OpenWave 0.8.3

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.8.3	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Added

• Smart mix. Songs now flow into each other like a DJ set, and it's on to start with (Settings → Playback). Before a song plays, OpenWave listens to it: its tempo, where every beat and bar falls, its key, and how long its intro builds and its outro winds down. Then it plays the change to suit the two songs. When their tempos are close, the next song comes in on a downbeat, beat for beat with this one (both are nudged to a tempo between theirs, as on a pair of turntables), with its bass held back until the two swap bass on a downbeat halfway through; the blend lasts as long as the next song's intro, so it's fully in just as this one has gone. When the tempos are too far apart, this song echoes out on a downbeat and the next one lands on it. Music without a steady beat gets a smooth six-second fade, timed to the end of the music rather than its silence. Albums still play as they were made. Pausing, skipping or seeking during a mix leaves one song playing at its own speed. The full-screen player says what it's mixing into. Beat matching runs in the Android app (and Android Auto) and in Chrome; in the Mac app, whose audio engine can't line two songs up, each song hands over to the next as its music ends.
• Smart mix was to be in 0.8.0, 0.8.1 and 0.8.2, which were never published. It now waits until a song has finished downloading before listening to it, so playback never competes with it on a slow phone or connection.
• Smart mix's mixer starts only once a song is really playing, and sleeps while everything is paused, so Android never counts OpenWave as playing when it isn't.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.7.0

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.7.0	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Added

• Explore: what the world is playing. A new Explore page (in the sidebar, and one tap from the top of Search) is built around a dotted world map where every country with a chart today glows in its own colour. Point at a country to see its name and local time, and tap it to open its page: today's Trending chart, its top artists with their rank, its other charts, and more countries to go to next. About 70 countries have charts, plus the world's top songs. Take me somewhere picks a country you haven't been to, flies a line across the map to it and starts its chart; Next stop on a country's page moves on again. Every country also has a tile with its own dotted shape, grouped by region, and Explore lists YouTube Music's genres (African, Latin, K-Pop, Reggae and more) and moods, each opening a page of songs, playlists and albums.
• Today's stop. One country a day is featured, the same everywhere: on Explore, as a shelf on Home ("Today in Nigeria"), and on the Explore card in Search, which shows today's covers and names the countries with charts one after another. Search's start page now has moods under the card instead of the fixed genre tiles.
• Your passport. Every country you play gets a stamp, shown on Explore with how many of the countries you've played. It's kept on the device, for each profile.
• Explore in Android Auto. Home on the car's screen has an "Around the world" row (today's country, the world's top songs, and every country, each drawn as its own dotted shape), and voice works for countries: "Hey Google, play top songs in Mexico on OpenWave".

Fixed

• The Android app runs the new version straight after an update. Parts of the old version could keep running for a while after updating, because the engine told the app its old copies of OpenWave's screens were still current. The Android app's files all carry the same date, so the engine now checks what's in each file instead of when it was made.
• "Play daily mix 2" by voice in Android Auto stopped with an error instead of playing the mix.
• A long recent search on the Search page no longer runs off the side of a phone's screen.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.6.0

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.6.0	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Added

• Android Auto. OpenWave appears on the car's screen with four tabs: Home, Mixes (your Daily Mixes, On Repeat and Rediscover, with their covers and names as in the app), Library (Liked songs, Downloads, your playlists, and saved albums, playlists and artists) and Recent. Albums, playlists and mixes open as lists with Shuffle play at the top. Search works by typing or voice ("Hey Google, play Road trip on OpenWave" plays your own playlist first), the queue shows what's next, and like, shuffle and repeat are buttons on the car's player. It works with the phone in your pocket: if OpenWave isn't open, the car starts it. Cars that run Android themselves can use the same screens. Android Auto shows apps from outside the Play Store only once Unknown sources is on in Android Auto's developer settings.

Changed

• The Android player keeps going when Android rebuilds the screen, for example after a display or font size change: the song carries on instead of the app reloading.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.5.9

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.5.9	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Changed

• The Windows app has its own window. It now opens in WebView2, the Edge engine Windows builds in for apps, with its own name, taskbar button and a dark title bar in the app's colour, instead of an Edge app window. Update downloads and links to other sites open in your browser. If WebView2 can't start, it opens the Edge window as before.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.5.8

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.5.8	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Fixed

• Songs no longer show twice their length and then go silent. Safari's engine (the Mac app, iPhone and iPad) reports double the length of some songs' audio, for example Lungi Dance (9:10 instead of 4:35), and then plays silence for the second half. OpenWave already corrected this, but only for one audio format, and only when the song's list included its length. Every song is now checked against YouTube's own length as it starts, so it shows the right length and moves on at its real end.

Changed

• The Stats page counts real downloads only. Every release now also has a copy of each app just for updates, and the apps (and the Mac install script, on a Mac that already has an older OpenWave) update from that copy. New installs and reinstalls still count; updates don't. Releases before 0.5.8 had no such copy, so their numbers still include updates.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.5.7

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.5.7	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Changed

• A cleaner top bar on computers. The search box sits in the middle of the page and is wider, with a clear button inside it (and Escape clears it too). Search is no longer repeated in the sidebar.
• You're at the foot of the sidebar, with Settings beside you. The profile menu only has what isn't a tap away already: Import playlists and Switch profile (and Your insights on a phone, which has no sidebar).
• Audio quality and Crossfade in Settings use OpenWave's own menus instead of the browser's.
• The iPhone Home Screen app has a solid status bar in the app's colour. With a see-through one, iOS 26 leaves an empty strip at the bottom of the screen. To get it, remove OpenWave from the Home Screen, add it again from Safari, and pair it again with the code from the computer.

Fixed

• In the Mac app, the window's close, minimise and zoom buttons sat on the sidebar's top-left corner. The sidebar now starts just below them.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.5.6

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.5.6	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Changed

• The full-screen player opens and closes without a stutter. Everything is drawn and set up while the player is still invisible, in the moment after you tap, and only then starts to move, and every part of the animation now ends together. The very first opening is prepared ahead, while the first song loads. Measured on an Intel MacBook Pro, every frame of the motion now takes 15 to 19 ms.
• On phones and upright tablets, the sleep timer and devices buttons sit in the row under the controls, either side of Up next and Lyrics, so "Playing from" is centred at the top with one button on each side.

Fixed

• In the Mac app, the sidebar's glass was cut off at the left edge of the window. It now has the same gap and rounded corners on every side as the rest of the glass.
• "Playing from" at the top of the full-screen player was off-centre on Android and other phones.
• iPhone Home Screen app reaches the bottom of the screen. iOS 26 lays out Home Screen apps one status bar too short (WebKit bug 301108), which left an empty strip below the tab bar. Close the app fully and open it again after updating; there's no need to add it to the Home Screen again.
• On a phone, "Connecting to…" no longer covers the buttons in the top bar: it sits just under it.
• The screen-layout test no longer stops when a slow test machine briefly loses touch with its browser, and its failures now say which screen and why. A UI test that fails is retried once, and stays red if it fails again.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.5.5

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.5.5	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Changed

• Smoother full-screen player. Opening and closing it was choppy on the Mac: the player bar widened by redoing the page's layout on every frame, the artwork's corners were animated in a way that kept the graphics chip out of it, and Up next was built as the player opened. The bar now stretches and the artwork flies on the graphics chip, and Up next is ready beforehand. Measured on an Intel MacBook Pro, the worst stutter went from about 220 ms to under 90 ms, and closing costs about the same as no animation at all.
• A cleaner start. The Mac and Android apps show only the OpenWave logo while they start, with no "Starting OpenWave…" or "Loading…" text. Messages still appear when something needs your attention.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.5.4

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.5.4	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Fixed

• Smooth Full animations on the Mac, iPhone and iPad. Measured on an Intel MacBook Pro, a third of frames came late with the full-screen player open, and going back to Home or scrolling was choppy. In Safari's engine the colour behind the app now holds still, pieces of a page fade in as you scroll instead of sliding, and the springy motion uses curves the graphics chip can run by itself. Pages still slide in and the player still grows out of the mini player.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

3f340a7e1ef2a4d3c3194664880462ba186cf9b222615f468963cab0366d021f  OpenWave-Android.apk
1ee1884db30696e5958a8bbe291cf18a106e63695171a0f2127b5cd5d7c42e77  OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage
0706a072988fe5c233ad23f67de65c4eaa062a8ada40197b5367ad2dee7df488  OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe
d3f11b0ee0502763216a66e6e517bba3b60d27de3bf7ba179e1817045f48627d  OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg
3d891e9c34aa6368b54dc12d8dbfc3070dd0c81826d3f37e0b5c89165630d074  OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}

OpenWave 0.5.3

One music app. Every device you own.

Open-source, non-commercial software under the GPL-3.0, with no accounts and no tracking.

Download

Your device	Download	First launch (once)
Android 7+ (64-bit)	OpenWave-Android.apk	Open the file → allow Install unknown apps → Install
Mac (any)	curl -fsSL https://saisiddharthbs.github.io/OpenWave/install.sh | bash in Terminal	Picks Apple Silicon or Intel and opens with no security prompt
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Open the app, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
Mac with Intel	OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg	Same as above
Windows 10 / 11	OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe	"Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway
Linux (x86-64)	OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file, then double-click
Home server	docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v openwave:/data ghcr.io/saisiddharthbs/openwave:0.5.3	Open http://<server>:8787

Already using OpenWave? The app tells you about this update and downloads it in one tap. Your library stays as it is.

What's new

Added

• Daily Mixes. Three new mixes every day on Home, each with one mood: artists you play together share a mix, and it's part songs you love and part songs you haven't heard. They learn as you listen: songs you finish count for more, songs you keep skipping are left out, and recent listening counts most. Every profile has its own.
• Tablet layouts. Upright, tablets get their own layout: the tabs and the mini player share one row, covers and titles sit side by side, Quick picks and your Library use the room, and search is always at the top. On its side, a tablet gets the computer's layout with buttons sized for fingers.
• Update notifications. The Android app tells you about a new version with a notification, even when it's closed. The Mac, Windows and Linux apps look for updates every few hours while they're open and tell the system, not only when they start. The iPhone app updates itself and says so.

Changed

• The Mac app updates from a card in the app with one click, instead of a window that interrupts you.
• Later on an update now means a few days, and a newer version shows up straight away.
• Full animations are on by default on every device (this was in 0.5.2, which was never published).
• Songs with little colour in their artwork let the app's own colours show behind them instead of grey.

Fixed

• Search suggestions no longer disappear a moment after they appear, and results no longer flash while you type.
• On a computer, closing the full-screen player now shrinks the artwork into the mini player instead of sending it to the far left of the window.
• A song of unknown length shows –:–– instead of 0:00, and remembers its length once it has played.

Full details are in CHANGELOG.md.

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksums (also attached as SHA256SUMS.txt):

015b32b2bd03315b84421e67b6385fd308750bd134d0ee5f99dcef34e755a956  OpenWave-Android.apk
7955f076b5ec030e1bfe40062dd8f45d13087711649b1cad5a9f68ffc10471bc  OpenWave-Linux-x86_64.AppImage
6c983b9b76978321da722802a727cbfed6c1aa372d94f28548cb3bdb288b8072  OpenWave-Windows-Setup.exe
9b6ba7246429301b60c5b6a62a8313c24f6758de44adeea02a65784824619ddd  OpenWave-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg
6f4d8514025d165948dbfa072982250d9edc397b4040e5af77f4642fbabcc621  OpenWave-macOS-Intel.dmg

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OpenWave is free and open source (GPL-3.0). If you find it useful, star the repo and report anything that breaks.
_{OpenWave is an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, Spotify or any record label. It hosts no content. Please support the artists you listen to through official channels.}