You’ve found the changelog for Bops, a suite of iOS and tvOS apps for Sonos developed by ur computering pal, LLC.
Bops: Music for Sonos
An iOS/iPad OS Apple Music client that supports native Sonos playback / control and local / AirPlay playback for when you’re away from WiFi. Join the beta today!
Bops: Now Playing for Sonos
A tvOS app for controlling your soundbar, showcasing the album art of the music currently playing, or making quick changes to the music with your remote.
Changelog
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I don’t know how else to explain to you that the network is not reliable
Sonos’ interim CEO is on a media blitz as he angles for the permanent role. The corporate world is cruel: I wish him the best of luck and hope he continues to enjoy guiding Sonos in their new chapter.
Read on for details on the latest beta release of Bops (
v2025.5.1-beta+2567), which includes a new settings page for Sonos speakers that shows latency metrics to help you understand the performance of your Sonos system. -
v2025.5.1-beta+2552
- Improve tip view style, music grid loading behavior, and shadows
- Increase tab color contrast
- Long press artwork in now playing view to navigate to album
- Bold currently playing track when browsing content
- Adopt zoom transitions to enhance music browsing experience
- Album art now zooms from selected point
- Improve iPad / Catalyst layout
- New “Downloaded content only” toggle
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Bops Now Playing v2025.4.9-tvOS
A new version of Bops: Now Playing for Sonos is available on the App Store for all tvOS 18+ users. This release includes a number of new features, bug fixes, and improvements. Download now and read on for details!
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v2025.4.9-tvOSbeta+2482
- tvOS: Fix animation speed setting not applying to gradient animation
- tvOS: Fix crash when idle set to never, was trying to sleep for a hundred quintillion years
- tvOS: Fix room thrashing on first launch
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v2025.4.8-tvOSbeta+2454
- tvOS: Refine favorites browse layout
- tvOS: Add toggle for new experimental favorite button to beta builds. Tap to browse, hold to add / remove
- Revert “tvOS: Expand immersive view frames”
- tvOS: Fix missing stream info on TV / Line-in sources
- tvOS: Expand immersive view frames
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v2025.4.8-beta+2441
This release improves the quality of the metadata provided to Sonos when playing / queueing items, allowing other Sonos apps to add the item to Sonos favorites.
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v2025.4.7-tvOSbeta+2377
- tvOS: Improve visual consistency of room buttons
- tvOS: Display controls when nagivating back to now playing view after idle timeout
- tvOS: Display current room artwork / playback status in pickers
- tvOS: Optional shuffle/repeat buttons
- tvOS: Display stream quality info more quickly after launch / room switch
- tvOS: Improve streamInfo transitions by buffering received metadata
- tvOS: Improve default blendMode. Polish control animations. Clear colors on TV/LineIn. Pause animation when not playing by default
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v2025.4.7-beta+2319
- Add Room latency sparklines to Household settings view
- Add ‘Share debug info’ button to household settings
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v2025.4.6-tvOSbeta+2284
- tvOS: Fallback to grey gradient instead of album art based animation
- tvOS: Add shadow to room buttons
- tvOS: Extend animated background to room selection tab
- tvOS: Merge transition between colors into existing background movement. Ensure album art doesn’t bleed through
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v2025.4.6-beta+2279
A fresh iOS beta. The previous one expired.
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v2025.4.5-tvOSbeta+2213
- Enhance shimmer effect intensity and transitions
- Accept more suggestions from dominant color detection
- Smooth transitions in background animation
- Use mergeable spring animations everywhere to combine instead of sequence transitions
- Retain stale album art for slightly longer, improve transition when we don’t yet have the new art
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v2025.4.4-tvOSbeta+2196
Today’s build gets us closer to an updated App Store release of Bops: Now Playing for Apple TV. Read on for more.
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v2025.4.3-tvOSbeta+2147
- tvOS: Improve appearance of idle control overlay UI
- tvOS: Prefer ColorfulBackground animation unless extracted colors are low quality. Add animation blur material setting. Long press on artwork to adjust animation parameters
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v2025.4.2-tvOSbeta+2091
- tvOS: Fix volume model crash, improve error handling
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v2025.4.1-tvOSbeta+2081
- tvOS: Fix crash writing subscription debug info
- tvOS: Display overlay when processing play/pause in idle view too
- tvOS: Add hoverEffect to albumArtwork when idle
- tvOS: Display audio quality when playing Airplay source
- tvOS: Improve artwork transitions
- tvOS: Additional remote controls in idle state; up/down control volume, right for next track
- tvOS: Improve stream quality info transition, fix display of non-lossless
- tvOS: New background animation based on distorted copies of album art instead of dominant color extraction
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v2025.4.1-beta+2078
- Add latency sparkline to room settings view
- Run tests on Xcode 16.3
- Compare software versions without build metadata and sort results by room name
- Builds on Xcode 16.3
- Fix now playing bar visibility after app load with sheet open
- Show Sonos system Apple Music connectivity status
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v2025.3.3-tvOSbeta+2022
- tvOS: Renew UPnP subscriptions when app becomes active
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v2025.3.3-tvOSbeta+1908
- tvOS: Fix typo in audio quality setting toggle
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v2025.3.3-tvOSbeta+1893
- tvOS: Fix inverted effect of dimWhenIdle setting
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v2025.3.3-tvOSbeta+1880
- tvOS: Hide stop button by default
- tvOS: Update album art when Airplay track changes
- tvOS: Allow more customization of idle appearance
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v2025.3.3-beta+1849
- Don’t skip library tracks when syncing queue to device
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v2025.3.2-beta+1831
- Load next batch of tracks when scrolling to bottom Playlists / Albums
- Don’t create dupe groups when stereo pair coordinator swaps
- Prompt to open Sonos app to update any out of date rooms
- Only lock to device when manually selected
- Defer build expiry to prevent gap in beta availablity when bumping app versions
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v2025.3.1-beta+1756
- Introduce ‘take your queue to go’ feature
- Fix automatic output selection
- Store / show last seen room volume
- Hide churn when restoring device queue
- Add setting to stay connected to device while playing
- Enhance artist view layout and functionality
- Use horizontally constrained sidebar on Mac
- Improve appearance of disabled controls
- Don’t display internal household name during first load
- Fix station playback when browsing library artist
- Improve thread safety of SSDP / UDP broadcast, other code
- Fully deprecate Cocoapods, upgrade key deps to recent SPM versions
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v2025.1.1-tvOS
- Feature album art and hide controls after inactivity timeout
- Add a menu for managing rooms in active group
- Add a button to switch to a connected line-in source
- Add EQ controls to speaker settings view
- Add optional surroundMode/surroundEnabled/subEnabled buttons
- Add appearance settings for most buttons
- Introduce per-speaker appearance settings
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v2024.8.5-tvOS
Initial tvOS release. One day I’ll figure out how version numbers work.
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v2024.8.5-beta+1242
Thanks to some helpful feedback from the beta TestFlight group, Bops now hides the search field when on the settings tab. Additionally, to make search navigation more clear, the search field now gains focus when navigating back from an Album, Playlist, or Artist to a the result list.
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Introducing the Changelog
Hi. I’m Jesse. I’ve been writing this Bops app for a while now, with the generous help of a great group of beta testers. While it’s still a bit rough around the edges, I’m really starting to enjoy using it. As I share it with more people I thought it’d be fun to write a bit about the changes and improvements I make. So; here we are.