v1.6.0

[kushalpandya]

A new playback engine, Mini Player & Immersive mode, smart playlists, localization support, Siri shortcuts, enhanced UI, and a lot more.

Features

• Integrate Crescendo, a new playback backend built using modern AVFoundation APIs, enabling gapless playback, spatial audio support, and better-sounding stereo width.
  • Note: It's currently in beta and opt-in, and will become the default in the next release (Integrate CrescendoKit, a new playback backend built using modern AVFoundation APIs #304)
• Add Mini Player with embedded play queue and lyrics (Add Mini Player with embedded play queue and lyrics #307)
• Add Immersive mode with embedded play queue and lyrics (Add Immersive mode with embedded play queue and lyrics #309)
• Add support for creating smart playlists with configurable rules (Add support for creating smart playlists with configurable rules #310)
• Add support for merging duplicate artists, albums, and composers (Add support for merging duplicate artists, albums, and composers #312)
• Add Automation API for Shortcuts, Spotlight, and Siri (Add Automation API for Shortcuts, Spotlight, and Siri #313)
• Add support for in-app Problem Reporting (Add support for in-app Problem Reporting #322)
• Add customization options for appearance and playback visuals (Add customization options for appearance and playback visuals #314)
• Add support for pinning folders to Home sidebar (Add support for pinning folders to Home sidebar #315)
• Add support for localization (Add support for localization #305)
• Add Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) localization (Add Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) localization #318) (Thanks @akkva!)
• Add Animated sync lyrics during playback (Achieve lyrics-by-line animation #291) (Thanks @hemingtsai!)
• Update Player bar to show track format, refine playback controls (Update Player bar to show track format, refine playback controls #306)

Fixes

• Fix blank title/artist/album for tracks with empty string metadata tags (Fix blank title/artist/album for tracks with empty string metadata tags #284) (Thanks @hatute!)
• Prevent compilation albums from showing fragmented (Prevent compilation albums from showing fragmented #287)
• Improve library refresh to be concurrency-safe to prevent crashes (Improve library refresh to be concurrency-safe to prevent crashes #297)
• Improve lyrics parsing for CRLF files and non-UTF-8 encodings (Improve lyrics parsing for CRLF files and non-UTF-8 encodings #303)
• Fix app crash on macOS 14, other UI updates (Fix app crash on macOS 14, other UI updates #308)
• Fix reordering of sidebar items not working reliably (Fix reordering of sidebar items not working reliably #311)
• Fix library categories not showing tracks for "Unknown" items (Fix library categories not showing tracks for "Unknown" items #317)
• Improve playback controls legibility & performance (Improve playback controls legibility & performance #319)
• Fix various issues across the app following the feature changes (Fix various issues across the app following the feature changes #316)
• A lot of small bug fixes and UI polish.

Others

• Update Dependencies (Update Dependencies #299)
• Remove dead code and clear all SwiftLint warnings (Remove dead code and clear all SwiftLint warnings #301)

Full Changelog: v1.5.2...v1.6.0

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This discussion was created from the release v1.6.0.