v1.8.2

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 26
  #1055 @blizzz
• Support for PHP 8.2
  #1056

Changed

• Respect the "Ignored articles" setting also when sorting a playlist by artist
  #1048
• In addition to 'http' and 'https', allow podcast streams from the URL schemes 'feed', 'podcast', 'pcast', 'podcasts', 'itms-pcast', 'itms-pcasts', 'itms-podcast', and 'itms-podcasts'
  153901

Fixed

• Subsonic: getAlbumList with type=alphabeticalByArtist not working on PostgreSQL
  #1046

v1.8.1

Changed

• Keyboard shortcuts for seeking and volume adjustment step in smaller increments when ALT key is held down
  #1039
• The REST API for Ampache/Subsonic key management made more consistent with the other REST APIs

Fixed

• Ampache/Subsonic key creation not working from the web UI on Nextcloud versions < 25 and on ownCloud 10.0 (regression in v1.8.0)
  #1038

v1.8.0

Added

• Basic support to play M4A files with ALAC encoding also on non-Apple browsers
  #1030
  • Based on the Aurora.js plugin ALAC.js v0.1.0
  • Limitations: no seeking, no adjusting of playback speed, possible glitches, may not work with all files
• Basic support to play AIFF, AU, and CAF files
  #767
  • Based on the Aurora.js (no plugins required)
  • Limitations: no seeking, no adjusting of playback speed, possible glitches, may not work with all files
  • Corresponding file extensions must be mapped to MIME types audio/*, see below
• Command occ music:register-mime-types to add MIME type mappings for those supported audio file types which
  are not mapped by default on OC and NC: .aac, .au, .aif, .aiff, .aifc, .caf

Changed

• Show the collapsed navigation pane when a track is dragged over the navigation pane toggle
  #999
• Updated the getID3 library to the release version 1.9.22-202207161647
• More secure generation of the Ampache/Subsonic API keys
  • Removed the REST API endpoint /api/settings/userkey/add, leaving only /api/settings/userkey/generate
• Wider progress bar on wide high-resolution screens also for the lite player within the Files app
• On individual shared file page (on OC), overlay the play icon on the preview image on hover
• Allow up to 5 redirects (up from 2) when fetching a podcast channel or internet radio station
• Color of the progress bar follows the selected color theme on NC

Fixed

• Small layout issues on Nextcloud 25
• Layout issue in the two-line controls pane on IE
• Not adjusting to dark theme when the theme comes from the browser preference (in NC25)
• User's podcasts, radio stations, and Ampache/Subsonic API keys not erased when an user account deleted
• Music controls not visible on publicly shared folders on NC25
  #1028
• Wrong icon in the "New files to scan" and "No scanned files" pop-ups on NC25
• Firefox on Ubuntu selecting the single-column layout after page load regardless of the window width
  #1029
• Tablet and mobile layout not working correctly on NC 25.0.2
  #1036
• Playback jumping to the next radio station when seeking beyond the end of the already buffered content

v1.7.0

Added

• Two-line layout for the controls pane on narrow windows
  #1004 #204
• Muting/unmuting by clicking the speaker icon
  #1013 @Root-Core
• Many new keyboard shortcuts
  #1013 @Root-Core
  • Numpad +/-: Increase/decrease volume
  • M: Mute toggle
  • J/L: Seek backwards/forward
  • K: Play/Pause toggle
  • Shift + Comma/Period: Decrease/Increase playback speed
  • Arrow Left/Right: Seek backwards/forward (was formerly skip previous/next)
  • Ctrl + Arrow Left/Right: Skip previous/next
  • Step size of seeking and volume control is increased when shift held down
• 'Skip previous' shown in the play/pause context menu on narrow screens where it doesn't fit in the controls pane
• Preview of the seek position shown while hovering over the seek bar
  #1007 @Root-Core

Changed

• Use background color definitions from the cloud core when available. Fixes a problem with the Nextcloud Breeze Dark theme introduced in v1.6.0.
  #1002
• Subsonic: Search functions now find also songs by artist or album name and albums by artist name
  • This prevents the Substreamer client from going haywire when shuffle play for an artist requested (!)
    #1000
• Subsonic: Method getCoverArt returns a placeholder image (instead of an error) if the album/artist in question has no cover art set
  #1000
• Context menu on the play/pause button can be opened with right click in addition to the long press
  #1006 @Root-Core
• Playback speed change by clicking the menu option now has step size 0.25 instead of 0.5. Right-click or long-press decreases the speed.
  #1013 @Root-Core
• Wider progress bar on wide high-resolution screens
  #1004
• Removed the undocumented keyboard shortcuts for toggling the layout on Albums and Folders views
• Respect the global keyboard shortcut disable switch introduced by Nextcloud 25

Fixed

• Small issues in the mobile and tablet layouts
• Subsonic: API method getTopSongs ignoring the argument count
• Subsonic: Some clients (at least Substreamer, Jamstash, Sonixd) experiencing perpetual 302 redirect loops
  #1000
• Subsonic: getScanState in json mode returning "false" as string instead of bool caused Substreamer to poll it indefinitely
  #1000
• Podcast title not showing on the German translation of 'Podcast channel "{{ title }}" added'
  #1005 @Root-Core
• Alphabet navigation breaking down when the artist name starts with a Unicode character greater than U+FFFF
  #1021
• Nextcloud 25: Web UI not working except for in a narrow window; alphabet navigation not working; layout issues
  #1017

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)