music-assistant/server 2.9.0.dev2026041005

2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026041005

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📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026040916

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Fix playback get stuck when there is a stream error on a single track (by @marcelveldt in #1651)
• Add 'Don't stop the music' feature (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1681)
• Snapcast: Add configuration options (by @SantiagoSotoC in #1692)
• Handle Ogg FLAC in-band metadata in chained radio streams (by @a2hill in #3575)
• Add manual item management API and on_item_updated provider callback (by @OzGav in #3602)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix some playback issues (by @marcelveldt in #1689)
• Fix DLNA pause fallback for stale transport actions (by @xiasi0 in #3610)
• Fix AirPlay late joiner out-of-sync when joining a sync group (by @marcelveldt in #3625)
• Fix flow mode queue tracking drift on AirPlay dynamic leader switch (by @marcelveldt in #3628)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Replace deprecated unload event with pagehide (by @apophisnow in #1681)
• Adjust artist track listing sort by album to be secondary by track number (by @OzGav in #1688)
• Check for lossless codec (by @OzGav in #1692)
• Revert Party Mode to Party (by @OzGav in #1689)
• Improve FacetedFilter accessibility and clickability (#4883) (by @teancom in #1651)
• Add ALAC icon to Audio Pipeline (by @OzGav in #1691)

Other Changes

• Unfinished change for Snapcast provider (by @whc2001 in #1691)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @SantiagoSotoC, @a2hill, @apophisnow, @marcelveldt, @teancom, @whc2001, @xiasi0