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v1.4.0 — Now Playing in the web portal

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@ry-ops ry-ops released this 29 Aug 21:26
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v1.4.0
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The settings page now doubles as a Now Playing display — check what's playing from any browser on your network, not just by looking at the device.

What's new

A Now Playing card appears at the top of the settings page (below the status card), showing album art, title, artist, album, and the platform/format/bitrate line — the same data the e-paper display uses. It's built from state cached on every Volumio poll rather than making a separate request, so loading the page adds no extra load on Volumio. Shows "Nothing playing" when idle.

Bug fix

Found via live testing: track/album names containing non-ASCII characters (curly apostrophes, accented letters, etc.) rendered as mojibake — Kindness’t Common Sense instead of Kindness Isn't Common Sense — because the page never declared a character encoding. Added <meta charset="UTF-8"> and matching Content-Type headers.

Known limitations

  • Only verified against Tidal playback; other services may have their own quirks.
  • The settings/OTA portal remains unauthenticated — fine on a trusted home LAN.
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