Prism 1.6.5

New

• Immersive mode (the player's ⋯ menu, or Settings → Player): the cover fills the whole screen, its animated version first when it has one, and the lyrics play over its lower part a line at a time, like a lyric video. Everything else hides; tap the screen for a settings button at the bottom (back to the normal player, lyrics timing and source, the song's options), or hold it until its ring fills to go straight back to the normal player. Swipe left or right for the next or previous song, and drag down to close the player. The cover can fill the screen, be zoomed out (the default) or show whole, over a blurred copy of itself (the settings button, or Settings → Player). The lyrics can sit high, in the middle or low (the default) on the screen, or run over the whole screen: every line, the one being sung large and bright, the list gliding along by itself.
• Crossfade (Settings → Playback & sound, formerly Mix) now works like Spotify's: the ending song fades out while the next one fades in, both at their own speed. Automatic length (on by default) works out each crossfade from how the songs end and begin: over a song's own fade-out, over the next song's quiet intro after an abrupt ending, and only briefly between two hard edges. Or set 1–12 seconds yourself. Matching tempo and beats is now an option (DJ-style), off unless you turn it on. Songs already measured are measured once more for their fade-outs and intros.
• Local files has its own page (Library → Playlists → Local files), with Songs, Artists and Albums. Artists open to their songs album by album, and albums play in track order.
• Shuffle and repeat on the player (Settings → Player → Shuffle and repeat buttons): either side of play, always. Repeat goes all, one, off.
• Load ahead (Settings → Playback & sound): besides the next song's first seconds (as before), the next song or the next three can be loaded whole while one plays, so they play without buffering even if the signal drops. On Wi-Fi, or on mobile data too if you allow it (for the next song's start as well).
• Swipe a song in an album or playlist (Liked songs, Downloads and Local files too): right to play it next, left to add it to the end of the queue.
• Android Auto lyrics: Keep the song title (Settings → Lyrics → Android Auto, with the Karaoke or Line by line style): the lyrics show only on the cover, so the car's small media card reads as usual and its full player shows the lyric card big.
• Settings tidied: the Player page has separate Artwork, Immersive mode and Animated covers groups, and "On the player" lists things top to bottom as they sit on the player ("Hide volume bar" is now "Volume bar"). Lyrics sources and how they're picked share one group. The same bar is called the progress bar everywhere.

Fixed

• The player sits higher again, as before 1.6.4: the cover and the play, back and forward buttons had moved down. The lyrics, Song/Video and queue buttons along the bottom stay where they are, and the title still sits close to the progress bar.
• Quick picks showed your recent plays again: YouTube's "Listen again" / "Speed dial" shelf was taken for them. When YouTube has no picks, songs like your latest play stand in, never the songs you just played.
• Animated covers: after saving one song's animated cover, the album's other songs showed their still cover. Looking up covers for saved albums and downloads no longer holds up the cover of the song that's playing.
• Songs start faster with Crossfade or Normalize volume on. Measuring a song (which can mean fetching and decoding all of it) ran just as a song started, slowing its loading. Now the next three songs in the queue are measured (and their loudness looked up) while the current one plays, once it's under way, at low priority.
• Normalize volume no longer jumps a few seconds into a song. A song's volume is set as it starts; a loudness figure that only arrives later is kept for next time instead of changing the volume mid-song. Queued songs have theirs ready before they play.
• Animated covers keep playing while the ⋯ menu or another sheet is open over the player, instead of switching to the still cover.
• Shuffle: Previous went to a song that hadn't played yet. It now goes back to the song played last, including after songs are added to the queue or a song is picked from it, and Play next plays next while shuffled too.

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