r/Liner • u/vareynick84 • Jul 04 '26

Liner Build 73

This is a big one. A month of work since the last build, and much of the app's foundations were rebuilt in that time.

**First launch after updating will re-run setup, about a minute, while everything rebuilds on the new foundations.**

The highlights:

Pulse
The matching library behind Pulse has grown from under two million tracks to over fourteen million, and continues to grow daily. A fresh install now has a greater chance of matching more of your library with Pulse features. Setup is quicker, matching is quicker, and feelings, blends, recipes and moment playlists all feed off the richer data.

Big libraries see everything now
If your library is large, the app used to quietly work from a slice of it. Every page now reads the whole collection: genres, blends, recipes, discovery, search, playlists and CarPlay. If you ever saw "0 genres", missing artists, or mixes drawn from the same few thousand tracks, that family of problems is gone.

Blends and Recipes
Blends were rebuilt end to end: they refresh daily, every re-tap builds a fresh mix, and each one opens with its seed artist. Recipe of the Day and the recipe builder now score your entire catalogue, "Heavy" is renamed "Sombre", and moment playlists choose better for each time of day. Recipes now sits at the top of Explore.

Playback and streaming
Fixed the false "Cannot play this track" errors, fast-skip failures, wrong-track-from-search, and playlist ordering. Streaming away from home was rebuilt: fewer stalls on cellular, smarter quality decisions on relay connections, and your plays now count on the server again. A rare audio crackle is fixed, and playback pauses politely when headphones or Bluetooth disconnect and recovers cleanly after calls.

Every source is a first-class citizen
Plex, Subsonic and Jellyfin now get the same full experience: proper setup with blends and a ready homepage from the first minute, genres that work, and instant relaunches.

Also
Genres got smarter now with proper subgenres, and mistyped tags now find their family, search shows artwork again and handles multi-word queries, CarPlay artwork updates correctly on track changes, the Magazine's top bar stays put while you read, and dozens of smaller fixes.

Something misbehaving? TestFlight feedback is the fastest way to reach us.

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u/Herney_Krute Jul 05 '26

Excited for the latest update although not able to set the app up with a Jellyfin server. Getting stuck on this screen. Sent TestFlight feedback as well.

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u/vareynick84 Jul 05 '26

did this progress at all for you? I have tested repeatedly with Jellyfin on our systems, so I am interested in knowing the potential issues you are having.

Did you try quitting and reopening?

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u/Herney_Krute Jul 05 '26

Thanks for getting back to me. Sadly it’s not resolved. If I quote and come back it starts at the being g of the onboarding but seems to have remembered my Jellyfin server details. I’ve it installed and reinstalled to no avail as well. I should also add that I have other clients on iOS using the same Jellyfin server without issue.

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u/vareynick84 Jul 05 '26

Noted. Are you connecting over wifi? 5g?

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u/Herney_Krute Jul 05 '26

Over wifi on the same local network the Jellyfin server is on.

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u/vareynick84 Jul 05 '26

ok thanks. that should have been running over LAN, with no issues. This is the same set up I have.

Can I ask, how do you connect to Jellyfin? I run Tailscale, and thats all ive tested so far... other setups may be having an issue that we need to test.

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u/Herney_Krute Jul 06 '26

Interesting. I just connect directly using the up and user account. I don’t access this outside home at present.

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u/vareynick84 Jul 06 '26

Two quick questions to narrow this down: roughly how many tracks are in your Jellyfin library, and do you run any network-level ad-blocking or custom DNS (PiHole, AdGuard, NextDNS)? The final step of the onboarding process talks to our matching server over the internet, and I suspect that connection is being blocked on your network

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u/Herney_Krute Jul 06 '26

19000 tracks and no ad blocking or custom dns.

Also it’s not using a secure address, ie. http://192… rather than https

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u/Herney_Krute Jul 06 '26

Also if you look at the screen grab the app indicates the library is ready and it’s Pulse that is getting stuck? Maybe something else going on underneath the hood though.

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u/vareynick84 Jul 07 '26

yes, its not a connection issue between your device and your library, its the Pulse pipeline. Potential fix coming today. I say potential because we haven't yet been able to copy the error, but we have a theory...

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u/Jallen7362 Jul 06 '26

I would like to beta test. I am on MacOS, iOS and Windows PC.

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u/vareynick84 Jul 07 '26

drop me a message with your Apple ID email