tidalamp 0.4.0
A release of details: the queue gains two keys and the bars answer to the mouse, the
Year column stops coming back empty, and the four layouts agree on their edges. Nothing
about playback changes.
Added
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ggoes back to the track that is playing. With hundreds of tracks in the queue
you wander off to the end of the list and lose sight of it. If the queue's search is
what is hiding it,gclears the filter first and then lands on it. Rebindable as
to_playing. -
psaves the queue as a TIDAL playlist. It asks for a name and creates it with the
tracks in queue order, not in shuffle order: what is saved is the list, not the
listening session. It goes in batches of 100, and a playlist that fails halfway is
kept rather than deleted behind your back — the message says how many tracks made
it, because deleting what did arrive loses more work than it fixes. Rebindable as
save_playlist. -
The bars answer to a click. The seek bar jumps to the point clicked; volume and
balance take that value, and the exact centre of the balance gives zero. Dragging, no
— click only.
Fixed
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The Year column was always empty. It was not those records missing a date in TIDAL:
the album nested inside a track in a listing carries an id, a title and a cover, and no
release date. Measured on a real queue: 100 entries, 15 albums, 0 years. It is now
asked for separately, once per album rather than once per track — those 100 tracks
cost 15 requests — in the background, and only when the column is on. A queue saved
before this version cannot be filled in, because it did not record which album each
track belonged to; it fixes itself on the next reload. -
TIDAL's 429 rate limits gave up on the first attempt.
tidalapiturns that HTTP
error into an exception of its own that does not inherit fromrequests.HTTPError, so
the one status the retry helper was written for was the one it never caught. It now
waits theRetry-Afterthe response carries, and if that is too long it says so
rather than leaving the interface looking frozen.
Changed
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The track's identity moves under the clock. The marquee carried the number, the
artist, the title and the length on one line while five rows sat empty under the
clock. Now the top carries only the number and the title, and the artist, the album,
the year and the length take that column. -
The four layouts agree on their edges. The queue's heading row was measured with a
number written by hand in each one and each stopped short of the right edge by a
different amount; inquattroit was not measured at all. The document windows — help,
About, the lyrics, the settings — took 85% of the screen, which on a large terminal is
a box two thirds empty with its text against the left edge; each is now capped at what
its longest line actually needs. And inquattrothe wordmark is centred, because
left-aligned it landed directly on top of the cover.
Install or upgrade
pipx install "tidalamp[art]" # new install
pipx upgrade tidalamp # upgradempv is a system package and is required; cava is optional and is what turns the
analyzer into a real FFT. Per-distribution commands are in the
README.
Full changelog:
CHANGELOG.md
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