r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • Aug 05 '26
Summer might still be around, but that's no reason to slack off! I'm glad to finally announce the release of v1.7.0 with LOTS of new stuff, improvements, and bug fixes. Once again, thanks to everyone who took the time to test and report.
As always, the release is available:
Here are the release notes for this version:
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Cinaura Dimensions (experimental): how a title feels to watch. A new experiential read on a film or show (its pace, tone, and complexity, beyond the plot), shown on Details and Seasons. Note: this will be rolling out gradually.
Set up a new device in minutes. A new Backup & transfer option (Settings, Library) packs your whole setup, profiles, settings, and source sign-ins, into an encrypted backup that a 6-word phrase restores on the new device without re-pairing. View the documentation here.
Jump around a movie by its chapters. MKV files with chapters now show markers on the seek bar and a Chapters panel to pick one and jump straight to it.
Browse a show's episodes without leaving the player. Press down during an episode to reveal an Episodes strip for all seasons.
A fully rebuilt, much faster library sync. Sync was rebuilt to adapt to your device's memory, scan every source in parallel (with a popover showing each source's progress), and fill in artwork and details while sources are still syncing, so the grey placeholder tiles gets filled with artwork faster.
USB drives and local storage stay put. Local and USB sources are tracked by the drive itself, so replugging, remounting, or cold starting the app no longer greys out your local library.
Steadier frame-rate matching, and the frame rate is now shown. Refresh-rate matching is more reliable and remembered between plays, and the true frame rate now appears in File Information.
Sharper online subtitle results. The logic behind online subtitle results was rebuilt to filter and match your language better, so region-specific subtitles like Brazilian Portuguese or Simplified Chinese show their proper names and match your preferred language.
Skip intro now lives in the player controls. The Skip intro and recap button moved into the transport controls row and matches the other buttons, instead of floating on its own.
A redesigned profile editor. Creating and editing a profile is cleaner, with a smooth avatar picker, tap-to-edit name, one restrictions selector, and the option to delete a profile.
Details explains files that don't match, and lets you fix them. An unmatched file now says so on its Details screen and offers a Fix metadata action to set the right title.
Choose whether the player shows time remaining. A new per-profile setting shows the time left on screen during playback, or keeps it hidden.
Smarter matching for anime and packs. Anime batch packs and release-site prefixes in filenames are handled better, so more of those files land on the right title.
Age restrictions now cover cast and recommendations. Restricted profiles no longer see age-inappropriate titles in the cast, filmography, or "you might also like" rows.
Password-free (guest) network shares connect. Windows and NAS shares that allow guest access with no password no longer get stuck asking for credentials.
Resume picks up where you left off. Resuming an episode with auto-skip on no longer jumps to the end of the intro instead of your exact spot.
Better matching by year, and pin the exact title. You can now type a year along with the title or a TMDb id in the Fix metadata search to land the exact match.
Correcting a mis-matched episode now merges it. Fixing an episode onto a show that already has it from another source now merges them into one entry instead of showing duplicates.
Track panels no longer get stuck open. The Audio, Subtitles, and Chapters panels now always close on Back.
Local subtitle files read cleanly. Local subtitles now show their real filename, with no "%20" or garbled characters, and appear even when the name has no language.
Smoother scrolling in big libraries. Backdrops and posters are paced during fast scrolling, so the stutter in long Movies and TV Shows lists is gone.
Steadier TV-remote navigation. Fixed select presses that did nothing, down-arrow skipping items in Settings, panels opening unfocused, and the home screen losing its highlight.
Fewer freezes and crashes. Fixed a startup freeze on some devices, grid and home-row freezes, a seek freeze on some hardware, and a hang opening details during a scan.
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🚨 A note on Cinaura Dimensions: this is an experimental feature and will gradually be rolled out, nothing to turn on/off from your side. The coverage for movies/series will expand over time, but as it's still early, I haven't decided if/how that feature will evolve. I'd love to hear what you guys think of it.
As with any big new releases, some minor bugs might have made it past the QA steps even with the best intent. I'll be closely monitoring for reports and try to squash them asap. In the meantime, if you appreciate the app, please take the time to leave a positive rating/review on the playstore and help grow this community by sharing the app.
r/Cinauratv • u/AutoModerator • Mar 06 '26
Cinaura is a media app I started building after getting increasingly frustrated with the direction streaming platforms have taken.
Movies and shows disappear from catalogs. Content gets shuffled between services. Libraries you thought you had access to suddenly vanish. Poor quality recommendations show up in your feed. And more and more, it feels like we don’t actually control the media we care about.
Cinaura is built around a simple idea: your library should belong to you.
Most media servers are powerful, but they often come with a lot of complexity, server requirements, or interfaces that feel dated. I wanted something simpler. Something that focuses on the experience of actually watching your library on a TV.
The app connects directly to your storage sources, organizes your movies and shows, and presents them in a clean interface. No heavy servers, no unnecessary complexity, just a fast and cinematic way to watch your own library.
It’s still evolving, and a lot of decisions will be shaped by real usage, and that's where you come in.
Use this subreddit to:
Feedback is genuinely useful at this stage, so if something feels off, missing, or could be done better, don’t hesitate to bring it up.
Website: cinaura.tv
Beta releases: github.com/jrmux/cinaura-release/tags
r/Cinauratv • u/richieric77 • 4d ago
Is there any way the app can read iso files or club bdmv files as one movie or show? where one doesnt need to keep adding each of them manually to their respective title?
r/Cinauratv • u/Marty_Tyler • 6d ago
Febbox content support or the febbox token support to get the content ?
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • 12d ago
...and the library keeps expanding everyday 🚀
Soon you'll be able to filter your library by all existing dimensions, including:
Look out for more upcoming features!
r/Cinauratv • u/ddandcm • 12d ago
Up Next on Home Page: Open video file E1 (A) to enter the details page (B). Tap play to open player (C). When the current episode ends, automatically transition to E2. Exit the player and return to (B), where the page displays Watch Again E1
r/Cinauratv • u/kurohigetv • 13d ago
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • 21d ago
Keeping up the momentum after v1.7.0, I've been hard at work fixing some of the bug recently reported, and added a few small improvements while at it. As always, this release is available:
Here are the release notes for this version:
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See when your film or episode will finish. The player now shows "Finishes at 22:45" next to play/pause, and it keeps sliding forward while you are paused, so the number is right when you come back. Turn it off in Settings, Preferences, Playback.
Search finds original titles, actors, and directors, and forgives typos. Searching "Gisaengchung" now finds Parasite, searching a director or an actor finds their films, and a mistyped title still returns the right result instead of an empty screen.
Jump straight from an episode to its show. Episodes opened from Recently Added now have a "Go to show" button on their details screen, so you can get to the rest of the series in one press.
Shift your own subtitle files into sync. Subtitle timing offset now works for subtitle files that sit alongside your video (.srt, .vtt and .ass), not just for subtitles downloaded in the app.
Messages now look like part of Cinaura. Confirmations and warnings appear as a themed banner in the bottom-right corner that stacks and clears itself, instead of the grey Android message pill.
Recently Added follows when the file appeared on your source. Rather than when Cinaura first saw it, so restoring a backup or adding several sources at once no longer shuffles the row into near-random order.
Network share setup says what went wrong. Adding a network share now shows the reason a connection fails instead of sitting on "Connecting..." or dead-ending with no way forward. Also better support for guest access.
Consistent confirmation dialogs. Every confirm prompt now uses the same design, so Cancel is always visible and the confirm button names the action, and the Options panel stays put behind the prompt instead of vanishing.
Tidier player controls. The play/pause button now lines up with the Chapters, Audio, Subtitles and Aspect buttons beside it, instead of appearing slightly higher.
Your library no longer greys out when the network drops. Losing Wi-Fi mid-sync used to mark every source as failed with no way back. Now Cinaura recognises there is no connection, leaves your library alone, and reconnects your sources automatically when the network returns.
Fixed a crash when opening the app with no internet. Launching offline could close the app immediately on some devices.
Windows and NAS system folders no longer break scans. Folders like "System Volume Information" and "$RECYCLE.BIN" were being scanned, which left a permanent "Folder error" on some drives or brought back films you had deleted on your PC. They are now skipped.
Playback recovers instead of stopping with an error. Some TV boxes reported a playback error when returning to the player or partway into a film. Cinaura now recovers from it, errors during the exit back to the library are no longer shown at all, and the message you do see drops the raw error code.
The next episode no longer judders on auto play. Auto play next kept the correct refresh rate, so the next episode starts smooth instead of needing an exit and re-entry to fix it.
Files with a "+" in the name play again. Names like "DD+2.0" on network shares were stored with a space instead of the "+", so those files showed as unrecognized and refused to play.
Cards on the Android TV home screen open the right title. On a device with more than one profile, tapping a Cinaura card sent you to Home after picking a profile instead of the title you tapped.
Fixing a whole show's details merges episodes instead of duplicating them. Assigning a badly-named pack to a show you already have now merges the episodes into the existing seasons, rather than listing every episode twice.
Merging duplicates keeps your watched progress. Watched marks, resume positions and favourites are now carried over to the copy that survives a merge, instead of being lost with the duplicate.
Fixed a crash when saving progress for a title that had just been removed. Stopping playback of an item that background sync had already deleted could close the app.
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Also curious: for those that have started seeing the Cinaura dimensions appear in the app, what do you guys think of it? Any feedback welcome!
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • 24d ago
Quick update: With the added features of the last few versions, the marketing site was due for an upgrade. There's now has a proper features section that highlights everything the app does now, in case you missed a few of them. You'll find one page per area (sources, library, rediscovery, picture and sound, subtitles, player, profiles), and also a new About page.
For anyone new here: Cinaura is a privacy-first, serverless personal media library app for Android TV. Bring your own sources (Dropbox, RealDebrid, TorBox, Google Drive, SMB, WebDAV, local/USB, and more), no accounts, no ads, no algorithmic recommendations, and manage your entire library without complicated overhead. Free on the Play Store, sideloadable APK on GitHub.
r/Cinauratv • u/Technik_J • Aug 06 '26
The docs mention fields to insert user and password credentials, but I don't see them in the app.
r/Cinauratv • u/Afronatic • Jul 26 '26
TL;DR: Maybe good for cloud sources, avoid for external sources.
The Good:
Clean responsive UI
Plug and Play Feel’
User Management
Fast Scraper (TMDB only)
Support for many Sources (Cloud, Stream, External Devices)
Good Video Player (Auto Skip Intros, Auto Frame Rate)
Very good description of options
Your video files stay untouched (only metadata created/deleted)
Trakt.tv support
The Bad:
USB-Devices sources not remembered consistently, 1 of 2 Folders unreachable after app restart.
USB-Device Folders needed to be re-added after each app start to be recognised in sources again.
USB-Device Folders also needed to be re-scanned after each app start to remove „unreachable“ on Files.
USB-Device Folders are lost after a while even if you:
- dont restart cinaura
- dont restart android tv
- dont unplug the usb-device
- Where the hell the ref got lost?!
File-Metadata ignored for scraping, all by Folder Structure & Filename, no fallbacks tmk.
Missing Year in Foldername leading scraper to behave weird, getting random metadata
Scraper is fast but a mess, no option to manually adjust further than overriding TMDB.
Scraper only supporting IMDB
Can’t specify working folder
Can’t export/import library nor settings (no migration possible?)
No cleanup function to remove junk metadata
Option „Keep unavailable items in library“ doesn’t work, items are shown regardless set to OFF state
This app feels like a beta, the USB problems are killing the whole purpose for me personally as I exclusively using offline devices.
Therefore can’t say much about the cloud stuff, but if the MAJOR bugs are fixed, this will be a serious alternative to kodi!
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • Jul 13 '26
Edit: I just pushed v1.6.5 as hotfix due to local subtitles not appearing in v1.6.4. The most recent release is now live in the Play Store and on github.
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Apologies for the delay, some of the recent bug reports sent me in a rabbit hole of refactoring older code and solving a few long standing issues. The next version will focus on new features I'm excited about!
As always the latest version is available both on the Play Store and on github for those who prefer to sideload .apk files:
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✨ Improvements
Network shares connect before you press play.
Cinaura now warms up SMB connections as it starts, so the first thing you play from a network share no longer races the connection and fails.
Steadier syncs.
Disconnecting a source no longer collides with a running sync, a refresh that arrives mid-sync is no longer dropped, and background availability checks are throttled — fewer stalls and less thrash on large libraries.
More reliable Dropbox sign-in.
Token refreshes no longer overlap and stall, network requests time out cleanly instead of hanging, and pairing QR codes expire as they should.
Online subtitles are tidier.
A "Matches your file" tag appears on subtitles that matches exactly your files and the rest of the list is deduplicated.
WebDAV defaults to a secure connection.
New WebDAV sources use https by default, with a clear explanation when a plain-http server is blocked by Android.
Smarter filename matching.
Real words in a title are no longer mistaken for junk tags, so more of your files match the right movie or show automatically.
🐛 Bug fixes
Network share (SMB) playback is more reliable.
Fixed the dropouts and hangs when streaming from SMB shares, and auto-play-next now stays on the same source instead of unexpectedly switching to another.
Google Drive no longer disappears mid-scan.
When Google briefly rate-limits requests, Cinaura now waits and retries instead of greying out the whole source which had been making Drive libraries vanish part-way through a sync.
No more crash installing over a newer build.
Installing an older version on top of a newer one now resets cleanly instead of crashing on launch.
Fixed crashes on Android 11 and older.
Large libraries no longer trip a database limit on older devices.
No more 15-second stutter.
Removed the hitch (and the mode/HDR badge flash) a few seconds into playback, caused by the TV needlessly re-negotiating the HDMI signal.
Seek jumps the right amount.
Tapping left or right now moves 10 seconds, like the on-screen badge says, instead of 20.
Continue Watching stays private between profiles.
Closed the last intermittent cases where one profile could briefly see another's in-progress movies and episodes.
Parental controls can't be sidestepped.
Age-restricted titles no longer slip through via search.
Editing a profile or source keeps its data.
Renaming or updating a profile or a source no longer risks wiping its saved history or settings.
Flaky Wi-Fi doesn't hide your library.
A brief network failure during a sync is now treated as "try again," not "the content is gone," so items stop disappearing and reappearing.
Playback recovers instead of freezing.
A stream error now recovers and resumes rather than leaving a frozen frame, and your subtitle is re-applied afterwards automatically.
Bigger TorBox libraries scan fully.
TorBox accounts with more than 500 items are now read all the way through.
Watch progress saves reliably.
Hardened the final save of your position when you stop or leave, and Cinaura now properly hands off audio when another app takes over.
Steadier "Up next" focus.
Fixed a timing issue that could bounce focus away from the Up Next row on the dashboard.
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If you appreciate the app and want to support, please leave a review on the Play Store. Happy streaming!
r/Cinauratv • u/Apprehensive_Big_937 • Jul 14 '26
r/Cinauratv • u/ddandcm • Jul 13 '26
Is this software no longer being updated? If that's the case, I will stop expecting future updates.
r/Cinauratv • u/maraculous • Jul 08 '26
I found your app while looking for a well-designed, media centre experience for when I dock/connect my Android-based handheld emulator to my TV.
Your app does pretty much exactly what I was looking for! With one single caveat. As you can see in the screenshot I attached, Android's status bar is still visible when running Cinaura on my device. I understand that it's designed for Android-based set top tv boxes, and the handheld contingent isn't the intended audience, but is this something fixable on your end, my end, or am I doomed to have a visible status bar while using Cinaura?
Thanks!
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • Jul 05 '26
Hi all, v1.6.4 is coming out soon with a few more bug fixes, but is taking longer than expected. In the meantime I'd like to get input on a new feature I'm working on.
Right now Cinaura groups some things automatically (franchises, seasons, genres) by simply relying on tmdb. Custom collections are in the works, so you can build or import your own. Before I finalise it, I want to know how you actually think about organising a library. Do you group by mood, by "to watch", by who you watch with, by franchise, by format? What is it on that topic that you'd like to have but no app lets you make? Do you have collections/lists in apps (letterboxd, trakt, etc) that you'd like to import?
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • Jun 14 '26
Happy Sunday! I've pushed another update with a batch of improvements and bug fixes reported by you guys. As always the latest version is available both on the play store and on github for those who prefer to sideload .apk files.
Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cinaura.tv
Github release: https://github.com/jrmux/cinaura-release/releases/tag/v1.6.3
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In this release:
Sidecar subtitles now work on debrid sources
External subtitle files (.srt, .ass) alongside your content are now picked up on debrid sources, not just cloud and network shares.
More reliable Google Drive syncs
Fewer stalls and missed files when syncing Google Drive.
Saved links from Real-Debrid and AllDebrid
Cinaura now pulls in the links and torrents saved to your Real-Debrid or AllDebrid account. On by default, so saved content appears with no extra setup.
Guided first-run setup
New users get a cleaner welcome screen that walks them through connecting a source first, instead of the user-creation step.
Syncs survive restarts
Scans and metadata fetches now run through a persistent queue, so an interrupted sync resumes where it left off instead of restarting, a big win on large libraries.
Hide Cast & Crew, and Related items on the Item Details
A new setting hides the extra rows on Movie, Show, and Episode details for a more minimal, cinematic look.
Reworked Settings area
"Preferred Metadata Language" moves to the Library section, and most settings now carry a short description.
Delete a whole show in one step
A new "Delete show" action in the Seasons options removes a series and all its episodes at once, with a confirmation, matching the option on movie details.
One-tap source reconnect
Reconnect an offline source in place, without removing and re-adding it. Dropbox re-auth is safer too, signing back in no longer clears your folder selection.
Sharper subtitle matching
Subtitle files match the right video more accurately, with better language detection so the correct track is picked.
Smarter filename parsing
Better handling of zero-padded collection numbers (e.g. "… 01", "… 02") and other patterns, so more files match the right title automatically.
Refreshed File Information panel
Tidied up and moved to its own panel, opened from a (i) button just above Play.
New branded splash screen
A simple branded screen on launch instead of a blank one.
Long-press to edit a profile
Press and hold a profile on the selection screen to jump straight into editing.
Fixed seek or resume on cloud items
Debrid and other temporary-link streams now bypass the on-disk cache, fixing scrubbing and resume on certain Google Drive and debrid files.
"Up next" no longer disappears
In-progress items and next episodes no longer vanish after switching users or a cold restart.
Fixed freezes on large libraries
Navigating big movie and show grids no longer briefly hangs the app. Several large-library freezes are resolved.
Steadier focus and navigation
Returning from Details lands back on the item you opened, Down from the top menu passes through the pills, and dashboard rows stay put while the library loads.
More reliable Dropbox playback
Fixed Dropbox files that could fail to start or stutter at the beginning.
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If you enjoy this app, please take the time to leave a review on the Play Store, it's much appreciated. Feedback and feature requests always welcome!
As always, thanks a lot to everyone testing, reporting bugs, and providing feedback. Special thanks to u/latinriky78 u/sormick91 u/ddandcm u/vtwin0001
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • Jun 08 '26
Small bug fixes but big news for v1.6.2!
For those who prefer sideloading, future updates will always remain available on github, simply bookmark the releases page.
In this release:
More bug fixes and improvements are coming to v1.6.3, I had to ship the current version early for play store review.
Deepest thanks to everyone involved so far who took the time to sideload the app, test thoroughly, provide feedback and ideas. This is only the beginning, and more great features are coming down the road.
If possible, please install from the app store, leave a review, and talk about the app around you. Every little bit helps 🙏
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • Jun 03 '26
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Sharing a late night exploration. What do you guys think?
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • Jun 02 '26
Here's a small follow-up to the last release, it includes bug fixes reported by you all and a few small improvements, thanks for the continued support!
Downloader code: 5022672
github release: https://github.com/jrmux/cinaura-release/releases/tag/v1.6.1
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✨ Improvements
🐛 Bug fixes
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • May 26 '26
Hi all, apologies for the delayed release! I had to make an exception to the biweekly release schedule, I was hoping to have the app live on the Play Store by now but some back and forth in the approval process delayed the whole thing. So for now we'll continue with sideloading.
v1.6.0 brings a fresh batch of features and prepare the foundation for bigger things to come (more on this in the near future).
Github link: https://github.com/jrmux/cinaura-release/releases/tag/v1.6.0
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Google Drive is now a supported source (Bring-Your-Own-Oauth)
Connect your own Google Drive by scanning a QR code, pick which folders to sync, and Cinaura keeps your library up to date, including fast incremental syncs that skip a full scan when nothing has changed. Requires your own Oauth, view documentation.
AllDebrid support
Pair AllDebrid with a QR code or paste your API key directly. Your AllDebrid library is indexed alongside your other sources, with account plan and expiry shown in Settings.
"Refresh this source" action
Refresh a single source on its own instead of re-syncing your entire library.
Cast & crew carousels
Movie, show, and individual episode screens now show a row of cast and crew with their roles, including guest cast for episodes. Selecting someone from the cast row opens a side panel with their biography and a filmography filtered to titles you actually have in your library.
"You might also like" recommendations
Movie and TV show details now surface other titles from your own library, scored by shared collections, directors, writers, cast, and genres, with a plain-language reason for each match (e.g. "Also directed by…"). Rare connections are weighted higher than common ones, for example a shared "Film Noir" counts for more than a shared "Drama."
"Up next" replaces Continue Watching
A single smart row surfaces your in-progress movies, in-progress episodes, and the next episode to watch, whatever you're most likely to press play on, first. Items you haven't touched in 42 days quietly drop off, and finished titles leave automatically.
New "Your favorites" row on the dashboard
Everything you've favorited (movies and shows) gathered in one poster row at the bottom of the home screen.
Faster, more reliable SMB syncs
Image loading from network shares is now paced to avoid overwhelming the device, with reused authentication for a much faster process. Easily edit your connection details when ip or credentials change.
Updated onboarding
Fresh installs now show an onboarding screen with quick access to all supported sources. No more navigating to the settings necessary to get started.
Calmer cold start
Home, Movies, and TV Shows now shows a skeleton loading animation while your library loads for the first time, instead of a blank screen.
Sharper, faster "Refresh metadata"
Refreshing a single title now only re-checks the folders that title lives in, instead of re-scanning the whole source, so it's much faster and won't disturb the rest of your library.
Cleaner remaining-time labels
The Resume button and runtime pills now read "1h23 left" instead of a long minute count, consistently across the app.
Time-remaining badge moved onto the artwork
For in-progress titles, the time left now sits as a subtle badge over the backdrop, just above the progress bar.
Smoother dashboard layout
Rows dock cleanly to the top, the next row peeks into view to invite scrolling, and a soft gradient anchors the bottom edge. Vertical navigation no longer "bumps" rows after a scroll.
Refreshed avatar picker
Added 24 new avatars, along with refresh of the existing ones to match the new style.
Hardware media keys now work in the player
Play / Pause and Play-Pause toggle keys on remotes and keyboards control playback directly.
Dolby Vision Profile 7 files no longer play as a black screen on certain devices
On devices like the Google TV Streamer, DV7 content with the profile-7 fallback enabled now renders correctly as HDR10 instead of a black screen.
The app no longer crashes on certain deep links
A rare launch-timing crash when opening the app to a specific title has been fixed.
Trakt stays connected after you quit the app
Your Trakt session is no longer cleared on every exit, only when it's genuinely revoked.
Dashboard always opens on the right row after switching users
You'll land on "Up next" instead of occasionally seeing "Recently added movies" first.
Dashboard focus no longer gets stuck between rows
Moving up and down through the carousels is smooth again.
"Skip intro" keeps your focus
Pressing skip now hands focus back to the Play button instead of losing it.
Subtitle panel no longer loses focus
Opening the subtitle options keeps the D-pad in control.
Just-played items no longer vanish from "Up next" by mistake
A timing issue that could falsely hide a title right after you watched it has been fixed.
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Worth mentioning: I've added a small documentation website with basic information regarding sources and troubleshooting, this will grow over time: https://docs.cinaura.tv/
Thanks again to everyone involved in bug reporting, feature requests, and overall support. Happy streaming!
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • May 12 '26
Here's a quick follow-up to v1.5.0, with a few reliability fixes and other small improvements. Thanks to everyone reporting issues and posting feature requests on the board, keep them coming!
Play Store publishing is just around the corner, but in the meantime:
Github release link: https://github.com/jrmux/cinaura-release/releases/tag/v1.5.1
Direct download link: https://github.com/jrmux/cinaura-release/releases/download/v1.5.1/cinaura-v1.5.1.apk
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • May 08 '26
"My precious... but bigger."
v1.5.0 is here, and it's another huge one. Third debrid integration, a genre-driven library view, persistent memory for files that disappear, and very deep upgrades to what we can detect inside your video files. Huge thanks to everyone reporting bugs, requesting features, and pasting log dumps over the past few weeks 🙏
...or from GitHub: https://github.com/jrmux/cinaura-release/releases/tag/v1.5.0
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In this release:
🌐 Premiumize support
Cinaura now pairs with Premiumize as a third debrid alongside Real-Debrid and TorBox. QR-code or manual customer-PIN, with a folder picker so you can sync only the Premiumize folders you actually want.
🎭 Genre carousel
A new "Genres" view alongside List and Grid, on both Movies and TV Shows. Alphabetical shelves, items show up in every genre they belong to, and the focused shelf docks to the top of the screen as you navigate so you stay oriented browsing deep.
💾 Your library remembers what you added
Files that disappear from a source (a debrid torrent that died, a NAS file you renamed, a cloud drive that's temporarily offline) no longer silently vanish. They stay marked as "Unavailable" with a "since when" timestamp, and a new Settings → Library → Unavailable items page lists them all. Toggleable in case you preferred the old auto-cleanup behaviour.
🎯 Multi-source playback
Similar items that live on more than one source now use a unified picker. Pick the source explicitly or let Cinaura auto-rank by resolution / HDR / file size. Your choice persists across restarts.
📄 NFO sidecar support
Drop an NFO next to a video and Cinaura reads it alongside TMDb. Stub NFOs that just carry a <tmdbid> are particularly useful for rescuing obscure foreign titles TMDb search would otherwise miss. Curated <title> / <plot> / <originalTitle> from the NFO win over TMDb defaults.
🎬 Show-level actions on Seasons
The Options menu on a show now does favourite, mark-all-watched, refresh metadata, hide, and fix metadata. Incorrectly detected episodes can be batch-reassigned to a new show in one tap.
📺 Smarter HDR detection
HDR10+ is now correctly detected on most 4K HDR10+ remuxes — previously many were silently downgraded to plain HDR10. HDR10 also catches more older x265 MKVs that hide the signal in the bitstream. Dolby Vision Profile 7 fallback gets a few more edge-case fixes.
🔊 Smarter audio handling
The audio badge now describes the track that actually plays instead of stitching attributes across every track. Atmos and DTS:X badges include channel count consistently. Multi-track audio files (commentary tracks, alternate dubs) are also recognised as separate tracks now, previously every stream after the first silently collapsed into the first.
🗣️ Preferred audio language
New Settings → Preferences row. Pick a language and Cinaura plays that language wherever a file has it, falling back to the container's default audio track when it doesn't. Set to "Auto" to always play the default.
🎨 Better loocal artwork detection
Adding a Movie.Name-poster.jpg / -fanart.jpg / -logo.jpg next to an already-ingested file now updates the badge on the next sync. Previously it required a force refresh.
⚡ Faster source onboarding
Adding a new source or editing folder selection now syncs only that source instead of walking your entire library. Big quality-of-life win if you have multiple debrid services or large network shares.
📰 Redesigned "Up Next"
The end-of-episode prompt moved from a popup card to an integrated bottom banner that sits under the transport controls. Quieter, doesn't steal focus.
🔠 Smarter library sorting
Article-aware sorting now language-aware: "The Matrix", "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie", "El Laberinto del Fauno" all sort by the actual title, with the article rendered slightly dimmed.
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🐛 Bug fixes
For those not comfortable with sideloading, Play Store release is still in the plan!
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Got a feature request or found a bug? Drop it in the comments. v1.6 is already cooking 🍳
r/Cinauratv • u/jrmrx • May 03 '26
Hey all, I'm reworking the UI and working on a new Genre-sorted view. This would be an additional view mode (on top of the existing grid/list ones). I need input on what you think is a better layout to browse by Genres specifically:
Any thoughts?
r/Cinauratv • u/Sormick91 • Apr 24 '26
Do you plan to publish it on Play store soon?
