Elixium 1.5.0

Elixium 1.5.0

There is an Android app now, and Elixium runs on the phone itself — not a
page pointed at your server, the whole thing.

Alongside it: better release years in your tags, downloads that no longer give
up when they should try a lower quality, playback that survives a track failing
to load, and YouTube Music playlists that file themselves properly instead of
burying everything under one artist.

Android

The engine runs on the phone. Same arrangement as the desktop build, where
Elixium starts its own server and points a window at it — there is no address to
type and no machine to connect to.

• A real player in the notification shade and on the lock screen, with
  artwork, a seek bar, and previous, play and next. Headset and Bluetooth
  buttons work too.
• Music goes to your Music folder, not somewhere inside the app where
  nothing else can see it. There is a folder picker in Settings.
• Playback keeps going with the screen off.
• Everything the interface does on a computer, it does here: search, browse,
  download, playlists, watchlist, settings.

First launch takes half a minute or so while it unpacks itself; after that it
opens quickly. Add your ARL in Settings as usual.

The download is about 22 MB, and it is for 64-bit ARM — every phone sold in the
last several years. Install it yourself, so Android will ask you to allow
installing from wherever you opened it.

Fixed

Reissues are tagged with the year they were made. Deezer reports the date a
release arrived on the service, so a 1973 record that reached streaming in 2011
was filed under 2011, beside music made four decades later. The original and
physical dates are preferred now, and a release with no real date is left
untagged rather than being called year zero.

Downloads stop giving up when a lower quality would have worked. Elixium
only stepped down a tier when Deezer said the account was not licensed for it —
but Deezer refuses just as often with a plain error, and a request that simply
times out looks the same. All of those ended the track. Now any failure to
resolve a download tries the next quality down, and the "Fallback quality"
setting still turns that off if you would rather have nothing than less.

Some accounts were misread as being allowed lossless. Deezer reports what an
account can stream inconsistently, and one of the shapes it uses was read
backwards. The result was not a wrong quality — it was a download that failed
outright instead of quietly stepping down.

Playback no longer stops when one track will not load. Changing track
cancelled the previous one's loading, and Elixium mistook that for the new
track failing — so it stopped, or swapped in the previous track's 30-second
preview over what was playing. On a computer this was rare. On a phone, where
loading takes longer, it killed queues after a few songs. A track that genuinely
will not load is now retried once, then skipped.

YouTube Music playlists file themselves as playlists. Downloading one put
every track under a single artist — eighty-four albums by different people
inside one folder. YouTube Music had one naming template where Deezer and Qobuz
have four, and that template began with the album artist, so a playlist could
only ever be filed as an album. It now has all four, and the playlist default
groups by the playlist:

Playlist/{playlist}/{artist} - {title}

All four are editable in Settings, and an existing setup keeps working — the new
templates fall back to the single one that came before them.

The fullscreen player no longer draws scrollbars over the artwork.

Notes

• macOS builds are unsigned; Apple Silicon requires a first-run bypass.
• The Android app keeps its own library and settings. It does not share
  anything with a server you run elsewhere — downloads land on the phone.
• Already-downloaded playlists will not reorganise themselves. Downloading one
  again files it correctly.
• The command line is unchanged.