memby/CHANGELOG.md

0.2.67 — 2026-08-16

• Improved: Movie and show pages. The header now moves out of the way as you go down into the tabs, so the content gets the whole screen instead of a strip at the bottom.
• Added: Cast is its own tab, as a full grid of everybody in it rather than six faces in a corner. It remembers which face you were on.
• Added: An Extras tab for trailers, featurettes, deleted scenes and interviews, on the titles that have them.
• Added: A Details tab for release date, studios, directors, writers, countries, languages and the file's own particulars.
• Improved: Tabs only appear when there is something in them, and no longer shuffle sideways while a page is still loading.

0.2.66 - 2026-08-15

• Improved: Design of skip end credits display.

0.2.65 - 2026-08-15

• Added: Server now detects end credits more accurately.
• Fixed: Security improvements to API endpoints.

0.2.64 — 2026-08-14

• Bug fixes & general improvements.

0.2.63 — 2026-08-14

• Bug fixes & general improvements.

0.2.62 — 2026-08-13

• Fixed: Playback is back to the way it worked in 0.2.60. The groundwork for Memby playing video itself caused problems, so it has been withdrawn and will return once it is ready.

0.2.60 — 2026-08-12

• Added: Voice search on the Requests page, beside the query, the same as Search.
• Fixed: Remote navigation on the Requests search page. Up through the keyboard now moves a row at a time instead of jumping to the tabs, coming back from the results lands on the key you were last on, and Back steps results → keyboard → tabs → out, one press at a time.
• Added: A USB or phone keyboard types into the Requests search the same way it does into Search.
• Fixed: The navigation rail is now on the Requests page, so Left goes somewhere and you can move straight to Home, Search or Settings without leaving it first.
• Fixed: "Good morning" now greets you while the featured card is up, instead of appearing only once you had pressed Down past it.
• Improved: Notifications shows a bell that quietly pulses while it is listening when you have nothing waiting, and a still grey one when notifications are switched off.
• Changed: Requests no longer searches as you type. Type a name and press Search, so one title costs one look-up instead of one per letter — and two characters is now enough, so short titles work again. Dictating a title searches straight away.

0.2.59 — 2026-08-12

• Fixed: Moving up through the on-screen keyboard on the Requests page no longer jumps straight to the tabs — only the top row of letters leaves for them.
• Improved: Requests now waits for five letters, and for a short pause in typing, before looking anything up.
• Fixed: The featured cards at the top of Home no longer lead with a film you have already watched. Series are unchanged, so a new season of something you are up to date with still features.
• Fixed: Saving a setting could fail repeatedly with a server error.

0.2.58 — 2026-08-12

• Added: Improved Requests option to the user selector menu.

0.2.57 — 2026-08-12

• Fixed: Traliers show the logo from the show in the on screen player vs text.
• Added: Smart search for next episode recap/preview episode from YouTube that plays 2 mins before show end
• Added: Optional setting for next episode recap/preview.
• Fixed: The source IP address for each tralier play should come from the Client's real IP address, not from the server.

0.2.56 — 2026-08-12

• Added: Films, series and supported seasons can now play trailers with one press.
• Improved: Memby prefers official Apple and YouTube trailers, plays them natively and automatically tries another source when one is unavailable, blocked or fails during playback.
• Fixed: Trailer playback no longer needs a second Play press, opens a broken web player or leaves the viewer on a generic playback error.
• Fixed: Back now returns cleanly to the detail page after a trailer, and Memby returns there automatically when no playable source remains.
• Improved: Successful trailer sources are remembered for faster repeat playback without unnecessary provider requests.
• Added: Selected labels, feature switches and safe presentation settings can now be managed by the server, while complete bundled defaults keep the app working normally when the server is slow or unavailable.
• Improved: Search now has a dedicated Request action for finding the exact film or series to add, with clearer in-library and already-requested states.
• Fixed: Film and series requests now use the intended monitored request workflow and provide clearer results when a title cannot be requested.

0.2.53 — 2026-08-11

• Fixed: Removed the home-screen message asking viewers to open the For You page.
• Improved: The play button used by the mini hero cards now appears over every focused poster.
• Improved: Reduced the primary homepage hero logo so its supporting details remain visible.
• Improved: The profile rail now shows the name of the user signed in on the television.

0.2.52 — 2026-08-11

• Fixed: The last refreshed date in the Devices list used the incorrect date format.
• Fixed: The show or film logo was missing from the primary home-page hero.
• Fixed: My Alerts did not include an alert when Memby had been updated.
• Fixed: The release date in version history used the incorrect date format.
• Improved: Added soundbar and passthrough settings to the on-screen display.
• Improved: Slimmed down the subtitles menu and made the Get subtitles button easier to see.
• Improved: Added country flags to the subtitles search and menu.

0.2.51 — 2026-08-11

• Improved: For You now begins loading after Home arrives, so its personalised rows are usually ready before you open it.
• Fixed: Frequent screen updates can no longer repeat network requests, navigation, analytics, timers or other background work.
• Fixed: Cancelled Home, For You, Search, detail and screensaver requests can no longer replace newer results or show a stale error.
• Fixed: App updates now keep one download and installer attempt across screen and activity recreation instead of starting again.
• Fixed: Settings choices are saved even when you leave Settings immediately after making them.
• Fixed: Delayed D-pad focus, long-press, pagination, retry and permission actions now use the current screen state rather than an older callback.
• Improved: Screen data is now collected with the active lifecycle, avoiding unnecessary work while a screen is stopped.

0.2.50 — 2026-08-11

• Fixed: Playback reports are now serialised, and final stop positions are protected from out-of-order requests.
• Fixed: Home, preferences, themes and detail screens now recover automatically with bounded retries.
• Fixed: Retries can no longer cause request storms, duplicate media requests or repeated alert actions.
• Fixed: Useful cached content remains visible when refreshes or later result pages fail.
• Fixed: Network requests now have explicit loading, success, empty and failure states, with retry actions where appropriate.
• Fixed: HTTP 429 responses now respect the server's Retry-After delay.
• Fixed: Malformed and partially populated objects are safely filtered before reaching the interface.
• Fixed: Rate limits, partial payloads and durable playback stops now have regression coverage.
• Fixed: Resuming playback now cancels delayed background stop work before reporting the session as active again.
• Fixed: Refreshed streams and subtitle-driven stream changes now close superseded playback sessions and start their replacements in order.
• Fixed: Cancelled or stale stream, retry and subtitle requests can no longer overwrite a newer playback attempt.
• Fixed: Enabling burned-in subtitles no longer lets the hidden video continue and then jumps back to an earlier position when the stream is ready.
• Fixed: Playback now waits for a slow next-episode lookup, and auto-advance resets subtitle, preview, intro, credits, artwork and session state for the new episode.
• Fixed: Player construction and synchronous media preparation failures now show recoverable Retry and Exit actions instead of closing the player.
• Fixed: The pre-roll player remains idle while the main programme is playing, avoiding a second prepared decoder after hand-off.
• Fixed: Repeated screensaver Play presses are gated, and a new single-task player intent now deliberately replaces the current playback.
• Fixed: Playback position, stream identity, selected tracks and episode details now survive activity and process recreation.
• Fixed: Natural playback completion now returns to the screen that launched the player instead of clearing the task back to Home.

0.2.49 — 2026-08-11

• Fixed: D-pad focus now stays visible and predictable across My Shows, Settings, profile management, the TV calendar, detail pages and changing home rows.

0.2.48 — 2026-08-11

• Improved: The TV calendar is now a modern weekly guide with artwork, title logos and clear season-premiere and finale labels.
• Added: Home-screen metadata now shows the sound profile, including mono, stereo, 5.1 and 7.1.

0.2.47 — 2026-08-11

• Fixed: A television signed out because its version has been retired now stays on the update screen — across a restart, and while the server is slow to answer — instead of falling back to a welcome and sign-in it could never get past.

0.2.46 — 2026-08-11

• Added: A TV calendar on the navigation rail — the month ahead as a grid, with the focused day's episodes beside it, so you can see when a show comes back.
• Added: A television signed out because its version has been retired now goes straight to the update screen, instead of showing a sign-in that could never succeed.
• Improved: In Settings, pressing Up at the top of a page returns to the page list rather than doing nothing.
• Fixed: The home screen could close itself when a row or a card arrived twice from the server. The same fault could close the cast list, search results, similar titles and episode lists.
• Fixed: Pressing down through the rows on Home and TV Shows could stop part way and refuse to go any further until you left the page.
• Fixed: Play could stop responding for the rest of the session if starting a title failed early, with nothing on screen to say why.
• Fixed: A title the server could not supply a stream for now says so, instead of flickering and returning to where you were.
• Fixed: Back now leaves the "starting playback" screen, rather than waiting out a server that has stopped answering.
• Fixed: Dismissing one of your alerts takes effect immediately, so a slow connection no longer invites a second press.
• Improved: Genre and search shelves no longer stop loading further pages when the server repeats a title across a page boundary.
• Improved: Memby uses less memory on a television left on for weeks at a time.

0.2.45 - 2026-08-10

• Bug fixes

0.2.43 — 2026-08-10

• Fixed: App no longer crashes.
• Fixed: Manual surround-sound choices now reliably override the automatically detected audio output.

0.2.42 — 2026-08-10

• Added: Memby's own opening clip now plays while the app is starting up.
• Added: Surround sound passthrough for Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Atmos, DTS, DTS-HD and TrueHD, with automatic detection and manual receiver overrides.
• Improved: Unsupported surround tracks are decoded to PCM on the TV, and audio conversion no longer makes Emby re-encode otherwise compatible video.
• Fixed: Colour schemes now repaint the whole app. The home screen, Settings, Search and the opening screen only followed a theme in part.
• Improved: A far wider range of welcome lines and opening messages, so the same one comes round much less often.
• Improved: The opening screen is no longer rebuilt as Memby moves between start-up steps.

0.2.40 — 2026-08-10

• Improved: Video playback recovers more reliably from decoder failures and prolonged buffering.
• Improved: Memby's short pre-roll is prepared in advance for faster playback starts.
• Added: A libmpv compatibility fallback for videos Media3 cannot decode or read.
• Fixed: Shows opened from the upcoming schedule now resume from the viewer's latest episode progress.

0.2.39 — 2026-08-09

• Improved: HEVC playback performance
• Added: Cast panels now mark deceased performers and open biographies and filmographies.
• Added: An optional confirmation before the Back button closes Memby.
• Improved: Reviewed D-pad navigation across the Android TV experience and documented follow-up work.
• Fixed: Continue Watching now keeps its saved position and shows Resume instead of Play.

0.2.38 — 2026-08-09

• Improved: Ratings are larger and easier to read.
• Improved: Genre cards now use the same poster format as home-screen rows.
• Improved: The Memby rail logo now animates when opening every section.
• Improved: The user switcher now shows each profile's initials.
• Added: The About screen now shows the connected Emby gateway version.
• Changed: The genre browser is now controlled by the server and is off by default while its layout is refined.
• Fixed: The automatic home-screen artwork setting no longer reverts to posters.
• Fixed: Watched changes now appear on posters immediately, just like favourite changes.

0.2.37 — 2026-08-09

• Improved: Browse films and TV shows from colourful genre cards with clearer, consistent categories.
• Improved: Genre pages now keep their place and show Favourite changes immediately after returning from a title.
• Improved: App updates now show a brief confirmation instead of a full-screen release-notes panel.
• Fixed: Episodes without their own cast information now use the series cast in the player.

0.2.36 — 2026-08-09

• Improved: Browse all movies or TV shows alongside individual genres, with clearer navigation and paging.

0.2.35 — 2026-08-09

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.34 — 2026-08-09

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.33 — 2026-08-08

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.32 — 2026-08-08

• General bug fixes and improvements.
• Backend improvements.

0.2.31 — 2026-08-08

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.30 — 2026-08-08

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.29 — 2026-08-07

• Fixed: A small bug with new seek previews.
• Fixed: Skip Intro and Outro Credits were not appearing in some cases.

0.2.28 — 2026-08-07

• Added: Skip outro credits
• Added: Themes for Halloween, Christmas and Easter.

0.2.27 — 2026-08-06

• Added: Skip Intro button
• Fixed: Player improvements & bug fixes
• Fixed: Gateway bug fixes & improvements
• Fixed: Homepage hero relevancy
• Fixed: Related titles showing up empty often
• Fixed: You can add another user to the television again, from Manage users

0.2.26 — 2026-08-05

• Improved: Ratings are more accurate and easier to read.
• Fixed: Continue Watching now keeps the right order as you watch.
• Fixed: Film and show pages no longer display incorrectly.
• Fixed: The loading screen no longer appears when you skip forward or back.

0.2.25 — 2026-08-05

• Added: Left and right on the remote skip back and forward while you watch.
• Added: You can choose whether one press skips 10, 20 or 30 seconds.
• Added: You can search for and add subtitles without leaving what you are watching.
• Added: A cast button in the player shows who is in the scene.
• Added: Episode lists now show when each episode aired.
• Improved: Ratings now show the IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Letterboxd and TMDb logos.

0.2.24 — 2026-08-05

• Fixed: The centre button on the remote pauses straight away instead of taking two presses.
• Fixed: Reinstalling Memby on a television replaces it in your devices list instead of adding another one.
• Fixed: Removing a television from Devices now clears it from Emby as well.
• Improved: The subtitle menu is quicker to read and easier to move around.

0.2.23 — 2026-08-04

• Added: Turning subtitles off, and the language you pick, are saved to your account.
• Added: Tags showing whether a show is continuing, has ended, or is still in cinemas.
• Improved: Settings is simpler, darker and easier to read.
• Fixed: The Play button on the Home screen is no longer squashed by long titles.

0.2.22 — 2026-08-04

• Fixed: Updates no longer fail with a warning about an untrusted release key.
• Fixed: Updates now install on televisions where they previously did nothing.
• Added: Memby asks for permission to install updates while you are setting up.
• Added: Instructions for televisions that have no install permission screen.
• Improved: You are now told clearly when an update fails.

0.2.20 — 2026-08-04

• Added: A warning appears when Memby cannot reach your Emby server.
• Added: Your settings are saved to your account and restored on any television you sign into.
• Added: Title logos, auto-play and the ten-minute reminder are saved for each person.

0.2.17 — 2026-08-03

• Added: Episodes in Continue Watching now open their own page.
• Improved: Resume buttons show which episode you are up to.

0.2.16 — 2026-08-03

• Added: You can rename or sign out televisions from Settings → Devices.
• Added: Optional ratings on film pages.
• Added: A version history in About, so you can see what changed.
• Improved: The navigation rail stays visible while you are in Settings.

0.2.0 — 2026-05-01

• Added: Instant search with an on-screen keyboard.
• Added: Alerts for newly added titles, library updates and server outages.
• Added: Personalised "Why you might enjoy it" suggestions on film and show pages.
• Improved: Film and series pages now share one layout.
• Improved: Home screen rows can change without updating the app.