music-assistant/server 2.8.0b18

2.8.0 BETA 18

on GitHub

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.8.0b17

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Party mode (by @apophisnow in #2911)
• Expand PIN based auth in airplay 2 (by @hmonteiro in #3165)
• Update Alexa player provider (by @alams154 in #3167)
• Add API to handle playback speed (by @andykelk in #3198)
• Airplay2-configurable-latency (by @bradkeifer in #3210)
• Bandcamp: validate login on init when credentials are configured (by @teancom in #3215)
• Clear internal HEOS queue before playing (by @Tommatheussen in #3219)
• Add genre icons and SVG handling to imageproxy (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3223)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Gracefully skip files/folders with emoji names on SMB mounts (by @OzGav in #3183)
• Fix DSP not applying for AirPlay and Sendspin players (by @maximmaxim345 in #3191)
• Validate queue item ID in Sonos pause path (by @rjbutler in #3194)
• OpenSubsonic: Use server provided version tag if present (by @khers in #3200)
• Fix group mute for protocol-synced players (by @scyto in #3205)
• Fix HEOS source switching back to Local Music after starting stream (by @Tommatheussen in #3206)
• Fix Sonos S2 announcement 404 error on cloud queue context endpoint (by @Copilot in #3208)
• Snapcast: Fixes for hard switching of group leaders (by @gnumpi in #3209)
• Fix inverted track_number condition in Bandcamp converter (by @teancom in #3211)
• Use ImageType.THUMB for Bandcamp artwork images (by @teancom in #3212)
• Fix Radioparadise image URL (by @OzGav in #3220)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Save current queue to playlist feature (by @chrisuthe in #1456)
• Show ADD TO PLAYLIST for podcast episodes and audiobooks (by @OzGav in #1474)
• feat(genres): Genre frontend implementation (by @jozefKruszynski in #1459)
• Optimize NowPlaying badge animation to minimize CPU usage (by @apophisnow in #1539)
• Feature: Party mode (by @apophisnow in #1344)
• Optimize more animations (by @apophisnow in #1540)
• Fix bottom player bottom not showing on phones now playing screen (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1541)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@Copilot, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Tommatheussen, @alams154, @andykelk, @apophisnow, @bradkeifer, @chrisuthe, @gnumpi, @hmonteiro, @jozefKruszynski, @khers, @maximmaxim345, @rjbutler, @scyto, @teancom