Stretto v2.0.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2019-01-28 // about 5 years ago-
🚀 The last 2 years of work towards the next version of Stretto have culminated in a website I'm proud to release as version 2.0.
⬆️ The new website has an upgrader so you can export your old Stretto libraries as JSON and it will automatically re-find your tracks as youtube or soundcloud items.
🆓 This new website behaves quite differently to the old version, instead of maintaining copies of all your local media files, it simply backs every track with a youtube or soundcloud song and plays it transparently through an iframe. Think of it as a way to let youtube and soundcloud host your music for you free of charge.
Some key features it is launching with are:
- Chart discovery, find new music from the top charts of iTunes and Spotify
- Import from Spotify
- Automatic lyric fetching
- 👍 A basic Android app (supports loading your library and playing songs at this point, no offline caching yet)
- 🆓 Completely free and hosted by me so you don't have to!
Previous changes from v0.0.6
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- switch to using unsplash images for missing cover art
- ➕ add youtube search functionality to search bar (now you can find any song!*)
- download youtube downloading on systems without ffmpeg (downloads ffmpeg the first time the player launches if it can't be found)
- ➕ add linux ARM support
*cross-references with iTunes for info, so has to be on both iTunes and youtube