Highlights:

• Revamped UI from Material V3 to Shadcn design system
  • More intuitive user interface
  • Performant, responsive and adaptive design
  • Better visuals, feedbacks and OLED friendly (pure black) color palette
• Alternative YouTube engine support
  • yt-dlp for desktop platforms
  • NewPipe for Android
• Android: Home screen widget support
• Fixed music skipping, buffering or not playing at all
• Custom editable Piped and Invidious instance support

Bug Fixes

• SafeArea for global bottom items not working
• SafeArea not working for bottom floating widgets
• youtube video unplayable issue and use more ytClients
• ios: downloads not working due to permission errors (#2180)
• remove automaticallyImplyLeading from root tabs
• android: back button not working and safe area issues
• duplicates in recent section
• youtube source taking too long to buffer
• youtube tracks keeps skipping despite being matched correctly
• follow artist not working #2057
• youtube_explode_dart failing for many videos due to youtube ios client visitor data change
• piped api not working

Features

• android: home widget support (#2148)
• rewrite entire app in shadcn-ui replacing material eww
• grid/list customizable playbutton view
• flag to hide spotify generated images with patterns
• show placeholder images where there is no item or on empty page
• pause playback when no internet connection
• implement yt-dlp for desktop and NewPipeExtractor for Android (#2316)
• custom piped & invidious instance support

What's Changed

• fix(ios): downloads not working due to permission errors by @malikmiran in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2180

New Contributors

• @malikmiran made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2180

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v3.9.0...v4.0.0