What's New

Every release of BitDek, in plain language. New features, improvements, and fixes, with the reasoning behind them.

[1.3.0] - Unreleased

Added

A 10-band equalizer. Shape your sound with ten bands from 31 Hz to 16 kHz, adjustable in 0.1 dB steps up to ±12 dB. The sliders sit right on a live curve that draws your combined filter shape as you drag.
Your presets, not ours. Save, rename, reload, or delete your own equalizer presets. BitDek ships no canned genre presets. You know what your ears want.
Automatic headroom. Boost as many bands as you like. BitDek calculates the trim needed to keep the signal from clipping, so your adjustments never distort. A Manual mode lets you set the trim yourself.
Lossless passthrough stays lossless. The equalizer is off by default, and off means untouched. Your files pass through sample-identical, exactly as they always have. Engage it and the Audio Quality Overlay adds a Processing node with a miniature response curve, so you always know what is touching your audio.
Import from the Music app. The music you own in Apple’s Music app can now come straight into BitDek. iTunes purchases and downloaded iTunes Match tracks copy over on your device. No computer involved. Lossless files copy without re-encoding, and the Import Summary notes any MP3s converted to AAC.
Choose exactly what comes over. A full-screen picker lists your artists, albums, and tracks with Select All and per-item checkboxes. Tracks still in iCloud show a cloud icon and stay unselectable until you download them in the Music app. A checkmark always means the complete set will import. Download a track in the Music app, come back, and the picker updates on its own.
Only the music you own. Apple Music subscription tracks are protected, and BitDek leaves them alone. Ownership is the whole point.
Album versions, understood. Import a remaster or a different format of an album you already own and BitDek files it as a version inside the album group. True duplicates, same album, same format, same edition, get skipped and listed in the Import Summary. Tracks you already imported from the Music app skip instantly on a second pass.

Changed

Playback starts without the stall. Audio setup used to block the interface for up to a second on Bluetooth, at cold launch, and on output changes. It now runs in the background, and playback commands queue in strict order so nothing gets lost mid-switch.
Storage numbers that match Settings. Device Storage on the Import Music screen now reads the way iOS Settings and Finder do. Available space includes what the system can reclaim on demand, every value uses decimal units, and Total Capacity shows the size on the box. 256 GB, not 255.98.
Active buttons look active. The equalizer and AirPlay buttons in the full player now show the same soft highlight the loop and shuffle buttons use. AirPlay lights up whenever your audio routes wirelessly.

Fixed

Visualizers now show the truth. Bars labeled for bass were displaying midrange content, a bug in the frequency analysis all four visualizers share. Each bar now averages the frequencies its label actually spans, and the whole display reacts to the new equalizer in real time.
Ready for iOS 27. On the iOS 27 beta, some listeners hit a blank library at launch or a player missing its artwork. We traced the bug to its root and fixed it there, verified on the beta, with nothing changed on iOS 26.
End of the queue, end of the player. With repeat off, finishing the last track used to leave the player on screen at 0:00. It now closes the queue and dismisses itself, the same as tapping eject.
Bitrate readings you can trust. Track bitrates now measure the audio stream itself instead of estimating from file size, so embedded cover art no longer inflates the number. Applies to newly imported tracks.
Two crashes gone. Scrubbing to the very start of a playing track no longer crashes. Neither does pressing play in the middle of an output change, right after a Bluetooth switch, for example.
Import Summary math. The skipped-files headline now counts every skip, matching the list below it.

[1.2.3] - 2026-04-09

Added

Filter by era. A new Release Date section in the library filter narrows Albums, Tracks, Artists, and Playlists by decade or by any of the last five years. Reissues file under their original era, so the 50th Anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon filters as 1973, not 2023. Combine buckets freely, and only eras present in your collection appear.

Fixed

Shuffle crash. Tapping Shuffle on the Albums screen could crash the app. Fixed.

[1.2.2] - 2026-03-11

Added

Siri arrives. Say “Hey Siri, play Miles Davis in BitDek” and it happens. Artists, albums, songs, playlists, and genres all work by voice, along with resume and shuffle.
Siri keeps current. Newly imported artists are recognized right away, and Siri learns that the name is pronounced “bit deck.”
Siri in Settings. A new Settings row shows whether Siri is enabled and takes you to the right place to change it. BitDek asks for permission after your first import, once there is a library worth talking to.

[1.2.1] - 2026-03-04

Added

A CarPlay Home tab. Recently Played and Recently Added grids greet you in the car, with a Resume item to pick up where you left off.
CarPlay, faster. The tab bar now appears instantly and content fills in progressively. The long blank screen at launch is gone.
Play and Shuffle up top. Albums, artists, and playlists on CarPlay gained Play and Shuffle buttons. Album pages got a proper header, classical works group by movement, and multi-disc albums show disc headers.
Start fresh. Settings > Storage can now delete all music or all playlists. You type DELETE before anything irreversible happens.

Changed

Bit-Perfect is now Lossless Passthrough. iOS never gives an app exclusive access to the audio hardware, so true bit-perfect output does not exist on iPhone. What BitDek does is preserve your file’s native sample rate with no resampling. The new badge says exactly that. Honesty over hype.
Onboarding, trimmed. Three screens with less to read. Formats and import methods in one place, pricing up front.
A better empty library. Zero tracks now shows the BitDek logo, a welcome, and one clear Import Music button instead of an empty list.

Fixed

Bluetooth, solid. Switching between Bluetooth devices mid-listen no longer stops playback at the end of a track, and the gaps between tracks in gapless albums over Bluetooth are gone.
Play state stays honest. The play button now updates correctly after another app interrupts your audio.
CarPlay in the dark. Icons and track numbers now adapt to your car display’s light and dark appearance.
Widescreen CarPlay layout. Connecting a widescreen car display no longer distorts the mini player and full-screen player on your phone.
The Queue tab shows up. Opening BitDek in the car before opening it on your phone no longer hides the Queue tab on the phone.

[1.2.0] - 2026-02-17

Added

BitDek in your car. Full CarPlay support. Browse artists, albums, playlists, and songs, control playback from Now Playing with shuffle and repeat, and jump around the Up Next queue. Long lists get A-Z quick navigation.

[1.1.11] - 2026-02-16

Fixed

Big text, intact layout. BitDek now holds its layout at accessibility text sizes, capped at the point where layouts break. Display Zoom no longer collapses grids to a single column or clips the player controls, and text size changes now apply live instead of after a restart.

[1.1.10] - 2026-02-10

Added

Visualizers, edge to edge. Double-tap, long-press, or pinch the visualizer to take it fullscreen. All four pages stay swipeable. Tap or pinch to come back.
Offer codes. Redeem a promotional code straight from the Upgrade sheet.

Fixed

Visualizers going dark. Long listening sessions could blank the visualizers until a restart. Fixed, along with a stutter under heavy interface updates.

[1.1.9] - 2026-02-06

Added

Source folders know their status. A folder on a disconnected SSD or an offline NAS now shows as Unavailable. Availability rechecks every few seconds and again the moment you return to the app.
Import browsing, immediate. The selective import browser now scans in the background and shows results as they arrive. Folders you expand jump to the front of the line. Import stays disabled until every selected folder finishes scanning, so nothing imports half-counted.

[1.1.8] - 2026-02-02

Fixed

Mini player reliability. Four separate state bugs could hide the mini player after returning from the background. All fixed.
AirPods manners. Stem squeeze now toggles play and pause, and Control Center shows the right state after your AirPods disconnect.

[1.1.7] - 2026-01-28

Liftoff. BitDek’s first App Store release.