New update: SimpMusic v1.7.0

🎉 New features

Playback & player

• Last.fm scrobbling (Full build only) — lastfm / lastfm-empty module pair, a login screen, its own settings group, and scrobbling during playback

  

• Reworked Now Playing: new backdrop and artist card; added an inline lyric line and removed the blurred backgrounds

  

• Playlist import from a converted file, straight from Settings; writes to the database in batches

  

• Charts: added seven new YouTube Music countries — Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam

  

Browsing & search

• The empty search screen now shows browse categories

  

• Play a song directly from a browse category's shelf

• Home: long-press a quick pick to open the Now Playing sheet

• Library: show item counts in dynamic playlist headers

Settings

• Ask for confirmation before logging out of a linked account

Desktop

• Replaced VLC with libmpv as the sole playback backend — including DJ crossfade filters and a switch to DASH streams

• Linux: build libmpv from source in a container instead of extracting it from the AppImage

• Tray menu and tooltip now show the current track

• The volume slider expands only on hover

• The player bar timeline is tinted while a crossfade is running

• Video now renders through Compose frames; SwingPanel removed

• Windows: removed the debug terminal window

• "Play next" now works on the desktop side

• Added a Queue button to the mini player — PR #2275 by @laoluogun

Internal

• Migrated every icon to generated Material Symbols ImageVectors, dropping material-icons-extended and the XML drawables

🐛 Fixes

Crossfade & player

• Skip the crossfade when the next track plays as video, and when the current track plays as video

• Keep the correct incoming track when a transport control is pressed mid-crossfade

• Align the restored queue with the player, and guard against saves during a rebuild

• Keep the progress slider within Material3's default range

• Volume: apply it to the player before persisting it; unmute restores the original level — PR #2274

• Desktop: release the crossfade handle when loading another track; route volume through ao-volume so it applies instantly

• Normalise Tidal key names before Camelot matching — Tidal spells accidentals out ("FSharp", "CSharp") rather than using symbols, so keyToSemitone failed to parse them and roughly 22% of tracks silently lost their key in DJ crossfade. Fixed by normalising the string before matching, and by changing the calculateKeyGapDurationFactor fallback from 1.0 to UNKNOWN_GAP_DEFAULT_FACTOR — an unparseable key was previously treated as a perfect match

Data & parsing

• Lyrics: stop dropping the first character when no space follows the timestamp

• Identify song columns by pageType instead of a fixed index

• Keep only the first subtitle group as artists

• The database now repairs artist names and album names stored by an older parse

• Treat personalised mixes as radio playlists

• Browse categories: key sections by title and cache them on disk, parse the songs shelf, and render every section the API returns

Downloads & cache

• Stop re-resolving stream URLs for tracks that are already fully downloaded

• Serve directly from cache only when the whole track is on disk

Desktop

• macOS: switched audio output to avfoundation — avoids an ao_coreaudio use-after-free crash when headphones are plugged in or removed

• macOS: register now-playing handlers on the main queue; stopped trimming native memory, which was causing a crash

• Disabled skiko vsync (the cause of freezes when changing displays) and restore the window on Dock reopen

• Backup: stopped double-wrapping the zip output stream

• Registered URL schemes at the correct level in conveyor.conf, and restored external link opening on Linux

• libmpv bundle: resolve by absolute path and drop POSIX open flags on Windows; strip AppleDouble sidecars that made macOS report "app is damaged"; treat an absent ytdl option as success

• Raised the macOS floor to 15.0 for the bundled libmpv — a breaking change for users on older macOS

User interface

• Force-dark screens now use a real dark colour scheme rather than just dark text

• Bottom sheet: title, artist and the like label take their colours from the dark palette

• Search: leave room for the floating search bar in every state; cap the browse grid width and use four columns on wide layouts

• Quick picks: keep titles on one line with a marquee

• Smoother artwork scrims via a smoothstep gradient

• NormalAppBar uses the transparent colours the app uses elsewhere

• Show a generic album label when the album name is unknown

• Analytics: lengthened the header scrim so the top song title no longer overlaps the stats

• Repaired the notification bell icon path

• Library: the "create playlist" label uses the theme colour

• Spotify: match the login status URL when it carries a query string

⚡ Performance (Desktop)

• Tuned the allocator and GC to cut resident memory

• Return freed native memory to the OS when playback idles

• Capped mpv's demuxer cache

🔧 Infrastructure & dependencies

• PipePipeExtractor to v6.2.0, brave-newpipe bumped

• Bumped a batch of dependencies

• Refreshed the Gradle daemon JVM toolchain URLs

• CI/CD: workflow updates; stage natives in the release workflow and verify the libmpv bundles

• CLAUDE.md updated for Last.fm, the from-source Linux libmpv build, Compose video rendering, and the video crossfade rules

Download now: https://www.simpmusic.org/download