music-assistant/server 2.9.0b14

2.9.0 BETA 14

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📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.9.0b13

⚠ Breaking Changes

• Refactor plugin sources to first-class AudioSource MediaItems (by @marcelveldt in #3938)

🚀 New Providers

• Smart playlist plugin (by @dmoo500 in #3630)
• Add MCP-spec-compliant FastMCP server provider v0.3.20 (by @trudenboy in #3858)
• Add Acoustid audio analysis provider (by @OzGav in #3892)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add support for legacy Shoutcast servers using ICY protocol (by @OzGav in #3386)
• audio_analysis: add coverage endpoint + bulk merged accessor for sonic_similarity (by @chrisuthe in #3851)
• Set PlayerQueue.is_dynamic when radio_source changes (by @dmoo500 in #3886)
• Add variable playback speed for audiobooks and podcasts (by @OzGav in #3939)
• Add stale-while-revalidate option to @use_cache (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3946)
• Stabilize group players: session-lifecycle instead of mandatory power (by @marcelveldt in #3947)
• Detect source audio format from ffmpeg log output (by @marcelveldt in #3950)
• Add Flow Mode sample-rate selection and per-player declared rates (by @marcelveldt in #3951)
• Improve imageproxy (by @marcelveldt in #3960)
• AudioSource follow-up (by @marcelveldt in #3964)
• Use passthrough PCM format for realtime AudioSource items (by @marcelveldt in #3969)
• Allow scrobble providers to filter by media_type (by @Tommatheussen in #3975)
• Allow Plugin Providers to implement ProviderFeature.SEARCH (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3978)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix genre movements when genres are promoted or deleted (by @OzGav in #3923)
• Squeezelite: Honor per-player output_codec in multi-client sync URL (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3924)
• Fix HEOS queue cleanup slowing down other commands (by @Tommatheussen in #3932)
• Fix browse and recommendations not applying user filters (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3934)
• Restore PlayerQueue.is_dynamic after loading queue from cache (by @dmoo500 in #3948)
• Resolve universal_player wrappers in UGP stream handler (by @OzGav in #3952)
• Fix stale Sonos cloud queue items and idle radio prebuffer (by @marcelveldt in #3957)
• Fix invalid imageproxy size on PlayerMedia URLs (by @marcelveldt in #3966)
• Prevent server crash on malformed player config entries (by @marcelveldt in #3967)
• Musiccast stability fixes (by @jhbruhn in #3977)
• Skip DSP-triggered playback restart when DSP was and remains disabled (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3988)
• Avoid KeyError when prefetching next-item palette for a player without a queue (by @marcelveldt in #3992)
• Disable linked protocol players when their parent is disabled (by @marcelveldt in #3993)
• Emby Music Provider: fix album art (by @hatharry in #3995)
• Scale background audio-analysis timeout to track duration (by @chrisuthe in #3997)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Fix auto-refresh toggle on server logs page (by @OzGav in #1784)
• Use server-derived color palette via MediaItemPalette (by @maximmaxim345 in #1782)
• i18n: add 'inspired_by_recently_played' recommendations key (by @chrisuthe in #1791)
• Add AudioSource media type for plugin sources (by @marcelveldt in #1786)
• Fix copy to clipboard (by @OzGav in #1742)
• Support new opaque-id imageproxy endpoint (by @marcelveldt in #1792)
• Add "hide fully-played episodes" toggle to podcast details (by @teancom in #1743)
• AudioSource follow-up: treat as in-queue infinite stream (by @marcelveldt in #1793)
• Use PlayerQueue.is_dynamic directly (by @dmoo500 in #1773)
• Add audio-analysis page with coverage information to system-> settings (by @chrisuthe in #1783)
• Add sidebar shortcuts for playlists, artists, albums, tracks, radios, podcasts and audiobooks (by @dmoo500 in #1780)
• Add support for variable playback speed (by @OzGav in #1787)
• Hide group count badge on standalone players when not synced (by @KealanAU in #1790)
• Reduce items-per-row at large screen widths (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1806)
• Proposition for menu sections (by @stvncode in #1808)
• Smart playlist UI (by @dmoo500 in #1693)

Other Changes

• Add PR template and auto-label from Types of changes checkbox (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3959)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@KealanAU, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @SuperSandro2000, @Tommatheussen, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @hatharry, @jdaberkow, @jhbruhn, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @stvncode, @teancom, @trudenboy