v4.2.5

What's Changed

New features:

• Add Skip Album Art Functionality by @egndz in #2032
• Update/implement skip flag by @prodigy7 in #2010
• Add filtering by album type by @egndz in #2048
• split get user playlists and get saved playlists to two shortcuts by @xnetcat in 92d3338

Bug fixes:

• Fix for multiple keywords in --ignore-albums option by @bharat-nair in #2014
• Fix milliseconds for song initialization in by @egndz #2028
• Fix performance issue when ffmpeg outputs a lot of lines by @pekkarr in #2013
• remove sync tags from lyrics when saving them in uslt tag by @xnetcat in f47d77c
• Add Album Cover Art Check by @egndz in #2033
• Fix termux installation by @rimurum in #2038 and #2042
• save errors when main thread crashes by @xnetcat in ffb9f2b
• update the app scope by @xnetcat in 205e127

Matching improvements:

• lower average match for explicit mismatch by @xnetcat in 1b9bc72
• always skip results with low time match by @xnetcat in ff952d3
• improved lyrics matching by @xnetcat in e4de031

Quality of life improvements:

• Default to the current directory when running web interface from a frozen application by @xnetcat in 1988035
• added isrc tag to mp3 files by @xnetcat in a6a98ec
• added artist id to song object by @xnetcat in d5416ab

New Contributors

• @Mahasvan made their first contribution in #1981
• @pekkarr made their first contribution in #2013
• @egndz made their first contribution in #2028
• @prodigy7 made their first contribution in #2010
• @rimurum made their first contribution in #2038

Full Changelog: v4.2.4...v4.2.5

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v4.2.4

What's Changed

#1971

Full Changelog: v4.2.3...v4.2.4

v4.2.3

What's Changed

Improvements

• added support for python 3.12 by @xnetcat in b64e879

Important

If you are getting ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources', try updating setuptools

• pip install -U setuptools

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v4.2.2

What's Changed

New features:

• added option to scrape any user's playlists by @bharat-nair in #1916
• added support for proxy servers --proxy by @Tunglies in #1912
• added option to skip explicit songs --skip-explicit by @xnetcat in 1ba370f
• added option to ignore albums --ignore-album by @Billa05 in #1934
• added log format option --log-format by @xnetcat in b04a864
• added redownload flag for meta operation by @Billa05 in 912adc9
• added shortcut for all user saved albums by @edy252 in ab5ef17

Bug fixes:

• get download url when reading file metada by @xnetcat in #1918
• fixed spotify.link for non song links by @xnetcat in 2354929

Matching:

• always add time to match value by @xnetcat in 7f361e1
• fallback to title matching for non verified results when score is lower than 70 by @xnetcat in 6643a33

Improvements

• check if youtube music is available by @xnetcat in 8be7680
• improved azlyrics lyrics provider (added automatic retries) by @xnetcat in 698983a
• added timer for debug mode by @xnetcat in 83a10b4
• change URI Auth Port from 8080 to 9900 (something less common) by @edinosma in e828353
• perform subdomain swap on youtube playlists by @xnetcat in affddb4
• update dependencies by @xnetcat in c19e9a9

Documentation:

• added top 100 contributors in README.md by @MuhammadNizamani in #1926
• fixed typo in progress_handler.py by @AniketP04 in #1929
• fixed typo in formatter.py result.py by @AniketP04 in #1933
• fixed typo in installation.md by @AniketP04 in #1936
• updated url and web commands in docs/index.md by @drvnprgrmr in #1947
• updated quality docs/options by @xnetcat in 67b09cf
• fixed ReadTheDocs build environment by @xnetcat in 553e7a8

Full Changelog: v4.2.1...v4.2.2

New Contributors

• @bharat-nair made their first contribution in #1916
• @Tunglies made their first contribution in #1912
• @MuhammadNizamani made their first contribution in #1926
• @AniketP04 made their first contribution in #1929
• @Billa05 made their first contribution in #1934
• @drvnprgrmr made their first contribution in #1947
• @edy252 made their first contribution in #1945
• @edinosma made their first contribution in #1959

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v4.2.1

What's Changed

Web:

• Playlist, artist and album download from web app by @oscarvx00 in #1865

Bugfixes:

• check if track is a song when downloading playlists by @xnetcat in 8949b9a
• Support for manual Bandcamp and Soundcloud download. (Using like manual Youtube download in the format MusicURL|SpotifyURL) by @Piripe in #1897
• Fix crash when filtering results with the --dont-filter-results argument when a provider has 0 result by @Piripe in #1897
• Fixed a crash with the cache by @Piripe in #1897
• Fixed matching error when downloading an album caused by track duration by @Piripe in #1897
• Fixed bandcamp audio provider by @xnetcat in b1a48de a4c6e8d

Improvements:

• use downloader settings when parsing query by @xnetcat in 0a692c7
• added more checks for sync file by @xnetcat in 5e34b21
• respect detect-formats option when using m3u option by @xnetcat in 8a8891e
• fixed/improved search term matching by @xnetcat in db11f71

New features:

• added option to save errors by @xnetcat in 920442e
• added more checks for sync file
• added ability to print to stdout when using save by @xnetcat in ce2bce6
• added all-user-followed-artists shortcut by @xnetcat in f9f110f

Misc:

• updated packages by @xnetcat in f8d7490

Full Changelog: v4.2.0...v4.2.1

New Contributors

• @oscarvx00 made their first contribution in #1865
• @Piripe made their first contribution in #1897

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v4.2.0

Docs:

• added more info about cookies by @xnetcat in fc817ad
• updated the build command by @xnetcat in aac20f5
• fix broken link in docs by @laurens94 in 2baad4a

Bug fixes:

• even more improvements to file name creation function by @xnetcat in e9dee4f
• update client's downloader settings by @xnetcat in 4fd1be7
• check if result has views before calculating the match score by @xnetcat in 3f0565c

Matching:

• simplified artist match fixup for verified results by @xnetcat in 7568dd9
• improved link matching by changing how the views are included in the overall score by @xnetcat in f0ece43

New features:

• added support for wav files by @xnetcat in e7fa8fc c1fb508
• added --yt-dlp-args flag by @xnetcat in d789a5c
• added soundcloud audio provider by @xnetcat in e6f0339
• added bandcamp audio provider by @xnetcat in cc399a8
• added piped audio provider by @xnetcat in ecba7d6 (use piped to bypass country restrictions)
• added detect formats option by @xnetcat in d9aac57
• added ability to download all user playlists by @xnetcat in b915dc3

Improvements:

• remove unwanted directories in container image by @Biswa96 in #1856
• improved sync file detection by @xnetcat in 039801f
• added more words to forbidden words list by @xnetcat in f4835a4 06cac0f
• add ISRC in file tags by @Maxmystere in #1859
• updated packages by @xnetcat in 27a62f0
• added support for piped links by @xnetcat in d293855
• Give an ascii mode to --restrict flag by @OmeGak in #1858
• use POPM id3 tag for popularity by @xnetcat in 2384f0b

New Contributors

• @Biswa96 made their first contribution in #1856
• @laurens94 made their first contribution in #1862
• @OmeGak made their first contribution in #1858

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Full Changelog: v4.1.11...v4.2.0

v4.1.11

What's Changed

Improvements:

• removed original date from id3 tags by @xnetcat in ef2b647
• improved documentation by @Shabinder and @xnetcat in 7d13e52 5564485 a15f755
• Include Spotify Popularity in metadata for MP3 files by @cordeliachen in #1827

Bug fixes:

• check if we get less than 2 template parts by @xnetcat in 1217595

New Contributors

• @cordeliachen made their first contribution in #1827
• @Shabinder made their first contribution in #1840

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Full Changelog: v4.1.10...v4.1.11

v4.1.10

What's Changed

Improvements:

• remove intl-xx from all spotify links by @xnetcat in d1e68ff

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Full Changelog: v4.1.9...v4.1.10

v4.1.9

What's Changed

Bug fixes:

• fixed KeyError when downloading ytm playlists by @xnetcat in 3ba2f01

Improvements:

• added support for links with language codes by @xnetcat in 2fe593b

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Full Changelog: v4.1.8...v4.1.9

v4.1.8

What's Changed

Bug fixes:

• check if time tags are actually time signatures by @xnetcat in 6f075b6
• catch unexpected exceptions when getting lyrics by @xnetcat in 45ad503
• rewritten file name creation logic for long file names by @xnetcat in ed6e8fa
• keep the parent path when creating short path name by @xnetcat in 7d6160b
• don't use default template when formatting template by @xnetcat in 841f95a

Improvements:

• added support for spotify.link by @xnetcat in 3293c85
• updated syncedlyrics to v0.5.0 by @xnetcat in 1173b62

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Full Changelog: v4.1.7...v4.1.8