Downloads are many times faster again, and Settings is much easier to find your way around.
🎯 What's new
- Downloads are much faster. YouTube recently blocked the way Stash fetched songs quickly, so every download was taking about a minute. Stash now uses a way that works, and downloads are many times faster again. Streaming songs from YouTube is quicker too.
- Opus downloads never get stuck. A song YouTube only has in AAC used to fail in Opus mode and get retried on every sync. It now downloads in AAC instead.
- Settings, redone. Every page is shorter, with one line of text per switch instead of paragraphs. Audio & Quality fits on two screens, and each choice opens a small sheet. Search now finds individual settings, like "equalizer", "dark mode" or "lastfm".
- Play your own copies first. If you keep lossless files in Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive, Stash can play those before asking Qobuz or Tidal, which saves your daily lossless allowance. Turn it on in Settings → Audio & Quality → Play my cloud copies first.
- YouTube Music Brand Accounts. If your music lives on a Brand Account, pick it in Settings → Accounts & Sync → YouTube Music → Profile, and Stash syncs that library. Stash asks right after you connect if your account has more than one.
- Fresh mixes on Home. Made for you and Mood & decades now reshuffle every day (or every 3 days, weekly, or never), and you can favorite a mix to keep it at the front. Long-press a mix to favorite it; the schedule is in Settings → Appearance → Home layout.
- A new artist page. The artist's photo now fills the top of the page, with play, radio and their links right on it.
- Community: Play all. Play or shuffle a whole Community playlist, a song (it keeps going as a radio), or a taste of the top 10 posts. Post pages have big artwork now.
- Shared links look the part. Opening a Stash song or playlist link shows its artwork instead of a blank page.
✨ UX polish
- A new donate sheet with everyone you can support, including UPI for supporters in India.
- The supporter ticker sits above the logo and moves a little faster.
- Long titles on Now Playing pause a little longer before scrolling.
- Home shows Top albums as a row of covers.
- Tapping a song in recent searches plays it right away.
- The Library filter chips are a bit bigger.
- The Qobuz playlists button now says Search.
- The Cast speaker list scrolls, so you can reach every speaker on a busy network. Thanks Evo for the report.
- Fetch lyrics in Settings → Library & Storage → Library Health now tries a couple more lyrics sources for songs that still have none, and word-synced lyrics explain more clearly when a lookup didn't work. Thanks Evo.
- Removed the "auto-like on Spotify after a few days" option. Liking a song plus the mirror switch does the same job.
🐛 Fixes
- Turning on Last.fm loves no longer shows a warning meant for YouTube Music.
- The Settings home screen counts your cloud storage, Discord and ListenBrainz accounts as connected.
Install
Download Stash.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
- site: privacy page covers saving downloads to Google Drive by @rawnaldclark in #651
- feat(site): UPI donate button for supporters in India by @rawnaldclark in #680
- feat(settings): donate sheet with avatars and UPI by @rawnaldclark in #682
- polish: quick fixes 10-22 + remove Spotify auto-like by @rawnaldclark in #683
- Artist page: full-width header photo with controls on it by @rawnaldclark in #685
- Community: Play all / Shuffle, Library-style post pages, fuller song page by @rawnaldclark in #687
- Shared song and playlist links open on a screen with their artwork by @rawnaldclark in #688
- Downloads ~10x faster (visionos), and Opus mode falls back to AAC by @rawnaldclark in #691
- Settings redesign: short pages, one-line copy, search that finds settings by @rawnaldclark in #684
- Home: reshuffle Made for you / Mood & decades on a schedule; favorite a mix by @rawnaldclark in #686
- Play your own cloud copy before asking Qobuz or Tidal (#679) by @rawnaldclark in #689
- YouTube Music: sync a Brand Account profile's library (#664) by @rawnaldclark in #690
- Cast: the speaker list scrolls (ParaliyzedEvo#367) by @rawnaldclark in #692
- Improve on-demand lyrics fetching and word-synced upgrade error handling by @ParaliyzedEvo in #681
Full Changelog: v0.9.118...v0.9.119