- [NEW] MPRIS Media Control support on Linux
- You can now control playback directly from your desktop environment (lock screen, widgets....) and hardware media keys.
- A new Preferences toggle allows disabling this feature (default enabled).
- The following MPRIS actions are supported:
Play,Pause,PlayPause,Stop,Next,Previous,Quit,OpenUri. - The playback status and tune metadata are reported as well.
- [NEW] DAC leakage can be adjusted in the Preferences (affects the envelope and waveforms).
- [NEW] DC-Blocker resistance can be adjusted in the Preferences (affects the highpass cutoff frequency of the external filter).
- [NEW] Wave offset (SID 6581) can be adjusted in the Preferences (affects the volume of digi samples for SID 6581).
- [NEW] Combined waveform strength can be adjusted in the Preferences (affects how harsh the SID chip sounds).
- [NEW] Preferences option to allow overriding the system theme on Linux.
- Known issue: theme override may not work on some desktop environments (typically Gnome works, KDE might not) in which case the behavior will be as if the "Auto" option is selected.
- [IMPROVED] Voices are no longer disabled while seeking to prevent tune state corruption (edge case with some tunes).
- This now makes the realtime-mode seeking slower, but correctness of the playback is of primary importance.
- [IMPROVED] STIL scrolling labels were optimized (cache graphics context) which should promote smoother scrolling (in theory).
- [IMPROVED?] Limit update checker timeout to 5 seconds.
- [FIXED] Changed song indication from "Copyright" to "Released" (in accordance with the HVSC.txt section 3-3).
- [FIXED] Fixed some jankiness related to playback navigation introduced in the previous version.
- [FIXED] Fixed misc. minor visual UI jankiness, mostly related to the dark theme.
- Default the MSW theme option to "Auto", remove "experimental" labeling.
- Updated to libsidplayfp v3.1.1 & libresidfp v1.2.2.
Future note: I plan to move the filter/chip settings from the Preferences to a dedicated window with save/load of presets, since there are lots of them by now and changing them in Prefs may be annoying if you're the type of user who likes to fiddle with them on per-tune/per-composer basis... Feel free to post your ideas/wishes about it in Discussions, or in the issue #15 if relevant.
Note
AppImage update 2026-10-02: rebuilt on Ubuntu 22.04 for wider compatibility (previously built on Debian 12.9) + improved no audio devices detection on startup (instead of crash).