Auxio/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

3.0.0

What's New

• Added multi-value tags support
  • Added support for multiple artists
  • Added support for multiple genres
• Artists and album artists are now both given UI entires
  • Added setting to hide "collaborator" artists
• Upgraded music ID management:
  • Added support for MusicBrainz IDs (MBIDs)
  • Use the more unique MD5 hash of metadata when MBIDs can't be used
• Genres now display a list of artists
• Added toggle to load non-music (Such as podcasts)
• Music loader now caches parsed metadata for faster load times
• Redesigned icon
  • Added animated splash screen on Android 12+
• Added support for MP4 ReplayGain (----) atoms

What's Improved

• Sorting now takes accented characters into account
• Added support for compilation sub-release-types like (DJ) Mix
• Album dates now start from the earliest date instead of latest date
• Reshuffling the queue will no longer drop any songs you have added/removed
• Allowed light/dark theme to be customized on Android 12+
• All information now scrolls in the playback view
• A month is now shown for song/album dates when available
• Added loading indicator to song properties view
• List items have been made more compact

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where the scroll popup would not display correctly in landscape mode [#230]
• Fixed issue where the playback progress would continue in the notification when audio focus was lost
• Fixed issue where the artist name would not be shown in the OS audio switcher menu
• Fixed issue where the search view would not update if the library changed
• Fixed visual bug with transitions in the black theme

What's Changed

• Ignore MediaStore tags is now Auxio's default and unchangeable behavior. The option has been removed.
• Removed the "Play from genre" option in the library/detail playback mode settings+
• "Use alternate notification action" is now "Custom notification action"
• "Show covers" and "Ignore MediaStore covers" have been unified into "Album covers"

Dev/Meta

• Completed migration to reactive playback system
• Refactor music backends into a unified chain of extractors
• Add bluetooth connection reciever (No functionality in app yet)

2.6.4

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where invalid position values would crash the app
• Fixed issue where opening the song menu in the genre view would crash the app

2.6.3

What's New

• Improved playing indicators [#218]
  • Search and library now show playing indicators
  • Playing indicators are now animated when playback is ongoing
• Added smooth seeking [#130]

What's Improved

• Moved the "more" button in the playback view back to the top

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where fast scroller popup would not appear

2.6.2

What's New

• Added Android 13 support [#129]
  • Switch to new storage permissions
  • Add themed icon
  • Fix issue where widget covers would not load
  • Use new media notification panel style
  • Add predictive back navigation
• Auxio has a new, more refined icon style
• Added a way to access the system equalizer from the playback menu

What's Improved

• Playback bar now has a marquee effect
• Play/pause button now changes from square to circle depending on the state

What's Fixed

• Fixed "@android:string/<ok/cancel>" strings from appearing in dialog buttons
• Fixed issue where LG phones would not show metadata in the notification
• Fixed issue where the transition would be wrong when navigating out of the detail views after a rotation
• Fixed issue where widget resizing would be far different than intended
• Fixed broken playback layout on small portrait screens

What's Changed

• ReplayGain can now no longer be disabled. Remove ReplayGain tags from files if such functionality is not desired

2.6.1

What's New

• Added basic equalizer support in external apps like Wavelet [#211]
• Added option to control the type of action shown on the playback bar
• Detail UI now displays the type of item shown (ex. the release type)

What's Improved

• Queue now scrolls to currently playing song instead of the song after it

What's Fixed

• Fixed incorrect font being used in the queue title
• Fixed missing fast scroll indicator with date added scrolling

What's Changed

• Use X-axis transitions instead of Z-axis (Avoids visual clipping)
• Queue no longer has rounded corners for consistency

2.6.0

What's New

• Added option to ignore MediaStore tags, allowing more correct metadata at the cost of longer loading times
  • Added support for sort tags [#172, dependent on this feature]
  • Added support for date tags, including more fine-grained dates [#159, dependent on this feature]
  • Added support for release types signifying EPs, Singles, Compilations, and more [#158, dependent on this feature]
  • Added basic awareness of multi-value vorbis tags [#197, dependent on this feature]
• Completely reworked the main playback UI [#92]
  • Queue can now be swiped up
  • Playing song is now shown in queue
  • Added ability to play songs from queue
  • Added ability to see previous songs in queue
  • Added dual-pane view of queue and playback on landscape and tablets
• Added Last Added sorting
• Search now takes sort tags and file names in account [#184]
• Added option to clear playback state in settings
• Added ability to play songs from queue

What's Improved

• Migrated to better-looking motion transitions
• App now exposes an (immutable) queue to the MediaSession
• Improved widget sizing/cover management

What's Fixed

• Fixed default material theme being used before app shows up
• Fixed shuffle shortcut and file opening not working on startup on some devices
• Fixed issue where the notification position would not match if one seeked when paused
• Fixed issue where widget could not be sized to it's smallest form
• Fixed issue where restored state would override a song if it was played early enough in startup

What's Changed

• Play and skip icons are filled again
• Updated music hashing (Will wipe playback state)
• Removed unnecessary capitalization

Dev/Meta

• Migrated to BottomSheetBehavior

2.5.0

What's New

• Massively overhauled how music is loaded [#72]:
  • Auxio can now reload music without requiring a restart
  • Added a new option to reload music when device files change
• Added a shuffle shortcut
• Widgets now have a more sleek and consistent button layout
• "Rounded album covers" is now "Round mode"
• Added option to customize what occurs when a song is played from an album/artist/genre [#164]

What's Improved

• Made "timeline" elements (like playback controls) always left-to-right
• Improved performance when ReplayGain is not enabled

What's Fixed

• Fixed broken tablet layouts
• Fixed seam that would appear on some album covers
• Fixed visual issue with the queue opening animation
• Fixed miscellaneous startup issues
• Fixed crash if settings was navigated away before playback state finished saving
• Fixed broken album menu
• Fixed crash that would occur when opening a file on some devices [#176]
• Fixed issue where the search filter menu would not display the correct mode
• Fixed crash when search filter mode was changed
• Fixed shuffle button appearing below playback bar on Android 10 and lower
• Fixed incorrect song being shown in the notification in some cases [#179]
• Fixed issue where toolbar will be clipped on Lollipop devices
• Fixed infinite loading if one had no music folders set [#182]

What's Changed

• Reworked typography and iconography to be more aligned with material design guidelines
• Old excluded directories from 2.3.1 will no longer be migrated

Dev/Meta

• Migrated preferences from shared object to utility
• Removed 2.0.0 compat code
• Updated ExoPlayer to 2.18.0
• Reworked sorting to be even more efficient

v2.4.0

What's New

• Excluded directories has been revamped into "Music folders"
  • Folders on external drives can now be excluded [#134]
  • Added new "Include" option to restrict indexing to a particular folder [#154]
• Added a new view for song properties (Such as Bitrate) [#144]
• The playback bar now has a new design, with an improved progress indicator and a skip action

What's Improved

• The toolbar in the home UI now collapses when scrolling
• The toolbar layout is now consistent with Material Design 3
• Genre parsing now handles multiple integer values and cover/remix indicators (May wipe playback state)
• "Rounded album covers" option is no longer dependent on "Show album covers" option [#152]
• Added song actions to the playback panel
• Playback controls are now easier to reach when gesture navigation is enabled
• Added Play Next/Add to Queue options to artists and genres
• Covers in the detail views now show an indicator when playing
• Made dynamic colors the default color scheme on Android 12

What's Fixed

• Playback bar now picks the larger inset in case that gesture inset is missing [#149]
• Fixed unusable excluded directory UI
• Songs with no data (i.e size of 0) are now filtered out
• Fixed nonsensical menu items from appearing on songs
• Fixed issue where multiple menus would open if long-clicks occurred simultaneously

Dev/Meta

• New translations [Fjuro -> Czech, Konstantin Tutsch -> German]
• Moved music loading to a foreground service [#72]
• Phased out ImageButton for MaterialButton
• Unified icon sizing
• Properly handle volumes throughout the entire music loading process
• Added original date support to ExoPlayer parser (Not exposed in app)

v2.3.1

What's Improved

• Loading UI is now more clear and easy-to-use
• Made album/artist/genre grouping order consistent (May change genre images)

What's Fixed

• Fixed crash when seeking to the end of a track as the track changed to a track with a lower duration
• Fixed regression where GadgetBridge media controls would no longer work
• Fixed bug where music would be incorrectly reloaded on a hot restart
• Fixed issue where the album/artist/genre would not be correctly restored
• Fixed issue where items would not highlight properly in the detail UI
• Fixed hypothetical issue where widget would cause an OOM on large devices

Dev/Meta

• New translations [yurical -> Korean, qwerty287 -> German]
• Switched from LiveData to StateFlow
• Use notifyItemChanged instead of directly mutating ViewHolder instances.
• Added highly experimental ExoPlayer metadata backend (not enabled in-app)

v2.3.0

What's New

• Added disc number support
• Added ReplayGain support for below-reference volume tracks [i.e positive ReplayGain values]
• Added ReplayGain pre-amp customization
• About screen now shows counts for multiple types of library items, alongside a total duration
• New disc, track, song count, and duration sorting modes

What's Improved

• Re-enabled theme customization on Android 12
• The tab selector now hides itself when there is only one tab
• Made the cover on the thin widget larger

What's Fixed

• Fixed incorrect ellipsizing on song items
• Fixed a variety of esoteric crashes with queue state
• Fixed music indexing error when the OS would not provide a file name
• Fixed icon corruptions on lollipop devices

What's Changed

• Audio focus is no longer configurable
• Made the layout of album songs more similar to other songs

Dev/Meta

• Updated translations [Konstantin Tutsch -> German, cccClyde -> Chinese, Gsset -> Russian, enricocid -> Italian]
• Switched to spotless and ktfmt instead of ktlint
• Migrated constants to centralized table
• Introduced new RecyclerView framework
• Use native ExoPlayer AudioFocus implementation
• Make ReplayGain functionality use AudioProcessor instead of volume
• Removed databinding [Greatly reduces compile times]
• Start using Material You dialogs
• An uncountable amount of internal codebase improvements

v2.2.2

What's New

• New spanish translations and metadata [courtesy of n-berenice]

What's Improved

• Rounded images are more nuanced
• Shuffle and Repeat mode buttons now have more contrast when they are turned on

What's Fixed

• Fixed crash on certain devices running Android 10 and lower when a differing theme from the system theme was used [#80]
• Fixed music loading failure that would occur when certain paths were parsed [#84]
• Fixed incorrect track numbers when the tag was formatted as NN/TT [#88]
• Fixed years deliberately set as "0" showing up as "No Date"
• Fixed headset management unexpectedly starting audio when the app initially opens
• Fixed crash that would occur during a playback restore with specific queue states [#89]
• Partially fixed buggy behavior when multiple queue items were dragged in quick succession

What's Changed

• All cover art is now cropped to a 1:1 aspect ratio
• Headset focus has been replaced with headset autoplay. It can no longer be disabled.

Dev/Meta

• Enabled elevation drop shadows below Android P for consistency
• Switches now have a disabled state
• Reworked dynamic color usage
• Reworked logging
• Upgrade ExoPlayer to v2.17.0 [Eliminates custom fork]

v2.2.1

What's Improved

• Updated chinese translations [courtesy of cccClyde]
• Use proper material you top app bars
• Use body typography in correct places
• Expose file opening functionality better

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where playback would start unexpectedly when opening the app

What's Changed

• Disabled audio focus customization on Android 12 [#75]

v2.2.0

What's New:

• Added Arabic translations [Courtesy of hasanpasha]
• Improved Russian translations [Courtesy of lisiczka43]
• Added option to reload the music library

What's Improved:

• Songs now show their specific artist name instead of the name of the artist they are grouped up in
• Artists are now grouped up case-insensitively
• Songs of different file formats are now grouped up into a single album
• Reworked typography slightly
• Invalid track numbers [i.e 0] will now be shown as a generic song icon

What's Fixed:

• Fixed crash on some devices configured to use French or Czech translations
• Malformed indices should now be corrected when the playback state is restored
• Fixed issue where track numbers would not be shown in the native language's numeric format
• Fixed issue where the preference view would apply the M3 switches inconsistently
• Fixed issue where the now playing indicator on the playback screen would use an internal name

Dev/Meta:

• Removed 1.4.X compat
• Added new changelog document
• Reworked contribution info and templates

v2.1.0

What's New:

• Switched to a single queue system [i.e Play Next/Add to queue]
• Added ReplayGain support [Experimental]
• New russian translations [Courtesy of Vladimir Kosolapov]
• New chinese translations [Courtesy of cccClyde]
• Android 12L support
• Added option to round album covers for visual cohesion
• Added FLAC support for devices on Android Oreo and lower
• Added edge-to-edge support on devices on Android Oreo and lower

What's Improved:

• Increased mosaic quality
• Enabled black theme on Android 12+
• Content now fades when the playback view is expanding
• Improved layouts on small and large screens
• Improved how the app handles audio focus
• Improved how invalid years and durations are handled
• Use Material 3 switches in the settings menu

What's Fixed:

• Fixed issue where the playback view would be hard to swipe up to when using gesture navigation
• Band-aided completely broken layouts in split screen mode
• Fixed crash in the playback view when a song's duration was 0
• Fixed issue where apps like GadgetBridge would not detect Auxio

Dev/Meta:

• ExoPlayer is now a local dependency
• Added ExoPlayer metadata support for Ogg Vorbis and Opus

v2.0.1

What's Fixed:

• Fixed problem where the compact playback controls would not work
• Fixed unusable playback layout on small screens

v2.0.0

What's New:

• Auxio has a new look derived from Material 3
• Material You support on Android 12
• Library and song view have been merged into a unified view
• Shuffle can now be accessed everywhere
• Media indexer now supports album artists
• Accents are now more vibrant and varied
• One can now slide up the compact playback view to reveal the full playback view
• Redesigned widgets to respect album art and increase visual cohesion
• Added song sorting [#16]
• Added default tab customization [#12]
• Added album, artist, and year sorting options
• Added descending order to all sorting options
• Added czech translations [Courtesy of Fjuro]
• Fast scroller has been replaced with a scrollbar with fast scroll capabilities

What's Improved:

• Improved playback persistence [State will be wiped]
• Improved accessibility everywhere
• Streamlined the search UI
• Improved queue UI
• Improved detail UI
• Unified appbar behavior
• Songs with accented characters will now show up in search when using their non-accented counterparts
• Removed loading screen
• Artist/Genre images now respect the "Ignore MediaStore Covers" setting
• Ascending order now works properly with years
• Fixed poor UI on Lollipop devices

What's Fixed:

• Switched to a new play icon [Fixes seam/alignment issues]
• Fixed issue where notifications would not be colored on samsung phones
• Re-added the german translations that were accidentally removed in 1.4.2
• Fixed issue where links could not be opened on Android 11+
• Fix crash that would occur when rotating the dialog
• Fixed issue where cover art could not be loaded at all on some devices [#51]
• Fixed issue where widgets would have unusable UIs on certain device configurations
• Fixed issue where older launchers will not show a widget preview on android 12
• Fixed duplicate songs appearing on some devices

What's Changed:

• Removed colorize notification option
• Removed deep orange and blue grey accents

Dev/Meta:

• Migrated to material entirely
• Reworked UI dimensions to line up with material design
• Use color selectors in more places
• Eliminated legacy size classifiers
• Created new architecture document

v1.4.2

What's New:

• Added Widgets
• Android 12 support

What's Improved:

• Fast scroller now truncates more aggressively when there is not enough space
• Minor improvements to layout hierarchy
• Detail text/track numbers will no longer shrink
• Loading screen has been tweaked to line up with the rest of Auxio

What's Fixed:

• Fixed issue where the new about screen would be cut off in landscape mode
• Fixed issue where songs from two albums with the same year would be incorrectly shown in the artist view

Dev/Meta:

• Added license boilerplate

v1.4.1

What's New:

• Added black dark theme
• Added a fast-scroller to the library view
• Redesigned the about screen
• Added full spanish translations [Courtesy of tesphil]
• Added an option to pause when a song repeats [#29]

What's Improved:

• Article sort is now used everywhere
• Improved german translations [Courtesy of qwerty287]

What's Fixed:

• Fixed problem where cover art would disappear on the lock screen
• Fixed problem where playback controls would not work on the lock screen [#20]
• Fixed issue where fast-scroller indicators would not line up for titles starting with "An"

Dev/Meta:

• Updated ExoPlayer to 2.14.2
• Completely refactored UI styling
• Added permission documentation [#22]
• Removed the ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permission [#22]
• Added icon to metadata [#25]

v1.4.0

What's New

• Artist view now shows a list of songs
• Loop functionality now has a new, more sensible behavior
• Dialogs have been revamped with a new style
• Added complete dutch translation [Courtesy of timnea]

What's Improved

• Changed the header font to be cleaner
• Completely rolled custom dialog system
• Blacklisted directories are now chosen through the built-in file picker
• Improved opening links in the about dialog
• Restore system now uses unique identifiers, increasing reliability and speed [Will wipe previous state]
• Grey accent in dark mode has been made more visible
• The queue will now reflect the current album/artist/genre sort
• Album/artist/genre sort is now remembered when the app restarts

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where the scroll thumb would briefly display on the Songs UI
• Fixed issue where fast scrolling could be triggered outside the bounds of the indicators
• Fixed issue where the wrong playing item would be highlighted if the names were identical
• Fixed a crash when the thumb was moved above the fast scroller [Back-ported to 1.3.3, included in this release officially]

Dev/Meta

• Migrated fully to material design
• Int preferences are now used everywhere
• Upgraded ExoPlayer to 2.13.3
• Eliminated dependence on JCenter
• Eliminated Material Dialogs and Browser dependencies

v1.3.3

What's Fixed

• Fixed crash that would occur when the app would shut down, preventing the playback state from being saved

Dev/Meta

• Explicitly declared dependencies
• Completely integrated fast-scroller code into codebase

v1.3.2

What's New

• Added the ability to exclude directories from indexing [#6]
• Accents have been redone to improve visibility and UI simplicity
• Enabled wake lock functionality

What's Improved

• Queue UI no longer navigates away when playing from a file
• Songs UI no longer keeps scroll momentum when fast scrolling
• Improved handling of old genre names
• Changed the header font to be cleaner
• Improved mosaic quality

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where prominent genre would display incorrectly on artist view
• Fixed issue where AudioFocus would begin playback spontaneously
• Fixed issue where AudioFocus would not restore volume to 100% after ducking
• Fixed issue where the last item in the queue would be behind the navigation bar in edge-to-edge mode
• Fixed issues with the playback restore process (Current state will be wiped on update)
• Fixed buggy behavior when shuffle is toggled inside queue UI

Dev/Meta

• Updated exoplayer to 2.13.2
• Updated navigation to 2.3.4

v1.3.1

What's New

• Added the ability to play a song from a file
• Added ability to manually save the playback state

What's Improved

• Optimized icons
• Updated the animation of the compact controls to be faster
• Songs without genres are now placed into an unknown genre

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where the music load would fail from repeated genre applications [#4]
• Fixed crash that would occur on the songs UI due to bad music loading [#5]

Dev/Meta

• New tagline and description
• Rewrote loading UI
• Rewrote notification code

v1.3.0

What's New:

• Added west-european translations [German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese]
• Added east-european translations [Romanian, Greek, Russian, Ukranian, Polish, Hungarian]
• Added asian translations [Hindi, Indonesian, Chinese, Korean]
• Added middle-eastern translations [Turkish]

What's Improved:

• Optimized image loading even further
• Improved the UI on smaller tablets
• Updated the playback UIs to look better on all devices
• Improved the look of the play/pause button
• Compact controls slide up instead of fade in

What's Fixed:

• Fixed RTL layout issues
• Fixed elevation problems on the compact controls
• Fixed issue where a seam would show up on the play icon on certain displays
• Fixed issue where you could still collapse the toolbar on the search view with no results
• Fixed issue where an album would not show up as playing if played from the artist UI

Dev/Meta:

• Added fastlane metadata
• Updated Exoplayer to 2.12.3
• Updated Coil to 1.1.1
• Updated support libraries to 1.3.0
• Added architecture document
• Simplified themes

v1.2.0

What's New

• The detail UIs have been redesigned to show the Play and Shuffle options front-and-center
• The Toolbars on the detail UIs have been made more visually appealing
• Images on the detail UIs now have a shadow applied to them
• Albums now have a "Go to artist" option in their menu
• Navigation has been made much for fluid and straightforward
• Search has been moved to a dedicated tab
• Added option to filter searches by Song, Album, Artist, and Genre

What's Improved

• The sorting menu is now a dedicated menu instead of an overflow menu, improving accessibility
• Disk-Caching with Coil is now completely turned off
• Tablet layouts have been made more visually appealing
• Made the icons in the Playback UI look better
• Queues are now properly sorted when not shuffled

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where audio focus would resume after an interruption even if explicitly paused by the user
• Fixed a crash that would occur when a song with no genre was played from its genre
• Fixed a crash that would occur from the settings being accessed before they were created
• Fixed an issue where the keyboard will stay visible when navigating to something
• Fixed multiple memory leaks
• Fixed problem where the fast scroll indicator on the Songs UI would be slightly off
• Fixed issue where rewinding wouldn't cause the playback to start again
• Fixed problem where the artist play action wouldn't work

What's Changed

• "Remember Shuffle" is now on by default

v1.1.0

What's New

• Rewrote the music loading system to be much faster
• Genres are now song-based instead of artist-based
• When an album is being played, that album will be highlighted in the artist UI
• If a song is playing from a genre, that song will be highlighted in the genre UI
• Switched to a new audio focus system that allows for volume reduction & auto-resuming
• Added option not to load cover art
• Added option to ignore MediaStore cover art
• Added option to play a song from its genre

What's Improved

• Made Genre/Artist/Album UIs more efficient
• Playback state restores are now more reliable if the music library changes
• Optimized ExoPlayer for audio playback
• Landscape support is now better for phones/tablets
• Optimized how Coil is used
• Items are now shown in two columns instead of three when a phone is in landscape

What's Fixed

• Stop the play/pause button from animating on the Now Playing screen
• Stopped coil from increasing the app size over time due to needless disk caching
• Enabled constant bitrate seeking, allowing for AAC/certain MP3s to be seekable

What's Changed

• Rewind threshold option has been removed
• "Play from artist", "Play from album", and "Play from All Songs" have been removed from the song menu in favor of "Go to artist" and "Go to album"
• The currently playing song on the Album UI will now only show if the song is actually playing from the album

v1.0.0

• Initial release