Release XFB 3.1422 — the station, the hour and the log · netpack/XFB

XFB puts itself on air

Icecast, from XFB itself. XFB encodes and sends the stream, song titles and all — no second application in the chain between the studio and the listener.
A page listeners can open, with a request line the studio still controls: requests arrive for an operator to accept or refuse, never straight to air.
The hour, programmed the way radio thinks about it. An hour clock says what kind of thing goes where — ident, jingle, sweep, music, ad break — and the hour fills itself accordingly.
Production computers. An office machine prepares the programme and publishes it back to the station on air.

An as-run log of everything that aired, and the report an advertiser asks for.
A dead-air watchdog that notices silence and rescues the station from it.
Rotation rules, not just a picker: separation by artist, by title, by how recently something ran.
Loudness measured once, so nobody has to ride the fader on air.
Intro times, so the operator can talk right up to the vocal.
Voice tracking: record the link over the join and let XFB write the ducking.
Cue: a pair of headphones that is not the transmitter.

Embedded cover art no longer costs a download its tags. With "Embed thumbnail" on, every file came out untagged: an Opus file keeps its cover as a METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE comment, ffmpeg presents that as a video stream, and the tagging pass then refused to re-mux it. The cover is now carried across properly, so the artist, song and genre you typed and the artwork all survive.

A library past 256 tracks no longer ends every download with "database is locked". The database runs in WAL, so the long-lived reader behind the list and the short writes from the download and sync workers stop fighting; backups take a consistent snapshot rather than a plain file copy.
The same song twice in the library can be found and collapsed — records only, the audio files are never touched.
Add a folder and everything nested inside it, instead of album by album.
The scheduler runs on every installation, not only on a machine whose role happens to be called Server: a default install silently never checked a single schedule an operator had written.
Adding a track no longer breaks when the table grows a column.

macOS can finally be asked for the microphone. Recording a programme, a jingle, and voice-tracking a link all failed with no way for the operator to say yes.
Linux installs managed by pacman are pointed at the AUR rather than at a .deb the package manager does not own.
An operator's manual, ten chapters, linked from the README.
The example hour clock no longer ships a floating ident, which is never put to air and taught the wrong thing.
French and Portuguese cover the new windows.

macOS — XFB-3.1422-macOS.dmg, or brew install --cask netpack/xfb/xfb
Windows — XFB-3.1422-Setup.exe (x64) or XFB-3.1422-arm64-Setup.exe (ARM64), or winget install Netpack.XFB
Debian / Ubuntu — xfb_3.1422-1_amd64.deb / xfb_3.1422-1_arm64.deb, or the apt repository at netpack.github.io/XFB
Arch — yay -S xfb (AUR)

Every desktop build carries the phone companion app, handed out by Sync to Phone.