v1.6.0

Added

• Option to set the playback rate. This can be found by long-pressing the play/pause button on the controls pane.
  #972
• Show the broadcasted song title on Icecast/Shoutcast -type radio streams
  #992 @medismail
• Show other metadata broadcasted by the radio station in the details pane
• Gapless play with preloading of the next track in the queue
  #685
  #776
• Artist and album names from Last.fm to the Last.fm tab of the track details
  #995
• Album art from Last.fm on the album details pane when no local art available
• Support for radio stream URLs which point to a playlist file containing the actual audio stream URL
  #966
• Configurable option to ignore articles in the alphabetical ordering of the artists (by default, ignore: The, El, La, Los, Las, Le, Les)
  #984
• Support for Nextcloud 25 (tested on beta 1)

Changed

• Allow playing audio/aac files within Files if the MIME type is mapped in the cloud configuration
• If updating a podcast channel fails, don't retry it each time the background task runs but only upon the normal podcast update schedule
• HLS-type radio streams are now relayed via the cloud server, removing the need to whitelist each allowed source server
• Subsonic: Use album-based track numbering also on playlists, to help DSub in cache management
  #994
• Allow playing external audio streams from playlist file also on link-shared folders
  • HLS-type streams are not allowed, though
• Albums with the same name but different artist now each have their own color on placeholder album art

Fixed

• Previous radio station being played without any error messages when failed to start playing an HLS stream
• Playback of a local track starting from a non-zero offset after playing an HLS stream
• Errors being logged because of incomplete exception case handling
  #989
  #988
• Podcast episodes shown in wrong order after channel updated via the web UI
• Fallback Aurora.js player not working in the main app (i.e. worked only within Files; broken since Music v1.2.1)
• Fallback Aurora.js not working on most versions of Nextcloud (starting from NC15 or NC16)
• The manifest file of the HLS stream was being polled indefinitely after listening to the stream was stopped
• Severe performance problem in the background cleaunup task when PostgreSQL used
  #997
• Not able to start playing a podcast episode which happens to have the same ID as currently playing song or radio station

v1.5.2

Added

• Allow dragging current song from the player bar to a playlist on the navigation pane
  #946
• Support for Nextcloud 24
  #957 @PVince81
• Support for PHP 8.1
  #939

Changed

• Support more formats when parsing the length of a podcast episode
  #971 @ksmolder

Fixed

• Lyrics not detected from the metadata of a FLAC file
  #940
• Folders view not opening if the music folder tree has any invalid parent references in the file index
  #955
• Attribute xmlns missing from the Subsonic XML responses
  #970 @rstefko
• Radio view behaving badly if there were any stations with no name (i.e. URL only)

v1.5.1

Added

• Subsonic: Stub implementation for the method getScanStatus
  #926

Fixed

• Ampache: Action album_songs always returning an empty result
  #934
• Podcasts not shown correctly when multiple channels had an episode with identical GUID
  #937

v1.5.0

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 23
  #912 @PVince81
• Option rescan-modified to the occ command music:scan
  #843
• Menu with stop button shown with long press on the play/pause button
  #911
• Stop button shown in place of the play/pause button while shift held down
• User setting to disable metadata extraction and scan only the file and folder names
  #914
• Possibility to start playback and/or set shuffle/repeat with the URL arguments
  #922
• Option to remove duplicates from a playlist
  #690

Changed

• Allow replacing '/' and characters forbidden on Windows file names with '_' when matching image files to artist names
  #913
• Improved robustness for scanning
  #600
• Updated the getID3 library to development version 1.9.21-202111211051
  #600
  #921
• Enable using wildcards in file names on occ music:playlist-import
  #832
• Never use the library root folder name as an album or an artist name (in case no metadata is available)

Fixed

• Keyboard shortcuts not working after opening the details pane before clicking somewhere else on the page
• Compatibility with IE10 and IE11 (broken since v1.4.0)
• Not being able to provide artist image for the "Unknown artist"
• Albums compact layout not using the whole screen width on narrow window where only one column fits
• Nextcloud dark theme not always properly applied, especially after page reload
• Scanning via the web UI often not finding the artist images
• Layout problems, most notable on the Albums view, on Nextcloud 22.2.1 and later
  #923
• Last.fm error notes not centered as intended (since v1.4.0)
• Clicking a track in the Folders view not working if there wasn't already something playing (since v1.4.0)
• Long album names overlapping the alphabet navigation on the mobile layout
• Alphabet navigation being sometimes hidden after changing the view on the mobile layout
• Metadata not shown in the embedded Files player for files outside the music library (since v1.3.0)
• The result of the playlist "Sort" operation not saved to the server if the list is very long

v1.4.1

Added

• occ commands playlist-export and playlist-import
  #832

Changed

• Ampache: A few more actions now support pagination with offset and limit: artist_albums, artist_songs, album_songs, search_songs
• Subsonic: Added support to getArtistInfo to identify the artist using a track ID, an album ID, or a folder ID
  #906
• Subsonic: Added support to getAlbumInfo to identify the album using a track or folder ID

Fixed

• A performance problem affecting Subsonic method getArtist, Ampache action artist_albums, and a few other functions
• Duplicate folders showing up in the tree layout of the Folders view with some tree structures
  #905

v1.4.0

Added

• Hierarchical tree layout for the Folders view
  #742
• Cover art to the playlist details pane
• Subsonic features:
  • Support playlist cover art
  • Added methods getAlbumInfo, getAlbumInfo2, createInternetRadioStation, updateInternetRadioStation, deleteInternetRadioStation, scrobble
  • Support types frequent and recent in methods getAlbumList and getAlbumList2
• Ampache features:
  • Support playlist cover art
  • Added action record_play
  • Support filters frequent, recent, and forgotten in the action stats for tracks, albums, and artists
• Comprehensive translations for the main app for Chinese (China)
  #899 @RuofengX

Changed

• Use smaller heading size in the Folders and Genres views
• Show the loading indicator on the web UI while check for new audio files is in progress
• Format dates and times in the details pane according the locale from the user settings
• All alphabetical sorting on the web UI now respects the rules of the locale from the user settings
• Minor optimizations on the scanning speed
• Use HTML5 localStorage instead of cookies to store web UI settings like volume and selected view layouts
• Direct the Subsonic and Ampache base URLs to the Music app front page
  • With this, the "Open in browser" buttons found on some clients open the Music app instead of the cloud default view
• Subsonic: When browsing by folders, the main level is now the contents of the library root (previously, a level above was shown with just the one folder)
• Subsonic: When browsing by folders, don't show the folders excluded from the library
• Subsonic: Optimized loading the tracks of long playlists
• Subsonic: API version updated to 1.16.1
• Updated getID3 library to version 1.9.21-202109171300 (contains no relevant changes but this is a release version as opposed to the previously used development versions)
• Updated webpack from v4 to v5 (5.58.1)

Fixed

• Show the German translations added in v1.3.2 also when the selected language variant is "informal: du" or "Austria"
  #890
• Deprecated use of ReflectionType on Subsonic and Ampache APIs which broke some API features on PHP8
  #896
• Navigation pane auto-collapse on mobile layout not working on recent versions of Nextcloud
• Tracks and podcasts with missing metadata causing page load failure on Ultrasonic
• Small layout issues in the details pane
• "No search results" briefly showing up while the web UI was being loaded

Known issues

• This version broke the compatibility with IE10 and IE11 (fixed in v1.5.0)

v1.3.3

Fixed

• Update from v1.3.1 not working properly on Nextcloud
  #892

Note: this version is not released for ownCloud as it fixes only a Nextcloud-specific problem

v1.3.2

Added

• Comprehensive German (formal, "Sie") translation for the main app
  #890 @simonspa

Changed

• The second level parent folder name of a track is used as fallback for the artist name, in case the name cannot be extracted from the file tags

Fixed

• Not being able to subscribe podcasts from some providers
  #888 @icewind1991
• Subsonic: Argument musicFolderId on getIndexes not being optional, breaking compatibility with Soundwaves Player
  #885
• Non-latin characters showing as question marks (?) on track/album/artist names of WAV files having both RIFF and ID3v2 tags (fixed by updating getID3 to v1.9.20-202109010614)
  #882
• Application update on Nextcloud not working over Music app versions older than v1.0.0 (introduced in v1.2.1)
  #889
  #883
• Ampache: Action stream not supporting the type podcast or podcast_episode
  #891

v1.3.1

A mistake made when creating the release package 1.3.0 broke the application pretty badly. This version is a new attempt with the same content.

Added

• Scrolling to the album by clicking the album name or image on the album details pane
• Scrolling to the artist by clicking the artist name or image on the artist details pane
• Support for podcasts
  #875
  • Dedicated view on the web UI
  • Check for new episodes manually or automatically on the background by schedule
  • Details pane for podcast channels and episodes
  • Searching/filtering in the podcasts view by channel and episode titles
  • Subsonic API including methods getPodcasts, getNewestPodcasts, refreshPodcasts, createPodcastChannel, deletePodcastChannel
  • Ampache API including methods podcasts, podcast, podcast_create, podcast_delete, podcast_episodes, podcast_episode, update_podcast
  • occ commands music:podcast-add, music:podcast-reset, music:podcast-update
• Subsonic method getTopSongs

Changed

• Show the play icon overlay on album cover also in the Albums compact layout while in search mode
• Show icon also for the playlists in the navigation pane
• Excluded folder picker UI is launched with the music library path set as the base path (requires NC16+)
  #876
• Limit all Ampache results to maximum of 5000 entries to follow the API specification
• Subsonic/Ampache: On fuzzy search, match each whitespace-separated substring separately unless quotation marks used
  • Among other things, this fixes the search on Substreamer which implicitly adds the quotation
• Subsonic API version updated to 1.13.0
• Ampache API version updated to 4.4.0 (aka 440000)
• Updated getID3 library to the version 1.9.20-202107131440

Fixed

• Performance problem on Subsonic actions getAlbumList and getAlbumList2 with huge libraries
  #873
• Last.fm details view not showing the tag correctly if the track/album/artist has only one tag
• Ampache client AmpacheAlbumPlayer being incompatible
• Continuing playback from the same offset when moving from Files to Music (broken since 1.0.0)
• Misleading error message shown when viewing details for an album not found from Last.fm

v1.3.0

(this release was broken, and got quickly replaced with v1.3.1)