What's New in Version 1.0.9: • Enhanced Top 50 Worldwide Stations: Verified and restored high-performance direct audio streams across all Top 50 international stations. Enjoy continuous playback with instant tuning. • Seamless Desktop & iPad Navigation: Refined the Tools and navigation menus for Mac, iPad, and touch devices with smooth hover interactions and responsive tap-to-dismiss controls. • Fresh New Look: Updated app icon and seamless launch experience matching our high-fidelity dark aesthetic. • Performance & Stability: Audio stream connection resilience improvements, faster globe rendering, and general bug fixes.

• Top 50 Worldwide Radio Stations: Hand-curated directory of the planet’s most iconic live music, news, and cultural broadcasts (BBC, SomaFM, KEXP, Radio Swiss, FIP, and more). • Enhanced Apple CarPlay Experience: Improved background audio resilience and steering wheel track controls when streaming in your car. • Fresh Visual Branding: Brand new high-definition icons and cleaner station badges. • Live Track & Song Metadata: Faster ICY stream header detection to see live song titles and artist names instantly. • Performance & Stream Stability: Accelerated audio buffer startup and reduced battery consumption.

Enhanced 3D Globe Zooming: Zoom in up to 10x deeper on the interactive globe! Now you can easily explore, separate, and pick individual radio stations in smaller countries, islands, and dense cities. Dark Mode Search Visibility: Improved font contrast and crisp legibility when searching for stations, genres, and countries in Dark and Cosmic themes. Refined Mobile UI & Song Identification: Clean layout adjustments so station titles, live broadcast details, and song identification controls fit comfortably on all mobile screen sizes. Performance & Stability Upgrades: Faster globe rendering and overall smooth playback improvements.

• Grid & List View Toggle: Custom layout density options for comfortable browsing. • Lock-Screen Media Controls: Continuous background audio with full lock-screen track details and album artwork. • Performance & Stream Reliability Improvements: Faster audio loading and smoother playback.

- Collapsible Sidebar Filters: We redesigned the sidebar filters (Continent, Country, Genre, Bitrate) to be fully collapsible accordion menus, saving screen space and offering a cleaner browsing experience. - Smart Auto-Collapse: The Continent filter now automatically collapses when specific country or genre filters are active and expands back when cleared. - Refined Mobile Layout: Shifted the floating Shazam button on mobile screens to prevent overlaps with the feedback button, ensuring comfortable, clean tap targets. - Intercepted External Link Routing: Fixed routing inside the native app. Links to blog articles, directory hubs, and developer services now open safely in the system web browser (Safari) instead of throwing blank page errors. - Magnified App Icon: Scaled and optimized the primary logo emblem inside the launcher icon for a bolder, sharper presentation on mobile home screens. - Telemetry Updates: Optimizations to real-time session tracking, CORS configurations, and dashboard links.

- New Podcast Drill-Down UI: Replaced the flat list layout with a modern, show-based drill-down navigation featuring custom-curated category cover artwork. - Enhanced Contrast & Accessibility: Refined the podcast navigation back button and grid layouts for optimal contrast and readability across dark and light modes. - Background Playback Stability: Resolved a bug where pausing and playing audio from the lock screen or background controls could suspend the player on iOS devices. - Station Catalog Updates: Added 98.4 Capital FM Kenya to the global radio directory.

Added Shazam Kit integration for song identification, added new Kenyan radio stations, and resolved minor bugs.