sonarche: v0.9.0

0.9.0 (2026-07-28)

Features

• build: let the app update itself (9c503c1)
• build: ship our own Python instead of asking for one (7ada434)
• download: let a job carry a category and stamp it after enrich (082f5f0)
• download: show a download as a card rather than a table row (314a32c)
• library: copy a chosen folder into the ark (d51580d)
• library: edit an album's metadata in one modal (1ea7fb8)
• library: give an oversized imported cover a version to be drawn from (db65c49)
• library: look at a folder before importing it (9a6b546)
• player: decode the formats an imported library is made of (b91b67f)
• player: native audio engine in Rust (11cbb05)
• player: play through the Rust engine instead of the webview (80e9b0b)
• player: restore media keys through the OS media session (c9f3dcd)
• player: seek that lands, and a gapless hand-over (b06ef4d)
• shell: let a cleared step be opened and read again (30e0699)
• shell: offer the update instead of only being able to install it (a8d9a21)
• shell: remember the first-run walkthrough and let it be replayed (ab38fea)
• shell: walk the first launch through its three steps (6176646)
• ui: draw the Sonarche ark and make it the app mark (77eb68f)
• ui: show the playhead and widen the seek bar's grab area (5f85dc5)
• ui: state an album's completion as a count, not a share (c2ceffe)
• ui: tell the user when a track cannot be played (b60c197)

Bug Fixes

• build: check out the release branch before syncing Cargo.lock (d22ee48)
• library: refile a track when its album or artist is renamed (426d9a2)
• library: stop baking the album cover into every imported track (f9213d0)
• shell: make the setup reset actually replay the setup (58bf92c)

Performance Improvements

• library: cache the album grouping on the track array's identity (893877a)
• library: serve display-sized covers instead of archived originals (b60c29d)
• library: stop refetching the whole library on every navigation (9fe72eb)
• sidecar: find an imported single by its marker, not by scanning (329b0e1)
• sidecar: give the library listing its own channel (54b3cc8)
• sidecar: pass the library listing through as raw bytes (776339f)
• stop redoing library-sized work on every keystroke and render (c4cdcb6)