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@Yigder Yigder released this 13 Oct 15:29
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v1.6.0
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Download Prism.apk below and install it over your current Prism (your library and settings stay).

New

  • Mix. Songs blend into each other instead of stopping and starting (Settings → Playback & sound → Mix, off by default).
    • Blend length: 2 to 12 seconds.
    • Match tempo and beats: Prism measures each song's tempo on the phone, on Wi-Fi. The next song comes in on the beat and plays at the outgoing song's tempo while they overlap (pitch kept), then eases back to its own.
    • No blend for: an album's own tracks, live streams, music videos and Listen Together. These still play as before.
  • Translated lyrics. A translation can show under each lyric line when a song is in another language.
    • Where: Settings → Lyrics, or the player's ⋯ menu.
    • Language: your phone's language by default, or one of 20 others.
    • Privacy: this is a machine translation, and the lyrics' text is sent to Google Translate.
  • "Next in queue". Songs you add with Play next or Add to queue get their own heading in the queue. Add to queue now puts songs before autoplay's suggestions instead of after them.

Faster

  • Songs start sooner. Prism gets the likeliest next song ready ahead of time and, on Wi-Fi, saves its first few seconds. This covers:
    • the top search result;
    • the first song of an open album or playlist;
    • the next song in the queue, including after the queue changes or shuffle is turned on;
    • the song in the mini player when the app opens, and the one after it.
  • Results: a song that was got ready starts in about half a second instead of over two seconds.

Fixed

  • Back gesture animation: the phone's back button or gesture now fades between pages like the back arrow does, instead of shrinking the page like a card.
  • Plain error messages:
    • "You're offline", instead of technical text;
    • searching with no connection says so, instead of "Search failed";
    • a clear message when YouTube is limiting playback on the network.
  • Refused requests after signing in: YouTube refused some requests ("Request contains an invalid argument") for some accounts and regions, such as brand accounts and es-419. Prism now retries them in a plainer form.
  • Blocked networks: when YouTube blocks anonymous playback on a network, signed-in playback goes straight to the account's own clients for a while, instead of failing on each song first.
  • Bitrate: the player shows each song's real average bitrate. It used to show YouTube's nominal figure (Opus always said 160 kbps).
  • Album tracks: signed out, some albums' tracks opened as music videos. They now play as songs.
  • Switching between song and video no longer counts as a new play in history and Replay.
  • Lyrics and queue scrolling: the player controls no longer flicker in and out while you scroll lyrics or the queue (seen on 120 Hz phones).
  • Home: a stale "Quick picks" row no longer flashes up while Home loads.
  • "See all" pages: mixes and playlists now show as a two-column grid of covers, not one sideways row.
  • Fonts: Google Sans and Rounded are greyed out, with a note, on phones that don't have Google Sans Flex. Picking them there used to do nothing.
  • Counts: they read "1 song" and "1 artist", not "1 songs".

Android Auto lyrics are for passengers and for use while parked only. Do not read lyrics while driving.

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