Changelog

What changed in each release, newest first. Sections are grouped from the commit log by tools/changelog.py — feat: becomes Added, fix: becomes Fixed, and so on — then read over by hand. Versions follow semantic versioning.

[Unreleased]

[0.6.1] - 2026-10-16

Added

A cover’s page colours follow the cover, not the theme

Fixed

A headset play with nothing saved no longer crashes the app
A cover has the same colours at every size
A jam host shows to its guests once it can hear their commands
A device just started no longer drops off the device lists
A guest listening along gets the host’s playback in order
A serving device the relay lost says its state again
A device that stops serving leaves after its last poll
The speaker is filled only while another device plays
The speaker is lit only for a device the devices list shows
Pale and tinted covers get a light paper page
A pastel cover’s dark page keeps its soft colour
Accents read as text and keep a black cover’s own colour
A page takes the colour that touches the artwork’s bottom, never a mix
A page takes the colour the cover visibly dissolves from, not a hidden line
A cover’s fine texture gives its page the colour the blur shows
A page takes the cover colour it dissolves into most softly

[0.6.0] - 2026-10-15

New

Play on your other devices. Control and mirror the phone, desktop, terminal and iPod from each other’s player.
Jams. Host from any device and invite people with a QR code or link. Guests ask for songs and can listen along in sync.
Sing. Turns the vocals down in any song, processed on your device.
Listening stats from all your devices, using your Navidrome play history.
Desktop app for macOS and Linux (disk image, AppImage, Flatpak), plus a terminal client.
Favorites sync between nearby devices. Updates install on their own, and you can opt into beta updates.

Better

Equalizer, compressor, limiter and crossfades use much less CPU.
Android Auto: every album, faster search, steadier covers, and the phone wakes far less often.
The desktop uses less memory and draws nothing while hidden.

Fixed

Over 150 fixes, mostly remote control, jams, lyrics timing, covers and the desktop app.

[0.5.1] - 2026-10-04

Added

IPod touch client for iOS 12
A white accent colour makes the app monochrome
The iPod app keeps its log in nori.log

Changed

Nori-host takes the client’s output, volume and memory budget

Fixed

Offload takes the next song again after a pause and a CPU song
Albums in order stay gapless however they were queued
Star notes on desktop and in the terminal follow Confirm favorites
IPod songs play at their own speed when the hardware rate moves
A song of another rate keeps its speed when tapped again
A song of another rate starts at once on the iPod and desktop
The iPod’s playing mark follows the song in every list
Tapping the song that plays opens the iPod’s player
The iPod’s For you tiles show their covers without a refresh
A heart set anywhere on the iPod shows at once everywhere
IPod albums and songs can remove their downloads

Performance

Covers come at the core’s two renditions, scaled to each view

[0.5.0] - 2026-10-03

Added

A mix’s page shows its covers as one picture, blurred into the page like an album’s, upright and on its side
With a black background mix pages follow the albums and playlists choice, as the playlists they are
On its side a cover is a wider band that reaches in under the words and controls beside it, going soft over a wider edge
Home-screen widgets: a resizable player, the cover, for you, random albums and lyrics
The app icon follows android’s themed icons
Android auto gets tabs, mixes, artists, genres, voice by name and covers
In a car the controls and tabs sit on the driver’s side, the cover on the other
A car’s controls can be set to the driver’s side, the left or the right
The lyrics’ source and timing setting hides where they came from too

Changed

The rust cleanup, seamless sound changes and the bugs it found (#20)
Server hosts and network cost are the platform’s, not globals
Each client keeps its own AutoEQ fetch flag
The stream cache’s evictor holds its key order as a handle
A lyrics clock is made from the lyrics, with no global store
The cover loader owns its net and transport, not globals
Download doors take the core’s downloads as a handle
Player and measurer get the client and analyses as handles
An engine owns its fetches’ stall watch and memory figures
Drop player helpers nothing calls
One stream cache order for the engine’s store and media3’s
Drop unused exports and the forwarding engine host
Drop an ignored output event and a dead track parameter
Queue session and settings are held by the platform
The queue says if a song is starred or explicit, not bits
One day length in the library
Drop offload’s unused fallback parameter
A transition note’s kind is an enum, not a string
The download notice says what changed with an enum
Android’s memory door sits before the tests
A cover warm-up is its own kind of flight, not a size
Lyrics search hits are ranked by one rule for every service
Home rows reach the library as the settings’ enum
A built-in smart playlist is known by its kind, not its id
An autofill’s picks travel with its songs, not in a stash
The track writer alone runs its clock and counts flushed room
A handover says which way it goes instead of a flag
A flush the device was not told of is one state, not three
The offloaded stream’s end is one state, not two flags
The sink’s start time and queue end are states, not flag pairs
A called off request says why with one state
Each measuring shelf asks its own bridge, not a global
An album list read names its order with the enum
No limit and no engine word yet are options, not sentinels
Radio ids and the planner’s view of a song have one home
One biquad response and one gain-kind test for the equalizer
Which offload count is read and believed are states, not flags

Fixed

On its side the library’s album cards are large again, filling the row
On its side shelves run to the screen edges under the camera and the tab rail, fading out smoothly on both sides
On its side the player’s controls stand in the middle of the screen’s height
On its side the page leaves the tab rail its strip from the first frame, so shelves never show unfaded as the app opens
On its side a cover reaches less far under the words and controls beside it, so they read clearly over its soft edge
On its side a page whose cover did not load keeps the same layout, with the plain plate standing in for the picture
The lyrics widget opens the player on its lyrics when the app was closed
Any window wider than tall lays out across, so a car or tablet shows the controls
A car’s media app opens nori, and shows its now playing cover, icons and buttons
The words on a cover-coloured play button read on it, dark on a pale one
A car keeps nori on screen while driving, so music can be played and controlled
A car’s dock and media card open nori’s own screens, not the car’s plain media player
A cache write racing a measurer’s stop no longer uses freed memory
Mobile data is known as metered before the player has ever started
On the desktop a song let go hangs up its request at once
Downloading a whole album says how many songs were queued
A request failing in the stall watch no longer keeps its timer
The offline bridge no longer ends on the network that just failed
An app hidden while connecting to the player lets it go
A closed offload track’s late event no longer hits the new track
AutoMix no longer measures a provider playlist’s songs
Download speed holds between songs instead of dropping to zero
Playback no longer crashes when the queue changes under it
Engine callbacks reach the player that started the engine
Replaygain follows the song the player holds during a queue edit
Crossfeed and limiter set by name stay in their range

[0.4.8] - 2026-09-29

Added

A mix’s page shows its covers as one picture, blurred into the page like an album’s, upright and on its side
With a black background mix pages follow the albums and playlists choice, as the playlists they are
On its side a cover is a wider band that reaches in under the words and controls beside it, going soft over a wider edge
Home-screen widgets: a resizable player, the cover, for you, random albums and lyrics
The app icon follows android’s themed icons

Fixed

On its side the library’s album cards are large again, filling the row
On its side shelves run to the screen edges under the camera and the tab rail, fading out smoothly on both sides
On its side the player’s controls stand in the middle of the screen’s height
On its side the page leaves the tab rail its strip from the first frame, so shelves never show unfaded as the app opens
On its side a cover reaches less far under the words and controls beside it, so they read clearly over its soft edge
On its side a page whose cover did not load keeps the same layout, with the plain plate standing in for the picture
The lyrics widget opens the player on its lyrics when the app was closed

[0.4.7] - 2026-09-29

Added

The app keeps a day of its log and a report of a problem shares it, with drop-outs logged (#17)
Sideways polish, status bar and keep awake settings, original quality on mobile data (#18)

Changed

State handed through globals, magic numbers and strings made explicit across the core, the player and the clients

Fixed

Downloads and their analysis keep the CPU awake with the screen off (closes #12)
The keyboard no longer comes up over the player opened from search (closes #16)
The album autoplay carries on with stays gapless with keep albums gapless on
A song waiting only for its beats no longer crashes the downloads screen, the phase is one enum
The desktop app keeps one downloader and an album added to the queue whole stays gapless
A heart pressed on one server no longer shows on another, the marks are the core’s
A nameless DAC or Bluetooth device is no longer searched in AutoEQ by its placeholder name
An Android player going no longer stops the fetching ahead of the one that replaced it
The music is no longer left silent while it plays, the chip follows every fade and a fade left down is brought back

[0.4.6] - 2026-09-28

Added

desktop: A native Slint desktop player over the core and nori-engine, laid out as the terminal client
desktop: The window looks and behaves like Apple Music on macOS: Skia on Metal, the system’s sidebar blur, SF Pro, a floating player, Now Playing, the native menu bar
desktop: The sidebar runs the window’s full height over the system’s sidebar material, its rows and the page where they were
desktop: Settings, synced lyrics, long lists that open at once, a smooth seek bar and Apple’s animations
desktop: The player floats on the system’s Liquid Glass, artist pages open on their picture, the sidebar takes the page’s colour
desktop: Music’s own colours measured from the Mac, album headers and buttons as Music has them, the player at its size
desktop: Our own Liquid Glass: the window is drawn by our compositor, the page seen through glass shaders under the sidebar and the player
desktop: The sidebar’s glass is lit by what lies beside it on the page, softly and well into the pane
desktop: Settings centred in four tabs as the Mac’s own, the sidebar’s edge soft
desktop: Lyrics and the queue docked on the right as Music’s; Now Playing rebuilt, its lyrics sharp only on the line sung; bigger icons
desktop: Every setting the Android app has that a Mac can use, in its words: an equalizer page, lyrics sources in order, accounts
desktop: A Find field in the toolbar, Artists in two columns, the playlist as a table, an account row
desktop: Lyrics fill word by word and a click on a line seeks to it, the queue’s rows fold and open, the traffic lights level with the toolbar as Music’s
desktop: The line sung as the Android app draws it: a soft-edged fill, each word and syllable rising as it is sung, a held note swelling
On its side the app puts the tabs on a floating rail at the left, Search on its own below them
On its side the player puts the cover, lyrics or queue on the left and the controls on the right
On its side an album, artist or playlist page shows the cover and buttons on the left and the songs on the right
On its side the tab rail stands at the right edge and pages keep clear of the camera’s punch hole
On its side the player’s cover goes soft at its right edge into a wash under the controls, and lyrics and queue keep clear of the punch hole
Album, artist, playlist and mix pages drop the back button over the cover, the back gesture leaves them
On its side an album, artist or playlist page shows its cover as the player does, soft to the page from the screen’s edge, with the name and buttons beside it
On its side the tab bar keeps its size and order and only its glyphs turn, and a tinted page leaves the screen’s edges with it

Fixed

desktop: The player’s glass shows over a plain page, as a faint lit pane with a rim
desktop: The sidebar’s light from the page is faint and fades within a few dozen points of its edge
desktop: The sidebar’s light is a soft glow, gathered from the page blurred until no edge is left
desktop: The player’s glass is nearly invisible, as Music’s: a neutral veil, no colour of its own, a faint rim
desktop: The player’s glass is clear as Music’s: a light blur, the page’s own colours, a thin quiet rim
desktop: Covers on screen are never let go, so they stop flashing, and the ones on screen load first
desktop: A word-timed line fades from white as the next one is sung, rather than dimming at once
desktop: American spelling, as the app and the terminal client have it
Shuffle albums keeps each album gapless instead of mixing between its songs
Turning the phone keeps the player, its lyrics and the text size as they were
On its side a page’s cover fits beside the buttons, Play fits Pause, and the library grid keeps its upright card size
On its side the player’s status bar shade fades with the cover’s soft edge instead of ending on a line
On its side a page’s cover is a card level with the first song, clear of the back button, and the artist page no longer crashes
On its side the player keeps its title and controls in place for the lyrics, and clear of a punch hole on the right
On its side the now playing bar has no wash under it, which ran over the cover and stopped at the camera
On its side the now playing bar sits level with the foot of the tab rail

[0.4.5] - 2026-09-27

Fixed

A song tapped again in its album no longer leaves the app paused over the music
Shuffle albums and shuffle songs keep going after the queue ends, autoplay on or off

[0.4.4] - 2026-09-27

Fixed

The app stays upright until it has a landscape layout
Songs that left the queue no longer stay drawn over it
Shuffle albums plays at once and never a provider’s songs
Tapping the song playing in its album keeps it going and opens the player
Closing the queue dissolves and the title row moves with the controls

[0.4.3] - 2026-09-27

Added

cli: TUI rewritten as a desktop music player: sidebar, pages, panel, player bar, equalizer console, card covers; late terminal replies over ssh no longer taken as keys
Playlist descriptions can be turned off, and the server’s auto-import notes are hidden
Album and playlist pages share one keep-the-cover’s-colours choice with a black background
Home’s menu shuffles songs or whole albums instead of one shuffle everything
The app icon’s shortcuts open Search or shuffle songs or albums

Fixed

The app and the terminal client use American spelling (color, favorite, license, analyze)
A shuffle keeps going the way it started, random songs or whole albums, whatever autoplay adds

[0.4.2] - 2026-09-27

Added

Every download is analysed after it is saved, and the beat model can read downloads with consent

Fixed

An artist’s biography opens in full on a tap instead of stopping at four lines
A stop the engine made before a play already sent no longer leaves the app paused over music
build: Tools/bump-version.sh leaves nori-uniffi-jni-runtime at upstream’s version in Cargo.lock
Remote (octo-fiesta) songs: autoplay after them, library only, album cloud clears

[0.4.1] - 2026-09-27

Breaking

To update from 0.3.x, install 0.4.0 first; later versions no longer bring over its servers, settings and downloads

Added

Remote items show only the cloud, not the provider’s name
Nori tells you when a newer release is out, and updates itself from inside the app
The queue opens on the song playing, with the songs already played dimmed above it
Lyrics sync listens to the centre of the stereo image, so panned guitars no longer read as singing
Headphones taken off pause at once, and can resume fading in when put back on
A graphic equalizer beside the parametric one, and a compressor, virtualizer, bass boost and volume boost
ReplayGain turns quiet songs up, levels to a loudness target and measures untagged songs
Crossfeed presets, no processing per output, crossfade curves, a noise gate, a 5-band EQ and loudness compensation
High quality output keeps the effects in float, 16-bit output is dithered, and a real resampler with a highest rate per output
The tab bar takes the cover’s colours, and black background can keep them per page

Fixed

Undo after taking a song out of the queue puts it back again
Downloads say when they are still finding lyrics or analysing, and the time left counts down steadily
build: The Rust tests build and pass on macOS
The last lyric line dims once it is sung, and better-timed lyrics arriving mid-song no longer step back a line
A new album started on its first song shows that song as playing
build: The dev server keeps its database in a docker volume, as SQLite on a mac’s shared folder corrupts it
Songs of one album played one after another never mix with AutoMix, whatever their tags say, each next song from its start
build: Tools/app.sh launches the app on emulators without hardware keys, where monkey refuses to run
Headphone play and pause keys follow the fade setting, no resume switch
A long beat-matched AutoMix no longer shows the next song early and replays its first lyric line
Keep albums gapless only for an album played or added whole, other songs of one album mix
A page started from a song row reads Pause at once, its origin is republished when the service sets the queue

[0.4.0] - 2026-09-26

The player is rewritten: playback, the queue, the library, lyrics and downloads now run in a Rust core shared with a new terminal client, and the Android app draws the screens.

Added

A new player engine in Rust replaces ExoPlayer’s playback, with offload to the audio chip that lets the CPU sleep
Better beat detection (the Beat This! model, downloaded from its authors on first use) for AutoMix
A terminal client (nori-cli) that plays through the same core
Swipe a song out of the queue, with undo
Every lyrics service is on by default, word-timed lyrics are sought first, and synced lyrics are checked against the song’s voice and shifted when early or late
Downloaded songs keep their lyrics offline, and a finished download shows while its lyrics and analysis are found
Updating from 0.3.4 keeps your servers, settings, downloads and queue

Fixed

Playback no longer goes silent after fast skipping, a hung remote song or an engine error, and a song never ends stuck at its last second
Transcoded songs play whole and start at once on mobile data
Albums stay gapless with AutoMix on, across discs too
The seek bar stays right after the app comes back and through tempo-matched mixes
The first equalizer change plays on with no gap, and dialogs, sheets and the selection bar animate even with system animations off
Covers never show the previous song’s picture, playlist covers show offline, and a cover that cannot load settles on a placeholder

Performance

Far fewer wakeups while playing, and offload tops up only when the chip asks
Less memory: songs already cached are read from disk, covers ahead wait on disk, and the beat model hands its memory back
Long playlists open smoothly

[0.3.4] - 2026-09-22

Added

Favourite messages replace each other at once and can be switched off
Automix beat-matches band-played songs on their intro and outro grids
About page with build details and third-party licences

Fixed

No dropout at the end of an AutoMix, and the bar moves to the next song as soon as it is heard
Light and dark covers keep their own colour, and a big light strip at the bottom gets a light page
The page moves to the next song when its mix is heard and never flips back
Light pages keep the cover’s own lightness instead of fading to white
A song skipped to at another sample rate is converted instead of stuttering
Taps on the full-screen player no longer reach the page underneath

[0.3.3] - 2026-09-22

Added

Album and playlist pages pause their own queue, and Shuffle shows when it is on
The player’s cover blurs as it melts into the page
Settings pages are split into short named sections, with plainer descriptions

Fixed

Page colours follow what the cover really is: a big field of colour beats a black or white border, and a dark strip at the bottom no longer leaves a band
White covers keep a white page
Controls stay readable on white pages, and the colours change smoothly between songs
The player’s controls follow the cover’s colour while you swipe, with no jump halfway

Performance

Snappier page push and pop, and a quicker finish to the back gesture