0.51.0-beta.1 (2026-10-10)
Features
- the Visualizer, a background for the redesigned player that moves with the music, from built-in shaders or ones shared on chroma.pw, with Plus
- the Workshop in Mod Settings, with shaders, audio presets, headphone corrections and fonts to download, with Plus
- AutoMix blends each song into the next on playlists, albums and radio, beat-matched or as a crossfade, with Plus
- Spotify 9.1.90 is supported beside 9.1.78, and the player opens with the Apple Music style morph there too
- Apple Music's animated artwork in the player and on the lock screen, animated album covers, artist logos and line meanings no longer need Plus
- Vibrations no longer need Plus, Controls and Music Haptics included
- Top picks on the redesigned Home, one of Home's shelves drawn large the way the Music app does
- Home's shortcuts sit on glass tinted by their covers
- a volume slider under the redesigned player's controls, for this iPhone or the Connect device playing
- the player's accent colour can follow the cover of the song playing
- audio presets get a Library in the Workshop, and the current effects save as a new preset, with Plus
- 31 fonts to download from the Workshop for the whole app, with Plus
- the DJ's player takes the redesign's look and the player's ⋯ menu
- a Plain checkmark option on the Appearance page swaps Spotify's circled tick for a plain one in the accent colour
- a lighter voice model for Sing on older iPhones, picked beside the full one, with Plus
- Sing can ignore memory warnings, with Plus
Fixes
- Sing keeps going through rewinds, relative seeks and Previous
- a raised playback speed no longer pauses for a rebuffer
- Translate is hidden for a song already in the target language
- landscape lyrics centre a bigger cover when the song has no lines
- the player's footer row is placed again once the player settles
- Always animated covers wait for their render budget instead of staying still
- a lighter black fade under the tab bar
Performance
- lyrics sources are asked with a head start, and the next song's lyrics and animated artwork are fetched ahead
- Home scrolls more smoothly
- less work in the background and on the lock screen