✨ What's New

• Downloads in Library: Find your saved music and download count directly in Library.

⚡ Improved

• Queue & Navigation Motion: Smoother drag reordering and release, with swipe-to-remove and undo. Navigation and the mini player now collapse together while scrolling, with matching glass styling.
• Quality Switching & Wavy Seekbar: More reliable selected-quality startup, preloading and Bit-Perfect transitions. Restored the lighter wavy seekbar in player and lyrics views (Experimental; off by default).

🛠️ Fixed

• Downloads & 59-Second Stops: Restored YouTube downloads, improved interrupted-download recovery, and corrected stream selection behind premature playback stops.
• Addon Playback & Offline Audio: Prevented upgrades to a different recording or language. Corrected Atmos download labels and restored seeking/duration for newly downloaded FLAC tracks.
• Local Library: Folder scans now follow your selected locations, remove out-of-scope entries and filter recordings while retaining likes and playlists.
• Likes, Playlists & Mixes: Fixed guest/YouTube like sync, restored notification like/shuffle controls, corrected playlist sorting/counts, and made Start Mix update the queue correctly.
• Player, Lyrics & Appearance: Fixed black screens when reopening the player mid-close, cleaned malformed fallback lyrics, and corrected artwork colours, widget layouts and header seams.
• Audio & Playback Crashes: Fixed Parametric EQ and BotGuard crashes, and restored external Dolby/EQ session support.
• Listen Together: Updated Jam server and invitation links. Also refreshed Italian translations.

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✨ What's New

• Signature Liquid Glass Navigation Bar: A new refractive glass selector lets you tap or drag between Feed, Stats and Library, with fluid motion and support for both navigation layouts. Available on Android 13+ with Settings → Appearance & Visuals → Liquid Glass enabled.
• Local Music Hub & Library: The Playlists tab is now Library, with a dedicated Local Songs hub for browsing songs, albums, artists and folders. Create offline playlists, keep local likes, search your device music, and view embedded or .lrc lyrics. Local playback now also supports DSD (DSF / DFF) and AIFF files.
• Adaptive Streaming & Per-Network Quality: Keep listening on slower mobile connections with Auto streaming quality, which adjusts to your connection speed and buffer health to help reduce buffering. Choose separate quality settings for Wi-Fi and mobile data; mobile Auto stays within your Wi-Fi selection. The new Settings → Audio & Playback → Auto upgrade to Hi-Res toggle lets you control automatic lossless upgrades.
• Vietnamese Language Support: Added Vietnamese to the app's language options.

⚡ Improved

• Performance & Background Resource Usage: Reduced unnecessary redraws, CPU work and playback wakeups throughout the app. Hidden animations and background YouTube library polling now pause when they are not needed, while progress updates follow the visible player to keep playback responsive with less overhead.
• Smoother Scrolling & Player Opening: Optimized Home shelves, artwork backgrounds, loading shimmers, downloads lists and mini-player gestures. The full player is prepared before its opening animation, reducing the initial stutter when expanding Now Playing.
• Faster Startup & Smarter Cache Controls: Moved artwork cache scans and storage calculations off the main thread. Artwork and streamed audio now share one configurable cache budget, with limits up to 4 GB, while saved downloads remain separate.
• Faster, Cleaner Quality Switching: Improved stream alignment and sample-rate handling for mid-song quality changes, with faster repeat switches and a reliable "Upgrading to" / "Switching to" indicator. Refined handoffs also reduce jumps and crackling during lossless upgrades.
• Glass Headers, Artwork Themes & Synced Videos: Content now scrolls beneath glass headers across more screens, and artist/album pages use unified full-bleed artwork. Now Playing artwork blends into the wallpaper theme with better color selection for monochrome covers. Synced music videos have improved matching and correct fullscreen landscape proportions.

🛠️ Fixed

• YouTube Music Playback Stopping Around 59 Seconds: Fixed the stream and retry issues that could leave a song stuck around 59 seconds / one minute. Playback now uses bounded media requests and can refresh expired or rejected stream URLs mid-song. Failed YouTube downloads also retry with a freshly resolved stream.
• VPN & Age-Restricted Playback: Improved recovery through VPN/network drops, signed-in age-restricted stream resolution, and YouTube request retries so a failed request does not break later searches or playback.
• USB DAC, Loudness & Spatial Audio: Fixed delayed volume changes on exclusive USB output, corrected loudness normalization and Dolby gain, and improved Cayin RU3 clock/feedback handling and spatial-audio routing. Added ALAC DASH playback support and improved selection of full-volume YouTube audio streams.
• Shuffle, Likes & Playlist Sync: Shuffle now prioritizes unplayed songs. Fixed duplicate-song removal and saved playlist ordering, restored reliable connected YouTube playlist deletion, and combined local/YouTube likes into one heart button. Spotify playlist counts and live sync are more reliable.
• Search, Imports & Downloads: Fixed stale search results and playlist previews, incorrect recording selection from track menus, and imports using a different playlist from the reviewed preview. Custom download folders retain their access permissions.
• Account & UI Stability: Fixed false Last.fm logouts, older-Android notification and startup crashes, stale cover art, and several pagination and floating-control issues. Lyrics sharing keeps the selected song consistent, and player volume, lyric offsets and sleep-timer interactions now behave correctly.

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✨ What's New

• Haptic Feedback Toggle: New Settings → Appearance → Haptic Feedback switch (on by default) controls every touch vibration in the app from one place. Settings toggles now tick on every flip, the mini player responds to play/pause, skip, open and swipe gestures, and switching bottom tabs gives a light tick.

⚡ Improved

• Full-Bleed Artwork on Tablets: Tablets in portrait now get the same full-bleed cover and tall canvas as phones. The cover fits edge to edge without being cut off, and fades under the title just like on a phone. Tablet landscape keeps the side-by-side layout.

🛠️ Fixed

• Origin Island Cover Art (vivo / iQOO): Origin Island and the OriginOS music card now show the album cover along with the title, artist and controls.
• vivo Origin Island Build: The vivo APK now uses a package name that more OriginOS versions accept. If you installed the previous vivo build (shown as Spotify in Settings → Apps), uninstall it first, then install LastWave-v5.1.2-vivo-origin.apk. It now cannot be installed alongside the real QQ Music app.

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✨ What's New

• LastWave for vivo (Origin Island & Music Widget): A new separate vivo-origin APK lets vivo's Origin Island and the OriginOS music widget follow LastWave playback. OriginOS only shows apps from vivo's own allowlist, so this build ships under an allowlisted package name. It installs as a separate app and updates itself only from the vivo APK.

⚡ Improved

• Music Haptics Now Actually Fire: The Tactile Rhythm Engine now reads audio straight from the player's output path, so vibrations work on every playback route, including Hi-Res and lossless (previously the audio never reached the haptics engine).
• Beat-Locked Vibrations: Every pulse is timestamped against the audio clock and lands exactly when you hear the beat instead of a few hundred milliseconds early. Pending pulses are dropped on pause, seek and skip.
• Stronger, Clearer Pulses: Shaped 50–85 ms pulses scaled from each motor's minimum to full strength, longer pulses on budget motors, auto-gain so quiet and loudness-normalized tracks still drive the motor, and proper click effects on phones without amplitude control.

🛠️ Fixed

• Duplicate Launcher Icon: Changing the app icon or updating the app can no longer leave two LastWave icons. Exactly one launcher entry is kept enabled, and any leftover duplicate is cleaned up automatically the first time you open the app.
• Security Scanner Hardening: Removed an unused start-at-boot receiver pulled in by a support library and replaced reflection-based FFmpeg decoder loading with a direct call, reducing false-positive antivirus heuristics.

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✨ What's New

• Tactile Rhythm Engine (Apple Music-Style Music Haptics): Experience your music physically through a real-time rhythm and beat-synchronization engine. Powered by zero-allocation dual-biquad bandpass DSP filters and an energy envelope onset follower, it delivers responsive vibrations synchronized directly to your track's beat. Choose between Whole Song, Bass & Beats, and Vocals Only modes with Light, Medium, and Strong intensity profiles, accessible instantly right from the Now Playing speaker tray or Settings.
• Live Spotify Playlists & Liked Songs Sync: Seamlessly sync your personal Spotify playlists and Liked Songs directly into your Playlists library. Synced playlists appear natively within your standard playlist list with full cover art, track counts, and automatic track-matching for playback.
• Spotify Algorithm: Seed your homepage feed, daily mixes, and automated track queues directly using Spotify's recommendation algorithms.
• Refreshed Widgets: Restored the classic LastWave Player home widget alongside the 4 modern Wave widgets (Circular, Glass, Strip, and Library), complete with cover-art dynamic color harmony and instant responsive controls.

⚡ Improved

• Unified Playlists Library: Synced Spotify collections and local/cloud playlists now sit together in one continuous, seamless card stack with unified corner rounding and dynamic aggregate library counts.
• Liquid Glass Header & Home Bento Navigation: Enhanced the home header with hardware blur, added category/group speed-dial destinations, and introduced tinted mosaic mood tiles with deterministic bento layouts.
• Multi-Addon Streaming & Instant Lossless Transitions: Upgraded the lossless audio pipeline with first-hit-wins multi-addon resolution and hybrid-v1 CENC decryption. Track skips and next-song transitions now start directly in Hi-Res Lossless FLAC without intermediary Opus handshakes.
• Synced Lyrics Staging & Variable Typography: Overhauled synced lyrics rendering with heavy display typography (Google Sans Flex variable font) instead of synthetic bold, improving syllable timing, frame pacing, and contrast against live covers.
• Synced Music & Podcast Video Reliability: Lowered video load latency, added persistent playback offset memory, enabled adaptive quality on full-tunnel VPNs, and implemented automatic dead-stream recovery.
• Automix & Crossfade Hold State: Pausing playback during active deck blending now holds the mix blend seamlessly in place instead of resetting or stuttering.

🛠️ Fixed

• Audio Routing & Hardware DAC Stability: Eliminated the USB bit-perfect silence loop and resolved async feedback polling timeouts on Luxury & Precision and external USB DACs.
• Queue & Shuffle Glitches: Resolved duplicate track loops, queue truncation on large playlists, and mid-song stall anomalies during continuous playback.
• WebView Sign-In & Sheet Jitter: Fixed liquid glass mini-player stuttering and keyboard layout shifting on Spotify web login and authentication screens.
• Crash & ANR Mitigations: Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException crashes in HomeScreen shelf item keys, resolved regex ANRs on Realme/ColorOS devices, and addressed search 400 errors over VPN DNS routes.
• Duplicate Launcher Icon: Disabled redundant default launcher activity alias, preventing ghost duplicate app icons on clean installs and system updates.

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What's New in v5.0.0

LastWave Jam (Listen Together & Live Chat): Host or join real-time synchronized listening rooms with friends, featuring low-latency playback sync, shared queue control, and built-in live room chat.

Synced Music & Podcast Videos (With Lossless Audio): Watch full Official Music Videos and video podcasts directly inside the player via a native high-frame-rate video surface, seamlessly synchronized to your active Hi-Res Lossless FLAC or Opus audio stream without sacrificing audio fidelity.

Native Spotify Integration & Canvas: Connect your Spotify account for native one-tap playlist and liked-track transfers alongside looping high-resolution Spotify Canvas visuals inside Now Playing.

Full Podcast Support: Browse, stream, and follow podcast shows and episodes with dedicated episode queues, chapter navigation, and persistent playback progress.

Harmonic Automixing & Enhanced Crossfade: Added intelligent beat- and tempo-aware automixing with upgraded dual-deck crossfade transitions for seamless, gap-free track blending.

Overhauled Homepage & Discovery Algorithm: Redesigned the Home screen with a dynamic YouTube Music–style feed backed by an upgraded recommendation and taste-matching engine for smarter daily mixes, quick picks, and personalized shelves.

Bit-Perfect & Zero-Distortion Audio Fixes: Resolved USB DAC Exclusive Mode routing issues, hardware sample rate handshakes, and FLAC/PCM clipping or distortion artifacts across devices for a clean, untouched signal path.

Refined Lyrics UI & Sync Stability: Upgraded the real-time synchronized lyrics interface with smoother scroll physics, cleaner typography, improved word-by-word karaoke timing alignment, and higher overall rendering stability.

Performance, Stability & Bug Fixes: Eliminated idle recomposition overhead, scroll hitches, and UI glitches across the app alongside extensive under-the-hood stability and memory optimizations.

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What's New in v4.3.1

• Reworked Audio Output Screen: New signal path view with Fidelity & DSP scores, stream health, clock drift, and latency stats.
• Smoother Playback: Optimized buffering for faster, glitch-free track playback.
• Improved Algorithms: Upgraded audio processing and track-matching logic.
• DAC & Bit-Perfect Fixes: Fixed USB DAC routing, Exclusive Mode handshakes, and playback bugs.

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What's New in v4.3.0

• Share Lyrics Card: Select up to 5 lines from synced or plain lyrics to generate styled lyric cards. Choose between Song Mode (album art header + track metadata + lyrics) and Lyrics Mode (clean typography), customize with dynamic palette extraction (cover tones, dominant, muted, dark, accent, or LastWave Lime), and export via the system share sheet or save directly to Pictures/LastWave with full multilingual font rendering (Latin, Devanagari, Arabic, CJK).
• Lyrics Romanization & Translation: Added inline romanization and real-time translation support for non-Latin scripts directly within the lyrics view.
• Expanded Lyrics Providers: Integrated additional lyrics sources for broader catalog coverage, higher match rates, and more reliable synced timestamps.
• Faster Playback & Multi-Provider Addons: Optimized stream initialization for faster playback startup and introduced simultaneous multi-provider addon support for an expanded, unified library.
• Motion Lyrics Background: Added dynamic, fluid motion canvas backgrounds synchronized to the active album art inside the lyrics screen.
• UAC1 & USB DAC Bit-Perfect Fixes: Resolved UAC1 compatibility issues, improved hardware sample rate handshakes, and stabilized bit-perfect USB DAC audio routing.
• Local Device Library Support: Added full on-device audio scanning, metadata parsing, and seamless local song playback right alongside your streaming library.

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What's New in v4.2.4

• Bit-Perfect Audio: Resolved USB DAC bit-perfect audio issues, clock switching, and output routing stability.
• Lyrics Sync: Stabilized lyrics synchronization, eliminated drift, and improved word-by-word timing alignment.
• Resource Usage & Smoothness: Improved resource usage, optimized rendering loops, and smoothed transitions across the app.
• Stretchy Cover Art: Fixed stretchy full-bleed cover art rendering, canvas blur layers, and background layout artifacts.
• Dolby Atmos Downloads: Restored Dolby Atmos capability detection and download matching on Android 12L+ devices.
• Fast YouTube Search: Restored snappy 2-pass YouTube Music search response without fallback delays.

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What's New in v4.2.3

• Discord RPC: Added rich Discord Rich Presence integration with live track status.
• UI & Visual Improvements: Refined immersive cover art fading, smoother transitions, and overall UI polishing.
• Organized Settings & Search: Better organized settings with comprehensive search to find options quickly.
• Audio & Quality Fixes: Resolved bit depth and sample rate display from addon metadata directly.
• Download & Playback Fixes: Fixed track downloading issues, queue playback stalls, and stream resolution.
• Bug Fixes: Stability and performance improvements across the app.

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