Luminous v0.75.0
A feature-packed update to Luminous Music Player featuring Decades auto-playlists, major playlist editor enhancements, full application state restoration, integrated library settings, and UI refinement across all views.
🌟 What's New in v0.75.0
🎵 Decades & Smart Auto-Playlists
- Automatic Decades Categorization: Instantly browse your library grouped by release decade (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s) with dedicated category color badges (#16).
- Auto-Playlist Visual Polish: Updated grid shell and card styling for both custom and auto-playlists (#92, #95).
📋 Enhanced Playlist Editor
- Multi-Selection & Batch Operations: Select multiple tracks within playlists for bulk operations (#86).
- Batch Drag-and-Drop Reordering: Smooth drag-and-drop reordering with full backend synchronization (#85).
- Duplicate Detection & Inline Search: Identify duplicate tracks instantly and filter playlist content in real time.
- Stacked Cover Art Previews: Visual multi-layered cover art stacks on playlist headers and cards.
🔄 Seamless State Preservation
- Full App State & Context Restoration: Luminous now preserves and restores your active playback queue, position, sidebar tab, and active album/artist detail panes across app restarts (#72, #91).
🎨 Artist & Genre Highlights
- Primary Genre Display: View artist genres directly on artist cards with optimized backend query performance.
- Expanded Sorting Options: Sort artist views by genre, release count, and alphabetical order.
- Unified Cover Stack Component: Standardized multi-layered cover art stack presentation across
AlbumCards and detail views.
⚙️ Integrated Library Maintenance
- Library Scanning Settings: Easily configure automatic background watching, incremental rescan behavior, and database indexing directly from Settings (#19).
- About & Credits View: Added About & Credits settings tab with detailed project info and third-party attributions.
🐛 Bug Fixes & Refinements
- Seekbar Waveforms: Fixed dual waveform peak generation and normalization for smooth seekbar visualizer rendering (#93).
- Z-Index Layering: Fixed context menus and modal dialogs rendering behind the floating acrylic PlayerBar.
- Grid & Alignment Polish: Unified scroll containers to guarantee right-margin alignment at all grid column counts.
- Artist Metadata: Corrected artist album count calculations and singular/plural formatting.
- Canvas Theme Colors: Fixed dynamic theme resolution for seekbar waveform canvas elements.
- Screenshot Automation: Updated screenshot generator to accurately match lyrics with featured tracks (#96).
📦 Downloads
Installers and portable binaries for Windows and Linux are attached below:
- 🪟 Windows:
Luminous_0.75.0_x64-setup.exe/Luminous_0.75.0_x64_en-US.msi - 🐧 Linux:
Luminous_0.75.0_amd64.deb/Luminous_0.75.0_amd64.AppImage/Luminous-0.75.0-1.x86_64.rpm