crmne/spotifast v0.12.0

Spotifast v0.12.0

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Spotifast 0.12.0 rests the audio device while you're paused, lets you drop skins on the window on Wayland again, speaks Turkish, and fixes the queue, the Add to playlist menu, the volume on phones and a crowded top bar. It also finishes the move from Fastpotify: the old name, command and profile move are gone.

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New

• A paused Spotifast costs nothing. Paused, Spotifast used to keep the audio device running and fed it silence. Now the device rests until you press Play, and starts again at once. On a Mac that took Spotifast from about 0.5% of a core to nothing, and macOS's audio service from about 4% to nearly nothing; Windows' audio service went from about 5% to nothing. By @crmne; thanks @gagarine. (#636)
• Turkish. Spotifast is now available in Turkish. By @brsbrkctn. (#643)
• Drop skins on the window on Wayland again. Dropping a .wsz skin, or any file, on the window works on Wayland again, and pasting keeps working on Hyprland. This lifts the 0.11.2 limitation. By @crmne.
• Every command works on Linux too. spotifast now-playing, devices, next, like, transfer and the other subcommands now work on Linux as they do on macOS and Windows, beside MPRIS. By @crmne.
• Scrolling, the tray and media controls shared with ZapFast and Solco. Spotifast's scrolling, single-instance guard and desktop media controls now come from fastframe, the foundation its sister apps share, so fixes reach every app. Scrolling picks up two fixes on the way: a slow frame no longer cuts a touchpad gesture short. By @crmne.

Fixed

• Reordering the queue moves the song you dragged. Several quick moves in Playing next could move a different song, or empty the list until the next track. By @crmne; thanks @D3SOX. (#598)
• The Add to playlist menu stays open while you search. Clicking its search field closed the menu, and clearing a search left the list short. By @crmne; thanks @D3SOX. (#638)
• The volume is greyed out for devices that won't take it. When the playing device, such as an iPhone over Bluetooth, doesn't let other apps change its volume, the volume control is now greyed out with a tooltip instead of showing an error. By @crmne; thanks @jorisw. (#627)
• The top bar keeps its room in a narrow window. With Queue or Lyrics open, the buttons beside the search field ran over it. The side panels now give way, down to their narrowest, and the window can't be made narrower than they need while they're open. By @crmne; thanks @oo7kc. (#624)
• A personal Spotify app is told to authorize again, not to sign in. A personal app set up before 0.9.0 showed "Spotify permissions changed. Sign in again." on every launch, which signing in couldn't fix. The message now points to Authorize in Settings → Account. By @crmne; thanks @azais-corentin. (#634)
• The window keeps its size when the interface is zoomed. With the zoom not at 100%, the window shrank on every restart. By @crmne.
• Older Windows graphics drivers start Spotifast. When a modern OpenGL context isn't available, Spotifast now falls back to a compatible one instead of failing to start. By @crmne.

Changed

• Fastpotify is gone. Spotifast no longer carries the old name anywhere:
  • the fastpotify command is gone; use spotifast;
  • settings, sign-ins and caches from Fastpotify 0.9.0 or older are no longer moved over: if you update straight from one of those, you start fresh (your old files stay where they were);
  • on Windows, if you're on 0.10.0 to 0.10.2, start Spotifast once by hand after this update: those versions' updater looks for the old program name.
• The rodio audio backend setting now always means Spotifast's own output, which it always did in practice; librespot's separate rodio output is no longer included. PulseAudio stays available on Linux.
• Scripts and tools that talked to port 47113 need the command line now. On macOS and Windows the fixed local port is gone, replaced by a private channel only your own spotifast command can use. The spotifast subcommands work as before; tools that opened the port directly, such as Stream Deck plugins, should call them instead.

Thanks

@brsbrkctn, @D3SOX, @jorisw, @oo7kc, @azais-corentin, @gagarine, @jescribmun, and everyone who reported problems since 0.11.2.

Full changelog: v0.11.2...v0.12.0