Merge pull request #585 from sipbuu/release/v12.0.0

Changelog

Global catalogue search

• Added Global search for songs, albums and artists.
• Choose Apple Music or Spotify above installed add-ons.
• Catalogue selection remains independent of playback source priority.
• Spotify reuses your existing account cookie, with Apple Music fallback when Spotify search is unavailable.
• Results identify the catalogue actually used.
• Added song pagination, retry handling, album navigation and artist search.
• Improved recovery from partial catalogue failures and pagination errors.
• Global songs resolve through your configured playback sources.

Flow and Autoplay

• Reworked Flow to favor online recommendations while retaining immediate local playback and offline fallback.
• Combined online discovery with track-based YouTube radio recommendations.
• Online recommendations replace reserved library slots instead of being appended behind a long downloaded queue.
• Preserved duplicate filtering, artist limits and mood filtering.
• Improved queue refills before playback runs out.
• Added deadlines so slow recommendation requests cannot indefinitely block local fallback.
• Fixed local fallback being skipped when online recommendation resolution fails.
• Clearing the queue now invalidates pending refills.
• Improved refill state after track transitions.

Saved playlists and Lokal Link

• Saved Flow playlists retain durable references to supported online tracks.
• Preserved recording order and filtered duplicate or unavailable entries.
• Excluded temporary signed stream URLs from saved references.
• Improved sharing of online recording metadata, artwork and provider references through Lokal Link.
• Added migration handling for existing playlist operations.
• Improved reconstruction of supported YouTube and SoundCloud playlist entries on receiving devices.

Streaming improvements

• Fixed Qobuz preparation cancelling an active transfer before playback could attach.
• Supported direct FLAC streams can begin playing before the download finishes.
• Added early playback for eligible unencrypted fast-start M4A recordings.
• Improved progressive-playback handling across Qobuz, Tidal, Amazon Music and Deezer.
• Reduced redundant metadata lookups for recognized provider results while preserving verification for cross-provider matches.
• Strengthened audio-format validation before allowing early playback.
• Encrypted, fragmented, segmented or conversion-dependent recordings retain complete preparation where required.

Artwork and Cover Flow

• Improved high-resolution artwork requests for Amazon, YouTube Music and other supported provider image formats.
• Applied artwork improvements across Discovery, Home, mixes and track lists.
• Moving and adjacent Cover Flow panels now request full-resolution artwork.
• Added shared image decoding and bounded background preloading.
• Preserved original thumbnails as fallbacks when larger images fail.
• Fixed larger YouTube thumbnail requests when the original URL contains query parameters.

Community

• Added a Discord button beside the window controls.
• Updated the README to use the current community invite.

Full Changelog: v11.3.3...v12.0.0

Setup

See README.md for full setup instructions.

macOS: this build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized (no Developer ID certificate is configured). The first time, right-click Lokal in Applications and choose Open, or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Lokal.app.

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