Mobile MA – New versions

Mobile MA 3.9 – Groups, scenes with any media type, Opus & color worlds

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Mac: Mobile MA is now available for the Mac as well – as a dedicated app on the Mac App Store with a sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, widgets and a player in the menu bar; your Unlimited purchase applies there too (macOS 26 or later)
Groups and scenes: “Rooms” are now “Groups” – they sit as targets next to the players in “Play on…”, reach your Apple TV via iCloud and can be chosen as a playback target there; scenes bring their own source and now play any media type – album, artist, track, radio station, podcast or audiobook
Appearance: color world and typeface chosen separately, three new color worlds (Sunset, Lavender, Slate) and three new typefaces (Plus Jakarta Sans, Figtree, Oswald); widgets follow your theme with display font, accent and a calmer artwork background
Library: provider filter as a chip bar above every list (Unlimited), podcasts, audiobooks, artists, playlists and radio stations added to the library without favoriting, player lists follow the visibility set in Music Assistant
Local player: new quality tier “Data Saver (Opus)” – music on the go with about a tenth of the data; the chip in Now Playing shows the tier and the actual format
Handling: Now Playing opens after choosing a player (can be turned off, then a hint with a jump target appears), sound waves on the speaker button, faster start, song title in the Apple Watch Smart Stack with a favorite key you can switch off, Continue Listening jumps to the remembered position – in CarPlay too
Music Assistant 2.11 (beta): “Pre-orders” on Home with albums yet to be released (currently Apple Music), thumbs down, “Search on your services” in the album and track menus, stream address in connection diagnostics
Fixes & stability: no stale Lock Screen for another player in the background, CarPlay playback errors on iOS 27 no longer quit the app, crash reports in the diagnostics recording, grid density no longer briefly falls back at launch

Mobile MA 3.8 – AI Radio, albums by album artist & Czech

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI Radio: the Radio tab gets a “Radio | AI Radio” switch with your server’s stations, started on a player of your choice; in a player’s menu you put a host on whatever is playing – from your library, Spotify or Tidal. Hosted segments carry a microphone symbol, stations fit into multi-room scenes and sit in CarPlay under Library → AI Radio. Requires the AI Radio plugin on your server (Music Assistant 2.10.3 or newer)
Albums by album artist: the album list can sort by the album artist from the tags – all of an artist’s albums together, and the A–Z rail jumps by artist
Home: every section has its own page behind the chevron, which keeps loading where Home stops; “For You” sits at the top right and can be hidden in “Customize Home”
Local player: Hi-Res tracks as FLAC over Sendspin on request, lossless up to 24 bit; the quality level shows the expected data rate, the player can be renamed and stays reachable on the server while CarPlay is connected
Handling: the floating speaker button moves to another corner after a long press, ambient sounds have their own motifs (also as artwork), multi-room scenes confirm their start – and Czech is the tenth language
Fixes & stability: Now Playing shows what is really playing on an external source (such as Sonos radio); no more artwork flicker in web radio and CarPlay; the trial offer on first playback is back; CarPlay no longer crashes on deep navigation; the diagnostics recording arrives as a ZIP attachment in every mail app

Mobile MA 3.7 – Portuguese, lyrics from LRCLIB & promo codes in the purchase screen

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Mobile MA now speaks Portuguese – in two separate versions for Brazil and Portugal; that makes nine languages
Lyrics come from LRCLIB first, other sources only after that
Promo codes are redeemed right in the purchase screen – on iPhone and Apple TV, no detour
Support and the FAQ open in the language you use the app in
The player list marks your own device with “This iPhone”
Fixes & stability

Mobile MA 3.6 – Playback position, connections in plain words & two new languages

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Playback position, rebuilt: it stops when playback pauses or stalls and keeps the right speed for podcasts and audiobooks – in the app, on the Lock Screen, in CarPlay, on Apple Watch and on Apple TV
Connections in plain words: errors name the cause and the next step, a guided check helps you along, Cancel is always within reach; remote access falls back to your direct connection automatically, and setup tells you up front when it needs a Home Assistant Cloud subscription over cellular
Two new languages: Italian and Polish – in the app, on Apple Watch and in the widgets
The timed sleep timer now runs on the server (Music Assistant 2.10 or later) and also stops network speakers while your iPhone is locked; 15, 30 and 60 minutes stay free, custom duration, “end of track” and “end of queue” are part of Unlimited from this version on
Grid density Comfortable, Standard or Dense for Home, Library and Favorites (Comfortable and Dense with Unlimited); two new themes: Green and Psychedelic (Unlimited)
Artist pages get “Play all” and “Queue all” on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV; the heart in Now Playing asks what you mean: song, album or artist; “Show in Music Assistant” takes you into your server’s web interface on a direct connection
CarPlay: favorites grouped by type, large artist and album lists with an A–Z entry, podcast episodes newest first with episode number and date
Fixes & stability: no more automatic metadata refreshes on your server, hidden Home sections stay hidden, “Newest first” for podcasts, radio shows title and artist separately, two iPad windows both stay up to date, themes and app icons stay readable at large text sizes, your iPhone shows up as a player again right after connecting

Mobile MA 3.5 – Themes, players overview & playback on the go

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Themes: eight color worlds, seven of them with their own typeface – Standard and Arctic for free, Neon, Noir, Coffee, Creme, Pinkish and Colorful with Unlimited; the dark Standard theme is now a softer dark grey instead of pure black
Players overview: player cards with artwork, previous/play/next, volume, sync and transfer (Unlimited); “Stop all” and “Mute all” at the top
Playback on the go: music picks up within seconds after a dead zone, switching between Wi-Fi and cellular no longer needlessly interrupts, the first CarPlay play no longer breaks the connection, and the app tells you clearly when your server can’t be reached from outside
Diagnostics mode: record, review and share problems anonymously as a text file
Podcasts show release date and platform, radio shows the station; “What’s new” as a structured list; try Unlimited free for 7 days – a one-time offer after your first playback, no subscription
Apple TV: favorite songs, album in Now Playing, artwork for internet radio, Siri Remote and system controls, live radio without misleading skip buttons, scenes via iCloud
Fixes & stability: connection switching and profiles, Wi-Fi detection, album source filters, widgets after a server switch, password manager on login, players without power control, podcast progress, Home layout

Mobile MA 3.4 – Ambient sounds & extended scenes

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ambient sounds: white, pink and brown noise plus ocean waves – a seamless endless loop, free, on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and CarPlay
Multi-Room scenes, extended: a new “Play Favorite Songs” scene (plays your favorites locally), local playback in scenes in general, a per-scene shuffle toggle and more icons to choose from
Album length: an album’s total running time now appears in the album view on iPhone and Apple TV
Apple TV: system Now Playing and Siri Remote transport for the local player
Control Center and widgets fully localized
Fixes & stability: artwork over remote access (newer Music Assistant servers), more accurate position and remaining-time on Apple Watch, and many small fixes

Mobile MA 3.3 – Audio analysis, Smart Fades and automatic server discovery

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Audio analysis & tone control: loudness analysis for your music plus bass, mids and treble controls – with Smart Fades for seamless transitions and a Pro DSP suite
Effortless setup: the app now discovers your Music Assistant server on the network automatically – just sign in with username and password
Apple TV: lyrics for the current track plus expanded album and artist detail pages
Apple Watch: reworked screens – cleaner and easier to read
Widgets: additional content for home and lock screen
New language: Dutch
“Did you know?”: the app introduces hidden features – also collected under Info & Help
Improvements: full-screen artist artwork and plenty of polish throughout the app

Mobile MA 3.2 – Apple TV at full size, Don't Stop The Music and iCloud sync

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Apple TV, expanded: new onboarding, search with album detail, library with categories (genres, podcasts, audiobooks, radio) and a dedicated Favorites tab, full-screen Now Playing with progress, ±15 s and target player picker, Settings tab — plus a configurable Top Shelf right on the Home screen
Multi-room scenes on Apple TV, Apple Watch and CarPlay: scenes you created on iPhone can now be applied everywhere
“Don’t Stop The Music”: automatic continued playback when the queue runs out — toggle per player
Connections via iCloud: your server connections optionally sync across all your devices
Audiobooks: chapters as jump markers — skip straight to any chapter, including from “Up Next”
Home screen: sync sections with the server (visibility and order), see them in your language, and know where each section comes from; new library-based rows: radio favorites, podcasts, playlists and audiobooks
Browse: new provider and folder view (e.g. Apple Music, Radio browser), just like on the web
Sound quality on the go: automatic downsampling on cellular saves data, quality tiers configurable per network
Improvements: Sendspin reliably re-registers after a network change, CarPlay “Previous” no longer jumps to the start of the track, no more duplicate Lock Screen entry, podcast episodes with longer titles, expandable description and correct numbering, “Up Next” now shows all cover art, the progress bar keeps moving on Sonos/AirPlay, richer cover backdrop in album view and Now Playing, fixes to connection profiles, cache management and the Apple Watch translation

Mobile MA 3.1 – Mobile MA on Apple TV

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Mobile MA now runs on Apple TV: control players, see Now Playing with artwork, browse your library and search — right on the TV. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Apple TV (universal purchase), requires tvOS 17
Credential handoff to Apple TV: your iPhone hands your server credentials over with a tap via the device picker or with a 6-digit code — no typing on the TV keyboard
Live Activity & Dynamic Island: Now Playing lives on your Lock Screen and around the Dynamic Island, with playback controls
Apple Watch, smoother: progress keeps ticking between updates, lost commands are no longer silent, the Digital Crown no longer jumps to a stale volume, bigger touch targets
Connection profiles stay separate: each profile keeps its own server and login, plus a new “Add a different connection” flow
CarPlay & playback: progress stays in sync during local playback, the CarPlay home mirrors the app, and external sources show what’s really playing instead of a stale title
Polish: album views show the track count, library covers load per server, and the local-player close button is no longer clipped
Note: Mobile MA 3.1 requires Music Assistant server 2.9 or newer

Mobile MA 3.0 – Apple Watch app, connection profiles & iCloud sync

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Apple Watch app: control Music Assistant players from your wrist — browse players, see what’s playing with artwork, play/pause, skip, adjust volume with the Digital Crown, favorite the current track and scrub the timeline
Connection profiles: save more than one server as a named profile (e.g. Test and Prod) and switch with a single tap — no more signing out and back in, each profile keeps its own Direct and Remote access
iCloud sync for app data: scenes, home layout, speaker order, volume preferences and radio bookmarks follow you to every device and survive a reinstall
Search in CarPlay: find artists, albums and tracks by voice or keyboard while you drive
Pick the source in CarPlay: when an album exists in more than one source, CarPlay asks which one before playing and merges duplicate albums into a single entry
Redesigned Settings: a clean, categorised layout with a quick info button on each setting
A dramatic launch screen that shows your chosen app icon
Listen Later shortcuts: stash a single track or a whole album with one tap from the menu
Local playback resumes on its own after short system or Siri announcements
Now Playing shows the cover again for albums with more than one source
The progress bar is now tappable to seek
Discover explains an empty state instead of going blank, and stays populated on newer server versions
Artist and album info loads more reliably and prefers your own server’s text
The scrobbler no longer counts a track as played when the stream drops out
CarPlay recovers automatically when a player queue went stale
Pull-to-refresh on Home no longer leaves the screen shifted
You can paste a copied long-lived token into the login field
Share Mobile MA straight from the app

Mobile MA 2.9 – Spectrum visualizer & new icon design

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Spectrum visualizer: when music plays on your iPhone, a real-time spectrum dances next to the format chips. Tap it and it expands over the cover art — with reflection, peak dots and a soft glow
New app icon design: a fresh “Rhythm” icon as the default, plus six color variants (Ocean, Forest, Sunset, Mono, Light, Classic)
Home your way: all sections and Discover sources in one single list — freely mix, reorder and hide anything
Separate CarPlay selection: your car can show a leaner selection than your iPhone
Start the 7-day free trial right from CarPlay
Add search results straight to your library via the new library glyph
Refresh button in the player list re-registers your iPhone if it has dropped off
Artwork is far more robust: covers survive switching between LAN and remote access, no stuck placeholders, the album widget reliably shows covers again
Compatible with Music Assistant Server 2.9: radio and artist images load again
Playback on the go: local playback resumes automatically after signal drops
The A–Z jump bar now works in every library view, French translation fully revised

Mobile MA 2.8 – Continue Listening, radio bookmarks & queue everywhere

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Continue Listening for podcasts and audiobooks: a new Home section picks spoken-word content up right where you left off, kept in sync by your server
Radio bookmarks that turn into real tracks: capture the song airing, resolve it against your library and providers, then play, queue or favorite it
Play Next and Add to Queue on tracks, albums and playlists — always targeting whatever is playing now
Favorite in CarPlay: heart the current song, album and artist from the car
Per-speaker volume steps: choose how far the volume buttons jump, globally or per speaker
Similar music: find similar tracks, albums and artists
CarPlay Home now mirrors your app Home — same sections, order and visibility
Connection details survive app updates via iCloud, remote login shows the real server message instead of a generic error
Lots of polish: tidier Home rows, aligned artwork, better iPad sidebar behaviour, many translation fixes

Mobile MA 2.7 – Rock-solid playback & build your library from anywhere

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rock-solid iPhone playback: controls, progress bar and volume stay in sync, speed changes and skips apply instantly, volume shows an exact number
Build your library from anywhere: “More from this artist” shows a provider’s full discography, add albums, artists and search results in a tap
One-tap home / away: a button on Home switches between your local and remote connection and clearly shows which one is active
Artwork that shows up: covers load reliably across the app and widgets, including on servers that were picky about image routes
Multi-Room scenes you can manage: edit or delete saved scenes right from Home or the Scenes screen
CarPlay and polish: browse streaming artists in CarPlay, a consistent close button everywhere, haptic feedback, and a refreshed Up Next
More reliable everywhere: reconnect after a dropped remote connection, errors are shown instead of failing silently, faster cold launch and stability fixes

Mobile MA 2.6 – Discover, redesigned

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Discover, redesigned: Home leads with a recommendations grid, sections reorderable or hideable
Source tags on albums, artists and playlists (SPO, AM, LOC, SMB …), tap to filter
Smarter Search: results from different providers merged, new scope chips
Radio song memory: save something good with one tap, on iPhone and CarPlay
Party mode with shared control
Favorite playlists get their own tab in Favorites
Quick bug reporting right from Settings
Lots of polish: reliable widget artwork, correct playlist covers, faster escape to network settings

Mobile MA 2.5 – Remote access via WebRTC

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Remote Access via WebRTC — reach your server from anywhere, no port-forwarding or VPN
Multi-Room scenes on Home, one tap away
Album and artist info catches up automatically
CarPlay improvements: alphabet picker, radio station metadata, synced queue progress
For You picks resolve more reliably to the right library item
Listening history now includes plays from every client
New Audiobooks tab in Library and Favorites
iPad Now Playing sheet uses the full screen size

Mobile MA 2.4 – Mobile MA Unlimited launches

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Mobile MA Unlimited is here: a one-time purchase unlocks every premium feature, try it free for 7 days
Hand the queue to another player — current track, position, everything up next
Save the queue as a playlist directly
Read up on the artist on Wikipedia, with sensible language fallbacks
Tap artist, album or queue right from Now Playing

Mobile MA 2.3.1 – Complete CarPlay library

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Podcasts: filter an episode list by Played/Unplayed with one tap, redundant prefix removed
Widgets now pick up the cover colour, artwork rotates once an hour
Live radio shows the actual song and artist instead of just the station name
CarPlay Library complete: Album Artists, Artists, Genres, Songs, Radios and Favourites
Listen Later is now silently provisioned on first connect and consolidated across devices
Pinch to zoom the cover, then drag it with one finger
Settings reorganized into nine logical sections
Various fixes, including the IAP reset and CarPlay favourites

Mobile MA 2.3 – Discovery widget, CarPlay prep & podcast progress

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Discovery widget on the Home Screen now refreshes reliably
CarPlay works even before opening Mobile MA, including album artwork
Mark podcast episodes as played or reset progress straight from the episode list
Listen Later is now a polished tab in Favorites with covers and pull-to-refresh
Auto-reconnect after network handoffs or returning the app to the foreground
Long-press a track to start playback from that point
Detail views now tint their backgrounds with the cover’s dominant colour
Various fixes for widget, CarPlay and Dynamic Island

Mobile MA 2.2 – CarPlay for Mobile MA Unlimited

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The biggest Unlimited feature yet: full CarPlay browsing for your Music Assistant library
Home, Library and Favorites tabs in the car; play albums, playlists, podcasts and radios with one tap
Now Playing reborn: new zone-based layout, predictable volume
Smart Playlists (Unlimited): rule-based, survive edits, sync via iCloud
Podcasts and audiobooks: Continue Listening, variable speed, configurable skip intervals
Extended sort options, recently-searched list, player-type icons
Music Assistant server 2.9 ready
Dozens of smaller polish wins and fixes

Mobile MA 2.1.1 – Playlist editing

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Full playlist editing: reorder, shuffle, duplicate or remove tracks, plus rename or delete the playlist

Mobile MA 2.1 – Free trial, Smart Playlists & translations

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

7-day free trial: the first tap on any Premium feature unlocks everything, no payment required
Smart Playlists are now editable, rules synced via iCloud
Steady playback through dead zones via configurable buffers
Auto-generated playlist covers built from album artwork
Album-less artists: songs, playlists and radios surface for artists with no albums
Complete listening history with duplicates removed
Accent colour follows the app icon you pick
Floating Players Button, sticky artist filter chips
712 strings, fully translated into German, French and Spanish

Mobile MA 2.0 – Widgets, Lock Screen & Dynamic Island

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Discover Album and Discover Artist widgets with a fresh pick every few hours
Lock Screen, AirPods and Dynamic Island done right: full Now Playing controls, shuffle, repeat, double-tap to favorite
Customize Home: reorder carousels, layout sticks across launches and updates
More apps for self-hosters linked discreetly (gyokuro, dock-g, picaroa, BookStax)
Recently played, recently added and random carousels stay in sync across devices
Widget look polished, Lock Screen Now Playing without redundant artist prefixes
Local playback survives reinstalls without leaving zombie entries on the server
Siri, phone calls and interruptions resume music automatically
Switching between WiFi and cellular no longer kills local playback
Pull to refresh on album and artist pages

Mobile MA 1.8 – New Home screen & For You

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Brand-new Home screen with Recently Played, Recently Added, Random Artists and Albums, Favorites, and Radio Favorites
For You: AI music suggestions powered by Apple Intelligence on iOS 26, with bring-your-own-key fallback to Claude or OpenAI
Volume Limits and Night Mode with a session override
Search now finds radio stations by name alongside artists, albums, and tracks
Tapping Play on an album or track really replaces the queue instead of appending
Album Artists and All Artists combined under a single Artists tab
Settings reorganized, with a gear icon on the Home screen
Recently Played cards now show artwork
Credits page clarifies Mobile MA is an independent third-party client for Music Assistant

Mobile MA 1.7.5 – Album fallback & instant power button

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Opening an album from the Albums tab works reliably again — when the library lookup misses, Mobile MA falls back to the underlying provider automatically
The power button flips between on and off instantly on tap, with a clear diagonal strike-through in the off state
The developer menu is hidden by default; tap the version number five times to reveal it

Mobile MA 1.7.4 – Favorites, power button & accessibility

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Favorites now reliably persist across app launches, including radio stations
New power-off button — turn a speaker off rather than just pausing, from Now Playing or the player list
“Spread the Word” share button in Settings to recommend Mobile MA via the system share sheet
Full Dynamic Type support so text and icons scale with your iOS Larger Text setting
VoiceOver labels and adjustable sliders for transport controls, mute, volume and progress
Honours Reduce Motion and Differentiate Without Color
Rooms section added to the iPad sidebar
“Show complete album” now reliably loads the full album regardless of the selected artist
Mute and volume buttons now meet the 44×44 point minimum hit target