2.10.0 BETA 13

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.10.0b12

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Allow configuring Snapcast TCP stream sample rate and bit depth (by @rwjack in #5140)
• Addendum to collection support: Enhance search ability and overwrite collection metadata on provider sync (by @fmunkes in #5226)
• More accurate release years for much reissued songs (by @marcelveldt in #5442)
• Drop the entity dropdown from the Home Assistant settings (by @marcelveldt in #5446)
• Show the real reason when AirPlay pairing fails (by @marcelveldt in #5486)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Bose SoundTouch preset search and assignment (by @Odn0 in #5158)
• Resolve OpenSubsonic playlist tracks without per-track album and lyrics fetches (by @GraysonCAdams in #5359)
• Change ABC radio monochrome icon from black to white (by @OzGav in #5392)
• Fix Pocket Casts sync failing on episodes without a duration (by @OzGav in #5397)
• Plex: fix artist top tracks always being empty (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5405)
• Fix Bluesound players cutting off the end of a track (by @marcelveldt in #5408)
• Fix cast dashboards freezing for players with reserved characters in their id (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5415)
• Fix playback stopping after an AI Radio announcement (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5416)
• Fix Sonos S1 speakers no longer reacting instantly after a network hiccup (by @marcelveldt in #5432)
• Fix Sonos connections lingering after a provider reload (by @marcelveldt in #5433)
• Say which type failed when JSON serialization fails (by @OzGav in #5439)
• Show player settings in your own language again (by @marcelveldt in #5447)
• Keep simulated-mute speakers muted when the group volume changes (by @marcelveldt in #5449)
• Remove the last spurious error log entries for shared work (by @marcelveldt in #5453)
• Fix slow Home Assistant logins when a provider fails to finish loading (by @OzGav in #5455)
• Fix a stray error in the log when a Cast speaker fails to join a group (by @marcelveldt in #5470)
• Play announcements on muted speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5474)
• Fix the OpenAI Compatible provider failing to load (by @marcelveldt in #5487)
• Fix playlists not loading in Home Assistant (by @marcelveldt in #5489)
• Fix Apple TV now-playing screen losing progress and artwork (by @marcelveldt in #5490)
• Skip the provider search for an empty search query (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5500)
• Fix filesystem sync never converging on changed files (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5506)
• Fix file shares importing nothing and hiding playlists (#6019) (by @OzGav in #5510)
• Skip unreachable IPv6 addresses when connecting to Cast devices (by @OzGav in #5513)
• Fix broken playlists page after upgrading from stable to beta (by @marcelveldt in #5515)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add Timeline view for MusicBrainz artist events (by @dmoo500 in #2042)
• Fix the Discord playback position after seeking (by @marcelveldt in #2299)
• Restrict the test workflow to read-only repository access (by @marcelveldt in #2311)
• Remove an unused config setting type (by @marcelveldt in #2310)
• Run the test suite once per commit (by @marcelveldt in #2309)
• Cover the config link buttons in the disabled-state tests (by @marcelveldt in #2305)
• Import the API client normally in the companion and auth plugins (by @marcelveldt in #2294)
• Clean up unused props on the player bar timeline (by @marcelveldt in #2300)
• Player card no longer uses its own copy of the queue lookup (by @marcelveldt in #2293)
• Only load track waveforms while something is showing them (by @marcelveldt in #2295)
• Stop the player timeline animating when there is no track length (by @marcelveldt in #2296)
• Document when a queue counts as active (by @marcelveldt in #2297)
• Add tests for the settings field disabled state (by @marcelveldt in #2283)
• Share the app mount helper across the initialization tests (by @marcelveldt in #2288)
• Fix the playback position shown in Discord Rich Presence (by @marcelveldt in #2291)
• Party guest page no longer changes your selected player (by @marcelveldt in #2290)
• Stop test runs from reporting success when errors escape a test (by @marcelveldt in #2292)
• Search for a Home Assistant entity to use as a player control (by @marcelveldt in #2316)
• Add artist name sorting to library views (by @dmoo500 in #2268)
• Add support for authors and narrators (by @fmunkes in #2000)
• Make test fixtures match the real API models (by @marcelveldt in #2337)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

63 changes

• Search Home Assistant entities to use as player controls (by @marcelveldt in #5271)
• Keep group players up to date regardless of who triggers the update (by @marcelveldt in #5393)
• De-duplicate the metadata controller test fixture (by @marcelveldt in #5398)
• Show what a settings action did instead of redrawing the form (by @marcelveldt in #5402)
• Make player test config mocks behave like the real config (by @marcelveldt in #5422)
• Catch vulnerabilities a dependency update pulls in indirectly (by @marcelveldt in #5424)
• Stop tests crashing at random on a shared compile cache (by @marcelveldt in #5426)
• Tidy up where the Music Quiz AI limits live (by @marcelveldt in #5428)
• Share playlist track requests again on Yandex Music and KION Music (by @marcelveldt in #5430)
• Report Sonos S1 grouping failures as proper player errors (by @marcelveldt in #5431)
• Load the AcoustID fingerprinting library only when it is needed (by @marcelveldt in #5434)
• Stop providers from reloading twice after a lost connection or settings change (by @marcelveldt in #5435)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.260 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5436)
• Keep all members of a cached tuple value intact (by @marcelveldt in #5437)
• Open Subsonic: Add API token based authentication and update to py-opensonic 10.3.0 (by @khers in #5438)
• Keep the PR label in sync when the description changes (by @marcelveldt in #5441)
• Clean up unused leftovers in the Sonos S1 player (by @marcelveldt in #5443)
• Clean up unused code in the Sonos S1 error handling (by @marcelveldt in #5445)
• Share the Music Quiz AI limit checks between quiz types (by @marcelveldt in #5448)
• Fix wrong playback position and track length for HEOS players (by @marcelveldt in #5450)
• Tidy up duplicated fixtures in the controller tests (by @marcelveldt in #5451)
• Tidy up duplicated fixtures in the provider tests (by @marcelveldt in #5452)
• Fix failing cache controller test on dev (by @marcelveldt in #5456)
• Correct the cache docs on what single_flight=False does (by @marcelveldt in #5457)
• Limit the length of AI-written smart playlist descriptions (by @marcelveldt in #5458)
• Tidy up the duplicated Tidal test fixtures (by @marcelveldt in #5459)
• Tidy up the API value parser (by @marcelveldt in #5460)
• Keep a playback position of zero instead of treating it as unknown (by @marcelveldt in #5461)
• Stop the dependency check from blaming a PR for a vulnerability it did not introduce (by @marcelveldt in #5462)
• Remove duplicated code around waiting for shared work (by @marcelveldt in #5463)
• Share My Wave and My Mix track requests between listeners (by @marcelveldt in #5464)
• Keep a muted speaker working normally after it leaves a group (by @marcelveldt in #5465)
• Make the Tidal ISRC lookup test check the real API URL (by @marcelveldt in #5466)
• Show which vulnerability findings the dependency check set aside (by @marcelveldt in #5467)
• Tidy up the helper order in the API helpers module (by @marcelveldt in #5468)
• Stop confusing an unknown DLNA position or volume with zero (by @marcelveldt in #5469)
• Name the argument in dictionary parse errors (by @marcelveldt in #5471)
• Fix volume changes when unmuting a speaker (by @marcelveldt in #5473)
• Make shared-request deduplication reliable for media item arguments (by @marcelveldt in #5475)
• Fix pre-commit hooks failing when committing from a git worktree (by @marcelveldt in #5476)
• Fix DLNA players reporting a position that runs ahead of the audio (by @marcelveldt in #5477)
• Stop Sonos S1 discovery from freezing the server (by @marcelveldt in #5478)
• Prevent Sonos S1 speakers from reconnecting after a provider reload (by @marcelveldt in #5479)
• Clean up pending Sonos speaker setups when the provider is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5480)
• Stop Sonos S1 from scanning for speakers after it is turned off (by @marcelveldt in #5481)
• Keep speaker grouping correct for every user (by @marcelveldt in #5482)
• Clean up disabled players when a player provider is unloaded (by @marcelveldt in #5483)
• Keep unloading a provider when one of its players fails to shut down (by @marcelveldt in #5484)
• Add test coverage for removing a player provider (by @marcelveldt in #5485)
• Use consistent line endings in the pre-commit config file (by @marcelveldt in #5488)
• Tidy up the Sonos S1 error handling helper (by @marcelveldt in #5491)
• Stop a player registration that was cancelled halfway (by @marcelveldt in #5492)
• Adjust Snapcast and Soundcloud code owners (by @OzGav in #5494)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.184 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5495)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.261 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5496)
• Auto-merge dependency bumps without manual conflict resolution (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5499)
• Use consistent line endings in provider icon files (by @marcelveldt in #5504)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.12 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5505)
• Fix dependency auto-merge workflow env contract test (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5507)
• Stop AirPlay from re-sending unchanged artwork on every seek (by @marcelveldt in #5508)
• Fix local code checks failing on some numba versions (by @marcelveldt in #5512)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.262 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5514)
• Name the right speaker when Sonos S1 grouping fails (by @marcelveldt in #5519)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@GraysonCAdams, @MarvinSchenkel, @Odn0, @OzGav, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @khers, @marcelveldt, @rwjack