Minstrel - asking for early testers

[imush]

Noted.

Update
* iOS changes are waiting to go with the multicast entitlement, which Apple did not grant yet. It can take a few days reportedly.
* Meanwhile Google is still reviewing after ~2 weeks, and that is only for closed testing.
* Thus Android public deployment is far behind, although actual testing is ahead because for me it is easy to sideload and test.

Queued fixes

1. Volume buttons. Works on Android, I will enable iOS as well.

There is a way to implement it but I am afraid of Apple rejecting it. App Store guideline 2.5.9 says apps that "alter or disable the functions of standard switches, such as the Volume Up/Down" buttons will be rejected. Steps 2–4 are exactly that: the buttons stop meaning "phone volume" and mean "speaker volume". Two things make it a grey area:
- Apple never offered a sanctioned way to do it.
- In 2019 an iOS change broke Sonos's button volume, and Sonos publicly attributed the loss to Apple.

You report that mConnect, foobar2000 mobile and WiiM Home all do this, and they're on the App Store. So Apple evidently accepts it in practice for remote-speaker apps.

If App Review objects, the change is contained and I'll have to roll it back.

2. Adding search to top level tags.
3. Lock screen controls
4. Launchpad features. Two levels of sharing from console: one to listen only or to share further from device to device. To avoid sharing proliferating out of control, sharing from remote device with is limited to listen-only.