Hello everyone,
Install 1.1.1 on every device you use Serento on, then sync with your server on each of them: Settings › your server › Sync Data › Sync now. Part of what this version brings is read from your server during a sync, and your devices now share more of the playback session with each other, so a device left on an older version or not synced will not have all of it.
Version 1.1.1 makes your devices and your streamer play as one session, and can place reissued albums in the decade they first came out.
NEW
Use original date for decades, in Settings › Display › Album Settings › Decades. A remastered or reissued album goes into the decade it was first released, when your files carry an original date. The screen shows the one setting MinimServer needs to send it. The year shown on each album stays the same.
Music started from another app. When another app plays on your streamer, Serento shows what is playing, and Play, Pause, Next, Previous and volume control it. Shuffle, repeat and queue editing stay off, because the queue belongs to that app.
IMPROVED
One session across your devices. Play, Pause, Next and Previous from any device act on the queue that is playing and never restart or replace it. Only a new album, track or station starts a new session. Queue edits reach every device, and turning shuffle off restores the original order on any device, also after the app restarts.
A device that was asleep for a while catches up with the music instead of falling behind.
Streamers that publish OpenHome as a separate device start playing at once, with no restart from the beginning and no error over music that is already playing, and the progress bar runs smoothly.
Streamers that offer only OpenHome now appear as outputs, with volume and mute.
When a streamer that speaks two control protocols refuses a command through one, Serento sends it through the other, so playback goes on.
Two players running on the same computer are told apart, so each one plays in its own room.
Repeat one holds on streamers that drop a connection at the wrong moment.
An album belongs to a genre when any of its versions carries that genre. Subgenre tiles appear only when they lead to albums, and the genre filters include the genres of every edition.
An artist shows the same number of albums and tracks everywhere in the app, and the sync screen explains what its Artists number includes.
A disc with a subtitle shows only its subtitle, on up to two lines on narrow screens.
FIXED
After a sync, album pages show the changes at once, without restarting the app.
In Now Playing, dragging the progress bar up or down no longer moves the screen.
A Previous that restarts the current track now shows on your other devices.
On streamers that refused the queue, an album could end up with only two tracks in the queue.
On some streamers, starting a track could show an error while the music played, and a track removed from the queue could still play after the current one.
A crash during Enrich Data on very large libraries.
Serento no longer runs two copies at once when it is opened a second time.
Many bug fixes and other small improvements.
Yours,
Lorin