2.9.0 BETA 9

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.9.0b8

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Improve TuneIn browse, search and add recommendations (by @dmoo500 in #3764)
• Add recommendation translation keys for QQ and NetEase (by @xiasi0 in #3778)
• Revert "AirPlay 2 provider now supports sync" (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3780)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Force imageproxy over streamserver for Airplay artwork (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3763)
• Fix tidal recommendations (by @jozefKruszynski in #3767)
• Change heartbeat of websocket and sendspin proxy socket to 25s (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3769)
• Fix 30s delay after switching tracks on Sendspin (by @maximmaxim345 in #3777)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Remove size restriction for volume slider + refacto old ui for player controls (by @stvncode in #1726)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

5 changes

• Bump ya-passport-auth to 1.3.0 for Yandex Smart Home provider (by @trudenboy in #3746)
• Consolidate tidal constants for urls and paths (by @jozefKruszynski in #3768)
• Resolve TODOs in metadata controller (by @OzGav in #3771)
• Remove code in the config controller commented for removal post the 2.8 release (by @OzGav in #3772)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.152 (by @music-assistant-machine in #3775)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @dmoo500, @jozefKruszynski, @maximmaxim345, @stvncode, @trudenboy, @xiasi0

2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026042405

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026042304

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Improve TuneIn browse, search and add recommendations (by @dmoo500 in #3764)
• Add recommendation translation keys for QQ and NetEase (by @xiasi0 in #3778)
• Revert "AirPlay 2 provider now supports sync" (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3780)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix 30s delay after switching tracks on Sendspin (by @maximmaxim345 in #3777)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

4 changes

• Bump ya-passport-auth to 1.3.0 for Yandex Smart Home provider (by @trudenboy in #3746)
• Consolidate tidal constants for urls and paths (by @jozefKruszynski in #3768)
• Resolve TODOs in metadata controller (by @OzGav in #3771)
• Remove code in the config controller commented for removal post the 2.8 release (by @OzGav in #3772)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @dmoo500, @jozefKruszynski, @maximmaxim345, @trudenboy, @xiasi0

2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026042304

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026042115

🐛 Bugfixes

• Force imageproxy over streamserver for Airplay artwork (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3763)
• Fix tidal recommendations (by @jozefKruszynski in #3767)
• Change heartbeat of websocket and sendspin proxy socket to 25s (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3769)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Remove size restriction for volume slider + refacto old ui for player controls (by @stvncode in #1726)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.152 (by @music-assistant-machine in #3775)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@MarvinSchenkel, @jozefKruszynski, @stvncode

2.8.6

📦 Stable Release

Changes since 2.8.5

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix ffmpeg process leak in smart fades mixer on aborted playback (by @marcelveldt in #3725)
• Harden AirPlay STOP command delivery and add teardown logging (by @marcelveldt in #3729)
• Prevent concurrent flow-stream producers from corrupting the playlog (by @marcelveldt in #3731)
• Guard Sonos volume attribute update against uninitialized state (by @marcelveldt in #3732)
• Fix ORF Radiothek browse reverting to top level (by @OzGav in #3733)
• Preserve multi-value album type across all tag parsers (by @OzGav in #3743)
• [Soundcloud]: improving search (by @fionn-r in #3745)
• Fix enqueue action 'replace' stopping the music (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3753)
• Qobuz: fix credential leak on 401 and populate date_added (by @OzGav in #3754)
• Implement power control function for squeezelite (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3755)
• Fix manual genres disappearing after a cleanup run (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3757)
• Force imageproxy over streamserver for Airplay artwork (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3763)
• Fix tidal recommendations (by @jozefKruszynski in #3767)
• Change heartbeat of websocket and sendspin proxy socket to 25s (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3769)
• Fix 30s delay after switching tracks on Sendspin (by @maximmaxim345 in #3777)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• Bump auntie-sounds to 1.1.8 (by @kieranhogg in #3723)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @fionn-r, @jozefKruszynski, @kieranhogg, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345

2.9.0 BETA 8

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.9.0b7

🚀 New Providers

• WiiM provider (by @davidanthoff in #2947)
• Add MusicMe music provider (by @JulienDeveaux in #3393)
• Add Yandex Smart Home plugin provider (by @trudenboy in #3615)
• Add NetEase Cloud Music provider (by @xiasi0 in #3640)
• Add iTunes artwork metadata provider (by @OzGav in #3740)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add artist artwork display for radio streams (by @OzGav in #3110)
• Add min and max volume functionality per player (by @OzGav in #3360)
• Smart crossfade: Add gradual timestretching (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3737)
• Last FM: Add one-click auth (by @duanyutong in #3739)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Adjust Spotify endpoints post deprecation notice (by @OzGav in #3303)
• Fix ffmpeg process leak in smart fades mixer on aborted playback (by @marcelveldt in #3725)
• Raise smart fades chunk timeout to 1s and log block duration (by @marcelveldt in #3728)
• Harden AirPlay STOP command delivery and add teardown logging (by @marcelveldt in #3729)
• Prevent concurrent flow-stream producers from corrupting the playlog (by @marcelveldt in #3731)
• Guard Sonos volume attribute update against uninitialized state (by @marcelveldt in #3732)
• Fix ORF Radiothek browse reverting to top level (by @OzGav in #3733)
• Preserve multi-value album type across all tag parsers (by @OzGav in #3743)
• QQ Music: persist full credential and refresh state (by @xiasi0 in #3744)
• [Soundcloud]: improving search (by @fionn-r in #3745)
• AirPlay 2 provider now supports sync (by @bradkeifer in #3750)
• Fix enqueue action 'replace' stopping the music (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3753)
• Qobuz: fix credential leak on 401 and populate date_added (by @OzGav in #3754)
• Implement power control function for squeezelite (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3755)
• Bump aiosendspin to 5.1.1 to fix audio stuttering (by @maximmaxim345 in #3756)
• Fix manual genres disappearing after a cleanup run (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3757)
• Fix Chromecast player disappearing after MA restart (by @maximmaxim345 in #3758)
• Fix HLS EXTINF metadata parsing for standard format radio streams (by @OzGav in #3759)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Extend player bar track menu to also show for radio stations (by @dmoo500 in #1674)
• Improve performance with GPU compositing and lyrics guard (by @apophisnow in #1671)
• Fix issue "checkbox are not aligned with text when multi-selecting" (by @SimeonAT in #1500)
• Revert "Improve performance with GPU compositing and lyrics guard" (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1724)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

9 changes

• Split Apple Music provider into modular structure (by @dmoo500 in #3715)
• Bump auntie-sounds to 1.1.8 (by @kieranhogg in #3723)
• Migrate loudness analyzer to audio analysis provider (by @marcelveldt in #3727)
• Add pactl to base Docker file (by @iVolt1 in #3734)
• Add an opt-out config entry for radio artwork lookup (by @OzGav in #3741)
• Add docs link to MusicMe manifest (by @OzGav in #3742)
• Bump tomli from 2.3.0 to 2.4.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3749)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.150 (by @music-assistant-machine in #3752)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.151 (by @music-assistant-machine in #3760)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@JulienDeveaux, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @SimeonAT, @apophisnow, @bradkeifer, @davidanthoff, @dmoo500, @duanyutong, @fionn-r, @iVolt1, @kieranhogg, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @trudenboy, @xiasi0

2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026042115

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026042114

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Revert "Improve performance with GPU compositing and lyrics guard" (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1724)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.151 (by @music-assistant-machine in #3760)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@MarvinSchenkel

2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026042114

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026042104

🚀 New Providers

• WiiM provider (by @davidanthoff in #2947)

🐛 Bugfixes

• AirPlay 2 provider now supports sync (by @bradkeifer in #3750)
• Fix enqueue action 'replace' stopping the music (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3753)
• Qobuz: fix credential leak on 401 and populate date_added (by @OzGav in #3754)
• Implement power control function for squeezelite (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3755)
• Bump aiosendspin to 5.1.1 to fix audio stuttering (by @maximmaxim345 in #3756)
• Fix manual genres disappearing after a cleanup run (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3757)
• Fix Chromecast player disappearing after MA restart (by @maximmaxim345 in #3758)
• Fix HLS EXTINF metadata parsing for standard format radio streams (by @OzGav in #3759)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Extend player bar track menu to also show for radio stations (by @dmoo500 in #1674)
• Improve performance with GPU compositing and lyrics guard (by @apophisnow in #1671)
• Fix issue "checkbox are not aligned with text when multi-selecting" (by @SimeonAT in #1500)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• Bump tomli from 2.3.0 to 2.4.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #3749)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.150 (by @music-assistant-machine in #3752)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @SimeonAT, @apophisnow, @bradkeifer, @davidanthoff, @dmoo500, @maximmaxim345

2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026042104

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026042005

🚀 New Providers

• Add MusicMe music provider (by @JulienDeveaux in #3393)
• Add Yandex Smart Home plugin provider (by @trudenboy in #3615)
• Add NetEase Cloud Music provider (by @xiasi0 in #3640)
• Add iTunes artwork metadata provider (by @OzGav in #3740)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Last FM: Add one-click auth (by @duanyutong in #3739)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix ORF Radiothek browse reverting to top level (by @OzGav in #3733)
• Preserve multi-value album type across all tag parsers (by @OzGav in #3743)
• QQ Music: persist full credential and refresh state (by @xiasi0 in #3744)
• [Soundcloud]: improving search (by @fionn-r in #3745)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

4 changes

• Split Apple Music provider into modular structure (by @dmoo500 in #3715)
• Bump auntie-sounds to 1.1.8 (by @kieranhogg in #3723)
• Add an opt-out config entry for radio artwork lookup (by @OzGav in #3741)
• Add docs link to MusicMe manifest (by @OzGav in #3742)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@JulienDeveaux, @OzGav, @dmoo500, @duanyutong, @fionn-r, @kieranhogg, @trudenboy, @xiasi0

2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026042005

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026041905

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add artist artwork display for radio streams (by @OzGav in #3110)
• Add min and max volume functionality per player (by @OzGav in #3360)
• Smart crossfade: Add gradual timestretching (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3737)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Adjust Spotify endpoints post deprecation notice (by @OzGav in #3303)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav

2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026041905

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026041805

🐛 Bugfixes

• Raise smart fades chunk timeout to 1s and log block duration (by @marcelveldt in #3728)
• Harden AirPlay STOP command delivery and add teardown logging (by @marcelveldt in #3729)
• Prevent concurrent flow-stream producers from corrupting the playlog (by @marcelveldt in #3731)
• Guard Sonos volume attribute update against uninitialized state (by @marcelveldt in #3732)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• Migrate loudness analyzer to audio analysis provider (by @marcelveldt in #3727)
• Add pactl to base Docker file (by @iVolt1 in #3734)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@iVolt1, @marcelveldt