Plexamp Release Notes

Version v4.5.0

We’re back with another massive release!

Added

  • AutoEQ presets for 3000+ headphones.
  • New player buttons and selected state.
  • Share an artist, album or track URL (share the library before sharing links).
  • Share images of albums, artists and tracks.
  • Ability to use track durations in filters.
  • Longer titles use an animated ticker, instead of ellipsis.
  • “Use Hardware Volume” remote control setting to allow disabling
  • Desktop: Update to Electron v19.1.1.
  • Desktop: Side by side layout and setting for side-by-side layout (used to be mandatory).
  • Ability to create artist and album collections.
  • Ability to add artist and album to your collections.
  • Android: New notification functionality in Android 13.
  • Android: Support adaptive icons in Android 13.

Plus, we have a killer new feature called :sparkles: Guest DJ :sparkles: which requires an updated server v1.29.2.6253 or later. What does it do? Who is the guest DJ? All very good questions, which will be answered in time.

Fixed

  • iOS: App could resume with black screen.
  • Star rating not always working when switching landscape view on iPad.
  • Star rating not always working when going from portrait to landscape view.
  • Star rating gesture offset could trigger the wrong rating.
  • Improve reliability of player state across runs (mini vs full).
  • Cropping of long track titles on player menu header.
  • Desktop: Activate search shortcut didn’t always work.
  • Seekprint could be slightly cropped on the bottom.
  • Rare case where play queue could get briefly out of sync with reality.
  • (Potentially) fix simultaneous play of tracks.
  • Add header and close button to visualizers menu and scroll to initial selection on mobile.
  • Lower sensitivity of swipe to delete action.
  • Increase left slop for swipe to improve iOS back action.
  • Don’t allow playing of empty playlists.
  • Make track menu nested for “Add to…”
  • Offline plays older than 86 minutes were discarded.
  • Crash when skipping tracks rapidly.
  • Reduce maximum Sweet Fades overlap time to 15 seconds.
  • Crash getting context menu on Recent Play track item.
  • Android: Would not always pause when disconnected from BT devices.
  • Browser: Album art would fail to load sometimes.
  • Browser: Loading initial settings.
  • Desktop: Cmd + click on tabs would open new window.
  • iPad: On older minis, play queue could be cropped.
  • iOS: App resumes playback with a single control center tap in more cases.
  • iOS: More reliable resumption after reconnecting to Bluetooth.
  • Linux/Headless: Some Vorbis files would not play.

And a final note for all 6 of our beloved Linux desktop users: if you’ve experienced any issues with the appimage, we recommend you give the Flatpak app a try. The latest version is rolling out now, and features an upgraded runtime for better system integration and improved security.

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