App freezes (it’s done that on different screens, haven’t found a pattern yet), or cannot connect to the server a bit. I run a Netgear Orbi mesh router, with one satellite. JRemote works well on it.

What file format are you using?   Email me at support@getwhiskeyriver.com one of your tracks so I have something to try here.   Any other info that you think would be helpful let me know.   I will probably send you a build through TestFlight so I can analyze it further.  Thanks

Is your JRiver server using authentication?  Authentication must be enabled for MCWS in order for Whiskey River to write anything back to JRiver (Play History & Playlist creation/editing).  If there is no authentication setup, WR will only create playlists and store play history on the device.  Also it won't record it as "listened to" until after 30 seconds has elapsed.  Anything under 30 seconds assumed user has skipped the track.

1.6 was released a few days ago so you should be able to update.

Will this be addressed in 1.6? Thanks for all your efforts!

• Background casting fixed. Starting a cast took the app out of the foreground, and Android then froze it and cut its network about 5 seconds after you left the app. The app now stays in the foreground for the whole cast. This also covers Chromecast.
• Lost-stream recovery. When Sonos drops a stream it reports it as paused at 0:00. The app now resumes at the same spot instead of treating it as you pausing.
• Track transitions made reliable. When playback stalls between tracks, the app now:
  • advances to the next track if the song had reached its end;
  • retries a track that never started, then skips it;
  • resumes playback that stopped mid-track.
• Track change fixes:
  • Play is confirmed after every track change.
  • Two tracks with the same title no longer block each other.
  • Two track-change requests no longer collide on the speaker.
• Hi-res on Sonos. FLAC above 48 kHz, DSD, APE and Opus are converted per track to 320k MP3. Any track the speaker refuses is retried as a conversion before it's skipped.
• Sonos room names now show in the device list and the "Casting to…" banner.
• Cast seek. Notes on seeking Sonos casts, and cast paths kept separate from the playback cache.

Playback

• First track of lossless files no longer stalls or skips. The app starts playing sooner, and the stall watchdog only steps in when the buffer is truly frozen.
• &Playback=0 on audio stream URLs. JRiver no longer throttles delivery or holds a session open for each connection.
• ALAC plays. It was silent while the timeline kept moving. It's now detected and played through JRiver's converter.
• Unplayable formats converted up front. The app checks which formats the phone can decode, so pre-cached and gapless tracks are built as playable streams from the start.
• Server mode: the queue no longer jumps to track 1 when you pick a song.

Now Playing

• Stars + heart row. Star ratings come from JRiver's Rating field. Read-only servers show a message instead of saving.
• Phone art fits the screen.
• Less art flicker when swiping. The blurred background shares the art's image cache, a leftover retry no longer forces a reload, and a slow online art lookup can't land on the wrong track.
• Format line centered under the seek bar, e.g. 96kHz/24bit · FLAC · 2886 kbps. It comes from the same single request as the rating.
• Amber "TC" badge on the art whenever the audio is a JRiver conversion (being transcoded).

Track lists

• Album views show track numbers, plus a third line 4:05 | FLAC. ALAC and AAC are told apart.
• Playlist views and the play queue show the same third line.
• Search → album and Recently Played / Recent Imports albums now keep duration, track number and file type.

Artist blacklist

• Better matching. Tracks with several artists (;-separated) are checked artist by artist, and "Dead, The" now matches "The Dead".
• Now applied in:
  • the first song of a shuffle
  • Android Auto and voice (genre, AI Daily, Spotlight)
  • AI Daily generation, and already-cached AI Daily playlists
• Service loads the list itself, so filtering also works when Android Auto starts playback without the app open.

Dashboard & browse

• Browse tiles use artwork assembled from your own albums, with each cover used only once across tiles. The tiles rotate daily and are prepared in advance.
• Music-only dashboard. Audiobooks and podcasts are excluded from carousels and shuffle.
• Spotlight minimums enforced: at least 10 tracks and 3 distinct albums, in both the app and Convex. This stops single-track "Deep Dive" playlists.
• Genre shows on Now Playing again, which also restores Adaptive Genre EQ for those tracks.
• Remote button hidden off-LAN.
• New action bar on the albums-under-artist and genre levels.
• Art that loaded but never displayed now appears.
• "Performing Near You" event cache cut from 6 days to 2.
• Fixes carried over from the 1.5.06 batch:
  • local sequential queue
  • Recent Imports download
  • search grouping by album artist
  • scroll position
  • carousel art when switching between LAN and cellular

Video

• Offline download from the movie and episode screens saves the original file, with its details and poster saved beside it.
• Local Video tab with Movies and Shows.
• Download progress button; progress survives leaving the screen.
• Play and Delete on local videos.
• Duplicate library entries merged.
• Scanned TV episodes open the episode screen.

Artist bios & Play Doctor

• Bio lookup fixes. Words like "television" or "film" no longer disqualify a match. Compilations fall back to the track's artist. Cached bios carry a version number so bad ones get re-fetched.
• Play Doctor lists are seeded from the actual track, so they're no longer random (previous bug).
• Recommended refreshes per track instead of per artist.