Luminous v0.95.0

Release Notes - Luminous v0.95.0

Luminous v0.95.0 contains exciting new features, design enhancements, and stability improvements since v0.90.0:

🌟 New Features

• Tag-Based File Organizer: A dry-run preview modal for reorganizing your library into a custom folder/filename template, with conditional blocks (optional disc/track segments), syntax-highlighted variable editing, resizable preview columns, and the option to relocate companion files (artwork, lyrics, logs, cue sheets) alongside moved tracks — now embedded directly inline in Settings (#81).
• Bulk Tag Editor for Albums: Edit metadata tags across an entire album at once instead of one song at a time (#70).
• Playback Fades & Auto-Crossfade: Optional fade-in/fade-out on play, pause, and seek, plus an auto-crossfade mode for gap-free transitions between tracks (#79).
• Detached Picture-in-Picture Miniplayer Window: A floating, always-on-top miniplayer with a hover transport control mask, drag-to-move, and drag-to-resize, with size and position now remembered across sessions (#46).
• Queue Population Modes: Auto-Refill playlists (genre/decade auto-playlists and custom Smart Playlists) can now be biased All / Favourites / Familiar / Discover / Deep Cuts, replacing the old fixed top-N ordering (#120).
• Home Redesign — Top Artists & Row Layouts: A full-width Top Artists carousel plus Most Played and Recently Added row layouts, with album genre now shown under the category label (#118).
• Update & Format Settings: New in-app update checking and automatic format detection, plus further i18n polish; all supported audio formats are now enabled by default (#107).
• Miniplayer Song Rating: Rate the current track directly from the miniplayer's hover controls.
• Keyboard Shortcuts Overlay: A new Ctrl+/ shortcuts help modal, remapped playback keys, and new global hotkeys for layout and history navigation (#138).
• In-App User Guide: A full user guide is now available directly from the Help sidebar item (#142).

🎨 Visual & UX Improvements

• New Design System: App-wide sync to a refreshed design system with a new logo (split into crisp static and lush reactive artifacts) and updated playlist card gradients (#133, #134).
• Artist Discography Overhaul: Sets/Albums/EPs/Singles tabs now only appear when populated, loose singles-only artists get a proper grouped view, and cover art falls back to song artwork when there's no album to draw from.
• Multi-Disc Track Numbering: Track numbers now show as "{disc}-{track}" across releases with more than one disc.
• Clickable Carousel Cards: Song titles and artists in Home/Artist carousels now navigate to their album/artist views, matching the rest of the app.
• Keyboard Shortcuts Everywhere: Escape-to-cancel and Enter-to-confirm now work consistently across the Tag Editor, Album Tag Editor, Organize Files, and confirmation dialogs.
• Themed Range Sliders: Preamp, Target Level, Fallback Gain, Fade, and Crossfade sliders now show an accent-filled track instead of a flat, low-contrast bar.
• Streamlined Overview: Removed the redundant per-view overview infoboxes and added a direct Help link to the side nav (#140).
• Settings & Organizer Polish: Split Settings into dedicated Folders/Tools tabs, readable theme labels with Canadian spelling, a visible border on the organize-pattern input, and highlighted fields for values changed by an AcoustID lookup in the tag editor (#135, #137).
• Playlist & Home Polish: Refined toggles, album cards, Top 5 rows, and the playlist infobox (#129).
• Small Polish: Sun/Moon indicator on the System theme card, Repeat mode shown as a text label like Shuffle, an optional Skip Count column in the songs table, and a click-to-copy version number with a GitHub icon in About.
• Rescaled Visualizers: Spectrum analyzer and reactive logo now scale to peak-relative bins for a more consistent look across tracks.
• Accessibility Audit: Removed low-contrast, opacity-diluted text across every view.

🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes

• Library Watcher Reconciliation: Files moved across watched folders are now reconciled instead of silently breaking playback (#132).
• Cover Art Reliability: Fixed loose singles sharing one cached cover image, the background file watcher wiping cached artwork on tag edits, and embedded cover art being lost when saving tag changes.
• Miniplayer Fixes: Resolved the window growing on repeated enter/exit, a cropped album cover at default size, Ctrl+M double-firing, native/manual resize fighting each other, and a corner/border mismatch with the OS window frame.
• Auto-Playlist Freshness: Genre/decade auto-playlists now rebuild immediately after a scan instead of waiting up to 24 hours.
• Organizer Correctness: Excluded already-pruned songs from the preview, fixed companion-art paths after a relocation, normalized UNC paths on Windows, named colliding files clearly in the preview, and let Apply proceed past collisions by skipping only the affected files.
• Empty-Folder Cleanup: Clean Up now sweeps the whole library for empty folders (not just newly scanned ones), recognizes OneDrive placeholder folders, and shows the empty-folder count in its toast for longer. Ratings are now preserved when a watched-folder move relocates a track.
• Shuffle Mode: Fixed a bug where the previous track could replay itself in shuffle mode.
• Theme Sync: Dynamic Artwork theme colors now apply immediately when selected, instead of waiting for the next track change.
• Immersion Mode: Fixed the immersion toggle button showing an inverted on/off state.
• Scan Reliability: scan_all now always emits a completion signal, even when there are zero watched folders.