2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082403

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082303

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Keep your queue when an external source starts playing (by @marcelveldt in #5914)
• Play Spotify through Spotify's own playback engine (by @marcelveldt in #5918)
• Add task reports (by @marcelveldt in #5925)
• Show when a music service handles loudness and crossfade itself (by @marcelveldt in #5937)
• Stop fighting the Spotify app over a Soloist playback session (by @marcelveldt in #5943)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Keep line breaks in metadata out of builtin M3U playlist files (by @OzGav in #5837)
• Include genre_aliases in genre summary listings (by @jozefKruszynski in #5858)
• Fix AirPlay players stuck 'playing' from a stale snapshot (by @teancom in #5938)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Show when a music service handles loudness and crossfade itself (by @marcelveldt in #2621)
• Fix external source badges (by @marcelveldt in #2622)
• Fix alias count in the genre management table (by @jozefKruszynski in #2583)
• Fix shuffle and repeat while an external source is playing (by @marcelveldt in #2612)
• Rename the external source composable (by @marcelveldt in #2616)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

5 changes

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.196 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5920)
• Drop the audio format comparison workaround (by @marcelveldt in #5936)
• Skipping a Spotify track no longer starts with a moment of the previous one (by @marcelveldt in #5940)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.198 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5945)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.286 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5946)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@OzGav, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @teancom