- Fixed the reason a track failed not showing up. The Golden Jukebox and the Music Disc Maker now show a short reason on screen when a disc will not play, instead of failing with no explanation. This was announced in an earlier update but had never reached this Minecraft version.
- When YouTube refuses a track, the disc can now be made from SoundCloud or Bandcamp instead. Music Disc Maker checks the length so a different recording, shortened version, or preview is not used, and shows the chosen source in the disc tooltip.
- Failure reasons are now accurate. A source that answered with an error no longer looks like a network or DNS problem, and a source blocking the connection is no longer described as YouTube doing it.
- Fixed a startup library unpack failure preventing every later playback attempt until the game was restarted.
- Albums and repeat no longer pause to load between tracks. The next track is fetched and buffered before the current one ends.
- Fixed the maker showing a generic error when the source refused the track, and fixed the failure text not responding to the mouse on its second line.
- Fixed the whole game freezing when a track changed. Track changes could hold up all sound and game activity while music finished, started, or waited for audio. Those waits no longer block the game.
- Fixed a SoundCloud preview-only link producing a disc that goes silent partway through. A preview-only track reports its full song length even though SoundCloud only streams the opening part, so the disc played briefly and then fell silent with no explanation. These links are now recognized and rejected up front with a clear reason, whether pasted directly, found in a playlist, or picked up while searching for another source.
- Fixed a disc sometimes staying silent with no reason shown on screen. Taking it back out and putting it in again usually made it play, but the first attempt could give up without saying why. The disc now plays through instead, and if it truly cannot play, the reason is shown.
1.20.1 / 26.1.2 / 26.2 / 1.21.11: all of the above.
1.21.1: most of these arrived in 2.2.2. New here are the SoundCloud preview-only fix and the silent-disc fix.