SimpMusic

Full changlogs here: https://www.simpmusic.org/blogs/new-update-simpmusic-v170

🎉 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

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🐛 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

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⚡ 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

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🔧 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

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What's Changed

• Feat/queue button desktop miniplayer by @laoluogun in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2275
• Feat/desktop mpv backend by @maxrave-dev in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2284
• Fix/volume unmute to original value by @laoluogun in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2274
• New version: v1.7.0 by @maxrave-dev in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2281

New Contributors

• @laoluogun made their first contribution in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2275

Full Changelog: https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0