This version raises the minimum required operating system version to macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
New Features:
Native AirPlay 2 support
- supports multi-room audio
- simultaneous playback to multiple devices
- fully native, end-to-end encrypted
- doesn’t rely on third-party solutions or modules
- available from macOS 10.15 and up
Search & Filtering for the Playlist:
- filter using all columns or a combination of artist/title/album
- keyboard shortcuts
NowPlayable support
- song info, album art display
- playback control with seeking
- available in the macOS Control Center
Accessibility
- all control and feedback interface elements have descriptions and help texts
- older descriptions updated / reworded as necessary
Async file loader/crawler:
- file loading and processing are now done in two phases
- playlist is updated in realtime as songs are processed
- number of files being processed is displayed in the bottom status bar
Device settings – 4 new options:
- Force frequency: disable automatic sample rate switching and use one frequency for all songs
- Initial volume: set the system output level of the device to the given percentage when the device is used
- Frequency switching silence: generate the given number of milliseconds silent output during the mode switching of the device
- Restore to frequency on quit: restore the device to the selected frequency when Colibri quits
Sandbox Manager
- add, edit or remove existing bookmarks
- check if you have invalid bookmarks
- Smart Cleanup: remove all redundant bookmarks with a single click
- Improved Sandbox Bookmark resolution
- Strict App Hardening is enabled for added security
- Interface subtle animation: album art, song info and status bar updates are delivered with smooth transitions
Updates:
- Help > Debug Log is back with automatic refresh and scrolling to bottom
- Added ‘Jump to current’ and ‘Jump and Select current’ hotkeys
- MIDI module updated to the latest version
- WavPack module updated to the latest version
- Only try switching device frequency during song change if the frequency is supported by the device, respect the fallback strategy otherwise
- Removed multiple superfluous device reinitialisation calls
- Extended system sleep options with screen sleep variants
- Cue Sheet processing now skips unreachable files
- Cue Sheet and M3U file formats are autodetected during processing
- Only the latest notification will be present, older ones should now disappear instead of stacking
Fixes:
- Crash when opening multiple files at once from Finder
- Crash when clicking on a color picker in Settings > Themes
- Device wouldn’t switch to the highest available frequency if the song has already started and the output was changed mid-playback
- Fallback frequency wouldn’t be considered if a non-DSD song came after a DSD song
- First row of Playlist would become squashed on startup
- First track from a colibriPlaylist would disappear
- Freeze when you have one song in the playlist and choose repeat random loop mode
- Media Key events could be fire twice from macOS 11.0 Big Sur and up
- Network streams from M3U files wouldn’t load
- Notifications would be shown when the Settings panel is opened
- Preloading wouldn’t always work with random-based loop modes
- Selecting custom in Settings > Themes would result a in completely black player window