Hi and thanks for checking in! After a long bit of delay, here’s a new version of our little bird that features quite a few under-the-hood enhancements, mainly regarding Sandbox handling: the dreaded and seemingly most reported issue in the past couple of months is that Colibri would just bounce up and down on the Dock, without actually starting – or taking an enormous amount of time to boot up.

To combat this, the Sandbox bookmark handling has been broken down to smaller chunks and is now properly being handled using background threads – even with spotty Wi-Fi and disappearing SMB shares I’ve got very positive initial feedback during testing, so hopefully Colibri will now start quickly for everyone. As always, please do let me know if you experience otherwise!

Another Sandbox issue prevented the default MIDI SoundFont from being loaded – this is also fixed, along with a weird bug that caused the CMD + Up hotkey to not work as intended.

I do plan on extending Colibri to other platforms as well and work has been going on behind the scenes with the full intention of having iOS, iPadOS and tvOS versions of Colibri in the future. Part of this evolution is for me to get more acquainted with CoreAnimation and Transitions and while I’ve promised to keep Colibri’s interface simple and clean, I did sneak in a bit of fun to the Album Art view popover: double click on the album art, then either click on the image in the popover or click the little circle icon in the bottom-right corner.

As for all the suggestions, feedbacks and issues we’ve discussed over email – they are still on the to-do list and coming eventually!

Happy Listening!