What's new in Spectati.

Fixed a crash during playback

Fixed a crash while artwork loads

With Spectati as the playback engine for movies and shows, playback no longer freezes after you open Notification Center or briefly leave the app

AirPlay now starts a movie or episode where you were, and returns to that place when you stop AirPlay

A movie or episode that plays to its end over AirPlay now ends in the player instead of showing a spinner

A Plex server no longer switches to a friend’s shared server while you’re away from home

Pausing and quickly resuming a download from a network share no longer deletes it

Episodes that Trakt numbers differently no longer lose their watched mark

Titles that a disabled source also has no longer disappear when you edit or remove another source

A title you hide now leaves the library at once, and grouping and sort changes are kept

Very large libraries use far less memory, especially on Apple TV

Short searches in a large library are much faster, especially on Apple TV

Switching seasons of a Jellyfin, Emby or Plex show loads only the season you pick

Plex setup starts by linking your Plex account and lists its servers, including ones shared with you

WebDAV and SFTP folders, in beta: Spectati builds a library from the files

Network shares are no longer in beta

Multiview on iPad, Mac and Apple TV: up to four live channels at once, with a subscription

Sync watch history with Trakt as well as SIMKL, with a subscription

Choose an app icon and accent color, with a subscription. App icons are on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV

AirPlay now shows the picture for MPEG-2, VC-1, VP9 and AV1 video, which played as sound only

Titles on more than one source, or listed twice by one IPTV source, now appear once

Watched marks and Next Up are more reliable for IPTV and for titles on more than one source

Fixed several crashes

Search and Library sorting now handle letters such as ø, æ and é

Content Access now removes restricted titles and channels from the Top Shelf and Spotlight straight away, and asks for your PIN before a reset

Fixes for PIN-locked channels, the next episode card, subtitle files and Live TV reminders

More IPTV streams, films and catch-up programmes now play, and more Xtream accounts sign in

JSON playlist sources now sync. If you added one before, enter its address again

A Plex server added on your home network now plays away from home

Network shares set up, update and play more reliably

Downloads no longer go into your iCloud backup

Home rows, Search results and the Library genre filter now show the right titles

Clearer messages when you add a server or an IPTV playlist

The free trial now shows the right number of days left

Home and Search are faster with large IPTV sources, and on Mac, Home uses far less CPU while it sits idle

Choose a background color, or keep the tint taken from the artwork

A title’s page now shows the other titles in its collections

Filter the Library by several genres at once

Put your sources in priority order: when a title is on more than one, you see and play the copy from the top source

Choose which sources Recent Movies and Recent Shows draw from, and hide titles you’ve finished

When an IPTV stream fails because every connection on the account is in use, the error says so

With a subscription, IPTV series you watch on one device now appear in Continue Watching and Next Up on your others

Scrubbing on the Spectati engine now shows a preview image

An IPTV source’s page now shows when the subscription expires and how many connections are in use

Adding a large IPTV source during setup no longer freezes the app

Saving changes to a source no longer waits for every source to sync

Your watchlist now appears on Home however few titles it holds

Reset App now has its own page in Settings

Setting up from your phone now shows an address your phone can open when a VPN is on

On Apple TV, the PIN keypad no longer flashes white

On Apple TV, Live TV no longer freezes when there are many categories

On Mac, the window now opens at the size and place you left it

Older NAS drives, such as NETGEAR ReadyNAS, now list their shared folders

A NAS with many shared folders no longer crashes the app

Domain accounts (DOMAIN\name) now sign in to network shares

A folder your account can’t open no longer cuts a share’s scan short

Adding a network share now tells you when the server needs a username

Servers found on your network keep working when their address changes, and on your other devices

Passwords that begin or end with a space now work

Films that share a folder no longer merge into one or take another film’s artwork

Titles such as Charlotte’s Web are no longer cut short

DVD and Blu-ray folders show as one film, and NAS snapshot and recycle folders are skipped

Anime episode numbers, season folders with a year or tag, and more Kodi .nfo files are recognised

A match you correct now overrides the .nfo file

Browse and switch channels without leaving playback

On Apple TV, changing channel shows where you landed, and the next one each way

Go from a title to the rest of its library

Group libraries by source in Settings, and hide or show a whole source at once

Watched episodes now start collapsed, so the next one comes first

Connecting to a network share (SMB) with the network unavailable could crash the app

Removing watch progress on Plex now sticks instead of the title returning to Continue Watching

Marking an episode unwatched no longer undoes itself when you reopen the show

With SIMKL connected, a server reporting a title as unwatched no longer removes it from your SIMKL history

MPEG program stream video (.mpg and .vob) now plays

IPTV sources listing one film twice now show which quality each copy is

Library keeps your place when you come back from a title

Picture in Picture no longer stays greyed out in the player

A source you removed no longer appears in a title’s Sources list

On Apple TV, Home no longer jumps back to the top when it refreshes

On iPhone, the Play button no longer gets cut off, and Sources is no longer hidden behind it

On iPhone and iPad, Home now scrolls when you swipe on the Featured artwork

Pulling down on Home now refreshes it

Hidden libraries no longer slow down startup

Faster startup: Home appears without waiting for your whole catalog to load

Library opens faster on large libraries

Episode cards show the runtime on the thumbnail

Episodes that showed a blank tile now find a thumbnail

Trailers and extras now appear when your server or share has them

Channel numbers from your provider

Live TV opens in your provider’s channel order, and remembers your sorting

Pin the Live TV categories you watch, and browse the rest by level

Categories match your provider’s own, in their order

The TV guide follows the same channel order

Channel lists and the guide load faster

Channel cards now refresh together, keeping Live TV smooth

The app stays responsive while it loads details from your server and saves your progress

Categories, channels and access limits are one Live TV screen in Settings

Detail pages settle in place instead of shifting as information arrives

Live TV marks the category filter when it is showing only your pinned categories

Channel names are no longer shortened

Quality badges are read from the channel itself

A channel in two categories now appears in both

Guide times are correct for more providers

The Next button no longer disappears while you add a source, and setup says what is missing

Playlist and server addresses work without typing http://

Setup no longer stalls on its last step

Syncing a large library could freeze the app for several seconds

A category filter set to a whole group no longer clears itself

Categories with a slash in their name now list their channels

The rating prompt no longer interrupts a series you are part-way through

Live TV and the guide appear as soon as the app opens, instead of after a sync

Showing only your pinned categories no longer empties the category row

Playing something right after opening the app no longer fails to find it

Access limits stay in force even if their settings cannot be read

Customization options for the hero

Add the same server more than once, so each person can use their own account

Better stability in the Spectati Media Engine

Context menus and icons are more consistent

Sync now shows a more representative status

Large playlists load much faster and TV guides use far less memory

Adult categories in M3U playlists are now recognised and gated, with per-source corrections

Plex now correctly shows ratings, and favourites set in Plex arrive in Spectati

Large libraries no longer stop syncing partway through

A library your account cannot open no longer asks you to re-enter your password

Signing in to a second account on the same server no longer signs the first one out

Playback progress now reaches Plex when a title finishes

Direct streams are no longer reported as transcodes

Un-watching on Plex no longer leaves the old resume point behind

Live channels grouped as "Movies" or "Series" stay in Live TV

A rejected IPTV login no longer empties the channel list

TV guide times are correct for guides that publish in UTC

Guides that arrive as several combined files now import completely

Files holding two episodes now show both episode numbers

Shows from very large playlists no longer open to an empty screen

Playlists that use #EXTGRP, or that set a user agent per channel, now load correctly

On Mac, the prompt to unlock your providers no longer opens partly off-screen

In the Library, group by library or by source, and filter to a single server

Save a set of filters under a name and come back to it in one tap

Choose how posters look: titles underneath, a second line, and three sizes

Hide the tabs you do not use, reorder them, and pick the one the app opens on

Keep a library off Home, or hide it everywhere

Subtitles and audio are remembered per show

Playback rules per source, Home row length and style, and one place to put every choice back

Plex and Jellyfin could reject a correct sign-in: a server shared with you, or an account with no password

A server that answers slowly could be given up on before it replied

On Plex, Continue Watching and Next Up showed a frame from the episode instead of the show it belongs to

A large Library could freeze the app for a few seconds each time it reloaded

A download paused in the moment just after it started could carry on regardless

Recently Added could leave out new titles another row had already shown, or go missing altogether

On Plex, artwork could disappear when you came back to the app, and never appeared on the Top Shelf

A Plex library could stop syncing part way through, leaving titles missing

A channel you had hidden could still turn up in system search on iPhone, iPad and Mac

Adding a source could freeze the app

Faster initial loading

Updated dependencies

Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, European Portuguese, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese

On Apple TV, the app could quit during setup

On Apple TV, the remote could stop responding after a film ended and you went back to Home

On Mac, the player’s buttons did nothing in full screen. Close, full screen, AirPlay and the menus respond again

On Mac, Spectati held on to memory the system needed, and now gives it back when the Mac runs short

Updating your library uses less memory

Adding or streaming from a network share (SMB) could crash the app

Sound could keep playing after you closed the player

Pressing Menu or Back part-way through a scrub left playback paused instead of resuming

Your place in a film could jump backwards after a seek

Watched progress could be reported as saved when it was not

The audio and version pickers could show a track that was not the one playing

Everyday file errors were reported as "Local storage was reset because it was unreadable."

When two servers asked to be trusted at once, the second was never asked again that session

A Jellyfin or Emby library could look empty after a request went out without signing in

Playlist errors could record account details in logs

7.1 and other less common surround layouts were sent to the wrong speakers

A damaged file could crash playback instead of moving past the bad moment

The app reaches Home sooner

The TV guide stops rewriting data that has not changed

Like and Not For Me on any film or show, from the long-press menu or the detail screen

Nine curated rows on Home, reshuffled Daily, Weekly or Never, as you choose in Settings

Series in an IPTV playlist are gathered into shows with seasons and episodes

Include and exclude terms now cover films and series, and work on Xtream sign-ins

Home scrolling on Apple TV is much smoother

Big libraries, search, Channel Manager and the TV guide stay responsive on catalogues with tens of thousands of items

On Apple TV, Home no longer pulls focus back to the rows when you move up to the tabs

A Live TV change that fails to save no longer blocks the ones after it

When a film sits on more than one source, removing one no longer takes the film with it

A source that fails to sync no longer empties its rows for the rest of the session

A share that goes offline mid-playback fails in seconds instead of leaving the player waiting

On Mac, the screen no longer sleeps part-way through a film

Four sample films play from the Home screen before you connect anything

SMB shares (beta), with no media server needed

Emby libraries (beta), alongside Plex and Jellyfin

User profiles on Apple TV, each with its own watch history

Downloads grouped by show and season

Keyboard shortcuts and menu bar commands on Mac and iPad, and Now Playing everywhere

Setup now happens inside Home, so nothing stands between opening the app and watching something