Cider v2.3.0!

What’s New

General

• Added light mode.

  • Can be set in Visual -> General -> Color Scheme

• New layouts available

  • Calico - Based on Mojave, features a split view styled layout. (Featured in screenshot)

  • Montara - Based on Mavericks, features a split view styled layout.

• New Player Types

  • Comfy – What’s typically default in Cider, commonly recognizable.

  • Compact – a new slim experience for folks in need of extra vertical space or have portrait monitors.

  • Compact Inline – an alternate version of Compact that allows for even more compactness, and inline icons.

• Improvements to Mavericks

  • Navigation is now inlined with content.

  • Fixes to badges in Now Playing LCD.

  • Moved some controls into the player.

  • Various fixes to visual inconsistencies.

• Deprecated ClientDB in favor of new caching system

• New content caching solution

  • Speed increase to library sections of the app after they’ve been loaded for the first time.

  • Significantly less network + disk activity on startup.

• Implemented background refreshes for content

  • Refreshes only occur when the app is focused, they are paused when the app is in a background state.

• New custom overlay scrollbars for various components (Can be disabled in Settings.)

• Fixed WinUI style title bar always being centered.

• Fixes scrollbars on v103 of WebView2

• Reduced non-playback background activity when not in focus for less resource usage.

• Fixes to storefront content

• OOBE now has a section for choosing a layout.

• Various Last.FM fixes.

• Ultrawide setting in Advanced now fully uncaps the width (Bugs encountered in this mode will not be fixed.)

Audio

• Audio Quality can now be forced and set in the “Audio” category, available types: 64kbps (Low), 256kbps (High)

• Flavor Hack has been removed in exchange for the new bitrate handler.

• Equalizer added to Audio Lab settings. (Experimental feature, needs to be enabled in Settings > Experimental)

Podcasts

• Experimental Podcast Support (Settings > Experimental)

Playlists / Albums

• Added Playlist Suggestions (iOS 17.1)

  • Suggested tracks can be added and previewed from this panel.

• Better caching for faster loading.

• ‘Love’ has been changed to ‘Favorite’ for iOS 17.1 consistency.

• Added favorites indicator to tracks.

• Fixed an issue where some Media Items would load their tracks for an artwork collection they are not using.

• Unplayable items will now explain why they are unplayable.

• Various performance and loading speed adjustments.

• Optimized number of API calls when navigating to playlist / album pages.

• Fixed Playlist Refresh notification

• Fixes playlist list in context menu randomly opening.

• Core support for Collaborative playlists.

  • Collaborators are now displayed on playlists and individual tracks.

• Added setting: Visual -> Content Preferences -> Popularity Threshold

  • Allows you to adjust the minimum popularity required for indicators to be displayed next to a track.

• Tracks can now be previewed in the playlist editor.

Immersive

• Added Immersive catalog browser

  • Browse your library or the Apple Music catalog from inside of Immersive.

• New layout: One Classic

  • Modeled after the original Immersive layout from the Cider 2.0 Alpha.

  • Has the full Mojave playback bar.

  • Static Artwork Position

  • Has a shortcut to the catalog on the player.

• New Background Types

  • Simple Artwork

    • The current tracks artwork but blurred and filtered

  • Simple Color

    • The current tracks color scheme as the background supplied by the Apple Music API.

• Fixed default background not working for iCloud uploaded tracks.

• Player controls now timeout with inactivity, hiding the cursor.

• One Layout

  • Changed the size of artwork.

  • Simplified metadata display when controls have timed out.

• Artwork now shows fallback color until the image has loaded.

Lyrics

Huge Improvement to lyrics rendering.

• New optimized scrolling code.

• Scrolling curve and duration can be modified from Visual -> Lyrics

• Scrolling performance improvements.

• Fixes issue where speed of scrolling is inconsistent between different monitor refresh rates. (Assists macOS clients.)

• Sing style lyrics should now flicker less.

• Lyrics Romaji Support

  • Can be enabled via the “Translations” feature in the Lyrics settings, find translation styles with “-romaji”

• Added Tweaks -> Lyrics -> Sing Lyrics Everywhere

  • Sing Lyrics are now going to be disabled outside of Immersive by default for better initial performance profile.

Miniplayer

Overhauled current miniplayer to match Apple Music Preview & Apple Music (macOS)

• Miniplayer now matches AMP & AMM counterparts.

• Lyrics can now be viewed from miniplayer

• Microplayer available to shrink it down even more

• New Mini-Context menu.

Library Songs

• Added favorites badges.

• Added “Favorites Only” toggle.

• Improved Appearance

• Column View similar to iTunes/AM official clients.

• Date release is now displayed.

• Genre is also now displayed.

Artist Page

• Items now show their release date

• Styling changes

Sidebar

• Songs can be right clicked to quickly shuffle all library songs.

• Adjusted font spacing to better fit custom fonts.

• Sidebar can now be shrunken into a “Compact” form, similar to AM Preview.

• Sidebar is now space aware and will enter a popout mode if Window is too small.

Settings

• Revamped Settings Panel

• Added Advanced -> Tweaks, allows for more diverse control over specific app functions/appearances.

• Added several Appearance related settings under Visual.

• Rearranged several settings to more obvious locations.

• Added Audio -> Show Badges in Now Playing

• Added Audio -> Show Bitrate in Now Playing

• Added Audio -> Exponential Volume

  • Uses a more traditional volume curve instead of precise percentage values, like Spotify and other clients.

Keybinds

• Various Keybinds added around the app, can be adjusted in General -> Keybinds.

• Alt + Enter will now enter Fullscreen for Windows & Linux

• Built-in Keybinds now use Meta (Apple) key when on macOS.

• Spacebar will now toggle music playback.

Queue

• Added “Play” button to items in the queue.

• Added “Remove” button to items in the queue.

Languages & Region

• Changing language will also change your Browse, Listen Now, etc. storefronts to their respective place. (Japanese -> Japan)

• Various Language adjustments, loading entailments.

• English has been renamed to English (United States), and English (United Kingdom) accordingly.

Developer

• WebSockets can be enabled under Settings -> Connectivity (Windows only at this time.)

• Cider ThemeKit introduced (Experimental, Get it from here: https://github.com/ciderapp/cider-themekit)

Misc & Backend

• Fixed a case where Sabiiro will fail to write to the config file for some users.

• Fixed window vibrancy not working correctly on macOS.

• WebView2 is now bundled with the app, Cider will be an overall larger package due to this.