sonarche: v0.8.0

0.8.0 (2026-07-26)

Features

• download: move the activity table to its own History page (22a6610)
• download: open the record a finished row produced (8dec5ee)
• library: add a category axis alongside genres (c9d87b5)
• library: anchor the artist hover play to the cover corner (be69a92)
• library: browse a genre, category or artist's tracks in place (58d8569)
• library: build the metadata triage page (0c921fb)
• library: drop the borrowed streaming hero for a metadata-first band (bf891f4)
• library: filter the explorers from metadata triage deep links (e63f0e4)
• library: float the album drawer's fan-out offers beside the panel (1780aad)
• library: genre-based line-art avatars for artists (e1fbad9)
• library: give every explorer the same sticky work bar (3c363f2)
• library: give the tracks explorer a sticky filter bar (a50546d)
• library: index, filter and sort tracks in pure modules (ac4aa7c)
• library: inspect and edit a whole album in one drawer (b4f1d19)
• library: keep row actions on screen and play on double-click (20cb089)
• library: link hero genre chips to their pages, animate the row (9c467e4)
• library: open a genre's tracks from its page (1e23208)
• library: open the album metadata drawer from the shelf (2a1534b)
• library: pair every play-all with a shuffle pill (28acdb9)
• library: play a genre from its hero (2cabfea)
• library: save edits from the track metadata drawer (4e23ec8)
• library: set the category and per-track genre from the album drawer (21c8b24)
• library: show album completeness as a ring that fills on arrival (4daab32)
• library: sort the genres shelf by size or name (398558d)
• library: sort the tracks table from its column headers (4a91ff6)
• library: step back through history from the hero's trail (d779dcb)
• library: surface suspect matches and duplicate recordings in triage (d80c104)
• library: turn the genres view into a family card index (71fd3ad)
• library: widen the category taxonomy and rename TV to Series (306f3b0)
• player: add ordered and shuffled set launches (0ef8b00)
• player: add queue primitives (order, shuffle, repeat) (c5eaaf9)
• player: give the queue panel sections and air (792771c)
• player: navigate to the album and artist from the bar (c6f74e9)
• player: play sets through a real queue (3523d97)
• player: show cover art in the play queue (fa76b2e)
• settings: bring the settings page into the app shell (7beab2d)
• sidecar: add a batch metadata write path (b454b1e)
• sidecar: expose the beets grouping tag as an editable field (22639b7)
• sidecar: record metadata provenance as flexible attributes (b30d128)
• sidecar: spare hand-edited genres in genre recompute (4101a6b)
• ui: breathing room for the sidebar and the traffic lights (070e34b)
• ui: drop the topbar and the native title bar, rework the sidebar (f3ec00c)

Bug Fixes

• download: stop reporting a partly-downloaded playlist as a failure (6578b66)
• library: keep a metadata field's label on one line (dd75140)
• library: stop a genre chip from renaming the category page (fece290)
• library: stop the hero wash covering the tracklist, round the row actions (deb7de1)
• library: tint triage chips amber and unblock genre families with no album (da91c29)
• player: end tracks at the library length, not the element's (15630a2)
• shell: keep native traffic lights visible in system dark mode (c972f5a)
• sidecar: rescue cross-language album matches onto one clean release (357770d)

Performance Improvements

• library: debounce the library search (a7d59dc)
• library: settle the search debounce at 275ms (4a42932)