Motion Desktop 1.5.2

Version 1.5:

New Features

• Continue a saved queue after stopping, switching queues, or relaunching the app, including supported video position, picture time remaining, and shuffle history.
• Choose Black, Match Media, or a custom border colour, with separate overrides for individual pictures and videos.
• Customize desktop captions with the macOS Fonts panel, text and background colours, and background opacity.
• Show the media name, creation date, or both in desktop captions, using original file or Apple Photos dates when available.
• Use Next Item in the toolbar or menu to advance while desktop playback is running and unpaused.
• Optionally remove an online album’s linked music with the album, while protecting music shared with retained media.

Enhancements

• New installations begin with an empty queue. The bundled sample playlist and its reset command have been removed.
• Reorganized Settings into clearer categories, tightened control widths, and placed Restart Queue Cycle below the saved-progress explanation.
• Both Add buttons offer the same media and source choices for the current tab, including ordinary folders and Smart Folders.
• Music uses compact striped rows with larger icons. Local files show their Finder icons; online media uses standard music icons.
• Improved Photos browsing with an adjustable sidebar, media filters, separate album and media counts, and consistent drag instructions.
• Colour menus show round previews, a Match Media eyedropper, friendly colour names, and the ten most recent choices.
• Organized the queue inspector into state-specific panels for easier maintenance while preserving its familiar runtime layout.
• Clearing downloads now inventories cache folders and catalogue entries once instead of rescanning them for every item.

Bug Fixes

• Custom Color stays selected while its picker is open. Closing without choosing a colour restores the previous setting.
• Cleared completed or cancelled Photos preparation messages while retaining useful library and permission errors.
• Kept distinct Photos identities separate during imports and library refreshes, including identifiers that differ only in letter case.
• Prevented media details from overlapping Border controls and kept picture motion controls visible as timing options change.
• Kept original media and music when a replacement file or its saved access could not be validated; refreshed details after successful replacement.
• Prevented open menus and file choosers from acting on a different queue, changed selection, or managed source.
• Disabled queue action buttons when no commands apply and removed invalid music move destinations and duplicate Add commands.
• Validated explicit Play requests before changing playback state, including missing items and invalid folder ancestry.
• Updated Smart Folder access guidance and explained imports that contain only skipped aliases, symbolic links, or packages.
• Preserved creation dates when preparing uncached Apple Photos media and kept imported album titles tied to the selected album.
• Retained unsaved queue and settings changes after a write failure, with automatic retries when storage becomes available again.
• Rejected unavailable local files and failed saved access during imports while keeping successfully added files.
• Kept active playback editors and colour menus visible during background media updates.
• Prevented music waiting for a download slot from being treated as stalled, and prioritized the incoming music track.
• Showed useful music failure details in row help and retained corrective playback advice for Media Archive items.
• Explained individual and collection download failures, including cache limits and insufficient free space.
• Paused desktop playback and music consistently during album-removal and download-deletion confirmations.