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v6.1.0
🌊 BeatWave v6.1.0 Release Notes
BeatWave 6.1.0 is here! This release brings immersive 8D Spatial Audio, Always-On Display (AOD) Mode, Fluid Glow V2, blazing-fast load times with Android Baseline Profiles, and key stability fixes.
🎧 What's New
🌌 8D Spatial Audio
- 3D Binaural Sound Stage: Experience tracks rotating smoothly around your head with realistic depth, binaural panning, and acoustic space.
- Dedicated Audio Controls: Easily toggle and tune 8D audio right from the Player Menu.
🌙 Always-On Display (AOD / Standby Mode)
- AMOLED-Optimized Standby: Pure black
#000000screen with dimmed digital clock, date, and live battery status. - Breathing Artwork Halo: Floating album cover with ambient breathing light.
- Anti-Burn-In Pixel Shift: Built-in protection that periodically drifts UI coordinates to prevent image retention on OLED displays.
- Intuitive Gestures: Double-tap to Play/Pause, swipe left/right to skip tracks, and tap for options.
🌈 Fluid Glow V2 (Ambient Screen Edge Lighting)
- Dynamic Perimeter Glow: Screen edges now illuminate and pulse in sync with the song's beat drops and rhythm.
- Harmonic Palette Sampling: Edge lighting blends seamlessly with your current album art colors.
⚡ Performance & Speed
- 🚀 Instant App Startup (Baseline Profile): Implemented AOT (Ahead-of-Time) compilation baseline profiles for snappy app launch and buttery-smooth 120Hz scrolling.
- ⚡ Faster Playlist & Track Loading: Optimized concurrency during Spotify and YouTube Music playlist syncing.
- 📥 Quick Local Download Access: Streamlined access to your offline library and downloaded tracks.
🎨 UI & Design Polishing
- Refreshed Typography: Clean, updated modern typography across the entire app.
- Enhanced Glassmorphism: Rendered cleaner vector tile outlines and improved Liquid Glass specular highlights.
- Universal Player Menus: Audio tools, tempo/pitch shifters, and 8D audio switches are now unified across both Classic and V2 player designs.
🐛 Bug Fixes & Stability
- Fixed Android 16 (SDK 36) Crash: Resolved static initializer NPE during playlist and track imports.
- 8D Audio Buffer Fix: Resolved audio buzzing on specific bitrates and buffer sizes.
- Thread-Safe Normalization: Implemented atomic caching in
SpotifyMapperto eliminate race conditions. - General performance improvements and minor UI alignment fixes.
Full Changelog: v6.0.0...v6.1.0