# What's New User-facing release highlights for the in-app **What's New** screen. Maintainers refresh the current line before promoting to `next` / `release`. Technical details and PR credits stay in `CHANGELOG.md`. Within each section, order by **user impact** (most noticeable first) — not PR merge order. `CHANGELOG.md` keeps strict PR order inside Added / Changed / Fixed. ## [1.48.0] ## Highlights ### Offline listening - When the server is unreachable, browse and detail pages show what you already have locally instead of empty errors — albums, artists, playlists, and cross-server favorites. - Starred tracks, pinned albums, and playlists live under one **media** folder; browse them in **Offline Library** and see disk usage at a glance. - **Favorites auto-sync** keeps loved songs on disk; pinned albums and playlists refresh when the library index updates. ### Music Network — scrobble beyond Last.fm - **Settings → Integrations** now hosts a **Music Network**: connect **Last.fm**, **Libre.fm**, **ListenBrainz**, **Maloja**, **Rocksky**, **Koito**, or your own **GNU FM** instance — and scrobble to several at once. - Pick a **primary** service for loved tracks, similar artists, and stats; other connections still receive scrobbles. Your existing Last.fm setup migrates automatically. - A master switch turns the whole network on or off. ### Theme Store - Browse and install community themes from **Settings → Themes** — search, dark/light filter, full-size previews, and sort by popularity or date. - Six palettes ship with the app; everything else installs on demand and works offline after the first download. - **Now Playing** follows every theme cleanly, including light palettes. - Import a theme from a local `.zip` when you have a package from a friend or your own design. - The sidebar nudges you when an installed theme has an update; one-click update from the theme card. ### Fullscreen player - Rebuilt for much lower CPU and memory use: a calm, sharp fullscreen view with album art, waveform seekbar, up-next queue, synced lyrics, ratings, and a clock that follows your **Clock format** setting. - The song title no longer shows a leading track number, and descenders (g, j, p, q, y) are no longer clipped. ### Live — richer now playing on Navidrome 0.62+ - On servers with OpenSubsonic **playbackReport** (Navidrome ≥ 0.62), **Live** shows who is playing or paused, how far into the track they are, and playback speed when another client sends it — with smooth position updates between refreshes. ### Queue — Timeline mode - A third queue layout keeps the current track in the middle with history above and up next below — great for long listening sessions. Cycle the header control or pick it in **Settings → Personalisation → Queue display**. ### Settings → Servers - Each card shows the server software and version (e.g. **Navidrome 0.62.0**) under the name, with a cleaner two-line layout and compact actions. - Navidrome **0.62+** shows a green **AudioMuse-AI** badge when the plugin is detected — no manual toggle on current Navidrome. ### Sidebar — pin Now Playing to the top - New **Settings → Sidebar** toggle moves **Now Playing** to the top of the sidebar instead of the bottom (off by default). ### Startup - A themed loading splash appears while the app starts — colours follow your active theme, including community palettes. ### What's New page - Highlights like this list load from the release on startup (and cache for offline). A **Full changelog** tab on the same page holds the technical detail. ## Improved - Audio decoding runs on **Symphonia 0.6**; streams start sooner and recover from stalls without restarting the player. - The **Preload Next Track** toggle under **Settings → Storage → Buffering** is gone — playback no longer waits on that extra RAM prefetch. Gapless, crossfade, and Hot Cache behave as before. ## Fixed ### Playback and audio - **Windows:** the app no longer keeps the audio device open while idle, so the system can sleep when music is not playing. - **macOS:** steady playback stutter from background device polling is gone on the default output path. - After a long pause, the seekbar shows the saved position immediately and the next **Play** resumes without an audible blip at track start. - **Stop** keeps the real waveform on the seekbar instead of falling back to flat bars. ### Offline, Now Playing, and Navidrome - Now Playing cards (**from this album**, discography, most played) stay populated during cached and offline playback instead of blanking out on track change. - Navidrome **Show in Now Playing** and play-count scrobbles work when audio plays from hot cache, offline pins, or auto-synced favorites. - Mixed-server queues still report to the correct Navidrome server. ### Themes and integrations - Favoriting from the player bar, fullscreen player, or shortcuts updates the star in track lists and playlists immediately. - Discord Rich Presence shows album art again when covers come from the server. - Focus rings and dropdown borders follow the active theme consistently. ### Browse and library - Tracks tagged with several genres in one field (e.g. `Metal/Ambient/Experimental`) match **each genre** again in browse, filters, and search. - **All Albums → Only compilations** returns results for common tagging patterns. - Album grids show the album artist on compilations instead of a random track artist. - Song rails (**Random Picks**, **Discover Songs**, etc.) link each name in multi-artist credits separately. - **Artist → Top Tracks** play works even when the artist page has no albums loaded yet. - **Home → Most Played** no longer jumps the page when you load more albums. - **Mainstage** hero backdrop stays in sync when you skip albums quickly. ### Other - **Linux:** the `curl | bash` auto-installer works again. - **Linux:** internet radio no longer appears twice in the desktop now-playing overlay. - The active server card under **Settings → Servers** draws a complete border on all sides. ## Under the hood - Navidrome **0.62+** auto-detects **AudioMuse-AI** and routes Instant Mix / Lucky Mix through the smarter API when the plugin is present — older Navidrome keeps the manual toggle you already know. - Future release highlights can refresh on the **What's New** page without waiting for a full app update download.