1.7.3
- Standby: waking from Standby no longer shows TF card removed and inserted messages.
- Power: Standby starts off after a fresh install or a factory reset. If you already have it on, it stays on.
- Scrobbling: a song played from Folder, or from a playlist opened there, scrobbles its title tag. It used to send the file name, track and disc numbers included, in place of the title.
- Cover Flow: an album whose artwork restarted the Q2 while Cover Flow was preparing artwork is skipped the next time Cover Flow opens and shows the grey disc, so you can tell which album it was, instead of restarting the Q2 again at every open. Refresh Cover Flow tries it again.
- Now Playing: on the lyrics page, a swipe turns the page from the first touch again. In 1.7.2 the guard that kept a held finger's page still took every swipe with it, so a quick swipe did nothing and it took a hold, then a swipe. Play from a line is gone, both touch and hold and holding Play/Pause: holding Play/Pause on the lyrics page opens the song's options again. Tap the lyrics to fill the screen with them, and tap again or press Return to bring the page back.
- Playback: a stream that stops for a while, such as when Wi-Fi drops out for 20 seconds, carries on from where it stopped once the data comes back, on the headphone jacks and a USB DAC. It used to skip ahead in chunks to catch up.
- Card apps: an app can split its first page into sections, such as Home, Albums and Playlists. One shows at a time; swipe left or right on it to move to the next or the previous, and the title shows which one it is, such as Albums 2/3. The wheel still only moves through the list.
- Streaming: card apps can show a cover beside each row of a list, as Tidal's lists do. An app that doesn't send covers looks as before.
- Streaming: a card app can show a long list a window at a time, with Next page and Previous page rows at its ends. Back leaves the list at once, instead of going back through every page, and Back from a deeper level to a long list is quicker.
- Streaming: in a card app, a list whose first row is Search shows it as a magnifying glass at the right of the title bar, beside the page's name, as Tidal does. Tap it to search. Under Theme: Classic, which has no title bar, it stays a row.
- Card apps: on an app's live page, such as a sync's progress, a long name keeps scrolling and your selection stays put while the percentage updates. The page used to be redrawn every 2 seconds, which started the name over.
- Streaming: a card app, such as a Jellyfin app, can stream its songs through the player Tidal uses, with their covers, instead of saving each one to the card first. It needs no Tidal account.
- Library: under Theme: Classic album covers in Albums and Folder fill their rows again, as they did before 1.7.2. In 1.7.2 the covers and folder icons in Folder sat too low in their rows.
- Now Playing: under Theme: Classic the progress bar has a line at its left and right ends, as an iPod classic's does, and Classic Blue fills it with an iPod classic's own two-tone blue.
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