Here’s everything that changed since 4.5.7025. I rebuilt sharing, added a Play on button that sends Voxtrona to any output or a Chromecast, and fixed the crash that turned up most often. Four of the new features came straight from your reviews.

You can get 4.6 now as a direct download from the download page. Google Play is still on 4.5 for now, and 4.6 will be there soon.

Share, rebuilt

• Six new cards, swiped between: Glow, Now Playing, Halo, Poster, Liner Notes and Vinyl.
• Glow: the lyric lights up as if being sung.
• Now Playing: the progress bar sits at the real time of the chosen line.
• Halo: the cover ringed by a pattern generated from the song itself, different for every song.
• Shapes and colours: Story, Post, Square or Wide, coloured from the artwork, Night or Paper.
• Lyrics: pick up to four lines; the line playing right now is picked for you.
• Sticker: on a Story, the card can float over a blurred cover, like Apple Music’s WhatsApp cards.
• The page: the background takes the song’s colours, and it has Share image, Share link and copy-link buttons.

Play on and Chromecast

• A new Play on button on Now Playing lists your real outputs: the phone, Bluetooth earbuds by name, wired, USB and HDMI. Picking one moves only Voxtrona’s sound.
• Chromecast speakers and TVs appear in the same list. Playback carries on from the same second, and stopping brings it back to the phone.
• The volume slider is now the phone’s media volume, so it moves with the volume keys.
• On desktop, which is still in development, Play on lists your computer’s sound outputs.

One style for the player’s sheets

• The Sound sheet (spatial audio, streaming quality, output) now uses the same container and rows as Play on, instead of its own glass panels.

Spotify Canvas

• The canvas is prepared as soon as the song starts, so it appears as Now Playing opens, the first time and every time after.
• The right canvas and Spotify lyrics now match the song; the old lookup often grabbed the first search result instead.
• Live streams no longer search Spotify over and over.

New features from user requests over reviews

• Download songs you like (Settings → Audio): liking a song downloads it, and switching it on fetches songs you liked before.
• Audio, not videos, in radio (Settings → Playback). This also fixes songs that were silently missing from radio queues.
• Sync follows to YouTube (Settings → YouTube). Unfollowing an artist also stops their release notifications.
• Last.fm (Integrations): scrobbles after half the track or four minutes of real listening; plays made offline are sent later, and likes become loved tracks.

Crash and freeze fixes

• Fixed the most common crash, which hit when lyrics were sent and voted on at the same moment.
• Fixed the freeze at launch caused by checking the downloads list.
• Fixed freezes while long playlists load.
• The glass and moving background now start a moment after launch, so weaker phones don’t stall on the first frame.
• media3 updated to 1.9.4. I had one ExoPlayer crash report with no detail to trace, so I’m keeping an eye out for it.

Desktop (still in development)

• Downloads keep going when you leave the page, show their progress, and half-finished files are never played.
• Old canvas videos no longer keep running in the background.

Smaller fixes

• The YouTube “Log out” button on the Integrations page did nothing; it works now.
• What’s New is updated for 4.6.