1.8.4
1.8.4
Discover (Beta)
Discover is its own tab, and it's in beta
It used to be a couple of rows buried in Home. It's now the place you go to look for something new, and every shelf says why it's there. Beta because the genre data behind it is young and can be wrong.
Type any of 771 genres
A search box that knows what you meant.
The row under it changes as you type, instead of a fixed list you scroll past.
Moods you can stack
Pick more than one — Late night and Focus together draw from both, not from the sliver where they overlap. Anything in the mix you don't want can be dropped, and it comes back when you change moods.
The genre map
Every genre as one picture, linked to its neighbours. Dots are sized by how many people listen, so the big scenes read as big — or switch the weighting to age, and the map becomes a picture of when things began.
The same map, laid out by year
One tap moves every genre to where it belongs in time, oldest left, newest right, along a curve. Zoom in far enough and the axis goes from decades to single years.
A Top 100 for any genre
Over the last 7 days, 30 days, 6 months or year. Built from what people are actually listening to, and cross-checked against MusicBrainz so the artists in it really belong to the genre.
Tapping a genre plays that genre
It used to search the catalogue for the genre's name, which is exactly the query machine-made filler is built to win — ask for hard techno, get a track called "Hard Techno". It plays the charts now.
Show what you're playing on Discord
A "Listening to" card with the track, artist, album art and a live progress bar. Off by default, and it needs your Discord token — read what the setting says about that before switching it on.
Connect Last.fm in a browser
Connecting used to ask for a session key — something no listener has, and nothing in the app could produce. Tap Last.fm, approve it on Last.fm's own page, and it comes straight back connected.
Your own files play first
Tap a song anywhere and it plays the copy already on your device instead of streaming it — including tracks you downloaded, which used to re-stream from every screen but Downloads.
Gapless playback actually works
The toggle had never been connected to anything: it saved your choice and nothing read it. The next track is now made ready while the current one plays, so on-device files and Qobuz run straight on.
Blend between tracks
One slider in Settings decides what happens between songs. At zero they run straight into each other with no gap; add time and they overlap, one fading out as the next fades in.
Songs start faster
Playback begins after a quarter of the buffering it used to need, and Qobuz tracks now start as soon as the first audio arrives instead of waiting for the whole file to download.
Qobuz plays from Qobuz
Only the first track of a Qobuz album was actually coming from Qobuz — every song after it was fetched from the wrong service, which could fail outright or play a different recording.
Tracks no longer stall at the start
A song would sometimes load and then sit at 0:00 until you pressed play, most often the first time you heard it. It now starts on its own.
A song tapped straight after opening the app plays
Tap one before playback had finished connecting and nothing happened at all — no sound, no error, nothing to retry. The tap now waits the moment it needs instead of being dropped.
A slow track is no longer skipped past
A song that took a moment to load could be given up on within milliseconds and the queue would run on through it. It now gets a few seconds to come good, and a blend waits for it rather than fading the previous song out into silence.
Download as many as you like
Downloads are a proper queue now — send it fifty tracks and three transfer at a time under one notification. Queueing more than one at once used to be able to take the app down.
You can see what's already downloaded
Song rows show a ring with a down arrow when the track is on your device, in Library, playlists, albums, artists, Home and search. Unlike the progress spinner, it is still there after a restart.
Auto-download liked songs
Turn it on in Settings › Downloads and every song you like from then on is saved for offline. Songs you liked earlier are left alone, so switching it on never kicks off a huge download.
Crossfeed for headphones
A new toggle in the audio tools sheet sends a little of each channel to the far ear, the way speakers do, softening hard-panned old mixes. Long-press the row to set the speaker angle or pick a classic network.
Cleaner effects, and a louder ladder filter
The Inflator and Compressor gain an Off / 2x / 4x anti-alias control. The ladder filter is 25 dB cleaner and 6 dB louder — it had been throwing away half its level — so old ladder presets may want pulling down.
ReplayGain is gone
It never did anything: the mode had no control anywhere in the app, so volume matching sat switched off on every track. It is removed rather than left there looking functional. Nothing sounds different.
Apple Music is off the menu
Its settings, its onboarding card and its search results are gone, and search now covers TIDAL and Qobuz. Apple tracks you have already downloaded still play.
Search and sort any list of tracks
Playlists, album and artist pages, Liked Songs and every local library screen share one toolbar. Play, shuffle, select and Download All all follow what is on screen rather than what the filter hides.
A track menu wherever there are tracks
Local album, artist, genre, folder, Songs and Downloads rows gain the menu they never had: play next, add to playlist, go to album or artist, share the file.
Ten fonts, built in
The font library used to be empty until you found a .ttf yourself. Ten typefaces now ship with the app, from Space Grotesk and Manrope to JetBrains Mono, and the list folds away when you are not picking one.
Settings you can find things in
Instances, Scrobbling and Account merge into Connections, Appearance and Interface become one tab, and Playback, Equalizer, Library and Downloads each hold what belongs to them. Every tab looks the same now.
The player changes colour at the speed the music does
The background, the accents, the blurred backdrop and the album art itself now cross into the next track across your blend time, so nothing repaints while the previous song is still playing. Skip by hand and it still changes at once.
Tap the artwork to play
Album art in a song row plays the song instead of opening the album, and the artist and album links are harder to hit by accident.
Lighter to move around
The player rebuilt itself four times a second for the clock alone, long lists redrew from any change downwards, and screens kept working in the background. Scrolling and navigation are smoother for it.