SMusic

# SMusic 2.0.0 — The Next Evolution

SMusic 2.0.0 is a major update focused on improving the overall music listening experience with powerful new features, deeper customization, smarter music discovery, and significant stability improvements.

## Major Features

### Smart Music Discovery

- Introduced SMusic Pulse for a smarter music discovery experience.
- Personalized music recommendations based on listening preferences.
- Improved discovery feeds, radio experiences, and music suggestions.
- Added listening insights and enhanced recommendation capabilities.

### Advanced Lyrics Experience

- Improved lyrics loading with multiple provider integrations.
- Added support for additional lyrics formats, including LRC and TTML.
- Enhanced synchronized lyrics with more accurate timestamps.
- Added lyrics translation support with web-based translation fallback.
- Improved lyrics matching, parsing, and loading reliability.

### Enhanced Music Players

- Introduced new player designs and customization options.
- Improved player layouts, animations, and interaction experiences.
- Enhanced playback controls and seek bar behavior.
- Improved support for different screen sizes and form factors.

### Account and YouTube Integration

- Improved account-related screens and session handling.
- Enhanced YouTube integration and account synchronization.
- Improved search history, listening history, and library management.
- Added improvements to playlist and music collection workflows.

### More Music and Audio Features

- Expanded music source and integration capabilities.
- Improved playlist management and music importing workflows.
- Enhanced audio effects, visualizer, and DJ-related experiences.
- Added improvements to music recognition and sharing.
- Improved Android Auto support and Discord Rich Presence integration.

### Backup, Restore and Updates

- Improved backup and restore functionality.
- Enhanced backup management and recovery workflows.
- Improved update and notification handling.

## Important Fixes and Improvements

- Fixed download lifecycle issues that could interrupt Save to Device downloads.
- Improved background download handling so downloads can continue after dismissing the player menu.
- Improved lyrics synchronization and timestamp accuracy.
- Fixed lyrics loading, parsing, and provider-matching issues.
- Improved playback service stability and reliability.
- Fixed several account synchronization and session-related issues.
- Improved Explore feed loading, caching, and retry behavior.
- Improved DataStore cache handling and invalidation.
- Fixed multiple backup and restore issues.
- Improved UI consistency, navigation, and overall app responsiveness.
- Resolved various crashes, edge cases, and stability issues.

## Performance and Stability

- Improved app reliability across different devices.
- Optimized multiple loading and background operations.
- Improved handling of network failures and unavailable content.
- Refined UI behavior and overall user experience.

## Upgrade to SMusic 2.0

This release represents a major step forward for SMusic, bringing together a more powerful player experience, smarter discovery, improved lyrics, expanded integrations, and important reliability improvements.

Thank you for using and supporting SMusic.

**Project:** [https://github.com/devxrohan/SMusic](https://github.com/devxrohan/SMusic)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/devxrohan/SMusic/compare/v1.2.0+3...v2.0.0+4