v1.9.6

1.9.6 (2026-10-22)

🩹 What's new in v1.9.6

Tracks now play to their very last second before the next one starts.

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🎧 Playback

• The end of a track is no longer cut off. When another track followed, WaveFlow moved on as soon as it had read the end of the file rather than once you had heard it, so up to about a second at the end of every track was dropped. It was most noticeable on fade-outs, live recordings and albums meant to flow into each other. WaveFlow now waits for the audio output to play the whole track out before moving on, even if you pause or jump back with an A-B loop during those last moments, and gapless transitions now keep the full tail of the outgoing track instead of cutting it short. (#933, refs #932)

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📦 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.WaveFlow

Arch / Manjaro / EndeavourOS / CachyOS

yay -S waveflow-bin
# or: paru -S waveflow-bin

Fedora / RHEL / Rocky / Alma / CentOS Stream

sudo dnf copr enable instazdll/waveflow
sudo dnf install waveflow

Debian / 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-flow

macOS

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.

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Thanks to @lucagab11 for the report, and keep the feedback coming. 💚