Serento: The audiophile UPnP controller app for iOS/macOS

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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.