Pakua Plexamp 4.50.20

- Downloads no longer lose an artist’s songs, or show an album as empty, when several downloaded libraries refresh while your server is unreachable.
- On a computer or tablet, an album with its own background art shows it behind the album’s header again.
- Page titles on the Library, Downloads and Settings tabs go back to the left after the window narrows out of the wide layout.
- Plexamp goes back to full screen at launch even when another app is already full screen.
- After moving a window that has no title bar, the sidebar’s edge no longer starts resizing as the pointer passes over it.
- Sidebar icons stay readable in dark themes when the album’s colour is a dark blue.
- Drag the sidebar’s edge to make it wider or narrower; it keeps that width.
- On a computer or tablet, choose what an artist page’s header shows from its … menu: background art, the artist’s picture, or both. This replaces the Always Show Artist Picture setting.
- On a computer or tablet, artists without background art get a header that fits their picture, without a blurred copy of it behind.
- Similar artists, Sonic Recommendations and music service hubs on artist and album pages follow the page’s Grid, List or Carousel setting; grids show up to two rows.
- Similar artists in a carousel keep loading as you scroll, instead of stopping after a few.
- Sonic matches show their percentage and whose library they’re from in Grid and List layouts too.
- On a computer or tablet, artist pages start in Grid layout until you choose another, and fill wide windows with whole rows of albums.
- Albums on an artist page no longer draw twice as it opens.
- On a computer or tablet, an artist page’s header shrinks in a short window so the first row of albums stays in view.
- Album, artist and playlist titles in the desktop layout no longer have their descenders clipped on Windows and Linux.
- Playing to a Caldera player shows a light for how pure its signal path is, purple when bit-perfect; tap it to see every step from file to speaker.
- Artist collections follow the page’s Grid, List or Carousel setting like the albums do, instead of one row of five.
- Artist background art shows at its own shape, so less of it is cropped.
- New setting, Always Show Artist Picture, shows the artist’s round picture even over background art.
- Sidebar icons stay legible in light mode with pale album art.
- Background gradients no longer split into two halves with a hard diagonal edge on some albums.
- Long menus open scrolled to the option that’s selected, such as the current visualizer or sort.
- Rows in sorted library lists are evenly spaced, instead of the title crowding the line above.
- Fixed a crash that could happen while another device was fetching a file from Plexamp.
- The cursor no longer gets stuck as a resize arrow after resizing the window into the desktop layout.
- A section’s › sits right beside its title instead of at the far edge, so it stays with it on wide windows.
- The sidebar’s colours carry on from the player bar’s, so the two meet without a seam.
- Visualizers should line up better with what you hear, including over Bluetooth and AirPlay.
- Switching libraries from CarPlay or Android Auto works again.
- Fixed a crash at launch for some people.
- Arrowing left from a page lands on its row in the sidebar, not whichever row is level with you.
- Compilations are listed by title, with the full A-Z bar, instead of following the Albums sort.
- An artist’s Similar Artists rows follow the page’s Grid or List setting.
- An artist’s background art spans the top of the page, with the artist’s picture shown only when there’s no art, and no longer flickers as the page opens.
- Album pages sit on the cover’s own colors instead of the artist’s art.
- Caldera players’ settings can take a file: import an AutoEQ profile as an EQ preset, or upload a room-correction filter. Needs a Caldera beta that isn’t out yet.
- The window comes back at the size you left it, instead of growing a little each time or reopening at an old size in the wrong layout.
- The now-playing artwork appears once the app reconnects after a move from Wi-Fi to cellular, instead of staying blank until the next track.
- Settings › Debugging has Show Logs, which opens the log folder ready to attach to a report.
- The bottom bar in a small window is no longer see-through when the system can’t blur what’s behind it.
- An artist’s Recently Played tracks show their ratings.
- Aural Fixations shows top albums and artists as a grid of ranked covers in desktop mode.
- Page titles in desktop mode are centred on the page, so headings beneath them line up.
- An artist’s background art sits in the banner’s top right in desktop mode, so it isn’t cropped to a forehead or hidden behind the picture.
- Use System Window Controls can be Never, In Desktop Mode or Always, so desktop mode can be frameless too.
- Keys work as soon as the window opens, without a click first, and Backspace closes an open menu rather than going back behind it.
- Grids in desktop mode show the A-Z bar whenever they scroll, so shorter lists like Compilations and Soundtracks get one too.
- Top Albums from a period puts your most-played albums first, instead of listing them alphabetically by artist.
- Charts and the mix builder’s popular picks show your own plays on a server shared with you, instead of coming up blank.
- Newly added albums no longer stay without downloaded artwork for a month when the server hadn’t fetched it yet.
- The player bar slides in when playback starts and out when the queue is cleared, instead of leaving an empty strip.
- Sidebar polish: tighter type, a bold selected row with a highlight that shows on any background, and icons tinted with the playing album’s color.
- Aural Fixations has its own section in the sidebar.
- Going back to a library grid from the sidebar returns to where you’d scrolled.
- The sidebar’s sections crossfade, and opening a library section from elsewhere no longer flashes the one shown before.
- Shift and a letter jumps to that letter in a library grid and focuses its first item, and the letters on the right can be reached with the arrow keys.
- Visualizers keep their shape in tall or narrow windows instead of stretching across them.
- Track rows light up under the pointer, and stay lit while their menu is open.
- Seeking in a transcoded stream no longer leaves its cached copy recording the wrong length.
- A track can be removed from the downloaded Played list on its own, and its counts stay current.
- Downloads cut short by the server are fetched again whole instead of stopping partway through.
- Desktop artist pages show the artist’s picture beside their name, and artist, album and playlist pages tint the play button to match the page.
- Arrow keys move around the desktop layout: down from search into results, along carousels and grids, Enter to open, P to play, M for the context menu, Esc back to where you were.
- Space always plays and pauses, rather than reopening the item you last clicked.
- Home carousels scroll and tilt more smoothly in the desktop layout.
- Visualizers are smooth again, instead of jumpy and oversensitive.
- Fixed the full-screen player scrolling away into empty space with Up Next hidden.
- Artist, album and playlist pages in the desktop layout open on a big banner of the artist’s art (a playlist’s crossfades between its artists), with an artist’s albums in rows.
- Fixed some Caldera speakers showing their hostname in the player list and missing their settings gear in Multiroom settings.
- The pointer stays an arrow over buttons and the sidebar, as in other desktop apps.
- Switch between a Desktop and a Compact window from the Window menu (⌥⌘1, ⌥⌘2; Ctrl+Alt+1, 2 elsewhere), each remembering its size, place and whether the player was open.
- The compact window drags from anywhere along its header, the library picker included.
- Hovering over the star rating previews the rating a click would give.
- The mouse’s back and forward buttons move between pages, as do ⌘ on the Mac and Alt+← and Alt+→ elsewhere.
- The player’s Back To, Up Next and Related tabs respond to clicks across their full height again.
- Widen the window and Plexamp switches to a desktop layout: your library in a sidebar and a full-width player bar along the bottom.
- In the desktop layout, menus open beside the pointer as compact, translucent menus instead of sheets sliding up the window.
- Linux: the Flatpak no longer opens a nearly invisible window, a blank one on NVIDIA, or hangs at launch with some fonts installed.
- macOS 12: Plexamp opens again instead of showing a blank window, and its colors follow the album art.
- Playing to a Chromecast right after returning to the app no longer spins for minutes before starting.
- Moving playback to a paused player no longer fails with “Could not switch to player”.
- Pulling down at the top of a screen no longer shows a grey strip above the app.
- Switching users no longer signs you out when you tap more than once, and shows a spinner while it works.
- Other devices on your network can no longer obtain your Plex account sign-in from Plexamp.
- Plexamp no longer sends your sign-in unencrypted to a local server or Chromecast.
- Waveforms and covers the server briefly couldn’t find are asked for again instead of staying missing.
- Covers and waveforms that failed while the server was down are fetched again once it’s back.
- Downloads stop retrying a server that is down, and pick up again when it’s back.
- Opening the app no longer re-checks downloads the server was asked about in the last few hours. Refresh from the Downloads menu to check now.
- Waveforms for downloaded tracks are kept, including ones worked out on the device when the server has none.
- Downloaded albums get their colours as soon as their artwork arrives, and keep them offline.
- Album and artist art for downloads now arrives as each item finishes, not after the whole library.