• Siri & voice — say "Hey Siri, play [album, artist, or playlist] on 1-bit," on your phone or hands-free in CarPlay, with voice search and shortcuts. • Home mixes — with a paired bridge, a new Home tab serves mixes built from your listening: Heavy Rotation, Daily Mix, On Repeat, Artist Deep Cuts, and more. • Atlas (optional, off by default) — artist and album "About" notes plus higher-quality cover art, fetched anonymously. • Smarter library — "The"-aware A–Z sorting, performer credits, and a configurable starting page. • Audio polish — anti-click rate switching for smoother PCM↔DSD transitions, plus Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ support. • More reliable DLNA casting, plus stability, metadata, and performance fixes.

• New source: UPnP/DLNA media servers on your network (NAS, MiniDLNA, Plex, Chord 2Go) — found automatically, played bit-exact. • Cast straight from a media server or bridge to a DLNA renderer, keeping your iPhone out of the audio path. • CarPlay: Recently Played and Downloads, an A–Z index, and more reliable pause/resume. • Richer Home-Screen widget: more sizes, transport controls, and a signal-path indicator. • Resume where you left off — your queue and position are restored even after the app is closed. • Stability: DLNA/DSD/SMB robustness and a fix for an iOS 26.5 playback crash.

• Cast to DLNA network renderers (e.g. Chord 2Go) — the renderer streams straight from your bridge, with your iPhone out of the audio path • New Home-Screen Now Playing widget (track, quality, Play/Pause) • Filter your library — albums and artists — by source • Optional playlist and playback-history backup to your own bridge (off by default) • Redesigned album, artist, and playlist pages; smoother, freeze-free browsing on large libraries • Automatic recovery from iOS audio interruptions, plus many stability and reliability fixes

• CarPlay: browse Recently Added, Artists, Albums, and Playlists; tap-to-play with Now Playing and Up Next. • Offline downloads: pin albums, playlists, or individual tracks for bit-exact playback without a network. • Built-in log viewer for troubleshooting your own sessions — logs stay on device. • Smoother DSD256/512 playback under sustained load with a thermal-aware buffer ladder. • Headphone Safety and DAC volume guidance cards on first connect of a USB DAC. • Faster cold-start probing for SMB and bridge sources — first listing appears sooner on launch. • Now requires iOS 26.1 or later.

• DSDIFF (.dff) bit-exact playback joins DSF / FLAC / ALAC. • Folder long-press actions — Play, Add to Queue, Play Next, Create Playlist directly from any folder. • Classical metadata first-class — composer, conductor, work, BPM, original year in rows and album headers. • Bridge upscale on Now Playing — pick a variant, switch mid-track, event-driven reconciliation. • First-track crackle gone on Hugo 2 and other Chord DACs via cold-start settle + prefill gates. • Performance + battery wins — first-scan resumes in the background overnight, smart cellular preload, thermal-aware IO buffer, snappier cold-start endpoint probing.

• Tap-to-pair bridges on your network — no QR code needed on the LAN; just approve on the bridge's admin page • Optional bridge-side upscaling — generate higher-rate PCM variants for older recordings on demand, with the original always preserved bit-exact • Smoother resume after screen-off and lock-screen suspends, especially on USB DACs • Reliability improvements for DSD playback, gapless transitions, and bridge connections • Assorted fixes

NEW SOURCES • 1-bit bridge: pair a free open-source companion server running on your Mac, Linux, or Raspberry Pi for HTTPS access to your music library. TLS-fingerprint pinning captured at pairing. Pair by QR scan, Bonjour discovery, or bridge:// deep link. • Multiple endpoints per bridge with automatic failover — keep one URL for your LAN and another for remote access (e.g. over Tailscale), and 1-bit picks the working one on each request. NEW AUDIO • Optional Bauer crossfeed for headphones and Bluetooth — a more speaker-like presentation. Automatically bypassed on USB DACs and DSD so the bit-exact path is preserved. • DSF playback now uses a lock-free ring buffer for the render path, with a producer task pre-filling ahead. The legacy render path is still available as an opt-out under Settings → Advanced. PLAYBACK POLISH • Eliminated the mid-track click when toggling shuffle / repeat. Next-track preload now arms in the last few seconds of the current track instead of immediately on track start. • "Previous" track button rewinds to the start of the current track after 5 seconds instead of 3 — matches Spotify and Apple Music. • Larger touch targets on transport buttons; respect Dynamic Type up to AX5. • Optimistic play/pause feedback so taps feel instant on slow networks. • Tap to rescan when a moved or renamed track surfaces a missing-file error — no need to dig into Sources. • Recovery across lock-screen suspends, USB-DAC unplug/replug, Bluetooth handoff, and iOS 26 audio-engine resets that previously left the player silently stopped. • Pre-cache window protected by a background task so locking the screen during a DSF cache doesn't suspend the download. • Volume and route preparation refresh after route changes. LIBRARY • Bridge sources surface a "Bridge enriching" footer while the server is still tagging your library. • Bridge-supplied artist images now display correctly. • Faster search and album / artist list rendering on large libraries (50k+ tracks). • "Clear caches" now properly resets artwork flags so the next launch refetches. PRIVACY & TRANSPARENCY • Bundled Privacy Policy view, reachable from About. • Settings clarification: "Fetch artist images" is SMB-only — bridge sources fetch artist images from your bridge. UI & ACCESSIBILITY • Refreshed app icon. • Quality badge ("FLAC 44.1/16", "DSD128", etc.) bumped in light-mode contrast for WCAG AA. • Folders tab uses a unified NavigationStack so breadcrumb taps land where you expect on iPhone compact widths. • Per-endpoint visibility for bridge shares with multiple URLs. • VoiceOver improvements on info cards. Plus many SwiftData and scanner reliability fixes, including saved-state probes (SMB and bridge) that now happen before any data is persisted — a typo no longer half-adds a share. Thanks for listening with 1-bit.