2.10.0 BETA 10

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.10.0b9

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add Stereo Width and Crossfeed DSP filters (by @OzGav in #4971)
• Announcements start faster and no longer get cut off (by @marcelveldt in #5115)
• Rename Radio Playlists plugin to Endless Mix Playlists (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5128)
• Autoplay continues your podcast or audiobook instead of switching to music (by @marcelveldt in #5141)
• Autoplay is on by default for new players (by @marcelveldt in #5144)
• A finished queue keeps its tracks so you can play it again (by @marcelveldt in #5156)
• Add Dutch to Alexa language commands (by @R3inoudR in #5166)
• Gapless seeks and reliable group sync on AirPlay players (by @marcelveldt in #5181)
• Add external_until for poll-completed external steps (by @jozefKruszynski in #5184)
• Let corrected AirPlay joins heal themselves instead of re-joining (by @marcelveldt in #5194)
• Start AirPlay late joins as soon as the speaker is ready (by @marcelveldt in #5202)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Handle invalid MusicBrainz identifiers in file tags gracefully (by @OzGav in #5073)
• Fix podcast playback on feeds that list a cover image before the audio (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5078)
• Fix pause failing on Cast devices streaming via Sendspin (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5083)
• Fix bit-perfect status for lossy sources (by @marcelveldt in #5087)
• Fix Audiobookshelf configuration loading (by @marcelveldt in #5088)
• Play the track you selected when shuffle is on (by @marcelveldt in #5092)
• Fix AirPlay players joining a playing group out of sync (by @marcelveldt in #5098)
• Fix lyrics and other optional values breaking on cached empty results (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5099)
• Fix volume limit enforcement for players with redirected volume control (by @OzGav in #5102)
• Show protocol-connected speakers in the Music Quiz speaker picker (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5103)
• Don't apply volume normalization to sound effects (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5105)
• Keep AI Radio segments in order and add a shuffle toggle (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5106)
• Fix Yandex My Wave stopping after initial batch (by @alectogeek in #5107)
• Automatically re-join AirPlay group members after a brief connection loss (by @marcelveldt in #5112)
• Don't render announcements twice when a player sends a HEAD request (by @marcelveldt in #5113)
• Restore player state when an announcement fails (by @marcelveldt in #5114)
• Measure true peak during loudness analysis (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5118)
• Remove stale Audiobookshelf playback sessions to avoid repeated sync failures (by @foobarth in #5120)
• Reduce deezer-python-gql log verbosity to match provider level (by @foobarth in #5121)
• Apple Music: signing in a second account no longer breaks the first (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5122)
• Don't start unrelated music when pressing play on an empty queue (by @marcelveldt in #5124)
• Fix remote access flooding the log with ICE and TURN warnings (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5125)
• Don't show the dashboard keepalive as active playback on cast players (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5127)
• Sendspin: freeze playback progress before tearing down the push stream (by @chrisuthe in #5129)
• Keep an AI Radio show and its queue in sync when either one stops (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5130)
• Snapshot Sendspin playback progress at natural end of stream (by @chrisuthe in #5131)
• Support password-protected AirPlay speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5134)
• Reconfiguring an AirPlay player can now redo or reset its pairing (by @marcelveldt in #5135)
• AirPlay playback no longer starts muted after the speaker was in standby (by @marcelveldt in #5139)
• Detect password-protected AirPlay devices more reliably (by @marcelveldt in #5147)
• Use one source of truth for AirPlay password announcements (by @marcelveldt in #5148)
• Reduce WebRTC and WiiM log noise when debug logging is enabled (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5153)
• Fix startup provider failures and show which provider needs attention (by @marcelveldt in #5162)
• Fix AirPlay noise bursts and group sync issues on Apple devices (by @marcelveldt in #5168)
• Pick a new go-librespot API port when the configured one is unavailable (by @OzGav in #5169)
• Clear stale library IDs in Audiobookshelf sync and validate cache on startup (by @foobarth in #5172)
• Stop log flooding and retry storms when artwork fails to download (by @marcelveldt in #5174)
• Stop re-sending unchanged album art around AirPlay track changes (by @marcelveldt in #5182)
• Fix late-joining AirPlay players starting out of sync (by @marcelveldt in #5186)
• Fix providers wrongly showing a setup error when they loaded fine (by @marcelveldt in #5190)
• Fix rejoining AirPlay players that start out of sync when their clock is slow to lock (by @marcelveldt in #5191)
• Fix SMB and NFS shares failing to reconnect after a reload (by @marcelveldt in #5192)
• Fix providers that depend on another provider failing to start (by @marcelveldt in #5200)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Revert "Add convolution DSP filter with impulse response library" (by @stvncode in #2222)
• Use vue-i18n pluralization for settings totals labels (by @geofffranks in #2201)
• Add convolution DSP filter with impulse response library (by @OzGav in #2190)
• Clarify the bit-perfect playback label (by @marcelveldt in #2224)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2226)
• Add a shuffle toggle to AI Radio shows (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2227)
• Drop the AI Radio clear-queue-on-start option (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2230)
• Rename radio actions to endless mix (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2148)
• Add help text to the DSP filters and gain stages and begin migration to shadcn (by @OzGav in #2180)
• Update the error banner for provider in discover apge (by @stvncode in #2225)
• Fix shows vanishing from the AI Radio gallery under a non-English locale (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2229)
• Show that a queue finished playing (by @marcelveldt in #2234)
• Stop lint and formatting reaching into nested git worktrees (by @marcelveldt in #2233)
• Stop the test suite picking up tests from nested git worktrees (by @marcelveldt in #2232)

Other Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5096)
• Move announcement handling into its own module (by @marcelveldt in #5133)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

32 changes

• Promote LRC formatted text in the plain lyrics tag to lrc_lyrics (by @OzGav in #5066)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5089)
• Bump CodSpeedHQ/action from 4.18.5 to 4.19.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5090)
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5091)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.249 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5094)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.174 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5095)
• Align PR review instructions with current context engineering guidance (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5097)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.7 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5100)
• Remove Mother Earth Radio (by @OzGav in #5104)
• Bump docker/login-action from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5108)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.250 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5116)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.175 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5117)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.8 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5126)
• Bump docker/login-action from 4.5.2 to 4.6.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5137)
• Bump CodSpeedHQ/action from 4.19.1 to 5.0.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5138)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.9 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5142)
• Catch duplicate keys in translation source files (by @marcelveldt in #5145)
• Fix failing protocol play/pause tests on dev (by @marcelveldt in #5146)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.251 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5152)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.176 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5154)
• Add CI checks for pull request titles and descriptions (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5155)
• Align minimum ffmpeg version requirements in the codebase (by @OzGav in #5159)
• Check out the base branch, and never post a bare mention (by @chrisuthe in #5164)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.252 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5170)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.0 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5176)
• Fix noisy 'Task exception was never retrieved' errors in the log (by @marcelveldt in #5177)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.1 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5183)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.2 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5189)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.3 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5193)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.177 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5195)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.4 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5196)
• Keep Apple TV protocol chatter out of AirPlay debug logs (by @marcelveldt in #5199)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @R3inoudR, @alectogeek, @chrisuthe, @foobarth, @geofffranks, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @stvncode