music-assistant/server 2.10.0

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📦 Stable Release

Changes since 2.9.13

⚠ Breaking Changes

• Retire the local audio provider in favor of the Sendspin add-on (by @chrisuthe in #5965)

🚀 New Providers

• Add Sveriges Radio provider (by @romany in #2974)
• Add Pocket Casts Provider (by @yfhyou in #3127)
• Add AI Radio Plugin (by @swiftbird07 in #3407)
• Add Yandex Station player provider v1.5.1 — local Glagol control, Alice playback intercept (by @trudenboy in #3605)
• Add playlist_metadata plugin for auto-generating playlist artwork (by @dmoo500 in #3786)
• Add Mamma Mi Radio music provider (by @florianhorner in #3836)
• Add Rainy Mood provider (by @jlpouffier in #3844)
• Move library recommendations to plugin provider and add new folders (by @dmoo500 in #3890)
• Add Bose SoundTouch player provider (by @Odn0 in #3891)
• Add Storytel provider integration (by @jonasbp2011 in #4054)
• feat(provider): Add Amplipi provider (by @mcaulifn in #4110)
• Add Music Quiz plugin: multiplayer guess-the-song game (by @TimoPtr in #4572)
• Add Google Drive filesystem provider (by @OzGav in #4581)
• Add Profiler provider for on-demand performance diagnostics (by @marcelveldt in #4653)
• Add Ambient Sounds provider with locally generated noise loops (by @marcelveldt in #4676)
• Add teddycloud provider (by @yoyixms in #4776)
• Add OneDrive filesystem provider (by @OzGav in #4791)
• Add Overcast podcast provider (by @OzGav in #5151)
• Add OpenAI Compatible provider for the AI features (by @marcelveldt in #5261)
• Add OpenAI text-to-speech provider (by @marcelveldt in #5262)
• Add ABC Radio Network music provider (by @OzGav in #5321)
• Add Sendspin source@v1 role support (by @maximmaxim345 in #5658)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Improve stream URL handling with failover support (by @benklop in #2996)
• Add favorites support to Digitally Incorporated provider (by @benklop in #3458)
• Add support for audiobook collections (by @fmunkes in #3569)
• Adapt artist / audiobook controller for authors and narrators (by @fmunkes in #3570)
• Extend Local Audio Out provider with PulseAudio support (by @iVolt1 in #3724)
• Plex: Add extended recommendations with "Mixes For You" support (by @ajacobson in #3736)
• Plex: Add audiobook/podcast support with position sync (by @zenibako in #3748)
• Add CUE sheet support for filesystem providers (by @OzGav in #3751)
• Enhance play_media start_item parameter to allow latest podcast episode to be played and podcast/playlist to play from here (by @OzGav in #3832)
• Add birthday/memoriam recommendations via MusicBrainz (by @dmoo500 in #3833)
• Yandex Smart Home: update v1.4.x → v2.2.4 — playlists as sources, skill auto-create, shared auth layer (by @trudenboy in #3834)
• Use faster stream/clear for Sendspin track changes, behind a legacy toggle (by @maximmaxim345 in #3870)
• feat(audible): resume playback position from Audible Whispersync (by @scootaash in #3893)
• Rewrite Deezer provider with GraphQL client (by @jdaberkow in #3900)
• Adapt core methods to allow providing a username for item retrieval (by @fmunkes in #4015)
• Add explicit filter to smart playlist rules (by @dmoo500 in #4095)
• Provide Tracking and UX for AA Failures and Retries (by @chrisuthe in #4167)
• feat(spotify): add curated browse for new releases and genres (by @x-ingo in #4177)
• Add API command to get the color palette for any image (by @marcelveldt in #4193)
• Localize server-provided strings (by @marcelveldt in #4200)
• Localized-name search for genres and playlists (by @marcelveldt in #4212)
• Key media item translation names by media type (by @marcelveldt in #4216)
• Localize genre descriptions server-side (by @marcelveldt in #4227)
• Localize error messages sent to API clients (by @marcelveldt in #4228)
• Localize provider-sync background-task names server-side (by @marcelveldt in #4238)
• Wire up provider status reporting (structured errors + derived status) (by @marcelveldt in #4242)
• Localize UnsupportedSystemError messages (by @marcelveldt in #4255)
• Localize user-facing provider error messages (by @marcelveldt in #4259)
• Localize core module names & descriptions server-side (by @marcelveldt in #4261)
• Localize player option labels server-side (by @marcelveldt in #4262)
• Respect container cgroup memory limits when detecting system memory (by @marcelveldt in #4269)
• Persist playback speed for audiobooks and podcast episodes (by @OzGav in #4270)
• Localize Last.fm recommendation row titles and subtitles (by @marcelveldt in #4276)
• Translate nugs recommendation folder names (by @marcelveldt in #4277)
• Make NicoVideo recommendation labels translatable (by @marcelveldt in #4279)
• Make Audible root browse-folder labels translatable (by @marcelveldt in #4281)
• Make Bandcamp recommendation and collection folder labels translatable (by @marcelveldt in #4282)
• Localize NetEase Cloud Music recommendation and playlist labels (by @marcelveldt in #4283)
• Enable multi-instance support for Pandora (by @mcaulifn in #4284)
• Localize Deezer browse and virtual-playlist labels (by @marcelveldt in #4285)
• Localize Yandex Music browse labels via the server translation system (by @marcelveldt in #4286)
• Localize Podcast Index browse folder labels (by @marcelveldt in #4287)
• Make Phish.in browse-folder labels translatable (by @marcelveldt in #4288)
• KION Music: localize browse & recommendation labels via server translations (by @marcelveldt in #4289)
• Lazy-import chardet to lower idle memory (by @marcelveldt in #4291)
• Support common-string references in the translations build (by @marcelveldt in #4298)
• Guard against hardcoded ConfigEntry strings (by @marcelveldt in #4304)
• Extract CLAP scalar scoring into pure score_scalars() (by @chrisuthe in #4307)
• Import genres from Plex into media item metadata (by @lebdim in #4312)
• Skip dynamic playlists in refresh scan, sync provider-owned name/images (by @mcaulifn in #4326)
• Import additional metadata from Plex into media items (by @lebdim in #4338)
• Persist localized playlist names so they survive the library (by @marcelveldt in #4341)
• Fix config entry categories: use translation keys instead of raw English strings (by @marcelveldt in #4349)
• Parse "Track" by Artist radio stream titles and use album for artwork (by @OzGav in #4364)
• Move volume normalization target level to streams global setting (by @marcelveldt in #4369)
• Allow Bandcamp feed and wishlist to be playable. (by @rnewman in #4371)
• Move queue-scoped settings (crossfade, volume normalization) to the queue (by @marcelveldt in #4373)
• mcp: add set_repeat tool to queue controls (by @steamEngineer in #4377)
• Use ICY StreamUrl cover art for radio streams when it is an image (by @OzGav in #4379)
• mcp: add explicit pause/resume playback tools (by @steamEngineer in #4390)
• mcp: add players ungroup tool (by @steamEngineer in #4391)
• Rename 'don't stop the music' to 'autoplay' (by @marcelveldt in #4404)
• Transfer playback to a new leader when unjoining a sync group leader (by @marcelveldt in #4412)
• Support seek Sendspin controller commands (by @maximmaxim345 in #4417)
• Resolve player palette only on the media owner, not per grouped member (by @marcelveldt in #4425)
• Make the demo player provider a groupable end-to-end test bed (by @marcelveldt in #4428)
• Adjust Sonic Similarity base scoring and pools to allow for better matching and more meaningful presets (by @chrisuthe in #4429)
• Improve Search results from Sonic Similarity Plugin (by @chrisuthe in #4430)
• Add native player sleep timers (by @teancom in #4432)
• Add content_type to Genre schema with migration (by @jozefKruszynski in #4435)
• Enhance and fix podcast metadata (episode descriptions, chapters, parent-podcast name) in gPodder, iTunes Podcast and Podcast RSS Feed (by @chrisuthe in #4444)
• Configurable Autoplay with similar / library / playlist modes (by @marcelveldt in #4446)
• Smart Playlist: Use library artwork from metadata providers (by @dmoo500 in #4447)
• BBC Sounds: refactor for auntie-sounds 2.0 (by @kieranhogg in #4450)
• Unload idle audio-analysis models to reclaim memory (by @marcelveldt in #4452)
• Seed Last.fm personalized rows from recent plays (by @OzGav in #4457)
• Add playlist metadata infrastructure to MetadataProvider (by @dmoo500 in #4460)
• Genre content-type awareness: create/edit safety + targeted restore (by @jozefKruszynski in #4474)
• Smart shuffle for player queues (by @marcelveldt in #4475)
• Add support for podcast chapters in Audiobookshelf (by @fmunkes in #4478)
• Bounded managed pool for radio mode (by @marcelveldt in #4479)
• fastmcp_server: update provider to v0.13.3 (queue, library-URI, and playback tools + localizable config) (by @trudenboy in #4486)
• Load Discover recommendation rows on demand and improve Recently Played (by @chrisuthe in #4487)
• Extend podcast (by @chrisuthe in #4492)
• Dynamic radio playlists (replacing radio mode) (by @marcelveldt in #4498)
• Honour the queue's recency windows in provider dynamic stations (by @marcelveldt in #4500)
• Use radio playlists in the MCP play_media tool (by @marcelveldt in #4501)
• Add played_only parameter to library_items methods (by @dmoo500 in #4502)
• Play finite sources in a dynamic queue through once instead of recycling them (by @marcelveldt in #4503)
• Turn a queue with any dynamic source into one bounded smart-shuffled pool (by @marcelveldt in #4513)
• Add duration and last_played filters to Smart Playlist (by @dmoo500 in #4520)
• Add support for authors and narrators to audiobookshelf (by @fmunkes in #4526)
• Avoid back-to-back artists in dynamic queues (by @marcelveldt in #4528)
• Smart crossfade: DJ-style bass swap EQ (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4536)
• Global defaults for queue settings with per-queue override (by @marcelveldt in #4537)
• Explain the queue Global option via a per-option description (by @marcelveldt in #4540)
• Only expose container items as player queue sources (by @marcelveldt in #4542)
• Add per-option help text to config selects (by @marcelveldt in #4546)
• Show unavailable player control and AirPlay protocol options as disabled (by @marcelveldt in #4551)
• Expose album artist on player current media (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4560)
• Suppress per-item media item events during library sync (by @marcelveldt in #4578)
• Make player state change detection exact and cheap (by @marcelveldt in #4579)
• Smart fades analyzer v2: frequency band envelopes, time signature and anti-aliased energy binning (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4580)
• Emby Music Provider: add last played date (by @hatharry in #4582)
• Reduce database commit overhead during library sync (by @marcelveldt in #4584)
• Remove per-track config rebuild overhead (by @marcelveldt in #4585)
• Resolve publish IP at startup instead of baking it into config entry defaults (by @marcelveldt in #4588)
• Smart crossfade: content-aware 3-band EQ from frequency band analysis (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4591)
• Add genre detection to playlist_metadata provider (by @dmoo500 in #4593)
• Implement SQL-based explicit filter for smart playlists (by @dmoo500 in #4594)
• Add explicit parameter to TracksController.library_items (by @dmoo500 in #4597)
• Populate derived_from on output protocols (by @marcelveldt in #4609)
• Add taxonomy genre icons, update genre icon image resolver (by @jozefKruszynski in #4611)
• Expose bpm, musical key and RMS waveform to the frontend (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4626)
• Speed up library matching with an indexed external ID lookup table (by @marcelveldt in #4628)
• Speed up library listings by streaming from the sort index (by @marcelveldt in #4629)
• Remove periodic garbage collection (by @marcelveldt in #4630)
• Avoid threadsafe dispatch overhead when signalling events (by @marcelveldt in #4631)
• Speed up library sync when nothing has changed (by @marcelveldt in #4632)
• Raise transient provider errors instead of caching them as negatives (by @marcelveldt in #4636)
• Fastmcp_server: Searchable log tail, whole-record tracebacks, log stats (by @trudenboy in #4640)
• Reduce image proxy-id overhead when serializing media items (by @marcelveldt in #4642)
• Make the external id lookup table the single source of truth (by @marcelveldt in #4645)
• Add diagnostics feature (by @marcelveldt in #4652)
• Add fixed genres to Phish.in tracks (by @OzGav in #4659)
• Add join code expiry lookup to auth controller (by @marcelveldt in #4663)
• Add virtual player support to the Sendspin provider (by @marcelveldt in #4666)
• Add support for sound effect media items (by @marcelveldt in #4669)
• Add convenience API for providers to send custom events to clients (by @marcelveldt in #4670)
• Faster and more robust global search with per-provider timeouts and caching (by @marcelveldt in #4671)
• Add audio overlay support to queue playback (by @marcelveldt in #4674)
• Faster library browsing: slim summary mode for list endpoints (by @marcelveldt in #4679)
• MusicBrainz recommendations: Person/band distinction (by @dmoo500 in #4687)
• Yandex Music: update to v3.8.2 — shared auth layer, localized device-code login (by @trudenboy in #4690)
• Library list endpoints return slim summary items by default (by @marcelveldt in #4693)
• Expose party join URL and playback mode to guests (by @marcelveldt in #4694)
• Persist auth token activity at most once per hour (by @marcelveldt in #4695)
• Reduce memory usage of large play queues (by @marcelveldt in #4697)
• Add difficulty levels and optional AI wrong answers to the Music Quiz (by @marcelveldt in #4705)
• Reword the Music Quiz AI setting (by @marcelveldt in #4707)
• Expose quiz type in game state (by @marcelveldt in #4713)
• Add reusable Music Quiz answer types (by @marcelveldt in #4714)
• Prepare Music Quiz rounds for more answer types (by @marcelveldt in #4718)
• Add timeline music quiz game (by @marcelveldt in #4722)
• Add Music Quiz player presence (by @marcelveldt in #4723)
• MSX Bridge: Party Mode QR on TVs, direct streamserver delivery, playback and CSRF hardening (by @trudenboy in #4734)
• Support more Music Quiz sources (by @marcelveldt in #4744)
• Add Music Quiz replay countdown (by @marcelveldt in #4751)
• Add language support to Music Trivia (by @marcelveldt in #4753)
• Add reveal flow to Music Trivia (by @marcelveldt in #4758)
• Improve Music Quiz AI distractors (by @marcelveldt in #4759)
• Add similar music to Music Quiz (by @marcelveldt in #4765)
• Choose Music Quiz playback for each game (by @marcelveldt in #4768)
• Improve smart shuffle variety (by @marcelveldt in #4773)
• Add vocal activity detection to Smart Fades (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4786)
• Return library tracks when browsing filesystem (by @teancom in #4792)
• Add complete audio processing details (by @marcelveldt in #4793)
• Preload lyrics in Music Quiz (by @marcelveldt in #4805)
• Allow collapsing of collections in base media controller (by @fmunkes in #4806)
• Allow any authenticated user on party and music quiz guest routes (by @teancom in #4808)
• Show AI availability in Music Quiz (by @marcelveldt in #4810)
• Smart Fades: vocal and energy aware transition planning (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4816)
• Vary songs when replaying Music Quiz (by @marcelveldt in #4817)
• Normalise synced (LRC) lyrics before storing or serving them (by @OzGav in #4823)
• Yandex Music Connect (Ynison): update to v3.4.2 — shared auth layer, lossless-safe fallback, stable stage (by @trudenboy in #4827)
• Ask Music Timeline bonuses after every placement (by @marcelveldt in #4830)
• FastMCP server: queue curation tools, agent ergonomics, opt-in simplified tool discovery (v0.17.0) (by @trudenboy in #4833)
• Include track duration and played duration in ListenBrainz submissions (by @tesmerjg in #4843)
• Add sendspin encryption support (by @arturpragacz in #4846)
• Add DSP gain and balance filters (by @OzGav in #4857)
• Support DSP filters that need a second audio input (by @OzGav in #4872)
• Migrate the Tidal provider to the official API where possible. (by @jozefKruszynski in #4875)
• AirPlay: unified cliairplay binary (native AirPlay 2, PTP, MediaRemote) (by @marcelveldt in #4879)
• Add native controls to AirPlay devices (by @marcelveldt in #4882)
• Cast dashboards to display devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4887)
• Fetch only needed Home Assistant entities instead of the full state dump (by @OzGav in #4890)
• Serve provider icons on demand instead of inlining them in the manifest (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4907)
• Make max_concurrent_tasks configurable (by @kiwipaulrob in #4914)
• Add announcement support for ESPHome-based Sendspin players (by @marcelveldt in #4916)
• Prevent importing Home Assistant players that are natively supported (by @marcelveldt in #4917)
• Keep player settings when a universal player is replaced by a native player (by @marcelveldt in #4921)
• ariacast_receiver: Add configurable Device Name (by @meiser79 in #4922)
• Smart fades: stop stranding the listener in silence on energy-drop transitions (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4926)
• Remote access: migrate WebRTC backend to libdatachannel (aiolibdatachannel) (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4930)
• Add start_from_beginning option for podcast playback (by @chrisuthe in #4934)
• Instant AirPlay seek, next-track and resume (by @marcelveldt in #4939)
• Start AirPlay groups after all players are ready (by @marcelveldt in #4942)
• Add High/Low-pass DSP filter (by @OzGav in #4944)
• Recommendations follow-ups: unload cleanup and Mood/Activity mix subtitles (by @marcelveldt in #4946)
• Add DSP convolution filter (by @OzGav in #4947)
• Support commanded AirPlay starts (by @marcelveldt in #4949)
• Keep all AirPlay groups connected while paused (by @marcelveldt in #4951)
• Add setup flow engine for interactive provider and player setup (by @marcelveldt in #4952)
• Improve grouped AirPlay pause fallback (by @marcelveldt in #4953)
• Reduce AirPlay debug log noise (by @marcelveldt in #4965)
• Make Open Subsonic provider use GET methods (by @khers in #4969)
• Add Stereo Width and Crossfeed DSP filters (by @OzGav in #4971)
• Instant AirPlay seek and next-track via flush-and-refill (by @marcelveldt in #4977)
• Add Apple TV dashboard support (by @marcelveldt in #4979)
• Expose current Music Quiz state to dashboard displays (by @marcelveldt in #4983)
• Add Safety Limiter and Compressor DSP filters (by @OzGav in #5004)
• Add transpose DSP filter (by @OzGav in #5005)
• Cast Party and Music Quiz to Apple TV (by @marcelveldt in #5006)
• Guided setup flows for providers and players (by @marcelveldt in #5010)
• Start the next Music Quiz song without a delay (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5015)
• Map Bose SoundTouch preset buttons on the provider instead of per player (by @marcelveldt in #5032)
• Reject ACTION-type entries in setup flow forms (by @marcelveldt in #5033)
• Surface the player reconfigure flow (by @marcelveldt in #5034)
• Automatically enable 24-bit AirPlay playback on devices that support it (by @marcelveldt in #5044)
• Name the token in the KION and Zvuk sign-in error (by @marcelveldt in #5058)
• Expose whether a provider has a setup/reconfigure flow (by @marcelveldt in #5061)
• Follow-up fixes and enhancements to author and narrator support (by @fmunkes in #5062)
• Add support for synchronized lyrics ID3 tags (by @medusalix in #5063)
• Reduce repeated discovery logging (by @marcelveldt in #5064)
• Show why a device output can't be selected (by @marcelveldt in #5071)
• Disable Mac AirPlay players by default (by @marcelveldt in #5080)
• Show Apple TV external playback artwork (by @marcelveldt in #5081)
• Add tests for Open Subsonic provider (by @khers in #5082)
• Announcements start faster and no longer get cut off (by @marcelveldt in #5115)
• Rename Radio Playlists plugin to Endless Mix Playlists (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5128)
• Allow configuring Snapcast TCP stream sample rate and bit depth (by @rwjack in #5140)
• Autoplay continues your podcast or audiobook instead of switching to music (by @marcelveldt in #5141)
• Autoplay is on by default for new players (by @marcelveldt in #5144)
• Support getting OpenSubsonic radio stations from music source (by @frjol in #5150)
• A finished queue keeps its tracks so you can play it again (by @marcelveldt in #5156)
• Expose external id lookup on the API (by @OzGav in #5160)
• Add Dutch to Alexa language commands (by @R3inoudR in #5166)
• Update Yandex Music provider to v3.8.8: shared playlist requests and current authentication (by @trudenboy in #5171)
• Establish and keep the duration of podcast episodes if their feed does not supply it (by @OzGav in #5178)
• Cache podcast episode listings and batch their resume lookups (by @distante in #5179)
• Gapless seeks and reliable group sync on AirPlay players (by @marcelveldt in #5181)
• Add external_until for poll-completed external steps (by @jozefKruszynski in #5184)
• Let corrected AirPlay joins heal themselves instead of re-joining (by @marcelveldt in #5194)
• Start AirPlay late joins as soon as the speaker is ready (by @marcelveldt in #5202)
• Report AirPlay speakers that stay silent while shown as playing (by @marcelveldt in #5217)
• Addendum to collection support: Enhance search ability and overwrite collection metadata on provider sync (by @fmunkes in #5226)
• Add party duration config option (by @lordhi in #5230)
• Let each provider pick which AI and text-to-speech engine it uses (by @marcelveldt in #5253)
• Let plugins and music providers describe audio the same way (by @marcelveldt in #5264)
• Let clients correct for a clock that is out of sync (by @marcelveldt in #5266)
• Change Home Assistant player controls without reconnecting (by @marcelveldt in #5268)
• Reuse the Home Assistant device list instead of re-fetching it constantly (by @marcelveldt in #5273)
• Enter text-to-speech voices as separate values (by @marcelveldt in #5278)
• Make radio M3U export/import survive its own round trip (by @chrisuthe in #5289)
• Generate AI Radio segments at airtime instead of at run start (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5301)
• Migration for new icons for picker (by @stvncode in #5306)
• Add artist name sorting for tracks and albums (by @dmoo500 in #5340)
• Smarter crossfade choices for quiet tails and backing vocals (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5357)
• Ask Music Quiz Trivia release year questions about compilation tracks (by @marcelveldt in #5373)
• Start audio overlays without a delay (by @marcelveldt in #5379)
• Date quiz songs without an ISRC by artist and title (by @marcelveldt in #5386)
• Apple Music: batch library sync requests to cut API usage (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5391)
• More accurate release years for Music Quiz songs (by @marcelveldt in #5413)
• More accurate release years for much reissued songs (by @marcelveldt in #5442)
• Drop the entity dropdown from the Home Assistant settings (by @marcelveldt in #5446)
• Update and improve Sendspin pairing (by @arturpragacz in #5472)
• Show the real reason when AirPlay pairing fails (by @marcelveldt in #5486)
• Always state the TTS pronunciation rules in AI Radio queries (by @OzGav in #5509)
• Add Milkdrop visualizer plugin (by @jozefKruszynski in #5511)
• Better default player icons (by @marcelveldt in #5521)
• Show dashboards on Fully Kiosk displays (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5531)
• Allow collapsing of collections when acquiring the audiobooks of an author or narrator (by @fmunkes in #5533)
• Support casting the Music Quiz dashboard (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5535)
• AI Radio: reusable hosts and an AI DJ for any queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5538)
• Clarify output protocol toggle (by @marcelveldt in #5550)
• Add a configurable volume step size to the players core config (by @quadcom in #5571)
• Rework and refine the Bose SoundTouch provider (by @fmunkes in #5573)
• Make the Spotify setup steps easier to follow (by @marcelveldt in #5575)
• Explain the background library import after adding a music provider (by @marcelveldt in #5576)
• Stop dating songs from hits compilations (by @marcelveldt in #5586)
• Pair the built-in web player automatically (by @maximmaxim345 in #5591)
• Use expanded_options for sendspin pairing method (by @arturpragacz in #5592)
• Date songs written for films by their soundtrack (by @marcelveldt in #5594)
• Play announcements over the music on AirPlay players (by @marcelveldt in #5598)
• Extend low-latency WAV default to Squeezelite and MPD live sources (by @marcelveldt in #5602)
• Hand a sync group over to a speaker that's still playing (by @marcelveldt in #5612)
• Send a spoken announcement by typing the text (by @marcelveldt in #5621)
• Allow adding custom ambient sounds by URL (by @jozefKruszynski in #5625)
• Speak an announcement with your microphone (by @marcelveldt in #5626)
• AI Radio: add host presets and a per-host language (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5627)
• Allow radio stations to play as dynamic stations (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5628)
• Speak an announcement in your own language (by @marcelveldt in #5630)
• AI Radio: send per-host TTS options to Home Assistant (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5634)
• Album art no longer holds up the app over a remote connection (by @marcelveldt in #5635)
• Album art uses far less data over a remote connection (by @marcelveldt in #5643)
• AI Radio hosts no longer sound quieter than the music (by @marcelveldt in #5669)
• A muted player stays muted when you change its volume (by @marcelveldt in #5706)
• AirPlay speakers no longer need a deepened buffer by default (by @marcelveldt in #5707)
• One streaming mode setting for AirPlay players, with automatic fallback for stubborn TVs (by @marcelveldt in #5721)
• Add generic LinkPlay speaker support to the WiiM provider (by @marcelveldt in #5729)
• Streaming mode escape hatch now also available on Apple devices (by @marcelveldt in #5730)
• Group WiiM and generic LinkPlay speakers together (by @marcelveldt in #5737)
• Shuffle no longer carries over into the next thing you play (by @marcelveldt in #5740)
• Queueing an album over a radio no longer plays it shuffled (by @marcelveldt in #5747)
• Add missing media click actions (by @marcelveldt in #5764)
• Filter default recommendation rows by provider (by @marcelveldt in #5768)
• Show which provider hit its stream limit when playback stops (by @marcelveldt in #5802)
• Play a track from another provider when its own provider is at the stream limit (by @marcelveldt in #5807)
• Add Spotify Soloist as official backend for Spotify Connect (by @marcelveldt in #5810)
• Add crossfade and loudness normalization settings to Spotify Connect (by @marcelveldt in #5833)
• Send track color over the MilkDrop visualizer relay (by @jozefKruszynski in #5839)
• Improve crossfade buffering and account for realtime streams (by @marcelveldt in #5848)
• Read the MilkDrop visualizer waveform from playback instead of Sendspin (by @jozefKruszynski in #5864)
• Start the next track's crossfade audio while the current one is still playing (by @marcelveldt in #5866)
• Control the Spotify Connect session's queue from Music Assistant (by @marcelveldt in #5880)
• Add a streaming quality setting for Spotify Connect (by @marcelveldt in #5882)
• Show episode descriptions and artwork for Pocket Casts (by @OzGav in #5898)
• Allow lower add to queue token limits and slower refill rates in Party plugin (by @Bulgus in #5904)
• Refuse Spotify accounts that cannot work during setup (by @marcelveldt in #5911)
• Keep your queue when an external source starts playing (by @marcelveldt in #5914)
• Play Spotify through Spotify's own playback engine (by @marcelveldt in #5918)
• Show fuller descriptions for BBC Sounds podcasts and shows (by @OzGav in #5924)
• Add task reports (by @marcelveldt in #5925)
• Improve local album and artist folder matching (by @marcelveldt in #5939)
• Let Music Assistant mix crossfades for Spotify and other realtime sources (by @marcelveldt in #5960)
• Show audio quality for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #5963)
• Support next/previous controls on Google Cast devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5970)
• Hide Sendspin token pairing method when PIN/code pairing is available (by @maximmaxim345 in #5975)
• Add per player HEOS playback transition configuration (by @Tommatheussen in #5978)
• Show bit-perfect playback for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #5983)
• Shuffle and repeat now work on a source your speaker runs itself (by @marcelveldt in #5993)
• Use album loudness only for albums you actually played (by @marcelveldt in #5994)
• Faster seeking on Spotify tracks played through Soloist (by @marcelveldt in #6000)
• Keep the home page in step when played state changes (by @OzGav in #6005)
• Add an icon for the sendspin_source provider (by @maximmaxim345 in #6023)
• Show pairing codes as dedicated input boxes (by @marcelveldt in #6028)
• Remove the retired local audio provider on installs that never played through it (by @chrisuthe in #6029)
• Give the server a configurable name and external URL (by @marcelveldt in #6031)
• Approve new Sendspin devices with a single click (by @maximmaxim345 in #6035)
• Enable Spotify Connect or AirPlay Receiver from the player's own settings (by @marcelveldt in #6042)
• Keep other players' Spotify Connect and AirPlay devices alive when one daemon fails (by @marcelveldt in #6043)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Surface Bandcamp label-released performers as their own artists (by @teancom in #3824)
• Mark players unavailable on controller disconnection for HEOS (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4068)
• Apple Music: Intelligent fallback for deprecated catalog tracks (by @dmoo500 in #4109)
• Smart Playlist: Enrich library tracks with database genres for filtering (by @dmoo500 in #4175)
• Plex: fix bugs, remove dead code and reduce repetition (by @anatosun in #4179)
• Fix translations in Audiobookshelf and iTunes podcasts (by @fmunkes in #4210)
• Translate RadioBrowser browse folder names (by @marcelveldt in #4223)
• Fix Sonos abrupt track switches when reordering an active queue (by @marcelveldt in #4237)
• Trim Provider.to_dict() to match the ProviderInstance schema (by @marcelveldt in #4239)
• Localize MusicMe browse and recommendation section labels (by @marcelveldt in #4278)
• Translate Zvuk Music browse/recommendation labels (by @marcelveldt in #4280)
• Localize hardcoded provider browse and recommendation labels (by @marcelveldt in #4290)
• Admit genuine 4GB hosts via a shared RAM reporting tolerance (by @marcelveldt in #4301)
• Remove stale Cast players that are actually passive multichannel endpoints (by @marcelveldt in #4302)
• Fix live metadata not refreshing for grouped AirPlay players (by @marcelveldt in #4303)
• Pace audio analysis and cap it to half the CPU cores (by @marcelveldt in #4311)
• fastMCP Server: Connect Wizard fixes for reverse-proxy deployments (by @Sawtaytoes in #4313)
• Localize injected protocol output config entries (by @marcelveldt in #4322)
• Fix WebDAV auth deprecation warning (by @OzGav in #4330)
• Fix next-track preload crash for fractional track durations (by @marcelveldt in #4380)
• Handle deleted image files with a typed not-found error (by @OzGav in #4400)
• Pause external sources instead of stopping them (by @marcelveldt in #4401)
• Don't switch a playing group's output protocol when joining a player (by @marcelveldt in #4419)
• Keep AirPlay sync group playing when the leader's stream process crashes (by @marcelveldt in #4424)
• Pre-import numpy in scoped-coverage CI to avoid py3.14 reduction break (by @chrisuthe in #4445)
• Give playback priority over realtime audio analysis (by @marcelveldt in #4449)
• Cap concurrent realtime audio analysis sessions (by @marcelveldt in #4451)
• Fix Local Audio pulse audio syncing, silence, and volume on intial playback (by @iVolt1 in #4453)
• Unsync a player when its power is turned off externally (by @marcelveldt in #4463)
• Fix discover page not loading due to MusicBrainz recommendation scan (by @marcelveldt in #4470)
• Prevent providers picking the same port when starting concurrently (by @marcelveldt in #4472)
• iBroadcast mapping issue with album id's and possible other id's (by @robsonke in #4482)
• Fix QUIC/HTTP-3 debug log spam caused by urllib3-future override (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4485)
• Fix lrclib plain lyrics written to the synced-LRC field (by @chrisuthe in #4489)
• Fix audiobook release_date parsed but never stored (by @chrisuthe in #4490)
• Fix deezer parse_streamable returning Any from a bool function (by @chrisuthe in #4491)
• Handle Spotify's refresh-token changes (by @OzGav in #4494)
• Catch only MusicAssistantError in playlist metadata enrichment (by @dmoo500 in #4499)
• Fix Squeezelite progress bar showing previous track position after track change (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4504)
• Detect stalled source streams when the connection drops mid-playback (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4505)
• Subsonic: Convert provider to StreamType.HTTP (by @khers in #4508)
• Fix first queued item being skipped when playing onto an idle queue (by @marcelveldt in #4514)
• Revert squeezelite-local media_position workaround (#4504) (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4517)
• Honour play-next under shuffle and set the current item when enqueuing onto an empty queue (by @marcelveldt in #4519)
• Don't auto-start playback when an ADD/NEXT onto an idle queue enters dynamic mode (by @marcelveldt in #4521)
• Keep the dynamic queue bounded when adding more sources (by @marcelveldt in #4522)
• Dedupe the queue's sources list so a repeated source shows once (by @marcelveldt in #4524)
• Preserve player queues and their settings across restarts (by @marcelveldt in #4529)
• Fix Spotify connect playback on some Sendspin players (by @maximmaxim345 in #4530)
• Fix smart fades falling back to a hard cut when the incoming track is short (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4535)
• Allow smart playlists through metadata enrichment (by @dmoo500 in #4545)
• Restrict the image palette API to an opaque image id (by @marcelveldt in #4550)
• Prevent path traversal outside the filesystem provider base directory (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4559)
• Stop exposing internal error details in Plex Connect responses (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4563)
• Match NetEase image CDN hostname exactly when upgrading to https (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4564)
• Fix smart playlist artwork not displaying in recommendations (by @dmoo500 in #4571)
• Don't reinstall provider requirements with extras on every startup (by @marcelveldt in #4577)
• Sanitize all control characters in icy-name stream header (by @OzGav in #4595)
• Improve error presentation for folder playback resolution (by @OzGav in #4598)
• Prevent duplicate versions of the same song in dynamic playlist queues (by @marcelveldt in #4603)
• Sample smart playlist seeds evenly in discover mode (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4621)
• Fix media position exceeding duration on squeezelite players (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4623)
• Shuffle smart playlist seed tracks before sampling (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4625)
• Prevent universal player settings loss on startup restore (by @marcelveldt in #4643)
• Advertise both IP families via mDNS and respect a specific bind IP when publishing (by @OzGav in #4646)
• Fix broken album artists filtering (by @OzGav in #4648)
• Fix stale active output protocol on sync group leader after group stop (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4650)
• Fix several bugs in the Jellyfin provider (by @OzGav in #4654)
• Block long-lived token creation for guest accounts (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4661)
• Don't crash DLNA player update on malformed device metadata XML (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4682)
• Fix Spotify authentication failing after recent token changes (by @marcelveldt in #4688)
• Fix guest listen-in race conditions in the party and quiz plugins (by @marcelveldt in #4700)
• Fix Spotify authentication failing until server restart (by @marcelveldt in #4711)
• Show re-authentication prompt when a provider's login fails (by @marcelveldt in #4717)
• Prevent Music Quiz errors with no active game (by @marcelveldt in #4720)
• Recover from corrupt audio analysis cache (by @marcelveldt in #4721)
• Keep provider config values current (by @marcelveldt in #4725)
• Prevent lost Podcast Index library changes (by @marcelveldt in #4726)
• Fix Music Quiz progress for late joiners (by @marcelveldt in #4728)
• Restrict Music Quiz guest queue access (by @marcelveldt in #4729)
• Hide Music Quiz answers until reveal (by @marcelveldt in #4733)
• Remove Music Quiz core privacy changes (by @marcelveldt in #4735)
• Let guests use the active experience (by @marcelveldt in #4737)
• Fix Hitster edge placement (by @marcelveldt in #4741)
• Fix album version parsing and album_versions for filesystem_local provider (by @allmazz in #4746)
• Fix Home Assistant AI and TTS defaults (by @marcelveldt in #4747)
• Fix Hitster answer and reveal flow (by @marcelveldt in #4748)
• Fix Home Assistant startup deadlock (by @marcelveldt in #4749)
• Speed up Music Timeline startup (by @marcelveldt in #4754)
• Reduce Spotify playlist loading requests (by @marcelveldt in #4755)
• Fix silent audio overlays (by @marcelveldt in #4757)
• Fix cancelled shared playback sessions (by @marcelveldt in #4762)
• Unify and simplify deezer flow track fetching (by @jdaberkow in #4766)
• Fix Guess the Song answer choices (by @marcelveldt in #4767)
• Improve Trivia question reliability (by @marcelveldt in #4774)
• Keep Music Quiz listen-in active between songs (by @marcelveldt in #4777)
• Improved SoundCloud artworks for playlists (by @robsonke in #4778)
• Speed up Apple Music radio startup (by @marcelveldt in #4780)
• Fix Plex Connect selecting the wrong track in long queues (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4783)
• Fix AirPlay Receiver losing startup metadata events (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4787)
• Prepare Music Quiz before starting (by @marcelveldt in #4788)
• Decrypt stored Google Drive client secret when re-authorizing (by @OzGav in #4797)
• Bulk-resolve Sonic Similarity candidates to stop event-loop stalls (by @chrisuthe in #4804)
• Fix Music Quiz speaker selection for groups (by @marcelveldt in #4809)
• Fix sync group stopping playback when members are removed mid-regroup (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4815)
• Fix translations in browse view of Audiobookshelf (by @fmunkes in #4820)
• Fix smart fades cutting off the outgoing track when vocal analysis data is stale (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4825)
• Fix squeezelite power control (by @allmazz in #4829)
• Improve remote connection stability (by @marcelveldt in #4831)
• Ignore WiiM's false PLAYING report while no media is loaded (by @marcelveldt in #4844)
• Improve webrtc key file creation (by @arturpragacz in #4847)
• Don't allow ffmpeg to try range requests when using POST data (by @khers in #4850)
• Include synchronized players in audio chains (by @marcelveldt in #4856)
• Report UGP MP3 quality correctly (by @marcelveldt in #4858)
• Sort filesystem browse results in natural order (by @OzGav in #4869)
• Fix: regression: cannot pause/play the Ariacast receiver stream on server side #5647 (by @AirPlr in #4871)
• Make subsonic provider check for extension it uses (by @khers in #4874)
• Fix flow-stream EOF recovery for universal-player-wrapped Cast devices (by @distante in #4878)
• Show AirPlay metadata immediately (by @marcelveldt in #4883)
• Never persist expiring Apple Music artwork URLs (by @teancom in #4884)
• Apply user provider filter to in-library album tracks (by @OzGav in #4885)
• Fix slow album art loading over remote connections (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4889)
• Fix 'Player xy disconnected prematurely...' in MusicCast on pause (by @fmunkes in #4893)
• Hide flow mode sample rate when disabled (by @marcelveldt in #4894)
• Enable 24-bit audio on supported Sonos players (by @marcelveldt in #4895)
• Fix cast group unreachable after leadership handover (by @kiegsgroot in #4896)
• fix(player_queues): reset elapsed_time with the item switch in play_index (by @teancom in #4898)
• Recover Sendspin bridge clients stuck in a stale disabled state (by @OzGav in #4899)
• Fix AirPlay 2 pairing credentials not persisted to live player config (by @Randalix in #4902)
• Restore Siri Remote playback controls (by @marcelveldt in #4903)
• Fix container build: pin numkong to 7.7.0 (7.7.1 ships no wheels) (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4904)
• Fix next-track enqueue after delayed player start (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4906)
• Fix next-track enqueue after dynamic queue reindex (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4911)
• Add priority flag to playlist import background task (by @kiwipaulrob in #4913)
• Fix spontaneous pairing prompts on Apple TVs (by @marcelveldt in #4927)
• Fix player settings being ignored when audio plays via a linked protocol (by @marcelveldt in #4928)
• Keep settings and group memberships when universal players merge or get replaced (by @marcelveldt in #4929)
• Clean up leftover universal player settings after a native player takes over (by @marcelveldt in #4931)
• Fix ghost players created by the server's own AirPlay receivers (by @marcelveldt in #4935)
• Release the active output protocol when a wrapped player's session ends (by @marcelveldt in #4937)
• Fix controls for bridged AirPlay groups (by @marcelveldt in #4950)
• Stop recurring Apple TV pairing prompts from control-channel flapping (by @marcelveldt in #4954)
• Setup flow callback: keep params as plain strings (by @marcelveldt in #4955)
• Drop the AirPlay --ptp-follow clock-follow path (by @marcelveldt in #4956)
• Keep AirPlay warm playback reliable (by @marcelveldt in #4957)
• AirPlay companion control follow-ups (by @marcelveldt in #4959)
• Preserve AirPlay cleanup cancellation (by @marcelveldt in #4960)
• Keep AirPlay bridge helpers ordered (by @marcelveldt in #4961)
• Fix missing AirPlay cover art (by @marcelveldt in #4984)
• Resume synced AirPlay groups after pausing (by @marcelveldt in #4985)
• Fix draft release lookup (by @marcelveldt in #5000)
• Add release recovery source SHA (by @marcelveldt in #5003)
• Fix draft release recovery (by @marcelveldt in #5007)
• Allow immutable draft discovery (by @marcelveldt in #5009)
• Allow draft asset recovery (by @marcelveldt in #5011)
• Ignore removed library artists (by @marcelveldt in #5014)
• Friendlier setup-flow errors (AirPlay pairing, Spotify dev step) (by @marcelveldt in #5019)
• Strip trailing NUL from MusicBrainz UFID recording MBID (by @geofffranks in #5020)
• Harden the setup flow engine (by @marcelveldt in #5022)
• Complete setup flow translations for late-migrated providers (by @marcelveldt in #5024)
• Fix AirPlay players being marked off while streaming (by @marcelveldt in #5029)
• Keep AirPlay protocol selection automatic (by @marcelveldt in #5031)
• Keep own config entries for control-only players (by @marcelveldt in #5036)
• Fix server hanging on startup (by @marcelveldt in #5040)
• Clarify Spotify developer key setup (by @marcelveldt in #5041)
• Fix bit-perfect AirPlay playback (by @marcelveldt in #5042)
• Update players immediately after setup (by @marcelveldt in #5043)
• Remove duplicate setup URL help (by @marcelveldt in #5046)
• Fix duplicate setup instructions (by @marcelveldt in #5049)
• Fix outdated Home Assistant token help text (by @marcelveldt in #5050)
• Fix HomePods muting themselves and ignoring volume changes (by @marcelveldt in #5051)
• Fix AirPlay speakers drifting out of sync in a group (by @marcelveldt in #5052)
• Fix providers that could no longer be added (by @marcelveldt in #5053)
• Fix playback on devices whose AirPlay output still needs pairing (by @marcelveldt in #5065)
• Don't start playing music after an announcement when nothing was playing (by @marcelveldt in #5068)
• Fix Spotify Connect multiple instances (by @marcelveldt in #5070)
• Fix provider setup flows (by @marcelveldt in #5072)
• Keep playback controls loading until the player really starts (by @marcelveldt in #5075)
• Handle remote storage going away during a library sync (by @OzGav in #5076)
• ariacast_receiver: fix tests (by @meiser79 in #5077)
• Fix pause failing on Cast devices streaming via Sendspin (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5083)
• Add icon for background tasks core module (by @stvncode in #5084)
• Fix bit-perfect status for lossy sources (by @marcelveldt in #5087)
• Fix Audiobookshelf configuration loading (by @marcelveldt in #5088)
• Play the track you selected when shuffle is on (by @marcelveldt in #5092)
• Fix AirPlay players joining a playing group out of sync (by @marcelveldt in #5098)
• Fix volume limit enforcement for players with redirected volume control (by @OzGav in #5102)
• Show protocol-connected speakers in the Music Quiz speaker picker (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5103)
• Don't apply volume normalization to sound effects (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5105)
• Keep AI Radio segments in order and add a shuffle toggle (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5106)
• Fix Yandex My Wave stopping after initial batch (by @alectogeek in #5107)
• Automatically re-join AirPlay group members after a brief connection loss (by @marcelveldt in #5112)
• Don't render announcements twice when a player sends a HEAD request (by @marcelveldt in #5113)
• Measure true peak during loudness analysis (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5118)
• Remove stale Audiobookshelf playback sessions to avoid repeated sync failures (by @foobarth in #5120)
• Reduce deezer-python-gql log verbosity to match provider level (by @foobarth in #5121)
• Don't start unrelated music when pressing play on an empty queue (by @marcelveldt in #5124)
• Fix remote access flooding the log with ICE and TURN warnings (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5125)
• Don't show the dashboard keepalive as active playback on cast players (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5127)
• Sendspin: freeze playback progress before tearing down the push stream (by @chrisuthe in #5129)
• Keep an AI Radio show and its queue in sync when either one stops (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5130)
• Snapshot Sendspin playback progress at natural end of stream (by @chrisuthe in #5131)
• Support password-protected AirPlay speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5134)
• Reconfiguring an AirPlay player can now redo or reset its pairing (by @marcelveldt in #5135)
• Detect password-protected AirPlay devices more reliably (by @marcelveldt in #5147)
• Use one source of truth for AirPlay password announcements (by @marcelveldt in #5148)
• Reduce WebRTC and WiiM log noise when debug logging is enabled (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5153)
• End dashboard sessions with a warning when the receiver dies unexpectedly (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5157)
• Fix Bose SoundTouch preset search and assignment (by @Odn0 in #5158)
• Fix startup provider failures and show which provider needs attention (by @marcelveldt in #5162)
• Fix Recently played dropping explicit track plays and logging empty containers (by @chrisuthe in #5163)
• Library item counts now respect the user's provider filter (by @chrisuthe in #5165)
• Mount the NFS export as configured and scan the Subfolder inside it (by @chrisuthe in #5167)
• Fix AirPlay noise bursts and group sync issues on Apple devices (by @marcelveldt in #5168)
• Pick a new go-librespot API port when the configured one is unavailable (by @OzGav in #5169)
• Clear stale library IDs in Audiobookshelf sync and validate cache on startup (by @foobarth in #5172)
• Stop log flooding and retry storms when artwork fails to download (by @marcelveldt in #5174)
• Stop re-sending unchanged album art around AirPlay track changes (by @marcelveldt in #5182)
• Fix late-joining AirPlay players starting out of sync (by @marcelveldt in #5186)
• Fix editability for owned YouTube Music playlists (by @seppegadeyne in #5187)
• Fix providers wrongly showing a setup error when they loaded fine (by @marcelveldt in #5190)
• Fix rejoining AirPlay players that start out of sync when their clock is slow to lock (by @marcelveldt in #5191)
• Fix SMB and NFS shares failing to reconnect after a reload (by @marcelveldt in #5192)
• Wait for a running library sync to stop before unloading a provider (by @marcelveldt in #5197)
• Show the full track length after seeking (by @marcelveldt in #5198)
• Fix providers that depend on another provider failing to start (by @marcelveldt in #5200)
• Stop one component's log level from flooding the log with unrelated messages (by @marcelveldt in #5203)
• Fix playability of plain stream URLs and handle verification of URIs gracefully (by @fmunkes in #5204)
• Do not update the playback position when we are not playing in MusicCast (by @fmunkes in #5205)
• Don't let one bad Home Assistant entity break the whole HA integration (by @OzGav in #5206)
• Fix squeezelite players stuck unavailable after restart (by @gdesmott in #5207)
• Remove the extra delay when starting a single AirPlay speaker (by @marcelveldt in #5208)
• Keep the account login dialog in step with the browser (by @marcelveldt in #5209)
• Fix speakers joining a playing group out of sync (by @marcelveldt in #5210)
• Fix Music Timeline bonus questions running out of answer options (by @marcelveldt in #5212)
• Improve Music Timeline song variety and release years (by @marcelveldt in #5213)
• Show when a Music Quiz game is restarting (by @marcelveldt in #5214)
• Load the Home Assistant settings much faster on large setups (by @marcelveldt in #5216)
• Fix AirPlay 2 speakers playing silence on multi-homed hosts (by @marcelveldt in #5219)
• Fix AirPlay speakers playing behind when grouped with a Sendspin player (by @marcelveldt in #5220)
• Fix a group start recording an instant it never used (by @marcelveldt in #5223)
• Keep speakers playing when a group switches output (by @marcelveldt in #5225)
• Fix Flow Mode progress after abandoned stream probes (by @alectogeek in #5228)
• Fix seek progress snapback before stream restart (by @alectogeek in #5229)
• Redact authorization headers from request logs (by @teancom in #5236)
• Wait for every group member's clock before anchoring playback (by @marcelveldt in #5237)
• Fix one bad join code locking out all other guests (by @marcelveldt in #5243)
• Use original release years for Music Timeline songs (by @marcelveldt in #5250)
• Announce preset changes when an impulse response is removed (by @OzGav in #5256)
• Use whitelist for MusicBrainz artist types in recommendations (by @dmoo500 in #5260)
• Keep Music Quiz lyrics in step with the audio (by @marcelveldt in #5263)
• Fix Home Assistant connection drop on large entity registries (by @marcelveldt in #5270)
• Allow multiple sessions in Audiobookshelf - fixes autoplay behavior (by @fmunkes in #5275)
• Fix muting being blocked by the volume control setting (by @marcelveldt in #5285)
• Fix media details occasionally resolving to the wrong item (by @marcelveldt in #5288)
• Remove spurious error log entries for shared requests (by @marcelveldt in #5295)
• Align Spotify app volume with MA player volume on connection (by @OzGav in #5303)
• Ensure login providers endpoint doesn't crash when HA provider has no config URL (by @OzGav in #5304)
• Recover a bridged AirPlay speaker when its stream process dies (by @marcelveldt in #5311)
• Remove phantom concurrent task sliders (by @OzGav in #5317)
• Fix Sendspin setup flow (by @arturpragacz in #5318)
• Only show library sync deletions setting for providers with library sync (by @OzGav in #5320)
• Bring a bridged AirPlay speaker back into its group after a failed start (by @marcelveldt in #5323)
• Recover a local audio device when its output stream dies (by @marcelveldt in #5325)
• Fix AirPlay volume changes being lost around stream start (by @marcelveldt in #5328)
• Make the Mono output channels option work on all players (by @marcelveldt in #5329)
• Apple Music: recover from throttled requests in ~1s instead of stalling playback (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5333)
• Use original release years for Trivia questions (by @marcelveldt in #5350)
• Fail unconfirmed AirPlay starts and wait for every speaker's clock (by @marcelveldt in #5352)
• Fix bridged AirPlay speakers going silent or double-started (by @marcelveldt in #5354)
• Resolve OpenSubsonic playlist tracks without per-track album and lyrics fetches (by @GraysonCAdams in #5359)
• Fix mute command failing on group players (by @marcelveldt in #5364)
• Better crossfades on tracks with long outros, ambient blends and mastered fade-outs (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5365)
• Deepen the AirPlay buffer for LinkPlay devices instead of dropping PTP (by @marcelveldt in #5369)
• Fix missing mute control for universal group players (by @marcelveldt in #5375)
• Keep a mono sound effect at the same volume as a stereo one (by @marcelveldt in #5376)
• Fix guests keeping access after party guest access is switched off (by @marcelveldt in #5380)
• Fix playback stopping after the first track on grouped Sonos speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5385)
• Change ABC radio monochrome icon from black to white (by @OzGav in #5392)
• Keep the chosen metadata language when other settings are saved (by @marcelveldt in #5396)
• Fix Pocket Casts sync failing on episodes without a duration (by @OzGav in #5397)
• Keep manually set radio name and artwork in playlists (by @OzGav in #5404)
• Plex: fix artist top tracks always being empty (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5405)
• Fix Bluesound players cutting off the end of a track (by @marcelveldt in #5408)
• Fix playback from Home Assistant failing with a permission error (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5410)
• Fix cast dashboards freezing for players with reserved characters in their id (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5415)
• Fix playback stopping after an AI Radio announcement (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5416)
• Impersonate users by auth provider link (by @arturpragacz in #5417)
• Keep a synced pair of speakers muted when the group volume changes (by @marcelveldt in #5420)
• Fix Sonos connections lingering after a provider reload (by @marcelveldt in #5433)
• Say which type failed when JSON serialization fails (by @OzGav in #5439)
• Show player settings in your own language again (by @marcelveldt in #5447)
• Keep simulated-mute speakers muted when the group volume changes (by @marcelveldt in #5449)
• Remove the last spurious error log entries for shared work (by @marcelveldt in #5453)
• Fix AirPlay software volume attenuating stream when another control owns volume (by @OzGav in #5454)
• Fix slow Home Assistant logins when a provider fails to finish loading (by @OzGav in #5455)
• Fix a stray error in the log when a Cast speaker fails to join a group (by @marcelveldt in #5470)
• Play announcements on muted speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5474)
• Fix the OpenAI Compatible provider failing to load (by @marcelveldt in #5487)
• Fix playlists not loading in Home Assistant (by @marcelveldt in #5489)
• Fix Apple TV now-playing screen losing progress and artwork (by @marcelveldt in #5490)
• Report a clear error when AI Radio TTS generation fails (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5497)
• Skip the provider search for an empty search query (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5500)
• Ignore incoming media update events while starting HEOS playback (by @Tommatheussen in #5503)
• Fix filesystem sync never converging on changed files (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5506)
• Fix file shares importing nothing and hiding playlists (#6019) (by @OzGav in #5510)
• Skip unreachable IPv6 addresses when connecting to Cast devices (by @OzGav in #5513)
• Fix broken playlists page after upgrading from stable to beta (by @marcelveldt in #5515)
• Account for deleted metadata in a provider sync of audiobookshelf (by @fmunkes in #5516)
• Fix MusicCast zone2/main-sync players never refreshing outside UDP push (by @bsny in #5517)
• Report a failed Cast receiver app launch instead of ignoring it (by @OzGav in #5520)
• Keep the full duration of an audiobook when resuming mid-book (by @marcelveldt in #5524)
• Fix player not coming back after disabling and removing it (by @marcelveldt in #5525)
• Resolve OpenSubsonic search and top tracks without per-track lyrics fetches (by @GraysonCAdams in #5526)
• Make an author or narrator playable (by @fmunkes in #5532)
• Open Subsonic: Fix extension name (by @khers in #5536)
• Don't resolve a filesystem image path that points at a directory (by @chrisuthe in #5543)
• Play announcements on muted speakers that announce natively (by @marcelveldt in #5549)
• Enrich matched playlist entries with provider metadata during import (by @OzGav in #5554)
• Stop Sonos S1 speakers from dropping on a single missed request (by @OzGav in #5556)
• Fix missing artists on Apple Music playlist tracks (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5558)
• Universal Players no longer come back as a brand new player (by @OzGav in #5559)
• Keep events and settings working when a path is not valid UTF-8 (by @OzGav in #5563)
• Fix Spotify playback (by @marcelveldt in #5568)
• Fix minor typo in strings.json (by @dovy6 in #5569)
• Keep bridged AirPlay speakers in sync after a seek or track change (by @marcelveldt in #5570)
• Update strings for radio stations settings for OpenSubsonic Provider (by @frjol in #5572)
• Fix a brief audio hiccup on the first playback after starting the server (by @marcelveldt in #5577)
• Only return the Phish artist when the query matches its name (by @OzGav in #5583)
• Fix guests seeing another guest's web player (by @maximmaxim345 in #5590)
• Fix sync group not re-forming after a leader switch (by @marcelveldt in #5595)
• Fix Spotify pairing authorization (by @marcelveldt in #5599)
• Improve live source playback compatibility (by @marcelveldt in #5600)
• Fix sync group breaking up when the leader is removed during playback (by @marcelveldt in #5606)
• Restore OpenSubsonic track artwork in playlist listings (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5607)
• Fix music not resuming on WiiM speakers after a group change (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5609)
• Fix the new gPodder config flow (by @fmunkes in #5614)
• Fix the Audible provider's setup flow (by @fmunkes in #5616)
• Fix Edifier and other older LinkPlay speakers playing silently over AirPlay (by @marcelveldt in #5618)
• Fix Cast players ignoring media errors and the receiver app setting (by @OzGav in #5622)
• Report an expired YouTube Music cookie instead of a raw parse error (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5629)
• Fix smart playlist removal from recommendations and add auto-refresh (by @dmoo500 in #5641)
• Announcements no longer restart the Cast session (by @marcelveldt in #5644)
• Cast devices are freed up again when playback ends (by @marcelveldt in #5654)
• Fix AirPlay speaker joining a group at full volume (by @marcelveldt in #5668)
• Album art keeps showing when its provider has a hiccup (by @marcelveldt in #5671)
• Show why AI Radio speech generation failed (by @marcelveldt in #5680)
• Failed tracks are no longer requested twice from the same provider (by @marcelveldt in #5682)
• Music from a NAS comes back on its own after a short outage (by @marcelveldt in #5683)
• Sonos no longer restarts Spotify instead of your queue (by @marcelveldt in #5688)
• Restricted users no longer end up with an empty library (by @OzGav in #5690)
• Player settings that need a stream restart now apply right away (by @marcelveldt in #5691)
• Hue lights sync no longer restarts when you change brightness or colour mode (by @marcelveldt in #5698)
• Fix Spotify playlists failing to load (by @marcelveldt in #5703)
• AirPlay speakers no longer stay loud after an announcement (by @marcelveldt in #5704)
• Prevent WiiM errors with external group members (by @marcelveldt in #5708)
• Group volume no longer undoes a speaker you turned down yourself (by @marcelveldt in #5710)
• Fix Home Assistant players showing an external source while Music Assistant is playing (by @marcelveldt in #5713)
• Fix Cyrillic track and album names showing as question marks (by @marcelveldt in #5718)
• Stop asking for a password on AirPlay devices that never had one (by @marcelveldt in #5720)
• Apple TV players no longer get stuck on a paused app after losing their connection (by @marcelveldt in #5722)
• Read CUE sheets and playlists in legacy codepages more reliably (by @marcelveldt in #5724)
• Preserve flow source errors (by @teancom in #5725)
• Fix pause on Sonos S1 speakers stopping playback instead (by @marcelveldt in #5736)
• Skip DRM protected Soundcloud tracks on import (by @robsonke in #5738)
• Don't parse error pages as radio playlists (by @marcelveldt in #5739)
• Recover AirPlay playback after dropouts (by @marcelveldt in #5750)
• Make the MilkDrop visualizer work on players that reach Sendspin through a linked output (by @jozefKruszynski in #5751)
• Refresh CUE metadata after encoding fixes (by @marcelveldt in #5754)
• Prevent skipped tracks from resuming too far ahead (by @marcelveldt in #5757)
• Radio shuffle resets after queue transfer (by @marcelveldt in #5758)
• Prevent hidden audio stream failures (by @marcelveldt in #5759)
• Fix radioparadise metadata flapping (by @teancom in #5762)
• Prevent track loss when merging duplicates (by @marcelveldt in #5769)
• Improve library matching across providers (by @marcelveldt in #5770)
• Improve album edition matching (by @marcelveldt in #5771)
• Match album editions across providers (by @marcelveldt in #5776)
• Repair duplicate albums automatically (by @marcelveldt in #5780)
• Tidal: fix search against the new filter[query] endpoint (spec 1.10.101) (by @jozefKruszynski in #5781)
• Improve duplicate detection across music providers (by @marcelveldt in #5783)
• Fix web players losing their queue when they switch role (by @marcelveldt in #5784)
• Keep player access restrictions intact when a player is replaced (by @marcelveldt in #5785)
• Fix sporadic stutter when playing live audio sources (by @marcelveldt in #5789)
• Stop adding the same album twice when providers disagree on the details (by @marcelveldt in #5790)
• Match artists across providers more reliably (by @marcelveldt in #5791)
• Repair duplicate tracks that are already in the library (by @marcelveldt in #5792)
• Keep a player usable when its saved queue cannot be read (by @marcelveldt in #5793)
• Repair albums that are already duplicated in your library (by @marcelveldt in #5798)
• Keep a library sync going when one item fails (by @marcelveldt in #5799)
• Fix white noise when playing DTS 5.1 audio packed inside WAV (by @vintvinst in #5803)
• Fix marking podcast episodes and audiobooks as played from the Discover rows (by @chrisuthe in #5825)
• Fix the flow-mode 'next' command item for Cast children of Universal Players (by @OzGav in #5836)
• Keep line breaks in metadata out of builtin M3U playlist files (by @OzGav in #5837)
• Fix AI Radio weather segments announcing wrong or invented weather (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5838)
• Fix AI Radio DJs reporting weather in Celcius when the country uses Fahrenheit (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5841)
• Fixes an issue where tracks from Niconico Provider cannot be played (by @Shi-553 in #5842)
• Fix Plex Connect duplicating tracks on play queue refresh (by @chrisuthe in #5852)
• Stop a track refresh from wiping its album and artist details (by @marcelveldt in #5855)
• Fix ABC Radio Network documentation URL typo in manifest.json (by @OzGav in #5857)
• Include genre_aliases in genre summary listings (by @jozefKruszynski in #5858)
• Fix a resume seeking far past the track end after an output protocol handover (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5860)
• Fix static on hi-res AirPlay speakers in compatibility mode (by @OzGav in #5862)
• Fix play count going negative when marking an unfinished item as unplayed (by @chrisuthe in #5865)
• Keep shuffle on when you play something new (by @marcelveldt in #5867)
• Ensure gapless playback in MusicCast after security hardening (by @fmunkes in #5871)
• Signal a position jump when an incomplete anchor becomes complete (by @jozefKruszynski in #5872)
• Don't empty the queue while loading what you picked next (by @marcelveldt in #5873)
• Release Spotify Connect when you clear the queue (by @marcelveldt in #5875)
• Restore setup values that were dropped before they could be migrated (by @OzGav in #5878)
• Keep autoplay running when a provider fails (by @marcelveldt in #5885)
• Hide capture-only devices from universal groups (by @marcelveldt in #5886)
• Keep capture-only Sendspin devices out of groups (by @marcelveldt in #5889)
• Honor playback speed in the visualizer tap and cancel stale beat hydration (by @jozefKruszynski in #5891)
• Fix WiiM players not reporting state after a restart (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5893)
• Fix misleading errors when Home Assistant TTS fails (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5897)
• Fix nugs.net playback for promo and trial subscriptions (by @OzGav in #5899)
• Fix Audible podcast sync skipping Periodical series (by @OzGav in #5907)
• Dissolve sync group when a playback start never materializes (by @OzGav in #5908)
• Fix Audible querying the old marketplace after a locale change (by @OzGav in #5909)
• Keep the Spotify session alive when it moves to another player (by @marcelveldt in #5910)
• Improve Audible sign-in setup (by @marcelveldt in #5915)
• Don't parse playlist items already in the database (by @OzGav in #5916)
• Add Symfonisk Table Lamp to Non-Hi Res models (by @OzGav in #5917)
• Fix missing played status on podcast episode details page (by @OzGav in #5927)
• Fix podcast episodes showing in the wrong order (by @OzGav in #5929)
• Fix AirPlay players stuck 'playing' from a stale snapshot (by @teancom in #5938)
• AI DJ no longer announces the wrong day of the week (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5947)
• Smart fades no longer discards every plan on tracks with a mastered fade-out (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5949)
• 'Play next' now really plays the chosen track next on a dynamic queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5950)
• Fix Flow Mode sample rate setting being locked for players with enforced flow mode (by @vintvinst in #5955)
• Fix Spotify Connect playback not starting (by @marcelveldt in #5957)
• Fix slow player response after pausing an external source (by @marcelveldt in #5961)
• Announcements use the speaker's own announcement feature first (by @marcelveldt in #5974)
• Fix mid-track silence on AirPlay receivers that need an explicit progress anchor (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5976)
• Fix announcement volume and mute handling on AirPlay speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5977)
• Use album loudness only when tracks really play as part of an album (by @marcelveldt in #5981)
• Notice when Spotify playback loses its pairing (by @marcelveldt in #5987)
• Seeking or resuming a Spotify track no longer cuts it off mid-song (by @marcelveldt in #5992)
• Add dark theme icon for MilkDrop Visualizer (by @jozefKruszynski in #6007)
• Spotify Connect no longer disappears when a different account connects (by @marcelveldt in #6019)
• Selecting a source no longer takes five seconds to start playing (by @marcelveldt in #6021)
• Cancel in-flight finalizes before freeing analysis models (by @chrisuthe in #6024)
• Retry Sonic Analysis when a track loses its CLAP windows (by @chrisuthe in #6034)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add scroll to description dialog for long descriptions (by @dmoo500 in #1908)
• Add field icons to smart playlist rules (by @dmoo500 in #1866)
• Fix settings breadcrumb for disabled provider instances (by @OzGav in #1909)
• Consume server-resolved translations for server-provided strings (by @marcelveldt in #1911)
• Add explicit_only filter to smart playlist rules (by @dmoo500 in #1865)
• Remove server-resolved strings from the locale files (by @marcelveldt in #1912)
• Use ExplicitIcon for explicit content field in smart playlist rules (by @dmoo500 in #1924)
• Use server-provided genre descriptions (by @marcelveldt in #1923)
• Reconnect the built-in player after a dropped connection (by @marcelveldt in #1910)
• Use server-resolved background-task names (drop client-side translation) (by @marcelveldt in #1925)
• Render player option and sound mode labels localized by the server (by @marcelveldt in #1932)
• Use toast notifications for config flow errors instead of browser alerts (by @marcelveldt in #1929)
• Provider status indicator and clearer error reporting (by @marcelveldt in #1927)
• Drop server-stripped translation fields from frontend types (by @marcelveldt in #1931)
• Remove leftover and dead translation keys from the frontend (by @marcelveldt in #1933)
• fix(i18n): replace edit by save (by @kissu in #1856)
• Move "refresh" button to the toolbar for playlists (by @ijc in #1930)
• Localize frontend-injected config entry categories (by @marcelveldt in #1938)
• Stop play button animation with external source (by @OzGav in #1935)
• Always expand players when clicking the player button from the 'now playing' screen (#60) (by @joperafe in #1944)
• Pnpm switch (by @stvncode in #1951)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #1955)
• Add Start Radio to the queue item menu and drop redundant move up/down (by @marcelveldt in #1963)
• Add Lucide icon picker with custom MA device icons for player settings (by @dmoo500 in #1779)
• Fix drodpdown offset + width (by @stvncode in #1968)
• Restore the player settings entry in the player menu (by @marcelveldt in #1969)
• Lokalise: Translations update (by @marcelveldt in #1971)
• Include icon aliases in IconPicker search results (by @dmoo500 in #1972)
• Add smart shuffle indicator to the player (by @marcelveldt in #1987)
• Restore timeline progress bar spacing in the player bar (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1994)
• Restore progress bar fill thickness and time-label spacing (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1997)
• Show per-option description in config-entry select (by @marcelveldt in #2003)
• Convert player protocol section to a shadcn accordion (by @marcelveldt in #2011)
• Extract the player protocol section into a dedicated component (by @marcelveldt in #2015)
• Show the base protocol for bridged outputs and explain their locked toggle (by @marcelveldt in #2017)
• Exclude parent directory ("..") item from selection in browse mode (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2029)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2032)
• Show track BPM and musical key on the track details page (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2034)
• Add issue chooser redirecting to the support repo (by @marcelveldt in #2040)
• Add Music Quiz game interface (by @TimoPtr in #2010)
• Make release workflows aware of stable patch builds (by @marcelveldt in #2058)
• Keep Music Quiz players connected (by @marcelveldt in #2066)
• Lokalise: Translations update (by @marcelveldt in #2093)
• Fix diagnostics settings breadcrumb (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2097)
• Choose where Music Quiz plays (by @marcelveldt in #2107)
• Improve Music Quiz playback flow (by @marcelveldt in #2122)
• Share party and quiz invitations (by @marcelveldt in #2125)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2138)
• Also send updates when artist or title changes (by @joostlek in #2152)
• Show complete audio processing details (by @marcelveldt in #2127)
• Polish audio processing details (by @marcelveldt in #2156)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2175)
• Load provider icons on demand via the providers/icon command (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2178)
• Refactor recommendations to be lazy loaded (by @chrisuthe in #2141)
• Remote access: reassemble chunked HTTP-proxy responses (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2183)
• Reduce PWA startup precache (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2185)
• Register transport listeners before connecting (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2187)
• Support dashboards on older Cast runtimes (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2191)
• Fix TV dashboard rendering (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2194)
• Use bot for automated releases (by @marcelveldt in #2193)
• Guided setup flow UI for providers and players (by @marcelveldt in #2192)
• Fix Android TV dashboard rendering and tidy the now-playing layout (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2200)
• Config action buttons use the dedicated invoke_action commands (by @marcelveldt in #2204)
• Core config action buttons use the invoke_action command (by @marcelveldt in #2209)
• Fix setup flow dialog stuck on spinner after launch (by @marcelveldt in #2210)
• Keep setup-required players readable (by @marcelveldt in #2212)
• Fix login behind Home Assistant ingress (by @marcelveldt in #2216)
• Larger now-playing dashboard text on small cast displays (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2218)
• Remove the horizontal scroll on discover page in mobile (by @stvncode in #2221)
• Revert "Add convolution DSP filter with impulse response library" (by @stvncode in #2222)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2226)
• Drop the AI Radio clear-queue-on-start option (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2230)
• Show that a queue finished playing (by @marcelveldt in #2234)
• Add support for Audiobook collections (by @fmunkes in #2155)
• Fix untranslated text in the interface (by @marcelveldt in #2244)
• Add convolution DSP filter with impulse response library (by @OzGav in #2223)
• Fix the media session progress bar throwing on every position update (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2267)
• Adapt fe and icon picker with the new icon set (by @stvncode in #2264)
• Show the party guest now-playing marker on the track that is playing (by @marcelveldt in #2278)
• Fix skip forward/backward in the OS media notification (by @marcelveldt in #2271)
• Add Timeline view for MusicBrainz artist events (by @dmoo500 in #2042)
• Search for a Home Assistant entity to use as a player control (by @marcelveldt in #2316)
• Make test fixtures match the real API models (by @marcelveldt in #2337)
• Improve player control spacing (by @marcelveldt in #2349)
• Music Quiz dashboard for TVs and casting (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2352)
• Roboto (by @stvncode in #2376)
• Fix Music Quiz getting stuck for non-English users (by @marcelveldt in #2366)
• Add a pull request template so contributors know which label to pick (by @marcelveldt in #2343)
• Compact the mobile player in settings (by @marcelveldt in #2428)
• Play an announcement from the player menu (by @marcelveldt in #2458)
• Lay a phone out as a phone when it is turned on its side (by @marcelveldt in #2473)
• One favourites menu on the player bar and full screen player (by @marcelveldt in #2499)
• Album art loads faster over a remote connection (by @marcelveldt in #2507)
• Same page heading on Browse as on Settings (by @marcelveldt in #2520)
• Settings page no longer reloads when nothing changed (by @marcelveldt in #2523)
• Localize faceted filter labels (by @teancom in #2528)
• Choose what happens to grouped playback (by @marcelveldt in #2531)
• Play an album or playlist shuffled straight from the play menu (by @marcelveldt in #2537)
• Add management of custom ambient sounds to the audio overlay provider settings (by @jozefKruszynski in #2472)
• Add audiobook and podcast chapter-based progress (by @teancom in #2548)
• Show which source is playing in the player (by @marcelveldt in #2567)
• Enhance inline search and change dropdown for menu and icons (by @stvncode in #2585)
• Call the group picker's visualizers section "Screens" (by @marcelveldt in #2590)
• Move the MilkDrop visualizer settings into a menu popout (by @jozefKruszynski in #2603)
• Enter in mobile search hides the keyboard instead of opening the first result (by @stvncode in #2607)
• Show task reports (by @marcelveldt in #2613)
• Show when a music service handles loudness and crossfade itself (by @marcelveldt in #2621)
• Swiping back no longer shows the previous page twice (by @stvncode in #2606)
• Safer browser media controls (by @marcelveldt in #2626)
• Show audio quality for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #2628)
• Select a player once its setup/pairing flow finishes (by @maximmaxim345 in #2642)
• Continue setup as soon as you pick an option (by @maximmaxim345 in #2643)
• Surface retired providers correctly in the settings UI (by @chrisuthe in #2644)
• Show pairing codes as dedicated input boxes (by @marcelveldt in #2657)
• Show server name, addresses and remote access on the About page (by @marcelveldt in #2658)

Other Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4219)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4252)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4296)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4340)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4357)
• [Backport to stable] 2.9.4 (by @github-actions[bot] in #4399)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4411)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4454)
• [Backport to stable] 2.9.5 (by @github-actions[bot] in #4469)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4497)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4639)
• Add CodSpeed performance benchmarks and CI integration (by @codspeed-hq[bot] in #4656)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4756)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4795)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #4886)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5096)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5292)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5581)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5676)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5778)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5966)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@AirPlr, @Bulgus, @Copilot, @GraysonCAdams, @Kyzcreig, @MarvinSchenkel, @Odn0, @OzGav, @R3inoudR, @Randalix, @Sawtaytoes, @Shi-553, @TimoPtr, @Tommatheussen, @ajacobson, @alectogeek, @allmazz, @anatosun, @arturpragacz, @benklop, @bsny, @chrisuthe, @codspeed-hq[bot], @distante, @dmoo500, @dovy6, @florianhorner, @fmunkes, @foobarth, @frjol, @gdesmott, @geofffranks, @hatharry, @iVolt1, @ijc, @jdaberkow, @jlpouffier, @jonasbp2011, @joostlek, @joperafe, @jozefKruszynski, @jwlerch78, @khers, @kiegsgroot, @kieranhogg, @kissu, @kiwipaulrob, @lebdim, @lordhi, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @mcaulifn, @medusalix, @meiser79, @music-assistant-machine, @quadcom, @rnewman, @robsonke, @romany, @rwjack, @rwlove, @scootaash, @seadowg, @seppegadeyne, @steamEngineer, @stvncode, @swiftbird07, @teancom, @tesmerjg, @testuser7, @trudenboy, @vintvinst, @x-ingo, @xiasi0, @yfhyou, @yoyixms, @zenibako

Some changes were omitted to fit these notes on the release. See the full changelog for the complete list.