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This release makes the common upload simpler: a short config for new users, a guided first run, a shorter Upload form in salmon web, fewer questions, and the remaining questions drawn as buttons and cards in the browser. Some config keys moved: your config keeps working in 0.21.0 and salmon tells you what to change. See Upgrading to 0.21.

⚠️ Behaviour changes

  • Some config keys moved or were renamed. Your config keeps working in 0.21.0: salmon reads each old name and prints a yellow warning naming the new one. From 0.22.0 an old name stops salmon at start with the same message. Two keys that did nothing were removed (token in [metadata.tidal], static_root_url in [upload.web_interface]). Values left over from the old template (get-from-site-cookie, api_key, discogs-token and the like) now count as unset, with a warning; a tracker whose cookie is still the placeholder is left out. The full list is on the Upgrading to 0.21 page.
  • default_tracker is now default_trackers, a list ([tracker]). Without -t, salmon up uploads to each tracker in the list in order without asking, then offers your other trackers if multi_tracker_upload is on. An old default_tracker = "RED" works as before, with a warning.
  • Trackers named with -t, or ticked in salmon web, are final, even just one. Before, a single -t OPS (or only OPS ticked) still offered RED and DIC afterwards. To be offered the others, run without -t.
  • The folder cover is embedded in FLACs that have no picture, before the torrents are made, shrunk to fit under 1 MiB. FLACs that already have a picture and the cover file itself are never changed. This replaces auto_compress_cover, now embed_missing_cover, on by default. embed_missing_cover = false under [image] keeps your files as they are.
  • The "upload to an existing group?" question is skipped when nothing was found. When the group search and the recent-uploads check both ran and found nothing, salmon says No group found on RED: new group and goes on. It still asks when either found something, or when the site log could not be read. confirm_new_group = true under [upload.requests] always asks.
  • A conversion choice made for the run is final. With --conversions (or the Conversions field in salmon web), salmon makes exactly those and asks nothing about conversions. --conversions none, or conversions = [] under [upload], makes none without asking. With conversions naming formats in your config and no --conversions, salmon asks as before.
  • -yyy answers more questions. It now accepts the retag, rename and folder name questions (the changes are still printed first), and picks the spectral IDs the way an empty answer would (default_spectral_ids, else a random third, all for a lossy master) instead of always all of them.
  • remove_source_dir removes the source folder when the run ends, after an upload. Before, it was removed at the folder rename, so a run stopped later left the album only under its new name. A run that uploads nothing, or is aborted, keeps it. Thanks @statelycurmudgeon
  • Artist names follow one rule everywhere. With the default various_artist_threshold = 4: four main artists give Various in the folder name too (it took five), and in the file name's {artist} (it took six). ALBUMARTIST and the folder name keep the main artists in the order given instead of sorting them. A name containing & is separated with , in ARTIST as in ALBUMARTIST (Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Desmond), and three or more remixers read (A, B, C Remix). Retagging an album salmon tagged before may propose these changes. Thanks @statelycurmudgeon

✨ New Features & Improvements

  • preferred_sources and skipped_sources ([upload.search]): list your preferred stores first in the metadata results, and never search the stores you skip. Both apply to salmon up, salmon metas and the web Search page. Unset, nothing changes.
  • remove_local_after_copy ([[seedbox]], rclone only): after salmon up, remove the release folder from download_directory once every seedbox that took it has copied it and added its torrents. It is kept when a seedbox failed or was skipped, when a local seedbox seeds it, or when the run stopped early.
  • A guided first run. With no config, in a terminal, salmon asks for the two folders, your trackers and their cookies (and API keys), writes a short config and offers a connection check. Without a terminal (Docker without -it), it copies the short config and says what to fill in.
  • A short config. New users start from a 30-line config.default.toml. Every setting is documented, commented out with its default, in config.reference.toml beside it.
  • salmon web: a simpler Upload form. It shows Folder, Trackers, Source, Store link, Conversions and the upload mode; everything else is folded into Overrides, whose summary says what is set. Source is preset from the files (a rip log, a store URL in the tags), else from a [WEB FLAC]-style bracket in the folder name, and says why. The same preset is on the Tag page and is the CLI's default answer.
  • salmon web: questions as buttons, checkboxes and cards. The upload's common questions (the existing group, lossy master, spectral IDs, the field to edit, upload or re-run, requests, conversions, the next tracker) no longer need typed answers. The existing-group question and the metadata results show as cards, with links. The CLI asks exactly as before.
  • salmon web: spectrals one at a time, with Previous / Next, arrow keys and Enter for Done. A toggle brings back the grid.
  • salmon web: a filter in the folder picker narrows the listed folders as you type.
  • salmon web: config warnings on the Dashboard, as printed at start, with the config file's path.
  • salmon cross-upload --conversions takes the conversions as one list, like salmon up. --transcode, --downconvert and --all still work.
  • Skip a later tracker at its group questions. Once a torrent is up, a later tracker's group question offers [s]kip this tracker, and the run then finishes normally. Thanks @statelycurmudgeon
  • File and folder names are checked for forbidden characters (: ? < > \ * | " /) before anything is uploaded, logs, cues, images and sub-folders included. salmon offers to rename them; before, the tracker refused the torrent only at the upload, after the spectrals were on the image host. Thanks @bfs2021. Known issue: this question, like the folder check's other questions, does not take -yyy yet (#821).

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • A source's track numbers are used only when they are 1 to n on every disc. Vinyl sides from Discogs (A1, B2) no longer overwrite the files' track numbers.
  • Merging a source with no release date no longer empties Year and Group Year. Thanks @arin30
  • Store requests fail cleanly. MusicBrainz requests time out after 10 s and are retried once, not 7 times. Beatport's token requests time out after 10 s (they could hold the search for 5 minutes), and a failed Beatport login falls back to the scraper. MusicBrainz and Apple Music token failures are reported as scrape failures instead of tracebacks. Thanks @statelycurmudgeon

🔒 Tracker & Security Improvements

  • Store error messages no longer repeat the request URL with its query, which could hold a token: they name the error type instead. Thanks @statelycurmudgeon

What's Changed

  • Filter the folders listed in the folder picker as you type by @redusys in #763
  • View spectrals one at a time in salmon web by @redusys in #764
  • Add ADR 0005: config keys change with one release of warnings, never silently by @redusys in #766
  • Add ADR 0006: typed questions keep the CLI's text and parser, the web draws a description of the options by @redusys in #768
  • Read moved config keys under their old names with a warning, and old placeholders as unset by @redusys in #767
  • ADR 0005: removed config keys have no refused_from by @redusys in #769
  • Ship a short default config and a reference file with every setting by @redusys in #771
  • Make a conversion choice made for the run final: no conversion questions by @redusys in #772
  • Embed the folder cover in FLACs that have no picture, on by default by @redusys in #770
  • Upload to tracker.default_trackers in order without -t, then offer the other trackers by @redusys in #773
  • Bump certifi from 2026.2.25 to 2026.10.19 by @dependabot[bot] in #780
  • Bump pillow from 12.3.0 to 13.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #778
  • Keep the main artists' order in ALBUMARTIST and the folder name by @statelycurmudgeon in #784
  • Bump brotli from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #779
  • Bump the python:3.13-slim-trixie base image digest by @redusys in #788
  • Bump astral-sh/uv from 0.13.1 to 0.13.6 in the minor-and-patch group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #775
  • Bump the minor-and-patch group across 1 directory with 5 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #787
  • Update uv-build requirement from <0.13.0,>=0.12.24 to >=0.13.4,<0.14.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #777
  • Add a Conversions field to the web Upload form by @redusys in #792
  • Ask a new user for the folders and tracker cookies when there is no config by @redusys in #793
  • Preserve release years when metadata has no date by @arin30 in #794
  • Add remove_local_after_copy for rclone seedboxes by @redusys in #797
  • Show the Upload form's common fields and fold the rest into Overrides by @redusys in #796
  • Keep the files' track numbers when a source's numbering is not 1..n by @redusys in #799
  • Skip the existing-group question when the search and the recent-uploads check find nothing by @redusys in #798
  • Preset the source from the files, else the folder name's bracket by @redusys in #804
  • Remove the source folder when the run ends, after asking, not at the folder rename by @statelycurmudgeon in #782
  • Use one rule for artist strings: threshold, separator and order by @statelycurmudgeon in #800
  • Answer the retag, rename and spectral IDs questions with -yyy by @redusys in #805
  • Show the config warnings on the Dashboard by @redusys in #806
  • Bump the minor-and-patch group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #808
  • Bump ruff from 0.17.1 to 0.17.2 in the dev-tools group by @dependabot[bot] in #807
  • Bump openai from 3.36.0 to 3.37.0 in the minor-and-patch group by @dependabot[bot] in #810
  • Update uv-build requirement from <0.14.0,>=0.13.4 to >=0.13.5,<0.14.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #811
  • Bump the minor-and-patch group in /webui with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #809
  • Take cross-upload's conversions as one list, like salmon up by @redusys in #813
  • Offer to skip a later tracker at its group questions, once a torrent is up by @statelycurmudgeon in #814
  • Count the track's main artists for the file name's {artist} by @statelycurmudgeon in #801
  • Show nine upload questions in salmon web as buttons, checkboxes and cards by @redusys in #816
  • Check file and folder names for forbidden characters before uploading by @bfs2021 in #818
  • Open store requests through one session helper, with one error mapping by @statelycurmudgeon in #815
  • Show the existing-group question in salmon web as cards by @redusys in #819
  • Bound MusicBrainz requests, and report their failures as scrape errors by @statelycurmudgeon in #817
  • Show the metadata results in salmon web as cards, and list preferred stores first by @redusys in #820

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