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Adds Spindle, an iPhone client for Subsonic-compatible servers.

It's a jog-wheel music player built local-first — your own files on the phone — and 1.3 adds a remote library so a Navidrome server sits alongside them. It streams the original file (format=raw) so hi-res arrives intact, with separate quality caps for Wi-Fi and cellular so streaming doesn't quietly cost a gigabyte an hour. Albums can be pinned for offline.

Built and tested against Navidrome — three instances, including demo.navidrome.org. It uses only standard Subsonic endpoints (ping, getAlbumList2, getAlbum, getArtists, getArtist, getGenres, search3, getCoverArt, stream) with salted-token auth, so other Subsonic servers should work, but Navidrome is the one I've actually verified. Declared as api: Subsonic rather than OpenSubsonic: it reads the OpenSubsonic samplingRate/bitDepth fields when a server provides them, but never negotiates extensions and requires nothing beyond plain Subsonic.

Not yet supported, so as not to overstate it: server-side playlists, starred/favourites sync, and scrobbling via the server. Remote browsing covers albums, artists, genres and search.

Closed source, publicly available on the App Store, so it meets the availability requirement. Images are WebP within the size limits, and npm run validate:app spindle passes.

A jog-wheel music player for iPhone. Local-first, with a Subsonic remote library
added in 1.3 — built and tested against Navidrome.

Closed source, on the App Store, so it meets the availability requirement.
Validated with `npm run validate:app spindle`.
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No security issues found.

Updated for 7b0686b.


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The first push used the app icon, which the submission docs explicitly forbid
("Must not be a logo or icon"). Replaced with the Now Playing screen at
552x1200, matching the sizing other iOS entries use.
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