FerrumPlay 0.9.0

MP3 tags

• Files without any tags get a proposal instead of an empty form. Sorted by file name, the track
  numbers run through from one, the file name becomes the title, and the name of the parent folder
  is offered as album and artist. It stays a proposal: nothing is written before "Apply changes",
  and every field can still be edited.
• The hint line reports the size of the cover that is actually in the files. It used to show the
  configured edge length and JPEG quality, which describe what an image would be brought to and
  said nothing about the one that is there - and that is the number that decides whether an image
  has enough to give.
• Ripping an audio CD writes the MP3 tags through the same writer as the tag editor. FFmpeg alone
  knew nothing of the ID3v2 conventions the editor follows - a track number padded against the
  total, an album sort order, and old tags cleared out when that setting is on - so a ripped track
  and a tagged one ended up carrying different tags for the same album. The file name now comes
  from the same tag values as well, so the identified title reaches the file name too.
• Padding the track number with zeros is applied everywhere the setting promises. It only ever
  reached the tag editor: the converter wrote the tag unpadded outside CD rips, and both the
  converted and the CUE-split file names used a hardcoded two digits - wrong in both directions,
  padding with the setting off and stopping at two digits on an album of a hundred. The number of
  digits comes from the album, determined per folder for the whole run.

Cover

• The cover column can be given an image through a file picker. Dragging one in remains, but it
  depends on the desktop: under XWayland the bridge between the two worlds hands a drop the
  contents of the clipboard instead of the dragged file, and no application-side fallback reaches
  around that.
• The drop zone says what it is. Passing over the column marks it with an accent border, and
  during a drag a layer with an icon and a prompt lies over the cover - a border alone drowns in
  the artwork underneath. A drop that carries nothing usable is no longer swallowed in silence.

Window and settings

• The application scale no longer needs a restart. It went through an environment variable that
  only Avalonia's X11 path reads; it is a transform on the window itself now, takes effect the
  moment the slider is released, and moves with the window when it goes to a screen with a
  different factor. One percent per notch instead of five.
• A switch for the diagnostic log sits in the settings under "Troubleshooting", with the path to
  the folder holding logs and settings and a button that opens it. The log could only be turned on
  with --debug before, which means restarting from a terminal - no use to anyone already looking
  at the thing that went wrong. Exceptions still go to errors.log regardless.
• The play button no longer shows "pause" at startup. mpv reports the current value right after
  the pause property is observed, and idle means "not paused" - with nothing loaded there is no
  pause state to report.

Conversion and Lyrion

• A conversion or rip can be stopped. The back arrow of the converter turns into "Cancel" while a
  run is going, and what is already written stays; only the file in flight is discarded.
• A run covers the window while it lasts. Converting reads the CD and writes files in one long
  stretch, and an action taken meanwhile - switching the view, ejecting the disc, starting a second
  run - would have pulled the ground out from under it. The cover says what is happening and takes
  every pointer and key until the run ends.
• The check mark in a Lyrion track list does something now. It sat there looking like a switch and
  was decoration - fixed, checked and dead - so that the row lined up with the playlist next to it.
  Unchecking a track now takes it out of playback in FerrumPlay, just as in the playlist; the state
  is remembered per track of the server, so sorting or reopening the album keeps it. On a device
  the check marks are greyed out: there the server loads the whole album and runs the order itself,
  and a switch that cannot do anything should not pretend otherwise.
• The target folder for ripping sat in the Lyrion Media Server section of the settings, where it
  has nothing to do: it belongs to the audio converter, and that is where it now is.

Version and packages

• The version in the settings is the one from the VERSION file, the same file the build and the
  packages take their number from - including the package revision, which the three-part assembly
  number could not carry. Opening the settings asks GitHub once per session which version is
  published; if it differs from the running one, a link to the release page appears next to the
  version. Nothing but that file is fetched, and a failed request stays silent.
• The install table in the README names every package that is built: AppImage, ZIP, DEB, RPM and
  the AUR one. Arch users had no instruction at all before - ferrumplay-bin was mentioned once, in
  passing, as something that declares dependencies.
• The number field for the cover edge length was square on its right side and its arrows were
  black on a dark ground. Its styling had never taken effect: the two spinner buttons live in the
  template of the spinner inside the template of the number field, and the rules were written for
  one level only.