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Create keeps a mix inside the decades you picked

Asking for 50s and 60s could still hand you a mix that wandered into the 70s, the 90s and beyond, and with the Comfort zone slider near Mostly me it could come back as songs already in your library rather than new ones to hear. Your decade choices are now their own line in the brief, written out as years, and they are treated as a boundary rather than a suggestion: only songs first released inside those years, judged by the original release and not by a later remaster, live version or cover. Genres and moods stay deliberately loose, so adjacent styles and near neighbours can still surprise you — and where a genre and your decades disagree, alt-rock in the 50s say, the decades win and Giddy finds the closest thing that existed then. Your library is now read only as a description of the sound you like, so every pick is a different song from the ones it drew on.

Create: describe the mix you want and Giddy builds it

A new Create tab joins Explore and Library at the top of the left panel, with two views: Craft, where you say what you want, and Results, which gives the mix the whole pane. Crafting works two ways, and they combine. Pick from rows of decades, genres and moods — search the list and press Enter to add each one as a pill you can take off again — and set the Comfort zone slider anywhere between Safely me and Not me. Or write it in your own words. Either way there is one brief on screen and it is the real one: your choices are turned into the sentence you are reading, so you can see exactly what Giddy is about to build before you build it. Nothing is ever typed into the box for you. The slider does real work too, deciding whether your own library is used to keep the mix inside your habits or to push it out of them. Whatever you set is still there when you come back, and Start over clears the lot. Giddy then picks real songs to match your brief and finds them in the catalog, and the Results view hands the whole pane over to them so you can read the mix and drag any song straight onto your clock. Every build is 25 songs; if you want more, Add 25 more at the bottom asks for another 25 that fit the same brief without repeating what you already have, and an Undo beside it takes them back off. Nothing touches your queue until you say so: Replace all and play now, Save as playlist to name and confirm a new one, or the ⋯ menu for the usual queue choices.

Reconnecting Apple Music now tells you it worked

When Apple stops streaming full songs, Giddy offers a Reconnect button. It worked, but said nothing afterwards — the notice just disappeared, and the song already playing kept its 30-second label, so a successful repair looked like a failed one. Reconnecting now confirms it plainly and says what to expect: the current song finishes as the short version, the next one starts complete. In a party it also tells you it is putting you back in where the room is now.

Party guests stay in step even in a background tab

A guest starts each song a second or two behind the host while their music loads, and Giddy closes that gap during the song with a speed change too small to hear. That correction never started while the party was in a hidden or background tab, so a guest could sit a couple of seconds behind for minutes at a time — once measured at two and a half minutes into a song. Giddy now reads the playhead from the audio itself rather than from the screen's animation timer, so the gap starts closing within a few seconds of every song, whether or not you are looking at the tab.

The party song and invite pickers use the whole pane

Picking a seed playlist or invitees while creating a party showed the list in a short box with empty space below it, so you scrolled a stub of a list in a tall rail. Both pickers now fill the pane, showing every row that fits.

When Apple Music drops mid-party, Giddy says so and fixes it

Apple can quietly stop streaming full songs and serve 30-second previews instead, with no error. Giddy used to read that one song at a time, so an account-wide problem was reported as a run of odd songs while the music stuttered and a full-screen card kept offering to rejoin a party you had never left. Now two consecutive short songs are recognized as the connection: playback stops fighting it, the party stays on screen, and one calm notice explains what happened with a single Reconnect that puts you back in at the live position.

Reconnect Apple Music actually reconnects

The Reconnect prompt only cleared your stored Apple token when a check called it invalid — and the failure it exists for usually leaves a token that looks perfectly good, so the button changed nothing and the only real cure was disconnecting and reconnecting from Settings. Reconnect now always asks Apple for a fresh session.

A song is no longer blamed for your connection

Songs that played short during a connection problem were badged Preview only for the rest of the session, even though they play fine. Those marks are now withdrawn once the problem is identified as the connection.

The tour stays behind when you sign up

Following any demo Create free account link now closes the tour before navigation, so its final Enjoy Giddy tip cannot reach the signup form or return with the browser Back button.

Your demo look follows you into Giddy

Choose a bundled skin or make your own in the demo, then create an account on that browser: your colors and background come with you when you sign in. The handoff is device-local and only fills a new account's empty style slot, so it never replaces a returning listener's saved look.

The Giddy demo is open—and discoverable

The employee-only team password wall is gone, and the public Production player is open to search engines. Anyone can now discover and land on the playable web demo, hear the 30-second previews, take the tour, and decide whether to create an account.

Skins stay live while you take the tour

Changing the skin from Adjust view during the signed-in tour used to select the new thumbnail while leaving the player in a temporary plain theme. The tour now follows every live skin color and background-image change, and its own tips inherit the same contrast-correct palette.

The Party tour shortcut opens Parties

The Party step highlighted the right shortcut, but the tour immediately switched the left pane back to Songs after you clicked it. During that step the Parties panel now stays open; advancing the tour restores its normal guided view.

Signing in cleanly leaves preview mode behind

A playing 30-second demo could leave the signed-in player looking active after its preview engine had already stopped, producing a 30s badge and a Connect Apple Music prompt beside a connected account. Trial playback is now cleared at sign-in, restored accounts always begin paused, and an early preview moves to full Apple Music playback as soon as the connection is ready.

Every party song now starts at the top, together

Guests heard a stumble at the top of every party song, sometimes a stretch where the music dragged like a slowed record, and — worst of all — the first second or two of a song missing entirely, because a guest would start late and then skip ahead to catch the host. Songs now begin the way they should: the whole room pauses together for a beat at each song change, then everyone starts at 0:00 and hears the song from its first note. Any small difference that opens up during a song is smoothed away with a tempo correction far too subtle to hear, spread across the rest of the song, instead of a jump or a skip. If playback ever falls seriously out of step (a network drop, a laptop waking up), it no longer yanks the song around mid-play — the party quietly lines itself back up at the next song.

The front door found its stage presence

Signed out, Giddy now arrives dressed in one of ten player-matched looks, including the original orange, black, and white house style. Each gets its own playful pitch, brighter motion, and an 18-song scene-matched mix while the matching live clock shimmers underneath. The page shuffles through every look, can pause whenever you like, and one unapologetically musical button starts the playable 30-second demo. No account or email first.

Undo works the same way everywhere now

The undo pill only existed on the clock, so an action taken anywhere else was reversible in theory and invisible in practice. It now floats just under the header on whatever page you're on — an album, a playlist, search, your library — with the same draining countdown, the same ✕, and the same Ctrl+Z. It's the standard way to take something back.

Add to a playlist from any ⋯ menu — a song, an album, or a whole playlist

Something you came across while playing could only be queued, never filed. Every ⋯ menu now offers “Add to Playlist…”: on a song row — in the queue on the left, on an album, in search results — and on a whole album or playlist. It lists your saved playlists, filters them by name once there are more than a handful, and puts the songs on the end of the one you pick. Songs the playlist already has are skipped rather than doubled, so adding the same thing twice doesn't leave copies. There's a “New playlist…” option too, which makes the playlist from what you're filing and leaves your queue untouched. Adding a whole album or playlist says what it's about to do first — how many songs, and onto which playlist — since that's a big change to make by mistake. Either way it's reversible: the add arms the same undo pill a collection drop does, above the clock, and answers to Ctrl+Z. Undo takes the songs back off the playlist, or removes the playlist entirely if the add just made it. And if the playlist you added to is the one loaded on the clock, the queue picks the songs up as well, so the two agree.

Leave a party at the end of the song you're on

Slipping out of a party meant cutting off whatever was playing. Now you can say “after this one” instead: in a party, the repeat button in the player — which never did anything there, since the host runs the playlist — becomes “after this song”, wearing the same one-more-then-stop icon it does everywhere else. Tap it and the song plays to its end, then you're out. A host taps it and picks, because they have two very different exits available: slip out and leave the party running, or end it for everyone. Ending tells the room in chat the moment it's set, so nobody is cut off without the rest of a song's warning — and cancelling retracts that too. Either way a second tap calls the whole thing off. The Leave and End dialogs offer the same choice as a checkbox, and while it's set the party panel says so and gives you a way out of it.

Signing in as someone else no longer inherits the host's controls

If you signed out of a party you were hosting and someone else signed in on that same tab, the app kept treating that tab as the host — a “Hosting” label, working host-only transport controls, and the ability to end a party that wasn't theirs. The tab was trusting its own memory of who you were instead of asking. It now confirms who the host actually is when it restores a party, and corrects itself.

Menus and the emoji panel no longer vanish mid-use

In a busy party the emoji panel would close on its own while you were still choosing — the fuller the room, the worse it got. It shut itself whenever anything on screen scrolled, and a live party scrolls constantly without you: the chat pins itself to the newest message every time anyone speaks, and the queue slides to the playing song at every track change. Neither has anything to do with the panel, so neither closes it now — it stays put and simply follows its button. The same applied to every ⋯ menu in the app, which closed if the list underneath it moved, and couldn't be scrolled when it was too long to fit; both are fixed. All of them still close on Escape, on a click outside, and if you scroll the thing that opened them off the screen.

Emoji are bigger

Emoji were too small to read at a glance in a party. The picker grid and its category tabs, the quick reactions on a message, the reaction tallies underneath it, the one-tap bar over the chat box, and the ones that rise over the clock all grew.

Your most-used emoji are one tap away everywhere

Both one-tap rows — the one that appears when you hover a message, and the rising reactions above the chat box — now share a shape: the seven most common emoji, which never move, a divider, then your own three most used. The two are kept distinct, so no slot is spent showing you the same emoji twice. Hovering a message used to offer four reactions; it now offers ten. Your three update the moment you use something new — send an emoji the bar hasn't seen and it's there next time you look — while the ones already on it never change position. The button that opens the full picker is also no longer smaller than everything beside it.

A “Saved” announcement rises at full size

When someone saves the playing song, their name-and-avatar “Saved” badge floats up over the clock alongside everyone's emoji — but at half their size, which made it read as a lesser event than a thumbs-up. It now rides at the same height as the emoji beside it.

The save icon no longer sits on top of a song's length

Saving a song from a list left the bookmark drawn straight over the row's duration, the two overlapping into an unreadable smudge. The row hid its duration when you hovered, but not when a control stayed lit because it still held focus after a click — which some browsers do and others don't. The save button and the ⋯ menu now always take the space and the duration always steps out of it, and the two read that from the same place, so they can no longer end up disagreeing about which of them is on screen. Tabbing to a row now reveals its controls too, instead of leaving keyboard users to guess they're there.

The emoji bar no longer covers the message you're reacting to

Hovering a chat message brought up its one-tap emoji bar on top of the message itself, hiding the words you were picking a reaction for. It now sits in the space above the message, clear of it, and hugs the outer edge of the transcript so it keeps as much of the conversation visible as it can. It also stays put as you move the mouse onto it — the first cut of this left a hair of dead space on the way, so reaching for an emoji closed the bar and opened the next message's instead.

The Update button is much harder to miss

When a new version of Giddy goes live while you're listening, the app doesn't reload underneath you — it waits, and offers an Update button in the top bar. That offer was a small line of text that an entire party looked straight past, so it's now a filled badge with a live dot. Nothing about the timing changed: nothing reloads until you click, and Giddy still asks before stopping a song. The button is also honest now about what happens next — restarting does briefly stop the music, and in a party it reconnects you rather than resuming on its own.

A new version never drops you out of a party

Giddy only ever applied an update on its own when you clearly weren't listening, but a party counted as “not listening” whenever the music happened to be quiet at that moment — between songs, or paused. If a release landed right then, the page reloaded with no warning: the party dropped, “Connecting to the party” ran for several seconds, and you had to tap to rejoin. A party now always waits for you to press Update, however quiet it is. This was also a reason the Update button could seem never to appear — the reload consumed the release before anyone noticed the offer.

Clear what the emoji picker has learned

The picker's Frequently used tab has a Clear button. It forgets your emoji history everywhere at once — the grid and both one-tap rows fall back to their starting sets immediately, rather than waiting for a reload — and starts learning again from there.

Spamming one emoji no longer takes over your favorites

“Frequently used” counted every click, so firing one emoji fifty times in a party buried everything you actually use the rest of the time — and it never recovered. It now counts the separate occasions you reach for an emoji rather than raw clicks: fifty taps at one drop are worth barely more than one, and never as much as coming back to something on another night. Leaning on an emoji still beats tapping it once, so the list is genuinely most-used rather than most-recent. Older habits fade gradually too, so it follows what you use now. Existing favorites are carried over with any runaway count flattened.

Autoplay sits at the foot of the queue again

With songs in the queue the Autoplay switch rested along the bottom edge of the rail, where a footer belongs. With an empty queue it climbed up and sat immediately under the “your queue is empty” line, halfway up the pane. It now holds the bottom of the rail whether the queue is full or empty.

The volume knob is round again

The circle you drag along the volume slider had its top and bottom sliced flat — the control was sized to the height of the thin track rather than the knob riding on it. The track is unchanged; the knob is now a full circle.

Mute a song, not the rest of the night

Mute used to be all-or-nothing: silence until you remembered to undo it. Clicking mute still does exactly that and nothing else — but while you're muted, a quiet label appears beside it reading “Until I unmute”, and that's a button. Open it to give the mute an end: this song, this + 1, + 2, or + 5. The label then counts down in the same words as the songs go by, and the sound comes back on its own — so sitting out one track in a party no longer means missing the three after it. Muting is yours alone: it never pauses a party, never tells anyone, and works the same whether you're hosting or listening.

A bluetooth pause button no longer stops the party

Pressing pause on headphones, earbuds, or a keyboard media key while hosting a party did what the on-screen pause button does — it stopped the song for everyone in the room. But nobody reaches for the pip on their earbuds to end a party; they do it because someone started talking to them. In a party that key now mutes your own playback instead, and the shared music plays on untouched. Press it again for sound back, already in sync, since it never actually stopped. Guests get the same: their pause key used to silence them by stopping their own audio, which left them drifting behind the party — now it simply mutes, and unmuting drops them straight back in step.

Joining a party is now as guided as starting one

Joining used to go quiet: a button reading “Joining…” while Giddy checked Apple Music and signed you in, then a loader written for hosts building a party. Now the join is narrated end to end in its own words — Joining the party, Connecting, Loading the party's songs (with a live “N of M songs” count taken from the party's real size), Lining up the queue, then Getting you in sync. Invite links get the same treatment, including the wait while the party opens, and the invite page itself now matches the rest of the party design.

Starting a party with no songs now shows its progress too

Creating a party from a playlist or from your queue showed a progress screen; creating an empty one showed nothing at all until it appeared. All three now narrate the same phases — an empty party simply says it's open and ready for its first song.

Re-opening your own party now reads as joining, not starting

Tapping “Join” on a live party you host described it as though it were being created — “Setting up your party”, then “Starting now”. Only actually creating a party is a start now; every other way in, including a host re-opening or resuming their own party, reads as joining it. The starting screen also wears the same orange party mark and progress bar as the rest of the party design instead of a plain white one.

Every way into a party now ends the same way

The brief “Joining now” card that fades away as the room appears used to show only on some entries. Now every one finishes with it — creating, joining, opening an invite, and the entries where Giddy needs a tap on “Join the party” before Apple Music will start (those used to fade out the tap screen itself instead) — so no path either blinks straight from a loader to the clock or ends on different words than the rest.

A blank Apple Music error box no longer blocks starting a party

Starting a party could drop a small white box reading “undefined” with an OK button on top of the “Join the party” button — and the full-screen sheet behind it dimmed the page and swallowed taps, so the party looked frozen. That box comes from Apple's MusicKit, which is now told never to draw its own error dialogs, and the leftover sheet is cleared too. The underlying playback error still routes to Giddy's own retry and “Join the party” handling.

“Join the party” no longer pauses a party that is already playing

When a party's audio had already started on its own, the re-entry screen still asked you to tap “Join the party” — and that tap acted as a play/pause toggle, so it silenced the music and you had to tap again to get it back. The tap prompt now only appears when audio genuinely isn't running, and it never interrupts playback that is already going.

A 30-second song no longer tells connected listeners to connect

When Apple Music serves only a 30-second preview of a track you are otherwise fully connected for, the now-playing line read “Connect Apple Music for the full song”, which contradicted the Connected state in Settings. It now reads “Apple Music only streamed a 30-second preview of this song.”

Being connected without a subscription now says so

Connecting Apple Music and subscribing to Apple Music are two different things, and Apple connects a subscription-less account without complaint — after which every song quietly plays as a 30-second preview with nothing to explain why. Settings → Apple Music now states it outright when your connected Apple ID has no active subscription, and offers the subscribe link right there. If Apple declines to answer, Giddy says nothing rather than guessing.

The turntable finishes a side like a real one

On the vinyl views the record used to spin forever after a queue or party ended, while the tonearm darted straight back to the first groove. The ending now plays out in order, the way a real deck does: the needle rides the run-out groove for a couple of seconds, then the arm lifts, then it travels slowly back to the beginning, and after ten uninterrupted seconds of nothing playing the motor cuts and the platter coasts to a stop under its own weight. Press play inside those ten seconds and it simply carries on. Pausing part-way through a song stops nothing — it just lifts the arm where it is, exactly like the cueing lever — and switching to a vinyl view shows the deck as it already is instead of winding it up or down in front of you. 45s and 33⅓s behave identically, because on a real deck only the speed differs.

Every full-screen loader wears the Giddy mark

The “Reordering your songs” and “Building your radio” screens were still plain white spinners. Both now carry the same orange party mark and thin ring as the rest of the loading screens.

A song waiting in the queue no longer claims you aren't connected

With Apple Music connected, the song sitting cued at the top of your queue could still show a “30s” badge and “30-second preview. Connect Apple Music for the full song.” — while the account menu one panel away offered to disconnect it. The warning came from a flag saved with the song rather than from your actual connection, which is also why it disappeared the moment real playback started, such as when a party began. Giddy now checks the live connection, so the notice appears only when a preview is genuinely playing.

Starting an empty party no longer hangs or gets ejected

Starting a party without a seed playlist (the default) could get stuck forever on the “Synchronizing playback — Checking the current song and playback position…” screen — and even past that, a brief connection blip could throw you out with a false “The party has ended.” An empty party doesn't count as running on the server until its first song lands, and two safeguards misread that as a dead party. It now lands straight on the party screen and stays there: add your first song and the party starts.

The player now explains a 30-second song

When a track plays for only 30 seconds, the player says why instead of leaving it looking like a bug. Alongside the “30s” badge, the now-playing line now reads “30-second preview. Connect Apple Music for the full song.” — and a track that only offers a preview is flagged the same way in the queue. If your Apple Music session has quietly expired, it instead reads “Apple Music session expired” with a Reconnect button.

Featured picks settings moved into Adjust view

The “Featured options” row above the Explore shelf is gone; choose whether (and which kinds of) featured picks show under Adjust view → Lists instead. The shelf's minimize chevron and resize handle stay put.

Custom skins no longer vanish after visiting another page

Creating a custom skin (or changing any Adjust-view setting) and then browsing to Additional Settings and back could silently reset your colors and preferences to the defaults. Your saved settings now survive every navigation.

The rectangle clock shapes now actually look rectangular

Switching the outer shape to rectangle used to look identical to the square — it now stretches the clock edge-to-edge across the pane (its size slider steps aside while it's active), and the outer ring traces the pane instead of leaving stray cropped lines. The center dial's rectangle shape is now clearly a rectangle too, following the pane's orientation, with the artwork band running right up to it.

Clock highlights now follow your custom colors

With a custom background, the border around the now-playing album art (and the clock's quarter dots, played-song labels, drag indicator, and back-to-now ring) stayed Giddy orange. They now recolor with the rest of your theme.

Every skin stays readable — colors adjust themselves where needed

Custom styles keep their personality without hiding the interface. Where a chosen combination would be hard to read — a brand color that blends into the header or lists (hiding the Giddy logo or “+ New party”), or text on surfaces close to its own color — Giddy now shifts that color just enough, only in that spot, to stay legible. Shuffle and repeat show a filled pill when on instead of a subtle color change, every on/off switch keeps a visible track and knob on any background (including “Save the final playlist” in a party), and hovers, dividers, search fields, and chat bubbles now tint from your chosen text color so they read on dark skins too. The Style tab’s heads-up now explains exactly where a pick will be adjusted.

Radio and Autoplay are open to everyone

Every listener can now start an AI-curated radio mix from a song, artist, album, or playlist, and turn on Autoplay to keep a solo queue going with music that fits.

Party arrivals touch down more gently

Party entry now stays on one softly blurred view of the room from connection through arrival. Automatic joins hold briefly on “Joining now” before fading in, while Apple Music joins that need a fresh gesture go directly to a stable, meter-free ready card.

Your queue waits for you while you join a party

Hosts and guests now return to the queue they had before joining, including after refreshing or reconnecting during the party. The party can take over while it is live without replacing what you had lined up for afterward.

Party hosts and guests stay on the same song

Joining mid-party, reordering songs, and skipping can no longer leave one screen playing a different track. Everyone follows the party's exact now-playing row, while the host's real audio remains the timing reference and gentle corrections keep playback smooth.

Refreshing the host no longer pulls the party backward

A returning host now catches up locally to the party's existing position instead of making every guest replay the last few seconds. Pause countdowns also clear honestly when playback resumes.

The Party clock makes filtered views unmistakable

When My songs is selected, the clock now labels it as a filtered editing view, shows how many songs are visible, and offers a direct return to the full Party list while playback continues to follow the whole room.

My songs stays clear and responsive while you edit

The filtered clock now labels your set as “My N songs,” keeps one clear next pointer, and lets you grab the minute hand to scroll through your songs. A delayed, dismissible progress overlay appears only when a reorder needs extra time.

Returning to a party now feels continuous

Refreshing or reopening a party now stays behind one clean progress screen while Giddy reconnects, finds the live song, starts the audio, and synchronizes your position. The party appears only when it is ready, with one clear Join the party action when the browser needs a tap.

Party listeners stay locked to the host — without the blips

Everyone now glides onto the host's position with a gentle, inaudible tempo trim instead of audible jumps. Each song gets one quiet catch-up right as it starts, bigger gaps close under a soft fade, and a stalled player recovers on its own. Smooth audio and tight sync, together.

Party chat sticks around for the whole party

The party conversation now lives as long as the party does. Refreshing the page (or leaving and rejoining) brings your chat history right back — and joining late replays everything said before you arrived, so everyone sees the same conversation.

Only emojis float up over the clock

Chat messages no longer rise over the clock as bubbles — just their emojis do. The words stay in the chat panel. New in Settings → Display: turn rising reactions off entirely for your screen, and a rate limit keeps any one guest from flooding everyone's view.

Saving a party song gives the room a little nod

When someone saves the song that's playing, a small bookmark with their photo and “Saved” floats up everyone's clock — and saving a song that's coming up later holds the nod until it actually plays. A small tally at the bottom of the clock counts how many people saved the current song. Prefer to save quietly? Turn it off under Settings → Privacy.

The emoji picker scrolls, holds still, and learns your favorites

The full emoji chart scrolls properly now, and searching no longer shrinks the panel into a moving target. A new Frequently-used tab opens first with the emoji you actually send (it also powers the quick-react row on messages), and the rising-reaction picker stays open so you can fire off several in a row.

Party audio stays smooth while browsers buffer

Guests no longer get pulled into repeated seek-and-reload loops when their browser briefly buffers—especially in Firefox. A meaningful clock correction now happens at most once per song, with a short audio fade to soften the occasional adjustment, while safer host timing keeps everyone aligned without disturbing the phone apps.

Update Giddy without losing your place

When a new version is ready, a subtle Update link appears in the player. Giddy waits while music is playing, then restores your queue, song, and listening position after you choose to update.

The guided tour always shows what it describes

Starting or replaying the tour now brings you to the player and temporarily opens Explore on Songs, while “Not now” returns you to the view you had before. The playlist tip always has a visible target, Explore includes the long-press preview hint, and a new Get Involved step points to the ideas lightbulb, which lights up when hovered.

Menus and controls stay readable over every skin

Account and Party menus, dialogs, dropdowns, tooltips, toasts, form controls, and other floating actions now keep a clear neutral palette instead of inheriting unreadable colors from the clock skin. Brand-colored buttons also choose light or dark text to suit the selected accent, while Giddy's orange keeps its familiar white labels.

Tours politely borrow Giddy's default look

Starting the guided tour now temporarily presents Giddy's standard colors so every step and spotlight stays clear, then smoothly restores your chosen skin when the tour ends without changing what you saved.

Album art opens full and square by default

Opening the player artwork now starts with the complete square album cover instead of another artwork treatment.

Party chat hover highlights return to the clock

Hovering a Party chat message once again shows that comment over its matching spot on the clock, and Party menus and top-bar shortcuts received a small alignment and styling polish.

Skins stay readable across the whole player

Skin colors now consistently reach the header, player bar, lists, filter pills, clock shortcuts, status prompts, and clock overlays. Virtual Vinyl labels use the selected brand and text colors, the white clock face keeps dark hands and its subtle Giddy mark, album-art views leave the skin visible around the artwork, and choosing a Clock preset no longer removes the active skin.

A lighter, faster Party console

Guest and chat search now stays tucked behind a small shortcut beneath the two Party pills until you need it. Chat-over-clock is on by default and managed in Settings, the obsolete floating thumbs-up button is gone, and the clock's shortcuts remain available in album-art and Virtual Vinyl views.

Party comments and emoji rise over every player view

Live Party comments and emoji reactions once again float over the clock, album art, lyrics, Singles, and Longplays. Your own reactions appear immediately without waiting for a server round trip, echoed reactions are not duplicated, and sender portraits stay properly contained inside the comment bubble.

A cleaner, more focused Adjust view

Adjust view now opens with Style and groups Clock and Lists together, while the Clock controls use clearer names, visible values, and compact presets. Playback timing, party-chat overlays, and Featured choices now live where you use them—in Playback settings, the Party console, and Explore—so Adjust view stays focused on appearance. Resetting the Clock no longer resets your custom style.

Make Giddy yours with custom styles and skins

Adjust view now has a dedicated Style tab for changing Giddy’s background, brand, header and player bar, lists, and text colors with live previews and readability checks. Choose from bundled visual skins, reuse colors from your palette, create a custom skin from an uploaded image with suggested colors, or keep a skin’s coordinated colors without its background image. The Clock and Virtual Vinyl views share the selected background.

Spin Singles or Longplays on Virtual Vinyl

Click the artwork in the player bar to put the current song on a charcoal Virtual Vinyl turntable, then use the clearly marked 45 and LP controls to choose a smaller 45 RPM Single with the album cover as its center label or a full-size 33⅓ RPM Longplay with a classic Giddy-orange label bearing the playlist name. A hand-built queue gets its own personalized weekday session title. A photo-real control arm advances across the Single with the song scrubber and across the Longplay with the full queue, using each format's real recorded-groove span and lifting smoothly in place when paused. The view toggle still takes you to full album art and, when enabled, scrolling lyrics.

Minimize the Featured shelf right where it lives

The curated “Featured” shelf at the top of Explore now has its own controls, so you don't have to dig into Settings to get it out of the way. Click its header to minimize it — the picks tuck away and a slim “Featured” bar stays put, one click from bringing them back. When it's open, a long set of picks scrolls inside the shelf instead of pushing your own music below the fold, and you can drag the shelf's bottom edge to make it taller or shorter (double-click the handle to reset). Both the minimized state and the height are remembered.

Gentler wording when a paused party is wrapping up

The heads-up a party shows after it's sat paused for a while now reads “The party will end in 45 minutes.” — a calmer, clearer phrasing than before.

Guests resume when the host presses play again

When the host paused, guests paused — but when the host pressed play again, guests on the phone apps (and any non-web guest) stayed stuck on pause. Resuming now sends a real play signal to everyone, so the whole party un-pauses together, while web guests keep their to-the-second sync with the host.

Tidier Create-party form

The Create-party form now leads with the essentials — name, description, songs, and who to invite — with Access, Time, and Reminders below them, so setting up a party reads top-to-bottom the way you'd fill it in.

Public parties list only shows parties you can actually join

The Explore → Parties list could show parties that weren't live — ones from an earlier day, or scheduled ones that never started — each with a Join button that just led to a dead “Connecting…”. Discovery now lists only live parties, and opening the list (or switching back to the tab or window) always pulls a fresh copy, so stale parties drop off instead of lingering. If a party stops being live right as you click into it or try to join, you get a brief note and it's removed from the list on the spot — no more dropping into a dead party.

Party guests no longer run 10–20 seconds ahead of the host

If the host's computer clock was off by some seconds (Windows clocks drift), every guest in the party ran exactly that far ahead of the host's audio, every song — and the host's own playback got cut off before each song's ending. The party clock is now set from the server's clock using how far into the song the host actually is, so the host's system clock can never skew the party again; a host playing out a song's final seconds is also no longer yanked early into the next one.

Guests join a party in sync with the host

A guest joining a running party could land one song ahead of the host — playing the next song while everyone else was still on the current one — because the song list they were handed had dropped the currently-playing track. The party now guarantees the playing song is always in the list it hands out, and a guest that still can't find it holds and re-syncs instead of guessing.

Joining a party gets stuck at “Connecting…” less often

Re-joining after a tab-away, drop, or refresh could hang on “Connecting…” (and sometimes bounce you out) while a slow Apple Music re-check or a stalled connection request ran with no time limit. Reconnecting a session you already joined now trusts that check, times out quickly, and never ejects you; the connection request itself is time-bounded and retries instead of hanging.

Reorder your party songs right on the clock

In a party, pick up one of your own song wedges and the clock now focuses down to just your songs — the Party/My songs toggle slides to My songs to match — so the whole clock face becomes your personal running order. Drop the wedge where it should go (on the clock, or in the My songs list) and the party re-deals around your new order. When you let go, the clock eases back to whatever you were looking at before — or stays on My songs if that's where you started. Other people's wedges, and the playing/up-next songs, stay put.

Refreshing as the host recovers properly

Reloading the page while hosting could leave you frozen out: the party played on for guests, but your own audio never restarted, and the play button couldn't bring it back. The “jump back in” prompt now appears reliably on every browser (Chrome's silent autoplay block wasn't detected before), pressing play re-attaches your audio at the party's live position instead of restarting the song from the top for everyone — and tapping the prompt while the queue is still loading no longer wedges you under a stuck overlay with music playing behind it (the tap now lets the load finish and start playback itself, at the right spot).

Rejoining your own party picks up mid-song

Leaving a party you host and then opening it again restarted the current song from the beginning — the app treated re-opening a running party as starting a brand-new one and reset the clock to 0:00. Re-opening now resumes at the party's live position, so playback stays continuous whether you're there or not. (Starting a genuinely new party still begins at the top, as it should.)

My songs: reorder drops show the insertion line

Dragging a song in the My songs view now shows the same insertion line as reordering the solo queue, so you can see exactly where the drop will land. The share pie also moved next to the percentage it illustrates.

Joining a party no longer hangs at “Connecting…”

The new Apple Music check could fire while the player was still waking up, mistake “still loading” for “not connected”, and leave the party rail stuck on Connecting… (it even forgot the session, so refreshing didn't help). The check now waits for the player to wake, never blocks forever, and if it genuinely fails you land back at the party list with a clear explanation instead of a stuck screen.

Album drops bring the whole album

Dropping a long album into a party (or onto the clock) silently cut it off after the first ~30 songs — the rest of the album never arrived. Albums and artists now fetch every page, like playlists already did.

Guests land on the live beat when joining

Joining or rejoining a party could start the current song from the top instead of the live position — a mid-build update could race the join snapshot and pin the song clock at 0:00, and the real position that arrived a moment later was ignored as a duplicate. The clock now takes the first real position it hears.

Honest feedback on party drops

Dragging an album over the party clock now says “Drop to add to the party” (the old “Only songs can be added” note was left over from before collections were allowed). And if some songs in a collection fail to add, the notice now counts them — “Added 28 of 30 songs — 2 failed” — instead of quietly losing them.

Parties now require Apple Music

Joining or hosting a party now checks for a working Apple Music connection first, with a clear explanation if it's missing. Party playback streams full songs on a shared clock — without a connection you'd get broken 30-second snippets that kept pausing (the “tap to play” loop some guests hit). Connect once from the account menu and you're in.

My songs: your share of the party + when you're up next

The My songs view now shows a little pie with the percentage of the party that's yours, plus a live “Yours next around 4:10 PM · after 3 other songs” line so you know exactly when your pick plays.

Reordering your songs sticks

Dragging a song in My songs could snap back a second later even though the party had accepted the new order — an over-eager refresh was racing the party's re-deal. Your drop now holds and everyone's queue re-deals around it.

Drop whole albums and playlists into a party

Anyone in a party — host or guest — can now drop an album, playlist, or artist onto the clock or Queue (or use its ⋯ menu's “Add to Party”) and every song joins the shared set, dealt fairly among everyone's picks. Songs stream in one by one, and anything already in the party is skipped automatically.

Control your own songs in a party

The Queue rail in a party now has a “My songs” view: just the songs YOU added, in the order they'll play. Drag to reorder them — the party's shared order re-deals around your changes for everyone, instantly. And you can now remove your own songs (from the ⋯ menu or by dragging them out), host or guest; only the playing song and the one up next are locked. The party view still shows everyone's songs in play order.

Save the party playlist even if you leave early

The “save the final playlist to my library when the party finishes” option now delivers you the playlist whether you're still in the party at the end or left earlier — as long as you had it on. Leaving no longer asks whether to save; it just reminds you of your current setting. Saving is now OFF by default (you opt in per party, or change the default in Settings → Playback). Everyone who opted in gets their own copy when the party wraps up.

Play button works on a queue you haven't started yet

When the clock and Queue were full but you hadn't pressed play, the player bar said “Nothing playing” with a greyed-out play button — including right after connecting Apple Music. The first queued song now loads ready-to-play, so it shows in the bar and the play button is live.

Apple Music sign-in bridge for the Android app

New /app-auth page that the Giddy Android app opens to connect Apple Music through the browser — the reliable web sign-in — instead of Apple's broken in-app flow on newer phones. You'll only ever see it when arriving from the app.

Parties lists load faster

The Parties lists in Explore and Library now appear instantly — they remember the last set you saw and show it the moment the page loads, refreshing quietly in the background instead of making you wait on a “Loading…” spinner. Loading the lists themselves is also dramatically faster now. And there's a small refresh button back at the top of the list to pull the latest on demand — it spins while it's fetching.

“Connect Apple Music” always reachable

After clearing cookies (or any hiccup connecting to Apple Music on load), the app could get stuck thinking Apple Music was unavailable — quietly hiding the “Connect Apple Music” option from the account menu, Settings and the party host prompt, even though other screens still asked you to connect. Apple Music now keeps re-checking in the background and after you sign in, so the connect option always reappears and you can hook it up without reloading the page.

Party chat: full emoji picker

A searchable emoji picker now lives in the party chat — tap the smiley in the composer to drop any emoji into your message, or hover a message and tap the “+” to react with any emoji (not just the four quick ones). Hundreds of emoji across every category, with a search box to find one fast.

Party chat shows dates and times

Messages now carry the time they were sent next to the sender's name, and the transcript is split by day with “Today” / “Yesterday” / date dividers — so a long-running party's chat reads clearly, closer to a real messaging app.

See chat comments on the clock

Hover any party-chat message and it pops up on the clock over the song that was playing when it was sent, lighting up that track's slice. On by default — turn it off under Adjust view → Party → “Show chat on the clock” if you'd rather. (Only messages for songs still within the clock's hour-long window appear.)

Dropping songs fast into a party keeps every one

Adding several songs in quick succession no longer loses any for the person adding them. A couple of the songs could briefly vanish from your own queue (while everyone else saw them all), and a skip afterward could then land you on a different song than the rest of the party. Your queue now keeps every song you add and quickly settles into the same order everyone else has, so skipping stays in sync.

Ended parties leave the list right away

When you end (or delete) a party, it now disappears from your Parties list immediately and stays gone — instead of lingering there, still clickable, so you could wander back into a party that was already over.

Building a party by dropping songs just works

Starting an empty party and dragging songs in is now reliable: the first song you add stays in the queue and plays from the top, pausing works, and there's no spurious “the party is ending” notice. Previously the party could start before it had any songs and get itself into a confused, half-ended state.

Songs dropped into a fresh party play from the start

When you start an empty party and drag songs in, the first song added now plays from 0:00. Before, it could begin a few seconds in — or, if you took a while picking songs before dropping them, get skipped entirely before it had a chance to play. The first dropped song now anchors the party's clock to that moment, so it starts at the top for everyone.

Party start shows real progress

The “starting your party” screen now names each step as it happens — setting up, connecting, collecting song information, building the queue, loading the audio — with a progress bar that follows the backend's live song count (and keeps advancing on time between updates) plus a countdown estimate, instead of a generic “this can take a minute”. It also waits a little longer for big playlists to finish building before handing over, so the party never appears before its songs are ready.

No more stray “undefined” pop-up when a party starts

A blocked playback attempt could leave a bare “undefined” dialog on screen, covering the “Tap to jump back in” prompt and leaving the music paused. That dialog is now dismissed automatically.

Rapid skipping can't leave the host behind its own party

Pressing Next very quickly could swallow one of the host's own skips — leaving the host a track behind everyone else. Rapid presses now chain reliably, and the host quietly catches up if it ever falls behind the party.

Ending a party shows its own overlay

Ending a party takes the server a few seconds to wrap up. Instead of appearing to hang, the screen now says “Ending the party” until it's done.

One party, one saved playlist

If you were in your own party from two browsers, finishing it saved the final playlist twice. Sessions now notice a copy already exists and don't mint duplicates.

Guests can't get stranded by a mid-party reconnect

A guest whose connection blipped could come back to a party that looked over — paused, with the whole clock dimmed — while everyone else played on. Reconnects now recognize a still-live party correctly, and a connection that died because the party truly ended closes out cleanly instead of leaving the screen stuck.

Parties start at the top of the first song

Starting a big party could drop you partway into song 1 — as if the party had started without you while the playlist was still being prepared. The first song now always begins from 0:00 the moment your party is ready.

Host and guests: truly in sync

The host's player now stamps the party clock with the exact moment each song actually starts playing, and guests fine-tune to it right after their own audio starts. That removes the built-in one-second guest delay and the “joined a few seconds behind” drift — everyone hears the same beat at the same time.

Guests recover from a host's rapid skipping

If the host skipped through songs very quickly, a guest's player could get stuck — silent or on the wrong song, behind a loading overlay that never went away. Guests now notice within a few seconds that they've fallen out of step and quietly rejoin the party's current song.

The party build counter counts up live

While a big party is being assembled, the “Building your party — N of M songs” counter now actually ticks as songs are added (in batches), instead of sitting at 0 until everything finishes.

Saving a huge queue as a playlist no longer times out

“Save as playlist” on a big queue (hundreds of songs) used to grind for a minute and then fail. The server now saves the whole batch in a handful of operations instead of one song at a time, so even a 2,000-song save completes in seconds.

Watch your party build with a live progress bar

Starting a party from a big playlist used to show a plain spinner that gave up after 30 seconds — even though the server was still assembling the songs. Now you get an honest readout: “Building your party — 340 of 1,045 songs” with a progress bar, the screen stays informative for the whole build (however large), and the clock shows through behind it so nothing looks frozen. The loader now waits until the music is actually ready to play, not just until the list appears.

Everyone lands on the same song — even in huge parties

In a very large party, a guest could join and hear a completely different song than the host (the host had moved on while the server was still getting the party going). The host now waits for the party to be fully live before its music starts advancing, so hosts and guests stay on the same track from the first song.

Parties now hold up to 2,000 songs

The party ceiling jumps from 200 to 2,000 songs — seed a party from your biggest playlist, or let one grow all night without hitting a wall. Behind it is a rebuilt party connection: instead of streaming the whole song list over the live socket, guests now get a tiny instant summary and fetch the list separately, so joins land faster and adds/removes reach everyone near-instantly no matter how big the party is. One honest note at the extremes: starting a party from a very large playlist takes the server a little while to build — give it a beat, the party appears when it's ready.

Adding the first song to an empty party works again

A party started without a seed playlist briefly refused song drops — it never left its “connecting” state, so the queue rejected every add. An empty party now goes live immediately and takes songs from the first drop.

The Parties list can no longer get stuck on “Loading…”

If the request behind the Parties rail failed outright, the list used to hang on “Loading…” forever. It now shows a brief error and quietly keeps retrying — and party actions in general (add a song, leave, end) recover with a clear message instead of silently doing nothing when a request doesn't go through, such as right after a Giddy update lands mid-session.

Try Giddy from the home page — no account needed

Signed out, the home page is now a live demo of the real player: press “Try it now” and you drop into the clock, loaded with a handful of classics you can play, drag around the dial, and reorder — all on Apple’s 30-second previews, with no account or subscription needed. A free Giddy account adds your own library, playlists and Parties; connect Apple Music for full-length songs.

A night-sky welcome on the home page

The signed-out home page traded its stock background video for a living night sky: warm drifting glows under a constellation of stars that link up as they pass each other — and gather around your cursor. A little like Giddy itself: connecting dots, playing together.

Parties now hold up to 200 songs

The party song limit has gone up from 60 to 200 — seed a party from a bigger playlist, and keep adding songs deep into the night without hitting the “party's full” wall. Big parties stream their queue to guests in rolling batches behind the scenes, so joining stays instant and playback stays in sync no matter the size.

Search the feedback board and this changelog

The feature requests & bugs board now has a search box at the top — type to filter down to matching requests as you go (it searches titles and descriptions across the whole board, alongside the existing sort, kind, and status filters). This “What's new” page got the same treatment: search jumps you straight to the update you're looking for.

The feedback board is now public to read

Anyone can browse the feature requests & bugs board and open any request to read its full discussion — no sign-in needed, so you can share a link to a request with anyone. Taking part still needs a free Giddy account: posting, editing, deleting, voting, and commenting all prompt you to sign in first, and bring you right back to what you were doing afterward. You can also deep-link straight to the bugs or features view (e.g. from “Report a bug” / “Request a feature” links).

Queue edits always stick now

Editing the queue while a song played could leave the player running an old, hidden copy of your queue — so when the song ended it might jump back and play something you'd already removed or replaced. Songs no longer available on Apple Music made it worse by silently blocking every correction. The player now re-checks your live queue at each song change, learns and skips dead tracks instead of choking on them, and no longer lets a queue fix race a fresh play.

Steadier song-to-song playback on desktop

On desktop the player now works the way the iOS app always has: it plays one song at a time and picks the next straight from your queue at the exact moment a song ends — so what plays next always matches what you see, no matter how you've edited the queue mid-song. In exchange there can be a brief quiet beat between songs. (Phones and tablets keep the deep pre-loaded queue, which locked screens need.)

Cleaner sound at song changes, while scrubbing, and at the end of the queue

An intermittent tiny click between songs is gone (an internal keep-alive tone was being cut mid-wave; it now fades and runs straight through song changes). Scrubbing fades the music out while you drag and back in where you land, so jumping around a song never pops or stutters. And when the queue plays all the way out, the clock hand now rests past the final song — the whole dial reads as played — instead of snapping back to the start of the last song.

Row menus no longer get cut off

A row's “⋯” menu that opened upward near the bottom of a list could have its top items clipped by the list's scroll edge — so, for instance, an album's menu could hide its first actions. Menus now float above everything and always stay fully on screen, scrolling inside themselves only if they're taller than the window.

Featured content in Explore

A curated “Featured” card now pins hand-picked artists, albums, songs and playlists the Giddy team spotlights to the top of Explore — on “All” and on each matching pill (featured artists lead the Artists list, featured songs lead Songs, and so on). Each pick wears a “Giddy's Choice” badge and drops straight onto the clock like any other row. The card sits quietly in-line and only appears once there's something to show.

Turn featured content off — all of it, or by kind

Not into the curated picks? Adjust view → General now has a “Show featured content” switch, with per-kind toggles for Artists, Songs, Albums and Playlists. Turn any off and those picks stop being pinned to the top of Explore (and lose the “Giddy's Choice” badge) — they just appear in the normal list like everything else.

A refreshed front door

The signed-out landing page now leads with a full-screen video hero — “Play with your music like never before” — and a big “Try it now” button. Below it, how it works in three steps, now with working links: get the app on Android, iOS, or the web; connect your Apple Music account (via our link) to play major-label music; and, for artists, sign up — right there in a pop-up form — to be notified when direct distribution is available and collect 100% of those streams. Cleaner header, too: just the Giddy mark and a Sign in link — and the sign-in, sign-up, and password pages now wear that same header (bigger mark, no “Web Player” label).

Squeeze any panel all the way shut

On desktop, the panel dividers no longer have a size floor: drag one as far as you like and the panel — Explore, the Queue, or even the Clock between them — squeezes down and snaps shut into a slim grabbable column with a handle in the middle. Grab that column with the same resize cursor and pull it back open, or double-click the divider to restore the default width. Hide the Queue to give the clock the whole width, or squeeze the clock away to browse and queue side by side; your layout sticks per account, and "Reset layout" reopens everything.

Set your status: Automatic, Do not disturb, or Away

A Google-style status pill now sits in the top bar next to the notification bell. On Do not disturb, notifications keep collecting in the bell — badge and all — but nothing pops up: no toasts, no desktop banners. Your status follows your account, and other people see it on your row on the Users list: red dot for Do not disturb, hollow amber for Away, the usual green when your activity says you're online.

Two separate privacy switches for your activity

Settings → Privacy now splits activity sharing in two: “Show my activity status” (whether people see your dot at all — green, Do not disturb, or Away) and “Show how recently I was active” (the “Active 3h ago” note). Turn off just the second to keep the live dot while never revealing when you were last around; turn off the first to appear nowhere.

See at a glance when people were last active

People on the Users list now carry a subtle note beside their name — "Active now" or "Active 3h ago" — shown only for people who share their active status, and drawn from the same live signal as the green dot (it brightens a touch when you hover the row). It also finally shows what the "Recently active" sort was ordering by, and replaces the old hover-and-wait tooltip.

Your people list no longer misses anyone

The My Music → Users list could lag behind reality: someone newly followed (or newly visible) showed up in "now active" notifications and search but not in the list itself until you reloaded. The list now checks itself against the same live feed the notifications use and quietly fills in anyone missing.

Hover the green dot to see someone's status

On the Users list, the activity tip now lives on the green online indicator itself — hover the dot and it shows instantly ("Active now"), the way status dots work elsewhere. Previously it needed a long hover-and-wait over the whole row.

Quick access to Feature requests & bugs from the top bar

A lightbulb icon now sits beside the notifications bell in the top bar. Tap it to jump straight to the Feature requests & bugs board — no more digging through the account menu to suggest an idea or report a problem.

A party track that isn't on Apple Music no longer strands you

If the party reaches a song that isn't available on Apple Music for you, you now see a clear "waiting for the next track" notice and the party carries you along automatically. Previously you were dropped to a "Tap to join the music" prompt that couldn't actually do anything until the next song started — and the notice claimed to be "skipping" when it wasn't. The wording now tells the truth, and the player also shrugs off the duplicate song-change messages a backend deploy could briefly produce.

The party list keeps itself fresh

Your parties and public parties in the left rail now refresh themselves — a new invite or a just-started public party shows up on its own (within about a minute while you're looking at the list), so the manual Refresh link is gone. Behind the scenes the list, the invite notifications, and the parties-to-join badge now all read one shared live feed, so they can never disagree.

Clearer party badges, and a tidier party header

The clock's party icon no longer carries count badges of its own — every party count now rides the pill that already leads to it, like Explore and Library. In a party: who's here on the Guests pill, unread messages on the Chat pill. Out of a party: public parties to join on the Parties pill. That leaves the round icon a clean launcher, so a badge never means two different things depending on where you are. The party header's "Copy link" moved into the ⋯ menu (now lined up under the layout ⋯ above it), and tapping the party icon returns you to whichever pill — Guests or Chat — you last had open.

See how many friends are online at a glance

The Users pill in the left rail now wears a green count of the people you follow who are online right now — the same live signal as the green dots on the Users list, so the number always matches what you find when you click through. The Parties pill got the matching treatment: a green count of public parties live right now. Prefer a quieter rail? Turn the counts off in Adjust view → General (or Settings → Display); the online dots stay.

Choose whether others see you online

Settings → Privacy now has a working "Show my active status" toggle. Turn it off and your green dot, "Active …" label, and any group activity you'd contribute disappear for everyone else — flip it back on anytime and they return instantly.

Online dots no longer go stale for the most active listeners

A server-side quirk meant that the more continuously active you were, the staler your "last active" looked to friends. Activity now refreshes reliably (within about half a minute) while you're using Giddy.

A front door that tells the Giddy story

The signed-out homepage got a real welcome: a full-screen video hero showing what Giddy is today — a new way to play your Apple Music library, with party mode, the clock, and play-one-then-stop — plus where it's headed (zero-middleman streaming where every penny listeners pay goes to the artists) and a proper footer.

Give your party a description

When you create (or edit) a party you can now add an optional description — set the mood, the theme, or a few house rules. It's a single short blurb (up to 300 characters) shown in full under the party while it's live, on the invite page, and on the party's detail card, so guests know what they're dropping into.

Start party is always within reach

The create-party form's buttons now stay pinned at the bottom of the panel while the form scrolls, so Start party no longer hides below Songs and Invite.

Adjust view no longer sprouts a sideways scrollbar

On Windows, where scrollbars take up room, the Adjust view card could grow a horizontal scrollbar and squeeze its sliders. The sliders now shrink gracefully, the card only ever scrolls vertically, and its scrollbar is slimmer.

Dropping a song on the clock lands it next up, not behind you

When you drop a song onto the clock just ahead of the playhead, it now queues right after the current track instead of occasionally jumping back into the songs you've already played. Drops can no longer land in the played past at all.

Preview a song without losing your place

Find a song that fits the vibe before you add it. Press and hold any song (with a mouse) — or use its ⋯ menu — to audition a preview over whatever's already going: the current track dips down while you listen, a countdown ring on the play button shows how long is left, and it all comes back when you let go. Stop early with Escape, another tap, or the play button. Works in every list — search, your library, albums, the queue — and the same on your own or in a party (only you hear the preview; the party keeps playing). Set the preview length (up to 30s) in Settings → Playback.

See at a glance when there are parties to join

When you're not in a party but there are public parties happening, the party button now shows a small green count — how many are live to drop into — so you notice without opening the Parties list first. In a party, that same green badge keeps showing how many people are here with you.

Report bugs on the feedback board

The Feature requests board is now Feature requests & bugs: when posting, choose Feature request or Bug report, and bug reports get their own badge and a Features/Bugs filter — so you can report an issue you're hitting, upvote it, and follow it to Shipped just like a feature idea.

The feedback board finds duplicates while you type

The title box now doubles as a search: as you type, similar existing requests appear right below with an upvote button — so you can throw your weight behind one instead of posting a duplicate. Hover a match to preview its full description without losing your draft.

The feedback board opens on what's still active

The board now defaults to an Active view (Open, Planned, In progress), so shipped and declined items don't clutter the list. The All chip — and every status chip — is still one click away.

The team can size up requests with story points

Alongside status and priority, the team can now put an agile story-point estimate on a request. Like priority, points are internal — only the team sees them.

Split the left panel to see two tabs at once

On desktop you can now drag a tab (Explore, Library, or Party) to an edge of the left panel to split it in two — so you can keep searching while the party chat sits right beside or below it. Drag the divider to resize, use the flip button to switch between stacked and side-by-side, and drop a tab back onto the other pane to rejoin. Each side keeps its own search. The left panel can also be dragged much wider than before (the clock scales down to make room), and “Reset layout” — in a panel’s ⋯ menu or Adjust view → General — puts the panels and their sizes back to defaults. Your layout is saved.

Feature requests can be prioritised and attributed

The team can now give a feature request a planned-work priority (P1–P10, shown as a colored badge on the board) alongside its status — and, when logging a request that came in from someone else, attribute it to that Giddy user.

Suggest features and vote on what we build next

There's a new Feature requests board (Settings → About, or the account menu): post an idea, vote suggestions up or down, and comment. We'll mark ideas as Planned, In progress, or Shipped as they move along.

Saving a party's playlist now shows up in your notifications

When a party finished and its playlist was auto-saved to your library, you got a quick toast but nothing in the notification bell. The save is now logged there too, so there's a lasting record of it (and a heads-up if a save ever fails).

The clock rests after the last song for the host too

When a party's final song finished and the host was still there, the clock hand snapped back to the start of the last song. It now rests just after the final song — showing the set as fully played, the same as guests and rejoins see.

Invite links show the party's start time in your timezone

A party invite page was showing the start time in UTC (so a 9 PM party read as 2 AM the next day). It now shows the time in your own timezone.

The party opens to the chat

Tapping the party button now lands on the party chat instead of the guest list, so you're one tap into the conversation — the Guests tab is right there beside it.

The party button shows how many are here

A little green badge on the party button (top-left of the clock) now shows how many people are in the party right now, so you can see the turnout at a glance without opening the Party tab.

Leaving a party now asks first

Leaving a party shows a quick confirmation that reassures you can come back anytime while it's still going — and, if you had “save the final playlist when the party ends” on, reminds you that leaving early won't save it (with a one-tap option to save the current set now).

New parties get a friendlier default name

Starting a party now suggests a name like “Mark's Monday Afternoon Party” — your first name, the day, and the time of day — instead of “My Party”. It's just a starting point; type over it anytime.

Party controls are tidier and in one place

The party's own actions no longer repeat across the screen. The top of the Party tab now has a single “Copy link” button plus a ⋯ menu holding Refresh guests, Leave, and End party — the duplicate Copy-link and Refresh buttons that used to also sit at the bottom of the guest list are gone.

A cleaner clock during a party

Removed the floating song label that appeared at the bottom of the clock while hovering — the song's own slice already shows its title, artist, and who added it, so the label just repeated what was on screen.

A finished party's clock shows the set as played

Rejoining a party whose music had run out used to draw all its songs as upcoming, with the hand at the start of the first one. The clock now rests the hand after the final song, with the whole set behind it in the played wash — and the queue list settles to match.

Saved party playlists are named more naturally

A party's saved playlist is now titled like “Party - Grand and Sweeping - 2026-07-13 - Mark”, and long names are shortened at word boundaries instead of being chopped mid-word (no more titles ending in a stray dash).

Rejoining a finished party no longer replays the last song

If a party's music had played all the way through but the host hadn't ended it yet, coming back to the party would start the final track over from the beginning. Now it doesn't — the queue simply rests after the last song, paused, right where it should be.

Ending a party asks first — and actually ends it

“End party” now shows a quick confirmation (“End the party for everyone?”) and waits for the server to confirm before closing things down, with a working state while it does. If the server can't end it, you stay in the party and see why, instead of being dropped out while the party quietly keeps running in the background.

A heads-up before you leave a party without saving its playlist

If you've asked to save a party's playlist but leave before the party ends, we now remind you it won't be saved automatically — and offer to save the set you've got right there. The switch itself is clearer too: “Save the final playlist to my library when the party ends.”

Sidebar: “Everything” is now “Explore”, with a tidier filter order

The first sidebar tab is now “Explore” (it pairs more clearly with Library, and no longer echoes the “All” filter sitting right beneath it). The filter row is reordered to put the things you search for most up front: All · Artists · Songs · Albums · Playlists · Users · Parties.

Party tab: Guests and Chat get their own views

Roster and chat no longer squeeze into one column. The Party tab now has Guests and Chat filter pills — Guests shows the host, who's here, and who's invited with the full pane to breathe; Chat gets the whole pane for the conversation. A search box above the pills filters whichever view is open: guests by name, chat by message text or sender. An unread badge on the Chat pill (and still on the Party tab itself) counts messages that arrive while you're looking elsewhere. Copy-invite-link and refresh moved up beside Leave as compact icon buttons, and the save-this-party's-playlist switch now sits at the top of the queue — with the playlist it saves — instead of the bottom of the party pane.

The clock's search button works from the Party tab

Tapping the magnifying glass on the clock is meant to jump to Explore → All with the search box focused, but while the sidebar was showing the Party tab it did nothing. It now leaves the party view and lands in search like it should.

Joining a party takes you to the Party tab

Entering a party — from an invite link, the Parties list, or a refresh mid-party — now opens the sidebar's Party tab right away, so the roster, chat, and party controls greet you instead of whatever you were last browsing.

Party chat: names, faces, and emoji reactions

Party chat now reads like a real conversation. Everyone's messages show their full name and profile picture, your own messages sit on the right in orange while everyone else's sit on the left in gray — even when two people share a name — and hovering any message reveals quick emoji reactions (👍 ❤️ 😂 🔥). Tap one to react; tap it again to take it back. Reactions appear under the message for the whole party.

Public parties now show up under Explore

The sidebar's Parties filter said “No public parties right now” even while someone was hosting a live public party — if you had no parties of your own, the app never asked the server for the public list. It now always checks. And a public party you're hosting or attending now appears under Explore too, alongside its place in your Library.

Chat with your party

The Party tab now has live chat — say hi, react, or call the next song without leaving the music. Messages appear for everyone in the party in real time, and a badge on the Party tab (and the clock's party button) flags unread messages while you're browsing elsewhere. Chat is per-session for now — it isn't saved after the party ends.

Find and start parties from the sidebar

The sidebar now has a “Parties” filter next to All / Artists / Songs / … . Under Library it lists the parties you're hosting or invited to; under Explore it shows public parties you can discover and join. Tap one to see who's going, RSVP, join or start it, copy an invite link, or (for your own not-yet-started parties) edit it — and “+ New party” starts one from scratch. Search filters the list by name. When you're not already in a party, the party button on the clock jumps straight here.

Party mode now has a home in the sidebar

While you're in a party, a new “Party” tab appears in the left sidebar, next to Explore and Library, gathering everything about the party in one place: who's here right now, the host controls (Leave / End), a copy-invite-link button, and the switch for saving the playlist when the party finishes. The party button on the clock still starts or joins a party when you're not in one; once a party is live it lights up and jumps you straight to the new tab. No more hunting through a cramped popover to see who's in the room or how to run the party.

Decide per-party whether to keep its playlist

The “save the party's playlist when it finishes” setting now works in two layers. In Settings → Playback it's your default for every party. Then, while you're in a live party, the switch at the top of the Queue turns saving on or off for that one party — without changing your default. So you can leave it on in general but skip saving a particular party (or the reverse) right from the party. Reminder: it saves only when the party finishes with you there; if you leave early, save the queue by hand any time from its “⋯” menu.

Refreshing during a party is smoother

Reloading the page while you're in a party is now clear the whole way through: a “Joining the party…” loader covers the few seconds it takes to reconnect (instead of a blank screen), and — because browsers won't let music restart on its own after a reload — you get a friendly “Tap to jump back in” prompt instead of a confusing playback error. One tap catches your audio back up to wherever the party is. For a host, it resumes only your own audio — it does not pause or restart the music for everyone else (that's what the play/pause control does), so you can safely un-stick yourself after a refresh.

Adding to a party is clearer — and hosts can tidy up duplicates

In a party, songs are shared out across everyone's queue automatically, so there's no “play next / play last / drop it here” position to pick — the clock and the drag menu now show a single “Add to Party” instead of pretending you can place it. If you add a song that's already in the party, Giddy tells you rather than quietly queuing a duplicate. And the host can remove a song from the party the usual ways — its “⋯” menu or by dragging it to Remove — except the song that's playing or the one up next, which stay put.

Keep the playlist from a party you were in

When a party finishes while you're there — the host ends it, or it ends for everyone — Giddy now saves that party's playlist to your library, so a great set you built together with people isn't lost. It's saved as a new playlist named “Party Playlist - <date> - <party name> - Hosted by <host>”, jumps you to Library → Playlists, and highlights the new one. Your own queue from before the party is restored untouched. It's on by default and only saves a party with a few songs; turn it off with the switch at the bottom of the Queue during a party, or in Settings → Playback. Leaving early no longer auto-saves — you can save the party's queue as a playlist by hand at any time from its “⋯” menu. (For now each person saves their own copy.)

Saving or following now updates the list right away

Bookmarking a song, album, or artist — or following a person — now refreshes the list you're looking at immediately, so the change shows up without switching tabs or re-sorting. A just-saved item also stays saved even if the server takes a moment to catch up, and re-tapping something you've already saved no longer throws a “Couldn't update library” error.

“Someone came online” desktop banners now fire when Giddy is in the background

The banner for a person you’ve added becoming active could be missed while Giddy sat in a background tab — the very moment a desktop banner is meant to show. Presence now keeps checking in the background (on the same gentle cadence), so those banners come through. (A tab the browser has fully frozen — idle, silent, and buried for a while — still can’t check; keep music playing or the tab in view for the most reliable alerts.)

The notification bell’s “Settings” link jumps straight to Notification settings

Opening Settings from the notifications popover now takes you right to the Notifications section, instead of the top of the Settings page — quicker access to the toggles you'd want to tweak.

Smoother desktop playback — no more periodic blips

On a desktop browser, playback could hitch or drop a beat of sound every 30–40 seconds. The cause was recovery machinery built for phones — which throttle music streaming when the screen locks — misfiring on desktop, where there's no such throttle to recover from. That machinery now runs on phones and tablets only, so desktop playback rides straight through.

Skipping in a party now advances exactly one song

When a party had the same track queued more than once, the host pressing “skip” could jump past several songs at once — and leave the host and guests on different songs. Skips (and a song ending on its own) now move to the next song correctly, even with duplicates in the queue.

A finished song now reliably plays on to the next in a party

If your copy of the party queue drifted from the host's, a song ending could fail to advance — the next one just wouldn't play, and you had to refresh. Your player now re-syncs with the party automatically when that happens and keeps the music going.

Adding a song to a party no longer queues it twice

A single add could occasionally drop the same track into the queue twice, and because each copy is tracked separately there was no way to collapse them. Adds are now de-duplicated so one action queues a song once.

Refreshing during a listening party no longer leaves you stuck

When you refreshed (or first joined) a party, the browser blocks audio from starting on its own until you've tapped the page — and that could surface as a scary “The play method is not allowed…” error box, or leave a song spinning on “Loading…” forever. The error box is gone, the spinner now gives up gracefully, and the full-screen “Tap to start the music” prompt reliably appears — for the party host too, not just guests — so a single tap gets you playing at everyone else's spot. Most noticeable on Firefox, which is the strictest about this.

Rejoining a party after a refresh keeps you in it

After refreshing, you could end up seeing the party's songs while the party itself no longer counted you as present (so you weren't really in it). Refreshing now re-checks you into the party automatically, keeping your spot in the room.

Following someone now updates your Users list right away

After you followed (or unfollowed) a person, your My Music → Users list didn't refresh to match — the new friend only showed up once you changed the sort or reloaded. Following now updates the list immediately and glides to the person you just added.

Green “online” dots on the Users list now stay accurate

The green dot showing that someone you follow is active could lag behind reality — you'd even get an “is now active” notification while their dot stayed dark, because the dot was reading a stale, one-time snapshot of the list. The dot now tracks the same live activity signal the notification does, refreshing on its own and lighting or fading without a reload. And anyone actively in a party with you stays lit for the whole party — even if they're just listening quietly — instead of fading out.

No more Apple Music prompt flashing on refresh

If you'd already connected Apple Music, the "Connect Apple Music" prompt would briefly flash on screen every time you refreshed before disappearing. Your saved connection is now recognized immediately, so the prompt stays hidden.

Song controls now appear on phones and tablets

On touch devices the per-song save (bookmark) button and ⋯ actions menu are revealed by hovering a row — which never happens without a mouse, so on a phone they were effectively invisible and untappable. Now a tap on a row reveals its controls (the way hovering does with a mouse) — tap once to bring them up, then tap the save or ⋯ button; tapping elsewhere tucks them away again.

Cleaner rows for songs missing from Apple Music

In the browse, search, and album lists, a song that isn't available to play (not in Apple Music, with no web page to open) is shown grayed out — and now drops its save and ⋯ controls entirely, since there's nothing to do with it, rather than offering actions that lead nowhere.

Notifications: a bell in the top bar keeps you in the loop

Giddy now has a notification center — the bell next to your account, with an unread count. It flags live party updates (when a party you’re in is paused, on its last song, or ends), party invites and “starts soon” reminders, and when someone you’ve added comes online. New notices also flash briefly on screen, and you can opt in to desktop/OS banners (Settings → Notifications) for when Giddy isn’t the tab you’re looking at. Everything comes from the same place the iOS app’s notifications do; you can turn any source on or off in Settings.

Party mode: only songs can be added — not whole albums or playlists

A party's shared set is built song by song, so adding a whole album, playlist, or artist is no longer offered: the “Add to Party” option is gone from their ⋯ menus, and dragging one onto the party clock or queue now shows a brief “Only songs can be added to active parties.” note instead of quietly doing nothing. Adding individual songs works exactly as before.

Party mode: the host shows in “Here now” when they're present

The party host now appears in the “Here now” list whenever they're actually connected — alongside heading the Host section — so guests can see at a glance that the host is in the room, not just listed as the host.

Party mode: the attending list is always shown — including you

A party's detail now always shows a “Here now” list of who's actually connected, instead of hiding it until someone joined — an empty party reads an honest “Here now (0)”. And when you're in the party yourself, you now appear in that list, so the roster reflects everyone who's present.

Apple Music: honest connection status + working reconnect

Apple Music could show “Connected” while actually only playing 30-second previews — the stored sign-in had gone stale (an expired session, a cleared cache, or signing out in another tab), but the app kept trusting it. Giddy now verifies the connection is really live on load (and before you host a party), so the status is honest, and “Connect Apple Music” forces a fresh sign-in that fixes it in one step — no more logging into the Apple Music web player in a separate tab and refreshing.

Party mode: hosting now requires Apple Music connected

A party plays full-length tracks, so the host needs Apple Music connected — otherwise everyone hears 30-second previews and playback drifts out of sync. Starting a party is now blocked until you connect, with a one-tap “Connect Apple Music” right in the create form (and the same check when starting a scheduled party). Guests joining aren't affected.

Party mode: songs no longer get skipped when one ends

At the end of each song the party could jump two songs ahead for guests, skipping the track in between — the host was telling the backend to advance at the same moment the backend advanced on its own. Now the backend drives the hand-off from one song to the next by itself (as it always has for guests), so a natural song-end moves everyone forward exactly once. Manually pressing Skip still advances the whole party as before.

Party mode: guests won't jump to a song that isn't in their queue

A late or out-of-order “now playing this song” message from the backend could point a guest at a track they didn't have yet, making playback appear to jump backward or stall. Guests now ignore any such message unless the song is actually in their queue, so they only ever move to a song they can see.

Unavailable tracks are marked in lists and hidden on the clock

Songs that are no longer available on Apple Music (delisted or region-locked since they were added) are now greyed out in the queue with a “Not available on Apple Music” note and can't be tapped to play, and they no longer take a wedge on the clock — so the dial shows only what will actually play. Availability is judged the way the track would play for you: against Apple's streaming catalog when Apple Music is connected, or against preview availability when it isn't.

Tracks unavailable on Apple Music are skipped, not stuck

If a song in your queue isn't available on Apple Music, it no longer stops playback for the whole queue — Giddy skips to the next playable track and shows a brief notice. Previously a single unavailable track could halt the entire set.

Mobile: the play button now resumes after playback pauses

On mobile, after playback paused at the streaming limit, tapping play could do nothing — the button seemed stuck. It now rebuilds the stream from where you left off, so a single tap picks playback back up (the same recovery that used to happen only when you left the app and returned).

Mobile: a clearer “playback paused” notice

The notice that appears when mobile playback pauses no longer says “your screen was locked” — it pauses the same way whether the screen is locked, backgrounded, or on a weak connection, so it now just explains that mobile browsers can't stream Apple Music without interruptions and to tap play to continue. The “try the iOS app” tip only shows on iOS (where the app exists), it appears at most once per visit, and it clears itself as soon as playback resumes.

Party mode: song removals stay in sync for everyone

When the host removed songs, guests could keep the removed tracks in their queue and then skip past them during playback, drifting out of sync. Removals now propagate, so every guest's queue matches the host's — while already-played songs and the current track are still preserved.

Party mode: only party actions show in a party

In a party the shared queue can't be hand-reordered (the party owns the order), so the drag-to-reorder indicator that did nothing is gone. The ⋯ menu and drops no longer offer “Replace All And Play Now” or local queue edits either — everything routes to a single “Add to Party”, so nothing quietly desyncs your view from the group's.

Party mode: a tidier host panel

The party panel now headlines the party's name instead of the current song (which already shows in the player bar and the queue), and drops the duplicate Play / Skip buttons — playback is driven by dropping the first song and the normal player controls at the bottom.

Party mode: the queue keeps the party's shared order

When a song was added, the queue could snap back to your own local order and tack new songs onto the end. It now follows the order the party broadcasts, so everyone's adds stay woven in as intended rather than piling up at the bottom.

Party mode: no more stray overlays for the host

As the host you could see a full-screen “Tap to play” prompt (that gesture gate is only for guests, whose browsers block audio until they tap) and, on desktop, an incorrect “Paused while your screen was locked” notice during a party. Neither shows for the host now — the host just uses the normal play controls.

Party mode: guests can add songs to the party

Anyone in a party can now add songs — not just the host. Drop a track on the clock or queue, double-click it in Search or the browse panels, or use Play Next / Play Last, and it joins the shared party queue (spread evenly through the playlist by the backend and tagged with who added it). The host still controls play/pause and skipping, and only the host can remove songs.

Party mode: adding a song keeps the whole queue

Adding a song to a running party no longer replaces everything already queued — every song that's been added stays put, so the party builds into a full set you can save as a playlist afterwards (a take-home basket of everything that got played).

Party mode: guests no longer run ahead of the host

Guests could drift slightly ahead of the host's playback and reach the end of a song before the host did. Guests now follow just behind the host so the party stays together through each song and to the hand-off into the next.

Party mode: the music now starts for guests when they join

When you joined a listening party, the songs and the clock would sync but the audio often stayed silent until you refreshed the page. Now, whenever the party is playing but your audio hasn't kicked in yet — on a fresh join as well as after a reload — a “Tap to start the music” prompt appears, and one tap gets you listening (browsers, and Apple Music in particular, require a tap before they'll start audio).

Party mode: you join in sync, at the host's current spot

Joining or rejoining a party used to restart the current song from the beginning instead of dropping you in where everyone else already is. Playback now begins at the host's live position, so you're actually listening together in time.

Party mode: starting a party takes over your queue right away

Starting a party now hands the clock over to the party immediately — it stops whatever you were playing and clears your queue, then fills with the party's songs (or stays empty until you add some, for a party started with no seed). Previously, starting an empty party left your old queue in place and kept your music playing. Your original queue comes back when you leave the party.

Party mode: new parties start empty by default

Creating a party now defaults to no seed songs, so you begin with an empty party and add tracks as you go. You can still seed it from “My queue” or a saved playlist in one tap in the create form.

Party mode: browsing no longer knocks a guest out of sync

While you're in a party, double-clicking a song, album, or playlist in Search or the browse panels used to start it playing on your device only — dropping you out of sync with everyone else. The party's shared playback now stays in charge: as a guest you get a gentle heads-up instead, and as the host, picking something from a browse list adds it to the party for everyone.

Faster recovery when a song stalls at a track change (screen on)

Occasionally, at the hand-off between two Apple Music tracks, the player would pause on the next song even with it already buffered — and, because the recovery timer is tuned to be patient for locked screens, you could sit in silence for around half a minute before it nudged itself back to life. With the screen on and the audio buffered, the player now detects that stall and recovers within a few seconds instead.

Suppressed a stray “play() request was interrupted” pop-up

A low-level Apple Music playback message could occasionally surface as a blocking pop-up dialog during a stall at a track change. It's now caught and handled quietly so it no longer interrupts you.

Locked-screen playback now fails cleanly instead of stuttering

On mobile web browsers, Apple Music can't keep streaming for long once the screen is locked — the browser throttles background audio, a platform limit that isn't in the native app and that no amount of retrying can beat. Rather than churn the player in the background for minutes (the stop-start-stutter and messy dropouts some of you hit), playback now pauses cleanly when it reaches that limit, keeps your place, and resumes the moment you return to the app (or tap the lock-screen card). A brief one-time note explains it, and points to the Giddy app on iOS for uninterrupted lock-screen playback.

Album art on the lock-screen player, where the device supports it

For Apple Music tracks, the lock-screen and notification media controls now pull the album cover from Apple's own image service, so it can load without your Giddy session — it shows alongside the title, artist, and play/pause/skip on phones whose OS renders media artwork. Some older Android phones don't paint lock-screen artwork at all; the controls and text still work there.

The player no longer reloads itself during a healthy listen

A safety net that reloads the page when Apple Music's engine truly wedges could misfire in party mode (and after a queue rebuild), where songs play one at a time: each new song's normal hand-off briefly looks like a stall, and the counter that's meant to reset on healthy playback only ran while the tab was in front — so a session left playing in a background tab could tick up to the reload threshold and refresh the page (then ask permission to start playing again) even though nothing was actually wrong. The reset now runs in the background too, and a reload is skipped outright whenever music is in fact playing.

The party controls show which party you're in

The party panel's live status card now names the party you're hosting or in (e.g. “Hosting · James Taylor and such”), so it's no longer easy to mistake the now-playing song for a second, differently-named party.

Radio and Autoplay pick smarter mixes

The curator behind Start radio and Autoplay now runs on a stronger model and thinks the mix through before choosing — better artist variety, and era/energy that flows song to song. Autoplay now reads the whole session, not just the last few songs, so a long listen holds its overall sound instead of slowly drifting off it. And when a suggested song isn't found on the first catalog search, it retries by title, so fewer good picks get dropped along the way.

“Replace all and play now” now respects the music too

“Confirm actions that stop the music” (Settings → Playback) used to guard only Clear queue — but replacing your whole queue and starting a fresh set also cuts off the playing song. Now it asks first too, however you trigger it: the “Replace All And Play Now” menu item, double-clicking a playlist, album, or artist, dropping one onto the clock or queue, or starting a radio mix. Undo — the pill’s button or Ctrl+Z — is the mirror image: it now brings your previous queue back and plays it from the top, and asks the same way before it does. Actions that keep your queue and simply play a song now — “Add and play now”, double-clicking a queue row — are unaffected, and nothing asks when the pref is off or nothing is playing.

The undo notice tidies itself away

The “Replaced N songs — Undo” notice that appears after dropping a playlist or album on the clock now has a ✕ to close it, and fades itself away after 30 seconds — its orange border drains away as the countdown, just like the back-to-now timer, and holds while your mouse is over it. A new “Hide undo notice” slider in Adjust view tunes how long it stays, up to Never. Ctrl+Z still undoes the drop until your next queue change, even after the notice is gone.

Navigating never interrupts the music anymore

Opening a song's album or artist page, Settings, or Admin caused a brief 1–2 second hiccup in whatever was playing — the player mistook leaving the clock page for a request to wind the queue down to a single song. Playback now sails through every page change untouched, and the queue keeps advancing to the next song even while you're off browsing other pages.

The header stays put while you scroll

On scrolling pages — albums, artists, playlists, Settings — the top bar (Giddy logo and your account menu) now stays anchored at the top instead of scrolling away with the page.

A locate button brings you back to the playing song

Like the my-location button on a map: whenever the queue view wanders from the playing song — you scrolled off through a long list, or peeked elsewhere on the clock — a crosshair button at the top of the queue lights up. One click glides the list (and the clock) right back to what's playing.

Clicking the clock now works every time — and both ways

Click any song's wedge and the minute hand moves right to it, to peek ahead or behind without touching playback — and it keeps working click after click, even once the view has slid hours away. It works in reverse too: click a song in the queue list and the clock slides over and points at it. On the clock face itself, grab the minute hand to scroll through time and double-click the face to snap back to now — and double-click still plays a song, on wedges and queue rows alike.

Clock titles view starts cleaner: song titles only

In the titles view, wedges now show just the song title by default — the artist line crowded narrow wedges. Want it back? Adjust view → Labels → Artist.

Autoplay — the music keeps going when your queue ends

A new switch anchored at the bottom of the queue (also in Settings → Playback). With Autoplay on, when the queue is about to run out Giddy quietly adds songs that pick up where your music left off — and keeps topping it up for as much as five hours past the end of the queue. Any change you make to the queue restarts that five-hour allowance, so the music only winds down once you’ve stepped away. Off by default (beta).

The player now heals itself from the “no supported source” dead end

Rarely, after a connection drop mid-song, Apple Music's playback engine breaks in a way that no amount of retrying can fix — every play attempt fails instantly (the “Failed to load because no supported source was found” error), no matter which song you try. The player now recognizes that state, restarts itself once, and picks your song back up where it left off. If your browser blocks the automatic resume, the song is cued up ready — one tap and you're playing again.

“Play one then stop” now always actually stops

On a fast connection, the stop at the end of the song could lose a race against the player's own hand-off into the next track — the next song would start playing even though the controls showed it stopped. The player now double-checks that silence actually took hold after the song ends and re-stops anything that slipped through.

“Play one then stop” and “repeat one” no longer hiccup the current song

Turning either mode on in the middle of a song used to interrupt the track you were listening to — “play one then stop” briefly re-buffered it, and “repeat one” paused playback, snapped the scrubber to 0:00, then jumped back and restarted. Now the current song plays straight through untouched; at its end, playback stops cleanly (next song cued up, paused) or the song replays from the top, per the mode.

A hidden error dialog can no longer freeze the player for hours

Apple Music's player occasionally pops up a blocking browser alert when a request fails at just the wrong moment. On a locked phone that dialog is invisible — and while it sits there, every part of the player (including all the self-recovery machinery) is frozen until you unlock and tap OK. Those dialogs are now silenced for good before Apple's player even loads (they're recorded to the diagnostics log instead), and the player avoids the commonest way of provoking one — rebuilding the stream while an earlier, starved play attempt is still hanging.

The playback queue no longer collapses mid-session

Starting new music right after changing what's on the clock could quietly strip the player's internal queue down to a single song — after which every song change needed a live connection at exactly the right moment, and locked-phone listening fell apart. The queue now always reflects the clock you're looking at, keeps its depth through recoveries, and never shrinks to one song on its own.

No more crackling when the connection drops

When your connection starves mid-song, the player now goes quiet cleanly a moment before the audio would start to crackle and stutter, then fades back in on its own once enough of the song is buffered again. The failure was always going to interrupt the music — now it sounds like a clean radio dropout instead of a dying speaker.

Network outages no longer permanently stop playback

When your connection drops out entirely for a while (not just a hiccup), the player used to quietly give up after a few quick retries and show “Couldn't play this track.” It now keeps retrying patiently — quick attempts first, then progressively spaced ones for up to two hours — and resumes on its own when the connection returns, even with the screen locked.

Much more resilient playback on locked phones

Playback that went quiet with the screen locked now recovers itself far more reliably: the player notices a starved connection within about half a minute and keeps retrying — escalating from a quick nudge to a full restart of the stream, retrying the moment your connection comes back, and keeping at it (gradually more patiently) for up to two hours while music should be playing. It also fixes a bug where a long locked session could silently lose track of which song was playing (recovery would restart the wrong song), keeps the anti-freeze audio guard alive between songs so a song-change can't strand the player, and makes the play button restart a stuck stream properly instead of doing nothing.

Music keeps playing with your phone locked

If your phone's connection hiccuped while the screen was locked, playback could go quiet mid-song and never come back until you unlocked. The player now notices within about half a minute and restarts the stream from where it stalled — and unlocking the phone recovers a stuck player immediately.

Place a whole album or playlist anywhere on the clock

Hold Shift while dropping an album, playlist, or artist on the clock (or the Queue list) to insert its songs right where you drop them — just like dropping a single song — instead of replacing the queue. Hold Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) to disperse its songs evenly throughout what’s already playing. A plain drop still replaces everything and plays — the hint above the clock shows which will happen before you let go, with a gray reminder of these shortcuts until you’ve used each a few times (replay Show tips from your account menu to bring the reminders back).

Undo big queue changes

After anything you click that swaps out or floods the queue — replacing it with an album or playlist, a Shift-insert or Ctrl-disperse drop, Start radio, or discarding playlist changes — an Undo button appears above the clock until your next queue change. Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on Mac) works too.

Simpler password reset

The reset email's link now does the work: after requesting a reset, the page just says to click the link, and the reset page no longer shows a confusing code field or an empty email box when you arrive from the email — you only pick a new password.

Groups stay on top of the Users list

With the “Recently active” sort, your groups now stay pinned above individual people, matching the other sort orders.

See who’s active in your Users list

The Users list now leads with the most recently active people, and anyone active in the last few minutes gets a green dot on their avatar. Hover a person for a moment to see when they were last active. Prefer a different order? Pick “Recently active”, A–Z, Z–A, or Recently added from the sort menu.

What’s new page

Added this changelog so you can see what’s changed in Giddy. Find it under Settings → About.

Cleaner mobile clock labels

The mobile clock now shows just the song title by default, so the narrow wedges aren’t crowded. Turn the artist line back on in Adjust view → Labels.

Smoother clock editing during playback

Editing the clock while an Apple Music song is playing no longer stutters — queue changes now wait for the song boundary.

Full album art polish

The full-screen album art now sits on a soft, blurred backdrop for a cleaner look.

Reliable repeat on Apple Music

Repeat-all, repeat-one, and play-one-then-stop now behave correctly on the Apple Music queue.

Guided onboarding tour

New tips walk you through Giddy’s features, including a mobile swipe demo. Replay anytime from the menu.

Install Giddy as an app

Giddy is now an installable app (PWA) — add it to your home screen or desktop with “Install Giddy” in the account menu.

Better mobile clock

A bigger, undistorted full-bleed dial that’s sized consistently across phones, plus an optional bottom tab bar.

AI “Start radio” mix

Start a radio-style mix generated from a song or playlist (beta).

Scrolling lyrics

View scrolling lyrics while you listen (beta).

Gapless Apple Music in the background

Apple Music now plays as a native gapless queue, fixing dropouts when the tab is backgrounded or the screen is locked.

Resilient CSV import

Library import now works around tracks the catalog rejects and surfaces clearer errors.

Public playlists in Explore

Discover shared public playlists from the Explore tab.

Mobile makeover

Swipe between tabs iOS-style, a bigger mobile clock, and a more compact layout. “Now Playing” is now called “Clock.”

Song counts on playlists

Playlist rows and cards now show how many songs they hold.

Clear queue with a safety check

“Clear queue” now stops playback and can confirm before it interrupts the music.

Full playlists load

Fixed a cap that stopped large playlists from loading past 30 songs.

Import your library

Bring playlists in from other services with a CSV importer (/import), including select-all/none review.

Drag songs onto the playlist preview

Build playlists by dragging songs straight onto the preview.

Party mode timing

Party listening now anchors to the live clock, fixing an early “last song” warning.