v0.17.0

• support for Nextcloud 20 (#790)
• provide settings option to exclude paths from the music library (#762)
  • adding excluded paths takes effect only upon rescan, but the command line tool occ music:scan --remove-obsolete can be used for this
• improved performance for the option --remove-obsolete of the occ music:scan command
• update getID3 library to the development version 1.9.20-202010031049 to fix an issue in parsing WAV files with a bext chunk (#788)
• improvements to the artist details pane when Last.fm connection is set up:
  • clicking a similar artist opens it within the details pane if the artist is present in the music library
  • more similar artists can be fetched with the link "Show all..."
• enable navigation from the album details pane to the album artist details
• Subsonic API:
  • API version updated to 1.11.0
  • added methods getArtistInfo and getArtistInfo2
  • added methods getSimilarSongs and getSimilarSongs2
  • added methods getBookmarks, createBookmark, and deleteBookmark (loosely based on the work by @gavine99 on #752)
  • when listing albums of an artist, include also albums where the artist is only featured and not the album artist
  • use UTC time and the "zulu format" on all timestamps (similar to "real" Subsonic server)
• Ampache API:
  • API version updated to 400001 (aka v4.0.0) (#727)
  • added action get_indexes
  • added action stats (only filters newest, flagged, and random supported for now)
  • added action flag
  • added action goodbye
  • added action get_art
  • added action playlist_generate (only mode random is supported for now)
  • added action playlist_create
  • added action playlist_edit
  • added action playlist_delete
  • added action playlist_add_song
  • added action playlist_remove_song
  • the total_count element was once again added to the XML responses because Amproid client was found to depend on it
  • for song responses, the 'title' element has been duplicated with another key 'name' because this is how the API is specified
  • the session lifetime is now extended with any valid authorized API call and not just with the ping call
  • the response to ping now contains also the lowest compatible API version, session expiry time, and the app name and version
  • the response to handshake now has key api instead of version
  • use error code 404 in case the requested entity is not found (matches the "real" Ampache server and recently updated specification of the API v4.x)
• fix a bug in the cache invalidation which could lead to already deleted tracks showing up on the web UI
• fix the front-end breaking on minification (similar to the old bug #434)
• bundle the front-end code and vendor libraries using webpack
  • includes jQuery 3.4.1 which is used instead of the older version shipped with the cloud
  • includes lodash.sh 4.17.20 which is now used instead of underscore.js shipped with the cloud
  • includes AngularJS 1.8.1 (up from version 1.8.0)
  • + number of smaller vendor libraries, some of which were updated, too
• small UI tweaks
• internal refactoring
• note: support for IE10 and IE11 got broken on this version; it shall be fixed later

v0.16.0

• support for playlist files (#777, #652, #645).
  • exporting playlist to M3U8 file
  • importing playlist from M3U8, M3U, or PLS file
  • playing M3U8, M3U, and PLS files directly in Files
  • the file paths within the playlist file must be relative
• playlist details pane
• album details pane
• Last.fm data on tracks details pane when available
• navigation from track details to album and artist details
• when navigating from the Files player to Music, continue from the same time offset
• add link to the github change log under the About section in the Settings view
• fix rendering of lyrics and other track details which use "CR only" new lines (#780)
• internal refactoring and minor fixes

v0.15.1

• fix unable to scan music after database reset (regression in v0.15.0) (#774)
• Ampache:
  • fix handshake and ping not working on JSON API (#768)
  • fix handling of offset argument in the action playlists (#768)
  • fix action tags to return the genres in alphabetical order (regression in v0.15.0)
  • provide limited support for actions download and stream (#768)
• Subsonic:
  • fix an error being logged if getRandomSongs called on an empty library (#775)
  • fix method getGenres to return the genres in alphabetical order (regression in v0.15.0)
• add optional argument --folder=<target> to occ music:scan to scan only the specified folder (#771)

v0.15.0

• added artist details pane
  • the pane shows artist biography from Last.fm if the API connection has been configured
  • the pane shows also the artist image if available in the user's library
• scan artist images from files named like "Artist Name.jpg" (or any other supported image file format)
  • the file name is case-sensitive
  • the image is provided via the route api/artist/{id}/cover
  • the image is available via the Ampache and Subsonic APIs
• support showing time-synced lyrics from file metadata (#657)
• tabbed layout for the track details pane (#657)
• sort tracks by the file names in the 'Folders' view (#770)
• open all external links to a new tab
• style all external links the same way as elsewhere in ownCloud and Nextcloud (underlined and postfixed with an arrow)
• proper handling for the keyboard play/pause button on Firefox (unlike Chrome and Edge, FF does not yet have a full media key support)
• fix app not working using URL with no trailing slash '/' (#765)
• fix Nextcloud notifications window empty layout being broken within the Music app on NC16+ (#772)
• fix the "empty album slots" layout problem reintroduced by Nextcloud 18 (#773)
• Ampache API improvements:
  • initial JSON API support (#768)
    • the API is not yet frozen by Ampache and the spec still has some inconsistencies
  • remove the <total_count> element from all results
    • this has been deprecated by Ampache, and none of the known clients seem to utilize it
    • removing the element already now simplified the implementation of the JSON API support
  • fix action tag returning the requested genre without track/album/artist counts
  • support filter and exact arguments also in the tags action (allows searching genre by name)
  • add <art> element to the artist results
• getID3 library updated to version 1.9.20
• AngularJS library updated to version 1.8.0
• drop support for ownCloud versions 8.2 and 9.x
• drop support for Nextcloud versions 9 - 12
• drop support for PHP 5.6
• drop support for Internet Explorer 9

v0.14.1

• improvements for the Subsonic API:
  • support for the types alphabeticalByArtist and newest in getAlbumList and getAlbumList2
  • add duration property to album type response entries
  • add duration, created, and comment properties to playlist type response entries
  • fix a bug in getting tracks/albums for the "unknown genre"
  • fix several issues in the track numbering on playlists
  • fix response of getLicense to conform the Subsonic API specification (#759)
  • set API version to 1.10.2 (#758)
• improvements for the Ampache API:
  • add support for the action tag (this was forgotten from v0.14.0 where other tag/genre related actions were added)
  • add element total_count to all responses
  • add year property to all song responses
  • proper error handling when requesting unavailable song/album/artist/etc.
  • fix several issues in the track numbering on playlists
• fix unhandled exception if the web UI is used after the user has been logged out (#682)
• fix 6th track being duplicated in the search mode on albums with exactly 6 tracks
• fix navigation from embedded Files player to the Music app (broken since v0.13.0)
• fix navigation from the search results in the Files app to the Music app
• update AngularJS library to the version 1.7.9
• update js-cookie library to the version 2.2.1

v0.14.0

• add 'Genres' view to the web UI
• integrate the web UI with the (Chrome) media control API (provides e.g. support for HW keys play/pause/etc and integration to the OS lock screen)
• improvements for Subsonic API:
  • support genres: add methods getGenres and getSongsByGenre, and add parameter genre to methods getRandomSongs and getAlbumList(2)
  • support defining year ranges on methods getAlbumList(2) and getRandomSongs
  • add year and genre properties to all album responses, add genre property to all song responses
  • support starring tracks, albums, and artists (#750) (stars are visible only via Subsonic)
  • proper paging when fetching random album list (one album returned only once)
  • optimize getting large folder contents
  • fix/tweak the logic used in the method getLyrics
  • API version set to 1.10.1
• improvements for Ampache API:
  • support limit and offset parameters on more actions; this fixes the "Random Artists/Albums/Playlists" feature on the Ampache plugin in the Kodi media player
  • support genres using the tags feature of the API: added actions tags, tag_artists, tag_albums, and tag_songs and include tag properties on song/album/artist responses
• drop the SoundManager2 library in favor of using HTML5 API directly
• update getID3 to development version 1.9.19-202004201144 (should help on #123)
• allow rescanning previously scanned tracks with occ music:scan by using the option --rescan
• fix unable to open details pane if getID3 can't extract any metadata tags
• fix several small bugs causing logged error notes (but no undesired behavior) at least on Nextcloud 18 + PHP 7.4
• fix a typo in the 'Settings' view (#751 by @amalvarenga)

v0.13.2

Quick fix release to fix update problems caused by v0.13.1 for some users

• fix a logic flaw in the disk-number-migration script and make the script overall more robust (#748)

v0.13.1

• do not treat each disc of a multi-disc album as a separate album (#680)
• fix year tag not being extracted from M4A files (#744 by @ChrisJAllan)
• fix disc number tag not being extracted from M4A files (#746)
• update getID3 to development version 1.9.19-202003150936
  • should fix cover art not showing up on M4A files (#743)
  • fixes the issue which forced us previously to remove one commit from v1.9.19
• log the error if opening a file for metadata extraction fails (#123)
• do not stop the whole scanning process if opening a file throws an exception
• tweak the ordering of the fields in the track details pane
• fix embedded player not showing metadata for the unscanned files (regression introduced in v0.13.0)

v0.13.0

• searching/filtering by title/album/artist/year/folder/path (#662, #367)
  • the query may freely combine details from tracks and their parent entities (album/artist/folder)
  • searching by album name and year works only in the Albums view
  • searching by folder name/path works only in the Folders view
  • quotation may be used to treat multiple words as a single entity instead of as separate substrings
  • searching by title/album/artist works also within the Files app, but this is much more limited than within the Music app
• improved performance/scalability for huge music collections also in the "All tracks" view
• improved quality of cover images in the Albums view and in the Ampache/Subsonic APIs (#734)
  • default size for the images is now 380px, but this can be altered with config.php using the key music.cover_size
• Subsonic: respect the size attribute given to method getCoverArt
• support for PHP 7.4 (#738)
• support for Nextcloud 19
• updated getID3 to version 1.9.19 (minus one commit which caused us problems)
• fixed scan state being shown incorrectly after resetting the music collection
• fixed a background color problem on NC18 with dark theme (#739)
• fixed a null-reference problem on the postWrite file hook occurring on NC16+

v0.12.1

Quick fix release for regression introduced in v0.12.0

• fix broken scrolling in Albums and Folders views on Nextcloud 14+(#733)