Hello everyone,

I’m happy to announce that version 1.0.4 is live on the App Store. I’ve been working really hard to fix all the bugs after the initial release. This update should make Serento feel more mature and ready, even though I missed one thing in folder browsing for which I already submitted a bug fix. So expect 1.0.5 soon. One feature that was requested quite a lot of times during the beta period is multi select. I promised I would deliver it right after the initial release, so here it is!

Bellow is the change log. I hope you enjoy the new version.

Change log

Version 1.0.4 is the largest update since launch: two new ways to work with your library, PDF booklets, classical music in search, and a long list of playback and sync fixes.

NEW

Multi-select. Press and hold any album, track, artist, playlist, station or classical item to start selecting, then act on the whole set at once: play, queue, add to a playlist, tag, download or remove. It works on every list and grid in the app, on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Playlists you can reorder. Drag tracks into the order you want and they stay that way, synced across your devices. The same drag works on bookmarks.

Booklets. An album that ships a PDF booklet now shows it, and an album with more than one shows them all. Text inside a booklet can be selected and copied. In order to be picked up, your pdf files need to have the one the following names: booklet.pdf, booklet2.pdf, booklet3.pdf, booklet4.pdf, booklet5.pdf, folder.pdf, [exact album name].pdf.

Classical music in search. Searching now returns composers, conductors, orchestras, soloists and works alongside albums, artists, tracks and stations, each with its own filter tab and its own View All screen.

Artwork you can enlarge. Tap an album or artist image to open it at full size on a dark layer.

Volume control. Renderers that support it gain volume buttons and a maximum volume limit, so a mis-tap cannot send full scale to your amplifier.

Per-track artwork on compilations. A compilation now shows each track’s own cover where the file carries one, instead of repeating the album cover down the whole list.

A new app icon.

IMPROVED

Folder browsing now understands hybrid libraries, where one level holds sub-folders next to folders that are already albums. Folders sort ahead of albums, alphabetically with numbers first, and the name it sorts on is the name you actually see on the row.

The genre taxonomy is considerably larger, so far fewer albums fall into a catch-all.

Haptic feedback on every control that acts on your library.

Swipe actions and drag to reorder now follow the system’s current list editing behaviour, and the toolbars above those lists match it.

FIXED

Audio: the noise heard when pressing next or play on a DSD file, and on anything above CD quality. PCM stuttering on next, previous and seek. Pause, play and seek no longer fight each other, and pressing play on an album plays that album.

Radio: stations start reliably again, including when another app is already producing audio, and Bluetooth resumes correctly after an interruption.

Sync: resume, cancel and re-sync behave as expected, Plex sync issues are resolved, and several servers now share one folder view correctly.

Home no longer flashes an empty state while it is still loading.

Downloads: the missing tab is back, the buttons have a row of their own, and the retry button renders correctly with Display Zoom.

Classical bookmarks open the screen they point at. The format badge no longer claims bit-perfect while nothing is playing. Tapping the mini player while Now Playing is already open now does nothing, as it should.

The alphabetical index bar, the tag breadcrumb and the horizontal shelves all scroll and land where you expect them to.

Many bug fixes and other small improvements.