v1.8.0-beta.3

WaveFlow 1.8.0-beta.3

Pre-release on the beta channel. If you are already on a 1.8.0 beta you will get this automatically. Coming from 1.7, turn on Settings → Diagnostics → Beta channel; once you are on 1.8 the switch lives under Settings → Maintenance → Updates. Stable users are unaffected.

A short one, cut quickly because your reports kept coming. Everything here answers something a tester ran into on beta.2 — plus a full read of every translation before the stable release.

🎤 Lyrics

• A colour for the line being sung, in the full-screen lyrics and the mini-player: eight pastels picked to stay readable on those dark surfaces, and a rainbow mode that gives each line the next one. Settings → Images and lyrics → Sung line colour. High contrast still keeps it white. (#751, #753)
• Estimated word-by-word karaoke keeps up with the voice. Words used to be spread all the way to the next line, so they trailed further behind as the line went on. (#750)

🖼️ Artwork

• The artist banner suggestions work. Picking one failed with a database error; only a local file got through. (#750)
• A cover you change inside your files now reaches the album on the next scan, instead of the album keeping the old picture. A cover you chose yourself, or one found in the folder, is never replaced that way. (#750)
• Dark covers no longer have pale corners. (#750)

✨ Interface

• The immersive view's tabs stay on the buttons' line and keep their labels whenever there is room — round icons only when there is not. They used to drop below the buttons and push the lyrics down the screen. (#750)
• "Software rendering is on" no longer appears for nothing. Opening WaveFlow twice in quick succession — a double click is enough — made the second launch mistake the first one, still starting, for a launch that had failed to draw, and it switched to software rendering and stayed there. If you saw that banner without a reason, Settings → Maintenance → Diagnostics → Try the GPU again puts you back. (#755)
• The home greeting has an afternoon. It said "Good morning" until 6 pm.
• Discord Rich Presence stops filling the log with one warning per track when Discord is not running.

🌍 Translations

All 17 languages were read in full, key by key, against the English and the French: meaning, formal or informal address, the same word for the same thing, and typography. About 1,150 strings changed. A few of them were plainly wrong — in Arabic, the arrows on the sync buttons pointed the opposite way to the copy they perform; in Japanese, "Play next" read as "play the next track"; in Russian, a rule on the last 21 days read as "the last day". (#754)

If you use WaveFlow in a language other than English, this is the build to look at: a wording that feels off to a native speaker is worth a report.

📝 Notes for testers

Everything on the earlier lists still stands — exclusive output, native DSD (DoP) on a real DAC, and tag editing on copies of your files remain the most valuable reports.

New this round:

1. The sung line colour, in the full-screen lyrics and the mini-player, rainbow included.
2. The immersive tabs at your screen size, in your language — the labels are measured, so a longer translation is the real test.
3. Your language, anywhere you spend time in the app.

What I need in a report: your OS, the exact steps, and your logs — Settings → Maintenance → Diagnostics → Copy logs puts them on your clipboard, ready to paste.

Full changelog: v1.8.0-beta.2...v1.8.0-beta.3