music-assistant/server 2.10.0b11

2.10.0 BETA 11

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📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.10.0b10

🚀 New Providers

• 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)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• MusicBrainz recommendations: Person/band distinction (by @dmoo500 in #4687)
• Add DSP convolution filter (by @OzGav in #4947)
• Add Safety Limiter and Compressor DSP filters (by @OzGav in #5004)
• Follow-up fixes and enhancements to author and narrator support (by @fmunkes in #5062)
• Expose external id lookup on the API (by @OzGav in #5160)
• 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)
• Report AirPlay speakers that stay silent while shown as playing (by @marcelveldt in #5217)
• 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)
• Smarter crossfade choices for quiet tails and backing vocals (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5357)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix AirPlay Receiver losing startup metadata events (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4787)
• Handle remote storage going away during a library sync (by @OzGav in #5076)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Sonos speakers now recover on their own after a network interruption (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5322)
• 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)
• Fix mute command failing on group players (by @marcelveldt in #5364)
• Deepen the AirPlay buffer for LinkPlay devices instead of dropping PTP (by @marcelveldt in #5369)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add support for Audiobook collections (by @fmunkes in #2155)
• Add "Play from beginning" for podcast episodes (by @chrisuthe in #2184)
• Add DSP stereo width and crossfeed filters (by @OzGav in #2189)
• Explain why joining a party or quiz failed (by @marcelveldt in #2242)
• Show when a Music Quiz game is restarting (by @marcelveldt in #2240)
• Start audio faster on web players (by @marcelveldt in #2241)
• Fix setup wizard jumping back to a previous step (by @marcelveldt in #2239)
• Remove JWT claims the server never mints (by @chrisuthe in #2236)
• Fix untranslated text in the interface (by @marcelveldt in #2244)
• Add convolution DSP filter with impulse response library (by @OzGav in #2223)
• Keep timings correct when a device clock is out of sync (by @marcelveldt in #2248)
• Keep Music Quiz lyrics in step with the audio (by @marcelveldt in #2246)
• Keep settings pages up to date when other providers are added or removed (by @marcelveldt in #2245)
• Tell a guest when their party or quiz session has ended (by @marcelveldt in #2243)
• Maintain constant album art size on now playing view (by @OzGav in #2237)
• Remove leftover panel-expansion state from the settings config editor (by @marcelveldt in #2256)
• Fix a broken test assertion (by @marcelveldt in #2255)
• Fix the mini equalizer position at non-standard playback speeds (by @marcelveldt in #2250)
• Add missing tests for reconnect, language switching and connection warnings (by @marcelveldt in #2249)
• Add missing test coverage for guest entry provider updates (by @marcelveldt in #2253)
• 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)

Other Changes

• Use shared port helpers in Plex Connect port allocation (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4647)
• Remove unused track info lookup from the MSX Bridge player (by @marcelveldt in #5201)
• Remove unused authentication middleware (by @marcelveldt in #5211)
• Clean up unreachable checks in player control commands (by @marcelveldt in #5286)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5292)
• Name FFmpeg channel layouts in one place (by @marcelveldt in #5367)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @alectogeek, @arturpragacz, @chrisuthe, @distante, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @gdesmott, @lordhi, @marcelveldt, @stvncode, @teancom