Changelog

Artist page header polish, and the sidebar no longer vanishes on Now Playing

• 🎨 On an artist page, collapsing the sidebar now lets the header image show through behind it, instead of leaving a solid dark bar over the artwork
• 📌 The sidebar and header no longer jump or flicker when you enter or leave an artist page
• 🧭 Fixed the sidebar completely disappearing behind the Now Playing screen
• ↔️ The page no longer shifts left/right when you collapse or expand the sidebar on an artist page
• 📱 On mobile, the sidebar's close button, logo, and title are now in a more natural left-to-right order

Music that keeps playing, a volume that stays put, and resume that finally picks the right spot

• ▶️ Fixed songs sometimes not moving on to the next one on their own — this could happen in the middle of a playlist, on the website, the desktop app, and mobile. If a song gets stuck near its end, it now tries to recover a few times before skipping ahead instead of just stopping
• 🔊 Fixed your volume not really being applied when you reopen — the slider showed your saved level, but the sound stayed at the default until you touched it
• 🔄 Picking up where you left off on a different device is now reliable — it always uses what's saved to your account, so it no longer opens the wrong song or the wrong spot
• 📜 Up Next now scrolls by itself to follow the song that's playing, so you never lose your place in a long queue
• 🖥️ The desktop app now remembers your window size, position, and whether it was maximized, so it opens just how you left it

Save a whole queue as a playlist, endless scrolling on artist pages, and a playback bug finally squashed

• 📃 The Save button in Up Next can now build a whole new playlist out of everything queued up, not just the one song currently playing
• 🔄 Adding to an existing playlist can now also pull in any new songs your queue picked up since — handy for keeping a playlist in sync after an artist drops something new
• ♾️ Artist pages no longer stop loading after the first 100 songs — scroll as far as you like
• 🔍 Recent searches now show up right in the search bar at the top of every page, not just on the full search page
• 🎤 Tapping an artist's name now works from the mini player and the Up Next queue too, not just the song list
• 🖼️ Sharing an artist page now shows a proper preview (their photo and name) instead of a blank link
• ▶️ Fixed autoplay sometimes refusing to move to the next song after skipping past one that was paused for a while or stuck

Artist pages, working genre browsing, and a player that fixes itself when a song gets stuck

• 🎤 New artist/channel pages — tap an artist's name under any song to see everything by them, with their photo and subscriber count
• 🔗 Pasting a Sophon Music link into search now jumps straight to that song or artist instead of doing a text search
• 🎧 Explore's mood and genre tiles actually work now — tapping one (Pop, Rock, K-Pop, and more) shows real matching songs instead of coming up empty
• ⏭️ If a song gets stuck or won't play, the player now notices and skips to the next one automatically instead of sitting there frozen
• 🔍 Cleaned up the search page — no more duplicate search box, just the one at the top
• 📤 Artist pages can now be shared, same as songs
• 🕐 Recent searches now sync to your account — the same search history shows up whether you're on mobile, desktop, or the website, instead of each one remembering its own

A real mobile experience — new navigation, a redesigned Now Playing screen, bigger artwork everywhere

• 📱 Mobile navigation redesigned — tap the menu icon for a slide-out sidebar with your playlists, instead of the old bottom tab bar
• 🎵 Now Playing on mobile rebuilt from scratch — full-size artwork, on-screen playback controls, and swipe up (or tap) to reveal the queue and lyrics
• 🔍 Search now remembers your recent searches for quick access, with a one-tap way to remove any of them
• 🖼️ Bigger artwork and song cards across Home and Now Playing — everything felt a little cramped before, especially on larger screens
• 🔙 Fixed the Now Playing close button occasionally leaving Sophon Music entirely instead of taking you back, on a freshly-opened share link

Discord Listen Along, and songs that used to cut off early now fix themselves

• 🎧 Added a "Listen Along" button to Discord Rich Presence (desktop app) that jumps straight to whatever you're playing
• ⏸️ Cleaned up the paused/repeat status shown on Discord — no more clutter next to your name
• 🔧 Songs that used to cut off partway through now get detected and quietly fixed, usually before you even hit play

Fixed lyrics translation not showing up at all

• 🌐 Fixed translated lyrics not showing up for anyone, in any language
• ⚡ Lyrics now load noticeably faster

Fixed cross-device resume showing the wrong song

• 🔄 Picking up playback on a different device/browser could resume an entirely different song than what you were last listening to — fixed
• 📝 Lyrics now always check for the latest match online first, only falling back to a downloaded copy if that fails
• 🎮 Discord Rich Presence now keeps working in the desktop app's offline mode too, not just while online

Search now looks beyond your library, and translated lyrics follow your language

• 🔍 Searching by title now also surfaces fresh results beyond what's already in your library
• 🌐 Translated lyrics now show up in whichever language you've set the app to, instead of always English

Paste a song, Mix, or playlist link straight into search

• 🔗 Paste a song, Mix, or playlist link into the search bar — a song link plays it, a Mix or playlist link shows the whole list (with a "Save as playlist" option)
• 🎧 Next Up's external suggestions were silently failing and always falling back to your own library — fixed, so you'll now see genuinely fresh picks more often

Shared link previews now play the full song, not just a clip

• ▶️ The player embedded in a shared link (Discord, Twitter/X, etc.) now plays the whole song instead of a short preview

Shared links now show a proper preview — and play right there

• 🖼️ Shared song links now show the song's title, artist, and artwork when posted in Discord, Twitter/X, and other apps that show link previews
• ▶️ On Discord and other places that support it, you can hit play right inside the preview — no need to open the link first

Share a song with a link

• 🔗 You can now share any song straight from its menu — it copies a link (or opens your device's share sheet) that takes whoever opens it right to that song

A new "Recommended for you" row on the home page

• ✨ Added a "Recommended for you" row on the home page, right above Recently Added — personalized once you're signed in, general picks if you're not
• 🩹 Fixed a bug that could quietly stop a linked playlist from syncing when one of its songs had certain artist credits

Way better song suggestions when you let the queue keep going

• 🎧 Next Up now pulls in fresh, genuinely relevant suggestions instead of only recycling songs already sitting in the library
• 🔀 The suggestions are seeded from a random recent song instead of always the one currently playing, so it doesn't get stuck orbiting one vibe

A proper Now Playing screen for the offline desktop player

• 🎚️ The desktop app's offline player finally has volume and repeat controls
• 🖼️ Tap the song info while offline to open a full Now Playing screen, with big artwork and Up Next/Lyrics right there
• 🌐 Romanized and translated lyrics now show up offline too, not just when you're connected

Songs in your playlists stay playable, instead of randomly breaking

• 🩹 Fixed songs in a playlist sometimes playing fine at first, then stopping working a few hours later — they're now checked and automatically repaired in the background
• 🚫 Songs that aren't fully ready yet no longer show up in Browse/Search, so you won't stumble onto one that's about to break

Link a playlist to YouTube, YouTube Music, or Spotify

• 🔗 Playlists can now be linked to a YouTube, YouTube Music, or Spotify playlist — open a playlist and hit "Link to YouTube/Spotify playlist" to import it
• 🔄 Linked playlists stay in sync on their own, and there's a "Sync now" button if you want to pull in changes right away
• 🗑️ Removing a song from a linked playlist sticks — it won't get added back next time it syncs, unless you remove it from the source too

A proper offline mode for the desktop app

• 📥 The desktop app's offline screen now matches the real player — up next queue, lyrics, all of it
• 🖼️ Downloaded songs now keep a copy of their artwork, so it actually shows up while offline
• 🔀 A synced playlist's offline song order now matches its real order

Search pagination, and a Discord avatar sync fix

• 🔍 Search results now keep loading as you scroll, instead of stopping at 50
• 🖼️ Signing in with Discord now keeps your avatar in sync if you change it on Discord later
• 📥 Syncing a playlist for offline listening no longer stops entirely if one song can't be downloaded — it skips that song and continues

Rounded icon, and it's in the navbar now too

• 🎨 The new icon now has rounded corners, and shows up next to the Sophon Music logo in the navbar

New app icon

• 🎨 Sophon Music has a new icon, on the website and in the desktop app

Your song now shows up in your device's media controls

• 🎵 Play/pause, song title, and album art now show up in your device's media controls — and on Linux, lyrics widgets like KDE's Plasma Lyrics pick it up automatically, no setup needed

Smoother navigation, and a more reliable desktop update flow

• ✨ Moving between pages is smoother now, and your profile picture no longer restarts if it's an animated GIF
• 🔔 The desktop app's update popup now shows up reliably even if something else in the app broke — no more getting stuck on an old version
• 🖥️ Found an update while you're already using the app? A small button now appears right in the top bar

More of the app now shows in your language, plus a Discord presence update

• 🌐 The Home, Explore, Library, Liked Songs, History, Search, and account pages are now translated too
• 🎵 Discord now shows whether you're playing or paused, plus your current repeat setting — and pausing no longer makes the timer show how long the app's been open instead of your song's progress

Sophon Music now speaks your language

• 🌐 Added support for Bahasa Indonesia, 한국어, 中文, and 日本語 — pick your language in Settings or the footer, and it'll follow you wherever you sign in
• 🧭 The app now guesses your language automatically the first time you visit, based on your browser
• ⓘ Added a small note next to romanized lyrics, since some songs use stylized readings that don't always match how they're actually sung

Less interruptions when your internet is spotty

• 📡 Songs now load a bit more ahead of time, so a quick internet hiccup is less likely to interrupt your music at all
• 🔄 If a song does get cut off because of a bad connection, it now picks itself back up automatically instead of just going silent
• ⏳ Added a small loading spinner so you can tell it's catching up, instead of wondering if the song just broke

A few desktop app fixes

• 🔎 Added a "Check for updates" button in Settings — always there, even if the automatic update popup doesn't show up
• 🚀 Update downloads are noticeably faster now — they were unnecessarily crawling before
• 📌 Fixed the sidebar sometimes expanding back open on its own when moving between pages, even though you'd collapsed it
• 🐞 Fixed "Keep offline" still showing as on for a playlist after you'd deleted all of its downloaded songs

Downloaded playlists now sort like the real thing

• 🔢 Songs downloaded from a playlist now show in the same order as the playlist itself, instead of by when they were downloaded
• ♻️ Already downloaded that playlist before? Hit "Sync now" once to pick up its order too

Fixed a desktop app update failure

• 🐞 Fixed the desktop app's update download sometimes failing with a connection error and getting stuck

Delete downloaded songs, one at a time or all at once

• 🗑️ Delete a single downloaded song right from the Downloads page
• 🗑️ Or remove every song downloaded from a playlist in one click

Pick where your downloads are saved

• 📁 On the Downloads page, choose any folder on your computer to save downloaded songs to, and move everything you've already downloaded there in one go

Pick up where you left off, on any device

• 🔗 Sign in and your last song, queue, and progress now follow you between the website and the desktop app — no more picking up from scratch on a different browser or device

New app updates now ask before installing

• 🔔 When a new version is ready, the app now asks you first instead of just updating on its own
• 📊 Shows a progress bar while it downloads, then a button to restart and finish up
• 🔴 If it finds an update while you're in the middle of using the app, a little button pops up so you can update whenever you're ready

See lyrics for your downloaded songs, even offline

• 🎤 Lyrics now show up for your downloaded songs too, even with no internet
• 📼 Songs you already downloaded get their lyrics added in the background, next time you open the app

English lyrics translations, and a few fixes

• 🌐 Korean, Chinese, and Japanese lyrics now also get an English translation shown under the romanized text
• 🎤 Fixed some songs occasionally showing lyrics for the wrong version of the track
• ❤️ Fixed the like heart sometimes showing the wrong state right after switching to a new song
• 🎨 Cleaned up the look of the Auto-queue toggle

Download for offline, now everywhere

• 🐞 Fixed "Download for offline" not showing up when right-clicking a song in your queue or the now-playing menu

Build your own offline playlists in the desktop app

• 📱 Make playlists from your downloaded songs, right on your device
• 🔄 Keep any playlist offline — it stays up to date with one tap on "Sync now"
• 🐞 Fixed a bug where the sidebar could stop responding to clicks after loading a page

Offline downloads in the desktop app

• 💾 Download songs in the Sophon Music desktop app so you can listen offline
• 📂 New Downloads page (desktop app only) organizes your offline songs by playlist
• 📡 No internet? The desktop app now still opens and plays your downloaded songs

Now Playing button reliability fix

• 🐞 Fixed the Now Playing toggle button sometimes not responding, or closing back to the wrong place

More Now Playing fixes, and a desktop app download page

• 🐞 Fixed Now Playing still not opening from the mini artwork widget's expand button
• 💻 Added a Download link for the desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Now Playing bug fixes

• 🐞 Fixed Now Playing sometimes not opening after starting a song
• 🐞 Fixed playback getting stuck repeating the same song instead of moving to the next one
• 🐞 Fixed the Now Playing link not updating, and not returning you to the page you came from when closed
• ✨ Opening and closing Now Playing now animates smoothly

Pick up right where you left off, and share a link to any song

• ▶️ Come back later and your last song, queue, and progress are waiting for you — just hit play
• 🔗 Every song can now be shared as its own link, so friends open straight to that track (and its playlist queue, if it came from one)
• 🔀 Shuffle now has its own on/off button, separate from repeat
• 🔊 Hover the volume icon to adjust it, or click it to quickly mute/unmute
• 🔁 New toggle to turn off auto-adding similar songs once your queue runs out
• 🐞 Fixed search sometimes queueing up every result instead of just the song you picked

Rename or delete your playlists

• ✏️ Rename a playlist or edit its description right from the playlist page
• 🗑️ Delete a playlist you own, with a confirmation before it's gone

Drag to reorder, and remove songs from your playlists

• 🖱️ Drag and drop a song within your own playlists to reorder it, instead of only the up/down arrows
• 🗑️ Remove a song from your playlist right from its menu

Reorder songs in your playlists

• ↕️ You can now reorder songs within your own playlists — hover a song and use the up/down arrows to move it

A bigger, more reliable floating mini player

• 🖼️ The floating cover art bubble is now much bigger — matching the size of the song covers on your homepage
• 🩹 Fixed the floating bubble sometimes failing to show up on the homepage
• 🪄 Fixed the full Now Playing view sometimes opening empty (no artwork, no Up Next) the very first time you played a song
• ↔️ Fixed the artwork in the full Now Playing view sometimes rendering way off to the side, requiring you to zoom out to see it
• 🔢 Fixed the verification code boxes not showing at all on the "Check your email" page during sign-up/sign-in
• 🌐 Sign-up, sign-in, and avatar uploads now show a clear error instead of hanging or crashing if something goes wrong

A floating mini player, and a batch of full-player bug fixes

• 🎵 Starting a song now opens the full Now Playing view automatically
• 🖼️ Closed the full player? A small floating cover art bubble now appears in the corner — click it to pause/resume, reopen the full player, or view the artwork fullscreen
• 🎤 Fixed the Lyrics tab disappearing from the full player
• 📜 Fixed the Up Next list not scrolling in the full player
• ⏱️ Moved the time counter next to the skip button for a cleaner layout
• 📌 Fixed the Terms/Privacy links in the sidebar getting hidden behind the player bar while a song is playing

See what's new, right when you visit

• 📋 Added this changelog page, plus a little popup so you'll always know what's new since your last visit

Player layout fine-tuning

• 🎚️ Adjusted the player bar layout — playback buttons on the left, song info centered, repeat and volume on the right

A cleaner player, inspired by YouTube Music

• 🎨 Redesigned the player bar and full player with a cleaner look and crisper icons
• 🪟 Fixed the full player covering the search bar and account menu
• ↩️ The full player now closes automatically when you navigate elsewhere
• ✉️ More reliable verification codes for sign-up, sign-in, and account changes

Smarter queue refills

• ⏭️ Fixed Up Next fetching new recommendations too early — it now waits until you're actually on the last song in your queue

More variety on your homepage

• 🎤 The homepage can now show "More from" several artists you actually listen to, not just one
• ↔️ Listen Again and More From Artist rows can now be scrolled with buttons

Safer account changes, smarter playlists

• 🔐 Changing your email or password now requires a verification code first
• 🔁 Fixed repeat mode adding extra songs to a queue or playlist you built yourself — it now loops exactly what you added, unless you add more manually
• 🖼️ Playlists now get an automatic cover collage made from your songs' artwork
• 🕵️ Your profile picture is no longer linked directly to outside services — it's served through Sophon Music instead
• 🔀 "Up Next" recommendations reordered to prioritize the same artist first

A full Settings page

• ⚙️ Added a full Settings page — update your profile picture, display name, email, password, and link/unlink Discord

One-button repeat, queue management, and playlist fixes

• 🔁 Repeat off/one/all/shuffle is now a single button to cycle through
• ➖ You can now remove songs from your queue
• 🖼️ Fixed your profile picture not showing on the homepage
• 📝 Fixed lyrics growing endlessly in the full player
• 🏷️ Pages now show proper titles in your browser tab
• 🐞 Fixed Add to Playlist accidentally pausing your music

Explore, search, and lyrics improvements

• 🧭 Added an Explore page
• 🖱️ Custom right-click menu on songs
• 🔎 Fixed search not finding songs when you typed both title and artist
• 🀄 Lyrics in Japanese/Chinese/Korean now show romanized text alongside the original
• 🎤 Fixed synced lyrics staying highlighted too long during instrumental breaks
• ⌨️ Live search results now show as you type in the header
• ⏱️ Fixed song duration showing strange numbers outside the player; default volume set to 50%

Smarter recommendations and a safer stream

• ▶️ Up Next automatically fills with recommended songs as you listen
• 📈 Trending songs now reflect what's actually being played
• 🔒 Your stream links are now proxied so the real server address is never exposed
• 🎯 "Up Next" recommendations reordered and fixed to catch more songs by the same artist

A YouTube Music-inspired redesign

• 🎨 Redesigned the whole look and feel — new header, sidebar, homepage, and full player

Mobile support, lyrics, and playlists

• 📱 New mobile layout
• ❤️ Like songs, save to playlists, and choose autoplay modes
• 🎤 Full-screen player with synced lyrics
• 🕘 Fixed play history not recording properly
• 🔤 Fixed lyrics failing to load; duration now shows as mm:ss

Sophon Music is here!

• 🎉 Sophon Music is live — stream music, sign in, and get started
• 📄 Added Terms and Privacy pages