Release Notes

Track the evolution of Suno Explorer. See what's shipped, what's coming, and how community feedback shapes development.

v5.1.0 Submitted · In review

Playback works again

Suno encrypted its audio files in August, which broke playback everywhere. Songs now play through Suno's own player.

Submitted to the Chrome Web Store · available now as a manual install
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⚠️ Check your recent downloads

  • Suno's API started returning a placeholder instead of a real audio link, and Explorer saved it under an .mp3 name
  • If a song downloaded since roughly mid-August won't open, that's why — the file is a few hundred bytes of text, not audio. Delete and re-download it
  • Anything downloaded before that is fine, and so are your backups — they never stored audio links in the first place
  • Downloads now refuse with a message rather than writing a broken file

▶️ Playback, through Suno's player

  • Songs play through Suno's own hosted player — the method Suno supports for off-site playback, and which they say stays unlimited on every plan including Free
  • No sign-in needed — the web app can play your whole library on a phone with nothing to connect
  • Published portfolios play again, including pages built from old backups, with nothing to re-export
  • Two honest limits: it takes two clicks (we can't press a button inside someone else's page), and there's no queue or scrubbing for songs played this way — the player doesn't report its position back. Downloaded songs still get the full player

🔌 Connection & speed

  • Explorer used to keep using an expired Suno session — showing "connected" while everything behind it quietly failed. It now knows, says so, and refreshes itself whenever you have Suno open in a tab. No new permissions
  • WAV downloads are about 12 seconds per song faster — they'd been waiting on a CDN that no longer answers. Roughly 90 minutes saved on a 500-song batch
  • Sample packs and playlist exports no longer carry dead links

📋 Two things that are Suno's, not ours

  • Download limits from September 3, 2026 — 7 lifetime on Free, 20/month on Pro, 60/month on Premier, unlimited on Premier Studio. This applies whether or not you use Explorer
  • MP3 is gone as a download format. WAV still works, on the plans Suno allows it on

🔧 Known limits

  • Mastering needs a downloaded file — it works on real audio, and the embedded player can't provide any
  • Playlist (.m3u) exports only include songs you've downloaded — a playlist file can't contain an embedded player
v5.0.0 Latest · On Chrome Web Store

The workshop update

4.5 gave you new ways to look at your library. 5.0 is about the files themselves.

Released August 22, 2026 · Live on the Chrome Web Store
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🎚 Mastering

  • An in-browser mastering chain, opened from any clip
  • Five macros — Tone, Punch, Width, Loudness, Air — driving the real controls
  • Loudness-matched A/B, draggable EQ curve, parallel-mix compression
  • Six presets plus your own. Non-destructive — renders to WAV, never touches the original

💿 Downloads & local files

  • Lossless WAV, converted in batches — resumable, stoppable, with a size estimate up front
  • Download a workspace, a playlist, or whatever your current filter matches
  • Auto-download for new clips
  • An "include my uploads" option — easy to miss, since most people never like their own uploads
  • Predictable file layout: one clip, one folder, one name
  • A file manager for what you've already saved — what's on disk vs. what's still cloud-only

🔒 Privacy controls

  • Bulk-disable remixes and comments, with a protect-list and a queue you can interrupt
  • A 2-song test run before it touches everything
  • Caveat: existing state may read "unknown" until Suno confirms the field — it says so rather than guessing

📋 Library

  • List view — power curation with inline actions, keyboard nav, version thumbnails
  • Songs open noticeably faster, and large libraries render without stalling

🔧 Fixed

  • Importing a backup could destroy clip metadata, and large backups failed to import at all
  • Every backup destroyed mashup and playlist parent links — extension and web app both
  • Sync: syncing tags crashed on a fresh install, and "Force Push" never forced anything
  • Lineage: "hide unliked" hid liked songs, and the tree stopped ten generations short of your newest clips
  • The Prompts page hung on large libraries
  • On suno.com we were blurring Suno's background and deleting Suno's own context menus. Reported by users; thank you
v4.5.0

Workspaces, Song Studio, Spatial Explore & a stack of polish

The theme: lenses, not cages. Workspaces become a dimension you can slice by instead of a silo. A new spatial Explore page shows your library as a map. Song Studio lets you batch-generate without leaving the extension. Find Similar got 100× faster. Saved embeds get their own page. Plus a few hundred polish bullets across the surface.

Released June 2026
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🗂 Workspace support — the marquee feature

  • Unified library view across all your Suno workspaces — filter to a subset when you want focus
  • Sidebar chips for most-active workspaces + a "More (N)…" modal picker with tri-state include/exclude/off for everyone with dozens
  • Create a new Suno workspace from any active filter — your 47 unliked metal covers become a real Suno workspace in one click
  • Bulk move clips between workspaces, rate-limit-aware (no 429s on big batches)
  • Inline rename + archive-with-undo (10-second toast)
  • Workspace list + accent colors roam across devices via cloud sync

🌌 Explore page — your library as a map (EXPERIMENTAL)

  • Every clip becomes a dot. Songs that sound like each other sit close.
  • Atlas color mode — auto-discovered clusters from YOUR library with concentric-ring "stamps" identifying each one
  • Genre family + Genre detailed color modes — 9 broad buckets or matched-tag granularity
  • Workspace color mode for project-as-color
  • Tiered loading: PCA appears instantly, UMAP cooks in the background and auto-upgrades
  • Shift + drag to lasso a region → side panel shows everything you grabbed
  • Click any dot → detail panel with one-click "Open in Library"
  • Onboarding modal explains the four lenses + three interactions; persistent ? button to re-read anytime
  • Performance pass: clustering 100× faster on 37k+ libraries, canvas interactions stay responsive at scale

🎼 Song Studio — generate from inside the extension

  • A dedicated page (sidebar Create button) for spinning up songs without bouncing to suno.com
  • Simple + Custom modes matching Suno's own composer surface
  • Batch up to 20 generations per submit (= up to 40 clips). Step the count, hit Generate, walk away.
  • Persistent queue — pending/active/completed/failed lanes survive refresh; in-flight jobs re-enter pending so nothing's lost
  • Up to 8 concurrent generations; new submits queue behind them
  • Smart polling: every 5s, drops to 10s after a minute, flags jobs as "may be stuck" after 5 minutes
  • Captcha-recovery banner with Copy Style / Copy Lyrics / Open Ref on Suno + Retry All so you don't lose your batch when Suno asks for verification
  • Reference panel: search songs, prompts, and lyrics from your library — click any item to load it into the form
  • Inline regenerate on every completed clip

🔍 Find Similar Clips — sub-second on huge libraries

  • Right-click any song or version → Find Similar Clips → banded by similarity (Very Similar → Similar → Loosely Related → Distant)
  • Runs locally. Sub-second even on 37k+ libraries after this round's perf pass.
  • Filters collapse behind a "Filters" toggle; tag chip list capped to top 30 most-frequent with "Show all N" expand
  • Sticky band headers while scrolling. "Boost newer clips" re-ranks by recency.
  • Power search inside the modal (tag:rock -remix etc.)
  • 60-bit semantic signatures from tags, lyrics, title, custom tags, model version, vocal flag, workspace — your custom tags weighted highest

🎨 Embeds Library — saved widgets, on their own page

  • New Embeds button in the library sidebar opens a dedicated page
  • Save any embed from the configurator with "Copy and Save" — config persists for later editing
  • Grid of saved embeds with thumbnail, theme, clip count, last-updated
  • Preview toggle on each card — expands to show the actual rendered widget (byte-for-byte what users see when pasted)
  • In-place editing — opens the configurator pre-filled with your saved settings, no library round-trip
  • + New Embed → built-in clip picker → straight into configurator

🔗 Share + Embed

  • Copy Library Link — deep link to your own library with the clip pre-focused. Bookmark it, jump back instantly.
  • Copy Suno Link — the original Suno CDN URL, works in any audio player
  • Embed With Code — live-preview modal with theme (Minimal / Suno Glow), accent color, border radius, font, autoplay, loop, size, title override
  • Multi-clip embeds show per-track lyrics + prompt behind expand/collapse chevrons
  • Self-contained HTML — paste on any webpage, no backing site required

🎵 Playback polish

  • "Currently playing" indicator works everywhere — library grid, playlists, lineage trees, version panels, ancestry modals
  • Volume control + mute toggle on the player bar (persists per-device)
  • Lyrics drawer — click the lyrics icon, side panel slides in with the current track's prompt/lyrics
  • Playlist looping toggle — queue wraps back to the first track

📋 Playlist improvements

  • Export as M3U — works in VLC, iTunes, Sonos, anything standard
  • Remove individual songs from a playlist
  • Shift-click range select in the publicity modal

🎭 Mashup + Inspo support

  • Mashup clips show their real type, not "generated fresh"
  • Multi-parent lineage — mashups have 2 parents, inspos up to 4; lineage walks follow all of them

✏️ Misc + context menu cleanup

  • Inline clip title edit — hover the title in the version panel, pencil appears, edit in place
  • Unified Curate submenu — Set Definitive, Link to Parent, Add to Playlist, External Links all in the same place across group and individual menus
  • Add to Playlist now works on individual versions (was group-only)

🔧 Quality, perf, infrastructure

  • Workspace writes work again — Suno added a new write-API host and the manifest needed widening. (This is why the update prompts for new permissions — that's the widening, nothing weird.)
  • Token guards everywhere — write actions fail-fast with a clear toast if Suno disconnects, auto-recover on reconnect
  • Massive Find Similar perf win — a primitive iterating ALL filter options every call was the smoking gun; now O(active filters), sub-second from 5+ seconds
  • Tag Atlas clustering dropped from 25+ seconds → ~270ms on 37k-clip libraries
  • UMAP ~2× faster on big libraries
  • Lineage widgets on suno.com — fixed a 64 MiB sendMessage cap regression that broke them for large libraries
  • New primitive architecture: SelectionSet, FilterBank, SimHash, WriteQueue, PublishSnapshot, GenreTaxonomy, TagAtlasClusterer / Labeler / Fingerprint, EmbedConfigurator. Shared logic lives in tested reusable modules.
  • 1,500+ tests across the suite

🧑‍💻 Developer-facing

  • Backup export now exposes both compact (default, ~89% smaller) and uncompressed formats via a checkbox
  • Stable _format + _version markers on backup files for external tooling
  • New developer page with format spec, decompressor source, and an AI-agent starter prompt

⚠️ Heads up on update

  • Permission re-prompt expected — that's the manifest widening for the new Suno write-API host. One-click approve.
  • One slower Explore page load after update as the UMAP cache rebuilds against new params (auto, one-time).
v4.0.0

Explorer Go, Power Search, Playlists & Samples

Access your library from any device with Explorer Go. A real search engine with AND, OR, negation, and field queries. Create playlists. Manage and export your samples for Co-Composer. Plus smarter vocal detection, faster loading, and full Unicode filename support.

March 2026
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Explorer Go — Web App

  • Browse your full library from any device — phone, tablet, another computer
  • Push your library from the extension, access it anywhere via the web app
  • Cloud curation sync — custom names, tags, notes, and playlists stay in sync
  • Sign in with Google directly from the extension popup
  • Subscription model with Stripe checkout for full library cloud storage
  • Curation sync is free for all signed-in users

Power Search Engine

  • AND logic — rock love matches songs containing both terms
  • OR logic — rock,electronic matches either term
  • Exact phrases — "acoustic guitar" matches the full phrase
  • Negation — -remix excludes songs containing "remix"
  • Field-specific: style:rock tag:favorite lyrics:midnight title:sunset model:v4
  • Forgiving aliases — genre:, prompt:, tags: all resolve correctly
  • Search syntax legend with ? toggle next to search bar
  • Unified across extension, webapp, and playlist generation
  • 172 unit tests covering edge cases

Playlists

  • Create and manage playlists within the extension
  • Suno playlists synced from your account via API
  • Playlists sync bidirectionally between extension and webapp

Samples Manager

  • Dedicated samples page for managing sound effects and single samples
  • Sample taxonomy with classification system
  • Export as Co-Composer-compatible library.json
  • Download sample audio files alongside the library for local use

Smarter Vocal/Instrumental Detection

  • Content-first 8-step detection chain — lyrics, title markers, tags, prompts, then Suno flags as tiebreaker
  • Suno's has_vocal and is_instrumental flags are frequently wrong — now used only as fallback
  • Stems correctly classified by type (non-vocal stems = instrumental)
  • Empty prompts recognized as instrumental
  • Verified against 34k+ real clips

Cloud Sync Overhaul

  • Lightweight curation-only sync — no full library download on every page load
  • Server-authoritative versioning — no version conflicts
  • All 11 curation fields synced: names, tags, notes, definitives, visibility, release status, links, art, hide-unliked, disliked, sample classifications
  • Suno playlists and Explorer playlists both sync
  • Push library to cloud from extension popup with one click

Smarter Popup

  • Three-state model: first-time, returning offline, and connected
  • Full UI visible when offline with indexed data
  • Cloud sync status badge — green when synced, orange when stale
  • Push to cloud button for Explorer Go
  • Sign-in shortcut when Supabase auth is needed
  • Configurable download subfolder with Chrome settings hint for external drives

UI & Performance

  • Clean icon-based UI — removed emojis throughout, replaced with SVG icons
  • Improved filter experience with count badges and multi-select
  • Webapp loading optimized — chunked grouping, deferred search cache, no blocking network calls on load
  • iPhone safe area support for header and status bar
  • Mobile touch target improvements — hover effects desktop-only
  • Unicode filename support — Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and other non-ASCII characters preserved in downloads
  • Heart badges on liked version thumbnails
  • Hardened security: postMessage origin checks, tightened manifest permissions, CSP
v3.0.0

Offline Mode, Local Sync, & Lyrics Browser

Your library goes truly offline. Scan local folders, compare with live data, sync changes to disk, and explore all your lyrics.

January 10, 2026
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Offline Mode

  • Scan local folders to build an offline index of your Suno backups
  • Supports Suno Explorer exports and raw Suno backup formats
  • Persistent folder access - grant once, auto-reconnect on future visits
  • Multiple source folders supported simultaneously

Compare with Live Library

  • Compare offline backup against your live Suno library
  • See what's changed: renamed songs, liked status, play counts
  • Identify orphaned clips (deleted from Suno but in backup)
  • Find clips not yet backed up locally
  • Handles 30k+ clips with chunked loading

Sync to Disk

  • Accept changes and sync updates back to your backup files
  • Batch processing with progress bar and cancel button
  • Smart skip option for metadata-only changes (play counts)
  • Automatic backup before modifying any file
  • Beautiful styled modals for confirmation dialogs

Local Playback

  • Library automatically uses local files when available
  • Album art loads from disk instead of CDN
  • Audio playback from local files
  • Falls back to Suno CDN when local files unavailable

Lyrics Explorer

  • Browse, search, and filter all lyrics in your library
  • Group songs by shared or similar lyrics
  • Adjustable similarity threshold for variations
  • Style tag filtering and search
  • Copy lyrics with or without style tags
  • Bulk export to single file or ZIP archive
  • Quick access from sidebar and version panels

Advanced Filter System

  • Multi-select filters with AND logic (combine filters freely)
  • Filter by model version: v3, v3.5, v4, v4.5+, v5
  • Filter by source: Uploads, AI originals, Derived from uploads
  • Filter by audio: Vocals, Instrumental
  • Filter by comments: Show songs with indexed comments
  • 3-state curation filters: Tags (has/missing), Notes (has/missing)
  • Custom date range picker
  • Option to apply filters to version panels

Quality of Life

  • Refresh single song data from context menu (no full re-index needed)
  • Copy local file path for offline songs
  • What's New banner for new releases

Performance

  • Service worker keepalive during large operations
  • Chunked data loading prevents timeouts (5000 clips/batch)
  • Batch processing (25 items/batch) prevents UI freezing
v2.0.0

Cloud Sync, Suno Widgets & Compression

Sync curation across devices, see lineage directly on suno.com, and drastically reduce export sizes.

January 1, 2026
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Suno.com Widgets

  • Lineage widget shows song's creative family tree directly on suno.com
  • Variations widget displays all versions of a song in one place
  • Works on any song page while browsing Suno

Cloud Sync

  • Sync curation data across devices (likes, custom names, definitive versions)
  • Automatic backup to cloud on changes
  • Restore from cloud on any device with extension
  • Conflict resolution for simultaneous edits

Compact Export

  • New compact export format (10-15MB for 30k+ songs)
  • Full export, just smaller! Old backups still work.
  • Improved import with better error handling

Community Requests

  • Notes and tags on songs
  • Play count display in library
  • Sort by play count
v1.0.0

Initial Release

The complete library management experience for Suno power users.

December 2025
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Smart Library Browser

  • Browse the creative DNA of your entire library
  • Lightning-fast search across all songs
  • Filter by liked, disliked, uploads, and more
  • Version grouping for song variations
  • Custom naming for organization
  • Mark definitive versions

Lineage Explorer

  • Visualize song evolution trees
  • Track extends, covers, and remasters
  • See the creative journey of each song
  • Navigate between related songs

Beautiful Insights

  • Creation heatmaps and patterns
  • Achievement system for milestones
  • Top lists and statistics
  • Library DNA breakdown

Data Management

  • Full backup and export capabilities
  • Batch download functionality
  • Import/export for data portability
  • Your data stays on your device

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