Support for player groups: - Groups are now displayed everywhere, in parallel to individual (ungrouped) players - Create groups of players, add players to existing groups, remove players from groups or ungroup whole groups - Use shortcuts to automate player grouping and ungrouping - Always see the latest group status, directly fetched from the players (Note: players are not grouped when offline) Additional improvements: - A link to the system app settings is available on the settings screen - The name of the currently used service is displayed on the "Now Playing" screen - The readability of the volume slider inside the widgets has been improved - An issue loading BluOS playlists on new BluOS player versions has been fixed - Several other small issues have been fixed

The Now Playing widget now has volume controls! There are plus/minus buttons and a tappable volume level bar at the bottom of the widget. You can hide it in the widget settings, if you don't want volume controls there. Furthermore, all widget layouts have been updated to visually align better with each other, sharing the same top bar, paddings and icons. Also the app UI is now more consistent. Additional improvements: - The Now Playing shortcut now additionally returns a text variable, e.g. in order to let Siri speak the result - The main app now displays more title lines of the currently played track - The preset numbers can now be hidden via the app settings

This release features an improved top bar, which lets you quickly change the selected player and directly adjust the volume of all your players from one panel. Furthermore, the battery state is now displayed for all players that have a battery pack. It is visible inside the top bar, the volume panel, the player selection screen and also inside the "Now Playing" widgets. You can configure how it is displayed inside settings. Please remember: you can hide any unwanted information from the widgets by tapping and holding the widget and then choosing to edit its settings. Additional improvements: - Better background colors that are more eye-friendly and appealing - Better accessibility of the buttons in the top toolbar - The "Now Playing" widget now uses more available space in large view, matching the "Presets" widget layout - Displaying "No title available" or "No player selected" placeholders if no data is available - Several UI bugs related to Liquid Glass have been fixed - More reliable and continuous network monitoring of all known players

This is an important bugfix release ensuring compatibility with players that have been updated to BluOS version 4.10.11 or newer! Additional improvements: - The volume slider inside the popover now displays the current volume level - All volume sliders are now much more responsive - Loading of cover art images is now more reliable for more sources

New "Play Queue" management - open the queue from the top right toolbar button - there is also a button on the bottom of the large "Now Playing" screen - on macOS this is also available as separate window and from the mini player - start playing any track from the queue - drag tracks to any position or queue them as next or last track - remove tracks from the list or clear the entire list - save modified lists and load all your lists Other improvements - no more flickering of cover images - improved background colors on macOS - volume slider is now quickly accessible as popover in the top right toolbar - volume slider shows the level (0 - 100) while dragging - cache size is displayed in bytes instead of number of files

New "Now Playing" widget - several sizes for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy - current track information and cover image - play, pause and skip buttons - refresh button and status *) - hide controls for a distraction free layout *) Due to limitations on how often widgets are refreshed, you may use the "refresh" button to always get an updated status (or just tap the widget to refresh) New "Now Playing" Shortcut and Siri command - use a Shortcut automation or ask Siri to display the current track information and cover image - use a Siri phrase like "What is currently playing in BluRemote app?" or just "BluRemote, now playing?" Improved player selection screen - quick access to all recently selected players - select any recent player without waiting for search results every time - remove players from the list by swiping to the left Mini player in macOS menu bar - you now can control your player from the system menu bar, without opening the main window - the icon is available as long as the app runs in background

Revamped Widgets and Shortcuts - All widgets are now fully interactive, especially the presets now start directly and do not open the app any more - All widgets and shortcuts let you configure a target player – or just use the most recently selected player automatically - You can now configure which presets are displayed by the Presets-Widget for each preset button IMPORTANT: In order to configure existing widgets, remove and add them again to the Home Screen! Other changes - The macOS Widget bug is now fixed again - iOS 17 is now required (iOS 16 devices can still use the version 1.6)

This release comes with a native BluRemote app for macOS! You get the iPhone, iPad and Mac version with one universal purchase. Additionally, the app icon now has a fresh new design, emphasizing a "blue remote control". The icon and the widgets are ready for the tinted and dark Home Screen designs on newest iOS versions. Please note, this is the last version that supports iOS 16. Future updates will require iOS 17 or newer versions.

More Control - Mute or unmute the player - Seek inside the current track - Shuffle mode on or off - Repeat mode one, all or off New Playback Control Widget - Play, pause and skip directly from your Home Screen, from your Lock Screen, and also in StandBy mode! - On your Home Screen, you also have access to more commands, like shuffle, repeat and volume. All new control options are also available in shortcut automations and as Siri commands. All shortcuts and Siri commands now answer with actual results or errors instead of just saying "OK". You can disable result dialogs in the settings of your automations.

This update corrects the Siri example sentences that were broken on latest iOS versions and brings also following improvements: * Show examples of short Siri commands as alternative to the long sentences * Show the troubleshooting message less often and provide an option to dismiss it * Discover also BluOS players in secondary zones and BluOS hubs * Handle players with fixed volume correctly

This update corrects the behavior of the skip next and back buttons. They were disabled when playing from local library and in some cases enabled for streams, that do not support skipping. (Thanks to Jim for reporting this!) Additionally, the cover image is now displayed as dimmed blurred background in "now playing" full screen view.

This release improves the player discovery. Some users seem to have problems finding their player, so more information is displayed and troubleshooting guides are provided. * showing brand name, model name and model icon of discovered players, if available * monitoring the online status of each found player continuously * detecting players that need initial setup – showing a hint that those players need to be setup before they can be used with BluRemote * displaying unsupported devices – music devices that could be found inside the network, but are not BluOS-compatible If no compatible player can be found, a new troubleshooting guide is available after some seconds, which describes common issues and solutions.

BluRemote now supports the Shortcuts app. You can automate following actions for your connected player: - Start and stop playback - Select and start a preset - Skip the current track (forward and backward) - Set the volume (between 0 and 100 percent) Furthermore, you can use several voice commands with Siri to execute the actions, for example short commands like: - "BluRemote, start" - "BluRemote, stop" - "BluRemote, next" - "BluRemote, previous" Or use longer sentences like: - "Stop playback in BluRemote app" - "Full volume in BluRemote app" - "Select a preset in BluRemote app" The most common actions are also available as predefined Shortcuts and in Spotlight. Other improvements: - pull to refresh the list of presets - better layout of the "now playing" view on very large and very small screens - better UI performance - no more flickering of the progress bar

This update brings the long awaited full-screen "now playing" view. Tap the small cover image or the small track information texts and the "now playing" view slides in from the bottom. Matching the BluRemote philosophy, the screen layout is clean and focused in order to show the most important information at first sight: the cover image and playback progress, the track information, and the play, pause and skip buttons. You can reveal more meta data – like stream quality, bitrate and the service name – by tapping the track information texts or by enabling the options on the settings screen. You can also quickly access the volume control and player selection by using the buttons on the top right corner.

- Nice visual and haptic feedback when tapping the player control and preset buttons - Animated waveform icon when the player is currently playing - Much faster reaction to all player commands - Drastically reduced local network traffic - All known bugs fixed and stability improved - App icon and name updated and link to App Store page added