music-assistant/server 2.9.0b8

2.9.0 BETA 8

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📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.9.0b7

🚀 New Providers

• WiiM provider (by @davidanthoff in #2947)
• Add MusicMe music provider (by @JulienDeveaux in #3393)
• Add Yandex Smart Home plugin provider (by @trudenboy in #3615)
• Add NetEase Cloud Music provider (by @xiasi0 in #3640)
• Add iTunes artwork metadata provider (by @OzGav in #3740)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add artist artwork display for radio streams (by @OzGav in #3110)
• Add min and max volume functionality per player (by @OzGav in #3360)
• Smart crossfade: Add gradual timestretching (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3737)
• Last FM: Add one-click auth (by @duanyutong in #3739)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Adjust Spotify endpoints post deprecation notice (by @OzGav in #3303)
• Fix ffmpeg process leak in smart fades mixer on aborted playback (by @marcelveldt in #3725)
• Raise smart fades chunk timeout to 1s and log block duration (by @marcelveldt in #3728)
• Harden AirPlay STOP command delivery and add teardown logging (by @marcelveldt in #3729)
• Prevent concurrent flow-stream producers from corrupting the playlog (by @marcelveldt in #3731)
• Guard Sonos volume attribute update against uninitialized state (by @marcelveldt in #3732)
• Fix ORF Radiothek browse reverting to top level (by @OzGav in #3733)
• Preserve multi-value album type across all tag parsers (by @OzGav in #3743)
• QQ Music: persist full credential and refresh state (by @xiasi0 in #3744)
• [Soundcloud]: improving search (by @fionn-r in #3745)
• AirPlay 2 provider now supports sync (by @bradkeifer in #3750)
• Fix enqueue action 'replace' stopping the music (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3753)
• Qobuz: fix credential leak on 401 and populate date_added (by @OzGav in #3754)
• Implement power control function for squeezelite (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3755)
• Bump aiosendspin to 5.1.1 to fix audio stuttering (by @maximmaxim345 in #3756)
• Fix manual genres disappearing after a cleanup run (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3757)
• Fix Chromecast player disappearing after MA restart (by @maximmaxim345 in #3758)
• Fix HLS EXTINF metadata parsing for standard format radio streams (by @OzGav in #3759)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Extend player bar track menu to also show for radio stations (by @dmoo500 in #1674)
• Improve performance with GPU compositing and lyrics guard (by @apophisnow in #1671)
• Fix issue "checkbox are not aligned with text when multi-selecting" (by @SimeonAT in #1500)
• Revert "Improve performance with GPU compositing and lyrics guard" (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1724)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@JulienDeveaux, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @SimeonAT, @apophisnow, @bradkeifer, @davidanthoff, @dmoo500, @duanyutong, @fionn-r, @iVolt1, @kieranhogg, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @trudenboy, @xiasi0