nori 0.7.0-beta.1

Added

• Burn-in protection shifts the screen, dims it and hides the bars
• Linux media controls run on zbus, show the cover and follow seeks
• YouTube Music profiles search, browse, play and sign in with Google
• A web client plays the library in the browser, jams included
• The continue card says "From your other device", short enough to fit
• The continue card folds away when played or dismissed
• Fewer settings, each worth having (#69)
• Lyrics from eleven services, checked against the singing (#70)
• The web client in Svelte, with Play On and jams (#71)
• Youtube music on par with a server (#72)
• Lyrics line up with the voice, not instruments in its range (#74)
• Youtube music live streams play as radio, with lyrics off
• Youtube music search finds every artist, plays its songs and mixes
• Nori seasons, a new seasonal look on every client

Changed

• AutoMix stretches with a pure Rust port, no C++ in the build
• Music sources are providers that every client draws generically
• A cleanup pass and one shared session for every client (#66)
• Subsonic as a provider, one page store for every provider

Fixed

• Quitting the mac desktop app takes it off other devices' lists
• The desktop app and terminal on one computer are separate devices
• A sheet over the sideways player no longer jumps after the shade
• Another song picked in the browser starts without a short silence
• Home no longer offers the song another device shows in the player
• Two apps over one database no longer restore each other's place
• A setting changed in one app is no longer undone by the other
• A device says it plays once its music is heard, not before
• Pulling to refresh opens a gap for the ring above the page
• The continue card sits on home with the same gaps as a shelf
• A YouTube song keeps its cached copy instead of fetching it again
• A YouTube song's seek bar stays where you dragged it
• Playback, remote control and test fixes (#73)
• Lyrics drop song details and find more songs in the library (#75)
• An album's page wears its cover's colours as it opens
• The playing song's lyrics show at once after quick skips
• Autofill survives slow and failed fetches, and mixes follow the server
• Other devices see where this one is in a song without lag
• The linux desktop app builds again

Performance

• Remote and jams run as async tasks, the core builds for the web
• A song starts before the next one is fetched, sooner on a slow link
• Songs start as soon as their bytes will arrive in time, seeks too
• A device back on a network asks the relay again at once

nori 0.6.2

Added

• Pick several music folders per server (#64)
• Play, pause and skip buttons have softly rounded corners
• Home offers to continue the queue another device left on the server
• Shuffle lives in library and home's corner rearranges its rows
• A server's libraries are picked under it in the servers list
• Home rows are set in settings, appearance
• Library lists its sections as pages, with history in its corner
• Library's corner keeps downloads and history as outline buttons
• Going back follows the finger and leaves at its speed, swiped anywhere on a page

Fixed

• The player keeps its colours when the server's address changes
• Audio output and start a jam look like the other rows of play on

nori 0.6.1

Added

• A cover's page colours follow the cover, not the theme

Fixed

• A headset play with nothing saved no longer crashes the app
• A cover has the same colours at every size
• A jam host shows to its guests once it can hear their commands
• A device just started no longer drops off the device lists
• A guest listening along gets the host's playback in order
• A serving device the relay lost says its state again
• A device that stops serving leaves after its last poll
• The speaker is filled only while another device plays
• The speaker is lit only for a device the devices list shows
• Pale and tinted covers get a light paper page
• A pastel cover's dark page keeps its soft colour
• Accents read as text and keep a black cover's own colour
• A page takes the colour that touches the artwork's bottom, never a mix
• A page takes the colour the cover visibly dissolves from, not a hidden line
• A cover's fine texture gives its page the colour the blur shows
• A page takes the cover colour it dissolves into most softly

nori 0.6.0

New

• Play on your other devices. Control and mirror the phone, desktop, terminal and iPod from each other's player.
• Jams. Host from any device and invite people with a QR code or link. Guests ask for songs and can listen along in sync.
• Sing. Turns the vocals down in any song, processed on your device.
• Listening stats from all your devices, using your Navidrome play history.
• Desktop app for macOS and Linux (disk image, AppImage, Flatpak), plus a terminal client.
• Favorites sync between nearby devices. Updates install on their own, and you can opt into beta updates.

Better

• Equalizer, compressor, limiter and crossfades use much less CPU.
• Android Auto: every album, faster search, steadier covers, and the phone wakes far less often.
• The desktop uses less memory and draws nothing while hidden.

Fixed

• Over 150 fixes, mostly remote control, jams, lyrics timing, covers and the desktop app.

nori 0.6.0-beta.5

New

• Desktop and terminal packages for Linux and macOS: disk image with drag-to-install, AppImage, Flatpak and Debian.

Fixed

• Jams start inside the devices sheet.
• Covers on screen are no longer replaced while lists scroll.
• Packaging fixes for older macOS bundles and AppImage audio.

Android APK refreshed on October 14, 2026, with the track-hold menu fix. Holding a track now opens the same menu as its three-dot button. Existing beta.5 users can download and install the refreshed APK manually.

nori 0.6.0-beta.4

New

• Favorites sync between nearby devices.
• Remote control and jam settings are combined.

Fixed

• Mixes and progress stay in sync across jams and devices; jam admins can play songs and edit the queue.
• Android's output picker and media controls switch devices and skip promptly.
• AutoMix transitions survive shuffle changes; autoplay resumes after an album ends.
• Android Auto and iPod covers load reliably.

nori 0.6.0-beta.3

New

• Jams take the speaker's place in the player and bar; the Play on sheet holds the people and the invite.
• The bar shows when another device is playing.
• Desktop home gets collection grids and smoother scrolling.

Better

• Desktop uses much less memory for covers and no longer flashes on resize.

Fixed

• Remote controls stay in sync and release closed devices; playback is found when the app opens.
• Jams start on time, cancel cleanly when paused, and the clocks settle first.
• Lyrics are prepared ahead; favorites refresh and Mixing shows.
• Desktop no longer stalls after skipping.

nori 0.6.0-beta.2

First 0.6.0 beta.

New

• Play on your other devices: phone, desktop, terminal and iPod control and mirror each other.
• Jams: host from any device, invite with a QR code or link. Guests ask for songs and can listen along in sync.
• Sing turns the vocals down in any song, on your device.
• Updates install on their own, and you can opt into beta updates.
• Desktop: top picks, mix pages, macOS Now Playing and media keys.
• E-ink screen and still-titles options.

Better

• Equalizer, compressor, limiter and crossfades use much less CPU.
• Android Auto lists every album, searches faster and wakes the phone far less.

Fixed

• Lyrics timing, AutoEQ on every client, and many desktop and iPod fixes.

nori 0.5.1

Added

• IPod touch client for iOS 12
• A white accent colour makes the app monochrome
• The iPod app keeps its log in nori.log

Changed

• Nori-host takes the client's output, volume and memory budget

Fixed

• Offload takes the next song again after a pause and a CPU song
• Albums in order stay gapless however they were queued
• Star notes on desktop and in the terminal follow Confirm favorites
• IPod songs play at their own speed when the hardware rate moves
• A song of another rate keeps its speed when tapped again
• A song of another rate starts at once on the iPod and desktop
• The iPod's playing mark follows the song in every list
• Tapping the song that plays opens the iPod's player
• The iPod's For you tiles show their covers without a refresh
• A heart set anywhere on the iPod shows at once everywhere
• IPod albums and songs can remove their downloads

Performance

• Covers come at the core's two renditions, scaled to each view

nori 0.5.0

Added

• A mix's page shows its covers as one picture, blurred into the page like an album's, upright and on its side
• With a black background mix pages follow the albums and playlists choice, as the playlists they are
• On its side a cover is a wider band that reaches in under the words and controls beside it, going soft over a wider edge
• Home-screen widgets: a resizable player, the cover, for you, random albums and lyrics
• The app icon follows android's themed icons
• Android auto gets tabs, mixes, artists, genres, voice by name and covers
• In a car the controls and tabs sit on the driver's side, the cover on the other
• A car's controls can be set to the driver's side, the left or the right
• The lyrics' source and timing setting hides where they came from too

Changed

• The rust cleanup, seamless sound changes and the bugs it found (#20)
• Server hosts and network cost are the platform's, not globals
• Each client keeps its own AutoEQ fetch flag
• The stream cache's evictor holds its key order as a handle
• A lyrics clock is made from the lyrics, with no global store
• The cover loader owns its net and transport, not globals
• Download doors take the core's downloads as a handle
• Player and measurer get the client and analyses as handles
• An engine owns its fetches' stall watch and memory figures
• Drop player helpers nothing calls
• One stream cache order for the engine's store and media3's
• Drop unused exports and the forwarding engine host
• Drop an ignored output event and a dead track parameter
• Queue session and settings are held by the platform
• The queue says if a song is starred or explicit, not bits
• One day length in the library
• Drop offload's unused fallback parameter
• A transition note's kind is an enum, not a string
• The download notice says what changed with an enum
• Android's memory door sits before the tests
• A cover warm-up is its own kind of flight, not a size
• Lyrics search hits are ranked by one rule for every service
• Home rows reach the library as the settings' enum
• A built-in smart playlist is known by its kind, not its id
• An autofill's picks travel with its songs, not in a stash
• The track writer alone runs its clock and counts flushed room
• A handover says which way it goes instead of a flag
• A flush the device was not told of is one state, not three
• The offloaded stream's end is one state, not two flags
• The sink's start time and queue end are states, not flag pairs
• A called off request says why with one state
• Each measuring shelf asks its own bridge, not a global
• An album list read names its order with the enum
• No limit and no engine word yet are options, not sentinels
• Radio ids and the planner's view of a song have one home
• One biquad response and one gain-kind test for the equalizer
• Which offload count is read and believed are states, not flags

Fixed

• On its side the library's album cards are large again, filling the row
• On its side shelves run to the screen edges under the camera and the tab rail, fading out smoothly on both sides
• On its side the player's controls stand in the middle of the screen's height
• On its side the page leaves the tab rail its strip from the first frame, so shelves never show unfaded as the app opens
• On its side a cover reaches less far under the words and controls beside it, so they read clearly over its soft edge
• On its side a page whose cover did not load keeps the same layout, with the plain plate standing in for the picture
• The lyrics widget opens the player on its lyrics when the app was closed
• Any window wider than tall lays out across, so a car or tablet shows the controls
• A car's media app opens nori, and shows its now playing cover, icons and buttons
• The words on a cover-coloured play button read on it, dark on a pale one
• A car keeps nori on screen while driving, so music can be played and controlled
• A car's dock and media card open nori's own screens, not the car's plain media player
• A cache write racing a measurer's stop no longer uses freed memory
• Mobile data is known as metered before the player has ever started
• On the desktop a song let go hangs up its request at once
• Downloading a whole album says how many songs were queued
• A request failing in the stall watch no longer keeps its timer
• The offline bridge no longer ends on the network that just failed
• An app hidden while connecting to the player lets it go
• A closed offload track's late event no longer hits the new track
• AutoMix no longer measures a provider playlist's songs
• Download speed holds between songs instead of dropping to zero
• Playback no longer crashes when the queue changes under it
• Engine callbacks reach the player that started the engine
• Replaygain follows the song the player holds during a queue edit
• Crossfeed and limiter set by name stay in their range