4.4.11

4.4.10

4.4.9

4.4.8

4.4.7

4.4.6

4.4.5

4.4.4

Removed Google Drive browsing support

Google Drive browsing support has been removed due to Google requiring developers to perform an expensive and cumbersome annual app security audit to allow access to it.

You can still add Google Drive media to the Playlist tab with this method, although it is only pratical for music files as it will make the Google Drive app download files locally:

  1. make sure you are logged to Google Drive in the Google Drive app
  2. go into the Playlist tab
  3. go to '3 dot menu > Add from File Picker'
  4. tap the hamburger menu (top-left corner) and select your Google Drive account in the pane
  5. browse Google Drive and tap the media you want to add to the Playlist. To select multiple items, long-press the first item then tap subsequent items and finally tap the 'Select' button in the top bar

You can alternatively consider moving your media to a supported cloud storage provider: Dropbox, Box, OneDrive.

Other

4.4.3

4.4.2

4.4.1

4.3.7

4.3.6

4.3.5

4.3.4.1

4.3.4

4.3.3

Audio Cast

Other

4.3.2

4.3.1.2

4.3.1.1

4.3.1

4.3

TIDAL HiRes FLAC support

With a TIDAL HiFi Plus subscription, you can now enable HiRes FLAC playback in More > Settings > Local and Cloud > TIDAL > Audio Quality > Up to FLAC 192 kHz / 24-bit. If both HiRes FLAC is enabled and the 'Show HiRes indicator' setting is enabled, albums available in FLAC will be indicated with a 🅷 symbol appended to their title.

Hardware accelerated Chromecast local transcoding

Local video transcoding for playback to Chromecast is now hardware accelerated by your Android device, whenever possible This results in vastly more efficient transcoding, a tad less processor intensive with less heat and battery drain. It also makes possible to transcode videos that were too heavy previously (resulting in stutters). If hardware transcoding fails or is not possible, the app will gracefully fallback to software transcoding. Hardware transcoding can be disabled in More > Settings > Chromecast transcoding > Use hardware transcoding.

Software transcoding has also been improved, made less processor intensive at the expense of using more network bandwidth (which is usually not a problem). Moreover, a new 'Faster software encoding' setting has been added to make it even faster (requiring even more network bandwidth for good quality).

With this overhaul, there is a new video quality setting ('Video encode quality') characterized by a max bitrate for the encode (40, 20, 10, 5 Mbits/s choices) that applies to both hardware and software encoding. In practice the encoding can be much lower than this maximum, depending on video. The default is set to 10 Mbits/s which should give good results in most cases, but 20 Mbits/s is advised if the network bandwidth is available for it (there is no stutter).

Refer to the Help section of the 'More > Settings > Chromecast Transcoding' screen for more tips, in particular how to troubleshoot stuttering videos.

New ad consent screen in European Economic Area (EEA)

Users of the free version of the app located in the EEA (including UK) will see a new GDPR compliant screen for showing ads, with tweakable settings.

Other

4.2.2.1

4.2.2

4.2.1

4.2

4.1.3

4.1.2

4.1.1

4.1

User Interface

Other changes

4.0

User Interface

Other changes