3.4.17 and 3.5 Beta 1 Released

I was not planning on putting out any more 3.4.x updates, however google refused to approve the 3.5 beta due to some policy updates that caused the existing 3.4.x version already released to no longer be compliant. Therefore 3.4.15-3.4.17 are basically the work I've been doing on 3.5 for the last 16 months, but with all the new features disabled. I would like to put them through more testing before enabling to the public, hence the beta.

3.4.17 (2024-10-25):

Fixed crash on android 14+ trying to verify the unlocker

3.4.16 (2024-10-24):

Fixed multi select in album details highlighting the wrong item

3.4.15 (2024-10-23):

Update target api level to 34
Updated dependencies
Manual scans are no longer ran in a foreground service due to google's new policies
Last played time added to song info pop up
Fixed issue where extra space was added in artists with numbers in name
Increased full search limit from 100 to 10000 results
Fixed issue with files missing tags showing up in the unknown genre when a genre was actually set
Filesize should now show for audio files in the folder view custom metadata (previously only showed for non audio files)

3.5 Beta 1

Now on to the 3.5 beta. As mentioned earlier, I've been working on this for the last 16 or so months. It has been in alpha (10 alpha updates) for about that long to a handful of testers who are active on discord. I will likely do something similar for 3.6 in the future. The 3.5 Beta period will focus on fixes and adding some customizations.

3.5.0 Beta 1 (2024-10-23):

Added new bottom navigation mode
Added new now playing layout 3
Added gradient background option to now playing layout 2 and 3
Added new details layout for artist/album/genre/etc(Change layout via: Customize -> Layout Menu -> Layout 2)

Now Playing Layout 3 & Gradient Background

A new now playing layout was added that moves the seekbar to under the album art and moves the extra row of buttons to the bottom in portrait mode. Landscape mode I think has the more significant changes in making the album art take up much more of the screen on the left and moved the buttons to only be on the right instead of spanning the whole view. I think this looks much better especially when mounted in my car.

The gradient can be customized a bit. There are 4 different gradient modes. 1 and 3 use a linear gradient, 2 and 4 use a bunch of radial gradients to give a different effect (see image below). 1 and 2 will extra the colors straight from the image. 3 and 4 will use your theme colors.

Bottom Navigation

A new navigation mode was added alongside drawer and tab navigation. Bottom navigation gives you 5 independent "stacks" of views. Meaning you can dig through your library to a specific album, then go to the search "stack" to find something else without messing with your original position in the library. Bottom nav is pretty well tested but I would imagine there are some edge cases I've missed.

Details View Layout 2

Finally all of the details views have a new layout that makes better use of the available space. Layout 1 wasted a lot of space, especially in landscape. Layout 2 tries to use that space more efficiently and gives easier access to more actions.