This release introduces several new features to make life easy, along with few important fixes, especially for Windows.

Downloads

Downloads are available on the project website.

Highlights

• Added albums inside artist screen.
• Added smooth mouse-wheel scrolling on desktop.
• Added ability to select multiple tracks from multiple screens at once.
• Added play button in 'Album artists' sort view of albums screen.
• Added 'Create new playlist' option in 'Add to playlist' dialog itself.
• Added 'Show artist' option to context menu on Android.
• Added compression for Discord RPC cover images.
• Added refresh button for artist images.
• Made artists & genres case insensitive e.g. 'ZAYN' & 'Zayn' will now be merged.
• Added/Improved context menu for artist/album tiles.
• Improved rendering performance of large lists & tables.
• Improved loading performance of large playlists.
• Improved order of items in the context menu.
• Fixed an issue that caused app on Windows to display 'Location in use' due to a bug in a third-party library (which is only used on Android to request storage & notification permission).
• Fixed an issue that caused app on Windows to become unresponsive on some devices (especially with multiple monitors).
• Fixed an issue that caused app on Android to unpause upon connecting/disconnecting headphones.
• Fixed an issue that caused app on Android to not react to play/pause from the notification on some devices.
• Fixed an issue that caused up/down arrow keys to not trigger scroll in tracks screen.
• Fixed an issue that caused shuffle button to temporarily freeze updates to now playing playlist.
• Fixed an issue that caused crossfade to rarely not transition to next playlist item.

Notes

Making artists and genres case-insensitive required database migration. When you install this update, your media library and playlists will be automatically upgraded to the new schema on the first app launch.

Future

I haven't started on the planned "plugin system" yet. However, some important groundwork has been done there. I want to thank everyone who chose to support the project by becoming a Patreon member, as well as the folks on Discord for testing the snapshot builds and reporting bugs. Your support & feedback means a lot!