Version 1.1.3 comes with support for the new Serento app for Apple TV. NEW Group as Versions. Select two or more albums and choose Group as Versions in the … menu: they become versions of one album, and you pick the main version. Manage Versions, on an album's Versions screen, opens the same editor. Your groups sync across your devices. “The” in Artist Names, in Settings › Display › Artist Settings. Match “The” variants as one artist, on by default, makes “The Pink Floyd” and “Pink Floyd” one artist, named as on the newest release, orchestras and choirs included. Ignore “The” when sorting puts “The Beatles” under B. Both choices can sync across your devices. Tracks in every genre. A genre's page has a new Tracks section under Decades, and View All lists every track of the genre, with search, filters, sorting and Play. A track appears under each genre it carries, even on an album of another genre. IMPROVED When a streamer refuses a DSD file and your server also offers a PCM version, Serento plays that version instead of showing an error, and remembers the streamer's limit on all your devices. Nothing is converted: Serento picks between your server's versions. A DSD file sent to a streamer untouched now shows BIT-PERFECT. DSD OVER PCM appears only when your server sends DoP. On streamers that Serento feeds one track at a time, Serento follows the track the streamer plays, wherever it is in the queue: after your iPhone or iPad slept, after another device moved on, or after a network drop. The queue, Now Playing and the Lock Screen show that track, and the music goes on. Composers that your server joins with a comma, as MinimServer does, are now split into separate composers, while a name written “Surname, First name” stays whole. Sync with your server to apply it: Settings › your server › Sync Data › Sync now. When a name in a shared credit belongs to another artist in your library, Serento's database now tells them apart: “Travis” in “Travis & Fripp” is Theo Travis, not the band Travis. This applies at your next sync. During a sync, artist credits that got no answer, for example while Serento was in the background, are asked again before the sync ends. Genres, as the community suggested: Alternative Dance now sits under Pop, Avant-Garde only under Experimental, Folktronica also under Downtempo, and Alternative Metal also under Metal. FIXED On streamers that Serento feeds one track at a time, an album could stop after its first track while your iPhone or iPad was locked. The first track now hands the next one to the streamer, so the album plays on without a gap. On some streamers, Play and Pause could stop responding after the streamer restarted and lost the track. Play now gives it your track again from the position on the screen, also when another app took the streamer while your track was paused. When you move playback to another output, your other devices show the new output at once. A device following playback started on another device now shows the format your streamer actually receives. On some streamers, a radio station started after a track could lose its logo and make the mini player flicker. A genre now shows the same picture on its page and on its tile, and keeps it. Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

Serento now supports iPhone Duo. IPHONE DUO Closed, Serento works as it does on iPhone. Open, it uses the whole inner screen: a sidebar, larger grids and Now Playing with the cover beside the queue, lyrics or radio. Half folded like a book, every screen is laid out around the fold: covers on one page, titles and buttons on the other, and nothing you tap sits in the fold. Standing on a table, Now Playing shows the cover on the top half and the playback controls on the bottom half, with a time strip you drag to move through the track. Folding and unfolding keep the music, the queue and your place in the app. IMPROVED Classical works, movements, catalogue numbers and conductors now come from your tags first. Sync with your server to read them: Settings › your server › Sync Data › Sync now. A credit that names several composers lists each of them on their own. An album's genre follows the genres of its tracks, and radio picks each track by its own genre. Multi-disc albums show the album cover and each disc's own cover. Tags, Bookmarks and Listen Later show only what is available now. Your streamer stops at the end of the queue instead of starting it again. Quick changes to the queue, one after another, always reach your streamer. FIXED Downloaded music no longer disappears after you open Settings › Downloads. Seeking in a FLAC track playing on this device no longer stops playback. Playing on this device works with servers that refused file names with spaces or accents. Biographies are no longer cut in the middle of a word. Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

IMPORTANT Install 1.1.1 on every device you use Serento on, then sync with your server on each of them: Settings › your server › Sync Data › Sync now. Part of what this version brings is read from your server during a sync, and your devices now share more of the playback session with each other, so a device left on an older version or not synced will not have all of it. Version 1.1.1 makes your devices and your streamer play as one session, and can place reissued albums in the decade they first came out. NEW Use original date for decades, in Settings › Display › Album Settings › Decades. A remastered or reissued album goes into the decade it was first released, when your files carry an original date. The screen shows the one setting MinimServer needs to send it. The year shown on each album stays the same. Music started from another app. When another app plays on your streamer, Serento shows what is playing, and Play, Pause, Next, Previous and volume control it. Shuffle, repeat and queue editing stay off, because the queue belongs to that app. IMPROVED One session across your devices. Play, Pause, Next and Previous from any device act on the queue that is playing and never restart or replace it. Only a new album, track or station starts a new session. Queue edits reach every device, and turning shuffle off restores the original order on any device, also after the app restarts. A device that was asleep for a while catches up with the music instead of falling behind. Streamers that publish OpenHome as a separate device start playing at once, with no restart from the beginning and no error over music that is already playing, and the progress bar runs smoothly. Streamers that offer only OpenHome now appear as outputs, with volume and mute. When a streamer that speaks two control protocols refuses a command through one, Serento sends it through the other, so playback goes on. Two players running on the same computer are told apart, so each one plays in its own room. Repeat one holds on streamers that drop a connection at the wrong moment. An album belongs to a genre when any of its versions carries that genre. Subgenre tiles appear only when they lead to albums, and the genre filters include the genres of every edition. An artist shows the same number of albums and tracks everywhere in the app, and the sync screen explains what its Artists number includes. A disc with a subtitle shows only its subtitle, on up to two lines on narrow screens. FIXED After a sync, album pages show the changes at once, without restarting the app. In Now Playing, dragging the progress bar up or down no longer moves the screen. A Previous that restarts the current track now shows on your other devices. On streamers that refused the queue, an album could end up with only two tracks in the queue. On some streamers, starting a track could show an error while the music played, and a track removed from the queue could still play after the current one. A crash during Enrich Data on very large libraries. Serento no longer runs two copies at once when it is opened a second time. Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

Version 1.1.0 gives artists who only appear on other people's tracks a place of their own, understands every genre your tags use, and lays out classical albums the way the music is written. NEW Track artists. Turn on Detect track artists in Settings › Artist Settings and the artists credited only on tracks join Browse › Artists and the genres they play in. An artist's page adds Appears On, the albums they only appear on. Hide track artists keeps them out of the Artists list when there are too many. Decades. Every genre now has a Decades section. Four new main genres, Experimental, New Age, Religious and Vocal, and Unclassified for albums with no genre tag. Personalize your experience with the new display settings for albums, artists, tracks and genres, in Settings › Display: Album Settings, Artist Settings, Track Settings and Genre Settings. Track Settings lets you choose, for each list, whether track rows show the format column, or switch every list at once. A hidden column gives the title and the artist more room. Swipe a bookmark to delete it in the compact list. IMPROVED Artists are recognized more accurately. Names written together with no separator are split into the real artists, duos known to the music catalog stay together, and two spellings of one artist, such as Solar Stone and Solarstone, are one artist. Nobody is listed as a conductor without a known classical role, soloists and conductors come from the credits in the Serento Database, and soloists can also appear in Browse › Artists. Artist photos reach more artists. When several artists share a name, the tracks you own now decide which one is yours, and no artist is skipped when the photo service is slow to answer. Classical albums follow their works. Works are grouped exactly as in Works, a line joins each work's movements, a work with a single track reads as a track, multi-disc albums show their CDs, and each disc numbers its tracks from 1 and shows its title when it has one. The groups in Works fold like CDs. A far richer genre map. Every standard genre written by common tagging tools finds its main genre, Neo-Classical included. Genre pictures are artist photographs, a different artist for each genre, chosen among the artists who matter most in it. Large libraries sync without stalling on Scanning, every step after the scan shows its name and progress, the library index included, and the screen stays on while a sync runs. Classical opens faster. A server that does not answer Serento's search but announces itself on the network is now found. Album versions are recognized even when their artists are listed in a different order. UI improvements. FIXED Artist pictures in indexArtwork are found when the name holds a character a file name cannot use, such as D:Ream. After an Identify correction, the track titles update at once. A folder album shows the right tracks when two servers use the same folder. Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

Version 1.0.9 rebuilds how Serento decides who an artist is, and puts the pictures, the biographies and the details that follow from it on firmer ground. NEW One identity per artist. Serento now makes a single decision about who an artist is, based on the records you actually own, and everything shown about them reads that one decision: biography, portrait, origin, years active, genres. It also records how sure it is and what decided it. When the evidence is not there, the honest answer is nothing at all, rather than another person's life story. Artist photos from the encyclopedia article. When your server has no portrait and the music service offers only an album sleeve, Serento can now use the photograph from the artist's own encyclopedia article. The order is unchanged: your own indexArtwork folder still comes first. IMPROVED Artist pictures are checked before they are used. A picture that is really one of the artist's own album covers is refused, even when it is a different file of the same image, and so is one with the artist's name printed across it. Where no real photograph exists, the microphone placeholder stays. Pictures from your indexArtwork folder now include AlbumArtist, are looked for in the order MinimServer documents, and reach every artist, including those without a container of their own. A portrait found on one server is shared with the others that publish the same library. A correction is a correction everywhere. Correct an album's title, artist, year or genre and the list shows it, sorts by it, finds it in search and files it under the right letter in the A-Z bar. Until now the correction appeared only on the album's own screen. Restore Original Metadata keeps the sheet open, so you can carry on editing by hand after the server's values come back. The Statistics cards are one design on every platform. FIXED Recently Added works on servers that answer with the albums directly. Some publish that shelf with one level where Serento expected two, and a whole library could come back ordered by release year instead of by the day you added it. Albums are no longer merged by accident. Folders named with roman numerals, and names like MIX, CD, DVD or MC, were read as disc numbers, so separate albums collapsed into one and, in Folders, a whole genre could appear as a single album. Artists who share a name with someone else get their details back. Where the evidence existed and was being discarded, it is now used. Coming back from an album keeps your place in the list. Touching a search field left it holding focus, and the keyboard returning scrolled the list to the top. Back returns you where you came from, in Classical too, and a playlist deleted while it is playing no longer strands the queue. An album opened from Folders no longer reports that it is missing. On iPad, the audio output and volume panels are drawn by Serento, so the small arrow pointing at the button is part of the panel instead of a second surface beside it. Listen Later is split into sections by kind, and tracks are shown as tracks. The privacy policy now declares the add-only Photos permission used when you save a Share image, and the track notes and per-device settings that sync with your other devices. Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

Version 1.0.8 brings multi-disc albums under control, notes you can keep on any track, and artist images straight from your server. NEW Multi-disc albums. Every disc now carries its own play button, so you can start just that disc, and its own collapse control, so you can fold away the ones you are not listening to. A folded disc that holds the track currently playing shows a soft moving ring, so you never lose where you are. The same applies when you browse by folder. Track notes. Keep a note on any track, with the moment you were listening to it. Artist images from your server. If you run MinimServer with index artwork, Serento can now use the artist portraits you already curate. Settings, Display, Artist Options explains which folder to create, how to name the files and the server setting it needs. It is off by default, because it applies to MinimServer only. Genre Options. Custom genres, with the same kind of explanation of what the server needs. IMPROVED Linn and Lumin streamers are recognised as OpenHome again, so the full playlist transport is used instead of the basic one. Twonky libraries sync completely. Twonky answers searches differently from what Serento expected, so it is now walked folder by folder, like the other servers that need it. Folder browsing is faster on large trees. On iPad and Mac the album loading placeholder now matches the layout it turns into, so nothing jumps when the album arrives. FIXED Back returns you where you came from. Opening an album from Now Playing while you are listening from a playlist takes you back to that playlist rather than to the list of playlists, and doing the same from Classical keeps you in Classical. An album you are already looking at is no longer opened a second time on top of itself. Albums reached through Folders now open correctly from Now Playing, instead of reporting that the album is missing. On iPad, the more button on a track row no longer starts playback when your finger lands just beside it. Volume is reported correctly again, and Recently Played records what you actually played. Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

Playlists created a while ago could show only some of their tracks, and reordering them did not work. Every track is back, and reordering works again. Reordering is also smoother on very large playlists.

Fixed a freeze on iPad. Opening the actions panel with items selected could leave the app unresponsive until it was force quit. Very large libraries now get a startup screen while the app prepares them. A collection of over half a million tracks needs more than a moment after an update, and that work is now visible instead of looking like the app has stopped.

Bug fixes and improvements.

Version 1.0.4 is the largest update since launch: two new ways to work with your library, PDF booklets, classical music in search, and a long list of playback and sync fixes. NEW Multi-select. Press and hold any album, track, artist, playlist, station or classical item to start selecting, then act on the whole set at once: play, queue, add to a playlist, tag, download or remove. It works on every list and grid in the app, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Playlists you can reorder. Drag tracks into the order you want and they stay that way, synced across your devices. The same drag works on bookmarks. Booklets. An album that ships a PDF booklet now shows it, and an album with more than one shows them all. Text inside a booklet can be selected and copied. Classical music in search. Searching now returns composers, conductors, orchestras, soloists and works alongside albums, artists, tracks and stations, each with its own filter tab and its own View All screen. Artwork you can enlarge. Tap an album or artist image to open it at full size on a dark layer. Volume control. Renderers that support it gain volume buttons and a maximum volume limit, so a mis-tap cannot send full scale to your amplifier. Per-track artwork on compilations. A compilation now shows each track's own cover where the file carries one, instead of repeating the album cover down the whole list. A new app icon. IMPROVED Folder browsing now understands hybrid libraries, where one level holds sub-folders next to folders that are already albums. Folders sort ahead of albums, alphabetically with numbers first, and the name it sorts on is the name you actually see on the row. The genre taxonomy is considerably larger, so far fewer albums fall into a catch-all. Haptic feedback on every control that acts on your library. Swipe actions and drag to reorder now follow the system's current list editing behaviour, and the toolbars above those lists match it. FIXED Audio: the noise heard when pressing next or play on a DSD file, and on anything above CD quality. PCM stuttering on next, previous and seek. Pause, play and seek no longer fight each other, and pressing play on an album plays that album. Radio: stations start reliably again, including when another app is already producing audio, and Bluetooth resumes correctly after an interruption. Sync: resume, cancel and re-sync behave as expected, Plex sync issues are resolved, and several servers now share one folder view correctly. Home no longer flashes an empty state while it is still loading. Downloads: the missing tab is back, the buttons have a row of their own, and the retry button renders correctly with Display Zoom. Classical bookmarks open the screen they point at. The format badge no longer claims bit-perfect while nothing is playing. Tapping the mini player while Now Playing is already open now does nothing, as it should. The alphabetical index bar, the tag breadcrumb and the horizontal shelves all scroll and land where you expect them to. Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

Thank you for using Serento! In this version we fixed some bugs and made some improvements.