elianiva/meiro desktop-v0.6.0

Meiro 0.6.0

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Downloads

• macOS: brew install --cask elianiva/tap/meiro, or the universal .dmg (Apple Silicon and Intel).
• Windows (amd64): the -portable.zip (extract and run Meiro.exe), or the -setup.exe installer. Untested: the author has no Windows machine.
• Linux (amd64, arm64): .deb, .rpm, .flatpak (full build only), .AppImage or .tar.gz.
• Full builds bundle ffmpeg and yt-dlp; minimal builds use the ones on your system.
• Verify downloads with SHA256SUMS.txt.

What's new

Added

• Pull a page down to load it again. Swiping down from the top of Home, Explore or Library loads the page again, as the refresh shortcut does. A ring fills as you pull, and the page loads again when the ring is full. A page scrolled away from its top scrolls back to it instead.
• Meiro installs with Homebrew on macOS. brew install --cask elianiva/tap/meiro installs the universal build and follows the newest release. The cask clears the download flag that made Gatekeeper refuse the app on the first launch.

Changed

• The lyrics read as lyrics. The line being sung takes the theme's accent colour, the other lines fade with their distance from it, and both ends of the list dissolve into the card instead of being cut by it. The words of a song read at a comfortable width instead of across the whole tab.
• The Lyrics tab's header is quieter. A switch turns the timed lines on and off where the Synced and Static chips used to be, and a question mark at the other end of the row explains where the lyrics came from instead of naming the service in the line.
• A playlist stays recognizable while you scroll. Once the hero scrolls out of view, the top bar carries the cover, name and the Play, Shuffle and Download actions beside Back, while the global search stays exactly where it is. The cover, name and actions fade in one after another, and scrolling back to the top reverses the stagger and restores the full hero.
• The search field takes the page's colour. The top-bar search and the Settings search now use a light tonal fill instead of neutral grey, so they stand out against the header wash while still following the theme.
• The songs toolbar stays on screen. Scrolling a playlist past its Songs row used to take the search, Sort and the direction with it. That row now keeps its place at the top of the list while the songs and the sections below scroll under it.
• Playlist search sits with Sort above the songs. The search that narrows a playlist now lives in the toolbar with the sort controls instead of beside Play and Shuffle in the hero. It opens as a simple line under the field rather than a filled pill, and still keeps the page filtered to the songs that match. The sort controls beside it are bare buttons too, with no outlined pill around the field or the direction.
• Shelves no longer draw a scroll bar. The arrows beside a shelf's title page it, and the wheel and the touchpad still move it sideways. The row of cards ends closer to the section below.
• The close prompt shows which of its buttons quits. "Close Meiro" reads as a destructive action on macOS and Linux, and Escape keeps Meiro running on macOS, where it did nothing before.

Fixed

• Signing in with Edge on Windows finishes. The sign-in window stays connected until Meiro reads the session, then closes and removes its temporary profile.
• Timed lyrics open on the line being sung. Opening the Lyrics tab during a song left the current line below the middle of the list. It now lands in the middle when the tab opens, as it does when the song moves on.
• A channel the account menu cannot switch to says why. A row YouTube lists without the channel it stands for used to close the menu and leave you where you were. It now says that YouTube did not name the channel.
• The theme follows the album art again. Meiro takes the colour from the cover the player shows, so the theme changes with each song at any display scaling instead of keeping the last colour.
• Playing a large playlist before it finishes loading keeps every song. Playback starts from the first page, and remaining songs join the queue before Auto-play recommendations, mixed into the upcoming songs when shuffle is on. If loading the rest fails, the available songs still play and Auto-play can continue.
• Auto-play continues after a playlist ends. When its queue runs out, recommendations start from the final song instead of reopening the original playlist.

Full changelog: https://github.com/elianiva/meiro/blob/desktop-v0.6.0/CHANGELOG.md