Your music comes back after a call. When a call, Siri or another app's audio interrupts, Fidelia picks up where it left off once it ends — in the background, at the level you were listening. There's no need to open the app to get it playing again. Big libraries, ready sooner. Adding a large folder of music is several times faster. Also in this release: the player names the format you're hearing — FLAC, Apple Lossless, WAV or AIFF — beside its bit depth and sample rate, and Settings ▸ About ▸ Share Diagnostic Log sends us exactly what happened if you ever need to write in.

Your streamer, awake when you press play. Fidelia keeps its own picture of what your network streamer is doing. A box that has gone to sleep is shown as away and woken by your next Play, it stays your chosen output until you pick another, and a seek starts it playing from the point you asked for. Radio that gets out of your way. Stations tune in the background, so Fidelia stays responsive while one connects, however slowly it answers. The phase you choose is the phase you hear. Filter Phase now shapes sample rate conversion exactly as it reads: Minimum leaves no pre-ringing, and Linear keeps timing even across the band. Each quality setting has been tuned even more finely to live up to its name. Also in this release: resolve an issue playing MP3's from a Music.app library. change your output mid-track — headphones, Bluetooth or a USB DAC — and your processing follows it.

Your streamer, awake when you press play. Fidelia keeps its own picture of what your network streamer is doing. A box that has gone to sleep is shown as away and woken by your next Play, it stays your chosen output until you pick another, and a seek starts it playing from the point you asked for. Radio that gets out of your way. Stations tune in the background, so Fidelia stays responsive while one connects, however slowly it answers. The phase you choose is the phase you hear. Filter Phase now shapes sample rate conversion exactly as it reads: Minimum leaves no pre-ringing, and Linear keeps timing even across the band. Each quality setting has been tuned even more finely to live up to its name. Also in this release: change your output mid-track — headphones, Bluetooth or a USB DAC — and your processing follows it.

Bring your playlists. Import M3U playlists from other players with the + button, the share sheet, or by copying them into Fidelia's folder alongside your music. Fidelia finds every track it can, even from a playlist made on another computer, and tells you plainly about any it can't — and a long press shares any playlist back out. Every playlist, at its best. Each song in a playlist plays from your best copy of it and follows your Make Primary choices, so a playlist of MP3s plays your lossless files the moment you have them. Music stays where you keep it. Songs and folders you add from your iPhone or iCloud Drive are read right where they are, so nothing takes up space twice. Files from other cloud services are still copied in, so they're ready in the car. Also in this release: playing, shuffling, searching and sorting stay quick in the largest libraries; your albums' own covers come first, then your music servers, then the web; a track whose file has moved, or whose UPnP server is switched off, dims and says why; pausing or a brief network hiccup never cuts a streamer's track short; and Now Playing is easier on your battery.

Room for your whole collection. Large libraries load even more reliably, and opening Fidelia again is quick however much music you have. Add a big collection and step away, and Fidelia picks up where it left off. Cover art stored inside MP3 and M4A files now appears earlier, too. Choose many at once. Select several albums or artists together to keep them offline or delete them, with Select All when you want the lot. Also in this release: pressing play on any Fidelia takes over a shared Tuneshine display, changes to your queue take effect right away when you're playing to a network streamer, and each track shows its exact audio format even while streaming.

Your album art, on a display of its own. Fidelia now sends the cover of whatever is playing to Tuneshine, a novel lo-fi screen that shows the record you're listening to. Fidelia finds the displays on your network, and it can drive more than one at a time. Levels land exactly at the track change. With ReplayGain on, the next track's level is applied at the precise sample the music changes over, instead of a moment afterwards. A gapless album moves from one track to the next without a step in loudness. Your streamer follows the file too. "Follow file sample rate" now governs network streamers as well as your DAC, so an album that mixes sample rates plays each track at its own rate from beginning to end. Also in this release: albums you've deleted stay deleted when a folder is scanned again, streaming to a device you've walked away from stops rather than running on, and a diagnostic report now carries a history of your streaming session.

Music you put in Fidelia is simply in Fidelia. Drop albums into Fidelia's folder in Files and they arrive whole, artwork and all. Point Fidelia at a folder you already keep and it takes a copy, or share a track from another app and it lands in the same place. Come back to a folder you've imported before and it catches up quickly. A playlist that lasts the whole drive. Fidelia now shows you how to build a queue that keeps going in the car, so the music doesn't run out halfway there. Tune a band by ear. The Equalizer shows each band's true center frequency and Q when running AutoEQ profiles, instead of a rounded label. Also in this release: improved support for playing to network streamers — music from network servers included — with gapless playback across an album and volume that follows the streamer's own level. CarPlay is quicker to show what's playing, a live radio station is presented as a stream rather than a track with a timeline, and every switch wears Fidelia's own accent color.

Every output remembers its own sound. The correction that suits your AirPods is wrong on your monitors, and wrong again in the car. So each output now keeps its own Equalizer and HeadSpace settings, and Fidelia restores them the moment you switch. Set a headphone profile once and it's simply there whenever those headphones are. Effects you can reach. The effects panel now opens with a rail across the top: Equalizer on the left, HeadSpace on the right, both live toggles above your Audio Unit slots. The panel reads in the order the signal travels, and turning something on or off no longer means going looking for it. Music servers, by name or by address. Fidelia finds more of the servers on your network, and where one would rather not be found, you can add it by address and Fidelia works out how to talk to it. Libraries that arrived with duplicates from an earlier version tidy themselves up on the next sync. Also in this release: steadier reading of large server libraries, and a clearer answer when a server can't be reached.

The Equalizer arrives. Ten octave sliders over a live response curve — drawn from the same filters doing the work, so the curve you see is the response you hear. Thirteen presets, and a parametric side that reads headphone-correction profiles: AutoEQ publishes them for thousands of headphones, and Fidelia imports the filter types, frequencies, Q and preamp exactly as published. Paste once; your profile stays in the preset menu after that. The Equalizer runs ahead of HeadSpace and your Audio Units, and Bit-Perfect still bypasses everything. Your effects remember. Plug-in settings persist now — whether you set them on Fidelia's sliders or inside the plug-in's own interface — saved as you leave the editor, restored at launch. A Fidelia folder, right in the Finder. Plug your iPhone into a Mac and Fidelia appears in the Finder's Files tab. Drag albums straight in — no iCloud required — and Fidelia plays them where they land, using your space once. Also in this release: album-grid covers that always match their albums, and a plug-in's landscape view hands the screen back cleanly.

Your server comes with you. The Network module ships on: Lyrion and UPnP libraries sit in Fidelia beside the files on your phone — one search, one player. Browsing your server is always free. Fidelia plays to your streamer. Any UPnP renderer on your network becomes an output, chosen from the same picker as your DAC, and only one box plays. Bit-perfect sends the original bytes; leave it off and HeadSpace, the resampler and your Audio Units run first, then stream the result. Your plug-ins, with their own faces. AUv3 effects host their real interfaces now, and they rotate with the phone. Also in this release: one output picker, primary on Now Playing. Levels that read in dB from the route itself. Delete from Library, which removes the reference and never the file.

Improved support for third-party AU effects, playlist sync from Music, and automatic album artwork search