News summary

• Added: presets saved and restored in backup.
• Added: option in server preferences to ping during …

• Albums grouping: use sort variants of Artist and AlbumArtist when selected (Settings → Tags → Sort tags). …

• Added more options for items click-action preferences: No action, and Open action selection dialog.

• Improved performance of loading album art.
• Added option to load album art on a separate …

• Added: support for Movement tags (requires MPD 0.24). Settings → Tags …

• Added option to stop HTTP streaming when playback is paused Settings → HTTP Streaming → Stop when …

• Added a collage of up to four album art images of albums matching each item in tag lists. …

• Added option to always show scrollbars Settings → Appearance → Permanent scrollbars in tag lists …

• Added "Share" action in the player queue item dialog to send the track details to other apps …

• Removed playlist shortcut widget: instead long press a playlist and select create shortcut
• HTTP …

• Add/play-from-here action for files same as for album tracks Settings → …

• Favorites: added favorite indicator on list items
• Favorites: added option to show favorites-only …

• Fixed: possible crash in player queue
• Fixed: in some cases player notification and player widget …

• Fixed: possible mistakenly resuming playback after audio focus change

• Fixed: menu items for grid layout appear for views without grid option

Bug fixes

• Fixed: date in files and directories not displayed in the preferred format.
• Fixed: …

• Added search history …

• Album art as background in the player view Settings → Appearance → Album art as player …

• Added: option to display title in files view …

Usability improvements

• Add track to a playlist directly from the queue item actions dialog: …

• MPD partitions support

  Partitions in MPD are separate players each with its own playback …

• Multi word search and queue filter: added option to search for exact term or for multiple words …

• Fixed: text highlight when filtering lists changing character case
• Fixed: back arrow not closing …

• Fixed: crash when searching in Korean language.

• Control MPD volume with device's hardware buttons when MAFA is in the background (Android < 12) …

• Fixed issue with multiple player widgets for different MPD servers
• Increased limit of radio …

• Disable MPD server auto-reconnect

  Added option to disable auto-reconnect per MPD server. …

• Disable MPD server auto-reconnect

  Added option to disable auto-reconnect per MPD server. …

• Launcher shortcuts

  To create launcher shortcuts for albums and playlists from within the …

• Create launcher shortcuts for albums and playlists from within the application.
• Pause on phone call - …

• Android 12: please turns off battery optimizations for MAFA to allow background http streaming and updates to …

• Fixed: recently-updated not reloading on first selection of custom date.
• Fixed: Radio station editing …

• Fixed: some album cover art displayed in lower resolution than available. …

• Added support for embedded album art (MPD readpicture command) …

• Added support for embedded album art (MPD readpicture command)

• Added settings search
• Added option to apply app theme to the system navigation bar

• New add-to-queue options

  Add to the player queue at top or bottom, or insert as next, and …

• New add-to-queue options: add to the player queue at top or bottom, or insert as next, and optionally start …

• Added an option to display directories first in files lists. …

• Bookmark resume offset: added more offsets.
• Search view: added option to not save the last …

• Bookmark resume offset: added more offsets.
• Bug fix: can't edit new radio station.

• Main screen view: customizable items …

• Main screen view: customizable items …

• New option to sort albums by date: Settings → Behavior → Albums sort order …

• Added: option to sort albums by date ( Settings → Behavior → Albums sort order)
  Requires MPD …

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

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

This is a bug fix release for version 1.5.1

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

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

• Added option to select which details tabs appear under each tag details.
• New preference: …

• Added support for client side radio stations.

  An online stream URL can have some metadata added …

Added support for client side radio stations.

An online stream URL can have some metadata added to it such as image, …

• Bug fix: possible crash when soft keyboard is opened for search

• Playlist details now showing the playlist tracks.
  Extremely long playlists may fail to …

• Second iteration of 1.4.8 Beta including some bug fixes.

• Playlist details now showing the playlist tracks.
  Extremely long playlists may fail to …

• Added backup/restore settings, MPD servers, and favorites.

• Added backup/restore settings, MPD servers, and favorites. …

• Bug fix: in case of both mobile and WiFi networks available, match by net restriction settings instead of …

• Bug fix: in case of both mobile and WiFi networks available, match by net restriction settings instead of …

• New

  • New preference: option to make up arrow go back instead of home ( Settings …

• New preference: option to make up arrow go back instead of home ( Settings → Behavior → App up arrow …

• Version 1.4.4 released

This is the second iteration of 1.4.4 beta adding player controls in the servers list and a fix for filtering by album …

• New features

  • Added option to show date in album and track lists ( Settings → …

• This release fixes a compatibility issue specifically with MPD version 0.21.4 (filter expression bug)

• Added support to accept URLs from other apps using "Share Link"
• Added information about commands …

• Added support to accept URLs from other apps using "Share Link" …

• Added support for Comment tag
• New track action: Add to the queue after the current track ( …

• Added support for Comment tag
• New track action: Add to queue after current track

• New feature: drag and drop to re-order tracks in the player …

• New feature: drag and drop to re-order tracks in the player queue ( Settings → Behavior → Enable …

• Added support for Conductor, Label, and Work tags
• Unsupported tags are not shown in the UI …

• Added support for Conductor, Label, and Work tags
• Unsupported tags are not shown in the UI …

• Fixed location permission handling for WiFi ssid restriction on Android 10
• Added album art to …

• Added media session to active player notification to allow control by media controllers. On some devices …

• Volume slider made more responsive by updating status after every volume change
• New preference: …

• Bug fix: crash when media buttons used after streaming stopped

• HTTP streaming (only with internal player):
  • Handle media buttons: option to pause/play …

• New preference: Show album covers in files view ( Settings → Appearance → Show album art in …

• Selection between Artists and Album Artists view is persisted
• Add/Play from here can be …

Permission for coarse location is required in Android Pie for the WiFi network restriction to work (can be safely denied if not …

• New preference: Restore replay gain on connecting to mpd server ( Settings → Behavior → Restore …

• New preference: Full or Compact player queue display mode ( Settings → Appearance → Player queue …

Themes:

Beta release of themes:

• 4 light themes
• 4 pastel themes
• 3 dark …

Fixed stability bugs affecting:

• Player view switching
• Player queue track follower …

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug in two-finger-touch volume control

Added playlist files support (e.g. .m3u, .pls):

• Playlist files listed in the Files view …

Bug fixes:

• HTTP streaming volume moved to Media category instead of Ringer
• Album art was …

• Files and playlists can be sorted by: newer first, older first, or by name
• Modification date is …

• New preference: select the startup view

  Settings → …

• New preference: always stop streams instead of pausing

  Settings → …

MAFA as a local music player:

• Added shortcut to install MPD on the device (Servers management) …

• Fixed: queue list fast scrolling and item click overlap

Bug fixes:

• Possible app stop condition fixed
• Improved separation between fast scroll and …

• Player queue: Added option to filter by other tags in addition to title
• Player queue: …

New player queue features:

• Filter by title text
• Move track position …

• New feature: bookmarks
• Reorganized settings
• Added more shortcuts …

• Bug fix: app stops on first activation of active player notification in android 8.1

• New feature: option to show active player notification …

• Added preference: select the default click action on Track and on Album …

• Added preference: display current track time as elapse or remaining
• Added preference: display current track audio …

• Added support for AlbumArtist tag if enabled in MPD:
  1. List albums by Album Artist or by Album Title (requires …

• Added support for AlbumArtist tag if enabled in MPD:
  1. List albums by Album …

Bug fix: redundant connection test keeps running in the background in some cases

Bug fix: dialogs stay open after moving to …

Bug fix: server status not reset when switching to another server

Smoother animation when changing to and from disconnected …

UI cosmetic changes

Bug fix: Bottom player controls stay hidden

Various fixes and optimizations

Bug fix: Recently updated failed with MPD < 0.20 (regression in 1.0.6)

Bug fix: Favorites not consistent when using local …

New feature: a playlist can automatically set player options when loaded

Bug fix: corrected action bar title and icon update

Added Favorites

Added "Replay gain mode" to player options

Limited "Recently updated" to first 1000

Fixed widget bug affecting Android 8.

Added preference for player queue item click action: open track details or toggle play/pause.

Added preference for hardware …

Added Recently-updated view: list music that was added or updated recently.

Fixed bugs in HTTP album art loading.

Setting "Max size of album art" to "Unlimited" caused HTTP album art download to fail.

Added host configuration for album art HTTP server.

By default the host of the MPD server is used as the HTTP host. Since …

MAFA first release.