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2.1.10 (15 Mar)
  • Add now playing card for music on home screen per Google specs
  • Eliminate server log error msg
  • Update translations
  • Add option for exact rate matching
  • DV support warning
  • Fix crash selecting user with no PIN from login
  • Fix some album images not showing
  • Fix not asking for PIN on user selection from login screen
  • Add QR code to Connect screen
  • Add Dolby profile to info card
  • Fix playing collections of music with server 4.8
  • Add new home sections
  • Add support for new Profile PIN
  • Add new subtitle mode to config
  • Fix "Live TV Mode"
  • Better missing episode handling during playback
  • Limited missing episode support for 4.8 server
2.0.98
  • Update Google Play billing library
  • Improve Amazon device check
  • Support Continue Listening home row
  • Adjust Exo buffer settings
  • Remove check for "static" for file playback (Legacy)
2.0.93
  • Refine pw options
  • Support episode specials
  • Fix filter indicator
  • Improve playback on lower-end devices
2.0.90
  • Remember all users
  • Fix letter jump on second attempt
  • Ensure refresh after playback
  • Various updates for 4.8 server
  • Intelligent display for NR during playback start
  • Update Exo
  • Eliminate dimming during pause
  • Fix crashes with items with no runtime
  • Fix crash on invalid runtime
  • Refine xvid transcoding decision
  • Check device for AV1 support
  • Fix chapter images wrong with intro markers
  • Fix jump list showing when shouldn't
  • Obey rating display setting (cannot edit)
  • Update translations
  • Don't direct play mpeg2/divx

2.0.83

  • Fix playback on Android 12
  • Add random sort for new server (requires 4.8)
  • Improve support for DTS-HD HRA
  • Tweak some Exo settings
  • Exo fix for AAC 7.1
  • Updates for new server (4.8)
  • Improve seeking behavior
  • Fix artists showing an "end time"
2.0.77
  • Make chapters available when "play from here"
  • Add official rating to some queries
  • Update translations
  • (future) Recognize end credit marker
  • Improve blank chapter display
  • Add option to show intro markers in chapter row (useful for confirming detection)
  • Add "horizontal squeeze" zoom mode for poorly mastered 4:3 material
  • Add rating bug at beginning of playback
  • Allow direct play of WMA and AVI containers
  • Menu button should only produce guide during live TV
  • Fix "Live" indicator option not working in guide
  • Denote app on main tile
  • Implement intro skip feature
  • Remove buffer size parameter
2.0.70
  • Normalize max height on 1080 setups
  • Improve SSL support
  • Compatibility with upcoming server release
  • Improve audio handling
  • Improve WOL support
  • Various minor improvements and fixes
2.0.48
  • Support tabs in mixed content and audiobook libraries
  • Remember last subtitle search language
  • Update to new Google IAP library
  • Improve search response
  • Support html breaks in overviews
  • Support AC4 audio if device does
  • Fix unpredictable up next panel times
  • Choose highest resolution version when multiples would direct play
  • Fix some remote control operations
  • Add "Add to Playlist" in album views
  • Improve UK live TV
  • Support h264 hi10 on Shield
  • Fix some issues with external subtitles
2.0.33
  • Fix % display in option list
  • Fix YouTube trailer playback
  • Reduce default playback buffer size (helps with devices with less memory)
  • Fix position reporting at the end of audio playback
  • Update translations
  • Add cast row to home videos
  • Add volume setting for theme songs
  • Fix not as much metadata when playing via remote control
  • Improve playback of unsupported audio containers
  • Try to catch error when no Google Play services
  • Improve default image sizes on home screen for unknown content
  • Improve secondary "up next" button operation and labeling
  • Use series thumb in TV library suggestions page
  • Visual hint that you can expand "up next" episode panel
  • Add overview for items played from playlist
  • Change element colors in different themes and allow "neutral" selection
  • Treat music videos just like movies for detail display
  • Add file name sort for folder browsing
  • Adjust photo overlay titles
  • Fix multi-playback from music video sub-folders
  • Fix crash entering audio player before playback started
  • Restore DD bitrate constraint on Fire but up to 640k
  • Change subtitle offset increment to 250ms
  • Add "Black" theme
  • Only show display mode menu when there are multiple modes available
  • Improve button layout on program pop-up
  • Implement Amazon audio mods for early Fire devices
  • Avoid trying to decode hevc with ffmpeg (too slow)
  • Fix not de-interlacing on server when option set
  • Don't default to cancel recording button on in-progress recording
  • Adjust DTS option descriptions
  • Fix crash on non-standard device
  • Force stereo on all systems reporting only stereo
  • Add HRA detection for DTS-HD
  • Add back downmix option
  • Add option to disable trueHD
  • Fix crash on Live TV playback
  • Adjust dip conversion routine (hopefully support more odd devices)
  • Show proper duration information for the version actually playing during playback
  • Reset focus to default button after version selection change
  • Send proper version info to external player
  • Fix playback speed menu not showing when it should
  • Implement remote keys for guide during non-live TV playback
  • Implement more views for music video libraries
  • Implement more views for audio book libraries
  • Add last-resort audio transcode fallback (in case internal ffmpeg is failing)
  • Fix losing position on row refresh when scrolled way down the row
  • Add guide button to OSD during normal playback
  • Update info like run time on version selection
 
2.0.09
  • Fix play from grid when folder browsing music
  • Increase size of cast on OSD
  • Tweak default background
  • Fix PGS subtitle display when multiple on screen at once
  • Update translations
  • Fix stream copy for interlaced content (requires server 4.6)
  • Increase playlist and album limits to 1500
  • No longer try to auto play from "Play Next" channel
  • Fix series date display in folders
  • Fix bad price display in purchase screen
  • Add send logs to video playback menu
  • Display songs as tiles (like other apps)
  • Add songs to Artist page
  • Force player interface to LTR presentation
  • Group by tags in channel grid (requires server 4.6)
  • Implement filter by tags in TV guide (requires server 4.6)
  • Simplify filter selection (fewer clicks)
  • Fix shuffling video playlist
  • Implement internal rendering of SSA/PGS/VOBSUB/DVDSUB
  • Implement playlist and collection tabs in library for 4.6 server
  • Remove collections from individual genre display
  • Align EQ animation with other apps
  • Implement tag viewing (returned in search and shown on detail)
  • Improve list screen in Apple TV theme
  • Support new TV channel logos in 4.6
  • Allow screen saver during pause (except for live TV)
  • Implement new search
  • Improve hi-res flac audio
  • Add a default poster size setting
  • Make library prefs a popup for better navigation (can back out)
  • Make library cog button a menu for app or library settings
  • Add "All Items" button to Collection screen
  • Add music videos to Artist view
  • Allow converting dts-hd and not plain dts
  • Indicate https in SFN when using SSL
  • Implement play options from music genre
  • Improve spinner layout
  • Adjust home screen layout settings for server 4.6
  • Fix DTS HD badge not always showing properly
  • Indicate in SFN when software audio decoding is occurring
  • Clarify display HDR support labels
  • RTL fixes
  • Fix play first unwatched on some series
  • Implement subtitle offset (external subs only)
  • Improve play next up button when no next up episode
  • Improve usability of DTS options
  • Simplify audio option
  • Fix crash on startup on non-standard boxes
  • Add new "Extra Info" option and reduce clutter by default

1.8.55

  • Compatibility update for server 4.6

1.8.54

  • Block too fast channel changes
  • Align seasonal theme dates
  • Implement new Remove from Next Up/Continue Watching feature (requires next server 4.6+)
  • Implement playback speed adjustment
  • Fix audio book resume
  • Add buffer indicator on progress bar
  • Implement subtitle vertical position
  • Support search without mic permission
  • Improve unlock discovery on new installs
  • Implement subtitle download during playback
  • Change "On Now" tab to "Programs"
  • Improve recording indicator in guide
  • Improve record dialog button display
  • Fix wrong logo playing item in playlist
  • Implement option for subtitle background
  • Better focus indicator on large list items
  • Change tab order in home videos (may require resetting default)
  • Align green
  • Obey start ticks in multi-item remote playback request
  • Align video/audio/cc badge order
  • Add higher bitrate options
  • Fix start index when playlist sent by remote control
  • Add previous button to video player
  • Update server auth scheme (req server 4.4.1+)
  • Fix crash using number keys when channel has no number
  • Reverse album order on artist page
  • Align Live TV icons
  • Update translations
  • Fix crash when unable to tune channel
  • Improve RTL layouts
  • Add missing audio queue access to list detail screen
  • Add entire audio list to queue on "play from here"
  • Add HDR info
  • Fix missing people on subsequent item playback
  • Improve refresh of global favorites view
  • Update Exoplayer
  • Fix external subs with remote STRM files
  • Add stop/clear queue button to audio player
1.8.28/9
  • Fix parental rating filter
  • Adjust watched mark
  • Fix audio progress reporting
  • Fix empty more button on played series detail
  • Allow unlock when connected to Premiere server

 

1.8.24
  • Freshen the overall look of the app
  • Improve themes
  • Dim screen on extended pause
  • Allow access to cast during playback
  • Add active recordings to home screen
  • Improve delete from series screen to avoid accidental deletion
  • Improve YouTube trailer playback experience (more seamless)

 

1.8.11
  • Fix zoom sometimes not working
  • fix odd layout issue with rec indicator in guide
  • Basic resume for audio books
  • Use proper track number on album display
  • Separate discs in album display
  • Fix theme song quitting when view expanded summary
  • Respond to "next" remote button during playback
  • Update Exo to 2.11.4 (Google)
  • Implement mediasession status
  • Add support for media "stop" button
  • Remember user login across different servers
  • Improve on-screen keyboard behavior
  • Tune to channel when select "No Program Data" in grid
  • Fix unable to switch between rare audio tracks
  • Proper display of 720/1080
  • Reduce default max buffer size (try to avoid problems on 2019 tube with high-bitrate content)
  • Long-press back on home screen back to top
  • Stop long episode titles from pushing data off the OSD
  • Fix all scroll syncing in guide
  • Add missing sort options in folder browsing
  • Prefer thumbs in Android "Play Next" row
  • Update translations
  • Improve live TV episode OSD info
  • Make recording button order consistent
  • Improve horizontal scrolling in TV guide
  • Fix details not always showing in enhanced view
  • Improve resolution capability detection
  • Ensure recording indicator is visible on compact guide view
  • Allow changing audio track while paused
  • Remove channel number from program tile display
  • Add Cast/Crew to boxsets
  • Improve resume crash handling
  • Add On Now row in Live TV library
  • Add progress bar on programs in live TV library
  • Add unpause event when unpausing video with remote
  • Implement option for "compact" guide view
  • Fix Connect screen won't load
  • Fix CC badge not showing
  • Add artist name to music video cards
  • Don't distort program images
  • Guess at channel layout when not present
  • Fix crash on playback start with very old Android version
  • Improve recovery after sleep crash
  • Implement real-time refreshing
  • Fix cannot back out after deleting first item in grid
  • More efficient list loading (and improved enhanced display)
  • Include media info icons on detail page
  • Update Exo to 2.11.3 on Fire TV
1.7.92
  • Optional direct play of .ts 
  • Update for new channel sorting with 4.4
  • Fix rew button during audio play
  • Show names on recordings instead of icon
  • Add progress bars on channel grid
  • Fix list screen focus issue (getting back up off list)
  • Fix playback from inside genre folder
  • Hide chapter row for videos with no chapter images
  • Add Included In, Similar and Appears On for artists
  • Increase size of index field on list view
  • Add separate shuffle button on detail view
  • Add missing "more" button on some views
  • Adjust song sort for new server changes
  • Implement ability to play videos in photo slide show
  • Fix play toolbar button in photo/video folders
  • Implement play button on a photo album folder
  • Raise list limit to 1000
  • Implement shuffle play for artist
  • Implement exit confirmation prompt
  • Fix grid going wacky with varying heights
  • Allow letter jump list on Fire Stick 2nd gen
  • Work around Sony gray bar problem on HDR cropped content
  • Fix home rows not refreshing using context menuplay
  • Remove DD bitrate restriction on Fire
  • Update to Exo 2.11.2 (Google only)
  • Remove workarounds for FLAC and DD+
  • Fix transcode reason not showing for some direct play errors
  • Allow stream-copy of aac_latm
  • Add 3D indicator to info line
  • Improve display of media selections
  • Fix 4K items not playable on non-4K device
  • Fix refresh rate switching only
  • Fix play button on channel detail screen
  • Fix album title display
  • Fix "remux/trans" display
  • Fix pcm seen as "raw" causing transcode
  • Fix menu on episode selection
  • Improve option description for external player
  • Fix "Start" button on up next panel not resetting still watching time
  • Implement Channel detail screen
1.7.78
  • Improved home screen design
  • Global favorites view
  • Implement add to playlist for most items (context menu)
  • Implement subtitle edit and downloading
  • Improved filtering in movie and TV grids
  • Improved audio player
  • Add "included In" row on detail screen showing collections, playlists, etc.
  • Improve song display
  • Search for Artists instead of Album Artists in search
  • Update Exoplayer
  • Improve image loading
  • Fix collections limited to certain number of items
  • Implement "play from here" on video grid
  • Implement "add to playlist" for most items
  • Allow letter jump list to scroll
  • Option to show labels or not on all grid views
  • Fix some views not reacting to deleted items
  • Fix a number of possible "black screen on start" issues
  • Implement standard genre grid for music
  • Improve "On Now" row to show more relevant channels
  • Implement ability to edit padding on individual scheduled recordings
  • Fix unable to play item when audio cannot be mixed down locally
  • Implement seeking in audio player
  • Fix chapter OSD display issue
  • Add support for direct play of m4a
  • Add 4K indicator to guide
  • Implement "My Media Small" display
  • Add separate resolution switching option (in addition to frame rate)
  • Fix display of very long album/song names in list view
1.7.54
  • Improved in-playback chapter selection
  • Fix some season display issues
  • Fix unable to switch audio in some files
  • Ensure wake dialog is available on failed connection
  • Update translations
  • Improve image display
  • Fix video repeat mode
  • Improve information displayed for TV programs
  • Implement some more universal remote buttons in live TV
  • Increase playback item limits
  • Increase list limits
  • Various small fixes
1.7.40 (Amazon)/43 (Google)
  • Server compatibility updates
  • Improve genre browsing
  • Improve display on non-standard hardware
  • Easy access to in-progress recordings from live TV
  • Implement video zoom on Fire TV
  • Allow favorite and unwatched filters in season views
1.7.21
  • Visual seeking with thumbs (requires server feature enabled)
  • Improve Wake On Lan
  • Ensure theme songs stop when playback starts
  • Repeat mode in video player
  • Simplify latest recordings view
  • Add ability to modify subtitle and audio defaults in the app settings
  • Add subtitle display (color/size) adjustments
  • Add option to transcode SSA/ASS subtitles (for format preservation)
  • Various other minor fixes and enhancements
1.6.94
  • Improve home screen refreshing
  • Improve subtitle delivery
  • Fix auto queue episodes when no season folders
  • Add remember last user login option
  • Fix starting from a chapter with specific version selection
  • Update translations
1.6.87/88
  • Fix chapter panel losing focus
  • Add DTS option
  • Fix behavior after dismissing chapter panel
  • Fix second press to record series
  • Fix subtitle selection on some media
  • Improve image display from mixed content
  • Support 16bit Flac on Fire
  • Dynamically adjust to actual image sizes
  • Restore optional background in grids (default off)
  • Fix spacing when no genre/director
  • Allow external delivery of ssa subs
  • Remember media selections on playback failure
  • Fix thumb fallback to backdrop
  • Add tag line to detail view
  • Fix thumbs in recordings view
  • Fix Season detail display issues
  • Fix version selection name

1.6.79

  • New cleaner look
  • Google Assistant integration
  • Pre-playback media selection
  • Add basic folder browsing to library tabs
  • Improved letter jump for 4.0
  • Play options in grids
  • Rearrange buttons on Server not Available dialog
  • Use all thumbs on Continue Watching row on home
  • Fix erroneous colon when connecting with no port
  • Display message on error connecting
  • Support refresh rate/display mode switching on Gen 2 Fire (and any "L" device)
  • Use random content backdrop for people
  • Fix episode not resuming when requested remotely
  • Fix no stop notification in dash
  • Fix 24bit FLAC not playing properly
  • Add skip amount options
  • Support HEVC in Android 5.1.1
  • Remove limits on "Also On" quick channel changer
  • Update translations
  • Fix audio switching with MP2 tracks
  • Up key show chapters during playback
  • Rewrite list view to properly handle large lists
  • Closed Caption support (USA) 

1.6.56

  • Improve playback error handling
  • Smooth scrolling TV guide
  • Vertically scrolling grid views
  • Optimized search
  • Improved letter jump in grid views
  • Fix shuffle play of external audio playlists
  • Don't loop theme song playback
  • Scroll default tab into view upon library entry
  • Improve some default images
  • Fix external playlists not showing
  • Add option to not allow video stream copy for live TV
  • Properly remove items from "Play Next" when manually marked watched
  • Add 240Kb/s bitrate option
  • Ensure "Continue Watching" obeys server-side settings
  • Fix playing music artists
  • Fix people search against beta server
  • Fix album sort by year
  • Option for focus rectangle
  • Default to higher bitrate on local LAN on all devices
  • Improve app response when can't validate Premiere do to outage
  • Audible feedback for trying to seek past live time
  • Add container to media details
  • Update translations
  • Make small "Up Next" panel the default (up arrow expands to larger one)
  • Implement new WoL method
  • Direct play items from Play Next
  • Refresh home screen on library change
  • Fix Premiere not recognized immediately
  • Fix diacritics in device name causing login failure
  • Add favorite episodes row to Favorites view in TV library
  • Allow favorite filter in "All" movies and series views
  • Use thumbs for latest TV
  • Sort favorites by name

1.6.15

  • Fix auto login
  • Update translations
  • Adjust to server changes
  • Fix issues with DTS on newer Fire TV devices
  • Improve image loading
  • Add in-progress items to Android 8.0 "Play Next" channel
  • Blue Radiance theme

1.6.00

  • Support for new Oreo features
  • Support theme songs while browsing
  • Improved playback
  • Faster start up
  • Minor bug fixes

1.5.88

  • Option to show poster instead of logo on detail screen
  • Implement Collection Detail view
  • Fix skipping at end of item
  • Fix unable to select mp3 audio track
  • Avoid unusually long ratings pushing buttons off OSD
  • Improve mpegts playback
  • Implement menu on channel items (to mark as fav)
  • Increase playlist and play queue sizes
  • Add new sort orders
  • Fix guide program detail popup position
  • Improve music playback
  • Attempt to select proper audio track for live streams
  • Implement option to use MPV player for Live TV

1.5.65 (Amazon) / 1.5.66 (Google)

  • Fix launching music items from search results
  • Improve some images
  • Do not use Premiere device limit slot if app unlock is purchased
  • Improve FF and Rew (press and hold)
  • Respond to stop button in audio player
  • Change "Shows" to "Series" in Live TV
  • Fix wrong bitrate in playback menu
  • Respond to "stop" button when playing music
  • Return TV Channels in search results
  • Crop program images of unknown shape
  • Add recordings shortcuts to on now and rename to "Live TV"
  • Create DTS-HD pass-thru option
  • Support DTS-HD on any hardware that reports support for it
  • Support DTS on Mi3 with 7.0+
  • Play button support at library level
  • Fix live TV quick channel changer not updating
  • Fix live TV guide returning to wrong channel
  • Fix guide options panel bleeding off screen on high res devices
  • Support mult-channel FLAC audio in videos
  • Fix Google Play Music responding to media buttons
  • New Season view
  • Update translations
  • Move interlacing to an option
  • Stats for nerds
  • Change library to "My Media"
  • Add photos to search
  • Home screen layout settings
  • Fix switching server allowing you to return to old server connection
  • Try to match very close rates with "exact" setting
  • Break settings out into separate sections
  • Allow raw PCM audio without transcoding
  • Respect home screen settings from web app/theater
  • Implement stereo downmixing in-app (no longer requires transcode on server)
  • Continue to next item after error
  • Improve visual reactions to manual watched status changes
  • Improve display of unknown video image shapes

1.5.32

  • Fix switching quality with live TV
  • Use proper delete permissions for all items
  • Show file name in media info
  • Fix resuming when playing "next up" from series

1.5.21/22

  • Show selected sub in OSD
  • Support long-press for menu on tiles
  • Show current time/progress on live TV guide
  • Fix playback problems on Oreo
  • Fix playback problems with bad episode data
  • Adjust playback of external Live TV
  • Fix no overview or chapters when play next up from series
  • Fix repeat button on music
  • Fix backdrops sticking on music interface
  • Increase recommendations for Oreo
  • Fix box sets in playlists playback
  • Show progress bar while seeking
  • Use minimal OSD when pausing
  • Allow seeking while paused

1.5.13

  • Fix are you watching prompt after "up next" interaction
  • Adjust size units in playback interface
  • Support mediasource, audio and sub selection via remote control
  • Avoid various crashes
  • Ensure OSD updated on audio switch
  • Streamline playback info gathering

1.5.11

  • New Themes
  • Improve external subtitle support
  • Support multiple version selection
  • Improve seek speed
  • Various minor fixes

1.4.61

  • Direct play VC1 on Shield
  • Fix dashboard background image
  • Avoid audio error when switching refresh rate manually

1.4.50 (Amazon only)

  • Improve stability when device sleeps
  • Improve Live TV guide performance
  • Support PGS subtitles without transcoding
  • Improve internal subtitle performance

1.4.36

  • Improve stability
  • Add basic YouTube trailer support
  • Various minor fixes and improvements

1.4.17

  • New "tabbed" interface
  • Fix focus issues on detail screen
  • Show person information for director/writer, etc.
  • Reduce network traffic during playback
  • Replace "Next Episodes" with "More from Season"
  • Handle no public users better
  • Attempt to fix DD dropouts on Fire
  • Fix blank home screen
  • Active recordings on home screen

1.3.35

  • Live TV and in-progress recording seeking (trick play)
  • Improved playback
  • Improved stability
  • New Live TV guide design
  • Ability to start recording while watching Live TV
  • More control of playback options (bitrate, frame rate, etc.) during playback

 

1.3.21

  • Change websocket handling to hopefully reduce issues on Fire TV

 

1.3.20

  • Fix images not loading on Android 7.0

 

1.3.19

  • Handle bad studio image
  • Make it easier to find unlock option
  • Switch server from home
  • Add explicit port to manual address entry
  • Fix focus on 'scheduled in next 24'
  • Active recordings
  • Test DTS-HD on DTS hardware

1.3.15

  • Improve performance
  • Improve home screeen refreshing
  • Work around ffmpeg bug
  • Improve DD bitstreaming on Fire TV
  • Switch server when logged in via Connect
  • Add Latest Series to home screen

 

1.3.12

  • Fix crash when double-click play button

 

1.3.10

  • HD Audio pass-thru (on supported hardware)
  • Chapters and media info now displayed for plain videos
  • User-controlled playback problem handling
  • Fix OSD showing with some TVs when volume buttons pressed
  • Improve refresh rate switching
  • Improve transcoding need determination for more direct streaming
  • Simplify user settings
  • Fix not being able to play audio podcasts
  • Add option to not show the "Up Next" preview at the end of episode playback
  • Add 100Mb max bitrate setting
  • Fix the sort order by date in grid views
  • Remember the last zoom setting for videos and re select it on subsequent playback
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