Release Notes

• •App - DSD playback is here. Play your DSD files (DSD64–DSD256) with bit-perfect DoP output to compatible DACs, or automatic high-quality…
• •App - A fresh new look. Meet "Waves Midnight," our new default app icon, plus a redesigned launch screen to match. Prefer the classic…
• •Files - Smarter file sorting: tracks in the Files tab now queue in the right order, even when filenames use unpadded track numbers.

• •New settings under Settings/Library to turn off playback-history and recently-added tracking if you prefer not to track them.
• •Seek by tapping or dragging anywhere on the progress bar, plus an optional Scrubbing Pause setting for smoother dragging.
• •Better support for tracks tagged with multiple genres.

• •File playlists can now display custom cover art — add an image named to match the playlist file, or a cover image in the same folder.
• •Synced lyrics now handle backing and simultaneous vocals correctly, and section markers like [Chorus] are no longer hidden.
• •Play After Current Album — albums you queue up now play in the order you added them, even when shuffle is on.

• •Custom lyrics for iTunes tracks — add your own synced .lrc lyrics for any song, including iTunes Library tracks that couldn't previously…
• •Hide the slider knob — a new “None” knob size option hides the scrubber and volume thumbs for a cleaner player while keeping the controls…
• •Smoother song changes — improved lyrics loading reduces brief pauses when switching tracks.

• •Completely redesigned player screen, rebuilt from the ground up.
• •New audio mixer with 10-band EQ presets and per-track Volume Normalization controls.
• •Synced lyrics with karaoke-style highlighting, plus full LRC sidecar file) support.

• •Connect – OneDrive – Connect to your OneDrive account with support for browsing, uploading, and downloading files
• •Connect – Google Drive – Support for multiple Google Drive accounts
• •Connect – Rename your cloud storage connections from the Edit menu

• •Settings – App Icon Picker – Choose from twelve alternative app icon designs
• •Library – Added file-based logging for library sync operations to aid troubleshooting – find them in \_btramp/logs/
• •Settings – Complete rewrite of all Settings screens with improved visual design

• •App – updated the app icon to include dark, clear, and tint options
• •Mini-Player – updated to mirror the Liquid Glass look and feel of the tab bar

• •**“In Progress” Albums** – Added a new listing option called “In Progress,” which shows only albums containing at least one bookmarked…
• •**iTunes Library Scanning** – Refined the scanning process to prevent albums from being split into separate listings.
• •**WiFi Transfer** – Enhanced the interface for a smoother and more polished user experience.

• •iTunes Library: Audiobooks and downloaded podcasts can now be played directly in BTR AMP. Please note that the Apple Books and Podcasts…
• •Player Engine: The previous limit on the number of songs in the play queue has been removed, offering a more seamless listening experience.
• •Library: Resolved issues with flashing cover art during playback and when switching between lists.

• •App – Localizations – BTR AMP is now translated into 32 additional languages: Arabic (العربية), Catalan (Català), Chinese Simplified…
• •Library – added an action menu button to list rows to compliment the existing long press action menu functionality

• •Album Screen: A complete redesign! Your music albums have never looked better on iPhone and iPad.
• •Featured: Text displayed over cover art is now significantly more legible.
• •M3U Playlists: Resolved an issue with reading non-UTF-8 encoded M3U files.

• •Playlists – M3U playlist file support
• •Featured – enabled changing sort order of playlist based sections other than songs
• •Connect – AutoSync – added the Last Run Date to the details line

• •Settings – Import/Export – save your personalization settings to share with your other devices, family, and friends – this includes…
• •Smart Playlists – Import/Export – save one or more of your Smart Playlists to share with your other devices, family, and friends – use the…
• •Play Queue – the currently playing song no longer changes when simply pressing the shuffle/random button (toggling shuffle on/off)

• •Playlist Screen – added tabs for the related Albums, Artists, and Genres of a playlist’s songs
• •Playlist Screen – added the ability to reorder all of the songs in a manual playlist based on one of the Song sort orders
• •Playlists – enabled Edit, Copy, and Delete functions for the four default Smart Playlists

• •Preferred Language – multi-lingual users can now override the iOS-system-based language for the app via the BTR AMP section of the iOS…
• •Songs – added four new year-based sort orders for songs
• •Song/File Metadata Tag Editor – re-implemented the editor to set the stage for additional enhancements in the coming releases

• •Personalization
• •Unlimited Smart Playlists – unlimited custom dynamic playlists based on search rules
• •Edit song metadata

• •NEW – Library – Custom Artwork – can now override default artwork displayed for genres, artists, albums, etc – “Artwork” option on long…
• •FIXED – Player Engine – crossfade and gapless playback of songs of varying sample rates (44.1 kHz vs 96 kHz) now works by resampling to a…
• •NEW – Settings – Player – “Resampling Mode” option to control resampling to a common sample rate

• •NEW – Library – Item Lists – Featured screen and tabs are now fully configurable (style, size, width, spacing, etc)
• •NEW – Library – Item Lists – Featured – add/remove/re-order sections
• •NEW – Library – Item Lists – Item Specific Lists (i.e., “Hard Rock Albums”, “Pop Artists”, etc)

• •Player Screen – Mixer – new button to select the desired Volume Normalization Mode (Automatic, Album Exclusive, Album Preferred, Track…
• •Library – Songs – “Edit” menu item is now available for all songs, but in read-only mode for non-editable ones such as iTunes Library songs
• •Library – Tabs – a long-press on the bottom tab bar displays the Tab Manager

• •CarPlay – Now Playing Screen – changed the middle “is favorite” button to a “more” button that takes you to another screen where both “Is…
• •Documents – added a “Remount” action in the menu for external locations – this can be used to reconnect the external location to BTR AMP…
• •Player Screen – Mixer – added + and – buttons to the equalizer bands for more precisely adjusting the settings

• •new support for external audio files
• •new support for custom theme colors
• •various usability enhancements and bug fixes

• •Player Queue Screen – added “Add To Playlist” to long-press menu for songs in the queue
• •Library – Lists – fixed issue where search results were getting hidden after navigating to another screen from the results

• •Connect – WebDAV client – connect, download, and upload directly to/from WebDAV servers from BTR AMP including setting up Sync Jobs
• •Connect – AutoSync – added two new Sync Types: “Download Missing” (only overwrites existing files when size is different) and “Download…
• •Connect – AutoSync – tweaked existing Sync Type “Download New” (only overwrite existing files when modified date is newer on source)

• •CarPlay – Documents Tab
• •Library and Player Screen – Song Lyrics are viewable and editable
• •Player Screen – Cover Art – swipe left or right to play the next or previous song – tap/short-press now executes play or pause

• •new support for the following lossless and lossy audio codecs: APE (Monkey’s Audio), MPC (Musepack), TTA (True Audio), WV (WavePack), OPUS…
• •improved support for FLAC files
• •new support for editing and using sort order metadata (song title, album title, album artist, track artist, and composer)

Version 14.0 introduces one major new feature, AutoSync, along with various bug fixes and performance enhancements. AutoSync gives you the ability to create Sync Jobs that will periodically run in…

• •German language translation now available
• •Audio Engine
• •Audio Mixer Screen

• •Changed the minimum iOS version to 14.0 and fixed a couple of things related to supporting iOS 15
• •Player Engine – Gapless Playback is now a thing – listen to continuous mix CD’s (i.e., live concerts, EDM mixes, etc) the way they were…
• •Player Engine – Crossfade Playback is now a thing – listen to your favorite songs like a DJ would be mixing them from one song to the next

• •Completely rewritten CarPlay module, rebuilt from the ground up — enjoy the #1 offline music player CarPlay experience today!

• •Albums – added “Go To Artist” and “Go To Folder” options to the long-press context menu.
• •Fixed a crash while using search in Connect.
• •Fixed reading ID3v2.2 tags (such as track number) from MP3 files.

• •Albums – a new “Condensed Artist” sort that combines multiple albums from the same artist into a single row, navigable to that artist's…
• •Artists – a new “Album Artists” filter. The default “All” filter now lists both album artists and track artists, and an artist's album list…
• •CarPlay – the Favorites section now mirrors the order of the core tabs in the main app.

Version 10.1 is a bug fix and polishing release. This fixes a critical issue that was causing the app to unexpectedly crash, especially when working in the background (i.e., like when you were using…

Version 10.0 brings you comprehensive support for Siri, both telling Siri to initiate playback, along with shortcuts for automating BTR AMP using the Shortcuts app. Tell Siri what playlist, album…

Version 9.0 provides full support for iOS’s Dynamic Type (i.e., scalable text). Users who have difficulty reading small text on their device can increase the size of text, while other users who…

Version 8.0 introduces two new features that give you even more control over BTR AMP’s look and feel.  The first enables you to customize when iOS Dark Mode is applied (e.g., Automatic, Never, and…

Version 7.0 introduces another EXCLUSIVE feature… Custom Tags!   When used in conjunction with Smart Playlists (from v6), Custom Tags give you the ability to organize YOUR music library in nearly…

Version 6.0 introduces Smart Playlists that work the way they are meant to work! EXCLUSIVE to BTR AMP, Smart Playlists are a set of customizable rules that automatically query YOUR music library for…

Version 5.0 introduces three major new features: complete Apple CarPlay compatibility, built-in Google Drive connectivity for uploading/downloading music, and creation of new shortcut tabs for direct…

Version 4.0 is a combination of numerous new and enhanced features. New Features include: A) SMB Uploads – v3.0 introduced downloads from Mac/Windows/Linux computers – v4.0 introduces uploads to…

Introducing a built-in Windows SMB client under the Connect section. This allows you to download files from other computers such as your PC/Mac/Linux directly into BTR AMP by connecting via the SMB…

Version 2.0 of BTR AMP introduces a brand new audio engine and more importantly a 10-band equalizer with over 20 presets both combining to make YOUR music sound that much better. The equalizer is…

This release includes a couple of bug fixes and various optimizations.

After 15+ years of thinking about creating it, 10+ years of waiting for someone else to create it, and the past 9 months of design and development work, we’re proud to announce the release of version…