What’s New in FastMediaSorter v2

Current release: 2.60.7132.046 (July 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.7070.937

What’s New

Windows Companion - discover, pair, and import shared folders and SFTP access from a desktop companion app.
Shared-folder resources - import a companion-shared folder as writable, or share/import SFTP access as a file.
Companion config import - schema-v2 config keeps working with older app versions too.
Sharing receivers - Messenger, Viber, and short-video social apps can share straight into FastMediaSorter.
Screenshot OCR - crop and translate text directly from a screenshot.
Screen Capture edge gestures - configurable swipe zones across all four screen edges.
Quick-launch panel - close button, camera/video gesture actions, and search-filter on long picker lists.
Contrast mini-game - new mode with a start-of-level exit arrow.
Branded splash screen on launch.
Resource statistics persist after browsing, not just on entry.
Unified Resource Profile dialog for viewing and editing resource details.
Stream URLs with embedded credentials - manually-added HTTP streams parse Basic-Auth from the URL.

What’s Fixed

VR install prompt no longer appears when opening 3D content on the VR edition.
SFTP resource with a missing path shows a clear “not found” message.
OCR and translation now work on Google Play builds.
Audio permissions no longer silently disabled on minified release builds.
Filter dialog, Settings search, and text fields stay reachable above the keyboard.
Live streams that silently freeze now auto-recover.
Edge-gesture strips only show on zones you configured, not every zone.
Focus indicator for remote/D-pad now covers the whole app.

Previous Release: 2.60.7070.937 (July 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.7042.357

What’s New

Document viewer - tap a PDF link to open it and select text with long-press.
More OS shortcuts - extra Android settings tiles in the quick-launch panel.

What’s Fixed

Audio permission no longer silently disabled on release builds.
Stopping a quick voice recording no longer crashes.
Enable-all onboarding resumes after the app restarts.

Previous Release: 2.60.7042.357 (July 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.7040.526

What’s New

Reorder pinned streams - move a favorite up, down or to top from the streams list or grid menu.
TV/D-pad navigation - every focused control is now highlighted, and the first remote press always lands on a real control.

What’s Fixed

Streams landscape view no longer wastes vertical space on a separate control bar.
Playback-control sliders (volume, hue, brightness, speed) now track the finger correctly in portrait.
Live streams keep playing instead of pausing when entering Picture-in-Picture.

Previous Release: 2.60.7040.526 (July 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.7031.316

What’s New

Quick capture app panel - camera, voice, screen recording and link download in the quick-launch panel.
Floating recording indicator - stop a quick voice recording from an on-top control over any app.

What’s Fixed

Wider device support - now available on more TVs, tablets and landscape-only devices.
OS Interaction and Destinations settings toggles stack full-width in portrait.
Quick capture records voice, video and photo with pause, resume and discard.
Screen video recording captures the whole screen with microphone audio and pause/resume.
Edge-gesture photo capture saves headlessly to the device camera folder.

Previous Release: 2.60.7031.316 (July 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6270.802

What’s New

Main-window panels - Programs and Streams panels, collapsible panel groups, colour-coded panels, header and context menus, configure shortcut.
Streams upgrades - inline audio playback, favoriting live channels, country metadata with filter/sort, persistent last-frame thumbnails.
Screen Capture edge gestures - quick photo (plain, edit, send-to, OCR-translate) and one-tap start for audio/video/screen recording.
Camera controls - zoom presets and slider, night mode, opt-in GPS geotagging, fixed controls with Send To and capability-driven settings.
Player interface - fullscreen video by default, redesigned player settings dialog, travelling D-pad/TV focus frame.
Background/inline audio - proper audio focus handling; survives split-screen multi-window instead of stopping.
Mini-game visual modes - alternate visual styles for the built-in mini-game.
Browse background mode - copy and move operations continue while browsing elsewhere.
Exit button minimizes - minimizes instead of closing while background functions are active.

What’s Fixed

Browser sign-in no longer risks a crash when the screen rotates mid-save.
Standalone document viewer no longer leaks a PdfRenderer, file descriptor or WebView.
Read Aloud (TTS) no longer keeps playing or leaks its engine on screen recreation.
SMB connection-degradation recovery now reacts correctly under parallel load.
Network video thumbnail suspension no longer clears early, causing a false permanent-failure state.
Enable-all onboarding no longer silently reverts OCR/translation toggles.
Deprecated standalone player no longer crashes on teardown.
Standalone player pause survives background/resume; SAF rename no longer restarts playback.
Player correctness fixes: BD-TS local video, Now Playing polling, VR launch, stream recovery.
Double-tapping the same inline audio stream no longer orphans a background player.

Previous Release: 2.60.6270.802 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6251.711

What’s New

Fullscreen stream player - watch a live channel full-screen with stream-tailored controls.
Stop inline streams - tap a playing tile again to stop it.
Pin favorite streams - long-press to pin, then filter to pinned-only.
Streams remember their view - filter, sort and list position persist between visits.
Landscape stream grid - multi-column list with status dots and a per-tile menu.
Smoother stream startup - health probe plus bandwidth-adaptive buffering.
Clearer stream waiting state - separate buffering and reconnecting labels.
Edge-gesture screen capture - opt-in left-edge strip and Quick Settings tile.
Visible gesture strip - optional grey guide marks the left-edge swipe zone.
Width-based landscape layout - wide screens use the landscape layout from 600dp.

What’s Fixed

Offline streams now fail softly instead of breaking playback.
Database reset shows a recovery notice instead of failing silently.
Duplicate parenthetical names in stream titles are suppressed.

Previous Release: 2.60.6251.711 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6242.232

What’s New

Screen capture - consent-based screenshot to edit, OCR-translate, share or save.
Stream grid view - live channels as tiles with current-frame previews and favicons.
Streams quick start - add or import streams right from the empty catalog.
Compact playback controls - context-aware tabs, speed presets and volume in one dialog.
Crop in editor - crop the image to a rectangle before annotating or sharing.
Send to resource - copy the current file to a destination folder from any player.
Resource launch widget - a 1x1 home-screen icon that opens a chosen folder.

What’s Fixed

Network video thumbnails load more smoothly during fast scrolling.

Previous Release: 2.60.6242.232 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6222.158

What’s New

Stream player controls - trimmed, stream-tailored controls with channel navigation.
Cast live streams - send a live video stream to Chromecast.
Stream shortcuts and actions - home-screen shortcuts plus a per-card actions menu.
Streams settings - default sort and media-type filter, with TV-remote and mouse support.
Screen-capture app panel - OS shortcuts and the app’s own features in one panel.
Edge gestures - open the app or its panel with an edge swipe.
9-zone player grid - optional touch grid mapping zones to playback actions.
Smarter player layout - auto-fullscreen on landscape; controls adapt to orientation.
Statistics onboarding toggle - Welcome offers a statistics switch, on by default.
Welcome gesture setup - enable edge gestures from the Welcome flow.
Richer usage statistics - more tracked metrics with a clearer headline.
Cleaner settings rows - unified value rows, consistent chevrons and arrows.

What’s Fixed

Dropped live streams now auto-recover instead of prompting channel removal.

Previous Release: 2.60.6221.755 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6200.317

What’s New

Internet Streams - browse, filter and play live TV and radio channels.
Stream playback polish - channel name in the title, per-channel status, and background audio with an exit choice.
Streams setup - enable streams per device profile with a Welcome introduction.
In-app camera - Samsung-style capture with an in-screen photo and video switch.
Custom color themes - build and apply your own color theme.
Screenshot capture - take a screenshot from Operations settings or an edge gesture.
Print and transfer from viewers - print documents, text and images; copy or move opened files to a folder.
Smarter settings search - finds dropdown settings and hides rows your edition lacks.

What’s Fixed

Network folder scans no longer hang and now end with a clear timeout message.
Receiving a shared download link no longer crashes the share screen.

Previous Release: 2.60.6200.317 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6180.134

What’s New

Quick capture menu - record a voice note, video, or photo from the main menu.
Download by link - paste a link from the clipboard to fetch media.
Chromecast video - cast video to a Chromecast, not just audio.
New drawing canvas - start a blank canvas straight from Browse.
Custom brush color and size - pick any color and adjust brush thickness.
Drag to reorder resources - rearrange your resource list by dragging.
File details sheet - view file metadata in a bottom sheet from Browse.
Video player gestures - vertical brightness and volume sliders, configurable touch zones.
Text viewer themes - choose a reader theme for text files.
Fallback save - auto-save to a backup location when the destination is unavailable.
Controller, keyboard and TV navigation - full gamepad support, number-key shortcuts, remappable browser actions.
Settings reference and groups - in-app settings reference with collapsible section groups.
Crash email prompt - after a crash, the next launch offers to email the report.
Mini-game - play Kryvavitsa and the Monster from its launcher widget.

What’s Fixed

Player time statistic now records real on-screen time instead of zero.
PDF thumbnails no longer vanish while browsing.
Player controls no longer hide behind the navigation bar in standalone players.
The stop-scan button is back in the landscape network discovery dialog.
Camera capture no longer crashes when closed mid-capture.
Camera OCR now themes correctly in light mode.
D-pad navigation now works on the welcome carousel.

Previous Release: 2.60.6180.134 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6141.930

What’s New

Send to network and cloud - share files from SMB, SFTP, FTP, and cloud, fetched on demand.
Usage statistics - opt-in dashboard of capture, viewing, editing, and operation metrics.
Favorites backup - export favorites to a file and import them back later.
Photo and frame to clipboard - optionally copy each captured photo or extracted frame.
Crash report prompt - after an unexpected stop, offer to send a diagnostic report.
All Files pinned first - the All Files entry stays at the top of the list.

What’s Fixed

Audio from SFTP no longer stops after a slow folder scan.
Missing OCR engine packs now show guidance instead of silent failure.
Settings search now maps backup options correctly.

Previous Release: 2.60.6141.930 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6050.126

What’s New

Downloadable Extensions - install OCR, translation, DTS, and audio backgrounds on demand.
Smarter setup - onboarding now includes profiles, functionality toggles, permissions, and Enable All.
Remote source toggles - disable SMB, (S)FTP, or cloud sources without deleting resources.
Standalone viewer parity - shared images now support OCR, translation, drawing, crop, and fullscreen.
All Files resource - first-run file-manager entry opens newest-first full browsing.
Quick camera capture - 1×1 widget saves photos or videos to a chosen target.
SFTP key authentication - connect with private keys, passphrases, and host-key pinning.
Audio visualizations - downloadable background video set with automatic safe fallback.

What’s Fixed

Broken audio tracks now skip instead of stopping playback.
Recent Media no longer shows a false cancelled-scan error.
Too-short microphone recordings no longer save broken files.
Report-a-problem email now fills the support address.
Drawing toolbar no longer hides behind the system navigation bar.

Previous Release: 2.60.6050.126 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6031.424

What’s New

Camera OCR languages - choose OCR and translation language on the crop screen.
Re-translate OCR results - switch target language without re-capturing.
Icon-style home widgets - compact 1×1 widgets look like clean launcher icons.
Camera OCR widget - launch Camera OCR from its own home-screen widget.
Add widgets from Settings - pin a widget to the home screen in-app.
Capture & OCR panel - one home-screen panel for Camera Photos and OCR.
Audio Now Playing widget - control background audio from the home screen.
Random Photo Frame widget - rotating random photo from a chosen source.
Quick Recorder widget - one tap records voice, the next tap saves.
Scheduled Tasks widget - view and run scheduled file operations from home.

What’s Fixed

Network video playback no longer freezes on buffering.
Opening network media no longer crashes on bad entries.
Camera OCR crop frame now renders and aligns correctly.

Previous Release: 2.60.6031.424 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.6010.151

What’s New

Device profiles - first-run setup tailors defaults to your device type.
Color theme - pick Auto, Light, or Dark regardless of system.
System info - view, copy, and share a device and app summary.
Calculator upgrade - scientific functions, memory keys, history, and expressions.
Calculator from text - send selected OCR, translation, or document text in.
Text selection & copy - long-press to select and copy in documents.
Richer language picker - searchable list with flags, native names, and Czech.
Office document filter - filter Office files and recheck all types instantly.
Camera OCR crop - select a region before recognizing and translating text.
3D/VR defaults - tune auto-detection and the default immersive mode (VR).
Smoother remote & mouse control - improved D-pad, wheel scroll, and focus reach.

What’s Fixed

Mouse left-click now reaches buttons, dialogs, and dropdowns.
Camera OCR and Game Help controls stay within safe areas.

Previous Release: 2.60.6010.151 (June 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5310.007

What’s New

Camera OCR translation - capture, recognize, translate, and save text.
Text editor calculator - calculate values without leaving text editing.
Mini game and widgets - launch calculator, camera OCR, and game actions.
Release tooling guards - digest build failures and detect flavor drift.

What’s Fixed

Android TV launcher title now matches the banner and Play listing.
Google Drive backup restore uses scoped GMS auth routing.

Previous Release: 2.60.5310.007 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5302.057

What’s New

Password-protected ZIPs - extract encrypted archives after one-time prompt.
Protected document fallback - locked EPUB and Office files fail clearly.

What’s Fixed

Protected PDF renderer failures now show a clear message.

Previous Release: 2.60.5302.057 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5220.333

What’s New

Office documents - open DOC, DOCX, RTF, and ODT with an installed viewer.
Send to Telegram - share selected files to a Telegram client in one tap.
MIDI playback - play MID/MIDI files like regular music tracks.
File Manager Mode - browse and manage all file types, including archives.
VR content launch - start video into immersive VR cinema from the player (S0292, VR flavor).

What’s Fixed

DeX and multi-window file operations reachable via overflow menu (S0293).
VR video no longer displays upside-down on Quest 3 (S0290).
VR pointer rays no longer flicker from stale tracking (S0291).

Previous Release: 2.60.5220.333 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5202.303

What’s New

Cyrillic OCR - Tesseract tessdata_best Cyrillic models with automatic fallback (S0287).
Settings Search Expansion - broader coverage of settings across standard, VR, photos, and noLegal flavors.
VR Diagnostics Surface - DiagnosticXR Activity with HUD canvas, raycast targeting, and input dispatch.
TV Navigation Overhaul - unified D-pad focus and mouse-wheel routing across screens (S0289).

What’s Fixed

Finger taps unresponsive on Quest 3 and touchpad TVs (S0289).
OCR action could be re-triggered while recognition was in progress (S0288).

Previous Release: 2.60.5202.303 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5180.136

What’s New

16KB Page Alignment - aligns native libraries to 16KB boundaries for Android 15+.
AI Audit Dashboard - publishes consensus evaluation results to GitHub Pages.
Landscape Layout Tuning - optimizes spacing and pairs setting rows on wide screens.

What’s Fixed

Resolves MediaStore local copying regression on Android versions pre-Q (S0280).

Previous Release: 2.60.5180.136 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5172.102

What’s Changed

Unified expandable group headers - Settings, AddResource, ResourceEditor, Scheduled Operations, Player Copy/Move panels, Duplicates, and Keybinding now share one header style; General Settings > About is now a static divider
Simplified player controls - stereo content type, rendering mode, and IPD removed on non-VR flavors (S0241)
OCR on high-RAM low-heap devices - text recognition restored on Quest 3 (7 GB RAM, 512 MB heap)
VR dead code purge - 16 main-side files cleaned, 2 VR-only permissions removed (S0241 Phase 03)

What’s Fixed

“Low memory, close player” snackbar no longer false-fires on capable devices (S0213)
VR-only Browse routing branch removed on non-VR flavors (S0241)
Google Drive sign-in now navigates to folder picker after Credential Manager flow completes

Previous Release: 2.60.5172.102 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5160.425

What’s New

Create text notes from Browse - write notes on local, SMB, SFTP, FTP, or cloud resources with a 5-action save panel (S0189)
Central Google account - one primary account via Credential Manager powers Drive and future Google integrations (S0200)
Universal input router - D-pad, car steering, Bluetooth headset, and hardware keys mapped to semantic actions (S0230)
VR image and GIF viewer - 3D/VR toolbar icon opens images in immersive view with auto-detected stereo layout (S0238, VR flavor)
IzzyOnDroid distribution - fastlane metadata, changelog pipeline, and README badge prepared for catalog submission (S0215)

What’s Changed

System-managed rotation - orientation lock removed; reverse-portrait, tablet, and foldable layouts now work (S0222)
Adaptive Copy/Move panels - single-row layout on wide screens; button font scales with measured width (S0227)
SMB first-scan speedup - listing appears before metadata pass; per-file 1500ms budget; concurrency 2 → 8 (S0237)
Draw editor toolbar - collapsed to one row; save actions moved into overflow; filled palette swatch (S0192)
Welcome feature tiles - 4 → 6 entries for symmetric 3-column tablet and VR layouts

What’s Fixed

Instagram photo posts and carousels download correctly (S0223)
Player no longer jumps to wrong file after delete-with-advance (S0226)
SMB idle timeout no longer fires repeat bursts after one window (S0228)
SFTP browse no longer fails with “inputstream is closed” after idle (S0219)
Low-memory pre-playback toast suppressed in normal usage (S0207)
SMB audio metadata noise (Handler-on-dead-thread, EOFException) cleared (S0229)
YouTube community-post shares get a specific unsupported message (S0225)
Carousel batch download notifications use accurate slide counts (S0224)
Create-note and create-folder dialogs no longer trigger Google sign-in prompt
OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox sign-in restored on noLegal and VR sideload builds (S0232, S0233, S0235)
Network-to-local copy works in public collections on Android 10+ without all-files access (S0231)
Google sign-in reports PlayServicesOutdated with an update Play Services CTA
noLegal and VR flavors no longer show “VR Headset Required” for text, audio, PDF, and EPUB
noLegal on phones falls back to 2D player when no OpenXR runtime is available
Legacy cloud:/ path content visibility restored (S0236)
Per-file overflow Delete no longer fails with “Files not selected”
Welcome screen TAB key traverses to language pickers correctly (S0230)

Previous Release: 2.60.5160.425 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5150.150

What’s New

Draw editor v2 - oval and text annotation tools, 16-color palette dialog, in-place save, export to Google Keep
File size in browse list - size shown in media item info row for video, image, and audio files

What’s Fixed

Image-edit toolbar buttons (crop, compress, draw, open in window) no longer hidden in overflow for image viewer
Link downloads no longer show a spurious sign-in prompt when a valid session is already active

Previous Release: 2.60.5150.150 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5142.201

What’s New

Big Buttons Mode refined - 100dp controls, icon-dominant layout, adaptive 5..10 top-panel slots (spec S0208)
Slideshow auto-stop on network loss - slideshow halts on consecutive failures with an informational message and resume via the existing button (spec S0188)
Permissions button relocated - standalone tonal button below all card groups in General settings, before doc links
Device summary in settings - compact device and Android line next to the app version for screenshot-based diagnostics

What’s Fixed

Toolbar overlap with the system status bar on Android 8.x OEM car head units (spec S0204)
NetworkLifecycleBootstrapper crash when initialised from a background thread (spec S0195)
SFTP teardown no longer surfaces as an error in the log on cancel (spec S0205)
Big Buttons Mode: audio player overflow menu now sized to the widest item

Previous Release: 2.60.5142.201 (May 2026) - Fix Release

Fix: vr-permission-bridge-fragment-public

What’s Fixed

Fix IllegalStateException crash on VR passthrough camera capture when requesting the headset camera permission (spec S0203)

Previous Release: 2.60.5130.151 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.5030.230

What’s New

Adaptive player command bar - buttons automatically scale to screen width; overflow items move to a “more” menu
Sort progress indicator in Browse - a loading indicator is shown when sorting large libraries (12,000+ files)
m2ts / BD-TS playback - format detected by byte signature; routed through a dedicated decoder
Black-frame-free video thumbnails - up to three retries to find a non-black frame when generating previews
SFTP audio position saved - playback position is remembered and restored between sessions
SMB: auto-reconnect - a stalled connection is restarted automatically; connection closes in background on app minimize
“Recents” resource without folder filter - shows all recent media files regardless of their location
Network device discovery 3× faster - ports probed in parallel; real-time scan progress shown in the UI
Link download: broken file detection - a corrupted download is detected automatically; Instagram and TikTok CDN Referer/User-Agent replayed

What’s Fixed

AVI files on network resources no longer cause a 10-second stall when loading thumbnails
“End of String” speed-test error no longer surfaces in the UI
Race condition generating video thumbnails over SMB during active playback - fixed
SFTP: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on seek in channel (JSch update 0.2.16 → 0.2.26)
Volume buttons (Mute / 50% / MAX) did not fit the portrait player command bar - fixed
Network device discovery dialog showed blank content and crashed on open - fixed
Player: low-memory toast threshold lowered to 10 MB; repeat toasts suppressed within one session
Browse: cancelling a background operation no longer invalidates the folder cache or appears as an error in logs
Log noise removed: cancelled Glide requests, test credentials, and internal copy operations no longer logged

Previous Release: 2.60.5030.230 (May 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.422.246

What’s New

Keybinding remapper - reassign any control in Settings; conflict detection, hierarchical reset; 70 built-in defaults
Full keyboard, mouse & gamepad support - all screens (Browse, Player, Settings, dialogs); F1 help overlay per surface; D-pad list navigation
Camera capture in Browse - take a photo and save it directly to the current resource
Play Random in Browse - one-tap random playback for single-type libraries; Ctrl+P shortcut
Quick start from resource icon - tap the resource type badge to instantly begin playback or slideshow
Link auto-download - share any http(s) URL to the app; the media file is downloaded automatically
Single-eye 3D mode - new setting to crop stereo content to one eye for flat-screen viewing (video + images)
Settings restructured - “Files & Data” split into “Permissions” + “App Data”; “File Operations” → “Copy & Move”; Safe Mode moved to Operations

What’s Fixed

Video hue/brightness effects not applying on track change (Media3 effects-deferral fix)
RANDOM sort not reshuffling on repeated taps
Camera upload failing on network resources (SMB / FTP / SFTP)
ScheduledOperationsWorker freeze on WAKE_LOCK race condition
Print crash on Android 8 (API 26–27)
SMB scan errors now shown as a Snackbar with error count instead of being silently discarded
WebView for EPUB now created lazily (prevents OOM on low-memory devices)
ExoPlayer recreated every 4 tracks to prevent native heap OOM in long sessions
Default player chooser: fixed self-resolution loop (app was probing its own file)

Previous Release: 2.60.422.246 (April 2026)

Changes since version 2.60.4150.019

Player

Control dialog - new unified dialog (Volume, Brightness, Speed, Subtitles, 3D) for both video and audio. Left-side vertical section selector, changes apply live. Quick 50%/MAX volume presets and highlighted Mute button
Playback speed range extended to 3.0x (added 2.5x and 3.0x steps)
Video color and brightness - Hue and Brightness via Media3 GPU effects, persisted across video files
Save Frame - snapshot of the current video frame to PNG or JPG, saved to any resource (local or network). Format and destination resource configured in Video Settings
Print - send documents (PDF, TXT, images) to a printer directly from the player; network and cloud files are cached first
Random file - dice button to jump to a random file in the list; shown in audio and photo library profiles
Filename overlay auto-hide - overlay fades out automatically: TEXT 5s, PDF/EPUB 10s, others 15s. Timer resets on pause and zoom
File Info enriched for video: aspect ratio, audio channels, bitrate. For audio: album and sample rate
3D content detection by filename (SBS/OU/360) with a toast notification
Back navigation fixed in the text reader - no blank screen on exit

SMB / Network

Adaptive SMBJ timeout - 3 tiers (5s/10s/20s) based on measured connection speed; far fewer false disconnects on slow NAS
Broken pipe fix - stale pooled TCP connection is invalidated before re-opening a file
Watchdog 12s (open) + 15s (read) in SMB: ExoPlayer no longer hangs in STATE_BUFFERING on silent network drops
Error classification fixed: wrapped exceptions are now recognised correctly (was “no network” instead of “timeout”)
Integer overflow fixed when reading files larger than 2 GB over SMB

Adding Resources

Collapsible sections in the SMB/SFTP add-resource form (Conditions, Media Types, Additional)
Quick Setup profile now saved to the database (was ignored before)
Read-only SMB - adding a read-only resource shows an informational message instead of an error
“Remember file list” option now present in the add form, matching the editor

File Browser

Resource drag-to-reorder - drag and drop to manually sort resources; switches to MANUAL mode automatically
RANDOM reshuffle - tapping RANDOM sort again produces a new random order
Dice icon for the active RANDOM sort mode
Filter fix: changing a filter no longer resets an already loaded SMB file list

Audio

Playback notification - track name and cover art shown in the system notification
Tap notification body to navigate back to the player from the background
Now Playing bar controlled by a dedicated setting; hidden for audio by default
Audio metadata (Artist/Album/Title) cached in the database and shown instantly on open

Settings

“Resume on next launch” - new toggle in Playback Settings
Frame snapshot settings - destination resource and format (PNG/JPG) in Video Settings
Back navigation fixed from Settings to the main screen
Language spinner fixed: no longer fires on screen open

Performance & Stability

Adaptive pre-cache for network files - buffer size calculated automatically from connection speed and file bitrate. Configure in General Settings → Prefetch Cache
Stream Offload - download a network file to local cache with a progress dialog and optional cleanup prompt after playback
DTS/DTS-HD support via a custom FFmpeg build; software-decoded on any device

UI

Action buttons in file list enlarged and aligned to the bottom row - no longer overlap the filename
MD3 icons for all player controls and menus - system @android:drawable/* drawables replaced
PDF page indicator in landscape - fixed disappearing indicator
PDF thumbnails button added to the command bar (portrait and landscape)
Language badge on translation buttons (PDF/TXT/EPUB/Images) - restored
“How-To Guides” button in General Settings opens usage scenarios
Cold start black screen - eliminated by removing windowDisablePreview

“Share to FastMediaSorter” - the app now receives files via the Android Share sheet and offers to copy them to a selected resource

Previous versions: Development Changelog