Aether Player

REQUESTS • Connect your own Seerr — a title on none of your servers gains a Request button, and Search surfaces what you don't have yet. • A show you hold only part of offers Request Missing Seasons on its own page. • A request can be taken back — Cancel Request withdraws every live request for the title. SUBTITLES • Search OpenSubtitles from a title's own page, in thirty-one languages, ranked against the exact file you're playing — with your own account and your own allowance. • Aether reads subtitle files itself and times them, so they sit in the black bars in your chosen style. A subtitle file next to a video on a share or on this device is found and offered. • Subtitle Style gains Placement — In Black Bars, or Over Video. DOWNLOADS • Settings ▸ Downloads is a real screen — episodes grouped by show, movies in their own list, queued jobs with their position. • Download a whole season or a whole show in one go, or pick several movies with Select. • Smart Downloads keep the next unwatched episodes of your Watchlist shows on the device, Wi-Fi only, and clear them a day after you watch. A supporter perk. PLAYBACK • Lumen is the default player — Aether's own controls with Picture in Picture, AirPlay and Dolby Atmos, switching engines only for formats Apple cannot decode. • Parental Controls hide titles above an age rating everywhere, locked behind Face ID. • Stay Tuned says when a film has a scene during or after the credits, and the intro and closing credits shade into the seek bar. • Drag over the picture for brightness, sideways for volume. Zoom to Fill works in every player now. • Live TV finds the native player on its own — verified channels play with Picture in Picture and AirPlay — and the timeline shows the programme with time remaining. • iPhone: full-screen playback overrides the rotation lock. iPad: the live player's Guide button keeps the picture playing beside the schedule. LIBRARY • Continue Watching opens a full page of its own. • The Library leads with your servers, and narrows to any library you curated on them. • The Server picker says what each copy actually carries — codec, audio and subtitle languages, file size — and marks Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos as chips, on the title's hero too. • A title's page grows out of the poster you tapped, and a series page now carries the same sections a film's does, Cast & Crew included. • Home leads its streaming block with the services themselves, and two new shelves put the actors and directors from your own library on the page. • Music: download any track or a whole album, and the player has artwork that breathes with playback over a blurred backdrop. METADATA • With a TheTVDB key, an imported S01E02 file stops being "Episode 2" — it gets the episode's own title, overview and still frame. • Detail prefers a synopsis and genres in the language the app runs in, wherever TMDb has a translation. SOURCES • WebDAV joins the sources — a Nextcloud, a Synology's WebDAV service, or any WebDAV server over HTTPS. • SMB grew up: nearby servers appear over Bonjour, several NAS boxes connect at once, guests get a switch, and a connection can be edited and tested in place. • Emby matches Jellyfin — Live TV with the server's own guide, negotiated playback with HEVC stream-copy, and its music library. • Sign in to Emby with Emby Connect, not just a server address. ACCOUNTS • Aether keeps your ratings itself, on the device and in your iCloud account, whether or not Plex or Trakt is connected. • Your watchlist follows you between devices, removals included. • Sign in to Simkl as a second watch tracker beside Trakt — both can stay connected at once. • Leaving Trakt counts what's actually at risk first, and offers to download your ratings and watchlist into Aether before the token is revoked. LANGUAGES • Slovak, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese join in — eleven languages besides English.