Firmware Release April, 2021
Apr 23rd 2021
AUTONOMIC CONTROLS 6.2.20210415.1
Changes since 6.1.20201216.0
Major Features
- Add SoundMachine, a commercial streaming service
- Add functionality to lock service accounts to specific streams (see documentation)
- Allow Spotify playlists to be saved directly as favorites
- Significant improvements to the Media Sync Tool
Media Synchronization Tool
- Significant user experience and performance improvements
- Add interface to see set of iTunes content that will NOT sync
- Support dark mode, following the OS
- Improve support for syncing from external drives
- Software updates independently of MMS firmware
- Improve feedback during iTunes scan
- Bundle Java runtime in tool for simpler installation
- Assist user in installation of any additional required dependencies
- Support iTunes as installed from the Microsoft Store on Windows
Google Assistant
- Improve cloud communication stability
Scheduling
- Improve Preset reliability in schedules
- Fix manually running a schedule
- Unify scheduling between Tunebridge app and web configuration
Web UI
- Improve layout
- Add button to remove individual tracks from the Now Playing Queue
- Improve user experience while using Tunebridge menu
- Improve handling of menus with numbers for titles
- Improve reliability for selecting outputs on other members of system
- Improve reliability of security features
- Add ability to remove tracks from playlists
Crestron
- Improve configuration reliability when configuring Crestron Media Player
Amazon Music
- Improve handling when removing last account
- Improve handling of browsing large lists
- Improve browse reliability
Deezer
- Improve handling when removing last account
- Improve user experience during error state
- Improve reliability of autoresume on system restart
iHeartRadio
- Improve handling when removing last account
- Improve user experience while searching from the Tunebridge menu
Murfie
- Improve handling when removing last account
Napster
- Improve reauthentication reliability
- Improve handling when removing last account
Pandora
- Improve reliability of playback resume after long pause
- Improve user experience after creating a station
- Improve user experience cancelling a search
- Refresh station list after creating or editing a station
RADIO.COM
- Enable skip next/previous for podcasts
- Improve playback reliability
- Improve reliability of autoresume on system restart
Slacker
- Improve handling when removing last account
Spotify
- Don't stop Spotify Connect when the queue is cleared
- Improve search from Tunebridge specificity
- Improve user experience when browse selection has no items
- Show email as username if provided during sign in
SiriusXM
- Improve account loading reliability
- Improve detection of account in use elsewhere
- Improve playback initialization reliability
- Improve playback reliability
- Improve reliability of autoresume on system restart
- Improve reliability when transitioning away from SiriusXM playback
- Improve reliability when fetching channel list
TIDAL
- Improve handling of large playlists
- Improve handling when removing last account
TuneIn
- Improve handling of special characters in user account passwords
- Improve metadata encoding support
General improvements
- Don't automatically play when appending to the queue
- Improve amp communication efficiency
- Improve detection of whether list has art
- Improve HTTPS support in streams
- Improve mounted storage performance
- Improve reliability recalling presets
- Improve reliability during playback
- Improve reliability during track to track transition
- Improve reliability of full drive protection
- Improve stability in device discovery
- Properly update configuration UI when changing between DHCP and static IP addresses
- Set correct tracktime when skipping back to start of same track
- Improve handling of zone groups NOT grouped for power
- Improve stability in installations without Internet
- Improve support for multiple legacy amplifiers (M400, M800) in amp stack
- Improve user experience adding accounts to disabled streaming services
AUTONOMIC CONTROLS RELEASE 6.1.20201216.0
Changes since 6.1.20201215.0
General software improvements
- WebUI - Improve output selection logic
AUTONOMIC CONTROLS RELEASE 6.1.20201215.0
Changes since 6.1.20201201.0
New features
- Replace Flash Web UI (old interface still available at http://ipOfServer/Mirage/Mirage.html)
AUTONOMIC CONTROLS RELEASE 6.1.20201201.0
Changes since 6.1.20201022.2
General software improvements
- Improve NAS compatibility
Scheduling
- Improve preset reliability in Tunebridge schedules
SiriusXM
- Protect other services from inactivity timeout
Spotify
- Improve reliability when moving from one track to the next
- Improve reliability loading user playlists
- Improve handling for account used elsewhere
Tidal
- Improve reauthentication process
AUTONOMIC CONTROLS RELEASE 6.1.20201022.2
Changes since 6.1.20200203.1
New features
- Add Amazon Alexa integration (see the setup guide here, requires a TuneBridge account)
- Add Google Home integration (see the setup guide here, requires a TuneBridge account)
General software improvements
- Improve USB DAC configuration and playback reliability
- Improve support for KP-6 All Off
- Improve device output configuration
- Improve performance and reliability in systems with multiple streamers and amps
- Improve MRAD feedback
- Improve performance while recalling presets
- Improve reliability of new control connections directly after boot
- Improve over-volume protection
Scheduling
- Improve schedule reliability
- Improve schedule configuration page
- Turn off zones at end of schedule
Crestron
- Improve stability and reliability while browsing
Local content
- Improve cover art performance for local content
- Improve m4a format playback reliability
- Support newer SMB protocols for mounting NAS drives
- Support NAS paths with spaces
Amazon Music
- Fix for playback of tracks with certain special characters in title or artist
iHeartRadio
- Fix authentication issues
Pandora
- Improve stations list update logic
RADIO.COM
- Enable Skip Next/Previous for podcasts
SiriusXM
- Improve playback reliability
Spotify
- Improve Spotify playlist handling
- Reload content of updated playlists
- Fix issue switching between Spotify connect and browsed Spotify content
- Improve browse reliability
- Improve reliability when switching between Spotify Connect and native playback
- Improve error handling while loading user's saved content
- Ensure content is loaded in language appropriate to the user account
- Allow login through control client
- Address issue that could cause incorrect track to play during queue based Spotify playback
Tidal
- Replace user/password login with OAuth login (see here for more information)
TuneIn
- Fix playback auto-resume on power cycle