music-assistant/server 2.11.0b9

2.11.0 BETA 9

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📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.11.0b8

🚀 New Providers

• Auracast Provider (by @Yagoor in #7142)
• Add the Sunshine Live provider (by @jordiboehme in #7406)
• Add DR LYD provider (by @mikkelke in #7488)
• Add CBC Listen provider (by @iwismer in #7556)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Easier setup code copy option in setup flow for Tidal/Spotify/Audible music provider (by @afeldman1 in #6268)
• Let synced lyrics lead the AI Radio post onset (by @jpittelkow in #6882)
• OpenSubsonic: move a track within a playlist (by @pcc0x in #7032)
• Party: add configurable number of votes required to skip a song (by @martinbuergi in #7081)
• Let the sleep timer stop at the end of the current item or chapter (by @fmunkes in #7209)
• Add bookmarks for audiobooks and podcast episodes (by @fmunkes in #7292)
• Sync YouTube Music podcast progress (by @OzGav in #7293)
• Show and control an app on a linked protocol player MA did not start (by @Simanias in #7312)
• Pair Sendspin players on the Home Assistant host with their local token (by @chrisuthe in #7315)
• Update metadata now replaces outdated details (by @OzGav in #7338)
• Refresh item now clears a track's measured volume (by @OzGav in #7339)
• Support bookmarks in the Audiobookshelf provider (by @fmunkes in #7344)
• Give speakers a bit more lead on just-in-time music sources (by @marcelveldt in #7355)
• Refuse playlist edits whose positions no longer hold the expected tracks (by @pierosavi in #7359)
• Raumfeld: follow the host to a new address (by @Simanias in #7364)
• Raumfeld: call the speakers and the host's web service without hassfeld (by @Simanias in #7367)
• Raumfeld: follow the host's rooms and zones without hassfeld (by @Simanias in #7368)
• Raumfeld: show each speaker's software version (by @Simanias in #7369)
• Allow smart playlists to exclude favorites (by @dmoo500 in #7372)
• Allow admins to combine statistics of several users (by @fmunkes in #7375)
• Sort artist releases by full release date before paging (by @dmoo500 in #7376)
• Play the live Apple Music radio stations (by @jordiboehme in #7377)
• Feature/auracast provider improvements (by @Yagoor in #7379)
• Builtin MCP server for AI assistants and Home Assistant (by @marcelveldt in #7381)
• Tell which player holds Spotify instead of waiting 15 seconds (by @marcelveldt in #7382)
• Spotify Soloist: no more silence between tracks (by @marcelveldt in #7384)
• Play artists faster on providers without an artist tracks listing (by @apophisnow in #7390)
• Keep disliked genres out of radio, mixes and autoplay (by @apophisnow in #7393)
• Squeezelite: report the player names set in Music Assistant to the clients (by @lawrence-jeff in #7402)
• Play Deezer hi-res tracks at their real sample rate and bit depth (by @jpmenil in #7403)
• Spotify setup: Soloist as the default engine and updated wizard text (by @marcelveldt in #7416)
• Offer this device as the Music Quiz venue player (by @marcelveldt in #7417)
• Swap descriptions to the new language after a language change (by @OzGav in #7423)
• Add seek support to the AriaCast receiver (by @meiser79 in #7426)
• Raumfeld: follow the speakers' events instead of polling them (by @Simanias in #7427)
• Deezer: sync playback with the Deezer app (by @jdaberkow in #7428)
• Stop adding MediaItemImage objects for images outside of subsonic (by @khers in #7431)
• Turn on offline players through their power control (by @marcelveldt in #7435)
• Default MusicCast players to MP3 output (by @jerome-pouiller in #7440)
• Deezer: more metadata and a few small improvements (by @jdaberkow in #7441)
• Power off idle players through their power control (by @marcelveldt in #7446)
• Add a queue's items to an existing playlist (by @pierosavi in #7447)
• Choose how long a paused player stays paused before it stops (by @marcelveldt in #7451)
• Subsonic setup refactor (by @khers in #7456)
• Handle m4a albumartists tag (by @NasaGeek in #7459)
• Jump to a letter in the artist, album and track libraries (by @OzGav in #7468)
• Pick between provider and own resume progress by one rule everywhere (by @fmunkes in #7482)
• Add resume timestamps to providers where available (by @fmunkes in #7483)
• Grey out library podcasts and radio stations if their provider no longer has them (by @OzGav in #7490)
• Put the speaker's queue back after a Music Quiz game (by @marcelveldt in #7491)
• Support higher sample rate and bit depth for Sendspin sources (by @maximmaxim345 in #7506)
• Play line-ins on Sendspin players at the source's sample rate (by @maximmaxim345 in #7507)
• Deezer: play hi-res and add a stream quality setting (by @jdaberkow in #7512)
• Add player options to the Sonos provider (by @fmunkes in #7531)
• Make Subsonic provider use the last modified bookmark date (by @khers in #7536)
• Re-order M3U playlists (by @OzGav in #7539)
• Sync Hue lamps on Home Assistant's ZHA without a Hue bridge (by @marcelveldt in #7540)
• Reorder tracks in Spotify playlists (by @OzGav in #7543)
• Reorder tracks in Qobuz playlists (by @OzGav in #7544)
• YouTube Music: edit and reorder your playlists (by @MarvinSchenkel in #7553)
• Add icon for the statistics controller (by @MarvinSchenkel in #7555)
• Add playlist reordering to the Audiobookshelf provider (by @fmunkes in #7572)
• Add a perceived energy level to track audio metadata (by @MarvinSchenkel in #7589)
• Send supported artist types with the provider (by @fmunkes in #7595)
• Replace the MilkDrop color tint setting with the artwork palette (by @jozefKruszynski in #7622)
• Keep the order of in-progress audiobooks and podcasts when providers sync progress (by @fmunkes in #7658)
• Report the progress time from Audiobookshelf, gPodder and Overcast (by @fmunkes in #7659)
• Link an artist to a newly added music service when its page is opened (by @marcelveldt in #7689)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Use LMS synchronisation logic for squeezelite sync groups (by @Carunga in #6477)
• Keep the last Squeezelite volume when its cache entry expires (by @thelad-dev in #6944)
• Fix Spotify Connect position counting the pause after a resume (by @maximmaxim345 in #7040)
• Keep same-name artists on one streaming provider apart via MusicBrainz (by @OzGav in #7124)
• Fix Home Assistant player updates failing on non-text media_content_id (by @MarvinSchenkel in #7152)
• Fix Bluesound multi-zone players missing on routed networks (by @MarvinSchenkel in #7159)
• Keep ICY flow streams flowing in small writes instead of one write per metadata interval (by @MarvinSchenkel in #7166)
• Raumfeld: a room of several speakers keeps its player (by @Simanias in #7180)
• Stop album and track refreshes from renaming shared artists (by @OzGav in #7201)
• Fix Roku Media Assistant player queue stalls and end-of-stream detection (by @kees in #7217)
• Hide source-only Sendspin devices from the player menu by default (by @maximmaxim345 in #7223)
• Give a DIDL player the whole track's duration for a flow stream (by @Simanias in #7224)
• Allow pairing a Sendspin device again after it was unpaired (by @maximmaxim345 in #7337)
• Keep SoundCloud signed in by refreshing its access token (by @robsonke in #7343)
• Time out hanging MAC address lookups (by @OzGav in #7346)
• Load chapters of audiobooks played from a listing (by @fmunkes in #7349)
• Raumfeld: a speaker keeps its player when it moves to another room (by @Simanias in #7350)
• Fix Open Subsonic remote image URLs being passed to getCoverArt (by @anatosun in #7351)
• Fix Apple TV pairing not working (by @cleverer in #7352)
• Fix missing played status on a Spotify podcast episode page (by @OzGav in #7353)
• Link artists whose MusicBrainz page uses a play.qobuz.com link (by @OzGav in #7354)
• Re-form a speaker group faster and keep the next track ready when its leader drops (by @marcelveldt in #7356)
• Fix Sendspin output staying unavailable on some AirPlay and Cast speakers (by @maximmaxim345 in #7357)
• Keep a playing group on Sendspin when a Sendspin speaker joins (by @maximmaxim345 in #7358)
• Fix misleading reconnect text on Sendspin devices another server took (by @maximmaxim345 in #7361)
• Start at 0:00 when seeking to the start of an audiobook or episode (by @fmunkes in #7363)
• Keep regular providers off in safe mode (by @marcelveldt in #7394)
• Keep Sonos playing when the queue changes under it (by @marcelveldt in #7395)
• Squeezelite: start announcements on the small buffer (by @lawrence-jeff in #7400)
• Fix missing search_name indexes on upgraded libraries (by @CasperNaudts in #7404)
• Keep HLS radio playing through stalls of its CDN (by @jordiboehme in #7407)
• Say at once that Spotify is busy elsewhere instead of after loading the playlist (by @marcelveldt in #7408)
• Keep Spotify playing after a speaker drops a track instead of skipping through the queue (by @marcelveldt in #7409)
• Reject control characters in concat file lists (by @chrisuthe in #7412)
• Strip control characters from AirPlay now-playing metadata (by @chrisuthe in #7413)
• Don't store a disabled state for providers that can't be disabled (by @marcelveldt in #7414)
• Fix iBroadcast tracks with additional genres being skipped during sync (by @flagoworld in #7415)
• Recognize the browser's own web player when opened from the Home Assistant sidebar (by @marcelveldt in #7418)
• Fix AriaCast receiver playback on a linked protocol player (by @meiser79 in #7425)
• Fix Music Quiz rounds stuttering at the start on Sendspin players (by @marcelveldt in #7433)
• Fix Spotify going silent for 20 s at a track change (by @marcelveldt in #7436)
• Add Legacy Auth option to subsonic setup flow (by @khers in #7439)
• Fix abrupt Spotify song changes when your account has crossfade on (by @marcelveldt in #7442)
• Stop refreshing the YouTube Music session from Music Assistant (by @bbauti in #7448)
• Fix Sendspin group going silent after a leader switch with a visualizer member (by @MarvinSchenkel in #7461)
• Fix the first Music Quiz round stuttering at the start (by @marcelveldt in #7466)
• Keep an artist's other folders when its artist.nfo changes (by @marcelveldt in #7475)
• Squeezelite: give the visualization setting a plain string default (by @lawrence-jeff in #7476)
• Accept whole numbers for float API arguments (by @pierosavi in #7477)
• Keep queue state and log unload errors when the server stops (by @marcelveldt in #7478)
• Fix ARD Sounds search failing when a show or station has no social media links (by @OzGav in #7496)
• Fix AirPlay group members drifting apart after a corrected cold start (by @cTopher in #7503)
• Check player access for every player in a grouping command (by @marcelveldt in #7511)
• Play media on the player you picked when it is in a group (by @marcelveldt in #7518)
• Reconnect the MPD player when its connection drops silently (by @lucamartinetti in #7522)
• Reassemble chunked client messages on the remote access API channel (by @jozefKruszynski in #7537)
• Prevent clipping when volume normalization raises a quiet track (by @marcelveldt in #7538)
• Fix missing covers in Music Assistant playlists (by @OzGav in #7546)
• Fix stale album links of local files whose album tag changed (by @OzGav in #7548)
• Stop Cast speakers replaying earlier tracks at the end of a queue (by @marcelveldt in #7549)
• Stop the end of a queue being cut off on Cast and Bluesound speakers (by @marcelveldt in #7550)
• Back off AirPlay control reconnects for receivers that keep failing (by @MarvinSchenkel in #7554)
• Fix Cast speakers dropping out during longer playback (by @marcelveldt in #7559)
• Replace the HTTP profile setting with a fixed content length toggle (by @marcelveldt in #7560)
• Bound ffprobe/ffmpeg tag probes with a timeout (by @OzGav in #7584)
• Tidal: name album artists and playlist owners in search results (by @jozefKruszynski in #7585)
• Give up on a play request that takes longer than a minute (by @marcelveldt in #7601)
• Stop artists from fetching their whole catalogue when played or opened (by @marcelveldt in #7602)
• Skip post load work for a provider unloaded while registering (by @jozefKruszynski in #7612)
• Fix silent HomePod mini 2 and failing AirPlay group starts (airplay-cli v0.5.10) (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #7615)
• Fix AirPlay pairing with Apple TV and HomeView on OS 27.2 (by @marcelveldt in #7632)
• Fix AirPlay pairing on OS 27.2 and show HomePod controls in the Home app (airplay-cli v0.5.11) (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #7633)
• Fix silent AirPlay 2 playback on Shairport Sync receivers (by @marcelveldt in #7662)
• Reject oversized ID3 tags before scanning local audio files (by @marcelveldt in #7667)
• Fix silent Shairport Sync speakers after the first AirPlay 2 stream (airplay-cli v0.5.12) (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #7668)
• Release AirPlay speakers on stop and let another app take them over (by @marcelveldt in #7671)
• Release AirPlay speakers on stop and notice when another app takes them over (airplay-cli v0.5.13) (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #7673)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Show the item type icon when there is no artwork (by @OzGav in #3084)
• Move genre details to shared hero (by @dmoo500 in #3076)
• Show a spinner while opening an album that is not in your library (by @OzGav in #3082)
• Fix the top artist card and page scrolling on the statistics page (by @pierosavi in #3088)
• Fit the statistics page on small screens (by @stvncode in #3087)
• Show same-named artists in search results (by @NasaGeek in #2999)
• Stop the load more spinner once every item is loaded (by @stvncode in #3083)
• Remember the Discover statistics row period across reloads (by @OzGav in #3102)
• Improve waveform seek preview with 3-level brightness (by @dmoo500 in #2146)
• Load only English and German translations in tests (by @stvncode in #3101)
• Bump eslint from 10.13.0 to 10.14.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3092)
• Bump sass from 1.105.0 to 1.107.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3095)
• Bump @lucide/vue from 1.61.0 to 1.66.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3097)
• Bump ts-pattern from 5.9.0 to 5.9.2 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3098)
• Bump @tabler/icons-vue from 3.48.0 to 3.50.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3093)
• Bump marked from 18.1.1 to 18.1.2 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3094)
• Bump vite from 8.3.4 to 8.3.5 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3096)
• Bump zod from 4.6.6 to 4.6.7 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3099)
• Bump @tanstack/vue-virtual from 3.13.39 to 3.13.50 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3100)
• Use the library sort and filter controls on album, playlist, podcast and radio pages (by @OzGav in #3110)
• Show who maintains each integration (by @marcelveldt in #3115)
• Play the Music Quiz on the device that shows it (by @marcelveldt in #3124)
• Offer to move Spotify playback here when another player holds it (by @marcelveldt in #3122)
• Minimize the fullscreen player when a search result is opened (by @pierosavi in #3131)
• Show the played state of audiobook collections and keep their covers when filtered (by @fmunkes in #3034)
• Show the played state of audiobook collections and keep their covers when filtered (by @fmunkes in #3034)
• Add optional copy text button in setup dialog (by @afeldman1 in #2710)
• Use one subtle hover effect for clickable settings cards (by @pierosavi in #3117)
• Make first-time setup clearer (by @marcelveldt in #3169)
• Recolour the visualizer from the artwork palette (by @jozefKruszynski in #3172)
• Show a music service's albums on the artist page when your library has none (by @marcelveldt in #3184)

Other Changes

• Revert "Pair Sendspin players on the Home Assistant host with their local token" (by @chrisuthe in #7370)
• Fix the Home Assistant player test that broke dev (by @marcelveldt in #7473)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@Carunga, @CasperNaudts, @FSund, @MarvinSchenkel, @NasaGeek, @OzGav, @Simanias, @Yagoor, @afeldman1, @anatosun, @apophisnow, @balloob, @bbauti, @cTopher, @chrisuthe, @cleverer, @dmoo500, @flagoworld, @fmunkes, @iwismer, @jdaberkow, @jerome-pouiller, @jordiboehme, @jozefKruszynski, @jpittelkow, @jpmenil, @kees, @khers, @lawrence-jeff, @lucamartinetti, @Lucide, @marcelveldt, @martinbuergi, @maximmaxim345, @meiser79, @mikkelke, @pcc0x, @pierosavi, @remon1496, @robsonke, @stvncode, @tabler, @TanStack, @thelad-dev