NaviBeat

- 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.

NaviBeat 1.1.1 build 93 ==== WHAT TO TEST ==== First connect (critical fix, please test first) - Delete the app, reinstall, then log in to your server for the first time: app connects without crashing - Also: Settings, reset pairing, then log in again: no crash - Test on both iPhone and iPad, repeat a few times Widgets and Live Activities (new) - Add a Home Screen widget: Now Playing and Recently Played - Lock Screen and StandBy widget show the current track - Dynamic Island and Live Activity appear during playback (iPhone) - macOS desktop widget shows Now Playing Apple TV - Open a large playlist (1,000+ tracks): commands respond and scrolling keeps up AudioStreaming engine (Settings, Playback, Advanced) - Quit the app while music is playing: no distorted sound on exit macOS - Settings has a Downloads & Storage section - Menu-bar popover stays anchored on play / pause - Title scrolls with content on Artists, Songs, Genres (no sticky band) ==== WHAT'S NEW IN 1.1.1 (build 93) ==== Widgets and Live Activities NaviBeat now has widgets. On iPhone and iPad: Home Screen Now Playing and Recently Played widgets, a Lock Screen and StandBy widget, and a Live Activity with Dynamic Island so the current track stays in reach while the app is in the background. On macOS there is a desktop Now Playing widget. Stability Fixed a crash that could happen the first time you connected to your server on iPhone or iPad (initial login on a fresh install, or after resetting pairing). Connecting now lands you in the library cleanly. The AudioStreaming beta engine no longer produces a short distorted sound when you quit during playback. Apple TV responsiveness Large playlists on Apple TV got a responsiveness pass so commands and scrolling keep up better on very long lists. macOS polish The macOS Settings now has a Downloads & Storage section, matching iOS. The menu-bar popover stays anchored when you play or pause. The page title on Artists, Songs and Genres scrolls with the content again instead of sticking, matching the Albums page. Plus sidebar drag-handle, queue focus and album-art hover refinements. Thanks for all the reports and feedback. Keep them coming. ==== KNOWN ISSUES (reference only) ==== - macOS fullscreen sidebar toggle can still overlap the traffic-light buttons on some external displays (#97, under investigation, architectural rework planned for 1.1.2). - Multi-library artist view may still show albums from both libraries on some setups (#43, client-side workaround pending OpenSubsonic PR opensubsonic/open-subsonic-api#162). - AudioStreaming engine: Now Playing title / art can show the next track on some transitions (#104, under investigation). - AudioStreaming engine cannot start a very large playlist on macOS (#105, under investigation). Workaround: default AVPlayer engine. - Default AVPlayer cellular path: rare rewind to 0:00 on stall. Workaround: switch engine to AudioStreaming (beta). - AudioStreaming: no crossfade yet (queued for 1.1.2). - Apple Watch: always AVPlayer (library has no watchOS slice). - Navidrome-transcoded MP3 streams: server ignores seek=, audio will not jump. Workaround: Stream Quality, Original. - iPad bulk Queue / Download multi-select missing (Add to Playlist works), queued for 1.1.2. - Now Playing layout toggle (F38), backlog for 1.2.