediaPlayer API).

    The new internal player starts playback with shorter delay, and works consistently better on different devices.

    The buffer size is configurable (Settings → "HTTP Streaming" → "Player buffer size"). Select between 1, 2½, or 5 seconds buffer size. The default is 1 second.

  • Detail tabs can be re-ordered.
  • Touch volume popup has new look.
• Sat, Jan 9, 2021

  Release 1.5.1 (444)

  This is a bug fix release for version 1.5.1

  • Fixed: crash in Radio Station edit when deleting image url.
    

• Tue, Jan 5, 2021

  Release 1.5.2 Beta (440)

  • Improved HTTP streaming internal player (using ExoPlayer instead of MediaPlayer API).

    The new internal player starts playback with shorter delay, and works consistently better on different devices.

    The buffer size is configurable (Settings → "HTTP Streaming" → "Player buffer size"). Select between 1, 2½, or 5 seconds buffer size. The default is 1 second.

• Sun, Jan 3, 2021

  Release 1.5.1

  • New feature: option to select which details tabs appear under each tag details.
  • New preference: Settings → Behavior → "Enable double tap ff/rewind".
  • Swipe actions: easier action triggering when dragging outside of item bounds.
  • Player notification: added seek bar and support for android 11 media controls.
  • Fixed: empty external players in http streaming config dialog in android 11.
  • Fixed: wrong action bar theme in player view after changing MPD server.
• Tue, Dec 8, 2020

  Release 1.5.1 Beta (430)

  • Added option to select which details tabs appear under each tag details.
  • New preference: Settings → Behavior → "Enable double tap ff/rewind".
    Double tap the seek buttons to move to the beginning or end of the track.
  • Swipe actions: increased tracking tolerance for easier action triggering when dragging outside of item bounds.
• Tue, Dec 8, 2020

  Release 1.5.0

  • Added support for client side radio stations.

    An online stream URL can have some metadata added to it such as image, name, country, etc. When that URL is found in the player queue the metadata will be attached to the playing item.

    Metadata can be added manually or optionally looked up in the radio-browser community database (Settings → Radio Stations → Enable radio browser).

    Settings

    Radio stations settings

    

    Radio stations

    List or grid view of radio stations

    

    Radio browser

    Browse, preview, and select radio stations

    
  • Added keep-screen-on settings conditions: only when playing, only when connected (Settings → Behavior → Keep screen on).

    Keep screen on settings

    
  • New preference: Settings → Performance → "Playlist tracks load full info"
    Uncheck if extremely long playlists fail to load the tracks list due to MPD output buffer limit.