What's new

Immersive Sing Along

• A new mode that centers on lyrics and animations
• Has its own set of options where the user can customize the experience using CSS, transitions are handled using the Vue tag. Docs for Vue transitions can be found here
• Includes presets for custom animations
• Toggle is next to the Coverflow button
• Changed how Immersive layouts handle idle time
• Improved lyric instrumental animation

Album Page

• Upcoming albums now display when they will be released in days, weeks, and months.

Library Music Videos Experimental feature for Library Music Videos

• Enable in Experiments -> Enable Library Music Videos

Library Albums

• When sorting by Artist, albums will now be sorted in order of release
• Added Genre, Release Date sorting to sort by genre and then sort by release date
• Album release date now shows when album is expanded

Radio Episodes

• Partial support for Radio Episodes in MusicKit JS has been enabled by default in Cider
  • Still a little buggy may require reloading the app before some episodes play

Catalog

• Added support for Plain Cards (ex. 100 Best Card on Home)

Replay

• WIP Added support for Replay by Month

General

• New defaults for first time users
  • Calico is now the default layout
  • Compact is the default player
• Double clicking Songs on sidebar will now shuffle songs
• Under the hood build system change Updated to Quasar V2 and Vite 5

Search

• The Library tab in the Search view has temporarily been removed as it was not working will be reintroduced and reworked in either 2.4.2-2.4.3

Fixes

• Fixed live radios on compact Mojave player showing progress bar instead of "LIVE"
• Stop button now shows on live radios since it is not possible to pause them
• Changed mask for lyrics when not in Immersive mode
• Progress bar no longer blocks space bar from playing/pausing the player when focused
• Fixes search categories on search landing page
• Fixes a bug where lyrics in the sidebar did not correctly apply a top offset causing them to be obscured by the fading effect.
• Various fixes to Live Radios (Apple Music 1)
  • Quick Actions on compact player should work properly now.
  • Quick Actions will now hide themselves during breaks.
  • Fixed song name, artist, and album not displaying properly, instead just showing the radio name
  • Fixed Add To Library and Favoriting not working
• Fixes to Cider personal home greeting