2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026080201

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026080101

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Expose external id lookup on the API (by @OzGav in #5160)
• Report AirPlay speakers that stay silent while shown as playing (by @marcelveldt in #5217)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Wait for a running library sync to stop before unloading a provider (by @marcelveldt in #5197)
• Show the full track length after seeking (by @marcelveldt in #5198)
• Stop one component's log level from flooding the log with unrelated messages (by @marcelveldt in #5203)
• Don't let one bad Home Assistant entity break the whole HA integration (by @OzGav in #5206)
• Remove the extra delay when starting a single AirPlay speaker (by @marcelveldt in #5208)
• Keep the account login dialog in step with the browser (by @marcelveldt in #5209)
• Fix speakers joining a playing group out of sync (by @marcelveldt in #5210)
• Fix Music Timeline bonus questions running out of answer options (by @marcelveldt in #5212)
• Improve Music Timeline song variety and release years (by @marcelveldt in #5213)
• Show when a Music Quiz game is restarting (by @marcelveldt in #5214)
• Load the Home Assistant settings much faster on large setups (by @marcelveldt in #5216)
• Fix AirPlay 2 speakers playing silence on multi-homed hosts (by @marcelveldt in #5219)
• Fix AirPlay speakers playing behind when grouped with a Sendspin player (by @marcelveldt in #5220)
• Fix a group start recording an instant it never used (by @marcelveldt in #5223)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add support for Audiobook collections (by @fmunkes in #2155)
• Add "Play from beginning" for podcast episodes (by @chrisuthe in #2184)
• Add DSP stereo width and crossfeed filters (by @OzGav in #2189)
• Explain why joining a party or quiz failed (by @marcelveldt in #2242)
• Show when a Music Quiz game is restarting (by @marcelveldt in #2240)
• Start audio faster on web players (by @marcelveldt in #2241)
• Fix setup wizard jumping back to a previous step (by @marcelveldt in #2239)
• Remove JWT claims the server never mints (by @chrisuthe in #2236)

Other Changes

• Remove unused authentication middleware (by @marcelveldt in #5211)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

5 changes

• Log the resolved interface and publish IP when starting cliairplay (by @marcelveldt in #5215)
• Remove an unused, empty helper function (by @marcelveldt in #5218)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.5 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5221)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.253 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5222)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.6 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5224)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@OzGav, @chrisuthe, @fmunkes, @marcelveldt