music-assistant/server 2.9.0b6

2.9.0 BETA 6

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📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.9.0b5

🚀 New Providers

• Add QQ Music provider (by @xiasi0 in #3511)
• Add Mother Earth Radio music provider (by @FlorianReiterer in #3599)
• Add Hue Light Sync plugin provider (by @marcelveldt in #3627)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Apple Music: Add support for radio stations (by @dmoo500 in #3433)
• 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)
• Add dynamic leader switching support for Sendspin sync groups (by @marcelveldt in #3603)
• Add AI_QUERY and TTS to HA Plugin (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3607)
• Add audio quality option for Pandora provider (by @cryptk in #3617)
• Add secondary sort by year for album artist sorting (by @OzGav in #3619)
• Propagate now-playing info to Chromecast media_player (by @robtpaton in #3621)
• Add Apple Music station recommendations to Discover page (by @dmoo500 in #3622)
• Implement metadata provider priority (by @OzGav in #3623)
• Subsonic: Cache requests (by @khers in #3662)

🐛 Bugfixes

• YT Music: Fix syncing 'Episodes for later' in podcast library sync (by @teancom in #3582)
• Revert "Rewrite tidal stream behaviour to avoid premature cutoff (#3369)" (by @jozefKruszynski in #3593)
• Fix sync group regressions: proper locking and dynamic leader switch (by @marcelveldt in #3594)
• Include missing description in automatic artist metadata scan (by @OzGav in #3595)
• Add protocol awareness and transition guards to sync group player (by @marcelveldt in #3600)
• Fix party duplicate prevention race (by @marcelveldt in #3601)
• Subsonic: Fix structured lyrics yet again (by @khers in #3604)
• Fix DLNA pause fallback for stale transport actions (by @xiasi0 in #3610)
• Fix local audio seg fault and hide unavailable players (by @OzGav in #3613)
• Fix player/queue deadlock on multiple simultane (play) actions (by @marcelveldt in #3624)
• 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)
• Fix Sendspin bridge race causing Chromecast player to disappear (by @maximmaxim345 in #3632)
• Preserve builtin playlist cover images on M3U rewrites (by @marcelveldt in #3633)
• Add controller startup retry to HEOS (by @Tommatheussen in #3635)
• Fix AirPlay RAOP sync and disable AP2 grouping (by @marcelveldt in #3637)
• Fix AirPlay late joiner sync on Linux (by @marcelveldt in #3643)
• Small fixes for flow stream buffering and crossfade yielding (by @marcelveldt in #3645)
• Fix group member players reporting idle instead of playing (by @marcelveldt in #3646)
• Prevent filesystem unavailability from removing all associated library items (by @OzGav in #3647)
• Fix Nugs.net get_track NotImplementedError (by @marcelveldt in #3649)
• Use original stream for ibroadcast (by @robsonke in #3650)
• Use PluginSource elapsed_time for player progress (by @trudenboy in #3652)
• Fix AirPlay DACP volume control for Sonos speakers (by @marcelveldt in #3654)
• Fix muted player in group unmuting on group volume change (by @marcelveldt in #3655)
• Fix 30-second auth delay on startup (HA provider race condition) (by @marcelveldt in #3656)
• Remove protocol player power control forwarding (by @marcelveldt in #3659)
• Fix AirPlay late joiner sync issues from insufficient buffer headroom (by @marcelveldt in #3660)
• Fix sync group members lost after dynamic leader switch (by @marcelveldt in #3665)
• Fix sync group not resetting active protocol on stop (by @marcelveldt in #3666)
• Reduce radio stream startup delay on Squeezelite players (by @marcelveldt in #3667)
• Fix queue items showing zero/unknown duration (by @marcelveldt in #3668)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Isolate queue elapsed time from main reactive queue objects (by @apophisnow in #1672)
• Use swiper virtual slides in Carousel (by @apophisnow in #1682)
• Add Audio Analysis providers to the settings menu (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1673)
• Fix hidden player still showing in UI (by @OzGav in #1686)
• 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)
• Add right-click context menu to player cards on home screen (by @thrunkmo in #1617)
• Add artist track list sort by album sort name (by @OzGav in #1694)
• Fix confirm password field not appearing (by @OzGav in #1695)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@FlorianReiterer, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Tommatheussen, @a2hill, @apophisnow, @cryptk, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @ijc, @jozefKruszynski, @khers, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @robsonke, @robtpaton, @teancom, @thrunkmo, @trudenboy, @xiasi0