Psychotoxical/psysonic app-v1.34.10

Psysonic v1.34.10

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Added

• AppImage bundle for Linux + X11/XWayland enforcement on all Linux packages: CI now builds .AppImage in addition to .deb and .rpm. GDK_BACKEND=x11 and WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 are set automatically at startup on all Linux packages — WebKitGTK on Wayland is unstable. Both environment variables are still overridable by setting them before launch.

• Audio output device selection (Issue #169): Settings → Audio now shows a dropdown of all available output devices. The current OS default is pinned at the top with a label; a Refresh button re-enumerates silently. A device watcher detects hot-plug events and emits audio:device-reset after ~9 s of consecutive misses, preventing false positives on busy ALSA devices. On Linux, technical ALSA prefixes are stripped for display (sysdefault:CARD=U192k → U192k).

• Vision Dark & Vision Navy — colorblind-safe themes (Issue #166): Two new themes using a Purple & Gold palette designed to be safe for Deuteranopia, Protanopia, and Tritanopia. Vision Dark pairs near-black #0D0B12 with Gold #FFD700 (~14.7:1 WCAG AAA); Vision Navy uses deep navy #0A1628 + Gold (~14.5:1 WCAG AAA). Both appear under a new Accessibility group in the Theme Picker. These themes are a first step toward proper colorblind support and will be revised and expanded in upcoming releases — structural improvements such as secondary indicators and pattern/shape cues are still on the roadmap.

• Folder Browser — per-column filter & Shift+Enter queue append (contributed by @cucadmuh, PR #165): Press Ctrl+F to open a filter field for the active Folder Browser column. Focus hands off cleanly between the filter input and the row list. Clearing a parent-column selection clears all right-side filters automatically. Press Shift+Enter on a filtered track list to append the visible tracks to the queue without replacing it.

• Keybindings — in-app modifier chords (contributed by @kveld9, PR #167): In-app keybindings now support Ctrl/Alt/Shift+Key chords in addition to bare keys. The settings capture flow uses buildInAppBinding; the runtime handler uses matchInAppBinding and skips any chord already claimed as a global shortcut. Bare-key bindings still match without modifiers. Additionally, the seek forward/backward shortcuts now correctly interpret the configured value as seconds — previously the value was treated as a 0–1 progress fraction.

• Playlist management enhancements (contributed by @kveld9, PR #168): Multi-select context-menu actions for Albums, Artists, and Playlists now include a bulk Add to Playlist submenu. The sidebar playlist section is now collapsible. The Artists page gains infinite scroll via IntersectionObserver. Submenus flip upward automatically when they would overflow the viewport bottom. A Remove from Playlist entry is now available in the Playlist Detail context menu.

Fixed

• Fullscreen Player — animation overhead in no-compositing mode (contributed by @kilyabin, PR #175): In software-rendering mode (WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1) the mesh blob pan animations are now stopped (static gradients are preserved), the portrait drift animation is stopped, and box-shadow is removed from the seekbar played bar. The seekbar played bar width changes on every playback tick; triggering a full shadow repaint in software mode caused significant CPU overhead.

• Folder Browser — arrow keys with modifier keys (contributed by @cucadmuh, PR #174): Column and list arrow-key handling is now skipped when any modifier key is held, preventing conflicts with browser focus navigation and OS-level shortcuts. Modifier detection uses both nativeEvent and getModifierState for WebKit/WebView2 compatibility.

• Audio output device — Linux stability (contributed by @cucadmuh, PR #176): Pinned ALSA/cpal device IDs now stay stable when enumeration temporarily omits the active sink or returns an equivalent name. The Linux device-watcher no longer clears the pin based solely on missing list entries — only macOS and Windows treat repeated absence as "device unplugged". The Settings refresh flow calls canonicalize and refetches the list; an i18n label is now shown when the active device is no longer in the enumerated list.

• Login — server URL field (Issue #171): The placeholder text in the Add Server form was previously a hardcoded English string. It is now fully localised and clarifies that https:// URLs are accepted.

• Offline mode — non-blocking banner (Issue #170): The full-screen blocking overlay shown when Psysonic starts without a cached library is replaced with a slim banner at the top of the content area. The banner includes a direct link to Server Settings so the user can fix the connection without navigating manually.

Special thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
@cucadmuh for two significant Folder Browser improvements and the Linux audio stability fixes — three PRs in one release cycle, remarkable.
@kilyabin for continuing to hunt down no-compositing performance issues.
@kveld9 for the modifier-chord keybindings and the playlist management overhaul.