2.11.0 BETA 2

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.11.0b1

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add external ID lookup infrastructure (by @dmoo500 in #5110)
• Match imported playlist tracks against other providers when their source is gone (by @marcelveldt in #5986)
• Add playlist migration between providers (by @marcelveldt in #5989)
• Sign in to Overcast with a QR code instead of a password (by @OzGav in #6126)
• Add support to use loudness data from plex (by @chicco-carone in #6166)
• Add ARTIST_TRACKS support to the Tidal provider (by @jozefKruszynski in #6167)
• Show the year a track was originally released (by @OzGav in #6182)
• Clarify the global Autoplay and crossfade default toggles (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6187)
• Prefer loudness metadata from music providers over the built-in measurement (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6188)
• Add measured SendSpin delay for LG SPx Cast devices (by @Toverbal in #6204)
• Prefill the AmpliPi host from mDNS during setup (by @mcaulifn in #6206)
• Play hi-res radio stations at their original bit depth (by @OzGav in #6214)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Clean up sidebar shortcuts when a music provider is removed (by @OzGav in #6124)
• Show why a Podcast Index login or episode lookup failed (by @OzGav in #6146)
• Use artist top tracks when sampling genre and dynamic radio seeds (by @jozefKruszynski in #6155)
• Show library tracks in the Recently played playlist (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6161)
• Deezer: fix multiple instances sharing the same account (by @jdaberkow in #6169)
• Skip a Spotify track Spotify refuses, instead of logging a crash (by @marcelveldt in #6171)
• Cheaper track changes: Spotify Soloist advertises its real single-stream limit (by @marcelveldt in #6172)
• Sonos no longer plays a stale next track after you change the queue (by @marcelveldt in #6173)
• Deezer: fix seeking landing short of the requested position (by @jdaberkow in #6174)
• Fix spotify soloist new download (by @aauren in #6176)
• Play the newest episode when you ask for the latest one (by @OzGav in #6178)
• Show ARD Audiothek episodes in the right order (by @OzGav in #6179)
• Guard Sendspin metadata progress against stale elapsed-time extrapolation (by @teancom in #6183)
• AirPlay: fall back to the default port when discovery has no port (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6185)
• Make Music Trivia title questions answerable (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6189)
• Set Home for PulseAudio (by @aauren in #6190)
• Improve Sounds playlist handling in BBC Sounds (by @kieranhogg in #6195)
• Play a plain URL instead of a random track for users with a provider filter (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6205)
• Fix sidebar shortcuts stuck after a provider was removed (by @OzGav in #6207)
• Fix Deezer account isolation and clarify authentication failures (by @jdaberkow in #6213)
• Fix Plex Connect starting the wrong track in large queues (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6217)
• Fix Sonic Similarity not loading when the database holds a corrupt analysis row (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6218)
• Sort Apple Music library by the date you actually added items (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6219)
• Fix players not regrouping after an announcement on a synced player (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6220)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Keep the app on screen while it reconnects after being backgrounded (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2689)
• Remove playlist import schema gate (by @marcelveldt in #2692)
• Migrate playlists between providers (by @marcelveldt in #2647)
• Correct the DSP help text about which filters need stereo (by @OzGav in #2677)
• Keep sidebar shortcuts tidied up after a provider is removed (by @OzGav in #2694)
• Bump eslint from 10.7.0 to 10.9.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2685)
• Bump reka-ui from 2.10.1 to 2.10.3 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2639)
• Bump lint-staged from 16.4.0 to 17.4.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2682)
• Bump oxlint and eslint-plugin-oxlint (by @dependabot[bot] in #2684)
• Bump marked from 18.0.9 to 18.0.11 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2683)
• Bump typescript-eslint from 8.64.0 to 8.68.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2686)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

18 changes

• Fake Sendspin devices for testing the pairing screens (by @marcelveldt in #6085)
• Move most webserver settings behind the advanced toggle (by @OzGav in #6168)
• Quieter track changes: don't warn when the next track has to wait for a free Spotify slot (by @marcelveldt in #6170)
• One place to check whether Spotify is set up for Soloist (by @marcelveldt in #6175)
• Log Smart Fades ordering outcome at verbose level (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6186)
• Add critical-review-gate workflow to draft PRs with critical findings (by @chrisuthe in #6191)
• Bump auntie-sounds to 2.0.9 (by @kieranhogg in #6192)
• Stop flagging valid Python 3.14 syntax (PEP 758) in reviews (by @chrisuthe in #6193)
• Various code improvements and tests for BBC Sounds (by @kieranhogg in #6194)
• Rename the DI provider to Digitally Imported (by @OzGav in #6197)
• Switch critical-review gate to a scheduled poller (by @chrisuthe in #6201)
• Bump deno from 2.9.5 to 2.9.6 (by @dependabot[bot] in #6209)
• Bump bidict from 0.23.1 to 0.24.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #6210)
• Bump huggingface-hub from 1.26.1 to 1.30.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #6211)
• Keep changes that did not ship out of the release notes (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6216)
• Remove settings migrations that were due to go after 2.9 (by @OzGav in #6221)
• Use the coloured Sendspin logo for the provider icon (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6225)
• Update aioslimproto to 3.2.0 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6227)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Toverbal, @aauren, @chicco-carone, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @jdaberkow, @jozefKruszynski, @kieranhogg, @marcelveldt, @mcaulifn, @teancom