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Every merged change to main publishes a new release with its own notes on GitHub Releases. This page summarizes the larger changes.

Milkbeat 1.0

Milkbeat 1.0 follows the 0.9 builds directly: it installs over 0.9 with your settings, sign-ins, plugins and downloads intact, and the in-app updater offers it like any other update. It includes everything from the 0.9 builds, among them the single YouTube plugin and the removal of playlist syncing, both described below.

YouTube replaces YouTube Music and YouTube Video

  • The YouTube plugin (code 563) is now the one YouTube provider: YouTube Music Home with mood chips, search, pages, library and radio, plus YouTube playback and music videos. It gets the YouTube tab also signed out, and holds it when the old plugins are still installed. YouTube
  • The YouTube Music and YouTube Video plugins are retired and their codes (728, 416, 494, 932, 304 and 744) removed. An installed copy keeps working without updates; its tab and Settings → Plugins page offer Add YouTube. Retired plugins
  • Signed out, the YouTube tab and Settings → Plugins → YouTube offer Download MicroG-RE-TV in the stable GitHub build, which installs the latest MicroG-RE-TV and continues to sign-in. Sign in
  • YouTube 0.1.4 plays a stream that YouTube's TV player refuses through YouTube's other players, and leaves the TV player out for 30 minutes. YouTube
  • YouTube 0.1.5 with Milkbeat 1.0.1 plays a live set someone else re-uploaded, such as a SoundCloud copy credited to the uploader, through the performer's own YouTube upload. Playback

Playlist syncing to YouTube removed

  • Milkbeat no longer prepares private YouTube copies of Spotify and other playlists: the Prepare private playlists in option, its background preparation and progress, and playback through those copies are gone. Copies made earlier stay in your YouTube account and show in Library like your other playlists.
  • A queue that does not come from YouTube continues with YouTube's radio for its first song, matched by title, artist and length, and with that service's own radio only when YouTube has no match. Playback
  • Entries below that describe private playlist preparation, mirroring pairs or batch playlist copying are history.

Since 0.9.0 (up to 0.9.55)

Browsing

  • A sidebar tab per music service (0.9.55). Each catalog you can use gets its own tab with its logo: YouTube Music as soon as it is installed, the others once you are signed in. The metadata provider setting is gone. Milkbeat opens on the music tab you used last, and each tab keeps its place. Music tabs
  • Local library (0.9.10, its own tab since 0.9.55). Linked music folders get a library built from your tags: genres, recently added, artists, releases, playlists, labels and years, with tagged BPM. Local library
  • Search shows a chip per music tab, including your local library, plus Videos. Library shows a chip per signed-in account with its own sections.

Music folders

  • WebDAV, SFTP and NFS (v3, 4.0, 4.1) sources next to SMB, with SFTP server-key confirmation (0.9.14). Folders
  • Local storage with the remote: Milkbeat's own D-pad browser for the TV's storage and USB drives, asking for storage access only when you choose a folder (0.9.33).
  • Radio for local music: an enabled YouTube Music plugin seeds radio from the first local song while the file keeps playing (0.9.39).

Providers and plugins

  • SoundCloud plugin with protected audio support (0.9.40), and TV code pairing for sign-in from any phone (0.9.43, plugin 0.2.0 in 0.9.44). Sign in
  • Automatic plugin updates and Update all plugins (0.9.9); updates asking for new permissions wait for your review. Keep plugins up to date
  • Expired sign-ins are re-checked in the background at once (0.9.15), and a provider that briefly refuses requests pauses and resumes work instead of failing (0.9.18).
  • Private playlist copies prepare in parallel batches with verified progress (0.9.12), show a YouTube mark when ready (0.9.20) and reopen without another pass for six hours (0.9.27).

Playback

  • Whole songs buffer ahead, and a failed stream resumes the same recording (0.9.16).
  • Audio output recovery: silent output with advancing progress reconnects the same track, twice at most (0.9.49). Buffering and recovery
  • Video-first matching in the separate Preview app (0.9.48).
  • The remote stays usable when a music home fails to load (0.9.25).

Visualizer

  • Automatic native quality from the ProjectM TV core: resolution follows frame rate and live memory up to 4K, with Native trails and beta preset moods (0.9.28). Visualizer

Milkbeat 0.9.0

Private playlists and native YouTube autoplay

  • Optional Spotify playlist preparation creates private YouTube Music copies. Enable Prepare private playlists in YouTube Music in Settings → Plugins → Spotify, with compatible Spotify and YouTube Music plugins enabled and signed in. The option is off by default.
  • Your own playlists and Liked Songs prepare in the background; other playlists, including generated mixes, prepare when opened. Copies receive the source cover and fill one matched song at a time.
  • Existing copies are reused after restarts and updated in place when Spotify changes. Track order and duplicate occurrences are preserved. Spotify's originals are not edited.
  • Prepared playback gives YouTube the full copied playlist as its autoplay context, rather than seeding radio from only the first playing song. Milkbeat keeps Spotify's song titles, artists and artwork, and uses the matched YouTube IDs to exclude playlist songs from the radio continuation. Suggestions remain in the playback queue and are not written into the copy.
  • Play shares ongoing preparation and can reuse a recently completed check. Initial preparation can still delay playback; saved matches and checkpoints reduce repeated work.

This feature requires playlist-preparation support in both third-party plugins (Spotify and YouTube Music 0.2.1 or later). Albums are not mirrored. With the option disabled, normal cross-provider matching and radio based on the first playing song remain available.

Radio discovery and queue fixes

  • All, Familiar, Popular and Discover controls appear when the provider supports them. They stay pinned above the queue and remain available as more radio pages load.
  • Changing a mode replaces future radio suggestions while preserving the original playlist, the playing song and tracks you added yourself.
  • Radio no longer repeats its seed song immediately after a mode change, and duplicate suggestions are removed.
  • Repeated playlist songs retain their own playback and focus positions, including across loaded pages.
  • Changing one mirroring pair preserves unrelated preparation. Expired background sign-ins update the account status so you can sign in again.

Install and learn more

Update your existing Milkbeat installation to retain sign-ins and settings. Local and network-folder music continue to work without plugins; streaming plugins are third-party downloads distributed separately from the app.

Third-party plugin Downloader code
YouTube Music and YouTube 728 (retired: install YouTube with 563)
Spotify metadata 981
Beatport 393

Plugin capabilities depend on the installed version, account and subscription. After an app update, Milkbeat reads each installed plugin's capabilities again, so features a plugin already declared, such as parallel playlist matching, become available without reinstalling it. YouTube sign-in is optional for normal playback and supports personalized Home with free accounts. Spotify supplies metadata and requires a separate audio provider. Beatport requires sign-in and a streaming subscription for full streams.

When a new build becomes available

Feature branches do not publish updates. A pull request to main must finish a Codex review of its current commit and resolve review findings before the complete validation/build suites run. After merge, the full main pipeline validates the app before publishing signed APKs. The in-app updater then sees the new release. A queued or cancelled GitHub build does not make an update available.