Stash

Control the web player from your phone. A home screen widget. Data saver optimized. Saved albums fix + many more improvements.

What's new

• Control the web player from your phone. When the web player is open in a linked browser, Home and Library show a card above the mini player with what's on there. Play, pause and skip from the card, or tap it for a seek bar and the browser's volume.
• A home screen widget. Add Stash's Now playing widget from your home screen's widget list, wide or square, and resize it as you like. It shows the cover and title with play/pause and next, and a tap on the cover or title opens Now Playing. Play picks up where you left off even after Stash was closed, and Next always starts the next song playing.
• Data saver really saves data, and leaves beta. Data saver in Settings → Audio & Quality now works on mobile data and metered Wi-Fi only: songs stream in lower quality instead of FLAC, pictures are smaller, and nothing is fetched ahead. On Wi-Fi nothing changes, and downloads are never affected. The song already playing finishes as it started; the change applies from the next one.
• Library → Albums now holds your saved albums. Each album you've saved, whether in Stash, from a pasted link, on YouTube Music or on Spotify, shows there with its songs in album order, each song once. Songs that aren't on a saved album stay in Songs and Artists. Spotify sync now brings in your saved albums too (switch it off on Sync's Spotify page, under Albums). Saved albums no longer crowd Playlists or Add to playlist, and they don't show in the web player yet.
• Moods and genres in Search. Before you type, Search now shows Moods & moments and Genres as colour tiles with covers. A tile opens its playlists, and a genre's page now has Songs and Albums rows too. The keyboard waits until you tap the field, and your recent searches show then. Don't want them? Turn off Settings → Appearance → Moods & genres in Search.
• Likes reach Spotify, YouTube Music and Last.fm reliably, and leave beta. Every heart is kept until it's sent, so a like made offline or before a restart still goes through. If a song was already liked on the service, un-hearting it in Stash leaves it liked there. Each switch in Settings → Accounts & Sync now shows whether everything has gone through, and likes you make in the web player reach those services too, through the same switches on your linked phone.
• Fewer duplicate songs. After the update, Stash tidies up repeat copies of the same song once, in the background, and tells you how many it merged; plays, likes and playlist places move to the copy that stays. Pairs it isn't sure about wait for you in Settings → Library & Storage → Library Health → Possible duplicates, where you choose Merge or Not a duplicate. A song you already have is never downloaded twice: tapping Download on it says "Already on your phone."
• Fix a wrong match yourself. On the Sync tab, open the songs that couldn't be matched and tap one: a search box opens with its artist and title, showing YouTube Music's results first and then the rest of YouTube. Preview a result and tick it to use it. In Now Playing, ⋮ → Flag as Wrong Match → Find a better match now takes you straight there.
• New on Home: Because you like, and New from your artists. Because you like ‹song› picks a song you play a lot or liked lately and shows songs related to it, mostly ones you don't have yet; tap one to play the row. New from your artists shows this year's and last year's releases from the artists you play most. Both fill in once you've listened for a while, show while you're Online, and can be moved or hidden in Settings → Appearance → Home layout.
• Import a playlist file. Library → + → Import a playlist file turns an M3U, XSPF, CSV or TXT playlist into a playlist of your own, matched to songs you already have. Importing a newer copy later adds only what'

Paste links from Spotify, YT, or Soundcloud. Sync & play your SoundCloud library. Sync tab OVERHAUL. Reorganize your playlists. Update Stash from the app itself. + many more improvements.

What's new

• The Sync tab, rebuilt. A fresh install asks once how your music should arrive, with Stream everything picked, and then one sync puts your whole Spotify and YouTube Music on Home and in Library. The tab shows your newest mixes as art; Sync now and Play something new are the big buttons. Each account gets its own page with Playlists, Mixes and Liked, a search, and an In your library check per playlist. History, blocked songs, undo and the log live behind one History row.

  

• SoundCloud. Connect your SoundCloud account in Settings → Accounts, or just give Stash a public profile. It syncs your likes, the playlists you made and the mixes SoundCloud makes for you, which show on Home under Made for you. Paste or share a SoundCloud track, set, mix or profile link to add it. Songs play as the exact upload you liked, never a look-alike, and a download keeps the whole recording. A song SoundCloud only lets you preview shows a Preview badge and can't be downloaded. SoundCloud songs stay on the phone: they don't go to the web player.

• Your record, in the app. The listening record from stashfm.app now lives in Stash, built from this phone's plays and working offline, with its card on Home under Daily Discover. Bring in your Spotify history and your Last.fm scrobbles, see your top artists and songs, what's not in your Stash yet, and mixes only your years can make. Your record feeds your mixes too, and shows your own album art.

  

• Paste or share a link. Share a Spotify or YouTube link to Stash, or paste one into the Library's + menu or into Search, and the playlist, album or song is added to your library, downloaded if you like. Paste it again later and Stash adds only what's new.

• Your own playlist order. Tap Edit order above a playlist's songs and drag them where you want. The order is yours from then on: songs a sync brings in land at the bottom, and a button at the end takes you back to Spotify's, YouTube's or the album's order.

• Stash updates itself. When a new version is out, a sheet shows what's new and how big it is; Update now downloads and installs it in one tap. Later asks again tomorrow. The first time, Android asks you to allow installs from Stash.

• Download mode is offline again. With the switch on Download, Stash lists only the songs on your phone and never streams. Tap a song that isn't downloaded and it tells you to switch to Stream only. Stream only is unchanged.

UX polish

• The Downloads screen shows how many songs are really downloading, no longer lists songs that were never going to download, and gets Clear queue and Clear history.
• Artist pages open About with a row of the artist's photos; tap one for a full-screen viewer. The banner falls back to the artist's album covers, and the header's links are tidier.
• Full art shows the next song's cover the moment you skip, and keeps its page when Cycle album art is off.
• More of Settings and the Sync tab can now be translated on Crowdin. Thanks to @ParaliyzedEvo.

Bug fixes

• Censored versions. Songs with explicit lyrics often played their clean versions. There were three causes: Spotify syncs never read the parental advisory, so every synced song counted as clean; songs in mixes borrowed the wrong length from Last.fm, so the radio edit was asked for; and when the clean and explicit versions tied, search order decided.

Full art: Now Playing's art fills the screen, and the album's pages turn behind the controls as the song plays.

What's new

• Full art. Now Playing's cover now fills the top of the screen, fading into the controls below. As the song plays, the art moves on to the back cover and the pages inside, drifting slowly across each one so you see all of it. Swipe across the art to turn a page yourself. Prefer the square cover? Tap the arrows button at the top of Now Playing to switch, and Now Playing remembers which way you left it.
• Make full art yours. In Settings → Appearance → Full art, choose how close the art is (zoom all the way out to see the whole cover), how fast it drifts (or stop the drift), and whether it fades into a blur of the art or a solid color.
• The title, your way. The song title now sits on the left. In Settings → Appearance → Now Playing you can put it back in the center, and choose the button beside it: the sleep timer, nothing at all, or a shortcut like Lyrics, Queue, Radio or Share.
• Discogs art is your call. Some back covers and inside pages come from Discogs, where people upload their own photos, and some of those are low quality. Turn off Settings → Appearance → Now Playing → Discogs art to see only the scans from the Cover Art Archive.
• Stash in your language. Stash now follows your phone's language, or pick one in Settings → Appearance → Language. Settings is translated into 13 languages so far, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish; the rest of the app will follow. Thanks to @ParaliyzedEvo and everyone translating on Crowdin.

UX polish

• Lyrics open smoothly over full art, and the live lyrics line sits right on the art.
• The artist and album under the song title get the full width, so long album names aren't cut short.
• Stash now fills in missing albums only for songs you've played or saved, so it does less work in the background.

Bug fixes

• After the art had cycled to the back cover, turning it over and back could leave it stuck on the back. It now always comes back to the front.
• An artist page opened without a connection stayed blank for hours, even after you were back online. It now shows a Retry button that loads the page. Thanks to @ddanialb.
• Tapping an artist from a song could open a different artist with a similar name. It now opens the right one, or tells you it couldn't find them. Thanks to @ddanialb.

Install

Download Stash.apk below and open it on your Android device. If you've got a previous Stash release installed, this upgrades in place — your library, sync history, and settings are preserved.

Requires: Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer.

See the README for first-time setup.

What's Changed

• Last.fm proxy: cache "not found", answer unfindable lookups itself by @rawnaldclark in https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/pull/700
• Now Playing: full art, title and art settings, Discogs switch by @rawnaldclark in https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/pull/701
• Fix artist pages stuck empty after a failed load, and wrong-artist resolution by @ddanialb in https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/pull/698
• Add in-app language picker by @ParaliyzedEvo in https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/pull/699
• Now Playing: the owner's setup as the default; artist line gets the full width by @rawnaldclark in https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/pull/702

New Contributors

• @ddanialb made their first contribution in https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/pull/698

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/compare/v0.9.120...v0.9.121

Turn the album over: Now Playing now shows the back cover and the pages inside the album.

What's new

• Flip the cover. Tap the album art on Now Playing to turn it over to the album's real back cover. While it's turned, swipe left or right to page through the inside: the booklet, the gatefold and the inner sleeve. Tap again to turn it back. Swiping to skip and double-tapping to seek work as before on the front.
• Look up close. Pinch the cover, the back or any page and it lifts off the art to fill the screen. Pinch and drag to read the small print, then tap or press back to put it down.
• Cycle album art. While Now Playing is open, the art slowly fades from the front to the back and through the inside pages, then round again. Touch the art to stay on a page. It's on for everyone; turn it off in Settings → Appearance → Cycle album art.
• Albums for every song. Songs from Last.fm playlists and mixes often came in with no album, so they had no album page and no back cover. Stash now asks Last.fm which album each one is on, and fills in only the ones that were blank.
• Your whole listening history, for the web. Settings → Library & Storage → Stash on the web can now include every play on this phone in the saved file, for Your record in the web player.

UX polish

• The art for the next song is looked up while the current one plays, so the flip is usually ready the moment it starts.
• Back covers and inside pages come from the Cover Art Archive, and from Discogs for albums the archive doesn't have. Pages from Discogs say "Data provided by Discogs" and link to the album there.
• Deluxe editions, anniversary reissues and remasters find the original album's art.

Known limitations

• Albums from smaller artists often have no back cover yet: nobody has scanned one into the Cover Art Archive or Discogs.
• Discogs doesn't say which photo is the back, so Stash picks the likeliest one. Now and then the "back" is a gatefold's inside.

Install

Download Stash.apk below and open it on your Android device. If you've got a previous Stash release installed, this upgrades in place — your library, sync history, and settings are preserved.

Requires: Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer.

See the README for first-time setup.

What's Changed

• Export your whole listening history for Your record on the web by @rawnaldclark in https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/pull/693
• Now Playing: flip the art to the album's back and inside pages by @rawnaldclark in https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/pull/696

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rawnaldclark/Stash/compare/v0.9.119...v0.9.120