2.10.0 BETA 9

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.10.0b7

🚀 New Providers

• Add AI Radio Plugin (by @swiftbird07 in #3407)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Load Discover recommendation rows on demand and improve Recently Played (by @chrisuthe in #4487)
• MSX Bridge: Party Mode QR on TVs, direct streamserver delivery, playback and CSRF hardening (by @trudenboy in #4734)
• Allow collapsing of collections in base media controller (by @fmunkes in #4806)
• Support DSP filters that need a second audio input (by @OzGav in #4872)
• AirPlay: unified cliairplay binary (native AirPlay 2, PTP, MediaRemote) (by @marcelveldt in #4879)
• Add native controls to AirPlay devices (by @marcelveldt in #4882)
• Cast dashboards to display devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4887)
• Fetch only needed Home Assistant entities instead of the full state dump (by @OzGav in #4890)
• Serve provider icons on demand instead of inlining them in the manifest (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4907)
• Make max_concurrent_tasks configurable (by @kiwipaulrob in #4914)
• Add announcement support for ESPHome-based Sendspin players (by @marcelveldt in #4916)
• Prevent importing Home Assistant players that are natively supported (by @marcelveldt in #4917)
• Keep player settings when a universal player is replaced by a native player (by @marcelveldt in #4921)
• ariacast_receiver: Add configurable Device Name (by @meiser79 in #4922)
• Smart fades: stop stranding the listener in silence on energy-drop transitions (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4926)
• Remote access: migrate WebRTC backend to libdatachannel (aiolibdatachannel) (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4930)
• Add start_from_beginning option for podcast playback (by @chrisuthe in #4934)
• Instant AirPlay seek, next-track and resume (by @marcelveldt in #4939)
• Start AirPlay groups after all players are ready (by @marcelveldt in #4942)
• Add High/Low-pass DSP filter (by @OzGav in #4944)
• Recommendations follow-ups: unload cleanup and Mood/Activity mix subtitles (by @marcelveldt in #4946)
• Support commanded AirPlay starts (by @marcelveldt in #4949)
• Keep all AirPlay groups connected while paused (by @marcelveldt in #4951)
• Add setup flow engine for interactive provider and player setup (by @marcelveldt in #4952)
• Improve grouped AirPlay pause fallback (by @marcelveldt in #4953)
• Reduce AirPlay debug log noise (by @marcelveldt in #4965)
• Make Open Subsonic provider use GET methods (by @khers in #4969)
• Instant AirPlay seek and next-track via flush-and-refill (by @marcelveldt in #4977)
• Add Apple TV dashboard support (by @marcelveldt in #4979)
• Expose current Music Quiz state to dashboard displays (by @marcelveldt in #4983)
• Add transpose DSP filter (by @OzGav in #5005)
• Cast Party and Music Quiz to Apple TV (by @marcelveldt in #5006)
• Guided setup flows for providers and players (by @marcelveldt in #5010)
• Start the next Music Quiz song without a delay (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5015)
• Map Bose SoundTouch preset buttons on the provider instead of per player (by @marcelveldt in #5032)
• Reject ACTION-type entries in setup flow forms (by @marcelveldt in #5033)
• Surface the player reconfigure flow (by @marcelveldt in #5034)
• Automatically enable 24-bit AirPlay playback on devices that support it (by @marcelveldt in #5044)
• Name the token in the KION and Zvuk sign-in error (by @marcelveldt in #5058)
• Expose whether a provider has a setup/reconfigure flow (by @marcelveldt in #5061)
• Add support for synchronized lyrics ID3 tags (by @medusalix in #5063)
• Reduce repeated discovery logging (by @marcelveldt in #5064)
• Show why a device output can't be selected (by @marcelveldt in #5071)
• Disable Mac AirPlay players by default (by @marcelveldt in #5080)
• Show Apple TV external playback artwork (by @marcelveldt in #5081)
• Add tests for Open Subsonic provider (by @khers in #5082)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix flow mode not switching sample rate between tracks on wrapped players (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4685)
• Fix AirPlay Receiver losing audio after quick reconnects (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4785)
• Fix squeezelite power control (by @allmazz in #4829)
• Fix: regression: cannot pause/play the Ariacast receiver stream on server side #5647 (by @AirPlr in #4871)
• Make subsonic provider check for extension it uses (by @khers in #4874)
• Send progress metadata on Sendspin playback-state transitions (by @chrisuthe in #4876)
• Fix flow-stream EOF recovery for universal-player-wrapped Cast devices (by @distante in #4878)
• Show AirPlay metadata immediately (by @marcelveldt in #4883)
• Never persist expiring Apple Music artwork URLs (by @teancom in #4884)
• Apply user provider filter to in-library album tracks (by @OzGav in #4885)
• Fix slow album art loading over remote connections (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4889)
• Upgrade SiriusXM stream artwork URLs to https (by @OzGav in #4891)
• Fix 'Player xy disconnected prematurely...' in MusicCast on pause (by @fmunkes in #4893)
• Hide flow mode sample rate when disabled (by @marcelveldt in #4894)
• Enable 24-bit audio on supported Sonos players (by @marcelveldt in #4895)
• Fix cast group unreachable after leadership handover (by @kiegsgroot in #4896)
• fix(player_queues): reset elapsed_time with the item switch in play_index (by @teancom in #4898)
• Recover Sendspin bridge clients stuck in a stale disabled state (by @OzGav in #4899)
• Fix AirPlay 2 pairing credentials not persisted to live player config (by @Randalix in #4902)
• Restore Siri Remote playback controls (by @marcelveldt in #4903)
• Fix container build: pin numkong to 7.7.0 (7.7.1 ships no wheels) (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4904)
• Fix next-track enqueue after delayed player start (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4906)
• Fix ffmpeg stderr log flood on corrupted/malformed audio streams (by @chrisuthe in #4908)
• Fix next-track enqueue after dynamic queue reindex (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4911)
• Add priority flag to playlist import background task (by @kiwipaulrob in #4913)
• Raise API throttler to measured safe rate (by @jozefKruszynski in #4923)
• Fix spontaneous pairing prompts on Apple TVs (by @marcelveldt in #4927)
• Fix player settings being ignored when audio plays via a linked protocol (by @marcelveldt in #4928)
• Keep settings and group memberships when universal players merge or get replaced (by @marcelveldt in #4929)
• Clean up leftover universal player settings after a native player takes over (by @marcelveldt in #4931)
• Fix ghost players created by the server's own AirPlay receivers (by @marcelveldt in #4935)
• Release the active output protocol when a wrapped player's session ends (by @marcelveldt in #4937)
• Fix controls for bridged AirPlay groups (by @marcelveldt in #4950)
• Stop recurring Apple TV pairing prompts from control-channel flapping (by @marcelveldt in #4954)
• Setup flow callback: keep params as plain strings (by @marcelveldt in #4955)
• Drop the AirPlay --ptp-follow clock-follow path (by @marcelveldt in #4956)
• Keep AirPlay warm playback reliable (by @marcelveldt in #4957)
• AirPlay companion control follow-ups (by @marcelveldt in #4959)
• Preserve AirPlay cleanup cancellation (by @marcelveldt in #4960)
• Keep AirPlay bridge helpers ordered (by @marcelveldt in #4961)
• Fix missing AirPlay cover art (by @marcelveldt in #4984)
• Resume synced AirPlay groups after pausing (by @marcelveldt in #4985)
• Fix draft release lookup (by @marcelveldt in #5000)
• Add release recovery source SHA (by @marcelveldt in #5003)
• Fix draft release recovery (by @marcelveldt in #5007)
• Allow immutable draft discovery (by @marcelveldt in #5009)
• Allow draft asset recovery (by @marcelveldt in #5011)
• Ignore removed library artists (by @marcelveldt in #5014)
• Friendlier setup-flow errors (AirPlay pairing, Spotify dev step) (by @marcelveldt in #5019)
• Strip trailing NUL from MusicBrainz UFID recording MBID (by @geofffranks in #5020)
• Preserve HEOS now-playing metadata during MA-controlled playback (by @geofffranks in #5021)
• Harden the setup flow engine (by @marcelveldt in #5022)
• Complete setup flow translations for late-migrated providers (by @marcelveldt in #5024)
• Fix AirPlay players being marked off while streaming (by @marcelveldt in #5029)
• Keep AirPlay protocol selection automatic (by @marcelveldt in #5031)
• Keep own config entries for control-only players (by @marcelveldt in #5036)
• Fix server hanging on startup (by @marcelveldt in #5040)
• Clarify Spotify developer key setup (by @marcelveldt in #5041)
• Fix bit-perfect AirPlay playback (by @marcelveldt in #5042)
• Update players immediately after setup (by @marcelveldt in #5043)
• Remove duplicate setup URL help (by @marcelveldt in #5046)
• Fix duplicate setup instructions (by @marcelveldt in #5049)
• Fix outdated Home Assistant token help text (by @marcelveldt in #5050)
• Fix HomePods muting themselves and ignoring volume changes (by @marcelveldt in #5051)
• Fix AirPlay speakers drifting out of sync in a group (by @marcelveldt in #5052)
• Fix providers that could no longer be added (by @marcelveldt in #5053)
• Fix playback on devices whose AirPlay output still needs pairing (by @marcelveldt in #5065)
• Don't start playing music after an announcement when nothing was playing (by @marcelveldt in #5068)
• Fix Spotify Connect multiple instances (by @marcelveldt in #5070)
• Fix provider setup flows (by @marcelveldt in #5072)
• Keep playback controls loading until the player really starts (by @marcelveldt in #5075)
• ariacast_receiver: fix tests (by @meiser79 in #5077)
• Add icon for background tasks core module (by @stvncode in #5084)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2175)
• Restore audio chain icons (by @marcelveldt in #2160)
• Add traditional Chinese to the Lokalise download list (by @OzGav in #2159)
• Load provider icons on demand via the providers/icon command (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2178)
• Refactor recommendations to be lazy loaded (by @chrisuthe in #2141)
• Cast party & now-playing dashboards to display devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2176)
• Skeleton placeholders for loading and hidden Discover rows (by @marcelveldt in #2182)
• Party: return in-library tracks when a guest drills into an artist (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2181)
• Remove output limiter from audio chain details (by @OzGav in #2177)
• Remote access: reassemble chunked HTTP-proxy responses (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2183)
• Reduce PWA startup precache (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2185)
• Register transport listeners before connecting (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2187)
• Support immutable GitHub releases (by @marcelveldt in #2186)
• Support dashboards on older Cast runtimes (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2191)
• Fix TV dashboard rendering (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2194)
• Use bot for automated releases (by @marcelveldt in #2193)
• Guided setup flow UI for providers and players (by @marcelveldt in #2192)
• Cast the Music Quiz to a display (by @marcelveldt in #2197)
• Fix Android TV dashboard rendering and tidy the now-playing layout (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2200)
• Config action buttons use the dedicated invoke_action commands (by @marcelveldt in #2204)
• Core config action buttons use the invoke_action command (by @marcelveldt in #2209)
• Fix setup flow dialog stuck on spinner after launch (by @marcelveldt in #2210)
• Keep setup-required players readable (by @marcelveldt in #2212)
• Fix login behind Home Assistant ingress (by @marcelveldt in #2216)
• Larger now-playing dashboard text on small cast displays (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2218)
• Remove the horizontal scroll on discover page in mobile (by @stvncode in #2221)

Other Changes

• Make remote-access ma-api bridge tests deterministic (no real WebRTC handshake) (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4938)
• Simplify config options contract after setup flows (by @marcelveldt in #5017)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

60 changes

• Reuse cached AirPlay artwork (by @marcelveldt in #4880)
• Fetch AirPlay binaries during image builds (by @marcelveldt in #4881)
• Add descriptive error body to imageproxy 400 rejections (by @OzGav in #4897)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.229 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4900)
• Remove the fixed output limiter (by @OzGav in #4901)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.1.1 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4905)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.230 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4910)
• AirPlay: use one clock identity for multi-room timing (by @marcelveldt in #4915)
• Remove unused get_device_by_connection from Home Assistant provider (by @marcelveldt in #4920)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.168 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4924)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.2.0 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4925)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.231 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4932)
• Move base image to Debian trixie (by @marcelveldt in #4933)
• Bump docker/login-action from 4.4.0 to 4.5.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #4936)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.0 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4941)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.169 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4943)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.1 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4945)
• Restore provider method ordering (by @marcelveldt in #4948)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.232 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4958)
• Install Git for temporary aiolibdatachannel source build (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4962)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.3 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4964)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.233 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4966)
• Chromecast and Sonos: apply verbose logging changes without a restart (by @marcelveldt in #4967)
• Fix AirPlay provider sometimes failing to reload (by @marcelveldt in #4968)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.234 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4970)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.235 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4974)
• Make CI tests faster and more reliable (by @marcelveldt in #4975)
• Bump docker/login-action from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #4976)
• Show clearer errors for invalid media files (by @marcelveldt in #4978)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.4 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4980)
• Make server releases immutable-safe (by @marcelveldt in #4988)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.236 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4989)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.237 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4990)
• Fix release startup permissions (by @marcelveldt in #4991)
• Replace legacy GitHub credentials (by @marcelveldt in #4992)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.5 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #4996)
• Allow bot dependency updates to auto-merge (by @marcelveldt in #4997)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.238 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5002)
• Fix smart playlist documentation URL (by @Matthew-Kilpatrick in #5012)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.240 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5013)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.241 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5018)
• Bump music-assistant-models to 1.1.171 (by @marcelveldt in #5025)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.171 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5026)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.242 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5027)
• Retire the AUTH_SESSION auth-popup mechanism (by @marcelveldt in #5030)
• Align core-module config actions with invoke_action (by @marcelveldt in #5035)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.243 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5037)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.244 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5038)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.245 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5045)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.3.6 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5048)
• Bump alexapy from 1.29.17 to 1.30.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5054)
• Bump codespell from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5055)
• Bump mypy from 2.1.0 to 2.3.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5056)
• Bump transformers from 5.6.2 to 5.14.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5057)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.172 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5059)
• Clean up a duplicated setting in the built-in provider (by @marcelveldt in #5060)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.173 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5069)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.246 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5074)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.247 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5085)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.248 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5086)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@AirPlr, @MarvinSchenkel, @Matthew-Kilpatrick, @OzGav, @Randalix, @allmazz, @chrisuthe, @distante, @fmunkes, @geofffranks, @jozefKruszynski, @khers, @kiegsgroot, @kiwipaulrob, @marcelveldt, @medusalix, @meiser79, @music-assistant-machine, @stvncode, @swiftbird07, @teancom, @trudenboy