Version 14.0.0 Beta 1

Version 14.0.0

Notes:

  • This is a major version update. Be sure to read the changelog.
  • Beta note: It is highly possible that there’s unwanted breaking changes, or style migration issues, be sure to report them during the beta period!
  • Beta note: During the beta phase I will rework all the default application and now playing styles. You can help by building wonderful styles for addition, and make suggestions for the default settings. See the thread in the discussion part of the forum.
  • Please remember to leave an updated written review on the Play Store. Your feedback is essential for improving the app’s ranking and helping secure Symfonium’s future.

Added:

  • Added many new now playing settings:
    • Added new waveform bar type. (5 modes and precise size settings)
    • Added icon color and overlay transparency settings for string buttons.
    • Added configurable protection for lyrics over cover.
    • Added new spacer type for buttons, allowing more asymmetric designs.
    • Added 5 toggleable booleans to custom strings, allowing more dynamic screens.
    • Added more precise control of background blur level.
    • Added text formatting controls for custom strings (Bold, Italic, Uppercase, Underline and Strike).
    • Added share file as a possible button and string action.
    • Added horizontal text position setting for the top bar.
    • Added vertical text alignment setting for multiline fixed-size strings.
    • Added control over transparency levels for most overlays and protections.
    • Added new background overlay types and cleaned up the current implementation.
    • Added 3 new customizable strings over cover.
    • Added option to invert overlay and protection colors.
    • Added new animated glow expanded background style. (Apple Music style, Android 13+).
    • Added new fill size setting for cover in landscape to have it use as much space as possible in its side position.
    • You can now customize the back and forward amount for expanded and compact player buttons.
  • Added many new page settings:
    • Added different background overlay types and transparency levels.
    • Added precise header and image size controls.
    • Added title bold and scale factor.
    • Added option to show Favorite and More buttons in the button row, with option to split them from the playback actions.
    • Added precise blur level control.
    • Added center text, spacing and size control to albums in album and artist pages.
    • Added option to space evenly buttons.
  • Added many new media lists settings:
    • Minimum columns for grids is now 1.
    • Added nearly all display modes to all item types.
    • Added Single line list, Text only list, Round card grid, Overlay grid, Landscape background overlay and Landscape overlay display modes.
    • Landscape grid modes now have round and square versions everywhere.
    • You can now hide unwanted buttons from the top button row.
    • Added new settings to enable offline status and/or favorite status as overlay icons in lists for all media types.
    • Added new setting to enable text centering on square grid display mode.
    • Added new setting to control if Text only display mode is single line or not.
  • Added many new home settings:
    • Added precise size control for the top icon.
    • Added 2 more possible shortcuts rows.
    • Added Sync all as possible shortcut.
    • Added tertiary container color as a possible header color.
    • Added custom text as home row header title.
    • Added precise control of header text font size, vertical padding, number of lines and center text option.
    • Refactored overview style selection to split display modes and styles.
    • Enabled many styles for overview items.
    • Added setting to control visibility of the More button for overview lists.
    • Sizes, spacing and padding can now be configured precisely.
    • Added new Overlay grid, Landscape background overlay and Landscape overlay styles.
    • Added new Multiline row and Carousel display modes.
    • Added per-row controls to display Favorite, Offline status and Playlist type overlay icons.
  • Added “album.type”, “output.current”, “renderer.current”, “renderer.type”, “sleep.timer”, “sleep.timer.seconds”, “sleep.timer.eos”, “player.repeat.mode”, “player.shuffle.mode”, “filepath”, “filename”, “bool1” to “bool5” as possible custom string values.
  • Added back Polish translation, thanks Medo for the work.
  • Added support for MusicBee Love rating tags. (Loved to Favorite, Banned to Excluded from mixes).
  • Added support for channel selection for PEQ filters (All, left or right) and lowered the minimum frequency to 5Hz.
  • Added new setting to disable background and surface color changes when using dynamic colors.
  • Added Stereo to Mono converter to the DSP.

Changed:

  • There is major changes in many interface settings, most settings should be properly migrated, but it’s possible some special cases requires you to configure again some details.
  • Player keep paused state option is also applied to now playing cover swipes.
  • Now playing queue properly updates favorites, ratings, … on external changes.
  • Application styles export and import now also contain any custom home icon you have configured allowing to share full interface.
  • Song mood and language smart filters now support all range of text filters.

Fixed:

  • Fixed selection menu sometimes not visible.
  • Fixed unwanted skip count increments in rare cases.
  • Fixed Jellyfin quick connect sometimes not working.
  • Fixed PEQ/GEG pre amp sometimes not applied after a track change.
  • Fixed Plex offline caching (transcoding) sometimes generating bad mp3 instead of opus.
  • Added a workaround to allow playback of invalid mp3 generated by Plex transcoding.
  • Fixed some mp3 tag and images extraction issues on some cloud providers.
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