6.1

Release details

Application

Octave

Bundle ID

streaming.octave.dev

Release date

September 3, 2026

Platform

iOS

Architecture

Unknown

Minimum OS

18.0

File size

Unknown size

Artifact

Verified · available

Search by the line stuck in your head. Type a lyric — "I been tryna call", "hello darkness my old friend" — and Octave finds the song, then shows you the line with the matched words picked out. It searches the words, not the titles, so if what you typed is a song's name it tells you that instead of pretending it found nothing. Tapping a result plays that one song rather than loading forty covers of it behind you. Auto-Mix now has a real DJ rack. Blends were a crossfade with a bass swap; they can now loop a bar back on itself, throw a delay, open and close a filter, and stop the outgoing record like tape. Every rate is locked to the beat rather than a stopwatch — the delay time is derived from the outgoing track's own beat, so the same effect on a 122 BPM record and a 128 BPM record produces two different delay lengths, each exactly three-quarters of that song's beat. Nothing fires on a pair it would spoil: a track that can't be beat-matched gets a filtered exit instead of a smear, and the whole rack costs about two per cent of one audio thread. Auto-Mix also works properly on AirPods now. It had been quietly collapsing to a four-second fade on any wireless output — no beat-matching, no bass swap — and the badge even said "Crossfading" while Auto-Mix was on and working. That restriction is gone, on Bluetooth and AirPlay alike. And a mix can no longer go silent in the middle: the outgoing song is now held until the incoming one has actually made a sound, which on one measured transition was worth 1.77 seconds of silence that simply isn't there any more. Credits are Apple's now. Every person, every role they played — including the engineers, who were missing entirely — and a photo for each one, grouped the way Apple groups them: performing artists, composition and lyrics, production and engineering. Album pages gained three things: Featured On, the editorial playlists a record appears in; You Might Also Like; and the ★ on the songs that matter most, using the real popularity figure and the same 0.7 threshold Apple uses rather than our own guess. Elsewhere: Library ▸ Songs and the Liked Songs tile now open the same screen instead of two different ones. Every Library page says what it will search — "Search Albums", "Search Artists" — and you can drag a song, album or playlist onto the mini player to queue it. Pins gained an edit screen. Playlist tiles no longer run off the right edge of narrower phones. And a lot of this release is for people on older iPhones. On iOS 18 the album and artist pages had no navigation bar at all, so scrolling content ran straight through the title and the clock; and the mini player never reserved its space, leaving the last inch of every list unreachable on every tab. Both are fixed.

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