Serento: The audiophile UPnP controller app for iOS/macOS

[serento]

Hello everyone,

Version 1.1.6 brings Serento to CarPlay, shows your server's own genre images, and lists every track of an artist.

BEFORE YOU DRIVE: CARPLAY

In the car, Serento shows the music you have downloaded to your iPhone, plus the whole radio catalog. Download what you want to hear before you leave: Settings › Manage › Downloads shows what is on your iPhone.

NEW

CarPlay, on iPhone. Serento appears on your car's screen with the tabs of the app:

Home: Recently Added, Favorite Albums, Favorite Radio Stations, Favorite Playlists, My Mixes and Recently Played, as shelves of covers.

Browse: Albums, Artists, Tracks, Playlists and Genres, with the same artists and the same genre pictures as on your iPhone.

Radio: every station, with the genre filter of the Radio tab.

Search: albums, artists, tracks and stations as you type, with your recent searches. Apple opens search to audio apps from iOS 27, so with iOS 26 the car shows the first three tabs.

Lists of albums, artists, tracks and playlists start with Play and Shuffle. Everything plays on your iPhone, through the car: if your iPhone was playing on a streamer at home, Play in the car moves the music to the iPhone. A change on the iPhone (genres, favorites, downloads, stations) shows in the car within seconds.

Your server's genre images. Settings › Display › Genre Settings › Use Own Images shows the genre images from your server on Serento's genre list, in color, each cropped around the genre name written on the image. A genre that is not a tag on your server gets the image named after it. A genre without an image shows a tile in its own color, and Show genre names over images writes the names.

Custom Genres on the mosaic. With Custom Genres on, the Genres tab uses the same mosaic, with your server's images cropped the same way. Turning either option on reads your server's genre images right away, without waiting for the next sync.

Every track of an artist. View All under an artist's Popular Tracks now lists every track of the artist in your library, including the ones they are credited on in other people's albums, with no limit. It scrolls like a playlist and has Favorites, Downloaded, Filters, search, sorting, Pick for Me and Play, like the tracks of a genre.

IMPROVED

A genre image replaced on your server under the same file name now shows after the next sync or Enrich Data. Images that did not change are not downloaded again.

A folder chosen in Folder for Genres (Settings › Libraries › your server › Metadata and Sync Options) is now the genre list of every sync, whichever way Serento reads your server.

Scheduled sync. On iPhone and iPad it now starts between the time you chose and 7:00, only while Serento is not in use and no car is connected, and only when your server answers. Opening Serento or connecting CarPlay stops it, and it carries on where it stopped the next time it may run. On a Mac it starts at its time as before, once your server answers.

A work with other people's tracks between its movements, as on a film soundtrack, now stays one work, with all its tracks in album order, under the composer of most of them.

On iPhone Duo folded, Now Playing fills the whole screen.

Messages that point you to a setting now give its full path, whether the setting is in Serento or in the system Settings.

FIXED

On an OpenHome streamer that is playing, Play Next, Add to Queue and other changes to the queue no longer close Serento. The new tracks go after the one that is playing, as in 1.1.4.

A sync no longer takes away a genre's image when it finds no artist for that genre, and artists who appear only on other people's tracks stay visible, with their photos and bios, when a sync is cut short.

Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

[serento]

Hello everyone,

Version 1.1.7 shows the channel layout of your multichannel music, adds works and playlists to Listen Later, and gives your genres square images.

AFTER YOU UPDATE: SYNC ONCE

Channel layouts are read during a sync, so run one on each device: Settings › Libraries › your server › Sync Data › Sync now. Until then there is nothing for the new badges to show.

NEW

Multichannel. A track with more than two channels now shows its layout in a badge beside its format, such as CH | 5.1. A track whose server does not report its channels shows no badge: nothing is guessed.

Track rows: wherever the format badge is. On the iPhone album page, where rows have no format badge, it sits before the duration. A list keeps room for the badge only when one of its tracks shows it.
Album page and Pick for Me: one badge for each layout the album holds, so an album with a 5.1 and a 7.1 mix shows both.
Classical works: beside the format badge under On these albums.
Album tiles and compact rows: turn on Channels in Settings › Display › Album Settings › Metadata. At most two of Channels, Year and Rating can be on, and the other item shows beside the badge where it fits at its normal size.
Settings › Display › Track Settings has the two switches. Show Multichannel Information is on by default and controls the badge. Show 2-Channel Information is off by default and adds 2.0 on stereo and 1.0 on mono.

Multichannel WAV, AIFF and DSF files now also tell your streamer their real channel count. FLAC and the other formats are sent as before.

Works and playlists in Listen Later. Listen Later and, once it is there, Mark as Listened are now in the ⋯ of a classical work, in any list of works and on its page, and in the ⋯ of a playlist’s own page. Works have a section of their own, and a saved playlist shows the mosaic of its covers, as in Browse › Playlists.

Square Images. With Enable Custom Genres or Use Own Images on, Settings › Display › Genre Settings now offers Square Images: your genres as a grid of equal squares instead of tiles of different sizes. Square images appear whole. It is off by default, so the mosaic stays until you choose otherwise.

IMPROVED

Search in Browse › Genres now finds every genre with albums in your library, at any level of the hierarchy, in one flat list. Clear the text and the top-level genres come back.

One album tile everywhere. On iPhone and iPad, Home, the rows on album and artist pages and Listen Later now use the tile of Browse › Albums, with the year, rating and channels you chose. On a Mac, albums in Listen Later use it too.

Track lists now keep room for the download indicator only when one of their tracks has a download, whether queued, paused, downloading, failed or finished.

Favorites, Downloaded, filters, search and sorting now work in the background on long lists, so the screen stays responsive, and with Downloaded on, a list follows your downloads as they finish or are deleted.

On iPhone and iPad, the arrow of the sort panel now points at the sort button, even when the button sits at the edge of the screen.

On iPad and on an opened iPhone Duo, the tab bar at the top no longer appears for a moment at launch or when you go back.

FIXED

With Hide track artists on, a sync that is cut short no longer brings the artists who appear only on other people’s tracks back into Browse › Artists, and their pages keep their albums and tracks.

A track you remove from a tag no longer comes back after an iCloud sync.

Many bug fixes and other small improvements.