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Version 1.1.9 brings record labels to Browse, makes the composers of your tracks artists of your library, and gives downloaded albums and playlists screens of their own.

AFTER YOU UPDATE: SYNC EVERY DEVICE ONCE

This version changes how Serento reads your library, so run a sync once on each of your devices: Settings › Libraries › your server › Sync Data › Sync now. The composers and the Asset UPnP and MinimServer fixes below come with that sync. Every device keeps its own copy of the library, so a sync on one of them does not do it for the others.

NEW

Labels. Browse has a new Labels tab, after Genres. It shows every record label of your albums, taken from their tags and, once your library is identified, from MusicBrainz. Each label is a card with what is known about it, such as its founding year and its label code. When nothing is known, the card shows what your library knows: the years of the label’s albums and how many tracks it has. Favorite labels wear a heart, and Pick for Me can pick a label too.

A label’s page has Play, Shuffle, Add and a heart, the label’s description when one is known, then its artists, studio albums, live albums, EPs and singles, and tracks, with View All where there are more.

When a label’s history is known, a button on its page opens it as a timeline: its founding, its owners over the years, its sub-labels and its imprints.

On an album’s page, the label and the genre are links to their own pages.

Composers. Every sync now makes the composers credited on your tracks artists of your library, each with a page of their own. On an artist’s page, a new Composed section shows the albums they composed on. On an album that lists its composers, every name opens its page, and +N opens a sheet with every composer’s portrait and the tracks they wrote. Composers who are nothing else in your library stay out of Browse › Artists unless you turn on Show composers in Artists in Settings › Display › Artist Settings › Composer Options. They are always in Search.

Downloads. In Settings › Downloads, an album, a playlist or a mix now opens a screen made for managing downloads: its details and its tracks, each with its download state, and nothing else.

Standby when switching away. In the Output Settings of an OpenHome streamer, a new switch puts the streamer in standby when you choose another output. It stays off until you turn it on, and it acts only when you switch outputs yourself.

Credits. In a track’s Credits, every name that is in your library opens its page: an artist, a composer, a conductor or an orchestra.

IMPROVED

On iPad and Mac, the track lists of artists, genres, Search, Listen Later, tags and Statistics now have the columns of Browse › Tracks, and History gets the same table, with the play count and Last Played.

Statistics: Top Artists and Top Tracks get filters, every top gets sorting, and the tops and the Home banner count only plays from the servers you have on.

Radio starts faster. On iPhone and iPad every station now plays through Serento’s own connection, so stations that would not open before, such as Radio Paradise, now play, with their song titles. On the Mac, a station that will not open moves to that connection by itself.

A streamer that moved to another network address is now found right after a Play that gets no answer. Its new address reaches your other devices and is kept for the next launch.

Browse › Artists keeps your place when a setting changes who is in the list, and Hide track artists applies from the first moment after launch.

Playlists show their full number of tracks everywhere, including the tracks on servers you have off.

An album’s genres have a row of their own, and Similar Albums puts the other volumes of a compilation series first.

The track filter gets a Release Type section, like the album filter.

iPhone Duo: a genre’s picture is centred on the artist’s face, and genre pictures and label backgrounds reach the edges of the display, under the vertical bar.

On iPad, the keyboard now covers the mini player instead of pushing it up. On iPhone, the artist’s name in the mini player stays readable over light covers. On the Mac, recent searches light up under the pointer, like every other row.

Send Logs now sends up to 10 MB of history, and with Collect logs on, every sync ends with a short report that helps me find what went wrong.

FIXED

Asset UPnP: albums are no longer split by bit rate when the server’s browse tree shows no folders.

MiniDLNA: a server whose database has damaged entries no longer stops over and over during a sync, so the sync finishes.

OpenHome: when a track ends, the next track of your queue plays, not an album or a station from before, and the screen shows what is really playing.

MinimServer: the release type that MusicBrainz Picard writes is now read, and an album with no release type counts as an album in the filters.

On the Mac, the last track of a list no longer hides under the mini player, and the scroll bar can be reached again.

A paid membership no longer shows as ended when the App Store answers without it.

A sync that resumes shows the steps it had already finished as done.

Many bug fixes and other small improvements.