CLAUDIO - Your Audio Player

CLAUDIO 15.0 is here, and your ideas are all over this update! Thank you for testing, sharing suggestions and sending detailed bug reports. So much of this release comes straight from your feedback. I'm happy to share it with you! • Set the mood: With CLAUDIO Pro, ten background sounds accompany audiobooks and podcasts: rain, sea, thunderstorm, fireplace, forest, train journey, fan, and white, pink and brown noise. Change sound and volume while listening. They follow pause and sleep timer; EQ and Smart Speed still act on the voice. • A tidier player: The “…” menu has tiles and actions suited to each media type. Choose speed and sleep timer directly; “Sound & Playback” gathers audio options. Bookmarks stay accessible, download actions are clearer and active sound settings stand out. • Your view, close at hand: Visualizers form a card row in Options; only the selected preview animates. Assign the five toolbar slots under Display. Read-along has a small progress ring, times sit closer to the seek bar and podcast chapters have progress in the mini-player. • Speech at different speeds has been retuned to reduce metallic sound. Music, audiobooks and podcasts behave more consistently, including in CarPlay and widgets. • Folders stay folders: Folder view with CLAUDIO Ultra shows nested structures and intermediate folders. Jellyfin, Navidrome, SMB, Audiobookshelf and DLNA have improvements; WebDAV and SFTP received additional checks. Expanding folders preserves your scroll position. • Clearer libraries: Larger folder names, two-line titles, real filenames and fewer icons. Choose filenames, tags or Automatic. Rows show duration, format and track number. Sorting follows the visible title; date and size also apply to subfolders. Unsupported formats are marked and skipped during playback. • Albums belong together: Album artists keep compilations and guest appearances together in music grids and artist groups, search and CarPlay. Different track artists remain visible. Existing favorites and your metadata edits are respected. • Your author order: Sort audiobook authors by first or last name. Your choice is saved and uses available server data. • More room for large collections: Fewer recalculations, prepared search fields, background music and audiobook wall building, and bounded image memory. Server covers load more efficiently and appear more consistently on Home, in the player, on the Lock Screen and in widgets, even after connection changes. • More reliable servers: Progress and status cards show loading activity. Jellyfin resumes interrupted scans, adds missing tracks and uses device identities per installation. iCloud sync waits longer when its quota is exhausted. • Home has larger square covers, less shading, a continuous background and play/pause beside the title. The Mac player gets an orderly grid and side options. • Settings live directly under More, with tiles, consistent icons and improved search. EQ has its own entry with headphone selection and test tone. Duplicate switches are gone; navigation and tile borders are fixed. Haptics are active; Reset App is under System. • Background library refresh is now free for everyone. With the relevant access, read-along and Album Wall/LP Mode need no extra enable switch. • Also: Rate App, new app recommendations, store images and text, better VoiceOver and fixes for metadata, covers and podcast durations. Internal interfaces and tests have been improved too. Thank you for listening, testing and helping shape CLAUDIO. Enjoy version 15.0!