What's New?

Music Assistant Source

Music Assistant 2.8.0 was released with support for custom Listenbrainz scrobbling URL which means the Multi-Scrobbler Listenbrainz Endpoint Source can now be used for scrobbling from Music Assistant! 🎉

See the Music Assistant setup instructions inside the LZ Endpoint docs to get started.

Notable Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed issues with transform re-use and caching #495 #510 #481
• Improved memory usage for caching and queued scrobbles #507 #484
  • Everyone should consider setting up caching with valkey
• Fixed and improved dead scrobble retry behavior #488 #489
• Added Grafana dashboard for use with Prometheus metrics, thanks to @4rft5

Upcoming UI Overhaul

Many of the changes in this release are non-visible improvements/refactoring in preparation for a complete rewrite of the UI. If you would like see a preview of the UI or add feedback on what you'd like to see in a new UI, please check out Issue #500

Changelog

⛰️ Features

• (listenbrainz) Use upstream for backlogged
• (lzendpoint) Update json body parsing to support Music Assistant
• (scrobble) Increase default dead letter retries from 1 to 3
• (No Category) Implement play with lifecycle fixture
• (No Category) Add step and flow result to lifecycle
• (No Category) Add seenAt to source/client play meta
• (No Category) Skip fetching backlogged plays entirely if scrobbleBacklog=false
• (No Category) Add cache stats to prometheus metrics

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (musicbrainz) Catch recordings with no releases
• (scrobble) Improve dead scrobble iteration and logging
• (scrobble) Improve ui/api experience for dead scrobble processing
• (test) Fix expected plays for YTM interim plays
• (No Category) Remove schema-plugin types hint from docusaurus config
• (No Category) Fix type-erased meta property for json plays
• (No Category) Fix wrong operation for maxRandomStagger
• (No Category) Add stagger options as injected dependency to make tests faster
• (No Category) Better handling when stage fails but should continue
• (No Category) Refactor play tranforming to dogfood steps and fix caching #495
• (No Category) Fix sleep time between consecutive dead scrobble attempts
• (No Category) Only enable metrics collection for real runs
• (No Category) Use lifecycle invariant play for closest match

📚 Documentation

• (No Category) Add duplicate scrobble detection explanation
• (No Category) Add Music Assistant to lz endpoint docs
• (No Category) Add prometheus usage
• (No Category) Add netlify badge to footer on preview docs
• (No Category) Add more caching guidance
• (No Category) Fix discord link on jellyfin page
• (No Category) Add grafana dashboard
• (No Category) Simplify installation
• (No Category) Add music assistant to readme

🚜 Refactor

• (No Category) Move some utils into core folder
• (No Category) Fix JsonPlayObject to properly type dates
• (No Category) Separating functions so they are usuable by frontend storybook
• (No Category) Move stagger config responsibility to transformer
• (No Category) Refactor cache building to be able to specify both primary and secondary
• (No Category) Remove ttl from mb api to ensure primary/secondary ttl is used correctly