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1.9.5 (2026-10-19)
🩹 What's new in v1.9.5
Lyrics and playlist files saved in encodings other than UTF-8 now open correctly.
🎤 Lyrics
- Lyrics files in encodings other than UTF-8 now show up. A
.lrcor.txtnext to a track was read as UTF-8 only, so lyrics saved as GB18030 (common with Chinese Windows tools), Big5, Shift_JIS, EUC-KR or an older Windows code page were silently skipped. WaveFlow now detects the file's encoding and reads it, for lyrics found next to the track as well as for Import an LRC file. Tracks that already showed "no lyrics" pick up their lyrics file the next time you open them, with nothing to clear. (#917, closes #910)
📚 Library
- Legacy-encoded
.m3uplaylists now import correctly. A.m3usaved in a Chinese, Japanese or Korean encoding gave paths that matched nothing in the library. It is now decoded the same way as a lyrics file. (#917)
📦 Recommended install
Use your platform's package manager when one is available, so updates keep flowing through the tool you already use.
Windows
winget install InstaZDLL.WaveFlowArch / Manjaro / EndeavourOS / CachyOS
yay -S waveflow-bin
# or: paru -S waveflow-binFedora / RHEL / Rocky / Alma / CentOS Stream
sudo dnf copr enable instazdll/waveflow
sudo dnf install waveflowDebian / Ubuntu / Mint / Pop!_OS
The Debian package is wave-flow (kebab-case, required by the Debian naming spec — Tauri bundles it that way from the WaveFlow product name).
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://packages.buildkite.com/instazdll/waveflow/gpgkey \
| sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/waveflow.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/waveflow.gpg] https://packages.buildkite.com/instazdll/waveflow/any/ any main" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waveflow.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install wave-flowmacOS
No Homebrew cask yet — grab the .dmg below. The bundle isn't Apple-signed, so right-click → Open the first time, or run xattr -cr /Applications/WaveFlow.app to clear the quarantine flag.
Standalone download
Everything is also available as a raw bundle below — .AppImage, .deb, .rpm, .exe, .msi, .dmg.
Thanks to @GoEverLo for the report and the sample files, and keep the feedback coming. 💚