1.18.0 EA

New Features

• Added quick jump navigation (e.g., by alphabet) for list-based Windows UI.

• Added the ability to pin and unpin desktop windows in the system tray.

Changes and Optimizations

• Changed the GPU-hiding strategy for OpenGL rendering mode.

• Optimized performance and resource usage when the app runs in the background.

• Optimized image loading speed and resource usage in lists.

• Improved the text descriptions and UI layout of the onboarding flow.

• Refined the alignment of the progress bar within the mini player.

• Optimized resource usage for the shimmer/flowing light effects.

• Optimized resource usage for the word-by-word lyrics feature.

• Improved the visibility of the Liquid Glass mini player.

• Reduced the memory peak when scaling playback cover art.

• Improved readability for consecutive short lines in lyrics by falling back to traditional smooth scrolling.

• Optimized the Morvanium effect and its resource usage.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the mini player progress bar failed to render at low scaling factors.

• Fixed an issue where the cover collapse animation became blurry prematurely.

• Fixed an auto-scroll issue triggered by focus on the artist content page.

• Fixed stuttering caused by residual offset animation loss for consecutive short lines in lyrics.

• Fixed an issue where some standard WAV files were incorrectly identified as DTS.