BlueMusic: Music Player, Radiov1.5.2
Released November 9, 2026Redesign
iOS
What changed
- UXComplete overhaul of Home screen with new shelves and removal of tabs/chips
- UXNew bottom navigation bar and consolidated Profile section replacing Favorites/Settings
- UXRedesigned headers for albums and playlists with new artwork zoom and playback controls
- UXRebuilt 'Samples' feature with new gesture controls and integrated queue/lyrics
- New featureAdded volume normalization and customizable streaming quality for specific media servers
- RetentionAnimated onboarding flow that automatically suggests local radio stations
- PerformanceOptimized data usage for cloud services by caching artwork and metadata
- UXAdded gapless playback and disc-order sorting for albums
- PlatformMajor updates to Apple Watch and CarPlay interfaces including new Home shelves
- UXImproved support for Large Text, VoiceOver, and Arabic localization
Original release notes
What's new in this version: • New Home: the Songs tab opens on “Home” and no longer has chips. Instead there are shelves, most with their own “›”: Mixes for You, Recently Played, Songs, Favorites, Recently Added, Recent Releases, Your Top Songs, Rediscover, Audiobooks and Artists. Only the ones with content appear. • New bottom bar: Songs, Albums, Playlists, Radio and Profile. Profile replaces Favorites and the gear: Account, Premium, Statistics, Services & servers, Settings and Help are all there. The orders that used to be chips are now in “Sort by”, inside the ⋯ (in Songs, the sort icon at the top). • Albums, playlists and mixes open with a new header: the name on top, the artwork below and a row with the Shuffle, Play and download buttons. Samples and the ⋯ are at the top right, and the artwork opens with a zoom from its thumbnail. • Albums and Playlists, in shelves: Albums has Recently Played and one for each connected service; Playlists has Recently Played and Shared with Me. Mark albums and playlists as favorites from the ⋯ and they come first. • Samples, rebuilt: change songs by dragging the artwork sideways, pause by tapping it and close it by swiping down, like the player. The queue and the lyrics open where the artwork is. • Normalize volume (Profile → Settings): lowers the louder songs so everything plays at a similar volume. It comes turned on and never raises the volume. • Quality on mobile data (Profile → Settings): choose Original, High, Normal or Low for Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby and Plex when you’re not on Wi-Fi. On Wi-Fi and in downloads, always original. • Radio, in sections and with a grid of stations. Mark your favorites and tap the flag at the top to change country. • A refreshed first launch: the welcome is animated, no longer asks for language and country, and offers “I don’t have music yet”, which starts you off with radio stations from your country. • Account, renewed: what you’ve saved in four boxes (Playlists, Favorites, Edits and Audiobooks) and who signs in with what. • Batch downloads without jams: before downloading many songs, BlueMusic tells you the approximate size and the free space, and you can choose “Download what fits”. • Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and pCloud use less data: artwork and durations are read once per version of the file, not at every launch. • AutoMix (Premium) is turned on only with its button in the queue, …