This version brings layout improvements for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
• Support for Liquid Glass in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. • Improvements to cover art retrieval and overall stability on devices with older mpd versions, like Chord Poly. • Improvements for browsing radio stations. • Added library details (number of artists, albums and tracks) in the player view.
This is a minor update: • A brand-new song info view, accessible via a context menu, to show full details of that song. • A fix for broken search on older mpd versions, primarily impacting Chord Poly users.
Calling all classical music fans! You can now browse and search by conductor—making it easier than ever to follow your favorite maestros. Jazz lovers, rejoice! You can now use the performer tag to list individual musicians—like Miles Davis: trumpet; John Coltrane: alt-saxophone; Art Blakey: drums—and Rigelian will intelligently split them up for better browsing and searching. We’ve turbocharged the caching for UPnP media servers—it’s now over 50% faster and more reliable. Less waiting, more listening. And for those who like to keep things tidy: you can now choose to clear just the remainder of the play queue—or wipe it all clean. Your call!
New in this version: • A setting to have the 'back' button to the beginning of the current track, instead of to the previous track. • A setting to hide the play queue in the now playing screen on iPad and macOS. • A setting to choose whether to disable or hide the volume controller when volume control is not available. • Do a full rescan of the library of a player, not just newly added tracks. • Manually add a radio station via its URL. • Improve display of radio station data. • Improve the display of cover art on the now playing screen. • Support for dark and tinted icons on the Home Screen. • Fix for an issue for Chord Poly users where pro features are not available when connecting to the player in Hotspot mode. • Fix for an issue where radiostations were often not loaded when browsing. • Fix the 'Add Next and Play' option for OpenHome players. • Fix a crash when scrolling in Playlist and Album views on iPad. • Fix an issue for OpenHome players where sometimes playlists from Qobuz are not loaded.
This version includes: • New Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. • Alert user when network is not available. • Bugfix for missing tracks on OpenHome players. • Better detection whether a user has an active Pro subscription.
New in this version: • A new settings screen is added that puts relevant settings in a single place (requires at least iOS 15). • Cover art settings are now maintained per player, useful for users that have both OpenHome and mpd players. • Dark mode / light mode can be selected independent of the device setting. • A setting is added to prevent the device from going to sleep when Rigelian is active. • Improved discovery of Chord Poly and Hugo players. • Solved an issue where adding a single track resulted in the addition of a complete album or playlist. This is the last version of Rigelian that supports iOS 14. For users still on iOS 14, all functionality will be available without requiring a subscription from October 1st 2024 onwards.
Bugfixes and stability improvements.
Bugfixes and stability improvements.
Stability improvements for the player connection.
The display of bitrate, samplerate and encoding is improved. specifically for DSD.
Rigelian on iPhone: check. On iPad: check. On macOS: check. And now by popular demand, also on AppleWatch. Check what's playing, play/pause, skip, change the volume or play something from your favorites, recently added and recently played items, all conveniently from your wrist. And all of this is just one click away: by using the Rigelian complication, you can jump right into the app from the watch face.
This version includes minor improvements: • layout fixes for some screens • bring back albums sort options on the artist view • add an option for OpenHome player to poll for status updates
• New and improved album and playlist views. • Additional cross-browsing functions between local library and Qobuz. • When browsing from artist to compilation album, show only tracks from that artist. • Bring back play / shuffle artist buttons. • Improve layout of artist biographies. • For Qobuz subscribers, add a tip of the week. • Fix an issue for OpenHome players in combination with MinimServer.
New in this version: • When you use Rigelian on multiple devices, recently played and favorite items get synchronized via iCloud. • When you use Qobuz, the artist view will show related playlists. • Player discovery for OpenHome players is improved. • A crash on the artist view is fixed.
Version 3.2.1 contains a bug fix for binary cover art retrieval from mpd players. Further improvements in 3.2: Discover more music through the artist view, which now shows albums from your local library, similar artists, and a list of albums available on Qobuz (this requires that you have an OpenHome based player and a Qobuz subscription). Also included are these improvements and bug fixes: • An issue where the playqueue was not displayed correctly on OpenHome players is fixed. • Display issues on the playlist view are solved. • A crash on the playlist view is fixed. • The styling of various views is improved.
Discover more music through the artist view, which now shows albums from your local library, similar artists, and a list of albums available on Qobuz (this requires that you have an OpenHome based player and a Qobuz subscription). Also included are these improvements and bug fixes: • An issue where the playqueue was not displayed correctly on OpenHome players is fixed. • Display issues on the playlist view are solved. • A crash on the playlist view is fixed. • The styling of various views is improved.
New in this version: • Support for Qobuz playlists. • Albums show a CD / HD indication so you can pick the best quality.
Fix a problem where some users are experiencing a crash after upgrading to 3.0.0.
You can now control players that use BubbleUPnP or upmpdcli. This also means that if you have a Qobuz subscription, you can now use that via Rigelian on those players. Next to this, the cover art loading and caching has been greatly improved, resulting in much smoother operation.
This version contains some minor bug fixes. Also it's the final version to support iOS 13, the upcoming version 3.0 will require iOS 14 or higher. For users who remain on iOS 13, after July 1st 2023 all functionality will be available without requiring a subscription.
This version contains fixes for the following bugs: • Rigelian could crash when the app was moved to the background. • On iOS 16 it wasn't possible to remove tracks from the play queue.
Improvements include: • Fix image retrieval for artists on compilation albums. • Added volume adjustment option to compensate for non-linear volume behavior of a player. • Fix problem where a force restart is needed to connect to a player.
• Provide a selection of small, medium or large covers in album views. • Show the full path when browsing folders. • Fix issues with similar artists on Kodi players. • Fix performance issues with the theme color picker. • For UPnP sources, use disc number when sorting tracks on a multi-disc album. • Minor fixes and improvements.
Minor improvements and bugfixes.
Minor improvements and bugfixes.
A brand new Now Playing view introduces the most requested feature: the possibility to see the complete play queue, and not just what's coming next. And to top it off, the layout is improved with easier access to relevant functions. This new view requires iOS 15. The cover art retrieval and display has once again been improved, resulting in faster loading and smoother scrolling. Recent Volumio players in your network are now automatically detected. The overall look of the app is modernised with many new icons (thank you SF Symbols). Multi-disc albums on Kodi are now properly supported.
This is the last version that will support iOS 12, new versions will require iOS 13 or later. After 1-1-2022 all Rigelian functionality will be available without subscription for users that are still on iOS 12.
The main feature of this version is experimental support for the Naim Uniti players in combination with UPnP. Other changes include: • Show album info if available. • Show a play icon on album views, to immediately play an album. • Folder browsing no longer requires a subscription. • Biography and album info text is now selectable for copy/paste. • The shuffle button on the now-playing view is removed to prevent confusion. • Make it easier to close the full-screen view on iPadOS 15. • Improved cover art loading performance.
A whole set of new functions and improvements: • a 3-column view for artists, genres and playlist on iPad, for easier navigation • for artists, you choose between icon and list view • a new artwork assistant for artist artwork • a new function to shuffle all tracks from an artist and similar artists • improvements for album and artist image loading • fix a problem on iPad where space isn't recognised when typing in a search field • fix a problem where the seek slider was not usable • fix a problem with missing recent albums on older mpd versions (mostly hitting Bryston users)