ricercar 0.8.0

ricercar 0.8.0 adds a fixed volume for bit-perfect listening and plays albums ripped as one file with a CUE sheet as their separate tracks, gapless.

Downloads

Your system	File	Install
Debian 12+, Ubuntu 22.04+, Mint, Pop!_OS, Zorin, elementary	ricercar_0.8.0-1_amd64.deb / _arm64.deb	sudo apt install ./ricercar_*.deb
Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed / Leap 16, RHEL / Alma / Rocky 10+	ricercar-0.8.0-1.x86_64.rpm / .aarch64.rpm	sudo dnf install ./ricercar-*.rpm (zypper install on openSUSE)
Arch, Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Omarchy	ricercar-0.8.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst	sudo pacman -U ricercar-*.pkg.tar.zst
Any distribution (portable)	ricercar-0.8.0-x86_64.AppImage / -aarch64.AppImage	chmod +x ricercar-*.AppImage && ./ricercar-*.AppImage
Any distribution (plain binaries)	ricercar-0.8.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz / -aarch64	unpack, run bin/ricercar

The packages need glibc 2.35 or newer. Verify a download with
minisign and the project key:

minisign -Vm SHA256SUMS -P RWSLPLWZ/M4/9X1orGjyBkKYA7BmzgxxI8dveJ8YVcSQVrOpjinxS9fV
sha256sum --check --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS

What's new

• Fixed volume (bit-perfect). Settings → Audio output → Fixed volume keeps the volume at 100 % and unmuted. Volume and mute changes are then ignored wherever they come from: the app's slider and shortcuts, phone apps over UPnP or OpenHome, media keys and MPRIS, ricercar-cli, plugins. Phone apps get a normal answer and see the volume stay at 100. Use your amplifier's volume. The signal path shows Volume fixed at 100 %.
• CUE sheets. An album ripped as one audio file (FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC) with a .cue sheet now shows as its separate tracks, with titles, numbers and durations from the sheet.
  • Each track plays exactly its part of the file.
  • Consecutive tracks are gapless to the sample, so live albums flow as recorded.
  • Seeking, position and duration are relative to the track.
  • Favourites, play counts, playlists, scrobbling and search work as for any track; the media server shares the tracks too.
  • Sheets in UTF-8 or Windows encodings, several files per sheet and pregaps are handled.
• Outputs that are not connected. When the output you picked is gone (a Bluetooth speaker that is off), ricercar shows its name with (not connected). The signal path names what really plays: PipeWire's default output.
• Readable network errors. An error from ListenBrainz, Last.fm, radio or lyrics services reads like HTTP 502 Bad Gateway instead of showing the server's whole page.
• Fixes. Long text, a token or a path, stays inside its field instead of covering the button next to it.

This version updates the library database. Going back to 0.7 afterwards is not supported: it does not understand the tracks of CUE sheets.

From 0.6.0 or later, Update now in Settings → About installs this version, checked against the signed SHA256SUMS.

For plugin authors

• player.set_volume and player.set_mute are ignored while the user has fixed the volume; the next player.state reports 100.

From source: cargo build --release with Rust 1.92 or newer (see the README for per-distro dependencies).