Amus v0.5.0

New Features

System Media Controls

• Full OS media key integration via souvlaki library
• Support for MPRIS (Linux), SMTC (Windows), and Now Playing (macOS)
• Media control events: play/pause, next, previous, stop, seek, volume
• Configure visibility through osMediaControls setting

Command-Line Interface

• Added built-in IPC server for external control
• CLI commands: play-pause, next, previous, seek, volume, status
• Enables scripting and remote control via terminal

File Association Support

• AMUS can now be registered as default player for audio files
• Configurable file type associations in desktop integration

Refactorings & Improvements

Scanning Improvements

• Added ensure_track_in_db() for single-file updates without full rescan
• Enables efficient metadata refresh when individual files change

Performance & Reliability

• Wrapped queue renumber operations in single transaction for atomicity
• Reduced WAL fsync overhead for bulk updates
• Fixed deterministic queue ordering in queue_insert_back_many()

Full Changelog: v0.4...v0.5.0

Amus v0.4.0

Faster library browsing, smarter search, and a better playlist workflow — plus a bunch of polish and performance work under the hood.

✨ Features

• Advanced fuzzy search — global search now runs client-side with Fuse.js (extended search). Filter by type with slash commands: /tracks, /artists, /albums, /playlists. Tab-complete ghost suggestions for faster queries.
• Track context menus — right-click tracks for the full track menu (play, queue, playlist, favorite, etc.).
• Smarter playlists
  • Add more on the playlist page to quickly find and add tracks without leaving the page
  • Playlist cover art support (custom + auto-generated covers)
  • Instant “in playlist” status via track playlist_ids (no extra backend round-trips)
• Stop playback — dedicated stop command (separate from pause)

⚡ Performance

• Library preloaded on startup — tracks, albums, artists, and playlists load once into a frontend store; pages no longer hammer IPC for the same data
• Faster cover art — uses pre-processed images instead of reprocessing; fixed image loading races/bugs across views
• Fewer repetitive DB queries over IPC for common library navigation

🎨 UI / UX

• Improved playlist page layout and add-track flow
• Fixed dropdown menu positioning/behavior
• Better horizontal scroll component with drag and scroll, and scroll buttons
• Layout fixes across library views
• Window polish: no shadow, dark theme default, window centered on open
• Bundle metadata: Music category + MPL-2.0 license

🐛 Fixes

• Image loading bugs (covers / artist art not updating correctly)
• Layout issues in library and playlist views
• Dropdown menu reliability
• Data loading for “Add to playlist” menus

🛠 Under the hood

• Migrated frontend toolchain to Vite+ and updated dependencies
• App version derived from Cargo.toml (single source of truth)
• Removed backend global_search IPC path in favor of client-side Fuse search
• New migration: playlist cover_art column
• Developer tooling / formatting via Oxfmt

📝 Notes

• File associations were prepared but postponed to a future release
• Smooth scrolling setting removed along with locomotive-scroll

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Full Changelog: v0.3...v0.4.0

Amus v0.3.0

Audio Engine Rewrite

• Replaced old audio engine architecture with a new which fixes all the previous playback fixes

New Features

• Playing visualizer animation
• Marquee text scrolling for long titles
• Database migrations for album artist and fetch tracking

UI/UX Improvements

• Redesigned album page UI
• Descriptive section headers in Queue
• Enhanced scan progress display
• Better horizontal scroll behavior

Bug Fixes

• Fixed reactivity issue with favorite toggle in track list
• Fixed various track list and UI rendering issues
• Fixed shortcut handler behavior
• Fixed scanning issue
• General stability improvements

Amus v0.2.0

Feature added

• Added mini player

• Better Search
  Search is now smarter:
  • Search across tracks, artists, albums, and playlists
  • Better result ranking for faster and more relevant results

• Added local and global keyboard shortcuts

Improvements

• Improved player icon colors.
• Added a smooth marquee animation for long track titles and artist names.

Fixes

• Fixed backward seek issues in player
• other minor issues

Amus v0.1.0

See the assets below to download and install this version.