Changelog v13.1.0

✨ New Features

Player & Audio Engine

• Introduced V7 player styles with enhanced layout and modular backdrop system
• Added toggle-based playback controls for improved interaction state handling
• Implemented modules effect and improved blur/artwork scaling in V7 backdrop
• Added Bluetooth auto-start playback and audio device callback handling
• Enabled audio capture support via ALLOW_CAPTURE_BY_ALL configuration (#396)
• Improved playback error handling with refined request identity and messaging
• Added playback resumption system with persisted queue restoration (#390)
• Implemented login context recovery and authentication-aware playback handling (#418)

User Interface & Theming

• Full migration to Material 3 Expressive components across all UI
• Redesigned buttons, list items, and player layout system-wide
• Introduced Floating Navigation Toolbar (responsive + slim mode)
• Added Floating Action Button (FAB) for playlist creation in Library
• Added blur density sliders and enhanced preference components
• Improved MiniPlayer layout, controls, and artwork rendering
• Added network status banner across app shell
• Introduced player design style preference customization

Library, Playlists & Content

• Added playlist search and sorting in Add-to-Playlist dialog
• Improved playlist selection logic and duplicate handling
• Added playlist play button for online playlists (#398)
• Implemented YouTube automix preview support (#398)
• Enhanced album page continuation and parsing robustness
• Added MediaItem enhancements (playable flag + notification artwork resizing #416)

Lyrics & Localization

• Expanded romanization support (Chinese, Hindi, and more languages)
• Improved lyrics search UI and dialog experience
• Enhanced multi-language romanization preferences

Networking & Streaming

• Improved stream URL resolution and throttling handling
• Added bot detection recovery (visitor data handling)
• Enhanced DownloadManager concurrency and request throttling
• Added auth-scoped caching and playback authentication state system

🐛 Bug Fixes

Player & Playback

• Fixed playback resumption logic edge cases (#410)
• Resolved crossfade overlap and ducking recovery issues
• Fixed artwork rendering, blur inconsistencies, and layout misalignment
• Corrected playback auth state normalization and login handling (#418)

User Interface

• Fixed Floating Navigation Toolbar constraint and color issues
• Resolved bottom navigation offset overflow
• Fixed layout issues caused by unsafe Infinity constraints
• Improved ToggleButton sizing and UI consistency
• Fixed animation imports and spacing inconsistencies in Player

Library & Data

• Fixed playlist continuation and empty response handling
• Resolved account/profile loading state inconsistencies
• Fixed search bar padding and UI alignment issues

System & Services

• Fixed Updater version ordering assumption
• Ensured proper queue persistence on task removal
• Fixed Bluetooth auto-start threading issue
• Improved WebSocket heartbeat handling (#401)

Dependencies

• Updated Compose, Media3, Ktor, WorkManager, Material3, and Gradle versions

⚡ Performance Improvements

• Optimized screen rendering and overall UI performance
• Improved playlist selection and dialog performance
• Enhanced URL caching with authentication fingerprint validation
• Reduced redundant logic in queue, artwork, and playback handling

🛠 Technical Refactors

Architecture & Core

• Refactored playback authentication system with StateFlow integration
• Modularized YouTube, InnerTube, and player utilities
• Streamlined visitor data and token handling
• Improved DownloadUtil and MusicService caching strategies

UI & Components

• Simplified Floating Navigation Toolbar architecture
• Removed legacy and unused UI components (MiniPlayer container, dialogs)
• Standardized PreferenceEntry usage across settings
• Cleaned up Player, Lyrics, and Library UI structure

Codebase Cleanup

• Removed redundant logic, unused variables, and legacy flows
• Improved readability, maintainability, and consistency across modules

Other Changes

• Multiple dependency and Gradle upgrades
• Internal code structure improvements and cleanups
• Minor UI styling adjustments (#387)
• Reverts and experimental feature rollbacks for stability
• Metadata, README, and community updates (Telegram badge)
• Version bump to v13.1.0

Other Changes II

• chore(deps): update gradle to v9.4.1 by @renovate[bot] in #389
• chore(deps): update gradle/actions action to v6 by @renovate[bot] in #395
• fix(deps): update compose to v1.10.6 by @renovate[bot] in #402
• fix(deps): update dependency androidx.work:work-runtime-ktx to v2.11.2 by @renovate[bot] in #403
• fix(deps): update media3 to v1.10.0 by @renovate[bot] in #412
• fix(deps): update ktor monorepo to v3.4.2 by @renovate[bot] in #415
• fix infinite queue by @Windowstechtips in #426
• some shiz by @Windowstechtips in #427
• chore(deps): update androidgradleplugin to v9.1.0 by @renovate[bot] in #428

Notes

• Includes multiple issue-related fixes and enhancements: #386, #390, #396, #398, #401, #410, #416, #418
• Some experimental toolbar and layout changes were reverted for stability

Full Changelog: v13.0.0...v13.1.0