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

FEAT: replaces discover view with new home view, redesigned to surface more artists and albums from your library FEAT: adds genres to album views and dedicated genre views to the app IMPROVED: adds blurred background to the now playing screen and increases contrast of playback controls IMPROVED: tapping artist info on now playing screen takes you to the artist; tapping the art takes you to the album IMPROVED: tapping artist name on album pages takes you to the artist IMPROVED: color consistency across the app IMPROVED: redesigned settings view FIXED: more networking, playback and stall recovery bugs FIXED: playback logic that would cause audio to continue from device speakers after disconnecting headphones

FIX: bug in caching logic that could cause the app to hit a rate limit when fetching artwork

FIX: critical bug that could cause short songs to fail to play

FIX: additional networking issues that could cause playback to stall

FIX: corrects minor issue where favorite icon is shown on album covers in the favorites carousel (all albums in this carousel are favorites)

NEW: favorites and random album sections in Discover FIXED: critical networking issues FIXED: bug preventing app Shortcuts and intents from registering FIXED: performance and animation of now playing screen FIXED: appearance of and various miniplayer UI states FIXED: audio no longer resumes unexpectedly after ending a phone call or reconnecting headphones while the app was paused. FIXED: turning shuffle off from the lock screen or CarPlay now works correctly. FIXED: offline tracks downloaded at original quality were not being detected as cached, causing unnecessary re-streaming. FIXED: scrubbing near the end of a track could occasionally trigger an early skip to the next song. IMPROVED: audio quality during pitch-corrected playback. IMPROVED: the play/pause button in the miniplayer now animates smoothly when toggling. IMPROVED: rapidly skipping tracks no longer causes a brief visual glitch in the now playing screen. IMPROVED: scrobbling is now more reliable.

NEW: tap the artist or album name on the now playing screen to navigate to that artist or album IMPROVED: animations when opening and closing now playing screen IMPROVED: stall handling and networking FIXED: album count for artists now refreshes more reliably

FIXED: minor display issue in CarPlay app

FIX: issue where favoriting an album via swipe actions could cause the app to freeze

IMPROVED: queue layout in CarPlay app IMPROVED: audio handling and behavior IMPROVED: haptics across the app

IMPROVED: networking and interruption handling FIXED: issue where favoriting an item via the actions available when swiping an item could cause the UI to become temporarily unresponsive

FIX: critical bug where user cannot interact with app after queue completes and now playing screen is dismissed FIX: songs now transition on the now playing screen without any visual artifacts FEAT: add Siri suggestions IMPROVE: handling of audio interruptions IMPROVE: networking resiliency, restoration and reliability IMPROVE: remove fixed limit on queue size

FEAT: add support for searching for artists and albums in spotlight

FIX: performance regressions when audio is playing FIX: bug impacting visibility of now playing drag handle FIX: additional animation adjustments FIX: critical bug that could cause CarPlay app to crash

FEAT: redesign CarPlay app FEAT: support queue view in CarPlay app IMPROVED: CarPlay app stability IMPROVED: now playing screen layout IMPROVED: animation and interactions when opening and closing the new playing screen

FIX: improve performance when opening now playing view FIX: label color on discover view was inconsistent with other views

FIX: additional animation improvements when opening and closing now playing view

IMPROVED: Smoother mini player swipe animations IMPROVED: Faster library refresh for large collections IMPROVED: Pull-to-refresh now works on Discover tab FIXED: Discover content updates properly after refresh FIXED: Stability improvements

IMPROVED: adopt native controls for additional UI consistency