2.10.0 BETA 15

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.10.0b14

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Use faster stream/clear for Sendspin track changes, behind a legacy toggle (by @maximmaxim345 in #3870)
• Update Yandex Music provider to v3.8.8: shared playlist requests and current authentication (by @trudenboy in #5171)
• 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)
• Stop dating songs from hits compilations (by @marcelveldt in #5586)
• Pair the built-in web player automatically (by @maximmaxim345 in #5591)
• Use expanded_options for sendspin pairing method (by @arturpragacz in #5592)
• Date songs written for films by their soundtrack (by @marcelveldt in #5594)
• Play announcements over the music on AirPlay players (by @marcelveldt in #5598)
• Extend low-latency WAV default to Squeezelite and MPD live sources (by @marcelveldt in #5602)
• 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)
• Speak an announcement with your microphone (by @marcelveldt in #5626)
• AI Radio: add host presets and a per-host language (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5627)
• Allow radio stations to play as dynamic stations (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5628)
• Speak an announcement in your own language (by @marcelveldt in #5630)
• AI Radio: send per-host TTS options to Home Assistant (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5634)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Surface Bandcamp label-released performers as their own artists (by @teancom in #3824)
• Fix a brief audio hiccup on the first playback after starting the server (by @marcelveldt in #5577)
• Only return the Phish artist when the query matches its name (by @OzGav in #5583)
• Fix guests seeing another guest's web player (by @maximmaxim345 in #5590)
• Fix sync group not re-forming after a leader switch (by @marcelveldt in #5595)
• Fix Spotify pairing authorization (by @marcelveldt in #5599)
• Improve live source playback compatibility (by @marcelveldt in #5600)
• 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 the new gPodder config flow (by @fmunkes in #5614)
• Fix the Audible provider's setup flow (by @fmunkes in #5616)
• Fix Edifier and other older LinkPlay speakers playing silently over AirPlay (by @marcelveldt in #5618)
• Report an expired YouTube Music cookie instead of a raw parse error (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5629)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add a pull request template so contributors know which label to pick (by @marcelveldt in #2343)
• Keep the test fixtures' item ids and uris in sync (by @marcelveldt in #2377)
• Use the shared media item fixtures in the smart playlist seed tests (by @marcelveldt in #2378)
• Share a player queue test fixture (by @marcelveldt in #2381)
• Compact the mobile player in settings (by @marcelveldt in #2428)
• Add a radio group rendering for expanded config entry options (by @arturpragacz in #2401)
• Give the player list, group and volume panels more room (by @marcelveldt in #2410)
• Keep the fullscreen player open when picking a player (by @marcelveldt in #2406)
• Consistent settings screens and a save button that stays clear of the player bar (by @marcelveldt in #2407)
• Add Milkdrop visualizer plugin (by @jozefKruszynski in #2340)
• Add ability to collapse collections in the author / narrator details view (by @fmunkes in #2351)
• Keep the mobile save button close to the player (by @marcelveldt in #2429)
• Keep the mobile menu clear of phone controls (by @marcelveldt in #2427)
• Keep the settings save button above the mobile player (by @marcelveldt in #2425)
• No more keyboard popping up over short filter lists (by @marcelveldt in #2419)
• Apply the mobile sidebar side setting right away (by @marcelveldt in #2423)
• Stop the "items selected" box floating too far above the player bar (by @marcelveldt in #2424)
• Don't open the on-screen keyboard when a search list opens (by @marcelveldt in #2420)
• Let the group volume popout scroll instead of running off screen (by @marcelveldt in #2418)
• Remember the last selected player when opening from Home Assistant (by @marcelveldt in #2417)
• Play an announcement from the player menu (by @marcelveldt in #2458)
• Lay a phone out as a phone when it is turned on its side (by @marcelveldt in #2473)
• One favourites menu on the player bar and full screen player (by @marcelveldt in #2499)

Other Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5581)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

19 changes

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.267 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5580)
• Add mined review precedents as Copilot code-review instructions (by @chrisuthe in #5582)
• Remove a redundant library from the test setup (by @marcelveldt in #5587)
• Add Zvuk version metadata, ordering cleanup, and regression coverage (by @trudenboy in #5588)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.186 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5593)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.14 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5597)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.268 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5604)
• 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)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.270 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5632)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.188 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5633)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.271 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5637)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @arturpragacz, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @teancom, @trudenboy