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Plexamp Changelog

What's new in Plexamp 4.9.5

Mar 5, 2024
  • Fixed:
  • In some rare cases, the home screen failed to load.
  • Player menu was not displaying last play time or track number.

New in Plexamp 4.9.3 (Dec 19, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Desktop: Show tab labels at larger display sizes.
  • Desktop: Transition smoothly between screens.
  • Android: Navigation between screens is snappier and follows system transitions.
  • Fixed:
  • iOS: Improve reliability of first voice command in some cases.
  • Possible crash related to EventSource processing.
  • CarPlay: Re-enable library switching.
  • Speed up loading albums on artist page.
  • When TIDAL is source, search result categories couldn’t be expanded.
  • Minor improvements to Sonic Sage sample prompt generation.
  • Speed up first network-related actions when starting the app on a new network.
  • Fixed a visual glitch on the player screen for Android 10 devices.
  • Improve styling and accessibility of badged tab icons.
  • Navigating quickly between settings pages could cause issues.
  • Updated translations.

New in Plexamp 4.9.0 (Dec 6, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Upload custom cover art for your playlists and collections.
  • Shared playlists now have play queue actions.
  • Add “unlistened” badge to shared playlists.
  • Increase playlist thumbnail size on pre-play pages.
  • Add media bitrate and codec as new filter criteria.
  • Allow sorting by track bitrate in library.
  • Allow customizing name of downloaded items.
  • Improve speed on artist and album screens by loading less data.
  • Tap on home screen header to quick-switch between libraries.
  • Long press on play/pause in cast dialog stops remote playback.
  • Long press on next button in cast dialog skips to next album.
  • Raise limit from 50 to 100 when expanding search results.
  • Show track number and last played date in player menu.
  • Sonic Sage: Use the new GPT-4 turbo model if available.
  • Linux: Track system dark theme preference based on xdg settings portal.
  • Android: Use clickier, more satisfying haptic feedback.
  • Android: Add native ripple effect to some touchable elements.
  • Android: Improve scrolling performance and speed up navigation.
  • Android: Improve modal performance.
  • Android: System navigation bar now behaves more natively when modals are open.
  • Added Finnish translations :finland:
  • Added Korean translations :kr:
  • Fixed:
  • DNS related connectivity issue on cellular networks.
  • Setup: Improve screen layout at smaller vertical heights.
  • Setup: Tap selected library to proceed to the next screen.
  • Android: Crash on some One Plus devices.
  • Accessibility: Add accessible labels to bottom tab bar.
  • Library tab could be blank or overly refreshed with TIDAL.
  • Shared playlists might not show up.
  • Shared playlist count didn’t update.
  • Expand clickable region in cast dialog.
  • Fix broken invalid token detection.
  • AutoPlay wasn’t always enabled right after launch.
  • AutoPlay “Artist Mix” option wasn’t available.
  • Browsing nested folders could lead to a crash.
  • Remove unnecessarily verbose console logs from early startup.
  • Some layout jank occurred when zero state messages popped into view.
  • Upgraded electron to latest release.
  • Update AutoEQ presets.
  • Updated translations.

New in Plexamp 4.8.1 (Jul 24, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Reorganised settings for improved discoverability.
  • Translations for Portuguese and Portuguese (Brazil).
  • Fixed:
  • Downloaded items could become incorrectly unavailable in some cases.
  • Fix rare crash in sharing menu.
  • Sonic Sage: Fix possible crash when attempting to play a list with no playable tracks.
  • Fix possible crash when calculating next track.
  • Switching users wasn’t successfully refreshing in all places.
  • Fixed possible crash in the upsell modal at first login.
  • Fixed possible crash in the user picker pin screen [regression].
  • Fixed crash in filter builder [regression].
  • Request a few more first items for home screen grid.
  • Mobile: Equalizer would jump horizontally when adjusting.
  • Home screen didn’t show server/library name in languages other than English.
  • Track menu could have a blank entry.
  • Playing from Recently Played carousel led to invalid Recent Plays entry.
  • Recently Played track menu actions didn’t all work.
  • Double display of unit numbers in filter builder.
  • Update translations.
  • Update AutoEQ presets.

New in Plexamp 4.7.2 (May 14, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Android: Expose the language picker for older Android versions.
  • Desktop: Rewritten window state restoration logic.
  • Show unmatched items in Sonic Sage.
  • Zero state for Sonic Sage.
  • Added translations for Norwegian Bokmål.
  • Added translations for Chinese.
  • Fixed:
  • Grey screen issue on startup.
  • Aural Fixation charts were showing incorrect items after travelling backwards in time.
  • Error when playing the last track of an offline item with repeat mode enabled.
  • Improve offline refreshing with zero-byte media files.

New in Plexamp 4.6.2 (Feb 14, 2023)

  • Added:
  • Easily switch sources by long pressing the home header title.
  • Keep local lyrics on-screen between tracks.
  • Play Next and Add to Queue actions in Back To track list.
  • Add NFC writing to Stations context menu.
  • Enable NFC writing for Mixes for You.
  • Desktop: “Skip to Next Album” global key-binding.
  • Car: Show shared playlists.
  • iOS: Fast forward/rewind audio by holding down skip buttons in control center/lock screen.
  • iOS: Improved app icon.
  • Android: update launcher icons.
  • Fixed:
  • Improve volume adjustment curve.
  • Cropped zero state text on home screen Recent Plays.
  • Zero state smart playlist screen didn’t allow editing filters.
  • Prevent writing unbrowseable links to NFC tags.
  • Long press on back button would result in list of empty labels.
  • Sorting the library descending didn’t reverse the alphabet jump bar.
  • Sharing track chart images could result in an infinite spinner.
  • When DJ mode runs out of tracks, automatically disable.
  • When loudness leveling, never boost the volume of a track, as it can lead to clipping.
  • Allow side by side player option to work on Android tablets.
  • Limit volume slider width to align with the rest of the player UI.
  • Playing from track lists (library, TIDAL, etc.) didn’t retain list context.
  • Improve accent color computation.
  • Blank screen when starting the app under some rare conditions.
  • Improve reloading hubs in background across network changes and errors.
  • Seekprint not always visible when sharing image.
  • Respect custom skip times for keybindings/remote.
  • Use track artist over album artist in track charts + image share.
  • Update AutoEQ presets.
  • Browser: Color extraction was broken.
  • Car: Playing a track from a playlist from the home screen would play album.
  • Linux: Enable seek action over MPRIS.
  • Browser: Don’t override show volume control setting.
  • Browser: Possible endless spinner when playing to headless Plexamp.
  • Cast: failed sessions were not recoverable.
  • Cast: casting to touchscreen devices would not show background art or up next.
  • Android: Support for IPv6 networks.
  • Android: Splash screen would appear twice on Android 12+.
  • Android: Stop the app service after 10 minutes (to preserve battery).
  • Android Auto would not load properly from a cold start.
  • Android: was not possible to selected external storage.

New in Plexamp 4.6.0 (Nov 30, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Write NFC tags via the Share menu.
  • Guest DJ Groupie adds tracks by the current artist.
  • Guest DJ Contempo adds tracks from same era.
  • Handle Companion controls as deep-links.
  • Upgraded Chromecast library.
  • Allow reordering and hiding of home screen hubs.
  • Allow rating of albums and artists through menu.
  • Show rating of albums and artists in list view.
  • Show recently used EQ presets in settings.
  • Show your current active EQ preset in settings.
  • Mesh: Show volume control per player, add skip button.
  • Mesh: Split Home/Cast buttons, no need to connect to mesh to control.
  • Fixed:
  • Failed attempts to register player were not retried, leading player to “disappear” after 2 days.
  • Cast dialog playback status could flicker between playing and not for a remote player.
  • Mesh could show a player node as inactive incorrectly.
  • Remote control wasn’t enabled after signing in.
  • Play Queue button spacing and icon.
  • Don’t skip track and resume playback if we encounter error in paused state.
  • Differences in menu title alignment and spacing.
  • Improve visibility of Mixes For You card text in some cases.
  • Show Similar Tracks and Album Radio menu options incorrectly showing for TIDAL content.
  • Increase visual distinction between visible and hidden home screen items.
  • Incorrect left margins with carousels with large grid mode.
  • Improve performance of loading of albums on artist page.
  • Improve showing/hiding home button with network changes.
  • Stop blacklisting some home screen hubs now that home screen can be customized.
  • Hang when changing downloads sort mode.
  • Improve connection testing speed on cellular.
  • Improve behavior of view state sync on cellular to use less battery in some cases.
  • Flash of Recent Plays zero state message on startup.
  • Headless: Casting in a paused state showed playing state even though it was paused.
  • Mesh: Fix dialog not working properly in some cases.
  • Mesh: Improve reliability of mesh dialog.
  • Mesh: Partitioning issue when nodes are coming up.
  • Mesh: Issues when booting or restarting.
  • Mesh: Fixed loop trying to reconnect which could cause home icon to disappear or flicker.
  • iOS: When searching, the keyboard state sometimes gets stuck.
  • iPad: Excessive vertical padding in menus.
  • Desktop: Using a mouse to rate an item would cause stars to shift.
  • Desktop: Overlapping icons on player screen at small widths.
  • Desktop: Album art not always showing.
  • Browser: Use high-DPI images.
  • Desktop: Improved app icons.
  • Android: switching from Chromecast to local playback no longer ignores bluetooth headphones.
  • Android: don’t crash if player service can’t start.
  • Android: will now display warning dialog if battery usage is set to Restricted.
  • Android: Android Auto would not always autoplay.

New in Plexamp 4.5.3 (Nov 14, 2022)

  • Added:
  • “Add to Library” menu item in player for TIDAL tracks.
  • Fixed:
  • Stopping playback while buffering could cause a hang.
  • DJ: Items already in the play queue could be inserted again.
  • DJ: The same tracks could be generated multiple times.
  • Updated AutoEQ database
  • When controlling a player which is previewing a track, a blank player would show.
  • Small memory leak during gapless playback.
  • Skipping tracks quickly could lead to a frozen UI.
  • When sorting albums by artist, use server library setting for album sort order.
  • Updated star icon.
  • Headless: Upgrade to node v16!
  • iOS: Reported crash in player.
  • Browser: Use high-DPI images.
  • Desktop: Improved app icons.
  • CarPlay/Android Auto: Playing a playlist in order would play album instead.
  • Android: don’t crash if player service can’t start.
  • Android: will now display warning dialog if battery usage is set to Restricted.
  • Android: Improve behavior with battery saving enabled.
  • Windows and macOS: Follow correct application icon style.

New in Plexamp 4.5.1 (Oct 30, 2022)

  • Fixed:
  • Text in ticker could flicker when changing tracks.
  • Limit maximum gain to be +15 dB in case of corrupt file or incorrect analysis.
  • “Go to album on TIDAL” menu item wasn’t working.
  • UltraBlur improvements.
  • Don’t show “add to collection” for TIDAL items.
  • Don’t show “create share image” when item is missing data.
  • “Skip x-seconds”-button changing track when it shouldn’t.
  • Play queue showing wrong tab for a split second.
  • Player didn’t animate between side-by-side queue and normal landscape.
  • Default to showing queue in side-by-side mode.
  • Allow non-owners to generate share links.
  • iOS: Black screen launching app in CarPlay.
  • iOS: Make first Siri command work when app isn’t running.
  • Browser: Images missing on Chrome.
  • Desktop: AutoPlay mode could change when resizing the window.
  • Desktop: Player button bar was a bit high.
  • Desktop: Buttons in player were too close to bottom.
  • Linux: App startup could lead to what looked like playing silently.
  • Android: Playing a track with broken analysis could crash the app.
  • Android: “Add to…” menu crashed.
  • Android: A few crashes, including on launch.
  • Android: Improvements resuming playback from notification after being paused.

New in Plexamp 4.2.1 (May 1, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Saving play queue to playlist.
  • Clearing play queue.
  • Save as Playlist action to Mixes For You (@MarcJT)
  • Show badge on most popular album tracks (and new setting).
  • Mobile: Player can be smoothly dismissed via swipe.
  • Mobile: Add a fast jump bar when not sorting by title.
  • Desktop: Wider posters when window is very tall and skinny.
  • Android: rating action added to the widget.
  • Fixed:
  • Correct codec might not be shown when playing caching tracks.
  • With 1-star rating preference, don’t show 5-star system in menus.
  • Downloads list didn’t scale properly for larger font sizes.
  • Go to album/artist works even when app started on settings tab.
  • Resuming playback when playback speed was > 1.0x didn’t work.
  • Equalizer didn’t work for tracks with sample rate lower than 44.1 kHz.
  • Rare scenarios where app would become unresponsive with repeat enabled.
  • In some cases “Build Custom Mix” menu item didn’t work.
  • Consecutive playback of TIDAL items saved to library could result in overlapping audio (@MarcusCrane)
  • Multiple rows could get stuck swiped left.
  • Occasional grey screen when bringing up cast menu.
  • Crash tapping on playlist summary.
  • Deleting playlists wasn’t possible w/o media deletion permission on server.
  • Android: Fixes for non-standard font sizes.
  • Android: Modal backdrop didn’t cover status bar.
  • Android Auto: UI did not change to stopped at the end of a queue.

New in Plexamp 4.1.0 (Mar 21, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Allow simple remote control when not on the same network.
  • Strict sample rate matching mode.
  • Add a setting which forces remote connections with GoogleCast devices.
  • Android: The Widget™
  • Fixed:
  • TIDAL albums on artist pages could show without year.
  • Cached media might not be used when it should be (h/t @DJ).
  • The player might play a higher quality than configured (h/t @DJ).
  • Setup screens work better in landscape mode.
  • Play queue index and total count could be incorrect.
  • Codecs could be inaccurate when scrolling through album lists.
  • Repeating a queue with exactly 2 tracks didn’t work.
  • Remote control could fail in some cases.
  • Casting a TIDAL play queue could fail.
  • Cast dialog would sometimes show inaccurate player status.
  • Android: Devices with notches and Android 12L could have header issues.
  • Android: Rare crash shortly after launch.
  • Android: Incorrect data could be displayed in car head units.

New in Plexamp 4.0.3 (Feb 28, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Search results include collections [requires newer server].
  • Fixed:
  • Android: Sign in screen could be unresponsive.
  • Android: Sign in might not work.
  • Potential hang during playback.
  • Improve reliability starting and stopping remote control.
  • Reduced memory usage when downloading tracks.
  • Crash when remote control couldn’t start up.
  • Hang while quickly skipping tracks.
  • Initiating remote playback could result in double player screen (thanks @mbolo01)
  • Button alignment issues and header size on landscape iOS.

New in Plexamp 4.0.0 (Feb 15, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Much faster/smoother navigation.
  • Support for being remote controlled.
  • Translucent header.
  • “Reconnect to Players” setting (@C_RRooney).
  • iOS: Setting to hide status bar.
  • Android: Move to AAudio as default.
  • Fixed:
  • Respect sort order for library/albums when displaying expanded album view.
  • Similar Artists page now uses the grid view.
  • Sort Appears On albums by release date.
  • Deletion icon in some menus was inconsistent.
  • Controlling player streaming from TIDAL didn’t load seekprint.
  • Remote TIDAL now playing item could show out of date.
  • TIDAL music added to library could play incorrect quality.
  • Refresh and shuffle settings weren’t working with remote control.
  • Remote control could fail to connect.
  • Play queue would not refresh after remote change.
  • Repeat all didn’t work with play queues of size one.
  • Hitting |< button on first track with repeat on didn’t skip to the last track.
  • Repeating offline shuffled play queues didn’t always work.
  • In some cases, AutoPlay didn’t work at the end of a playlist.
  • In light themes, music skip icons were the wrong color.
  • Style/genre album counts could be incorrect.
  • Incorrect margins switching between list and grid views.
  • Crash initializing audio.
  • Collections view could browse to the wrong collection in some cases (thanks @Owen R).
  • Extreme memory usage with high resolution PNG posters.
  • Opus albums wouldn’t show bitrate.
  • Improve sign-in screen field suggestions.
  • Android: Double-tapping headphone button to skip could result in playback pausing (thanks to @doctorzeromd).
  • Android: Google Assistant driving mode could not browse the library.
  • Android: Remove “hide status bar” setting (for now, at least).
  • iOS: Shuffle mode was toggled incorrectly in some cases.
  • iOS: Slide Over player layout on some iPads.

New in Plexamp 3.9.0 (Jan 2, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Downloads for Apple Silicon now available 97!
  • Selectable album layout on artist screen (list, grid, carousel).
  • Android Auto: Prioritize rating control over seek actions for music.
  • Android Auto: Upgrade home screen.
  • Fixed:
  • Better refreshing of home screen in background.
  • Tracks could be improperly skipped in some rare cases.
  • Memory leaks.
  • Retry for longer after failures when network comes online.
  • Clear search data after logging out.
  • CarPlay: Buttons were occasionally missing.
  • CarPlay: Images could be smaller/blurry.
  • CarPlay: List all albums for artist from Now Playing screen (not just main releases).
  • CarPlay: Improve reliability of artwork.
  • CarPlay: Omit Sonic Adventure from the Stations list.
  • Carplay/Auto: offline items weren’t browseable.
  • Sonic Adventure: Show error if tracks not analyzed.
  • Sonic Adventure: Play seed tracks if no journey is computed.
  • Sonic Adventure: improve heuristic which prevents duplicate tracks.
  • Android: Hide unsupported “Blurred Action Bar” appearance setting.
  • Android: Adjust player poster size to account for devices with shorter displays.
  • Fix removal of last item of playlist. Thanks u/tangsgod for reporting!
  • Improve performance of context menus.
  • Improve layout of various screens and user interface components.
  • Improve performance when scrolling through large lists.
  • Downloaded list item can be pressed after swiping row to close.
  • Android: Improve performance when navigating to a downloaded album screen.
  • Improved grid sizing on smaller mobile devices.
  • Fix alignment of explicit lyric badges for grid items.
  • Improve clarity and layout of hub headers.
  • Chromecast would not work with custom domains.
  • Fix vertical centering of items in some cases.
  • Fix TIDAL artist radio regression.
  • Offline playback is counted at 50% instead of 90%.

New in Plexamp 3.8.2 (Nov 13, 2021)

  • Fixed:
  • Flip album/artist titles for albums so album title is on top.
  • Improve initial start time.
  • CarPlay/Auto: Skip forward/back was broken.
  • CarPlay: Show now playing button instead of blank screen.
  • Android: Tweak poster size for landscape player mode.
  • Mix Builders had blank space above search results.
  • Album Mix Builder wasn’t showing artist titles on search results.
  • Android: Crash related to Android Auto and play queue.
  • Android: Fix lack of padding in player view on tablets.
  • iPad: Improve margins on player screen.
  • Windows: Gray screen on startup.
  • Android: Improve margins for setup screen.
  • Android: Use regular horizontal layout in player in more cases.
  • Desktop: Redundant notifications shown on window resize.

New in Plexamp 3.4.4 (Apr 24, 2021)

  • Added:
  • iOS: Siri shortcuts for the other radios (time travel, album, discovery).
  • Desktop: Escape key navigates back.
  • “Colorize Seekbar” setting.
  • Car View mode works in landscape.
  • Fixed:
  • Android: Crash when blurred action bar was enabled.
  • Don’t do “fast skipping” when tapping tracks in artist carousel.
  • Casting to Chromecast in some cases was broken.
  • Memory leak in player.
  • Stutter moving to library grid screens.
  • Player crash and memory leak.
  • Crash loading invalid URLs.
  • Buttons in Car View were ironically harder to tap.
  • Don’t show “undefined” as a source in the downloads list.
  • Make settings w/o explanation text easier to click/tap on.
  • Casting to Chromecast was broken on networks with DNS rebind protection.
  • Cast: Improved checking when playback fails.
  • Cast: Transferring cloud play queue to Sonos or Plex player failed.
  • Cast: Playing TIDAL items to Sonos devices didn’t work.