benjaminRoberts01375/Stingray v1.4.0

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With Jellyfin and Apple's platforms getting a performance and bug fix update, Stingray shall follow suit!

• Features
  • Settings
    • A new toggle to allow the search tab to search through TV episode titles
    • If Stingray fails to login, provide options to retry and update the user's login
  • UI
    • Apply the media title shadow directly to the media title
    • Collect all people from episodes and display them for the season
      • Not sure what Jellyfin was collecting prior to this, but this is more correct
    • Don't display people segment if people are unavailable
    • Access to Stingray's logs
    • Change roundness of buttons in the settings menu based on the Apple TV model
  • Filter libraries and search by genre and maturity
  • Sort libraries and search by title, sort title, duration, release date, and random
  • Refresh individual libraries
  • Slightly darken the background of the Notes App theme to improve the legibility of buttons
  • Add a missing "No image available" placeholder for people with no images
  • Add marquee-style text for people's names and roles
  • Add a proper loading indicator to the TV show play button
  • If a PIN is configured, display the PIN entry screen on a cold boot even in "Manual" profile switching
  • Improved error logging for video players
  • If the limited bitrate is greater than the media stream's bitrate, do not show as limited in the player
  • Require PIN for logging out
  • Reset settings button
• Cleanups
  • Repo Organization
    • Rename "Other-Assets" to "Other Assets"
    • Have ErrorView be a component
    • Move all views into a Views folder
    • Separate the TV and Movie detail views
      • Abstract metadata and overview in the DetailMediaView to their own views
      • Move DetailMediaView into a dedicated Media Detail folder
    • Separate the TV and Movie players
      • Move the player files into a dedicated "player" folder
      • Move AVPlayerViewControllerRepresentable.Coordinator to a separate file
      • Abstract player transport bar items to a dedicated class
      • Separate out SwiftUI Player tabs into their own structs
  • Remove unused Equatable conformance from MediaCard
  • Remove the StreamingServiceProtocol and StreamingServiceBasicProtocol
  • Document all the things
    • Massively improve documentation around the slidingLevenshteinDistance function
  • Update all Swift files to use Xcode 27's reworked auto-indent formatting
  • Remove unused Equatable conformance from MediaSource
  • Remove practically unused completed and unloaded statuses for individual libraries
  • Remove the redundant waiting status for streaming service libraries status
  • Remove the poorly used library media type
  • Add season sync status with TVSeasonsAvailable
  • User is now a class, helping ensure data stays synced across the app
  • The active user is now stored in the LoginStatus state machine, replacing UserModel.activeUser in most cases
  • Reworked PIN mechanism to work asynchronously and force the use of the new PINModel for more reliable PIN usage
  • Remove cloud DB migration
• Bug Fixes
  • Specify do not sleep while playing video
  • Allow moving from media metadata to play button
  • Opening the player description should no longer crash
  • Fix infinite loading when user signs in the same user multiple times
  • Fix search results not live updating
  • Fix MediaType's reported object name in errors
  • Improve error handling for loading show episodes
  • Allow AsyncBlurImage to re-attempt downloads
  • Add error handling for failing to sync library version
  • Hitting cancel on the PIN entry screen no longer navigates to the switch user page
  • Add per-AppleTV-generation streaming compatibility
  • Improve tracking for watched content
  • Synchronize iCloud storage with models
    • Fixes a bug where signing in on a new Apple TV doesn't load data correctly for the first time
• Performance
  • Only calculate blur hash once and globally cache it
    • Improves speed to opening detail media views
    • Massively improves scrolling performance in busy detail media views
    • Improves library loading performance
  • Improve People grouping performance
  • Store relevant (en/de)coders and formatters as static variables
  • Only calculate blur hashes in AsyncBlurImage
    • Media Card now uses AsyncBlurImage
  • Only calculate profile images once per load (kinda)
  • Only calculate Apple TV model once and cache it
  • Improve media syncing performance by about 2.2x (tested before Jellyfin v12)
    • Rework media syncing algorithm
    • Start syncing sooner
    • Prevent double loading libraries
    • Rewrote TV season syncing to use a similar implementation to library syncing
      • Improved thread control
      • Allow seasons to continue downloading during and after all shows load
  • Reduce hitching during video playback by moving playback updates off the UI thread
  • Add priority Jellyfin syncing
    • If a show is not fully synched when opened, request that show's special features and episodes separately from all the others
• Improvements
  • API
    • Swapped from /Users/{userID}/Views to /UserViews with the userID as a parameter