Improved: - Opening the playback queue now brings the current track into view, including in long queues with previously played tracks.

Improved: - The playback queue now shows played, current, and upcoming tracks, with earlier tracks faded and the current track highlighted. - Queue backgrounds now adapt to Light and Dark Mode for more consistent readability. - Improved contrast for queue text, playback controls, and the seek slider, including with Increase Contrast enabled. - VoiceOver now describes each queue item's playback status. Fixed / Reliability: - Fixed selecting a repeated track in the queue jumping to its first occurrence. - Prevented audio session setup from blocking the interface when starting or resuming playback. - Improved handling of delayed playback updates when pausing, resuming, advancing tracks, or using repeat-one.

Improved: - Library browsing, cache refreshes, and long playback queues use less memory. - Sync reuses track and bundle indexes during extraction, reducing repeated work on large libraries. - The Albums view avoids redundant reloads when the library changes. Fixed / Reliability: - All Tracks remains browsable while synced deletions are waiting to finish. - Album, artist, and playlist pages now stay current after sync; removed collections no longer linger on screen. - Track-to-album lookups no longer return the wrong album when cached indexes are out of date. - Selecting a queued track now uses its refreshed ratings and feedback, avoiding stale values after sync. - Ratings and feedback controls for the current track keep working during long browsing sessions. - Advancing through prepared tracks preserves playback metadata even after browsing clears older cache entries. - Pairing errors now appear on the Sync screen and allow another attempt. - Changing or resetting a pairing waits for the previous sync to stop, preventing late updates from restoring the old connection. - A failed pairing reset no longer clears playback or returns you to the connection screen.

Fixed / Reliability: - Playback survives iOS media-services restarts: tracks resume at the exact spot, a broken upcoming track no longer stalls the queue, and a finished queue stays finished. - Music paused by a call or Siri now resumes correctly even if media services restart during the interruption. - With Repeat One on, a restart no longer jumps the track back to the beginning. - Listening history skips the silent gap during an outage, so play times stay accurate and silence never counts as a play. - Album track details no longer revert to stale values, like a rating snapping back, when a library update lands mid-load. - Scrolling past a cover shown in more than one place no longer leaves its load running, so new artwork appears sooner.

Improved: - Sync planning no longer rescans the entire manifest for every bundle. Large libraries plan transfers noticeably faster. - Mass deletions no longer flood the progress display; the counter stays smooth and cancel responds immediately. - Snappier browsing: album lookups, feedback refreshes, queue scrolling, and artist-index rebuilds all skip work they don't need. Fixed / Reliability: - Playback now survives interruptions and media-services resets: it auto-resumes after calls and Siri when the system allows, rebuilds the player if media services crash, and can no longer show playback that isn't happening or revive a track you deliberately paused. - Ratings and listening history added during an upload are no longer lost when it completes. - A failed metadata scan can no longer wipe artwork thumbnails. - Year tags carrying a full date ("2019-03-08") now keep the year instead of dropping it. - A malformed sync bundle fails cleanly instead of stalling extraction forever. - Fixed lingering-state edge cases in pairing cancellation, rapid album refreshes, and off-screen artwork loading.

- Search by artist name and tap straight through to their page. - Each search section now shows a focused set of top matches, so results are quicker to scan. - Fixed a memory leak during library sync that caused the app's memory use to grow over long sessions.

Improved: - Library Play buttons now change to Pause or Resume when that album, artist, playlist, or All Tracks queue is already active. - Collection durations now use clearer, human-readable formatting consistent with Auzi Desktop. Fixed / Reliability: - Improved sync persistence efficiency and overall app performance.

Improved: - Search does far less allocation per keystroke while ranking results. - Post-sync library rebuilds compute sort keys once instead of per comparison, a large win on large libraries. - Cover art decodes at thumbnail size instead of full resolution, flattening the memory spike during initial sync. - Album, playlist, and Now Playing hero artwork is cached: skipping tracks no longer re-decodes embedded art. - Artwork repairs fetch the one record they need instead of scanning the whole library. - Bundle extraction keeps memory flat while unpacking large sync archives. - The manifest's per-track payload is released as soon as a sync completes. - Scrubbing updates only the player pane, keeping the queue list out of every drag frame. Fixed / Reliability: - Deletions now run before the download storage check, so space about to be freed counts toward the space required.

**Note** After updating, you'll need to re-pair your device and sync your library again. New: - Bookmark albums and keep your selections synchronized with Auzi Desktop. - Browse albums using the new bookmarked-only filter. Improved: - Album and artist grouping now handles capitalization, accents, Unicode variants, and incomplete metadata more consistently. - Playback now consistently resets shuffle and repeat when starting a new queue. Fixed / Reliability: - Fixed exact multiword library searches sometimes ranking reordered-word matches first. - Prevented databases created by newer app versions from being deleted if opened by an older version. - Separated search normalization from persistent identity normalization to keep search-friendly matching from altering album and artist identities.

Improved: - All Tracks playback controls now match the rest of the library. - All playlists now appear together in one list, sorted by name. - Refined wording in Sync details for a clearer copy action. Fixed / Reliability: - Improved sync reliability when tracks are added, removed, or temporarily excluded from your Desktop sync profile. - Ratings and listening history for temporarily unavailable tracks are preserved for a later sync. - Listening-history updates for tracks removed from Desktop no longer retry indefinitely. - Improved compatibility with both current and older Auzi Desktop versions.

Improved: - Playlist rows now include chevrons for clearer navigation. - Playlist artwork now uses the first track with available artwork when the first track has none. - Sync diagnostics now display the installed Auzi version in a cleaner layout. Fixed / Reliability: - The code pruning will continue until morale improves.

Improved: • Faster, smoother startup. Library database work no longer blocks the interface. • Play, Shuffle, search results, and long playback queues now stay responsive while track information loads. • Improved reliability for playback resume, listening history, feedback changes, syncing, and pairing transitions. • General performance, memory-use, and stability improvements throughout the app.

Improved: - Optimized image-loading performance during rapid scrolling. - Streamlined local storage and sync engine schemas, removing obsolete tracking data to reduce storage usage. Fixed / Reliability: - Resolved an issue where album artwork and track thumbnails would occasionally fail to load or update when scrolling slowly or transitioning into view. - Cleaned up internal navigation logic and internal structures for a more reliable, crash-resistant experience.

New: - Added an A–Z and # side rail to Tracks, Albums, and Artists, making it faster to jump through alphabetically sorted libraries. Improved: - Made large playlists faster and smoother to browse. - Improved library sorting for more natural, consistent alphabetical ordering. - Made the Next button more responsive by reusing the prepared playback queue. - Reduced artwork memory usage and improved performance under memory pressure. - Reduced unnecessary playback processing for smoother overall performance. Fixed / Reliability: - Improved the reliability of library updates while navigating between screens. - Prevented outdated loading requests from replacing newer album, artist, or playlist results. - Prevented stale seek requests from interrupting newly selected tracks. - Added further playback, library, and memory-management stability improvements.

Fixed / Reliability: - Eliminated playback gap when toggling shuffle during playback with large queues. - Fixed Tracks view artist-based sorting so compilation albums use the same album-artist grouping behavior as Artists view. - Improved sync keychain secret handling for better reliability and safety.

New: - Added an audio output picker to the Now Playing queue for choosing where audio plays. Fixed / Reliability: - Fixed Now Playing metadata so track and disc numbers are shared with devices when that information is available. - Beginning with 1.1.0, Auzi (iOS) uses SemVer-based versioning.

- Improved track-to-track playback handoff by preparing the next queued tracks ahead of time. - Now Playing now shows remaining track time as a negative countdown. - Fixed an issue where rating and sentiment controls could show stale values after a library sync. - Fixed a library UI state update issue that could affect stability during appearance/style changes.

- Light mode liquid glass fixes. - Large text scaling in album card fixes.