Open Media Explorer v0.1.2

Open Media Explorer 0.1.2

This is the largest Open Media Explorer update yet: eleven concurrent public
media sources, stronger live playback, portable data, downloads, recording,
equalization, new themes, and a complete end-to-end guide.

Highlights

• Adds media.ccc.de/C3VOC, Library of Congress, gPodder Podcasts, PeerTube, and
  Owncast alongside Radio Browser, iptv-org, Internet Archive, NASA, Wikimedia
  Commons, and LibriVox.
• Keeps independent source callers moving concurrently with fair scheduling,
  provider-specific pacing, retained cursors, retry backoff, and persistent
  cache support.
• Improves HLS and non-DRM DASH playback with stream candidate failover,
  buffering headroom, stall recovery, and playback priority over background
  catalog and artwork work.
• Adds live MP3/MP4 recording, finite-media downloads, managed FFmpeg support,
  and a ten-band EQ with global and favorite-specific presets.
• Adds System, Light, Dark Teal, Midnight Blue, Forest Green, Ember Orange, and
  Amethyst Violet themes, including matching native title-bar colors.
• Keeps favorites, settings, cache, logs, downloads, and tools in a portable
  WorldMediaWindows-data profile beside the executable.
• Adds a complete user, troubleshooting, architecture, and developer wiki.

Download choices

• WorldMediaWindows.exe — classic single-file portable build.
• WorldMediaWindows-0.1.2-portable.zip — extract-all package using the signed
  official CPython launcher/runtime layout.

The classic EXE is not code-signed, so Windows or antivirus software may ask
for confirmation. Existing portable data is preserved when replacing only the
EXE; do not delete the neighboring WorldMediaWindows-data folder.

See CHANGELOG.md for the full technical change list and
the documentation home for usage instructions.

World Media Windows v0.1.1

Windows maintenance release focused on persistence and continuous discovery.

Changes:

• Favorites/settings/volume now persist through WebView2 restarts by using a non-private storage profile.
• Library background discovery keeps pulling while a search term is active.
• Search results are tagged separately from the general browse stream so search pagination no longer exhausts discovery.
• Added favicon asset and quiet handling for LibriVox empty-result searches.
• Hardened JSON/text response parsing in the frontend HTTP wrapper.

Validation:

• npm run build
• npm audit --omit=optional
• python -m py_compile worldmedia_native.py worldmedia_server.py
• Native no-browser startup/root/proxy/shutdown smoke
• Playwright rendered smoke for app load, favorite reload persistence, active-search background pulls, desktop, and mobile
• PyInstaller rebuild and smoke test of dist\WorldMediaWindows.exe

Artifact:

• WorldMediaWindows.exe
• SHA256: 442ee21fab427e93f0210057237c2385f388d3d5d77287f3493716037014c500

World Media Windows v0.1.0

Single portable Windows exe for the lighter Windows-native World Media build. No WSL, Docker, Node, Git, Rust, or system Python required for users.