Changelog

Focuses on lyrics improvements, extractor playback routing, YouLyPlus support, app icon customization, artist blocking, library download visibility, Discord Rich Presence reliability, search behavior, cache/storage stability, and broader Material 3 UI polish. This release also includes localization updates, dependency updates, icon-generation pipeline improvements, and internal refactors.

Major Highlights

Lyrics, Providers & Playback Routing

Lyrics handling has been expanded with stronger provider support, better TTML behavior, and improved playback URL routing through the extractor pipeline.

• Added romanization and translation support to both enhanced and legacy lyrics modes.
• Added the YouLyPlus lyrics provider.
• Added cookie forwarding to streamingExtractionManager.extractAudioUrl.
• Routed extractor playback URLs through ResolvedUrlRoutingDataSource.
• Recognized URI paths for extractor playback.
• Preserved line-synced Better Lyrics TTML output.
• Classified TTML sync badges more accurately.
• Filtered empty Paxsenix lyrics payloads.
• Gated automatic provider translations.
• Wrapped long lyrics in both lyrics modes.

Contributors: @rukamori
Related: #961

Search, Library & Artist Controls

Search, library, and artist-management flows have been refined with new interaction behavior and stronger content filtering.

• Opened online search from the floating navigation toolbar on double tap.
• Opened the search overlay when tapping the Search tab while already on the Search screen.
• Added global artist blocking and blocked-content handling.
• Added downloaded album visibility in Library Albums.
• Added a downloaded album filter.
• Corrected Local Playlist search mode layout.
• Prevented Home app bar overlap.
• Reserved Home chip space during loading.
• Tightened Home section spacing.

Contributors: @rukamori, @sang765, @mikooochi
Related: #940, #944

App Icons & Launcher Customization

Launcher icon customization has been expanded with metadata-driven selection, GitHub author actions, and a more reliable adaptive-icon generation pipeline.

• Added a metadata-driven launcher icon selector.
• Added GitHub author actions to the icon screen.
• Matched the icon selector design to the app’s UI language.
• Generated full adaptive launcher icons.
• Generated adaptive icons from SVG metadata.
• Preserved SVG launcher artwork.
• Prevented duplicate adaptive icon layers.
• Created the adaptive drawable directory when needed.
• Enforced 512 vector dimensions for icon submissions.
• Sanitized SVG doctype declarations.
• Handled missing vector fill colors.
• Added opaque vector fill support for submitted icon artwork.
• Aligned the selected icon stroke with row shape.
• Prevented main-thread vector inflation.
• Synchronized the selected launcher task icon.

Contributors: @rukamori, @mikooochi

Material UI, Motion & Recognition

The app receives broader Material motion adoption, tonal backdrop changes, and recognition-screen refinements.

• Applied the global Material motion scheme.
• Replaced the previous mesh background with a tonal backdrop.
• Rebuilt the Music Recognition flow and UI.
• Added restrained Material Shape recognition anchoring.
• Fixed recognition callback, button shape, and composable shape creation issues.
• Standardized settings header scroll behavior.
• Refactored the main header scroll style.
• Corrected navigation callback typing.
• Reset TopAppBarState height and content offsets.
• Filled the AOD shape picker grid width.
• Used compatible connected button shapes in Debug Settings.

Contributors: @rukamori, @adam-adrian, @mikooochi
Related: #941, #963

Discord Rich Presence & Social Playback

Discord and Music Together reliability have been improved across status rendering, gateway sync, activity platform storage, and session state.

• Supported multiple artists in Discord RPC status.
• Centralized Discord RPC sync flow and hardened gateway transport.
• Fixed Discord Rich Presence missing token handling.
• Prevented thumbnails from replacing artist artwork.
• Prevented playing presence from rendering as paused.
• Serialized the selected activity platform.
• Marked Music Together sessions active only when connected.

Contributors: @rukamori, @adam-adrian
Related: #919, #932

Localization & Community

This release includes expanded and corrected translations across multiple languages.

• Completed Vietnamese translation coverage for 61 missing strings.
• Added missing Vietnamese translations.
• Updated Indonesian translations.
• Added Javanese translation support.
• Fixed ambiguous palette duplicate strings.
• Added and updated translations through Weblate for French, Indonesian, Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Turkish, Urdu, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Thai, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Italian, and other community-maintained languages.

Contributors: @sang765, @Davidzinco, @Mickael81, @hsp1020, @wynriu, @ValteMCPE, @gallegonovato, @radenya86, @beebtw, @Myrdincx, @flue17, @Yar270, @FullGa123, hijasongood, @nekohepott32, @AlmaziikDev, @Nijeryaprensi, Ur_lightmoon, @andres2, @MadameVulva
Related: #920, #925, #933

Stability & Bug Fixes

Playback, Extractor & YouTube Reliability

Playback and extractor stability have been improved across YouTube routing, stream recovery, fallback behavior, equalizer session handling, and bot-detection paths.

• Guarded Cast disconnect media item transfer.
• Required Datasync ID for account login to prevent global playback-forbidden issues.
• Ignored "Origin doesn't match Host" client errors.
• Filtered JavaScript player extractor failures in getStreamUrl.
• Skipped external audio fallback on YouTube bot detection.
• Used music.youtube.com in toYouTubeWatchUrl.
• Forwarded the GVS token to the extractor.
• Recovered equalizer audio sessions.
• Swapped YouTube Music thumbnails with i.ytimg.com URLs for music videos.
• Prevented playing presence from rendering as paused.

Contributors: @rukamori, @sang765
Related: #895, #929

Lyrics Screen & Input Handling

Lyrics controls now avoid touch-through behavior and better isolate control surfaces from the underlying player content.

• Blocked touch-through behind lyrics controls.
• Isolated the lyrics touch shield from content.
• Wrapped long lyrics in enhanced and legacy modes.
• Preserved line-synced Better Lyrics TTML output.
• Removed problematic player pointer-input handling.

Contributors: @rukamori
Related: #907, #961

Queue, Cast, Navigation & UI State

Queue and navigation behavior have been stabilized with safer bundle keys, fewer forced-scroll cases, and cleaner layout state.

• Prevented queue list flicker and forced scrolling.
• Used bundle-safe queue list keys.
• Corrected navigation callback typing.
• Ensured app bar state offsets reset correctly.
• Prevented Home app bar overlap.
• Reserved chip slot space during Home loading.
• Corrected Local Playlist search mode layout.
• Allowed saving the current account.

Contributors: @rukamori, @mikooochi

Storage, Cache & Downloads

Download and storage operations now use safer buffering, timeout handling, and cache-clearing behavior.

• Increased download write buffer sizes.
• Added HTTP timeouts.
• Prevented cache clearing freezes.
• Refactored media cache clearing through StorageCacheClearReporter.

Contributors: @rukamori, @sang765
Related: #917

Icon Submission & Generation Pipeline

Community icon submission and generation handling has been hardened to reduce malformed output and launcher-resource issues.

• Accepted JSON-only PR metadata.
• Sanitized SVG doctype declarations.
• Enforced 512 vector dimensions.
• Passed SVG source as a path.
• Resolved JAXP property compatibility.
• Created adaptive drawable directories.
• Prevented duplicate adaptive icon layers.
• Preserved SVG launcher artwork.
• Generated full adaptive launcher icons.
• Avoided main-thread vector inflation.

Contributors: @rukamori, @mikooochi

Dependency & Compatibility Fixes

Dependencies and compatibility paths have been updated for build and runtime reliability.

• Updated all dependencies to v15.0.3.
• Updated com.mocharealm.accompanist:lyrics-core to v0.4.6.
• Updated com.mocharealm.accompanist:lyrics-core to v0.4.7.
• Updated Gradle to v9.6.1.
• Replaced deprecated RenderScript blur with a pure Kotlin stack blur.
• Avoided empty plugin descriptor tasks.

Contributors: @renovate[bot], @sang765, @rukamori
Related: #921, #922, #924, #962, #964, #966

Performance Improvements

• Memoized ListItemDefaults calls in AppIconRow.
• Prevented main-thread vector inflation in the icon screen.
• Increased download write buffers and added HTTP timeouts.
• Prevented cache-clearing freezes.

Contributors: @rukamori, @mikooochi, @sang765
Related: #917

Internal Cleanup & Refactors

Architecture & UDF

• Refactored LazyCache to use withDelegate for SimpleCache access.
• Moved Home screen logic directly to a UDF structure.
• Moved Search Result data to UDF.
• Rebuilt Music Recognition flow and UI.
• Refactored Artist Screen overflow actions into segmented controls.
• Merged lyrics translation handling.
• Removed redundant remember usage from AppIconRow.

Contributors: @rukamori

Discord, Settings & Storage Internals

• Centralized Discord RPC sync flow.
• Hardened Discord gateway transport.
• Standardized settings header scroll behavior.
• Refactored main header scroll style.
• Refactored cache clearing through StorageCacheClearReporter.

Contributors: @rukamori, @adam-adrian
Related: #919, #941, #963

Build, CI & Release Reliability

• Increased AdaptiveIconForegroundInset to 20dp.
• Commented the generated icon preview table.
• Updated submodules.
• Updated docs and assets.
• Removed duplicate strings.
• Cleaned formatting and unused imports.
• Bumped the app to 13.7.0.

Contributors: @rukamori

Pull Request Highlights

• #917 — Increased download write buffer sizes and added HTTP timeouts by @sang765.
• #919 — Centralized Discord RPC sync flow and hardened gateway transport by @adam-adrian.
• #920 — Completed Vietnamese translation coverage for 61 missing strings by @sang765.
• #921 / #924 — Replaced deprecated RenderScript blur with pure Kotlin stack blur by @sang765.
• #925 — Added missing Vietnamese translations and fixed ambiguous palette duplicates by @sang765.
• #929 — Swapped YouTube Music thumbnails with YouTube i.ytimg.com URLs for music videos by @sang765.
• #932 — Added multiple-artist support to Discord RPC status by @adam-adrian.
• #933 — Updated Indonesian translations and added Javanese translation by @Davidzinco.
• #941 — Standardized settings header scroll behavior by @adam-adrian.
• #944 — Opened the search overlay when tapping the Search tab while already on Search by @sang765.
• #949 — Merged the music-video-only thumbnail swap fix by @sang765.
• #962 — Updated com.mocharealm.accompanist:lyrics-core to v0.4.6 by @renovate[bot].
• #963 — Refactored the main header scroll style by @adam-adrian.
• #964 — Updated dependencies by @renovate[bot].
• #966 — Updated com.mocharealm.accompanist:lyrics-core to v0.4.7 by @renovate[bot].

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@rukamori, @sang765, @Davidzinco, @mikooochi, @adam-adrian, @Mickael81, @hsp1020, @wynriu, @ValteMCPE, @gallegonovato, @radenya86, @beebtw, @Myrdincx, @flue17, @Yar270, @FullGa123, hijasongood, @nekohepott32, @AlmaziikDev, @Nijeryaprensi, Ur_lightmoon, @andres2, @MadameVulva

Referenced Issues & Pull Requests

#895, #907, #913, #916, #917, #919, #920, #921, #922, #924, #925, #929, #932, #933, #940, #941, #944, #945, #949, #961, #962, #963, #964, #966

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