# New Features

## Dynamic Island & Lock Screen
- Dynamic Island live activity now supported on iPhone (built-in player only). Displays album art, title, artist, playback progress, and controls when switching to the desktop or other apps
- Lock Screen live activity: shows current playback info and random album recommendations

## Full-Screen VU Meter & Spectrum
- VU meter and spectrum are built-in player exclusive features, presented in landscape mode on iPhone
- iPad users can tap the VU meter or spectrum button at the bottom-left of the full-screen player to switch views
- iPhone users can tap an empty area on the full-screen player to reveal VU meter and spectrum switcher at the top
- When in VU meter or spectrum view, tap an empty area to reveal song info, playback controls, and view switcher
- Customizable default full-screen view (Player / VU Meter / Spectrum / Last Used)
- 5 new VU meter styles: Power, McIntosh, Nagra (round), Retro, and Teac
- Quickly switch between VU meter styles using the left/right arrows on the overlay

## All-New Cassette Tape Interface
- Brand new cassette tape playback theme with meticulously rendered reel rotation, tape winding animation, and mechanical cassette shell details
- Two tape appearances available: metal large-reel and standard cassette
- Tape reels visually reflect playback progress in real time
- VU meter now features a power-off effect — needles gracefully return to zero when playback stops
- Tap the cassette to quickly switch tape styles; tap the VU meter to switch VU meter styles
- Dedicated cassette appearance settings (Settings → Appearance → Now Playing → Theme → Cassette): adjust tape type and VU meter independent/system mode

## iPhone Landscape Experience
- iPhone full-screen player now supports landscape mode with automatic orientation switching
- Album detail, artist, and other pages adapted for landscape layout
- Settings and dialogs fully adapted for landscape; pop-up panels automatically switch to scroll view in landscape
- Experimental landscape feature toggle added (Settings → Advanced → Experimental Features)
- Force landscape lock available in SqueezeDeck mode

## Others
- New retro analog clock screensaver with date and weekday display (SqueezeDeck mode)
- Customizable Deck screensaver clock style (Digital / Analog)

# Improvements
- VU meter needle smoothing algorithm moved to the underlying engine for more fluid, natural motion
- Unified piecewise interpolation for all 5 VU meter scale mappings, eliminating substantial duplicate code
- Spectrum animation rendering engine rebuilt for more stable frame rates and lower power consumption
- Optimized screensaver night mode detection logic
- Cassette interface button spacing and sizing refined for more precise tap targets
- Song title automatically switches to horizontal scroll when marquee effect is turned off, so info is never lost
- iPad full-screen overlay layout optimized with larger, easier-to-tap buttons
- Bottom sheet panel width unified on iPhone for a more consistent visual appearance
- Spectrum and VU meter transition animations improved, eliminating residual flickering

# Bug Fixes
- Fixed UI freezing caused by high-frequency list refresh callbacks on iOS 16 devices
- Fixed orientation being hardcoded on iOS versions below 16, causing incorrect rotation behavior
- Fixed long titles being truncated on the iPad navigation bar back button
- Fixed artist name displaying incorrectly after disabling the marquee effect