1.7.0

Full changlogs here: https://www.simpmusic.org/blogs/new-update-simpmusic-v170

🎉 New features

Playback & player

• Last.fm scrobbling (Full build only) — lastfm / lastfm-empty module pair, a login screen, its own settings group, and scrobbling during playback
• Reworked Now Playing: new backdrop and artist card; added an inline lyric line and removed the blurred backgrounds
• Playlist import from a converted file, straight from Settings; writes to the database in batches
• Charts: added seven new YouTube Music countries — Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam

Browsing & search

• The empty search screen now shows browse categories
• Play a song directly from a browse category's shelf
• Home: long-press a quick pick to open the Now Playing sheet
• Library: show item counts in dynamic playlist headers

Settings

• Ask for confirmation before logging out of a linked account

Desktop

• Replaced VLC with libmpv as the sole playback backend — including DJ crossfade filters and a switch to DASH streams
• Linux: build libmpv from source in a container instead of extracting it from the AppImage
• Tray menu and tooltip now show the current track
• The volume slider expands only on hover
• The player bar timeline is tinted while a crossfade is running
• Video now renders through Compose frames; SwingPanel removed
• Windows: removed the debug terminal window
• "Play next" now works on the desktop side
• Added a Queue button to the mini player — PR #2275 by @laoluogun

Internal

• Migrated every icon to generated Material Symbols ImageVectors, dropping material-icons-extended and the XML drawables

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🐛 Fixes

Crossfade & player

• Skip the crossfade when the next track plays as video, and when the current track plays as video
• Keep the correct incoming track when a transport control is pressed mid-crossfade
• Align the restored queue with the player, and guard against saves during a rebuild
• Keep the progress slider within Material3's default range
• Volume: apply it to the player before persisting it; unmute restores the original level — PR #2274
• Desktop: release the crossfade handle when loading another track; route volume through ao-volume so it applies instantly
• Normalise Tidal key names before Camelot matching — Tidal spells accidentals out ("FSharp", "CSharp") rather than using symbols, so keyToSemitone failed to parse them and roughly 22% of tracks silently lost their key in DJ crossfade. Fixed by normalising the string before matching, and by changing the calculateKeyGapDurationFactor fallback from 1.0 to UNKNOWN_GAP_DEFAULT_FACTOR — an unparseable key was previously treated as a perfect match

Data & parsing

• Lyrics: stop dropping the first character when no space follows the timestamp
• Identify song columns by pageType instead of a fixed index
• Keep only the first subtitle group as artists
• The database now repairs artist names and album names stored by an older parse
• Treat personalised mixes as radio playlists
• Browse categories: key sections by title and cache them on disk, parse the songs shelf, and render every section the API returns

Downloads & cache

• Stop re-resolving stream URLs for tracks that are already fully downloaded
• Serve directly from cache only when the whole track is on disk

Desktop

• macOS: switched audio output to avfoundation — avoids an ao_coreaudio use-after-free crash when headphones are plugged in or removed
• macOS: register now-playing handlers on the main queue; stopped trimming native memory, which was causing a crash
• Disabled skiko vsync (the cause of freezes when changing displays) and restore the window on Dock reopen
• Backup: stopped double-wrapping the zip output stream
• Registered URL schemes at the correct level in conveyor.conf, and restored external link opening on Linux
• libmpv bundle: resolve by absolute path and drop POSIX open flags on Windows; strip AppleDouble sidecars that made macOS report "app is damaged"; treat an absent ytdl option as success
• Raised the macOS floor to 15.0 for the bundled libmpv — a breaking change for users on older macOS

User interface

• Force-dark screens now use a real dark colour scheme rather than just dark text
• Bottom sheet: title, artist and the like label take their colours from the dark palette
• Search: leave room for the floating search bar in every state; cap the browse grid width and use four columns on wide layouts
• Quick picks: keep titles on one line with a marquee
• Smoother artwork scrims via a smoothstep gradient
• NormalAppBar uses the transparent colours the app uses elsewhere
• Show a generic album label when the album name is unknown
• Analytics: lengthened the header scrim so the top song title no longer overlaps the stats
• Repaired the notification bell icon path
• Library: the "create playlist" label uses the theme colour
• Spotify: match the login status URL when it carries a query string

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⚡ Performance (Desktop)

• Tuned the allocator and GC to cut resident memory
• Return freed native memory to the OS when playback idles
• Capped mpv's demuxer cache

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🔧 Infrastructure & dependencies

• PipePipeExtractor to v6.2.0, brave-newpipe bumped
• Bumped a batch of dependencies
• Refreshed the Gradle daemon JVM toolchain URLs
• CI/CD: workflow updates; stage natives in the release workflow and verify the libmpv bundles
• CLAUDE.md updated for Last.fm, the from-source Linux libmpv build, Compose video rendering, and the video crossfade rules

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What's Changed

• Feat/queue button desktop miniplayer by @laoluogun in #2275
• Feat/desktop mpv backend by @maxrave-dev in #2284
• Fix/volume unmute to original value by @laoluogun in #2274
• New version: v1.7.0 by @maxrave-dev in #2281

New Contributors

• @laoluogun made their first contribution in #2275

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7.0

1.6.0

Change logs: https://www.simpmusic.org/blogs/new-update-simpmusic-v160

• New light theme with theme mode settings and custom primary color
• Google Cast support: play music on your TV or speakers (Full version)
• All-new Android Auto experience: browse your library, search and view the queue
• Fix Discord Rich Presence connection issues
• Desktop: fix app crash on startup in release builds
• Desktop: Add native media controller for Windows

What's Changed

• New feature: Light theme + Custom color by @maxrave-dev in #2229
• Android Auto: New UI by @maxrave-dev in #2235
• Google Cast by @maxrave-dev in #2245
• v1.6.0: New version by @maxrave-dev in #2250

New Contributors

• @nicoo-c made their first contribution in #2228

Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.6.0

🎉 SimpMusic Road to 10k Stars! 🎉

Thank you all for trusting and using SimpMusic. We are about to reach 10,000 stars—a number I couldn't have even imagined when I first started this project.

Your support has given me the motivation to overcome countless technical challenges to deliver better and better updates. However, I want to leave a quick reminder: SimpMusic is a 100% free and non-profit project. I dedicate my own personal time to serve the community. Because of that, I hope I no longer have to receive toxic feedback or harsh words from certain users.

Your respect for my hard work is the only motivation I need to keep SimpMusic alive and growing. Thank you to all the kind users who have always understood and stayed by my side! 🎧❤️

1.5.1

Change logs

• Add a toggle in About settings to turn blog post notifications on or off
• Desktop: fix an app crash that broke all text rendering
• Desktop: fix Canvas and video rendering see-through to the desktop
• Desktop: fix Lottie animations crashing the app
• Linux: fix the desktop icon and app name

What's Changed

• v1.5.1: Patch version by @maxrave-dev in #2209

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.5.1

1.5.0

Change logs

Checkout full changelogs here: https://www.simpmusic.org/blogs/new-update-simpmusic-v150

• New artist page: immersive header with the artist's name logo, accent-colored follow and radio buttons, and a blurred bottom
• Get a notification when a new blog post is published, shown alongside artist release notifications
• Update the YouTube extraction engine (core) for more reliable playback and downloads
• Fix high battery drain and overheating caused by Discord Rich Presence retrying login in the background
• Fix Spotify lyrics and canvas toggles staying stuck after logging out
• Fix the liquid glass tab bar not switching screens when tapped
• Keep crossfade on the correct track when you pause, skip, or go back mid-transition
• Desktop: fix a crash when changing tracks

What's Changed

• v1.5.0: New version by @maxrave-dev in #2196

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

1.4.0

Change logs

Checkout full changelogs here: https://www.simpmusic.org/blogs/new-update-simpmusic-v140

• Fix music pausing or stopping on its own between tracks (the background-playback freeze present since 1.0.4)
• New liquid glass bottom navigation on Android, with a press-to-bulge interaction
• New Apple Music-style in Local Playlist screen
• Optimize Spotify login
• Discover podcast shows on Home and open them in a dedicated podcast screen
• Fix empty Home and search shelves, and broken playback, after YouTube API changes
• Desktop: fix a startup crash and reinstall Windows updates in place without uninstalling

What's Changed

• v1.4.0: New version by @maxrave-dev in #2121

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0

1.3.0

Checkout full changelogs here: https://www.simpmusic.org/blogs/new-update-simpmusic-v130

Change logs

• New offline error screen on Home with Retry and quick access to your downloaded music
• Show translated lyrics in yellow under the Canvas subtitle on the Now Playing screen
• Smoother DJ-style AutoMix: equal-power crossfade curve and front-loaded BPM ramp
• Longer Auto mode crossfade for more deliberate transitions (20-45s, fallback 30s)
• Apple Music-inspired redesign for Album, Playlist and Now Playing screens
• Cleaner home item layout: enforced 3-line max with subtle marquee on long titles
• Preserve original track order when loading album songs
• Fix language codes for Chinese, Indonesian and Hebrew
• Desktop: Windows installer switched to MSIX with install.bat helper
• Desktop: macOS installer switched to a custom DMG

What's Changed

• Migrate Jpackage default to Hydraulic Conveyor by @maxrave-dev in #2051
• v1.3.0: New version by @maxrave-dev in #2058

Full Changelog: v1.2.1...v1.3.0

1.2.1

Change logs

• Hot fix: Fallback error when changing extractor library

What's Changed

• v1.2.1: Hot fix for changing new backend by @maxrave-dev in #2011

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.2.1

1.2.0

Change logs

• Spotify-style horizontal pager for Now Playing screen with per-page palette backdrop
• Swipe to skip to previous track on Now Playing pager
• Add 256kbps stream option in settings for YouTube Music Premium user (replaces 320kbps preference)
• Optimize lyrics word-wipe animation (wall-clock based, smoother multi-step)
• Optimize AI client and fix AI translation
• Optimize Discord Rich Presence
• Remove Netscape cookie input from Dev YouTube login
• Fix YouTube extractor
• Bump target SDK to 37 (Android 17)

What's Changed

• v1.2.0: New version by @maxrave-dev in #2001

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.2.0

1.1.1

Change logs

• Fix some UI bugs
• Fix Android Auto playback and controls
• Fix modal bottom sheet touch screen blocking
• Fix shuffle command routing from notification
• Fix Timeout check your internet connection
• Update dependencies

Desktop app:

• Fix crash when opening non-existent downloaded file
• Add Intel Mac DMG build

What's Changed

• v1.1.1: Hotfix by @maxrave-dev in #1865

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

1.1.0

Change logs

• Add Canvas subtitle sync display for lyrics
• Add BPM, key, and scale display to player bottom sheet
• Add simpmusic:// and simpmusic.org deep link support
• Add Auto Crossfade mode (like AutoMix)
• Redesign playback speed/pitch controls with improved animations
• Standardize share URL to use simpmusic.org
• Optimize rendering performance and UI drawing APIs
• Improve local song cache checking before fetching from API
• Fix media playback and streaming issues across platforms
• Fix player errors with retry logic
• Fix video download
• Fix sleep timer (end of song mode)
• Fix rectangle thumbnail
• Fix pitch and playback speed controls
• Fix analytics day range preference in playlists

Desktop app:

• Replace GStreamer with VLCJ for audio playback
• Add Crash dialog for desktop
• Fix gapless playing when changing settings
• Disable transparency and custom titlebar in VM environments
• Improve AppImage desktop integration

What's Changed

• v1.0.5: New version, minor changes (2-week per build) by @maxrave-dev in #1795

Full Changelog: v1.0.4...v1.1.0