music-assistant/server 2.9.0b7

2.9.0 BETA 7

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📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.9.0b6

🚀 New Providers

• Add MPD Player Provider (by @OzGav in #3337)
• Smart fades Audio Analysis provider (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3636)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Apple Music: Add Unicode NFC normalization for artist/album/track names (by @jasonhollis in #2631)
• Add ability to take over Pandora stream during concurrent streaming error (by @cryptk in #3620)
• Add Tidal starred tracks virtual playlist (by @FL550 in #3653)
• Play from here respects user's sort order (by @philjackson in #3663)
• Apple Music: Add content rating check for explicit tracks (by @LosCV29 in #3669)
• Add per-player delay configuration for Sendspin players (by @maximmaxim345 in #3689)
• Add setting to replace Pause with Stop for DLNA (by @peteS-UK in #3704)
• Subsonic: Add option to always request stream of raw file (by @khers in #3710)
• Forward Sendspin Cast app logs to Music Assistant (by @maximmaxim345 in #3713)

🐛 Bugfixes

• QQMusic: Improve QR auth URL handling behind HA Ingress (by @xiasi0 in #3631)
• Tweak imageproxy (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3671)
• Several fixes for synced playback stability (by @marcelveldt in #3672)
• Filter stale podcast episodes (by @OzGav in #3673)
• Change Mother Earth Radio icon URL and corrupt SVGs (by @OzGav in #3674)
• Fix dynamic playlist refill discarding unplayed buffered tracks (by @dmoo500 in #3675)
• Sendspin: guard against negative track_progress in metadata (by @marcelveldt in #3681)
• Fix sync group session lifecycle and AirPlay late joiner sync (by @marcelveldt in #3682)
• Automatically clean up loudness measurements on media item deletion (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3687)
• Fix multiple (virtual) devices on the same host being merged. (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3688)
• Fix sync group dissolve+reform race with async providers (by @marcelveldt in #3691)
• Fix Jellyfin multidisc albums with same named tracks (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3692)
• Fix Volume control for Bluesound native devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3693)
• AudioBuffer: Only fire cancel callbacks when stream has not ended naturally (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3694)
• Fix MPD player removal reappearing after reload (by @marcelveldt in #3697)
• Fix race condition in AirPlay stream session client removal (by @marcelveldt in #3698)
• Fix is_dynamic guard not firing for playlists not yet synced to library (by @dmoo500 in #3699)
• Fix Mother Earth indicated audio quality (by @OzGav in #3701)
• Improve loudness measurement robustness (by @marcelveldt in #3703)
• Fix smart fades mixer sometimes choking up the flow stream + Smart Fades provider not starting on ARM (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3706)
• Bump aiohttp to 3.13.5 and ibroadcastaio to 0.6.0 (by @staticdev in #3707)
• Put pipewire dependency in the correct spot (by @apophisnow in #3708)
• Fix syncgroup state derivation and tighten lifecycle handling (by @marcelveldt in #3709)
• Fix duration parsing for M3U playlist items (by @marcelveldt in #3714)
• Fix AirPlay cleanup idling re-added clients (by @marcelveldt in #3716)
• Fix sync leader child state forwarding (by @marcelveldt in #3717)
• Forward syncgroup join/unjoin to the syncgroup player (by @marcelveldt in #3718)
• Fix audiobook controller not using userid in library_items call (by @fmunkes in #3719)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Fix single provider stale filter bug (by @OzGav in #1698)
• Fix typo (by @OzGav in #1696)
• Move Sendspin delay configuration to player settings (by @maximmaxim345 in #1712)
• Fix clipping of last player cards on the Players widget of the Discover view (by @BQPVegas in #1690)
• Reload queue items after reset in fullscreen player (by @dmoo500 in #1710)
• Hide incompatible controls for dynamic playlists (by @dmoo500 in #1713)
• Fix toast in player settings (by @OzGav in #1569)
• Pass sort order to server for play from here (by @philjackson in #1699)
• Add edit radio station feature (by @OzGav in #1685)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@BQPVegas, @FL550, @LosCV29, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @apophisnow, @cryptk, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @jasonhollis, @khers, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @peteS-UK, @philjackson, @staticdev, @xiasi0