DiamondBond/q2-pod 1.8.4

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1.8.4

• Playback: with Memory Playback or In-Vehicle Mode on, picking your queue back up at power-on reads only the queue's songs from the library, not the whole library, so it is much quicker and needs far less memory on a big library.
• Library: Recent no longer reads the whole library to find the title of a song played from Folder, only that song, so it opens much faster on a big library.
• Tidal Downloads: Download Playing Songs, the first row, saves the Tidal album or playlist that's playing to the card in the background, to play without Wi-Fi. The row counts the songs as they're saved; press it again to stop, and a message says how many were saved. Songs already saved are skipped. A list larger than Tidal Cache stops when the cache is full, rather than delete its own first songs, and says so. Before, a song was only saved by playing it through.
• Appearance: Hide Streaming on Home and Hide Folder on Home are now called Hide Streaming and Hide Folder. The first was too long for its row and was cut off. They do what they did, and stay on or off as you had them.
• Appearance: Show Q2 Pod is now called Show Wordmark: it shows or hides the name Q2 Pod in Home's title bar, where an iPod reads iPod. It stays on or off as you had it.
• System Update: Remind Daily is now called Update Notifications. It does what it did, and stays on or off as you had it.
• Appearance: Time in Title: Off now takes the clock off Home too. Home's title bar reads Q2 Pod in every theme, or stays empty with Show Wordmark off. Home kept the clock in Minimal and Modern, and in Classic with Show Wordmark off.
• Status bar: under Theme: Classic, Battery: Percent shows the percentage with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and the play state all showing. It fell back to the plain icon there, so Percent looked the same as Icon whenever music played over Bluetooth with Wi-Fi on.
• Status bar: under Minimal or Modern with Status Bar: Classic, Battery: Icon + Percent keeps its number when Bluetooth and Wi-Fi both show: it moves inside the battery. Classic's larger battery left no room beside it, and the number was dropped.
• Library: Playback → Library & Folders → Album View chooses how Albums opens, as a List (the default) or a Grid of covers. It is the stock firmware's own choice, whose switch Q2 Pod's look hides: since 1.8.0 a grid chosen on stock firmware came back with no way to return to the list.
• Library: in Albums' grid, the wheel moves from album to album, left to right and then down a row, Centre opens the album that's highlighted, and a tap or a hold on an album acts on that album. The highlight used to stay on the first album of each row.
• Settings: row labels that were cut off now show whole, as their rows give the text more room. In Classic: Click With Headphones, Bluetooth's Control Device Volume, Battery: Percent Inside and Shortcut: Rated Albums. In Minimal and Modern: Wheel Sensitivity at 100% or more and Resume Songs at 100 minutes or more. Two messages were shortened to fit their rows: Press again to erase login and cache (Streaming → Configuration) and Rockbox's Starts at power-on. Press again to install (App Store).
• Cover Flow: Display → Cover Flow's Cover Flow Sort row is now called Sort, as the page it's on is Cover Flow's. Your order is kept.
• Scrobbling: a song, artist or album named exactly "error" no longer stops Upload Scrobbles to Last.fm. Last.fm's reply repeats each name, and the Q2 took the word for a refusal, so that listen and every one after it stayed on the card. They go with the next upload.
• Internet Radio: a very large .pls station list opens at once. One with thousands of title lines could hold the screen still while it was read.
• Messages name rows as the screen does: Update Library first (it read Update Local Music), Updating Library on Classic's scan screen, and Network update in the notice of a new release.
• User guide: it names every row as the Q2 shows it (Update Library, Scan music now, Genres, Lock Screen, Rounded Corners), and now covers Max Volume, which limits how loud the Q2 goes (Volume Guard doesn't), Resume Songs, Date & Time, Wi-Fi File Transfer, Tidal Downloads and playing to AirPlay speakers.
• Cover Flow: on a large library, the first open after the Q2 starts no longer stalls while it checks which albums have artwork, when the covers are in another order than the artwork was prepared in, such as Random or another Sort, or some albums have none yet.

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• update.tar (V1840): 4640457c84cd89860ae41e32f79daf38c7a485df754c289f90e70726d36791c3