Featured Highlights

High-Performance Infrastructure Migration

We have successfully migrated Audion to a dedicated VPS. This upgrade significantly increases our request capacity, providing enhanced bandwidth and faster response times for all users.

Universal Account Synchronization

With our expanded server capacity, Account Sync is now available for all users, including the Free Tier. Synchronize your music library effortlessly across your devices.

Free Tier Limits:

• Total Songs: 100
• Total Playlists: 3
• Songs per Playlist: 30

Device Connection & Remote Control

Introducing the Connect Device feature. Synchronize your playback state across devices and use one device as a remote control for your Audion experience.

Lyrics Engine Overhaul

We have completely redesigned the lyrics pipeline, transitioning from a single-format system to a robust, modular architecture.

Extended Format Support: Full compatibility with TTML, SRT, XML, LRC, USLT, SYLT, and JSON formats.

New Apple Music Provider: Integrated Apple Music as a primary lyrics source.

Advanced Sync Features:

Added support for syllable-level and word-level synchronization.

Optimized word-level fill animations utilizing CSS background-size transitions.

Support for unsynced lyrics prose and square-bracket format synchronization.

Enhanced Metadata Handling: Improved support for structure text and opposite vocals metadata.

Technical Improvements & Fixes

Manual Source Selection: Explicit source selection is now available in the UI; preferences are saved and persisted.

Advanced Extraction Engine:

Upgraded embedded extraction logic (SYLT priority over USLT).

Intelligent MPEG-frame SYLT timestamp conversion to milliseconds.

Added metaflac and mp4meta as fallbacks for robust metadata extraction.

Expanded codec support for lyrics extraction including FLAC and MP4.

Caching & performance:

Independent caching for different sources to maximize availability.

Visual indicators for cache status per source.

Hardened security by restricting frontend filesystem access.

UI/UX refinements:

Native Drag-and-Drop support for importing lyrics files.

Enhanced synchronization detection to avoid false positives on section headers (e.g., [Verse 1]).

Various under-the-hood cleanups and bug fixes.