NaviBeat

NaviBeat 1.3 is a big one. NEW - Redesigned watch app: compact album rows, artwork that loads reliably, and send music straight to your wrist for offline listening. - Offline Download Manager: a live queue with transfer speed and progress, plus a History of finished transfers you can retry with one tap. Downloads keep going in the background. - Listening Stats: your top artists, tracks, and listening patterns over time (connect Last.fm to unlock). - Classical, done right: multi-movement works group correctly, so a suite reads as a suite. - Prefer Downloaded Music: a new setting to always play your local copy when you have one, even online. - More quality tiers: added Opus 256 and 192 kbps between fully transparent and light. - RockBox player sync on Mac: load your library onto a RockBox player, transcoded and cover-matched. IMPROVED - CarPlay: more reliable Now Playing on a cold start, and better Siri playback handling. - tvOS: sort controls on Genres and Favourites, and a fix for artists with a single album. - Share links now always use your public server address, so they work off your network. - Repeat One no longer bleeds the next track or restarts on a manual skip. - Sharper rating menus, denser layouts, and dozens of smaller fixes. Thank you to every beta tester. Keep the reports coming.

Version 1.2.1 is a big reliability update, with a major focus on smooth, uninterrupted playback. PLAYBACK RELIABILITY We rebuilt how NaviBeat streams and buffers audio, so playback is far more resilient, especially on cellular and on the latest iOS: - Fixed freezes and unexpected app closes that could happen under memory pressure. - Fixed cases where a song could stall, rewind, or fail to advance to the next track. - Faster playback start and smoother, gap-free transitions between songs. - If the system audio service is interrupted, NaviBeat now recovers on its own and keeps playing. - More accurate seeking inside transcoded streams. MAC - The main window now remembers its size and position when you close and reopen it. - The menu-bar icon stays in place across launches. - Add to Playlist is now available right in the player menu. APPLE WATCH - More reliable downloads, including a fallback through your iPhone when a direct download is not possible. - Cover art now loads in the browse views. - Now Playing controls fit correctly on smaller watches. APPLE TV - Play Next and Add to Queue are now on the song menu, matching iPhone and Mac. EVERYWHERE - Settings are unified and consistent across all your devices. - Download All now queues multiple albums instead of ignoring the next one while a download is in progress. - Favorites shuffle now starts on a random song. - Ratings update instantly when you change them. - A broad round of stability and polish fixes across every platform. Thank you for using NaviBeat. Made with love by Nenad Jokic.

NaviBeat 1.2 Offline mode. Your downloaded music and playlists now work with no connection to your server at all. Metadata is cached, so browsing, playlists and playback keep working on a plane, on the subway, or anywhere with no signal. Client certificate support. Connect to a server that sits behind a client-certificate (mTLS) reverse proxy. Sort everything. Albums, artists, songs and playlists can be sorted the way you want: by name, rating, loved, play count, year and more, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. More streaming quality options. New lower-bandwidth tiers (down to 64 and 96 kbps) for slow or remote connections, alongside the existing higher ones. Queue control. Add a whole album or playlist to the queue as Play Next or Add to Queue without wiping what is already playing. Playback also keeps the queue topped up continuously, so Next always has something ready. Ratings on iPhone. Rate a song and see the rating right there on Now Playing. Storage and downloads. A new Download in progress screen with honest stats, a much higher offline cache limit bounded by your device's free space, and new Storage, Cache and Server Information settings, including your server's type, version and capabilities, and a library scan. Find albums fast. An A to Z fast-scroll index on the Albums list (iPhone and iPad). Lyrics. Apple-style active-line focus with smooth transitions, plus animated dots during instrumental gaps. iPad player. A clean player-only full-screen mode that no longer forces the lyrics or queue pane open. Apple TV. A new Songs section to browse every track, plus more sorting and consistency across the app. Apple Watch. Plays you make on the Watch, including downloaded tracks played offline, are now counted toward your listening history once a connection returns. Plus Shuffle right on the Watch. Fixes and polish. More accurate play counts, steadier connecting and playback, and many smaller refinements across every platform. Thank you for owning your music with NaviBeat. Found something or want a feature? Email [email protected].

- Home: fixed a "couldn't reach your music server" error that could show on a brand new or freshly scanned library even when the server was connected and working. Empty sections (no favourites yet, nothing recently played) now count as simply empty, not as an error, so Home loads cleanly from the first launch. - iPhone: in a playlist's Select mode, the bottom buttons were cramped and hard to read. Queue, Add to Playlist and Download now sit on their own row as clear, full-width buttons, with Select All / Deselect All above. - Mac: a large drop in CPU usage. The desktop Now Playing widget and the small "now playing" animated bars on the track list were both using far too much CPU; both are fixed and now stay light. - Mac: the desktop Now Playing widget is more compact, closer to the iPhone one, and the large size leaves more room for the Up Next list. - Mac: Play Next and Play Last are now right in a track's menu instead of tucked inside a submenu. - Mac: closing the Mini Player now keeps your main window at the size and position you left it. - Mac: an album's year no longer shows with a separator (it now reads 2025, not 2.025). - Mac: the pointer no longer stays a link hand after you click an artist name to open the artist. - Mac: the Downloads list now uses the same frosted background as the rest of the app instead of a flat grey. - Mac: tidied the first sidebar button height and a Settings toggle that was out of line. - Apple TV: pressing Play on an artist now plays all of their albums, not just the first one. - CarPlay: an artist now has Play and Shuffle for all of their albums at once, not just within a single album. - CarPlay: starting a list with the Play or Shuffle button now opens the Now Playing screen right away instead of leaving you on the list. Also since build 101: no more brief distorted sound when quitting while music is playing; on the AudioStreaming engine the scrubber no longer flashes to 0:00 when you seek an unbuffered track; and Year in Review now shows real artist and song names instead of internal codes.

NaviBeat 1.1.2 Play History. Recently Played now has an Albums / Tracks switch. The Tracks side is your real cross-device listening history; tap any row to play it. Pick up where you left off. The Home banner resumes the exact track and position you stopped on, and also surfaces your last playlist and last mix. Continue plays it; Open playlist jumps to it. Album art zoom. Pinch and double-tap to zoom and pan the cover (iPhone and Mac). Siri voice playback. Play music, shuffle your library, play favorites, like the current track, toggle AutoMix. New iPhone widgets. A large Playlists widget, a Transport widget (previous / play / next), and an option to hide widget titles. Show on Last.fm. Open an artist or album on Last.fm straight from its artwork menu (iPhone, iPad, Mac). Genres in Search on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Mac extras. Gapless playback, an option to launch straight into the Mini Player, lower CPU when viewing the album that is playing, and a Recently Played header that scrolls with the content. Radio now-playing bar on Mac and iPhone. Apple Watch. Downloads are much faster and now continue with the screen off or your wrist down, finishing in the background. Downloads are organized into Artists, Albums, Playlists, and Songs, with the real downloaded count per playlist, plus a new Download Quality choice (Optimized or Original). Apple TV Now Playing. Layout and font-size options, hide the Up Next panel, show the whole queue or only what is unplayed, richer track details, and re-entering a playlist focuses the track you last played. Timeline seek keeps focus on the bar, the Up Next / Queue / History buttons are tidier, text sizes are correct, radio Stop keeps the station screen, and the playlists list refreshes on return. CarPlay. An artist now shows all of their albums, the artists list is browsable by letter so you can reach every artist, and voice search waits for you to start speaking. Now Playing names. Tap the artist or album name on iPhone and iPad to open it. Improvements. AutoMix stays within your selected libraries. Swiping a song no longer also starts playing it. Per-playlist resume points survive app updates. At the end of a queue, Play restarts the queue. The next track's album art is ready sooner when you skip. A faster, smoother engine reduces a brief volume jump on skip. Plus a crash fix for talking to a paired Apple Watch, a cleaner app icon animation, a steadier playlist list, and many smaller polish fixes across every platform.