2.10.0 RC 7

📦 RC Release

Changes since 2.10.0rc6

⚠ Breaking Changes

• Retire the local audio provider in favor of the Sendspin add-on (by @chrisuthe in #5965)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Show fuller descriptions for BBC Sounds podcasts and shows (by @OzGav in #5924)
• Add per player HEOS playback transition configuration (by @Tommatheussen in #5978)
• Shuffle and repeat now work on a source your speaker runs itself (by @marcelveldt in #5993)
• Use album loudness only for albums you actually played (by @marcelveldt in #5994)
• Faster seeking on Spotify tracks played through Soloist (by @marcelveldt in #6000)
• Keep the home page in step when played state changes (by @OzGav in #6005)

🐛 Bugfixes

• 'Play next' now really plays the chosen track next on a dynamic queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5950)
• Use album loudness only when tracks really play as part of an album (by @marcelveldt in #5981)
• Notice when Spotify playback loses its pairing (by @marcelveldt in #5987)
• Seeking or resuming a Spotify track no longer cuts it off mid-song (by @marcelveldt in #5992)
• Add dark theme icon for MilkDrop Visualizer (by @jozefKruszynski in #6007)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Continue setup as soon as you pick an option (by @maximmaxim345 in #2643)
• Shuffle and repeat no longer apply to something that stopped playing (by @marcelveldt in #2650)
• Show shuffle and repeat failures again, except the expected one (by @marcelveldt in #2652)
• Document how the shuffle and repeat controls pick the source they act on (by @marcelveldt in #2651)
• Surface retired providers correctly in the settings UI (by @chrisuthe in #2644)
• Show the full menu on discover page items (by @OzGav in #2624)
• Translate the provider stage badge (by @chrisuthe in #2629)
• Fix permission popups on cast dashboards (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2655)
• Replace butterchurn with maintained fork (by @jozefKruszynski in #2654)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2630)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

23 changes

• Count an album as played once, however its tracks are ordered in the queue (by @marcelveldt in #5991)
• Keep the position shown for a live source in step with the player (by @marcelveldt in #5995)
• Document which Spotify Soloist pairing failures are detected (by @marcelveldt in #5996)
• Show the right bit-perfect badge when two speakers share one live source (by @marcelveldt in #5997)
• Log how long a stream takes to deliver its first audio (by @marcelveldt in #5998)
• Report a slow player stop after pausing Spotify Connect (by @marcelveldt in #5999)
• Spread beat analysis over shorter steps so it stays out of playback's way (by @marcelveldt in #6001)
• Cleanup and small tweaks to the Spotify provider (by @marcelveldt in #6002)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.200 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6003)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.291 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6004)
• Stop leaving a subprocess running when closing it is cancelled (by @marcelveldt in #6006)
• Make the Smart Fades unloaded-model guards actually work (by @marcelveldt in #6008)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.201 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6009)
• Let a cancelled virtual player creation finish cleaning up (by @marcelveldt in #6010)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.202 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6011)
• Keep analysis models loaded while a track is still being analysed (by @marcelveldt in #6012)
• Keep the Smart Fades models as a single set (by @marcelveldt in #6013)
• Keep Spotify playing without a gap when a track repeats or the queue changes (by @marcelveldt in #6014)
• Stop logging an ordinary Spotify seek as a failure (by @marcelveldt in #6015)
• Don't stall cleaning up a virtual player that was already removed (by @marcelveldt in #6016)
• Free a cut Spotify channel's buffer as soon as nothing is reading it (by @marcelveldt in #6017)
• Add tests for where Spotify Soloist splits one track from the next (by @marcelveldt in #6018)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.292 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6020)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Tommatheussen, @chrisuthe, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082618

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082603

⚠ Breaking Changes

• Retire the local audio provider in favor of the Sendspin add-on (by @chrisuthe in #5965)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Show fuller descriptions for BBC Sounds podcasts and shows (by @OzGav in #5924)
• Improve local album and artist folder matching (by @marcelveldt in #5939)
• Add per player HEOS playback transition configuration (by @Tommatheussen in #5978)
• Faster seeking on Spotify tracks played through Soloist (by @marcelveldt in #6000)
• Keep the home page in step when played state changes (by @OzGav in #6005)
• Add an icon for the sendspin_source provider (by @maximmaxim345 in #6023)
• Show pairing codes as dedicated input boxes (by @marcelveldt in #6028)
• Remove the retired local audio provider on installs that never played through it (by @chrisuthe in #6029)
• Give the server a configurable name and external URL (by @marcelveldt in #6031)
• Approve new Sendspin devices with a single click (by @maximmaxim345 in #6035)

🐛 Bugfixes

• 'Play next' now really plays the chosen track next on a dynamic queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5950)
• Add dark theme icon for MilkDrop Visualizer (by @jozefKruszynski in #6007)
• Spotify Connect no longer disappears when a different account connects (by @marcelveldt in #6019)
• Selecting a source no longer takes five seconds to start playing (by @marcelveldt in #6021)
• Cancel in-flight finalizes before freeing analysis models (by @chrisuthe in #6024)
• Retry Sonic Analysis when a track loses its CLAP windows (by @chrisuthe in #6034)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Surface retired providers correctly in the settings UI (by @chrisuthe in #2644)
• Show the full menu on discover page items (by @OzGav in #2624)
• Translate the provider stage badge (by @chrisuthe in #2629)
• Fix permission popups on cast dashboards (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2655)
• Replace butterchurn with maintained fork (by @jozefKruszynski in #2654)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2630)
• Show pairing codes as dedicated input boxes (by @marcelveldt in #2657)
• No more STABLE badge when adding a provider (by @marcelveldt in #2656)
• Show server name, addresses and remote access on the About page (by @marcelveldt in #2658)
• Show audio inputs and devices that need setup (by @maximmaxim345 in #2659)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

25 changes

• Spread beat analysis over shorter steps so it stays out of playback's way (by @marcelveldt in #6001)
• Cleanup and small tweaks to the Spotify provider (by @marcelveldt in #6002)
• Stop leaving a subprocess running when closing it is cancelled (by @marcelveldt in #6006)
• Make the Smart Fades unloaded-model guards actually work (by @marcelveldt in #6008)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.201 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6009)
• Let a cancelled virtual player creation finish cleaning up (by @marcelveldt in #6010)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.202 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6011)
• Keep analysis models loaded while a track is still being analysed (by @marcelveldt in #6012)
• Keep the Smart Fades models as a single set (by @marcelveldt in #6013)
• Keep Spotify playing without a gap when a track repeats or the queue changes (by @marcelveldt in #6014)
• Stop logging an ordinary Spotify seek as a failure (by @marcelveldt in #6015)
• Don't stall cleaning up a virtual player that was already removed (by @marcelveldt in #6016)
• Free a cut Spotify channel's buffer as soon as nothing is reading it (by @marcelveldt in #6017)
• Add tests for where Spotify Soloist splits one track from the next (by @marcelveldt in #6018)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.292 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6020)
• Hide the Sendspin legacy clients option (by @maximmaxim345 in #6025)
• Set up Spotify Connect and AirPlay Receiver once and pick the players they serve (by @marcelveldt in #6026)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.203 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6027)
• Use the new Sendspin mark for the provider icon (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6030)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.293 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6032)
• Pairing texts now say 'pairing code' instead of 'PIN' (by @marcelveldt in #6033)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.204 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6036)
• Update base image versions to 1.6.3 (by @marcelveldt in #6037)
• Clean up snapcast mdns records when the provider unloads (by @marcelveldt in #6038)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.294 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6039)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Tommatheussen, @chrisuthe, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082603

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082516

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Hide Sendspin token pairing method when PIN/code pairing is available (by @maximmaxim345 in #5975)
• Shuffle and repeat now work on a source your speaker runs itself (by @marcelveldt in #5993)
• Use album loudness only for albums you actually played (by @marcelveldt in #5994)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Use album loudness only when tracks really play as part of an album (by @marcelveldt in #5981)
• Notice when Spotify playback loses its pairing (by @marcelveldt in #5987)
• Seeking or resuming a Spotify track no longer cuts it off mid-song (by @marcelveldt in #5992)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Select a player once its setup/pairing flow finishes (by @maximmaxim345 in #2642)
• Remember the artist page view mode across all artists (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2641)
• Bump @lucide/vue from 1.31.0 to 1.33.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2632)
• Bump happy-dom from 20.11.1 to 20.11.6 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2640)
• Continue setup as soon as you pick an option (by @maximmaxim345 in #2643)
• Shuffle and repeat no longer apply to something that stopped playing (by @marcelveldt in #2650)
• Show shuffle and repeat failures again, except the expected one (by @marcelveldt in #2652)
• Document how the shuffle and repeat controls pick the source they act on (by @marcelveldt in #2651)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

10 changes

• Bump aiosendspin to 9.1.1 (by @maximmaxim345 in #5985)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.290 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5988)
• Count an album as played once, however its tracks are ordered in the queue (by @marcelveldt in #5991)
• Keep the position shown for a live source in step with the player (by @marcelveldt in #5995)
• Document which Spotify Soloist pairing failures are detected (by @marcelveldt in #5996)
• Show the right bit-perfect badge when two speakers share one live source (by @marcelveldt in #5997)
• Log how long a stream takes to deliver its first audio (by @marcelveldt in #5998)
• Report a slow player stop after pausing Spotify Connect (by @marcelveldt in #5999)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.200 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6003)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.291 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6004)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @Lucide, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345

2.10.0 RC 6

📦 RC Release

Changes since 2.10.0rc5

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Let Music Assistant mix crossfades for Spotify and other realtime sources (by @marcelveldt in #5960)
• Show audio quality for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #5963)
• Support next/previous controls on Google Cast devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5970)
• Hide Sendspin token pairing method when PIN/code pairing is available (by @maximmaxim345 in #5975)
• Show bit-perfect playback for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #5983)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Flow Mode sample rate setting being locked for players with enforced flow mode (by @vintvinst in #5955)
• Fix slow player response after pausing an external source (by @marcelveldt in #5961)
• Announcements use the speaker's own announcement feature first (by @marcelveldt in #5974)
• Fix mid-track silence on AirPlay receivers that need an explicit progress anchor (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5976)
• Fix announcement volume and mute handling on AirPlay speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5977)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Safer browser media controls (by @marcelveldt in #2626)
• Make crossfade details consistent (by @marcelveldt in #2627)
• Keep the Discover page in place when navigating back (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2625)
• Show audio quality for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #2628)
• Select a player once its setup/pairing flow finishes (by @maximmaxim345 in #2642)
• Remember the artist page view mode across all artists (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2641)
• Bump @lucide/vue from 1.31.0 to 1.33.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2632)
• Bump happy-dom from 20.11.1 to 20.11.6 (by @dependabot[bot] in #2640)

Other Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5966)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

14 changes

• Fix Spotify Connect quality reporting and a leftover audio process (by @marcelveldt in #5954)
• Make publish IP tests reliable (by @marcelveldt in #5958)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.199 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5962)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.288 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5964)
• Fix flaky AirPlay announcement timing tests (by @marcelveldt in #5967)
• Bump hass-client to 1.3.1 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5969)
• Speed up the slowest AirPlay announcement test (by @marcelveldt in #5971)
• Let audio analysis notice players that are not served over HTTP (by @marcelveldt in #5972)
• Keep tracks of the same album gapless when crossfade is on (by @marcelveldt in #5973)
• Tidy up process cleanup code (by @marcelveldt in #5980)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.289 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5982)
• Count album plays started from a streaming service's own listings (by @marcelveldt in #5984)
• Bump aiosendspin to 9.1.1 (by @maximmaxim345 in #5985)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.290 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5988)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @Lucide, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @vintvinst

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082516

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082503

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Show audio quality for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #5963)
• Support next/previous controls on Google Cast devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5970)
• Show bit-perfect playback for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #5983)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix slow player response after pausing an external source (by @marcelveldt in #5961)
• Announcements use the speaker's own announcement feature first (by @marcelveldt in #5974)
• Fix mid-track silence on AirPlay receivers that need an explicit progress anchor (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5976)
• Fix announcement volume and mute handling on AirPlay speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5977)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Show audio quality for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #2628)

Other Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5966)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

8 changes

• Fix flaky AirPlay announcement timing tests (by @marcelveldt in #5967)
• Bump hass-client to 1.3.1 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5969)
• Speed up the slowest AirPlay announcement test (by @marcelveldt in #5971)
• Let audio analysis notice players that are not served over HTTP (by @marcelveldt in #5972)
• Keep tracks of the same album gapless when crossfade is on (by @marcelveldt in #5973)
• Tidy up process cleanup code (by @marcelveldt in #5980)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.289 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5982)
• Count album plays started from a streaming service's own listings (by @marcelveldt in #5984)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @marcelveldt

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082503

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082414

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Let Music Assistant mix crossfades for Spotify and other realtime sources (by @marcelveldt in #5960)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Flow Mode sample rate setting being locked for players with enforced flow mode (by @vintvinst in #5955)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Safer browser media controls (by @marcelveldt in #2626)
• Make crossfade details consistent (by @marcelveldt in #2627)
• Keep the Discover page in place when navigating back (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2625)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

4 changes

• Fix Spotify Connect quality reporting and a leftover audio process (by @marcelveldt in #5954)
• Make publish IP tests reliable (by @marcelveldt in #5958)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.199 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5962)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.288 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5964)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @marcelveldt, @vintvinst

2.10.0 RC 5

📦 RC Release

Changes since 2.10.0rc4

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Allow lower add to queue token limits and slower refill rates in Party plugin (by @Bulgus in #5904)
• Refuse Spotify accounts that cannot work during setup (by @marcelveldt in #5911)
• Keep your queue when an external source starts playing (by @marcelveldt in #5914)
• Play Spotify through Spotify's own playback engine (by @marcelveldt in #5918)
• Add task reports (by @marcelveldt in #5925)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Mark players unavailable on controller disconnection for HEOS (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4068)
• Fix white noise when playing DTS 5.1 audio packed inside WAV (by @vintvinst in #5803)
• Fix the flow-mode 'next' command item for Cast children of Universal Players (by @OzGav in #5836)
• Keep line breaks in metadata out of builtin M3U playlist files (by @OzGav in #5837)
• Fixes an issue where tracks from Niconico Provider cannot be played (by @Shi-553 in #5842)
• Include genre_aliases in genre summary listings (by @jozefKruszynski in #5858)
• Fix Audible podcast sync skipping Periodical series (by @OzGav in #5907)
• Dissolve sync group when a playback start never materializes (by @OzGav in #5908)
• Fix Audible querying the old marketplace after a locale change (by @OzGav in #5909)
• Keep the Spotify session alive when it moves to another player (by @marcelveldt in #5910)
• Improve Audible sign-in setup (by @marcelveldt in #5915)
• Don't parse playlist items already in the database (by @OzGav in #5916)
• Add Symfonisk Table Lamp to Non-Hi Res models (by @OzGav in #5917)
• Fix missing played status on podcast episode details page (by @OzGav in #5927)
• Fix podcast episodes showing in the wrong order (by @OzGav in #5929)
• Fix AirPlay players stuck 'playing' from a stale snapshot (by @teancom in #5938)
• AI DJ no longer announces the wrong day of the week (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5947)
• Smart fades no longer discards every plan on tracks with a mastered fade-out (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5949)
• Fix Spotify Connect playback not starting (by @marcelveldt in #5957)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Enter in mobile search hides the keyboard instead of opening the first result (by @stvncode in #2607)
• Fill the MilkDrop droplet icon while the visualizer is enabled (by @jozefKruszynski in #2605)
• Make the queue read-only while an external session manages it (by @marcelveldt in #2604)
• Show provider logos in the Browse list (by @OzGav in #2574)
• Line up the collapsed sidebar icons in one straight column (by @stvncode in #2608)
• Keep the app initialization tests independent of their order (by @marcelveldt in #2298)
• Show task reports (by @marcelveldt in #2613)
• Make server log viewer text selectable and copyable (by @teancom in #2564)
• Better styling for the now playing source badge (by @marcelveldt in #2609)
• Remove the read-only queue for external sessions (by @marcelveldt in #2611)
• Improve on collection thumbnails (by @fmunkes in #2579)
• Show when a music service handles loudness and crossfade itself (by @marcelveldt in #2621)
• Fix external source badges (by @marcelveldt in #2622)
• Fix alias count in the genre management table (by @jozefKruszynski in #2583)
• Fix shuffle and repeat while an external source is playing (by @marcelveldt in #2612)
• Rename the external source composable (by @marcelveldt in #2616)
• Swiping back no longer shows the previous page twice (by @stvncode in #2606)
• Show podcast episodes newest first (by @OzGav in #2620)
• Stop reporting a format conversion Music Assistant did not make (by @marcelveldt in #2623)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

24 changes

• Make next/previous/seek on live audio sources work the same from every API (by @marcelveldt in #5901)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.284 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5906)
• Show episode descriptions for Audiobookshelf and Plex podcasts (by @OzGav in #5912)
• Track a live external audio source on the player (by @marcelveldt in #5913)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.196 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5920)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.285 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5921)
• Keep the full details of Spotify episodes when fetched (by @OzGav in #5923)
• Bump pytest-aiohttp from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5932)
• Bump fastmcp from 3.4.4 to 3.4.7 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5933)
• Bump pytest from 9.0.3 to 9.1.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5934)
• Drop the audio format comparison workaround (by @marcelveldt in #5936)
• Show when a music service handles loudness and crossfade itself (by @marcelveldt in #5937)
• Skipping a Spotify track no longer starts with a moment of the previous one (by @marcelveldt in #5940)
• Report what a music service did to the audio per queue and per track boundary (by @marcelveldt in #5941)
• Report the audio quality Spotify serves, not a conversion Music Assistant did not make (by @marcelveldt in #5942)
• Stop fighting the Spotify app over a Soloist playback session (by @marcelveldt in #5943)
• Prevent stale live source releases (by @marcelveldt in #5944)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.198 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5945)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.286 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5946)
• Fix a missing import in the Audible setup flow (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5948)
• Simplify Spotify Connect setup (by @marcelveldt in #5951)
• Apply compact backend choice pattern to Spotify music provider (by @marcelveldt in #5952)
• Bump wiim from 0.1.5 to 0.1.7 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5953)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.287 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5956)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@Bulgus, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Shi-553, @fmunkes, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @stvncode, @teancom, @vintvinst

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082414

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082403

🐛 Bugfixes

• Mark players unavailable on controller disconnection for HEOS (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4068)
• Fix Audible podcast sync skipping Periodical series (by @OzGav in #5907)
• Dissolve sync group when a playback start never materializes (by @OzGav in #5908)
• Fix Audible querying the old marketplace after a locale change (by @OzGav in #5909)
• Fix missing played status on podcast episode details page (by @OzGav in #5927)
• Fix podcast episodes showing in the wrong order (by @OzGav in #5929)
• AI DJ no longer announces the wrong day of the week (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5947)
• Smart fades no longer discards every plan on tracks with a mastered fade-out (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5949)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Swiping back no longer shows the previous page twice (by @stvncode in #2606)
• Show podcast episodes newest first (by @OzGav in #2620)
• Stop reporting a format conversion Music Assistant did not make (by @marcelveldt in #2623)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

12 changes

• Keep the full details of Spotify episodes when fetched (by @OzGav in #5923)
• Bump pytest-aiohttp from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5932)
• Bump fastmcp from 3.4.4 to 3.4.7 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5933)
• Bump pytest from 9.0.3 to 9.1.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5934)
• Report what a music service did to the audio per queue and per track boundary (by @marcelveldt in #5941)
• Report the audio quality Spotify serves, not a conversion Music Assistant did not make (by @marcelveldt in #5942)
• Prevent stale live source releases (by @marcelveldt in #5944)
• Fix a missing import in the Audible setup flow (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5948)
• Simplify Spotify Connect setup (by @marcelveldt in #5951)
• Apply compact backend choice pattern to Spotify music provider (by @marcelveldt in #5952)
• Bump wiim from 0.1.5 to 0.1.7 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5953)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.287 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5956)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @marcelveldt, @stvncode

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082403

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082303

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Keep your queue when an external source starts playing (by @marcelveldt in #5914)
• Play Spotify through Spotify's own playback engine (by @marcelveldt in #5918)
• Add task reports (by @marcelveldt in #5925)
• Show when a music service handles loudness and crossfade itself (by @marcelveldt in #5937)
• Stop fighting the Spotify app over a Soloist playback session (by @marcelveldt in #5943)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Keep line breaks in metadata out of builtin M3U playlist files (by @OzGav in #5837)
• Include genre_aliases in genre summary listings (by @jozefKruszynski in #5858)
• Fix AirPlay players stuck 'playing' from a stale snapshot (by @teancom in #5938)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Show when a music service handles loudness and crossfade itself (by @marcelveldt in #2621)
• Fix external source badges (by @marcelveldt in #2622)
• Fix alias count in the genre management table (by @jozefKruszynski in #2583)
• Fix shuffle and repeat while an external source is playing (by @marcelveldt in #2612)
• Rename the external source composable (by @marcelveldt in #2616)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

5 changes

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.196 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5920)
• Drop the audio format comparison workaround (by @marcelveldt in #5936)
• Skipping a Spotify track no longer starts with a moment of the previous one (by @marcelveldt in #5940)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.198 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5945)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.286 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5946)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@OzGav, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @teancom

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082303

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082203

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Allow lower add to queue token limits and slower refill rates in Party plugin (by @Bulgus in #5904)
• Refuse Spotify accounts that cannot work during setup (by @marcelveldt in #5911)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix white noise when playing DTS 5.1 audio packed inside WAV (by @vintvinst in #5803)
• Fix the flow-mode 'next' command item for Cast children of Universal Players (by @OzGav in #5836)
• Fixes an issue where tracks from Niconico Provider cannot be played (by @Shi-553 in #5842)
• Keep the Spotify session alive when it moves to another player (by @marcelveldt in #5910)
• Improve Audible sign-in setup (by @marcelveldt in #5915)
• Don't parse playlist items already in the database (by @OzGav in #5916)
• Add Symfonisk Table Lamp to Non-Hi Res models (by @OzGav in #5917)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Show task reports (by @marcelveldt in #2613)
• Make server log viewer text selectable and copyable (by @teancom in #2564)
• Better styling for the now playing source badge (by @marcelveldt in #2609)
• Remove the read-only queue for external sessions (by @marcelveldt in #2611)
• Improve on collection thumbnails (by @fmunkes in #2579)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• Show episode descriptions for Audiobookshelf and Plex podcasts (by @OzGav in #5912)
• Track a live external audio source on the player (by @marcelveldt in #5913)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.285 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5921)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@Bulgus, @OzGav, @Shi-553, @fmunkes, @marcelveldt, @teancom, @vintvinst