SpotiFLAC-Mobile v4.8.5

New Features

• settings: Reveal nested search results
• settings: Search nested options
• metadata: Show current cover dimensions
• metadata: Add embedded cover resize options
• navigation: Add go to album actions
• player: Polish actions and synced lyrics
• settings: Polish search and navigation layout
• settings: Add searchable settings index
• collections: Unify selection-aware screens
• l10n: Localize settings search
• details: Add adaptive cover palettes
• theme: Add shared design tokens
• album: Batch download selected tracks
• metadata: Choose extension for online autofill
• library: Add quality label display modes
• library: Highlight high-bitrate quality badges
• library: Show a trailing fade on the filter chips row
• library: Playlists filter view and configurable default view
• player: Animate track changes and open queue with a swipe up
• tutorial: Fit pages on short viewports and fix page indicator visibility
• setup: Make language list scrollability obvious and center step content
• tablet: Cap wide-layout margins at 80dp so content uses the screen
• appearance: Manual toggle to force backdrop blur on lower device tiers
• queue: Long-press menu with move up/down for queued items
• metadata: Show average bitrate for lossless files in the track screen
• library: Add missing-ISRC metadata filter
• android: Home-screen download queue widget
• metadata: Manual MusicBrainz lookup in the tag editor
• player: Add repeat off/all/one modes
• queue: Offer one-tap retry when connectivity returns
• ux: Unify added-to-queue snackbars and add fetch retry
• library: ISRC duplicate detection beyond FLAC with review sheet
• track: Add Open on... platform links sheet
• l10n: Merge Crowdin updates, enable Korean at 98%
• library: M3U8 playlist import and export
• library: M3U8 playlist import and export
• player: Restore playback session after process death
• queue: Add download-next action on queued items
• extensions: Verify decentralized package integrity
• audio: Use VHQ settings for SoXR resampling

Bug Fixes

• ci: Align APK targets with supported ABIs
• search: Expose go to album for sparse tracks
• database: Make playback session migration idempotent
• metadata: Keep header details legible in light theme
• player: Refresh lyrics after automatic track changes
• metadata: Preserve WAV and AIFF tags
• analysis: Guard unsupported AC-4 codec
• lyrics: Reject empty embedded payloads
• metadata: Support extension custom search
• analysis: Detect full-band spectral cutoff
• ui: Refine track action spacing
• ui: Align track play button hitboxes
• player: Restore lyrics after cold start
• session: Enforce provider retry modes
• session: Block challenged session generations
• session: Honor canonical gateway error contracts
• session: Coordinate verification across parallel downloads
• selection: Keep modal sheets above selection bar
• player: Restore playback position reliably
• download: Make picker drag dismissal natural
• player: Preserve audio quality across track changes
• a11y: Improve compact control readability
• android: Stop forcing display mode at startup
• download: Suffix only colliding quality variants
• metadata: Fetch maximum cover for online autofill
• metadata: Verify maximum cover candidates
• storage: Recover from unwritable download folders
• ui: Sanitize user-facing errors
• analysis: Detect effective spectral cutoff
• library: Retain history during active downloads
• metadata: Dismiss autofill preview and surface feedback
• album: Overlay selection bar above navbar
• metadata: Align source picker with edit sheet
• analysis: Isolate metrics from active downloads
• download: Always alert for verification pauses
• download: Reject mismatched provider tracks
• download: Honor explicitly selected provider
• extensions: Serialize verification callbacks
• library: Retain cached rows across refresh
• library: Backfill local audio bitrates
• library: Keep rows visible during refresh
• library: Persist lossless bitrate metadata
• download: Swap local track variant actions
• home: Keep search visible during provider changes
• library: Retain records when deletion fails
• download: Complete quality variants reliably
• audio: Wait for complete analyzer metrics
• library: Keep track count readable next to filter actions
• store: Center add-repository state and keep submit button above keyboard
• download: Restore fast SQL-only duplicate check so huge playlists queue again
• queue: Keep cancelled downloads retryable across every cancel path and app restarts
• queue: Give completion-bridge cells swipe navigation into the library list
• extensions: Anchor URL handler patterns to the host
• extensions: Enforce minAppVersion and requiredRuntimeFeatures on load
• extensions: Isolate invalid registry checksums
• reenrich: Preserve release identity in batch actions
• verification: Recover signed-session bootstrap failures
• reenrich: Allow correcting stale release metadata
• download: Avoid unsafe automatic range resume
• config: Refresh announcements and remote content
• ci: Download pinned Gradle for native tests
• ci: Install Android 37 platform package

Performance

• metadata: Avoid SAF copies during quality probes
• android: Skip unused download widget work
• ui: Scope scan rebuilds, aspect-bound MediaQuery, lazy duplicate list
• history: Coalesce index bumps and batch per-row exists lookups
• metadata: Cache MusicBrainz ISRC lookups in the finalize path
• go: Cut redundant signed-session writes, progress-callback churn, tombstone growth
• assets: Instance GoogleSansFlex to the wght axis only

Refactoring

• ui: Standardize error and empty states
• extensions: Share extension rows
• settings: Unify settings components
• selection: Share bottom bar behavior
• library: Unify track cards
• ui: Standardize modal sheets
• ui: Unify sliver page headers
• metadata: Split cover cache, display helpers, and options menu into part files
• extensions: Split manifest models and provider-priority logic into part files
• library: Split row models and queue union SQL into part files
• analysis: Split models, info card, and spectrogram into part files
• android: Split replaygain journal, snapshots, and network policy out of DownloadService
• android: Split media, ffmpeg, and SAF publish helpers out of NativeDownloadFinalizer
• go: Split per-format scanners and incremental scan out of library_scan.go
• go: Split result/overlay helpers and output builders out of extension_fallback.go
• go: Split deezer models, cache upkeep, and browse endpoints out of deezer.go
• go: Split lyrics provider config, LRC codec, and search matching out of lyrics.go
• queue: Fold duplicated final-embed blocks into one helper
• queue: Decompose single-item god-method into _DownloadRun pipeline class
• queue: Move single-item download pipeline into a part file
• android: Split SAF scan and URI IO helpers out of MainActivity
• artist: Split section builders and dialogs into a part file
• go: Split package validation and VM lifecycle out of extension_manager.go
• history: Split models and startup maintenance into part files
• home: Split explore, recent, import, and search-results into part files
• queue: Split progress, verification, and connectivity into part files
• go: Split Ogg parsing and cover-art extraction out of audio_metadata.go
• go: Split M4A/MP4 tagging out of metadata.go
• Consolidate lyrics builders, cancel registries, and priority plumbing
• go: Consolidate duplicated track maps, selectors, and small helpers
• dart: Consolidate duplicated lookup, filename, and search-provider helpers
• ffmpeg: Remove dead conversion cluster and speculative decryption fields
• library: Drop unwired DB pagination providers
• Remove orphaned bridge, database, and queue helpers
• bridge: Remove dead cross-layer platform bridge methods
• ios: Isolate and test extension callbacks
• android: Extract native finalization policies
• dart: Extract queue search and media policies

Documentation

• release: Add 4.8.5 changelog
• extensions: Document the .sflx package suffix
• extensions: Document file download recovery options
• extensions: Add current development guide

Styling

• settings: Restore connected group layout
• dart: Apply repository formatting
• go: Apply Go 1.26 formatting

Testing

• ui: Cover search and player action consistency
• ui: Cover shared design system contracts
• go: Close output handle before cleanup

Dependencies

• deps: Update Flutter and Go dependencies
• deps: Update FFmpeg and notifications

Chores

• Update AltStore source to v4.8.0 by @github-actions[bot]
• release: Bump version to 4.8.5
• repo: Improve contributor experience
• release: Bump version to 4.8.1
• analysis: Enable unreachable_from_main lint
• about: Credit blackgold8282 (Korean) and BrandQc (French) as translators
• altstore: Describe extension-based providers instead of Amazon

Full Changelog: v4.8.0...v4.8.5

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.8.5-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.8.5-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.8.5-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

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SpotiFLAC-Mobile v4.8.0

New Features

• ui: Smooth download progress updates
• download: Preserve quality variants
• convert: Optionally retain original files
• convert: Support same-format lossless re-encoding
• ui: Shimmer skeletons for the home feed artist/album sections
• player: ReplayGain/R128 volume normalization for the built-in player
• net: DoH fallback, uTLS pool flush on cleanup, retry hardening
• ui: Crossfade the app content on orientation and rail-breakpoint changes
• settings: Toggle to disable Hero animations
• tablet: Clamp remaining screens - settings, queue lists, wizard
• player: Swipe the mini player away to stop playback
• ui: Surface the audio-analysis cache in cache management
• tablet: Navigation rail, landscape now-playing, clamped track lists
• tablet: Clamp dialogs and sheets, adaptive selection-card columns
• ui: Real headers on extension loading screens so hero covers fly on open
• metadata: Album-style header with centered square cover
• player: Fade the sheet in place on close, letting only the cover travel
• ui: Crossfade skeleton into content on extension detail screens
• ui: Shared-element hero covers from search and recents to detail screens
• player: Expand transition from mini player with drag-to-dismiss
• ui: Fluid bouncing scroll physics on capable devices
• android: Request highest display refresh rate at current resolution
• download: Resume interrupted downloads via Range/If-Range
• update: Force update when 3+ stable releases behind
• artist: Shimmer skeleton for album and popular-track cover placeholders
• ui: Add shared widgets, utils, and models for deduplicated screens
• metadata: Route MP3, Ogg, and M4A edits to the native writers
• metadata: Add native Ogg/Opus vorbis comment editor
• metadata: Add native M4A ilst tag editor
• metadata: Add native MP3 ID3v2 tag editor
• ios: Run verification and OAuth through ASWebAuthenticationSession
• downloads: Support up to 3 concurrent downloads
• downloads: Detect lost SAF grant and offer folder re-selection
• metadata: Surface explicit content flag with [E] badge
• extensions: Complete signed-session grants from help dialog

Bug Fixes

• navigation: Open download queue from snackbar actions
• extensions: Preserve explicit track metadata
• lyrics: Reject mismatched search results
• native-worker: Harden background queue handling
• analysis: Render full-track spectrograms
• library: Persist records before download completion
• library: Preserve downloaded file records
• notifications: Restore verification alert sound
• android: Sanitize restored installation state
• queue: Clarify and coalesce verification progress
• download: Accelerate verified extension resumes
• download: Persist and reconcile history reliably
• convert: Simplify output names and harden writes
• metadata: Resolve audio format and local artwork
• queue: Bridge completed downloads into library
• ui: Honor disabled hero animations
• ui: Restore plain loading skeleton on extension album screen
• logging: Keep cursors valid after rollover
• extensions: Bound file reads
• extensions: Bound cookie runtime state
• download: Name variants by measured quality
• queue: Open completed batch track metadata
• reenrich: Always clean temporary artifacts
• player: Prevent stale playback and clean SAF temps
• extensions: Harden package and runtime lifecycle
• extensions: Surface swallowed signed-session verification in provider fallback
• metadata: Send Accept-Language on Deezer requests so names follow the app language
• download: Skip AC-4 repair for non-MP4 decrypt output
• ui: Fetch covers via the Go backend instead of raw HttpClient
• go: Build with Go 1.26.5 for aligned cgo frames, safe on arm32
• shell: Rail overflow on short viewports and tab reset on rotation
• player: Don't auto-resume after interruption while backgrounded
• reenrich: Keep release identity when the matched track is from another album
• extensions: Remove extension data dir on uninstall
• ui: Match loading-header placeholder heights to the loaded rows
• ui: Hero continuity for motion (Apple Music) headers
• ui: Defer loaded-screen swap until the push transition settles
• playlists: Keep imported playlist track order (#482)
• player: Pause motion header video when its screen is hidden
• player: Dissolve the sheet while it slides down on close
• artist: Drop blurBackground stretch mode on the header
• player: Fade Now Playing content with the expand transition
• network: Harden audit findings in transport, uTLS pool, and cover cache
• queue: Restore pre-refactor guarantees found by commit audit
• metadata: Shift stco/co64 chunk offsets when the ilst resizes
• finalizer: Stage conversion outputs and sync SAF streams
• download: Fsync staged downloads before the promote rename
• metadata: Write FLAC, M4A, and AC-4 tags atomically with fsync
• metadata: Stop the endless FLAC-write failures on misnamed files
• queue: Keep create-playlist label at natural size
• queue: Prevent header row overflow on narrow screens
• android: Stop double-destroying the shared audio_service engine
• renovate: Target main instead of nonexistent dev branch
• native-worker: Keep batches and retries intact across seam races
• downloads: Stage direct-mode outputs and serialize same-path writes
• saf: Stage all SAF downloads, serialize same-name writes, safe replace
• native-worker: Recover from dead runs and make queue replacement safe
• native-worker: Never delete a published download over bookkeeping failures
• extensions: Serialize storage/credential/salt file writes across runtimes
• queue: Keep just-completed tracks pinned while the batch is running
• downloads: Flush queue persistence when app is backgrounded
• downloads: Defer verification challenge until app is foregrounded
• extensions: Expire stale pending auth challenges
• metadata: Close FLAC file handles after parsing
• ios: Create security-scoped bookmark inside native folder picker session
• store: Harden extension repo registry handling
• download: Suffix batch filenames with track number when needed
• ui: Use State's context instead of stale parameter in CSV import (#460) (#460) by @A831ARD0

Performance

• go: Add runtime metrics and benchmarks
• dedupe: Batch isrc lookups under one lock
• library: Scan flac and m4a in one pass
• extensions: Invoke goja providers directly
• memory: Drop disposable caches on pressure
• cache: Defer cover cache maintenance
• queue: Persist and index incremental updates
• playback: Batch local playlist resolution
• shell: Gate backdrop blur by device capability
• startup: Bootstrap persisted app state
• library: Trim startup lookup index
• library: Streamline search and grouped counts
• player: Isolate high-frequency playback updates
• library: Lazy-load collections and dispose queries
• player: Narrow now-playing queue sheet to shuffle-mode selector
• embed: Native-first tag writes and overlapped fetches in finalization
• ui: Skip the shell backdrop blur on low-end devices
• db: Enable incremental auto-vacuum so cleared data shrinks the file
• android: Sweep stale cache files, relax scan poll, debounce worker snapshots
• disk: Byte-cap the cover disk cache with an init sweep
• net: Cache update-check and remote-config fetches with TTL and ETag
• net: Fetch embed covers once per release instead of per track
• analysis: Stream PCM from disk instead of buffering the whole track
• images: Decode completion-bridge cover precache at cell size
• scan: Stream SAF library scan results to a spill file
• memory: Release Go heap and decoded image caches on OS memory pressure
• lyrics: Bound the in-memory lyrics cache
• extensions: Reuse isolated goja download runtimes via per-extension pool
• ogg: Stream tag rewrites instead of buffering every page
• m4a: Stream tag rewrites instead of buffering the whole file
• Hoist per-call regex compiles to package level
• network: Enable gzip on the metadata transport
• tls: Enable session resumption on the stdlib transports
• network: Mobile stability and data-usage fixes from network audit
• native-worker: Stop shipping the full item payload on every poll
• dedupe: Make the ISRC index incremental, cover-free, and batch-stable

Refactoring

• library-scan: Reuse applyAudioMetadataToScan for M4A/MP3/APE
• settings: Share the provider-priority reorder page
• providers: Remove dead lookup/history APIs and dedup provider resolution
• search: Remove unreachable artist/album/playlist result path
• reenrich: Share the FFmpeg re-enrich apply flow
• backend: Drop dead exports/availability path and dedup Go tag writers
• library: Drop dead pre-pagination filter pipeline in queue tab
• Rename extension store bridge ABI to repo across all layers
• dart: Rename store provider and screen folder to repo
• go: Rename extension store files and internals to repo
• queue: Split download_queue_provider into concern part files
• queue: Extract shared payload, history, and polling helpers
• Unify extension call skeleton and download finalization paths
• screens: Migrate remaining screens to shared header and selection components
• screens: Share album-screen scaffolding and track flows
• ui: Consolidate duplicated sheets, rows, and cover widgets
• Extract shared helpers for repeated low-level patterns
• Remove dead code across Dart and Go l...

SpotiFLAC-Mobile v4.7.1

New Features

• extensions: Embed full metadata and cover after extension downloads
• audio: Add dither and resampler options for lossless conversion
• extensions: Manual verification help when browser launch fails
• settings: Add extension verification browser mode preference

Bug Fixes

• convert: Make convert bottom sheets draggable and scroll-controlled
• extensions: Default verification browser to in-app first
• download: Hand off native worker verification to interactive queue
• ac4: Reject truncated AC-4 sample entries safely
• extensions: Bootstrap and clear pending signed-session auth

Chores

• release: Bump version to 4.7.1+137
• Update AltStore source to v4.7.0 by @github-actions[bot]

L10n

• Add extension verification and lossless processing strings

Full Changelog: v4.7.0...v4.7.1

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.7.1-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.7.1-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.7.1-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

Android: Enable "Install from unknown sources" and install the APK
iOS: Use AltStore, Sideloadly, or similar tools to sideload the IPA

SpotiFLAC-Mobile v4.7.0

New Features

• extension-repo: Preserve package suffix from download URL
• extensions: Route Deezer metadata through enabled extension
• ui: Stabilize album and playlist header layouts
• extension-health: Lengthen cache TTL and honor per-check minimum
• Apply lossless conversion quality cap to album screen batch convert
• Reorderable up-next queue + playback stability
• Cap bit depth/sample rate on lossless conversion + WAV/AIFF
• ui: Hide audio quality badge on downloading queue items
• ui: Redesign local/downloaded album and folder screen headers
• Playback queue, preview exclusivity, player bug fixes
• Add new playback experience and media integration
• go: Verification early-abort in fallback + album metadata from tracks
• banner: HLS motion-artwork header banners and audio-quality badges
• preview: Play short track preview snippets in lists
• extension-health: Cache results, force refresh, treat lookup errors as transient
• ui: Polish album folder structure picker bottom sheet
• ui: Add Beta badge to Backup & Restore settings entry
• network: Add opt-in allow local/private network setting
• backup: Include installed extensions and settings in backup/restore
• settings: Add backup and restore for settings, history and library
• library: Add rename action to playlist folder screen
• download: Add {playlist_position} filename placeholder
• Handle extension verification and retry-after on download
• Extension runtime and provider improvements
• download: AC-4 passthrough support
• replaygain: Add Opus R128 gain tags
• queue: Tap a failed download to view its error details

Bug Fixes

• download: Track verification retries per service
• extensions: Scope signed session files by endpoint and app context
• lyrics: Sync provider priority to backend on save
• lyrics: Prefer workers.dev LyricsPlus mirror first
• banner: Allow motion artwork video to mix with other audio
• queue: Resolve local album tracks by album_key
• lyrics: Sync provider settings to backend before fetch
• go: Widen lyrics priority grace to 5s so priority provider wins
• Preview player lifecycle and minor safety cleanups
• go: Classify transient timeout/5xx in extension health as unknown (grey)
• ui: Prevent home search skeleton row from overflowing on narrow screens
• lyrics: Improve provider fallback and health handling
• deps: Keep file_picker on 12.x beta to stay win32 6 compatible
• download: Detect actual output format from audio codec on fallback
• Navigate to correct artist when tapping artist name
• metadata: Cap oversized cover art and support QuickTime/MP4 tags
• android: Disable Impeller on Sony audio players and Vivante GPUs
• metadata: Write M4A ISRC/label natively and read all edited fields from file
• download: Honor requested quality when fallback provider recognizes it

Performance

• Optimize queue/library pagination, counts, scan, and extension runtime

Refactoring

• Hoist lossless labels before async convert paths
• track-provider: Rework verification retry, parse preview/header video
• ui: Make backup/restore page consistent with other settings

Dependencies

• deps: Update Flutter and Go dependencies to latest stable

Chores

• player: Log internal pause and audio interruption events
• Bump version to 4.7.0+136
• Clean up redundant comments across Go backend and Flutter sources
• Move website to spotiflacapp/Website repo
• Update AltStore source to v4.6.0 by @github-actions[bot]

Build

• android: Bump Java to 25 and targetSdk to 37
• android: Bump compileSdk to 37 and pin file_picker to beta.5

L10n

• Localize settings, store, and metadata UI strings
• Localize audio conversion labels and confirmations
• Localize library settings and announcements
• Add localization keys for hardcoded UI strings

Full Changelog: v4.6.0...v4.7.0

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.7.0-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.7.0-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.7.0-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

Android: Enable "Install from unknown sources" and install the APK
iOS: Use AltStore, Sideloadly, or similar tools to sideload the IPA

SpotiFLAC v4.6.0

New Features

• playlist: Blurred backdrop with full cover in playlist header
• ui: Add bottom inset so scrollable content clears the transparent navbar
• library: Show active downloads inside the library grid
• ui: Reduce bottom navbar height
• ui: Frosted translucent bottom navbar
• lyrics: Show actual lyrics source in metadata
• audio: Add WAV and AIFF support + settings-style metadata menu
• lyrics,replaygain: Add LyricsPlus provider and ReplayGain batch scanning
• l10n: Enable French and German locales

Bug Fixes

• metadata: Use high-res cover in track metadata header
• download: Honor selected provider when it equals the track source
• download: Request fallback provider's own highest quality
• downloads/extensions: IOS background task, serialize extension mutations, safer batch convert sheet
• ui: Center modals on large screens, modernize edit-metadata + convert sheets, themed badges, fix artist skeleton and format-editor crash
• l10n: Remove redundant ICU plural categories causing gen-l10n warnings
• android: Override predictive-back page transition
• queue: Simplify queue header and rate-limit indicator layout

Refactoring

• Generalize Tidal-specific naming to legacy/DASH terminology
• download: Remove concurrent download option

Dependencies

• deps: Update Flutter and Go dependencies

Chores

• ios: Strip CRLF from ffmpeg plugin scripts before pod install
• Bump version to 4.6.0
• Trim redundant comments
• about: Credit Mickael81 as French translator
• Update AltStore source to v4.5.6 by @github-actions[bot]

fix

• l10n: Correct crowdin language mapping

Full Changelog: v4.5.6...v4.6.0

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.6.0-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.6.0-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.6.0-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

Android: Enable "Install from unknown sources" and install the APK
iOS: Use AltStore, Sideloadly, or similar tools to sideload the IPA

SpotiFLAC v4.5.6

New Features

• Polish search empty state and share caching
• Rebuild cross-extension sharing and queue controls

Bug Fixes

• Align ios deployment target for file picker
• Prevent queue header action clipping
• Align cross-service sharing and fallback routing
• Harden download errors and re-enrich sidecars
• Resolve album-only autofill and placeholder re-enrich regressions
• Stricter metadata matching, respect embedLyrics setting, improve Apple Music lyrics

Chores

• Update flutter and native dependencies
• Bump version to 4.5.6 (build 133)
• Update AltStore source to v4.5.5 by @github-actions[bot]
• Update AltStore source to v4.5.1 by @github-actions[bot]

Full Changelog: v4.5.5...v4.5.6

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.6-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.6-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.6-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

Android: Enable "Install from unknown sources" and install the APK
iOS: Use AltStore, Sideloadly, or similar tools to sideload the IPA

SpotiFLAC v4.5.5

New Features

• Expose audio codec in download result and skip lossy-to-lossless conversion
• Add 5 new lyrics providers
• Enhanced audio analysis with loudness, clipping, and spectral cutoff
• Audio analysis rescan and AAC conversion support
• Add AAC lossy target and toggle for Apple Music eLRC word sync
• Show remote-config launch announcement on app start
• Persist codec format and bitrate in download history
• Detect FLAC/ALAC/EAC3/AC3/AC4 codecs inside MP4 containers
• Allow re-running audio quality analysis after cached result
• Add library scroll-to-top and scroll-to-bottom quick buttons

Bug Fixes

• Native FLAC handling and extension API optimizations
• MP3 lyrics embedding via ID3v2.3 USLT frame
• Gate M4A to FLAC conversion on a codec probe in every branch
• Force native FLAC muxer when decrypting to .flac output
• Report zero bit depth for non-ALAC M4A containers
• Probe codec to avoid fake FLAC upscale from lossy sources
• native-worker: Preserve requested output container in finalizer
• saf: Use extension-agnostic .partial staged filename

Refactoring

• Extract download progress label formatting
• Use audio_conversion_utils in downloaded_album_screen

Chores

• Bump version to 4.5.5 (build 132)
• Housekeeping cleanup and code deduplication

Full Changelog: v4.5.1...v4.5.5

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.5-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.5-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.5-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

Android: Enable "Install from unknown sources" and install the APK
iOS: Use AltStore, Sideloadly, or similar tools to sideload the IPA

SpotiFLAC v4.5.1

Bug Fixes

• Avoid native worker binder payload limit
• Show missing extension state for returning users
• Preserve selected metadata and update credits
• Declare dataSync type when starting foreground download service
• Restore default quality settings
• Stabilize library search and bump version
• Prevent settings editor white screens

Documentation

• Update credits and trendshift badge

Chores

• Update AltStore source to v4.5.0 by @github-actions[bot]

Full Changelog: v4.5.0...v4.5.1

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.1-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.1-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.1-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

Android: Enable "Install from unknown sources" and install the APK
iOS: Use AltStore, Sideloadly, or similar tools to sideload the IPA

SpotiFLAC v4.5.0

New Features

• Improve library grid, image loading, and metadata filters
• Add experimental Android native download worker
• Show extension service health
• Add deduplicateDownloads setting & fix build errors by @Amonoman
• settings: Reorganize settings into focused pages by @Amonoman
• Add Favorite Artists collection
• Retire built-in download providers, add isolated extension runtimes, Google Sans Flex font, and monochrome icon support
• Improve extension metadata UI
• Expose audio duration in metadata API and fix home empty-state race
• Add generic extension provider resolution, progress phases, and instrumental lyrics heuristic
• Remove Tidal built-in provider, add extension download dedup/ISRC/Lyrics APIs, and expand l10n/a11y
• Add skip_fallback capability for extension availability results
• Propagate download cancellation through entire pipeline, add MusicBrainz album artist fallback, and allow disabling home feed

Bug Fixes

• Guard security scoped bookmark options on iOS
• Preserve source cover metadata embeds
• Show lossy audio bitrate in quality labels
• Distinguish preparing from downloading in native worker progress
• Sync NativeDownloadFinalizer history schema to v8
• Truncate SAF filenames and directory segments safely at UTF-8 boundaries
• Improve native worker metadata embedding and notification progress
• Sync download progress notification states
• Persist probed audio duration
• Constrain artist album covers
• Avoid disk resizing cover cache by default
• Clean up settings merge regressions
• Map missing Crowdin locale variants
• ios: Use security-scoped bookmarks for download directory persistence
• Fallback unsupported locales to English

Performance

• Unify queue tab with DB-backed pagination and cross-database queries
• Optimize native worker snapshot writes with delta mode
• Reduce library and queue update overhead
• Reduce bridge and UI churn
• Improve download queue resilience

Refactoring

• Migrate local library from in-memory list to database-backed pagination
• Remove built-in provider registry in favor of extensions
• settings: Split download/options into focused pages by @Amonoman
• Split large screen files into part files and DRY platform bridge
• Rename skipBuiltInFallback to stopProviderFallback, unify service/search provider grid layout, and retire useExtensionProviders toggle
• Remove Qobuz built-in provider and delete qobuz.go
• Remove Qobuz from built-in provider registry, add retired provider detection
• Abstract built-in providers into generic registry and unify platform bridge API

Testing

• Add comprehensive Go backend and Dart model test suites

Chores

• Remove dead code, fix error casing, and add lint rules
• Remove redundant comments and boilerplate across codebase
• Update default lyrics providers and about links
• Update app dependency versions
• Enable Ukrainian locale on main
• Import l10n updates from l10n_dev into main
• Update AltStore source to v4.3.1 by @github-actions[bot]

I18n

• Add missing optionsDefaultSearchTabAlbums/Tracks keys to all locales by @Amonoman
• Sync missing EN strings to all locales & fix DE consistency by @Amonoman

Revert

• Release.yml to normal by @Amonoman

Full Changelog: v4.3.1...v4.5.0

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.0-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.0-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.5.0-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

Android: Enable "Install from unknown sources" and install the APK
iOS: Use AltStore, Sideloadly, or similar tools to sideload the IPA

SpotiFLAC v4.3.1

New Features

• Carry extension download metadata through host pipeline and avoid FLAC-only genre/label pre-embed on non-FLAC files
• Improve Tidal metadata (copyright, album artist), remove Qobuz metadata search fallback, fix DATE/YAR tag sync
• Add preserveNativeOutputExtensions capability for extensions
• Convert M4A to FLAC when extension doesn't prefer native M4A output

Bug Fixes

• Handle .mp4 as alias for .m4a throughout download pipeline
• Show filter button in all/singles modes when tracks are empty but filters are active
• Ensure non-null search provider fallback and update default labels to Tidal
• Reset OutputExt on extension→extension fallback too
• Reset OutputExt on extension→built-in fallback
• Normalize extension codec for built-in fallback, remove dead Tidal ISRC
• Respect user provider choice over source extension priority

Chores

• Bump version to 4.3.1+126
• Reduce Gradle memory, add extension network timeout, fix tr locale

Full Changelog: v4.3.0...v4.3.1

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Downloads

Android

• arm64: SpotiFLAC-v4.3.1-arm64.apk (recommended for modern devices)
• arm32: SpotiFLAC-v4.3.1-arm32.apk (older devices)

iOS

• iOS: SpotiFLAC-v4.3.1-ios-unsigned.ipa (sideload required)

Installation

Android: Enable "Install from unknown sources" and install the APK
iOS: Use AltStore, Sideloadly, or similar tools to sideload the IPA