music-assistant/server 2.9.0b1

2.9.0 BETA 1

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📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.8.0rc3

🚀 New Providers

• Add MSX Bridge Player Provider (by @trudenboy in #3123)
• Add Dashie Kiosk player provider (by @jwlerch78 in #3180)
• Add Coverart Archive metadata provider (by @OzGav in #3523)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add configurable max size for metadata thumbnail cache (by @lukaszwawrzyk in #3196)
• Fix IPv6 support across core and providers (by @fmurodov in #3235)
• zvuk_music: Browse, recommendations, lyrics, similar tracks, throttling (by @trudenboy in #3242)
• Add musicbrainz get_release_group functions (by @OzGav in #3384)
• Create Services for Playlist Export / Import (by @chrisuthe in #3387)
• Support playback of radio station PLS playlist URLs with query parameters (by @OzGav in #3419)
• Open Subsonic Lyric support (by @khers in #3424)
• Add favorites browsing and editing support to Emby provider (by @neurocis in #3457)
• Add optional timestamp to get_resume_position (by @fmunkes in #3505)
• Add Socks proxy option for Pandora (by @TermeHansen in #3513)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix race condition when calling stop/pause on an already stopped Universal Player (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3481)
• Emby Music Provider: fix artist endpoint, image remote accessibility and album artwork (by @hatharry in #3482)
• Fix plex SSL warning polluting the log (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3486)
• Fix filesystem playlists not showing up in the library (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3487)
• Fix not being able to edit Apple Music playlist tracks (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3488)
• Fix tracks from Sonos not being reported as played (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3489)
• Fix dlna not playing on some devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3490)
• Create new session so Pandora fetches fresh tracks (by @OzGav in #3493)
• Fix podcasts from filesystem source not appearing in library (by @teancom in #3494)
• Fix Bandcamp provider not having pagination (by @teancom in #3496)
• Fix output format reporting for protocol and sendspin players (by @marcelveldt in #3498)
• Fix player controls configuration (by @marcelveldt in #3503)
• Improve audio buffering in streams controller (by @marcelveldt in #3507)
• Improve Qobuz API rate limiting, backoff, and sync efficiency (by @teancom in #3515)
• Fix MusicBrainz track lookup to aggregate release groups from all rec… (by @OzGav in #3520)
• Fix jellyfin get_artist_albums always returning empty list (by @TastyPi in #3521)
• Several small bugfixes and stability enhancements related to streaming (by @marcelveldt in #3522)
• Fix Sonos not unmuting when playing via Airplay (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3529)
• Bump aioslimproto to 3.1.8. (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3530)
• Subsonic: Include bookmark creation date if available (by @khers in #3531)
• Fix player controls for non-native players (by @marcelveldt in #3532)
• Fix: select_source should ungroup a player if its grouped/synced (by @marcelveldt in #3534)
• Guard against non-UTF-8 filenames in file system providers (by @OzGav in #3539)
• Fix syncgroup ungroup command silently ignored due to stale state (by @marcelveldt in #3540)
• Fix AirPlay mDNS discovery race between RAOP and AirPlay services (by @marcelveldt in #3546)
• Fix AirPlay Sendspin bridge audio sync and re-enable AirPlay2 (by @marcelveldt in #3547)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #1452)
• Fix searchbar in players also write in other search and replace it by a new component (by @stvncode in #1453)
• Apply styles to the new volume sliders to match the rest of the UI (by @Thyraz in #1343)
• Fix searchbar in players also write in other search and replace it by a new component (by @stvncode in #1453)
• Lokalise: Translations update (by @marcelveldt in #1645)
• Skip provider lookup when saving queue as playlist (by @chrisuthe in #1582)
• Fix widget rows reloading when toggling the player bar (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1646)
• Accept frameless query param without requiring a value (by @apophisnow in #1650)
• Fix Party dashboard QR color and track sizing (by @apophisnow in #1649)
• Add export playlist feature (by @chrisuthe in #1661)
• Add import playlist feature (by @chrisuthe in #1662)

Other Changes

• bump pychromecast to 8.1.0 (by @marcelveldt in #75)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@EricLabranche, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @SuperSandro2000, @TastyPi, @TermeHansen, @Thyraz, @apophisnow, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @fmurodov, @hatharry, @jwlerch78, @khers, @lukaszwawrzyk, @marcelveldt, @neurocis, @staticdev, @stvncode, @teancom, @trudenboy