Plexamp Release Notes

Version 3.4.1

:fireworks: :fireworks: :fireworks: Happy New Year! :fireworks: :fireworks: :fireworks:

Lots of improvements for a 0.0.1 version change, which shows how big our plans are for the app!

Here are some things you can now ask Siri to do on iOS:

play rap music in plexamp
play happy music in plexamp
play with a little help from my friends in plexamp
play with a little help from my friends by the artist joe cocker in plexamp
play the recently added playlist on plexamp
find taylor swift in plexamp
show me the brand new playlist in plexamp
add this track to my testing playlist

Added

  • iOS14+ Siri support for playing, searching for and adding media to playlists :studio_microphone:
  • Car: Allow browsing into downloads :oncoming_automobile:
  • Top Tracks aural fixation :bar_chart:
  • Speed up context menus and screen transitions :fire:
  • Artist and album page styles/moods lead to library grid.
  • Mood/style station album browsing goes to library grid.
  • Remember last active tab.
  • Allow long press on play button to stop playback :play_or_pause_button:
  • Allow signing in with 2FA :key:
  • Album user rating as filter field.
  • Show artist’s own popular/highly rated tracks in Related Tracks.
  • Add setting to disable library action bar blurred background.

Fixed

  • TIDAL playlists in Recent Plays didn’t have a poster image.
  • Occasionally audio would glitch at the start of playback.
  • Improve buffering with TIDAL items on low bandwidth connections.
  • Car: Fix double player animation for offline items.
  • Occasionally swipe-to-delete rows weren’t tappable.
  • Fix downloaded poster resolution.
  • Fix corruption with offline images (and possibly others).
  • Pending download count on tab could be different from total for items.
  • When sorting tracks by popularity, de-dupe by title.
  • Get rid of extra blank line in artist grids.
  • Properly sort downloaded items with leading “the”, “a”, etc.
  • Playing a track from library view played the album instead of queuing tracks around it.
  • Fix spacing above artist/album carousels.
  • Don’t show drop shadows until image loads, fixes weird hexagons on Android.
  • Allow deleting tracks from dumb playlists again.
  • In some cases Discovery Radio wouldn’t start.
  • The zero state text for “Best Of” Aural Fixation included the word “false”.
  • iOS: Raise buffer sizes a bit for playback stability.
  • iOS: Fix playback stopping issue in low battery/power situations.
  • iOS: Allow smaller window sizes when running on macOS.
  • iOS: Fix visualizer breaking on rotation (and sometimes returning from background) on iPad.
  • iOS: Avoid running visualizer when app is in background.
  • Android: Fix a reported media browser crash.
  • Android: Fix issue with status bar occasionally losing translucency.
  • Show TIDAL icon on albums added to library.
  • Show TIDAL icon in player for items added to library.
  • Remove year from AutoPlay albums added to Recent Plays.
  • Make sure the sort is stable for Recent Play items.
  • Allow adding TIDAL items in library to TIDAL play queue.
  • AutoPlay didn’t work when casting.
  • Android: AutoPlay didn’t work in Android Auto.
  • Android: In landscape mode, player wasn’t vertically centered.
  • Android: Fix some cases of notifications acting weirdly.
  • Downloaded playlists showed a generic icon instead of artwork.
  • Attempt to improve reliability of debug log sharing.
  • Android: Lack of icon on headphone notification.
  • Silent audio (snap-back) after restarting audio device due to failure.
  • iOS: Better clearing of now playing data when stopping.
  • Desktop: Improve playback stability.
  • In some cases a small bit of audio would come out of the speaker when disconnecting from Bluetooth.
  • Wait to render Related Tracks until tab is active (helps performance).
  • iOS: Raise buffer a bit to make playback more stable.
  • In themes other than dark, group titles on downloads could be invisible.
  • Playlist items in grid didn’t change title color along with theme.
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