Drift - 1.4.0

Changelog

Changes to drift. Loosely follows Keep a Changelog.

Unreleased

Added

• Discord rich presence. Your current song shows up in your Discord status as "Listening to ...", with cover art, album, a progress bar and a "Listen Along" button. Paused songs show (paused) and drop the timer. Off by default: make an application at https://discord.com/developers/applications (its name is what shows after "Listening to"), paste the Application ID into client_id under the new [discord] section of config.toml. If discord isnt running drift keeps retrying quietly in the background.
• :save! / :w! to overwrite an existing playlist. Plain :save now refuses if the name is taken and tells you to use :save! (replace) or :append (add to the end).
• MPRIS on linux. media keys, playerctl and waybar can now see and control drift (play/pause/next/prev/seek/stop), with title, artist, album and cover art. Shows up as org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.drift. If theres no dbus session it just doesnt start, nothing breaks.
• :album <query> to search albums, :playlist <query> to search youtube music playlists. Results show up in a picker, enter loads the tracks. (:playlists is still your own playlists tab.) Big playlists stop at ~300 tracks.
• gb / :album / G then b opens the album of the selected song. It finds it by album + artist name so it can guess wrong sometimes, and the song needs album info to begin with.
• gs / :similar / :radio loads ~50 songs similar to the selected one and starts playing them, like youtube music radio.
• Synced lyrics from LRCLIB. L toggles the side panel, F for fullscreen. Current line gets a progress fill, lines around it fade.
• Plain lyrics fallback when theres no synced version, scroll with j/k.

Changed

• Playback now downloads the audio with yt-dlp first and plays the local file instead of letting mpv stream it (--ytdl=no). Files live in the cache dir under drift/audio (last 40 are kept). The next queued song is fetched in the background while the current one plays, so track changes are quicker. Songs that are already cached start instantly.
• Playback errors show the actual reason from yt-dlp/mpv (e.g. "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot") instead of a generic "update yt-dlp" hint. Status messages can be wider too (70 -> 120 chars).
• Artists are split using the credits youtube gives us (linked artist names) instead of guessing from the text, so names like "Tyler, The Creator" stay in one piece. yt-dlp's artists list is used too. The text-based fallback (old saves, plain yt-dlp) knows a list of common band names with , / & in them, and matches separators case-insensitively. Affects ga, gb, gs and the lyrics lookup.
• Selected rows use an accent colored bold text + ▎ bar instead of a filled background.
• Tab bar went back to plain text: the active tab is accent colored, bold and underlined, inactive ones are gray with dimmed counts. (replaces the pills.)
• Tab bar only reserves space for the spinner while busy, fits narrow terminals better.
• Album tracks now get the artist/album/length filled in when youtube leaves them out.
• Tracks from a playlist get their album too, so gb works on them.
• Search/radio requests share one http connection instead of making a new one every time.
• New dependencies: discord-rich-presence (everywhere) and, on linux, souvlaki (zbus backend, pure rust, no system libs). Cargo.lock needs a regen, just run cargo build once. --locked builds, the flake and the AUR package need the new lock.

Fixed

• Running several drifts at once no longer clobbers stuff. Only the first one restores and saves the session (a session.lock file, unix only), and saving playlists merges with whatever the other instance wrote instead of overwriting it, so playlists made in another window dont disappear.
• Collection picker (:album, :playlist) no longer pops up in the middle of typing and steals your keys, it waits until you're back in normal mode.
• "Play next" (song menu) didnt shift the "already played" marks, so shuffle could replay or skip the wrong songs after it. fixed.
• Starting a song from a playlist/results while a queue is playing no longer drags the old queue along: whats queued counts as done and only songs you add afterwards play after it.
• Playing from a playlist no longer replaces the queue. Playlists play as their own list, queue only has what you add, queued songs go first and then the playlist continues.
• Shuffle and repeat-all work for playlists and results now. repeat-all used to loop the queue instead of the list you were actualy playing.
• P / :playall doesnt wipe the queue anymore.
• Lyrics sorting no longer has an unwrap() that could panic on a NaN time drift

Drift - 1.3

Changelog

Changes to drift. Loosely follows Keep a Changelog.

Unreleased

Added

• MPRIS on linux. media keys, playerctl and waybar can now see and control drift (play/pause/next/prev/seek/stop), with title, artist, album and cover art. Shows up as org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.drift. If theres no dbus session it just doesnt start, nothing breaks.
• :album <query> to search albums, :playlist <query> to search youtube music playlists. Results show up in a picker, enter loads the tracks. (:playlists is still your own playlists tab.) Big playlists stop at ~300 tracks.
• gb / :album / G then b opens the album of the selected song. It finds it by album + artist name so it can guess wrong sometimes, and the song needs album info to begin with.
• gs / :similar / :radio loads ~50 songs similar to the selected one and starts playing them, like youtube music radio.
• Synced lyrics from LRCLIB. L toggles the side panel, F for fullscreen. Current line gets a progress fill, lines around it fade.
• Plain lyrics fallback when theres no synced version, scroll with j/k.

Changed

• Album tracks now get the artist/album/length filled in when youtube leaves them out.
• Tracks from a playlist get their album too, so gb works on them.
• New dependency on linux: souvlaki (zbus backend, pure rust, no system libs). Cargo.lock needs a regen, just run cargo build once. --locked builds, the flake and the AUR package need the new lock.
• Tab bar is pills now, inactive tabs have dimmed counts.
• Tab bar only reserves space for the spinner while busy, fits narrow terminals better.

Fixed

• Playing from a playlist no longer replaces the queue. Playlists play as their own list, queue only has what you add, queued songs go first and then the playlist continues.
• Shuffle and repeat-all work for playlists and results now. repeat-all used to loop the queue instead of the list you were actualy playing.
• P / :playall doesnt wipe the queue anymore.

Full Changelog: 1.2...1.3

Drift - 1.2

Added

• Synced lyrics via LRCLIB. L or :lyrics toggles a side panel, F opens fullscreen.
• Current lyric line is highlighted with a progress fill; nearby lines fade out.
• Plain lyrics fallback (scroll with j/k) when no synced version exists.

Changed

• Tab bar redesigned as pills with dimmed counts on inactive tabs.
• Tab bar only reserves spinner space while busy, so tabs fit on narrow terminals.

Drift - 1.1.0

Added

• Windows support. Drift now runs natively on Windows. It talks to mpv over named pipes instead of Unix sockets.
• Song context menu. Press G on a song or playlist for quick actions: play, play next, add to queue, add to playlist, show artist, remove, and song info.
• Song info popup. "Song info" in the G menu opens a centered popup with the title, artist, album, length, and ID. Press any key to close it.
• Redesigned : command menu.
• Audio visualizer in the bottomleft corner.
• Keybind hints shown next to the volume control.
• Status toasts. Messages such as "Queued…" and errors now appear as a small floating toast above the Now Playing bar. Errors are red and info messages are green.
• DRIFT_CONFIG_DIR and DRIFT_STATE_DIR environment variables to override where Drift stores its config, playlists, and session.
• Install hints for Scoop and winget when mpv or yt-dlp is missing.

Changed

• Status messages no longer share the bottom border of the Now Playing bar. That border now only shows pending key presses.
• On Windows, mpv and yt-dlp start without flashing a console window.
• On Windows, mpv is stopped when Drift exits, including after a crash. This matches the existing Linux behavior.
• Saving playlists and the session retries a few times if the file is briefly locked, which can happen on Windows with antivirus software.
• Ctrl+Alt is no longer treated as Ctrl. On Windows, AltGr is reported as Ctrl+Alt, so characters like @, \, {, [, and ~ can now be typed in search and : commands.

Fixed

• Song info no longer appears as a cramped line at the bottom of the screen.
• Tests no longer write to your real config folder on Windows.

Drift - 1.0.0

Drift

• Vim-style keybinds for navigation and commands
• Queue management to add, remove, reorder, and clear tracks
• Playlist management to save, load, append, delete, and import playlists
• YouTube integration to import playlists from YouTube and YouTube Music
• Shuffle & repeat with repeat-all and repeat-one modes
• Volume & seeking with configurable step sizes
• Artist search to explore discographies directly from search results
• Command palette with commands like :search, :play, :volume, :seek, :save, :load, and :import