Naviamp v2.0.0-alpha.1

v2.0.0-alpha.1

Naviamp 2.0 is a major cross-platform rebuild. Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS now share the same application core, interface, playback behavior, provider integration, storage model, and settings wherever the operating systems allow it.

This is the first public alpha. It is intended for testing and may still contain platform-specific bugs or incomplete packaging.

Features

• Added the first Naviamp application for iPhone and iPad, including streaming, downloaded and offline playback, background audio, Control Center integration, secure credential storage, settings synchronization, lyrics, waveforms, and visualizers.
• Unified Android, Desktop, and iOS around one shared application core and interface, keeping browsing, search, playlists, downloads, settings, provider behavior, and playback policy consistent across platforms.
• Added native BASS playback across Android, Desktop, and iOS with shared gapless, crossfade, ReplayGain, sample-rate conversion, and sample-rate matching behavior.
• Added the final Naviamp 2.0 icon across the applications, installers, notifications, About screen, repository, and website.
• Added downloadable unsigned iOS builds for advanced users who can sign and sideload applications with their own Apple identity.
• Added automatic detection and safe migration support for Navidrome's upcoming canonical identifier transition using the announced topSongsByArtistId OpenSubsonic extension.
• Added shared Metal visualizers on iOS and macOS with safe fallbacks when native rendering is unavailable.
• Added playback sample-rate and effective downloaded-quality information to diagnostics.
• Added support for embedded Opus metadata.
• Retained Android Auto browsing, search, queue, and playback integration through the new shared application architecture.

Bug Fixes

• Significantly reduced Android background playback CPU, network, and battery usage by bounding rolling playback prefetch and sidecar work.
• Improved queue restoration and playback-session persistence across application restarts and host lifecycle changes.
• Applied transition, fade, and sample-rate setting changes to active queues more reliably.
• Prevented stale prepared tracks from surviving queue, transition, or playback-source changes.
• Isolated playback and persisted state when switching between configured servers.
• Fixed downloaded playback, storage-location selection, converted-download tracking, and server-versus-downloaded fallback behavior.
• Improved playlist, favorite, and Smart Playlist keep-downloaded reconciliation, watched download jobs, and playlist download selection.
• Preserved Android MediaSession and notification state across track transitions.
• Hardened cache and download cleanup so Naviamp deletes only files it owns and preserves unrelated files when clearing storage or changing locations.
• Fixed Navidrome snapshot identifier collisions while preserving existing downloaded audio and durable media ownership.
• Improved rotated native-token recovery and targeted Smart Playlist reauthentication.
• Improved visualizer resource disposal, shared waveform analysis, cover-art fallback behavior, artist biography scrolling, and similar-artist resolution.

Alpha Notes and Known Limitations

• Back up important playlists and settings before testing this alpha release.
• Windows and macOS builds are not yet distributed with trusted publisher signing, so their operating systems may display security warnings.
• The iOS IPA is unsigned and cannot be installed directly. Testers must sign it using their own Apple identity and sideloading workflow.
• TestFlight distribution is not available yet.
• iOS has primarily been tested in Apple's Simulator; physical-device behavior still needs broader testing.
• Android Auto is included for testing, but its final physical-vehicle acceptance pass is still pending.
• CarPlay is not included in this release.
• Windows and Linux still need final real-device packaging and playback smoke tests.
• Linux secure credential storage requires secret-tool and an available Secret Service implementation such as GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet.
• Additional performance and long-running playback testing is still underway across all platforms.

Naviamp v1.5.0

v1.5.0

Features

• Added customizable app backgrounds with the default Aurora gradient in light or dark emphasis, an adjustable Album Blur treatment, and a user-selected Single Color.
• Added structured multi-artist credits with separate artist-page navigation from Now Playing and shared track rows on desktop and Android, including exact-name fallback for legacy combined Navidrome credits.
• Expanded Library Radio to queue Navidrome's full bounded 500-song random set while preserving Radio DJ tuning across the returned tracks.
• Changed artist-page header playback to Play and Shuffle the full catalog in its displayed album order while keeping Popular Tracks playback in its own section.

Bug Fixes

• Refined compact Now Playing spacing, moved volume below the transport controls, and hid volume at the minimum desktop height so the remaining controls stay comfortably separated.
• Made single- and multi-artist lines use consistent spacing and the configured artist-name marquee behavior.
• Prevented Aurora backgrounds and cover art from flashing through empty fallback states between tracks by retaining the current visuals until preloaded replacements are ready.
• Prevented first-track waveforms from being lost when startup navigation cancels the original shared analysis request.

Naviamp v1.4.0

v1.4.0

Features

• Added Now Playing queue polish with track durations and a denser desktop side-panel layout.
• Added desktop hover tooltips for icon-only controls with a Settings > Experience toggle.
• Moved playback reporting to the OpenSubsonic reportPlayback flow and let the server own scrobble timing.
• Added playback state heartbeats and final stopped reports so Navidrome can update Now Playing and scrobble completed plays.
• Added Android parity for playback-report transitions across regular playback and service-owned playback.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed desktop and Android playback transitions so a final stopped report is sent before moving to another track.
• Removed the legacy scrobble.view reporting path and obsolete client-side played/scrobble timing setting.

Naviamp v1.3.0

v1.3.0

Features

• Added release-aware artist discographies with album, EP, single, live, compilation, remix, and soundtrack sections plus explicit-content indicators.
• Added configurable album list or artwork-grid layouts, release-type grouping, and sorting by year or title across desktop and Android.
• Moved connected catalog browsing to shared paged Navidrome APIs while preserving fast artist search and A-Z navigation with a lightweight local index.
• Added visible download jobs with progress, cancellation, retry, completed-file quality details, and configurable download swipe actions.
• Added configurable download and audio-cache locations, including Android storage selection for devices with SD cards.
• Added keep-downloaded playlists, Smart Playlists, and favorites with automatic missing-track reconciliation.
• Added a playback preference to choose downloaded files first or prefer the server with downloaded-file fallback.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed download transcoding so selected codec and bitrate settings are honored and accurately displayed.
• Fixed completed download activity, downloaded-file size totals, album artwork, refresh behavior, and externally removed-file detection.
• Fixed waveform generation that could remain unfinished for an entire track.
• Fixed Android storage-location crashes and missing keep-downloaded tables in databases created by development builds.
• Fixed the Sonic track overflow menu crash and restored transparent bottom navigation backgrounds.
• Standardized page headings, action alignment, search-field spacing, and compact search styling across desktop and Android.

Naviamp v1.2.0

v1.2.0

Features

• Added dedicated standard playlist editing with drag reordering, track removal, undo, save and cancel controls, and configurable editing-only swipe actions.
• Added Smart Playlist editing with single- and multi-library targeting, preserved rule grouping, and refreshed results after updates.
• Made album, artist, and playlist action rows adapt to the available width while keeping additional actions in an overflow menu.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed expired Navidrome authentication while creating or updating Smart Playlists by refreshing rotated native tokens and retrying after reauthentication.
• Prevented automatic track changes and restored playback sessions from opening Now Playing or interrupting in-progress Smart Playlist edits.
• Fixed playlist detail layouts, compact-screen scrolling, drag auto-scrolling, dragged-item layering, action contrast, and Smart Playlist-specific controls.
• Fixed incomplete waveform analysis and invalid cached waveforms that produced sparse or misleading progress displays.
• Fixed Android notification artwork updates occurring from a background thread.
• Fixed Library navigation behaving like artist-detail Back after browsing through Similar Artists.

Naviamp v1.1.1

v1.1.1

Features

• Added Android Auto voice search for library tracks, albums, and artists.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Android Auto crossfades, gapless transitions, and tracks restarting after prepared playback transitions.
• Made Android Auto manual skips start promptly and prevented stale browse or search results from replacing newer selections.
• Fixed queue removals and reordering so an obsolete prepared track cannot play on Android or desktop.
• Protected saved Android credentials with Keystore-backed encryption and excluded credential-bearing data from backup and device transfer.
• Restricted exported Android playback commands to trusted Naviamp controls while preserving Android Auto and notification controls.

Naviamp v1.1.0

v1.1.0

Features

• Added configurable left and right swipe actions for Library, Queue, Related, and Sonic track lists across desktop and Android.
• Added a visible Play Next priority queue that preserves insertion order ahead of the regular queue and remains stable while shuffling.
• Added pull-to-refresh and an overflow Refresh action to Home.
• Improved album and artist detail actions for narrow and wide layouts.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed duplicate queue occurrences causing Play Next loops and duplicate-row crashes on Android.
• Fixed restored Android queues and waveforms so they work before playback is resumed or skipped.
• Fixed incomplete or stale waveform data and improved waveform contrast across player backgrounds.
• Fixed seeking backward while a desktop crossfade is active.
• Improved Now Playing gradients so light and secondary album-art colors remain visible.
• Fixed Popular Tracks swipe behavior and track metadata navigation.

Naviamp v1.0.0

v1.0.0

• First full public release of Naviamp.
• Presents Naviamp as a polished music player for Navidrome and OpenSubsonic-compatible servers across desktop and Android.
• Highlights Sonic Analysis, Smart Playlists, internet radio, lyrics, waveforms, visualizers, and customizable Now Playing behavior.
• Cleans up the public repository for open-source use with a focused README, contributing guide, code of conduct, security policy, issue templates, and GPLv3 licensing.
• Moves internal planning notes out of the tracked repository while keeping user-facing project information in top-level files.

Naviamp v0.19.0

Naviamp v0.19.0

• Added Now Playing display customization for album year, bitrate info, volume bar, and long title, artist, and album scrolling.
• Added opt-in Start Playing on Start behavior to resume playback automatically from the previous session.
• Added configurable audio output quality with Sample Rate Converter and Sample Rate Matching settings.
• Added strict sample-rate/crossfade safety prompts so incompatible playback settings are handled explicitly.
• Improved waveform rendering dynamics and added a scroll affordance to the Add to Playlist dialog.

Naviamp v0.18.0

Naviamp v0.18.0

• Added first-pass update checking on startup and every 24 hours, with a default-on Experience setting and a prompt linking to the newest GitHub release.
• Reworked Back To, Up Next, and Sonic queue menus to replace Track Details with Go to Artist and Go to Album, and made the Now Playing album name open album details.
• Added click/tap-to-enlarge artist images and album artwork on detail pages while preserving each source image's original aspect ratio.
• Refined compact Now Playing layouts with stable small typography, tighter spacing, and vertically balanced favorites, rating, bitrate, and volume controls.
• Fixed Settings scrolling in small windows and moved portable Windows SQLite data to writable local app storage with migration from the previous roaming path.