v2.5.0

What's New

• Massively overhauled how music is loaded [#72]:
  • Auxio can now reload music without requiring a restart
  • Added a new option to reload music when device files change
• Added a shuffle shortcut
• Widgets now have a more sleek and consistent button layout
• "Rounded album covers" is now "Round mode"
• Added option to customize what occurs when a song is played from an album/artist/genre [#164]

What's Improved

• Made "timeline" elements (like playback controls) always left-to-right
• Improved performance when ReplayGain is not enabled

What's Fixed

• Fixed broken tablet layouts
• Fixed seam that would appear on some album covers
• Fixed visual issue with the queue opening animation
• Fixed miscellaneous startup issues
• Fixed crash if settings was navigated away before playback state
  finished saving
• Fixed broken album menu
• Fixed crash that would occur when opening a file on some devices [#176]
• Fixed issue where the search filter menu would not display the correct mode
• Fixed crash when search filter mode was changed
• Fixed shuffle button appearing below playback bar on Android 10 and lower
• Fixed incorrect song being shown in the notification in some cases [#179]
• Fixed issue where toolbar will be clipped on Lollipop devices
• Fixed infinite loading if one had no music folders set [#182]

What's Changed

• Reworked typography and iconography to be more aligned with material design guidelines
• Old excluded directories from 2.3.1 will no longer be migrated

Dev/Meta

• Migrated preferences from shared object to utility
• Removed 2.0.0 compat code
• Updated ExoPlayer to 2.18.0
• Reworked sorting to be even more efficient

v2.4.0

What's New

• Excluded directories has been revamped into "Music folders"
  • Folders on external drives can now be excluded [#134]
  • Added new "Include" option to restrict indexing to a particular folder [#154]
• Added a new view for song properties (Such as Bitrate) [#144]
• The playback bar now has a new design, with an improved progress indicator and a skip action

What's Improved

• The toolbar in the home UI now collapses when scrolling
• The toolbar layout is now consistent with Material Design 3
• Genre parsing now handles multiple integer values and cover/remix indicators (May wipe playback state)
• "Rounded album covers" option is no longer dependent on "Show album covers" option [#152]
• Added song actions to the playback panel
• Playback controls are now easier to reach when gesture navigation is enabled
• Added Play Next/Add to Queue options to artists and genres
• Covers in the detail views now show an indicator when playing
• Made dynamic colors the default color scheme on Android 12

What's Fixed

• Playback bar now picks the larger inset in case that gesture inset is missing [#149]
• Fixed unusable excluded directory UI
• Songs with no data (i.e size of 0) are now filtered out
• Fixed nonsensical menu items from appearing on songs
• Fixed issue where multiple menus would open if long-clicks occured simultaneously

Dev/Meta

• New translations [Fjuro -> Czech, Konstantin Tutsch -> German]
• Moved music loading to a foreground service [#72]
• Phased out ImageButton for MaterialButton
• Unified icon sizing
• Properly handle volumes throughout the entire music loading process
• Added original date support to ExoPlayer parser (Not exposed in app)

v2.3.1

What's Improved

• Loading UI is now more clear and easy-to-use
• Made album/artist/genre grouping order consistent (May change genre images)

What's Fixed

• Fixed crash when seeking to the end of a track as the track changed to a track with a lower duration
• Fixed regression where GadgetBridge media controls would no longer work
• Fixed bug where music would be incorrectly reloaded on a hot restart
• Fixed issue where the album/artist/genre would not be correctly restored
• Fixed issue where items would not highlight properly in the detail UI
• Fixed hypothetical issue where widget would cause an OOM on large devices

Dev/Meta

• New translations [yurical -> Korean, qwerty287 -> German]
• Switched from LiveData to StateFlow
• Use notifyItemChanged instead of directly mutating ViewHolder instances.
• Added highly experimental ExoPlayer metadata backend (not enabled in-app)

v2.3.0

What's New

• Added disc number support
• Added ReplayGain support for below-reference volume tracks [i.e positive ReplayGain values]
• Added ReplayGain pre-amp customization
• About screen now shows counts for multiple types of library items, alongside a total duration
• New disc, track, song count, and duration sorting modes

What's Improved

• Re-enabled theme customization on Android 12
• The tab selector now hides itself when there is only one tab
• Made the cover on the thin widget larger

What's Fixed

• Fixed incorrect ellipsizing on song items
• Fixed a variety of esoteric crashes with queue state
• Fixed music indexing error when the OS would not provide a file name
• Fixed icon corruptions on lollipop devices

What's Changed

• Audio focus is no longer configurable
• Made the layout of album songs more similar to other songs

Dev/Meta

• Updated translations [Konstantin Tutsch -> German, cccClyde -> Chinese, Gsset -> Russian, enricocid -> Italian]
• Switched to spotless and ktfmt instead of ktlint
• Migrated constants to centralized table
• Introduced new RecyclerView framework
• Use native ExoPlayer AudioFocus implementation
• Make ReplayGain functionality use AudioProcessor instead of volume
• Removed databinding [Greatly reduces compile times]
• Start using Material You dialogs
• An uncountable amount of internal codebase improvements

v2.2.2

What's New

• New spanish translations and metadata [courtesy of n-berenice]

What's Improved

• Rounded images are more nuanced
• Shuffle and Repeat mode buttons now have more contrast when they are turned on

What's Fixed

• Fixed crash on certain devices running Android 10 and lower when a differing theme
  from the system theme was used [#80]
• Fixed music loading failure that would occur when certain paths were parsed [#84]
• Fixed incorrect track numbers when the tag was formatted as NN/TT [#88]
• Fixed years deliberately set as "0" showing up as "No Date"
• Fixed headset management unexpectedly starting audio when the app initially opens
• Fixed crash that would occur during a playback restore with specific queue states [#89]
• Partially fixed buggy behavior when multiple queue items were dragged in quick
  succession

What's Changed

• All cover art is now cropped to a 1:1 aspect ratio
• Headset focus has been replaced with headset autoplay. It can no longer be disabled.

Dev/Meta

• Enabled elevation drop shadows below Android P for consistency
• Switches now have a disabled state
• Reworked dynamic color usage
• Reworked logging
• Upgrade ExoPlayer to v2.17.0 [Eliminates custom fork]

v2.2.1

What's Improved

• Updated chinese translations [courtesy of cccClyde]
• Use proper material you top app bars
• Use body typography in correct places
• Expose file opening functionality better [#78]

What's Fixed

• Fixed issue where playback would start unexpectedly when opening the app

What's Changed

• Disabled audio focus customization on Android 12 [#75]

v2.2.0

What's New:

• Added Arabic translations [Courtesy of hasanpasha]
• Improved Russian translations [Courtesy of lisiczka43]
• Added option to reload the music library

What's Improved:

• Songs now show their specific artist name instead of the name of the
  artist they are grouped up in
• Artists are now grouped up case-insensitively
• Songs of different file formats are now grouped up into a single album
• Reworked typography slightly
• Invalid track numbers [i.e 0] will now be shown as a generic song icon

What's Fixed:

• Fixed crash on some devices configured to use French or Czech translations
• Malformed indices should now be corrected when the playback state is restored
• Fixed issue where track numbers would not be shown in the native language's numeric format
• Fixed issue where the preference view would apply the M3 switches inconsistently
• Fixed issue where the now playing indicator on the playback screen would use an internal name

Dev/Meta:

• Removed 1.4.X compat
• Added new changelog document
• Reworked contribution info and templates

v2.1.0

What's New:

• Switched to a single queue system [i.e Play Next/Add to queue]
• Added ReplayGain support [Experimental]
• New russian translations [Courtesy of Vladimir Kosolapov]
• New chinese translations [Courtesy of cccClyde]
• Android 12L support
• Added option to round album covers for visual cohesion
• Added FLAC support for devices on Android Oreo and lower
• Added edge-to-edge support on devices on Android Oreo and lower

What's Improved:

• Increased mosaic quality
• Enabled black theme on Android 12+
• Content now fades when the playback view is expanding
• Improved layouts on small and large screens
• Improved how the app handles audio focus
• Improved how invalid years and durations are handled
• Use Material 3 switches in the settings menu

What's Fixed:

• Fixed issue where the playback view would be hard to swipe up
  to when using gesture navigation
• Band-aided completely broken layouts in split screen mode
• Fixed crash in the playback view when a song's duration was 0
• Fixed issue where apps like GadgetBridge would not detect Auxio

Dev/Meta:

• ExoPlayer is now a local dependency
• Added ExoPlayer metadata support for Ogg Vorbis and Opus

v2.0.1

This is a hotfix. Please see the 2.0.0 changelog for the full list of changes.

What's Fixed:

• Fixed problem where the compact playback controls would not work
• Fixed unusable playback layout on small screens

v2.0.0

What's New:

• Auxio has a new look derived from Material 3
• Material You support on Android 12
• Library and song view have been merged into a unified view
• Shuffle can now be accessed everywhere
• Media indexer now supports album artists
• Accents are now more vibrant and varied
• One can now slide up the compact playback view to reveal the full playback view
• Redesigned widgets to respect album art and increase visual cohesion
• Added song sorting [#16]
• Added default tab customization [#12]
• Added album, artist, and year sorting options
• Added descending order to all sorting options
• Added czech translations [Courtesy of Fjuro]
• Fast scroller has been replaced with a scrollbar with fast scroll capabilities

What's Improved:

• Improved playback persistence [State will be wiped]
• Improved accessibility everywhere
• Streamlined the search UI
• Improved queue UI
• Improved detail UI
• Unified appbar behavior
• Songs with accented characters will now show up in search when using their non-accented counterparts
• Removed loading screen
• Artist/Genre images now respect the "Ignore MediaStore Covers" setting
• Ascending order now works properly with years
• Fixed poor UI on Lollipop devices

What's Fixed:

• Switched to a new play icon [Fixes seam/alignment issues]
• Fixed issue where notifications would not be colored on samsung phones
• Re-added the german translations that were accidentally removed in 1.4.2
• Fixed issue where links could not be opened on Android 11+
• Fix crash that would occur when rotating the dialog
• Fixed issue where cover art could not be loaded at all on some devices [#51]
• Fixed issue where widgets would have unusable UIs on certain device configurations
• Fixed issue where older launchers will not show a widget preview on android 12
• Fixed duplicate songs appearing on some devices

What's Changed:

• Removed colorize notification option
• Removed deep orange and blue grey accents

Dev/Meta:

• Migrated to material entirely
• Reworked UI dimensions to line up with material design
• Use color selectors in more places
• Eliminated legacy size classifiers
• Created new architecture document