2.10.0 RC 7

📦 RC Release

Changes since 2.10.0rc6

⚠ Breaking Changes

• Retire the local audio provider in favor of the Sendspin add-on (by @chrisuthe in #5965)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Show fuller descriptions for BBC Sounds podcasts and shows (by @OzGav in #5924)
• Add per player HEOS playback transition configuration (by @Tommatheussen in #5978)
• Shuffle and repeat now work on a source your speaker runs itself (by @marcelveldt in #5993)
• Use album loudness only for albums you actually played (by @marcelveldt in #5994)
• Faster seeking on Spotify tracks played through Soloist (by @marcelveldt in #6000)
• Keep the home page in step when played state changes (by @OzGav in #6005)

🐛 Bugfixes

• 'Play next' now really plays the chosen track next on a dynamic queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5950)
• Use album loudness only when tracks really play as part of an album (by @marcelveldt in #5981)
• Notice when Spotify playback loses its pairing (by @marcelveldt in #5987)
• Seeking or resuming a Spotify track no longer cuts it off mid-song (by @marcelveldt in #5992)
• Add dark theme icon for MilkDrop Visualizer (by @jozefKruszynski in #6007)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Continue setup as soon as you pick an option (by @maximmaxim345 in #2643)
• Shuffle and repeat no longer apply to something that stopped playing (by @marcelveldt in #2650)
• Show shuffle and repeat failures again, except the expected one (by @marcelveldt in #2652)
• Document how the shuffle and repeat controls pick the source they act on (by @marcelveldt in #2651)
• Surface retired providers correctly in the settings UI (by @chrisuthe in #2644)
• Show the full menu on discover page items (by @OzGav in #2624)
• Translate the provider stage badge (by @chrisuthe in #2629)
• Fix permission popups on cast dashboards (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2655)
• Replace butterchurn with maintained fork (by @jozefKruszynski in #2654)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2630)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

23 changes

• Count an album as played once, however its tracks are ordered in the queue (by @marcelveldt in #5991)
• Keep the position shown for a live source in step with the player (by @marcelveldt in #5995)
• Document which Spotify Soloist pairing failures are detected (by @marcelveldt in #5996)
• Show the right bit-perfect badge when two speakers share one live source (by @marcelveldt in #5997)
• Log how long a stream takes to deliver its first audio (by @marcelveldt in #5998)
• Report a slow player stop after pausing Spotify Connect (by @marcelveldt in #5999)
• Spread beat analysis over shorter steps so it stays out of playback's way (by @marcelveldt in #6001)
• Cleanup and small tweaks to the Spotify provider (by @marcelveldt in #6002)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.200 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6003)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.291 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6004)
• Stop leaving a subprocess running when closing it is cancelled (by @marcelveldt in #6006)
• Make the Smart Fades unloaded-model guards actually work (by @marcelveldt in #6008)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.201 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6009)
• Let a cancelled virtual player creation finish cleaning up (by @marcelveldt in #6010)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.202 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6011)
• Keep analysis models loaded while a track is still being analysed (by @marcelveldt in #6012)
• Keep the Smart Fades models as a single set (by @marcelveldt in #6013)
• Keep Spotify playing without a gap when a track repeats or the queue changes (by @marcelveldt in #6014)
• Stop logging an ordinary Spotify seek as a failure (by @marcelveldt in #6015)
• Don't stall cleaning up a virtual player that was already removed (by @marcelveldt in #6016)
• Free a cut Spotify channel's buffer as soon as nothing is reading it (by @marcelveldt in #6017)
• Add tests for where Spotify Soloist splits one track from the next (by @marcelveldt in #6018)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.292 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6020)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Tommatheussen, @chrisuthe, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345