music-assistant/server 2.11.0.dev2026101303

2.11.0 NIGHTLY 2026101303

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📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.11.0.dev2026101203

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Play AI Radio shows as Radio stations (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6372)
• Add an order setting for playing an artist (by @szsolt in #6690)
• Separate play history from media progress (by @dmoo500 in #6792)
• Album tracks sort, search and page on the server (by @marcelveldt in #6848)
• Add search support to the Nugs provider (by @jonesy827 in #6902)
• Let the AI DJ talk over the intro on Sonos and other gapless players (by @marcelveldt in #6924)
• Send Home Assistant text-to-speech engines a language they support (by @marcelveldt in #6925)
• Pause the AI DJ when its speech engine keeps failing (by @marcelveldt in #6927)
• Apply the different-sample-rates crossfade option to the AI DJ's talk-over (by @marcelveldt in #6933)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Release the queue when another app casts to a Chromecast via the Default Media Receiver (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6528)
• Fix DLNA player showing up twice when the device advertises a relative presentation URL (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6597)
• Fix Spotify playlists missing from large libraries (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6613)
• Only accept http(s) URLs and data URIs as builtin item artwork (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6780)
• Establish default behaviour when playing an artist not in library (by @OzGav in #6795)
• Show the podcast name as the artist for podcast episodes (by @OzGav in #6838)
• Stop Apple Music from sending item names to the API as ids (by @Bazooper-blip in #6844)
• Allow slashes and dots in playlist names (by @OzGav in #6885)
• Match play_media sort_by to the frontend's track sort (by @OzGav in #6906)
• Keep downloaded models in the Music Assistant cache dir (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6910)
• Show the custom Plex poster of a playlist instead of the generated grid (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6911)
• Report expired YouTube Music cookies instead of missing Premium (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6915)
• Fix the server running out of memory on large album covers (by @marcelveldt in #6919)
• Serve original-size JPEG artwork without re-encoding it (by @marcelveldt in #6920)
• Fix Sendspin players with DSP joining a group out of sync (by @maximmaxim345 in #6921)
• Fix Patreon podcast feeds blocked by a Cloudflare challenge (by @OzGav in #6922)
• Bump aiosendspin to 10.0.1 to fix audio gaps and sync drift (by @maximmaxim345 in #6923)
• Fix a track's source being opened for a request the player already gave up on (by @marcelveldt in #6926)
• Fix updated ESPHome Sendspin speakers reappearing as new players (by @maximmaxim345 in #6928)
• Fix a Spotify track stalling the queue when Soloist's sign-in fails (by @marcelveldt in #6930)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add seek back and forward buttons for audiobooks and podcasts (by @OzGav in #2901)
• Play AI Radio shows as radio stations (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2690)
• Show playlist and album length as hours and minutes (by @stvncode in #2966)
• Add a search box to the Add to playlist dialog (by @OzGav in #2902)
• Add server-driven library sorting (by @dmoo500 in #2928)
• Redesign the playlist page (by @stvncode in #2962)
• Reorder and hide the podcast page rows (by @stvncode in #2964)
• Line up list headers with their rows (by @stvncode in #2965)
• Open settings from the audio pipeline popover (by @OzGav in #2959)
• Keep DSP preset badge when toggling DSP on/off (by @OzGav in #2899)
• Play albums and playlists in the order their page shows (by @OzGav in #2961)
• Stop listings from retrying a failed load as fast as it fails (by @Bazooper-blip in #2953)
• Bump @types/node from 26.2.0 to 26.6.4 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2913)
• Add 'sk_SK' to VAR_LANGUAGES in workflow (by @OzGav in #2960)
• Document Tailwind-first styling (by @stvncode in #2963)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@Bazooper-blip, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @jonesy827, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @stvncode, @szsolt, @trudenboy, @types