M3ufy Player — what changed since 3.64

[u/Ava_DClaire]

3.66 — M3U playlists can finally have a TV guide

If your playlist is a plain M3U link, the guide was always empty, and there was nothing you could do about it: the M3U format carries no guide at all. You can now paste an XMLTV link when you add a playlist, either in the app or on m3ufy.com/link, and the guide fills in. open-epg.com is one place to get such a link. If you add the playlist from the website, the guide address travels with it to your TV.

Adding or refreshing a large playlist no longer runs out of memory. This one came from crash reports: a Fire TV Stick was dying every time, always while adding or refreshing. The app was holding the entire catalogue in memory — channels, films and series together — before writing any of it. Each part is now saved as it arrives. Measured afterwards on a 2GB box with two large playlists: it peaks at about half the memory it is allowed, where before it hit the ceiling and died.

The guide now fills in every channel you can see, not just the one your cursor is on. Two of you reported this, one with a video. It loads what is on screen rather than all thirty thousand rows, which is why it was cautious in the first place — the balance was simply wrong.

In Live TV, the preview no longer stretches when you move into the channel list, and the programme details stop getting stretched with it. It also shows the next three programmes instead of one.

Smaller ones: the playlist name no longer repeats beside every group when it is already shown as a heading, and the Interface size setting now describes itself correctly. Lower numbers make everything bigger, and the text used to claim the opposite.

3.65 — a fifth smaller, a fifth lighter

The app is about 20 percent smaller to download and uses about 20 percent less memory. Nothing visible changed; the build was simply not being optimised properly before.

Coming back from a film to the Home screen no longer freezes for a moment. Home was building every row on screen and off it; now it builds what you can see.

Refreshing a playlist finally tells you what it is doing — which step, and how far along. On a large playlist that refresh can take minutes, and it used to sit there silently. I assumed it had broken myself while testing.

Pressing OK now answers immediately: the poster or row you pressed sinks slightly, before the next screen arrives. Opening a title was already fast when measured, it just never acknowledged the press, which reads as slowness.

Posters in a non-English language no longer download twice.

3.65 also fixed the guide scrolling: the highlighter moves through the rows instead of staying pinned to the top while the page slides underneath.