IMPROVED: upcoming songs are prepped one at a time, reducing server load. FIXED: songs converted by server while streaming no longer pause or fail at the end. FIXED: a brief server error during a song no longer cuts it short. FIXED: issue where streams on a weak connection could retry unnecessarily.

FIXED: Continuing a song from your Mac now starts where you left off instead of from the beginning.

FIXED: bug where album name would not update on refresh.

FIXED: bug where icons in CarPlay library view would render in the wrong color.

IMPROVED: Favoriting while offline now saves the change and syncs it when you're back online. IMPROVED: Playing, queuing or downloading everything by an artist starts faster and works offline. IMPROVED: Less background work after signing in and when your library refreshes. FIXED: Some albums showed a placeholder cover instead of their artwork. FIXED: A favorite changed offline could be undone before it reached your server. FIXED: Album lists could stop loading more after a single failed request. FIXED: The cache health rating in Settings could show the wrong level.

IMPROVED: Lock screen, Control Center and CarPlay artwork is now properly sized. FIXED: Short songs could stall on cellular. FIXED: Pausing on cellular kept downloading the rest of the song. FIXED: A song that stalled could sit on the spinner instead of resuming. FIXED: Fixed quality issues with repeated retries. FIXED: A short song could use up its reconnection attempts on a flaky connection.

FIXED: improve library rendering in CarPlay.

FIXED: disable routing to artists who have no songs.

FIXED: critical bug where albums with multiple artists would not render or route properly.

FIXED: Tapping the artist in Now Playing could pause for a moment and then open the wrong artist, or nothing at all, especially for songs with a featured artist. FIXED: Very short tracks, and tracks from some servers, could stop at the end instead of moving on to the next song. FIXED: When deleting a playlist, the confirmation could briefly lose the playlist's name as it closed.

FIXED: rendering bugs for a few different loading states in the app.

FIXED: design mismatch between downloads list view and other list views.

IMPROVED: update album note design to match artist bios. FIXED: strip HTML from album notes.

FEATURE: Explore a Genre, a new way to start listening from Home and in CarPlay — pick a genre out of your library and go. FEATURE: Album notes on album pages, where your server has them. IMPROVED: Streaming holds up far better on an unreliable connection. A track that loses its connection now picks itself back up instead of stopping for good. IMPROVED: Picking a track back up from another device starts where you left off straight away, rather than waiting to catch up first. IMPROVED: Instant mixes can use your server's own analysis of your music, so "more like this" means what actually sounds alike in your library. IMPROVED: A track you have streamed is kept for next time instead of being fetched all over again. IMPROVED: Lyrics show the song's own words rather than a translation, when both are available. FIXED: Artwork could go missing from the widget, the Lock Screen and CarPlay until the app was restarted. FIXED: Starting a new album while a track was almost over could leave the new track showing the wrong position. FIXED: Very large playlists now save reliably.

FEATURE: Now Playing widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen — a progress ring, a detailed view, and a compact line for beside the clock. FEATURE: Playlists — browse, create and edit them, including in CarPlay. FEATURE: Star ratings behind the heart, and a Top Rated section. FEATURE: Lyrics, synced and highlighted line by line as they play. FEATURE: Ask Siri to play an artist or album by name. FEATURE: CarPlay rebuilt around Home and Library tabs, led by Continue Listening. FEATURE: A Mixes tab in CarPlay — your most-played artists, one per genre, each a tap from an instant mix. FEATURE: A Free Up Space picker and an Offline Mode switch for downloads. FEATURE: Your queue and playback position can sync through your own server too, not just iCloud — it survives reinstalling the app and needs no Apple account. Long tracks remember where you stopped, across devices. FEATURE: Downloads keep going in the background and resume automatically if interrupted. IMPROVED: The Now Playing widget puts the artwork front and center, with buttons that are easier to hit and read. IMPROVED: Browsing is faster on large libraries. IMPROVED: Cadence launches faster and uses less battery in the background. IMPROVED: VoiceOver announces the scrubber, and more controls have labels. IMPROVED: The login screen offers the right keyboard and can fill your saved password. IMPROVED: Self-hosted servers on your home network can be reached over plain http again. FIXED: Favorites and ratings made while offline are no longer lost. FIXED: Your library now warms up in the background the way it was meant to. FIXED: Offline Mode now actually stops downloads, including over cellular. FIXED: Download storage accounts for your device's real free space. FIXED: A server error is no longer saved as a song. FIXED: Changing albums while the next tracks were loading could crash the app. FIXED: A track could play twice while the next one was skipped. FIXED: Playback could start again after you signed out. FIXED: An unreadable downloads list is no longer erased. FIXED: Scrobbles that failed to submit now actually retry. FIXED: Tapping an artist's name from the Now Playing screen could freeze the app. FIXED: A rare crash while syncing playback position across devices. FIXED: CarPlay's long albums, discographies and favorites lists no longer come up blank. FIXED: Widget buttons work even if Cadence isn't already running. FIXED: The widget shows the right position after you skip ahead. FIXED: Asking Siri to play an artist no longer stalls on huge discographies.

FEATURE: Recently Added is now grouped by when albums arrived. FEATURE: Recently Added, Recently Played and Frequently Played each open with a row of the artists featured in them. FEATURE: Search now opens on your recent searches and a grid of genres to browse, and typing a genre name brings that genre up in the results. FEATURE: Sort your albums and artists. FEATURE: Reorder the queue by dragging. FEATURE: Artist bios, if available, are displayed on artist pages. IMPROVED: Album and artist details are laid out consistently. IMPROVED: Cadence is faster to launch and lighter on your library, with less repeated work while browsing. FIXED: Your favorites could be wiped. If the server returned an error, Cadence read it as an empty favorites list and saved it over the real one. FIXED: Large libraries could be incomplete. A single failed page while loading your albums ended the process early, and the incomplete library was saved as though it were the whole thing. FIXED: One unreadable album, artist or song no longer empties the entire list it arrived in. FIXED: Downloaded music could stop being available offline. Cadence kept its list of downloaded files somewhere the system was free to empty, so the music stayed on your device but became unreachable. FIXED: Resuming where you left off now reports to your server immediately, instead of waiting for the next track. FIXED: Playback no longer starts on its own after recovering from an error if you had paused. FIXED: Your library is no longer downloaded again every time you open the app. FIXED: In CarPlay, the queue keeps up as tracks change, tapping a track after shuffling plays the one you tapped, signing out on your phone takes effect in the car, and screens say what's actually going on instead of "Loading…" indefinitely. FIXED: A failed download is no longer saved as though it were music.

FEATURE: Now-playing status and playback progress are now reported to your server in real time on servers that support the OpenSubsonic playback-report extension — pause, resume, and seek are reflected accurately instead of estimated from the start of the track. FIXED: A track could occasionally be skipped as one song ended and the next began. FIXED: Scrubbing near the end of a song no longer jumps to the next track. FIXED: A stalled stream could hang on the loading spinner indefinitely; playback now recovers on its own. FIXED: Switching between Wi-Fi and cellular mid-song no longer occasionally plays the wrong track or gets stuck loading. FIXED: Removing the currently playing song from the queue now advances to the next track instead of continuing to play the removed one. FIXED: Playback recovery could stop working after certain phone calls or audio interruptions until the app was restarted. FIXED: Relaunching while offline no longer discards your saved queue when you have downloaded music. FIXED: Searches containing symbols such as "&" or "+" (like "rock & roll") now return the correct results. FIXED: Downloaded music now respects your storage limit instead of growing without bound. FIXED: A crash or force-quit during a download no longer causes already-downloaded songs to be re-downloaded. FIXED: A failed refresh no longer clears an artist’s already-loaded albums. IMPROVED: Eliminated a periodic stutter that could occur during playback. IMPROVED: Opening Settings no longer briefly freezes while cache size is calculated. IMPROVED: Connecting to a slow or unreachable server now times out promptly instead of hanging. IMPROVED: Browse screens now clearly say when you’re offline instead of showing an empty "nothing found" result. IMPROVED: Cleaner network status — removed a redundant offline indicator and the Low Data Mode badge from the now-playing bar. IMPROVED: General stability improvements to caching under heavy use.

IMPROVED: a number of small issues have been fixed and cleaned up

FIXED: corrects a few minor UI issues

IMPROVED: a number of small changes and improvements behind the scenes FIXED: Spotlight search results for albums and artists now show artwork thumbnails more reliably

IMPROVED: a number of layout refinements and adjustments FIXED: minor issue when adding to queue in CarPlay

IMPROVED: Faster image loading when browsing albums and artists IMPROVED: Switching to a lower audio quality due to poor network conditions is now seamless with no audible gap IMPROVED: Your queue is restored on launch without requiring a network connection IMPROVED: Retries are now suspended while offline and resume automatically when connectivity returns IMPROVED: Network status banners now use Liquid Glass material IMPROVED: CarPlay now shows your library immediately when connecting, using cached data instead of waiting for the server IMPROVED: Browsing artists and albums in CarPlay now responds instantly with a loading indicator instead of appearing frozen IMPROVED: A Favorites section now appears on the CarPlay Home tab for quick access to your starred albums IMPROVED: You can now add an album to your queue from CarPlay without interrupting what's currently playing IMPROVED: Adding an album to your queue in CarPlay now navigates to Now Playing when the queue was previously empty FIXED: Music no longer resumes after a phone call if playback was paused before the call FIXED: Pausing from the lock screen during a call now correctly prevents auto-resume when the call ends FIXED: App no longer gets stuck in low quality mode after being force-quit during poor network conditions FIXED: Jumping to a song from the CarPlay queue no longer resets your playback history and shuffle state FIXED: Scrolling through any CarPlay list no longer jumps back to the top as artwork loads FIXED: Tapping shuffle in CarPlay no longer crashes when nothing is queued

FIXED: Album covers and song lists disappearing after clearing the cache FIXED: Media loading inconsistently after a cache clear, requiring an app restart to recover FIXED: More albums not loading in section views without a manual refresh FIXED: Tappable areas and bottom padding layout issues

IMPROVED: Progress bar updates more smoothly during playback IMPROVED: Playback recovers faster after a stall — transient hiccups no longer accumulate toward a quality downgrade FIXED: Song and album list screens could show a loading spinner indefinitely if you navigated away mid-load FIXED: Navigating to an artist or album while a song was playing could unexpectedly pop you back to the top of the list FIXED: Play/pause button could show the wrong state after tapping a song in the queue while paused FIXED: Removing AirPods or Bluetooth headphones now correctly pauses playback instead of continuing through the speaker FIXED: Playback could stall or skip songs when switching from Wi-Fi to cellular FIXED: Scrobbles could occasionally be submitted twice FIXED: Cache health percentage in Settings always showed 100% regardless of actual cached content FIXED: Images going grey and failing to reload correctly when scrolling through large album grids FIXED: Album and artist data being wiped when the server returned an empty response under load

FIXED: tracked down a tricky bug that prevented pull to refresh from working properly on the home view FIXED: marking an album as a favorite on the home view updates the view properly FIXED: issue where refreshing home view would duplicate haptic feedback FIXED: bugs when refreshing discover views