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Tryptify 1.8.9

New

• Exclusive USB DAC output actually works now. UAC2 exclusive mode was already in the app, but it never delivered what it promised. Tryptify now drives the DAC itself, so audio skips Android's mixer and its resampler entirely. The DAC runs at the file's own rate and gets the samples untouched.
• 24-bit and hi-res reach the DAC. Up to 96 kHz at 24-bit, packed into whatever subslot width the device asks for. Everything was being flattened to 16-bit before.
• The mixer and EQ run on 24-bit files. On a 24-bit or 32-bit track the whole DSP chain used to drop out with no sign of it: the mixer, both EQs, the spectrum and the visualizer's audio all stopped while the music kept playing.
• Speed and pitch work over the DAC. Semitone shift, and varispeed where pitch rides the tempo the way a record does. Both took effect everywhere except the DAC.
• The headphones button shows the audio pipeline. What is happening to the track, stage by stage: its format, the decoder, the rates in and out, the DSP, and where it lands.
• MilkDrop can play behind the music, not instead of it. The ambient visualizer draws the preset into the album background, over the blurred cover and under the controls, rather than replacing the artwork.
• Preset controls on the player. Back, browse and next sit across the artwork while the ambient visualizer is running, and fade out once you stop using them. Tap the artwork to bring them back.
• The glass bends your artwork through it. With Blurred Album Background on, the transport, the dock and the panels refract the cover itself rather than a tint standing in for it. The mini player carries it too, along the whole bar.
• Wide Stage joins the shipped mixer presets. A wider image without the hollow middle that usually comes with it.
• Home is the list of pages, and World radio is one of them. Pick a page instead of swiping to it. Next moves down the city's stations.
• Browse by album artist, composer or year. Local opens on a list of those instead of five swipes. Drag the scrollbar to move through a big library, and the track playing is coloured in the list.

Changed

• Visual Studio is a settings page of its own. Glass, themes and the player's look live together, and colour transitions no longer run for seconds.
• The Visualizer chip turns the ambient one on and off. It used to hand you the square visualizer on the second tap, and leave the ambient setting switched off behind it.
• Folders show your music, and open where it is. Clear All Downloads says what it will delete, and sending a file works for music on your phone.

Fixed

• Changing track no longer freezes the audio. Every track change was loading the whole file into memory looking for cover art. On a large WAV that stalled playback for seconds at a time.
• The glass is smooth again. The artwork behind it was being sampled as flat blocks of colour, worst on the mini player and the Audio tools sheet.