v0.11.0

[temidaradev]

This release is about presentation and personalization: fullscreen and theming get a top-to-bottom rework, the radio page is rebuilt around real station search with live now-playing, and the app is now yours to reshape with custom fonts, cover-art backgrounds, and a 10-band EQ.

Highlights

Fullscreen and theming rework. Fullscreen can now drive playback from the bottom bar itself (a setting), and in that mode the bar sheds its redundant cover, title, and expand controls. Fullscreen artwork finally uses the whole space instead of grey letterbox strips, and a new cover-art background option paints the current cover behind the entire app on any theme, with darkening and blur sliders to tune the look. Bright covers no longer wash out text (the extracted palette is luminance-capped), the local-track album-art gradient bug is fixed (with tests), and there's a toggle to hide the small thumbnails in track and queue rows (#544).

Radio overhaul. The radio page is rebuilt around the radio-browser.info API: search across thousands of stations with runtime mirror discovery, proper loading and polling, and a redesigned layout. Now-playing is seeded from the stream itself via ICY StreamTitle metadata (and cover updates) for stations without a REST/WebSocket source, .pls/.m3u/.m3u8 URLs are resolved to their first stream, and browser stations can be pinned to your Selected list, all backwards-compatible with existing stations (#541).

Make it yours. A font picker lets you apply any ttf/otf/woff/woff2 as the app font, injected at runtime and overriding the default JetBrains Mono stack (#545). The equalizer expands from its previous set to a full 10 bands, with a migration to carry existing settings forward (#417).

Features

• Quick search (Cmd/Ctrl+K), foobar2000-style: type, hit enter, the song plays. The queue is seeded from the whole library so shuffle doesn't get stuck inside your search results (various: fullscreen rework, cover art backgrounds, quick search, hig pass #544).
• Helium added as a browser sign-in option for YouTube Music and SoundCloud (various: add Helium browser for browser sign-in #542).
• New Swedish locale for the UI (feat: add Swedish locale #537).
• A sync button and paused auto-scroll: the lyrics view stops auto-following once you scroll by hand.

Fixes

• sources: media server reachability is now verified instead of assumed connected, so a settings connection reflects reality.

What's Changed

• feat: add Swedish locale by @ryurt46 in feat: add Swedish locale #537
• various: add Helium browser for browser sign-in by @temidaradev in various: add Helium browser for browser sign-in #542
• various: radio-browser.info search, ICY now-playing, playlist resolution by @Servus-Altissimi in various: radio-browser.info search, ICY now-playing, playlist resolution #541
• various: expand the EQ to 10 bands by @FormalSnake in various: expand the EQ to 10 bands #417
• various: fullscreen rework, cover art backgrounds, quick search, hig pass by @temidaradev in various: fullscreen rework, cover art backgrounds, quick search, hig pass #544
• various: custom UI font support by @temidaradev in various: custom UI font support #545

New Contributors

• @ryurt46 made their first contribution in feat: add Swedish locale #537

Full Changelog: v0.10.0...v0.11.0

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