Music is better together
Stash is social now. Listen with friends in real time, send a playlist as a link that stays up to date, and see what other Stash listeners are playing in the new Community section. Lyrics now light up word by word, too.
🎯 What's new
- Listen together. Start a session from Now Playing → ⋮ → Listen together, then send the invite. Friends hear what you play, in time with you, and can suggest songs and send reactions. When the session ends, everyone gets their own queue back.
- Share a playlist or mix as a link. Tap the share icon on a playlist, or long-press it in your Library. Friends who open the link can play it, Follow it so it stays up to date as you change it, or Save a copy of their own. You can stop sharing any time.
- Stash Community. A new, optional section on Home, showing what Stash listeners are digging this week. Post a playlist, mix or song from its share sheet or menu, or with the + on the section, then vote posts up or down. The best ones rise to the top. It's off until you turn it on in Settings → Appearance → Home layout → Community.
- Word-by-word lyrics. Songs with Apple Music lyrics now highlight each word as it's sung. If a song's lyrics run early or late, use Offset in the lyrics sheet to line them up. Prefer the old line-by-line lyrics? Choose LRC only in Settings → Playback → Lyrics. Thanks to @ParaliyzedEvo.
✨ Smaller improvements
- The queue feels right. Dragging a song to a new spot is smooth, and a quick flick no longer removes a song by accident. To remove one, swipe it most of the way across.
- Covers for songs from YouTube. Songs that stream from YouTube now show their album cover instead of a blank square.
- YouTube Music libraries with lots of saved albums and playlists now bring in all of them, not just the first batch. Thanks to @ParaliyzedEvo.
- The Daily Discover card on Home shows its full name instead of "Daily Disco…", and no longer says "daily" three times.
🐛 Bug fixes
- Adding lots of songs to a playlist at once no longer stops partway if you leave the screen.
- A playlist's song count on the Library card now updates when you delete a song from it.
- The song you paused stays on the mini player when you come back to Stash after a while, ready to play again.
- Last.fm and ListenBrainz no longer get a "now playing" or a scrobble for a song that was only sitting paused when you opened Stash. Plays now count from when the music actually starts.
- Lossless no longer picks a remix, live or cover version when you wanted the original.
- A shared mix with one song says "1 track", not "1 tracks".
📝 Good to know
- Community posts show the name you choose, and are public to everyone who has Community turned on. Posts stay up for 30 days, and you can take yours down any time.
- Shared links and Community live on Stash's own server. The README explains exactly what they store and for how long.
Install
Download the .apk below and open it on your Android device. If you've got a previous Stash release installed, this upgrades in place — your library, sync history, and settings are preserved.
Requires: Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer.
See the README for first-time setup.
What's Changed
- Security Fixes by @ParaliyzedEvo in #489
- fix: YouTube saved-albums library only synced the first page by @ParaliyzedEvo in #486
- Share playlists and mixes with other Stash users (Follow or Save a copy) by @rawnaldclark in #497
- feat(lyrics): word-synced Apple Music (TTML) lyrics, per-track sync offset, source preference by @ParaliyzedEvo in #496
- fix(art): songs that stream from YouTube get their cover by @rawnaldclark in #501
- fix(queue): smooth drag, and a flick can no longer swipe a track away by @rawnaldclark in #499
- feat: Listen Together — synced sessions with a host, suggestions and reactions by @rawnaldclark in #498
- feat(listen): the Balanced look: session bar, Session sheet, named notices by @rawnaldclark in #500
- Stash Community: post playlists and songs, vote, opt-in Home section by @rawnaldclark in #503
- Pre-release fixes for v0.9.109 by @rawnaldclark in #504
Full Changelog: v0.9.108...v0.9.109