v0.3.2

This is a hotfix release which includes fixes to two major bugs. New features and other fixes added since v0.3.1 are not included.

The corresponding version of spmp-server for this release is still v0.3.1.

Bugs fixed

• Uploading stack trace to paste.ee fails
• Error when starting song radio (retroactively caused by a slight change in YouTube's API)

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.3.2

v0.3.1

This release corresponds to v0.3.1 of spmp-server

Added app languages

• French added by @RomaricKc1 #249
• Turkish added by @mikropsoft #264
• Russian added by @nichind #274

Changes

• Move the youtubeapi package into a separate library ytm-kt #258
• Landscape player:
  • Improve animation performance
  • Apply compact mode and bottom bar inset mode before expansion to prevent sudden shift during animation
  • Fix incorrect queue width with some window sizes
• When selecting landscape sidebar settings button, navigate to root settings page
• Disable kanji simplification on non-Japanese languages
• Add shortcut to toggle player expansion with tab
• Improve manual login steps, support brand account login with manual method
• Add hex input field to theme colour picker
• Load item data on Android URI open
• Re-implement lyrics display (improves font scaling/positioning issues)
• Add song/default sliders for player wave speed and opacity
• Apply extra queue side padding changes immediately
• Rewrite RadioInstance (improves radio playback reliability)
• Hide unsupported window transparency options on Windows
• Renew Android Discord status images implementation
• Disable media notification image crop on Android 13+ unless image offset is set
• Disable track press on settings sliders #254
• On playlist queue insertion, don't clear queue if playlist is definitely finite
• Improve reorderable lists

Bugs fixed

• Crash on downloading to custom location on Android
• NullPointerException and YoutubeChannelNotCreatedException after webview login
• Number key shortcuts active while editing text
• Crash on missing youtube string
• Song related content button plays song instead of opening page
• Crash on long-press menu access on desktop if layout_offset is not set
• Crash with no GUI log if an exception occurs before the window is created on desktop
• Crash when loading packaged font on Windows
• Crash on theme creation
• Theme delete button changes current theme index

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1

v0.3.0

Desktop version, landscape UI, and documentation

Documentation on installation, compilation, and general usage is now available at https://spmp.toastbits.dev/docs/ (source code)

This release corresponds to v0.3.0 of spmp-server

Added app language

• Simplified Chinese added by @ron159 #230

Main changes

• Add desktop version for Linux and Windows #170
  • Requires Java to be installed on the system
  • Other dependencies come packaged in the zip for Windows
  • See documentation for system dependencies on Linux
• Add landscape UI, used for both Android and desktop
  • Sidebar for app and local page navigation
  • Redesigned/tweaked pages for improved landscape experience
• Add new icon graphic created by smlqrs
• Rearrange and add portrait player buttons:
  • Move like/dislike button next to controls
  • Move song details button to bottom corner
  • Add start radio button next to controls
  • Add queue open button to bottom center
• Add option to show shuffle and repeat buttons in player
• Add audio volume normalisation option #195
• Add option to enable silence skipping #196
• Add 'Open album' button to long-press menu
• Add option to disable top bar lyrics
• Reorganise settings, add import and export buttons #201
• Add menu for selecting download location each time
• Add button to multiselect info which selects all items in between currently selected items
• Redesign song theme overlay menu and:
  • add slider to show song image as landscape player background
  • add slider for player image shadow size
• Implement artist shuffle action #212
• Show liked songs playlist on account playlists page and add the following library pages #217
  • Account library albums
  • Account library artists
  • Account liked songs
• Display song like button for local use when not signed in

Other changes

• Restore NewPipeExtractor as fallback by @JeelPatel231 #208
• Add bounce-on-press visual effect to some buttons
• Show indicator next to songs marked as explicit #192
• Name downloaded song files by song title #173
• Replace divider in long-press menu with a wave border
• Add cache/sync system for local song files
• Hardcoded lyrics tokenisation improvements:
  • Replace some Hanzi with their Kanji variants
  • Replace some incorrect tokenisations
• Move some multiselect actions to a separate floating dialog
• Use playlist accent colour for load fail error info display
• Add listen count text to player overlay menu
• Increase multiselect info display top row height, move divider into row and replace with wave border
• When clicking on an item in a local artist page, add all items to the queue along with it
• Add multiselect to local artist page
• Add back navigation queue for player overlay menu
• Add option to hide player seek bar gradient
• Add UI scale slider
• Use responsive buttons for queue shuffle and clear that shrink to icons if needed
• Display expanded home feed grid with the minimum amount of needed rows
• Improve library navigation

Bugs fixed

• Incorrect song feed and song related content page padding
• Incorrect handling of system language containing two parts #199
• Crash on startup when partial downloads are present
• Selecting the current item in the song queue restarts playback
• Crash on Discord status settings open
• Incorrect colouring of:
  • Player overlay title text field
  • Player overlay related content item text
  • Long-press menu item preview and pin button
• Artist name in player disappears when text is too long
• Pinned item row pop-in animation occurs even when no items are pinned
• Crash on theme deletion in some cases #209
• Error occurs when loading some playlists #211
• Navigation bar button colour not updating #198
• Can't remove items from account playlist #179
• Multiselect batch items not available on some pages
• Player background colour freezes when the player state is reset
• Incorrect long-press menu colouring during open/close animation
• Manual login text field hidden by minimised player
• Incorrect top bar transparency in artist page when 'Display over main image on artist page' enabled
• YoutubeChannelNotCreatedException not handled during manual YouTube login
• Pinning a local playlist and deleting the local playlist causes a crash on subsequent startups #223
• Database migration not working #161
• Crash when starting download on Android 14
• Incorrect vertical spacing and missing background segment in artist page with single layout
• UI freeze on Android when starting downloads #207
• Player expands when opening a playlist from some pages

Full Changelog: v0.2.4...v0.3.0

v0.2.4

Full Changelog: v0.2.3...v0.2.4

Main changes

• Add home feed row size options #110
• Add landscape player layout (will be improved in future updates) #163
• Improve player layout on smaller screens
• Store lyrics to library file when downloading song #125
• Implement database migration
• Add option to change queue item swipe dismiss sensitivity #78
• Add option to increase padding on queue sides

Other changes

• Add option to not start radio on song press #187
• Show commit/tag information of build in settings
• Only store required login headers
• Don't cancel queue multiselection on shuffle button press
• Move current song to start of queue on long-press of shuffle button
• Prevent music video playback of album songs #136
• Add custom song status webhook option 87d2539
• Use Shape instead of Canvas for WaveBorder rendering (fixes rendering issues on some Android versions)

Bugs fixed

• NetworkOnMainThreadException when attempting to sign in to YouTube
• Crash when pinning local playlist #177
• Crash when starting radio of local playlist #178
• Total duration of local playlists not displaying
• DataParseException when logging into YT Music due to excessive header storage #176
• Recursive loop when saving item data under certain conditions #181 #184
• Incorrect English string for s_key_resume_on_wired_connect #186 (by @opusforlife2)
• Download notification progress bar not including completed/failed downloads

v0.2.3

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3

Main changes

• Add support for reproducible builds #162
• Fix losing state such as the current radio when closing activity #159
• Fix crash when using es-US language
• Add options to adjust lyrics sync delay
• Add artist radio shortcut button (may be incomplete)
• Add per-song 'disable lyrics' button
• Several fixes to incorrect item metadata loading

Other changes

• Handle system back action in long-press menu and multiselect info display
• Reduce padding below queue radio filters
• Implement queue radio position option selection
• Increase player font size
• Add padding to MainPageTopBar
• Add padding to playlist select menu
• Add 'select all' button to artist view more page multiselect

Bugs fixed

• Main multiselect actions (ex. for adding selected songs to queue) not displaying in all pages
• Manual login text field displaying incorrectly and not allowing input #164
• Notification not clearing when service stopped
• Artist titles sometimes display as "Videos"
• Artist view more page:
  • Non-preloaded items not displaying metadata
  • Items cannot be multiselected
  • Too much top padding
  • Not queueing all items on click
• Media service started before required #144
• Playlist not queueing all items on click
• Display "Add songs to YouTube history" below the account box
• WebView cookies not cleared properly

v0.2.2

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

Main changes

• Add search suggestions
• Lower minimum version to Android 6 (Experimental, expect issues)
• Improve kanji readings generation
  • Split combined readings ({無理: むり} -> {無: む, 理: り})
  • Remove (safe) hiragana readings ({吐き出: はきだ} -> {吐: は, き: null, 出: だ})
• Skip downloading existing songs #153
• Add option to clear queue on downward player overscroll #146
• Replace Firebase (added in v0.2.1) with Supabase #155

Other changes

• Add logcat collection and Paste.ee upload button to ErrorReportActivity
• Remove unused secrets from Android workflow and update APK names
• Remove NewPipeExtractor
• Add retry button to song feed and search page load errors
• Clear external error on library page closed
• Swap long-press menu info button and side button positions
• Add Fastlane metadata
• Reimplement notification open intent

Bugs fixed

• Loss of radio state and brief UI flicker when restoring minimised app
• Song feed load errors not being displayed when cache exists
• Search results not displaying under search bar
• Vertical alignment of some large character in lyrics text
• Incorrect action_confirm string reference
• onCompleted not being invoked after startDownload called
• Incorrect settings/radio builder icon display state
• Incorrect ErrorInfoDisplay theming with dark backgrounds
• Search page doesn't allow retry after failure

v0.2.1

Note

If upgrading from v0.2.0, you may have to clear the app's data

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

New Contributors

• Spanish translation added by @MRGABOZ in #139

Main changes

• Song feed rows can now be hidden by title, or by long-pressing their header
• Change default video format endpoint to Youtubei (this drastically improves stream load times)
• Add option to change video format endpoint between Youtubei, Piped, and NewPipe
• Add local artists tab to library
• Add select all button to playlist page
• Add download indicator to media previews, with option to toggle display on song feed page
• Add options to pause/resume playback on audio device added/removed
• Add options to disable Discord status based on user online status
• Resume playback on playing item change
• Open library page on feed load failure
• Add warning for Discord RPC usage risks

Other changes

• Delay accent colour reset on song change by 1 second #141
• Display indicator while song duration loads
• Reduce radio indicator item preview height
• Add player overlay menu custom action options
• Index Discord status images using an external database, as reading directly from Discord was too slow
• Add navigation bar height multiplier setting #129
• Add option to toggle the 'previous' button in the minimised player
• Align radio builder icon
• Hide entire bar when FEED_SHOW_FILTER_BAR is disabled #148
• Implement playlist long-press menu playback actions
• Keyboard height padding is no longer applied to the player while an image overlay page is
• Add MUTE_PLAYER debug key

Bugs fixed

• Lyrics search button not displaying if current lyrics are synced
• Crash on theme save
• Crash when adding item to playlist on older Android versions #100
• Playlist item add not working from long-press menu
• Radio builder playlist title not displaying
• Crash on playlist reorder
• Crash on start due to NotImplementedError in MusicTwoRowItemRenderer.toMediaItem #140
• Accent colour not updating in some cases #143
• Theme delete button removes wrong theme
• Settings subpage back gesture takes priority over player menu #145
• Notification buttons don't appear on Android versions below 13 #151
• Non-functional notification like button
• Notification image offset doesn't apply
• Main lyrics display text doesn't wrap for non-Japanese text
• Top bar lyrics don't wrap for non-Japanese text #122
• Long-press menu info text has incorrect height during transition
• Incorrect NP gradient placement on overscroll
• Long-press menu info button not appearing in some cases
• Green box displayed when feed load fails (whoops)
• Crash on concurrent unlocalised string report
• Duplicate top bar in library profile page

v0.2.0

Full Changelog: v0.1.4...v0.2.0

New Contributors

• Polish translation added by @WaldiSt in #101
• Slight improvements to the bug report template by @opusforlife2 in #115
• Thanks to @Zaxx69, @PFARN, and others on the Discord server for their help with testing

Major changes

Partially redesigned home page

• Removed floating pill menu
• Moved settings, search, and library buttons to the top bar
• Moved radio builder button to the library page (it can also be accessed by long-pressing the library button)
• The search and library pages are now integrated more closely into the main page

Completely redesigned library page

• Three tabs are currently implemented (more are planned)
• The playlists page shows local playlists and account playlists separately
• The songs page displays locally stored songs with stats such as play count
• If logged in, the profile page shows your YouTube Music profile

• Completely rewrote backend code for loading and storing media #93
• Replaced Klaxon with Gson, dramatically improving load times for the song feed, radios, etc.
• The library folder, which contains downloaded media, can now be set to a custom location #126
• Local playlists are now stored as m3u files within the library folder #124
• Improved consistency and reliability of song feed cache and persistent queue
• KuGou is now the default lyrics source

New features

• Full Material You theming support #80
• Playlist continuation button for lists longer than 100 songs #112
• Pull-to-refresh to artist and playlist pages #88
• YouTube Music lyrics source #104
• Option to stop playback on app close #131
• Customisable media item filtering by keyword #77
• Added a system for displaying and reporting errors
• YouTube/Google brand account switcher #86
• Android 13 monochrome launcher icon #74
• Added a development section to the settings containing a list of external strings that haven't been localised, and several UI constraints

Bugs fixed

• Incorrect UI for search and player page/bar on some Android configurations #119 #123 #79
• Crash on first launch if system language is unsupported #111
• Crash when handling unknown strings in some cases #96
• Cannot login to YouTube Music if account channel is not created #91
• No media info on the lock screen #103
• NullPointerException on radio load while signed in #72
• Crash when handling unknown browse endpoint type #114

v0.1.4

This is a minor release which addresses an app-breaking bug. A full release will be published in the near future.

Increased NewPipeExtractor version from v0.22.1 to v0.22.7. This should fix issues with songs not loading.

v0.1.3

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

Fix crash when using a language that the app hasn't been localised for (#70)
Add Kugou lyrics source (#63)
Fix non-Japanese lyrics loading