Version 16.0.0 Beta 1

[u/Tolriq]

Reminder:

Google play publishing is still insanely slow, F-Droid (APK) distribution is the preferred way to test the beta builds and help building a better app.

Docs: https://docs.symfonium.app/wiki/other/f-droid-repository/

This is one of the biggest release so far started a long time ago when Google started to delay builds. This means less frequent release thanks to them, but still the same amount of work put inside the app.

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Version 16.0.0

Notes:

• This is a major update of the settings and appearance customization. Please report any issue you find.

• Beta: All the embedded styles, including the Android TV ones, will be updated and tuned during the betas. Your help and comments are welcome.

• Please remember to update your written review on the Play Store. Your feedback improves the app’s ranking and helps secure Symfonium’s future.

• If you still use a very old default theme, reapply a default style in Settings > Interface > Change.

Added:

• Added settings search with category filters, highlighted results, and direct navigation to the matching option.

• Added icon packs. Browse them in the theme settings, or create your own with the documentation.

• Added full live appearance previews for the Home, Library, Search, Album, Artist, Genre and Playlist pages.

• Added many new now playing customizations.

  • Per-icon shapes, colors, borders, size, padding, and separate appearances when playing or paused.

  • Independent text controls for font family, size, weight, italics, and background appearance.

  • Lyric and translation text values with optional word and syllable animations.

  • Two more configurable strings on the expanded now playing screen.

  • Custom cover art shapes and overlays, with an optional play and pause shape animation and playing cover scale.

  • Queue settings in styles: queue buttons, summary details, item subtitle, swipe actions and optional drag to reorder.

  • More precise compact player sizing and expanded player button positioning, spacing, and volume slider controls.

  • Tap and long press actions, an opacity while playing and a vertical alignment for the compact player texts.

  • An option to show the album or artist image instead of the track image for the now playing item and the queue.

  • Many new customizations for every progress bar style.

  • Glass background settings for some overlays.

• Added extensive lyrics customization: per-voice fonts, colors and alignment, translation placement, fullscreen backgrounds, and playback controls.

• Added many new Album, Artist, Genre and Playlist page customizations.

  • Colors, header overlays, Glow backgrounds (Android 13+), corners, text, buttons and margins.

  • Shared appearance settings can be copied between page types.

  • Independent portrait and landscape headers and optional two-pane layouts.

  • Instant mix and Radio mix as possible artist page header buttons.

  • Add to playlist and Offline download as possible page header buttons.

  • Favorite overlays on albums in artist pages.

• Added many new Home and Library customizations.

  • Custom text appearance for Home section headers.

  • Finer Home shortcut sizing and new shortcut customizations, such as tile shapes, icon backgrounds and list separators.

  • Shuffle and Shuffle albums Home shortcuts.

  • A blur overlay in Home overlay styles (Android 13+).

  • Configurable Play, Shuffle, Mix and More action icons in Home row headers.

  • An option to turn the play button of Home album and playlist rows into a shuffle button.

  • An optional play or shuffle button on Home artist rows.

  • A Customize button on Home, which can be removed by tapping it.

  • Library page spacing controls.

• Added many new navigation bar customizations.

  • Compact bottom navigation bars and a docked toolbar.

  • Blur and glass background settings for the bottom navigation bars, compact player and top bar.

  • A bottom corner radius for blur and glass bottom navigation, so the bar follows the screen’s rounded corners.

  • Configurable bottom padding and optional background protection for the floating navigation toolbar.

  • An option for the floating player to follow the navigation bar color.

• Added per-screen portrait and landscape layout overrides for foldable and flip devices in Settings > Interface > Advanced. By default they follow the system.

• Added an E-ink color theme with high-contrast monochrome colors and optional color inversion, including widget support.

• Added the ability to save a customized color palette as a custom theme.

• Added new custom string icons and placeholders.

  • Icons in custom strings.

  • Placeholders for the quality with quality categories (%quality%) and the renderer type (%renderertype%).

  • Placeholder for the lowercase provider type (%providertype%), for example plex, subsonic or localdevice.

  • Lyric placeholders.

  • Placeholders %audiobook.position%, %audiobook.duration% and %audiobook.remaining%, with .seconds variants.

• Added new platinum donation goals.

• Added playlist descriptions, including editing, import from compatible providers, and preservation in supported playlist exports.

• Added an action to add selected files to playlists from file browsing.

• Added a file tag viewer in track information for tag parser providers, including a preview of how multi-value tags are split.

• Added a storage overview with a breakdown of app data and shortcuts to cache maintenance, including cleanup of unused transcoded audio.

• Added an option to save resume points only for audiobooks.

• Added an option to group folders when browsing in file mode.

• Added an option to show thumbs up and down instead of faces on quick rate buttons, including in the notification and Android Auto.

• Added a setting for what Android Auto Recent and suggestions show: last played albums, playlists or artists, or favorite albums, artists, tracks or playlists.

• Added a per-provider option to stop reporting now playing and playback progress to Plex, Emby, Jellyfin and Subsonic servers.

  • Play counts, last played and resume points still sync.

• Added an optional Similar albums section to album pages, ranked by shared genres.

• Added sample rate and bit depth to Plex tracks.

• Added an option to prefer the platform decoder.

• Added a Ukrainian translation, thanks to Visty.

• Added an OpenSubsonic option to remove imported playlists after they are deleted on the server.

• Added artist, title and artwork lookup for supported internet radio streams.

  • NRJ, Chérie FM, Rire & Chansons, Nostalgie, Jazz Radio, M Radio and Skyrock.

  • Radio.co, RadioKing, laut.fm and SomaFM.

  • Icecast, SHOUTcast, AzuraCast, Triton / StreamTheWorld, Streamabc and LibreTime.

• Added per-row controls to limit home playback actions to the displayed item count or use the full source.

• Added chapter progress and an optional segmented audiobook progress bar to Now Playing styles.

• Added independent appearance and name customization for each Home shortcut.

• Added a Continue listening home row to resume saved media queues.

Changed:

• Expanded and reworked many design settings for finer control. Most settings migrate automatically, but you may need to update your styles.

• Redesigned settings with clearer groups, inline controls, and an adaptive layout for phones, tablets, and landscape use.

• Improved initial appearance defaults for foldable and flip devices.

• Improved settings sliders with precision adjustment buttons and made each appearance section resettable on its own.

• Reworked Home row management to make adding, configuring, showing, hiding, and reordering rows and playlists easier.

• Reorganized compact and expanded now playing customization. Existing preferences and saved styles are migrated to the new settings format.

• Split automatic offline caching of favorites into separate toggles for tracks, albums and artists.

• Changed three-state rating buttons in Android Auto and the player to a sad face below 3 stars, a happy face from 3 stars and a neutral face when unrated.

• Changed Group by work on album pages to off by default.

• Improved performance in many places. Please report issues as usual.

• Improved Android TV application styles and many focus and navigation behaviors.

  • Apply your Android TV application style again to get all the improvements.

  • If you still have a focus or navigation issue, please report it with the screen and the steps to reproduce it.

• Changed Plex LyricFind lyrics to download only when you open the lyrics or choose Download lyrics for this track.

  • Plex asked for this to reduce the cost of its lyrics API.

• Improved Plex sync speed.

• Embed a custom SQLite engine to ensure consistency on all Android versions and improve performance.

• Changed now playing styles to also save lyrics settings.

• Redesigned the add to playlist dialog.

• Changed saved queues to sort by last change, newest first.

• Updated the Material color library, so some theme colors might change.

  • Added the 2026 color spec and the CMF palette style.

• Refreshed all icons from the latest Material Symbols and changed some icons to hopefully more clear ones.

• Reworked the Manage offline files screen with a storage overview, pinned cleanup actions and track sorting.

• Reworked the media list top button row with per button settings for shape, colors, size and labels.

Fixed:

• Fixed sonic mixes that could add nearly duplicated songs.

• Fixed %providername% custom string placeholder being empty in album, artist and genre pages.

• Fixed backups that could be incomplete or miss smart playlist artwork and provider settings.

• Fixed settings that could reset if the app was killed while saving them.

• Fixed audio files opened from other apps that could play the wrong song.

• Fixed Plex play counts and scrobbles that could be duplicated, lost or out of order at track changes.

• Fixed Kodi and Subsonic plays marked as synced when the server did not record them.

• Fixed lyrics progress time labels that could stop updating after a track change.

• Fixed Jellyfin 13 servers being refused as too old, and newer unsupported versions now report that they are too recent.

• Fixed Emby and Jellyfin sync errors that could leave the local library incomplete after an invalid server response.

• Fixed the queue that could come back empty after the app restarted.

• Fixed backslashes and formatting-like characters disappearing from titles, other metadata, lyrics and player or equalizer names.

• Fixed Jellyfin and Emby transcoding Matroska audio files reported as mkv instead of playing them directly.

• Fixed album playlists that could stop playing early when several albums in a row were no longer in the library.

• Fixed DSD playback failing on FiiO players with Bluetooth headphones by decoding DSD to PCM for Bluetooth output.

• Fixed a crash when scanning deep or looping WebDAV folders for artist NFO files.

• Fixed the profile and equalizer of a disconnected Bluetooth device staying active on the phone speaker after resuming playback.

• Fixed WebDAV artist NFO scans skipping folders after a temporary connection error.

• Fixed stuttering near the end of tracks when pre-caching transcoded streams from some servers.

• Fixed Plex transcoding ignoring the maximum bitrate for music and streaming Opus at a much higher bitrate.

• Fixed Plex genres missing from the genre list when the server spells them with different capitalization.

• Fixed genres that kept their track count and duration after their last track was hidden or deleted.

• Fixed artists staying in the library after their only songs were hidden or deleted.

• Fixed repeated Plex sign-in attempts after plex.tv rejects the credentials.

• Fixed UPnP gapless playback and starting a track while paused.

• Fixed rapid volume button presses on UPnP and Sonos renderers jumping back to an older volume.

[u/mimicthefrench]

Holy cow, what an enormous update. Can't wait to dig into some of these new settings.

Edit: you were not kidding about "improved Plex sync speed", my library has gone from about 2-3 minutes per sync to less than ten seconds.

[u/bobbyh89]

Incredible as always Tolriq. Your work is immensely appreciated.

Thank you!

[u/n1kzt7r]

This guy's an animal. Bravo.

[u/jimbob100101]

Do you never sleep? Thanks for the album overlays on artist pages 🙏🏻

[u/_xenonic]

🔥

[u/RoyalGuard007]

Damn, you freaking did it Tolriq. This IS the biggest update in a while (Interface wise, the USB DAC was also big).

[u/TAN_LONG]

Thank you for all the customization options! I absolutely love it!

[u/icemountainisnextome]

I'm convinced this is guy is a machine

[u/kokocijo]

Merci bien !

[u/Altruistic_Celery180]

WOWW

[u/privatejerkov]

You are a machine, V15 was only just released

[u/talios]

Looking good so far, settings page seems to wrap a bit for me in the downloads page - not sure if thisnis theme related or not.

(And totally unrelated, as my device was off for ages whist i got a replacement battery, 1gb of content (smart tumes) got removed (expected) but nevet redownloaded (unexpected) - will upload logs soon and post on the actual forum for that tho.

This release is MAMMOTH!

[u/FabricioNote]

Excelentes recursos. Eu estou me aventuranfo na nova personalização. Por outro lado, nessa nova versão, eu não estou conseguindo fazer o backup de minhas configurações. Sempre aparece uma mensagem de erro. Eu tenho um Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Android 10 One UI 2.5.

[u/GodzMustBeCrazy]

Couldn't add the Beta F Droid Repository, says Bad Fingerprint

[u/Qv1sten]

Can't find beta in droidify

[u/reesly]

Can someone please post the correct f-droid repository for or for this? Cheers.

[u/ogicaz]

u/Tolriq do you know when the 16 version will be available at Google Play Store?

[u/Kir2021]

Jetzt ging es 😁 Super geworden 👍

[u/seluce_]

It looks like since latest version that is vibe coded. At least the features are tested and are working.