YouTube's own control bar is now hidden (the app's controls do everything), and chat no longer yanks you to the bottom while you're reading older messages✓
Playback rewind bug fixed — the song no longer jumps backwards and replays. The room now follows a forward-only timeline: a buffering host skips its own stale updates and catches itself up instead of dragging everyone back✓
Lyrics sync fixed — the highlight no longer jumps backwards (the player clock jitters; the lyric clock is now monotonic and only real seeks move it back)✓
Theater tuned for every screen — tablets keep a roomy two-column layout, landscape phones get a compact stage with taller lyrics, and TV gets a true 10-foot UI with larger text and controls✓
TV request section fixed — song results in REQUESTS (and Song Battles) are now proper remote targets too: Enter after searching jumps straight to the songs, arrows walk them, Enter picks one✓
TV song requests fixed — search results are now proper remote targets: hit Enter after searching and the remote jumps straight to the songs, arrows walk through them, Enter queues one✓
Better AI recommendations — MORE LIKE THIS now asks for well-known songs in the same style (not obscure guesses), and every suggestion is matched against real search results: karaoke, covers, loops and wrong videos get rejected instead of queued✓
TV focus-trap fix — on the volume/seek sliders, left/right still adjust, but up/down now move back to the buttons (you can never get stuck on a slider again)✓
Smoother TV remote — button navigation now responds instantly, and popups (like the theater) take over the remote automatically while open✓
Faster on Android TV — heavy blur and animation effects now switch off automatically in TV mode, and the visualizer renders a single still frame✓
TV remote support — on Android TV, the arrow keys move between controls with a clear gold focus ring, Enter selects, Back goes back✓
Cinematic theater — circular artwork with a visualizer ring, switchable RING / BARS / WAVE styles, and a blurred background that follows the song✓
Synced lyrics — the current line highlights and follows along as the song plays✓
Smart Up Next — the room detects each song's language and keeps it playing: Hindi stays Hindi, English stays English✓
MORE LIKE THIS — one tap in the theater queues similar songs in the same language✓