Cider 2.3.0

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
  • 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 inconsistancies
• 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
  • Signifigantly 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 the background to save resources.
• Built-in keybindings now use Meta (Apple) key when on macOS
• New custom overlay scrollbars for various components
• Fixed WinUI style title bar always being centered
• Fixes scrollbars on Windows (v103 of WebView2)
• Unplayable items will now display why they are unplayable
• Reduced non-playback background activity when not in focus for less resource usage
• Fixed an issue where some MediaItems would load their tracks for an artwork collection they are not using
• Fixes to storefront content
• Fixed Playlist Refresh notification
• Alt + Enter will enter set the app to fullscreen for Windows and Linux
• OOBE now has a section for choosing a layout
• Fixed window vibrancy not working correctly on macOS
• Various LastFM fixes
• Fixes playlist list in context menu randomly opening
• 'Love' has been changed to 'Favorite'
• Ultra Wide setting in Advanced now fully uncaps the width (any visual errors that occur because of this being enabled will not recieve a lot of support)

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 in Settings > Experimental

Playlists / Albums

• Added Playlist Suggestions (from 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
• Various performance and loading speed adjustments
• Optimized number of API calls when navigating to playlist / album pages
• Putting in place some support for future official 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 Immersive
• New layout: One Classic
  • Modeled after the original Immersive layout from the Cider 2 Alpha
  • Has the full Mojave playback bar
  • Static artwork position
  • Has a shortcut to the catalog browser 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 time out with inactivity, hiding the cursor
• Immersive One layout
  • Changed size of artwork
  • Simplified metadata display when controls have timed out
• Artwork now shows fallback color until the image has loaded

Lyrics

Huge improvements to lyrics ⚡

• New more optimized scrolling code
• Scrolling curve and duration can be modified from Visual -> Lyrics
• Scrolling performance improvements
• Fixes issue where speed of scrolling is inconsitant between different monitor refresh rates
  • macOS users should notice a dramatic improvement over previous lyrics
• Sing style lyrics 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.

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
• 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.

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.

Queue

• Added Play button to items in the Queue
• Added Remove button on Queue Items

Developer

• WebSockets (available on Windows only at the moment) can be enabled under Connectivity
  • Electron support is in the works
• Cider ThemeKit introduced (Experimental, Get it from here: https://github.com/ciderapp/cider-themekit)

Bug Fixes

Sabiiro

• Fixed a case where Sabiiro will fail to write the config file for some users
• WebView2 is now bundled with the app, Cider will be an overall larger package due to this.

MacOS

• Fixed window vibrancy not working correctly on macOS.