2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026081303

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026081203

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Use faster stream/clear for Sendspin track changes, behind a legacy toggle (by @maximmaxim345 in #3870)
• Add artist name sorting for tracks and albums (by @dmoo500 in #5340)
• AI Radio: reusable hosts and an AI DJ for any queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5538)
• Rework and refine the Bose SoundTouch provider (by @fmunkes in #5573)
• Pair the built-in web player automatically (by @maximmaxim345 in #5591)
• Play announcements over the music on AirPlay players (by @marcelveldt in #5598)
• Hand a sync group over to a speaker that's still playing (by @marcelveldt in #5612)
• Send a spoken announcement by typing the text (by @marcelveldt in #5621)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix sync group breaking up when the leader is removed during playback (by @marcelveldt in #5606)
• Fix music not resuming on WiiM speakers after a group change (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5609)
• Fix Edifier and other older LinkPlay speakers playing silently over AirPlay (by @marcelveldt in #5618)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Play an announcement from the player menu (by @marcelveldt in #2458)
• More room for the player bar buttons on a wide screen (by @marcelveldt in #2449)
• A floating dock for the player and bottom menu (by @marcelveldt in #2441)
• A slimmer floating player with the grouping button next to play (by @marcelveldt in #2440)
• Add encryption and auto-pairing to the built-in web player (by @maximmaxim345 in #2399)
• AI Radio hosts editor and the AI DJ queue menu (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2354)
• Use the same grouping icon with player count everywhere (by @marcelveldt in #2436)
• Swipe down player fullscreen from anywhere (by @stvncode in #2431)
• Show the app update prompt instead of hiding it behind the player bar (by @marcelveldt in #2461)
• Let a touch drag scroll the group volume popout (by @marcelveldt in #2462)
• Keep the sleep timer clear of the player bar timeline (by @marcelveldt in #2460)
• Keep the on-screen keyboard out of the AI radio and smart playlist pickers (by @marcelveldt in #2455)
• Keep floating buttons and popups clear of the screen cutout (by @marcelveldt in #2459)
• Keep the smart playlist picker's list steady while it closes (by @marcelveldt in #2457)
• Remove the web player from the server when you switch it off (by @marcelveldt in #2453)
• Let the mobile menu fill the screen behind the phone's controls (by @marcelveldt in #2445)
• Keep the player bar popouts floating as they grow (by @marcelveldt in #2443)
• Translate the menu button on the mobile bottom bar (by @marcelveldt in #2442)
• Less empty space below the mobile menu (by @marcelveldt in #2434)
• Show the full playlist list again when the AI radio picker reopens (by @marcelveldt in #2435)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

9 changes

• Keep sync group playing when the lead speaker is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5608)
• Keep sync groups on the right protocol when a speaker can't play natively (by @marcelveldt in #5610)
• Bump auntie-sounds to 2.0.4 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5611)
• Don't move a sync group onto a speaker's offline protocol (by @marcelveldt in #5613)
• Only hand a sync group over to a speaker that can still be reached (by @marcelveldt in #5615)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.15 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5619)
• Add false-positive guards to the review-instructions shard (by @chrisuthe in #5620)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.187 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5623)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.269 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5624)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @stvncode