2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026081303

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026081203

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Use faster stream/clear for Sendspin track changes, behind a legacy toggle (by @maximmaxim345 in #3870)
• Add artist name sorting for tracks and albums (by @dmoo500 in #5340)
• AI Radio: reusable hosts and an AI DJ for any queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5538)
• Rework and refine the Bose SoundTouch provider (by @fmunkes in #5573)
• Pair the built-in web player automatically (by @maximmaxim345 in #5591)
• Play announcements over the music on AirPlay players (by @marcelveldt in #5598)
• Hand a sync group over to a speaker that's still playing (by @marcelveldt in #5612)
• Send a spoken announcement by typing the text (by @marcelveldt in #5621)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix sync group breaking up when the leader is removed during playback (by @marcelveldt in #5606)
• Fix music not resuming on WiiM speakers after a group change (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5609)
• Fix Edifier and other older LinkPlay speakers playing silently over AirPlay (by @marcelveldt in #5618)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Play an announcement from the player menu (by @marcelveldt in #2458)
• More room for the player bar buttons on a wide screen (by @marcelveldt in #2449)
• A floating dock for the player and bottom menu (by @marcelveldt in #2441)
• A slimmer floating player with the grouping button next to play (by @marcelveldt in #2440)
• Add encryption and auto-pairing to the built-in web player (by @maximmaxim345 in #2399)
• AI Radio hosts editor and the AI DJ queue menu (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2354)
• Use the same grouping icon with player count everywhere (by @marcelveldt in #2436)
• Swipe down player fullscreen from anywhere (by @stvncode in #2431)
• Show the app update prompt instead of hiding it behind the player bar (by @marcelveldt in #2461)
• Let a touch drag scroll the group volume popout (by @marcelveldt in #2462)
• Keep the sleep timer clear of the player bar timeline (by @marcelveldt in #2460)
• Keep the on-screen keyboard out of the AI radio and smart playlist pickers (by @marcelveldt in #2455)
• Keep floating buttons and popups clear of the screen cutout (by @marcelveldt in #2459)
• Keep the smart playlist picker's list steady while it closes (by @marcelveldt in #2457)
• Remove the web player from the server when you switch it off (by @marcelveldt in #2453)
• Let the mobile menu fill the screen behind the phone's controls (by @marcelveldt in #2445)
• Keep the player bar popouts floating as they grow (by @marcelveldt in #2443)
• Translate the menu button on the mobile bottom bar (by @marcelveldt in #2442)
• Less empty space below the mobile menu (by @marcelveldt in #2434)
• Show the full playlist list again when the AI radio picker reopens (by @marcelveldt in #2435)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

9 changes

• Keep sync group playing when the lead speaker is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5608)
• Keep sync groups on the right protocol when a speaker can't play natively (by @marcelveldt in #5610)
• Bump auntie-sounds to 2.0.4 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5611)
• Don't move a sync group onto a speaker's offline protocol (by @marcelveldt in #5613)
• Only hand a sync group over to a speaker that can still be reached (by @marcelveldt in #5615)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.15 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5619)
• Add false-positive guards to the review-instructions shard (by @chrisuthe in #5620)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.187 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5623)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.269 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5624)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @stvncode

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026081203

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026081103

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Update Yandex Music provider to v3.8.8: shared playlist requests and current authentication (by @trudenboy in #5171)
• Stop dating songs from hits compilations (by @marcelveldt in #5586)
• Use expanded_options for sendspin pairing method (by @arturpragacz in #5592)
• Date songs written for films by their soundtrack (by @marcelveldt in #5594)
• Extend low-latency WAV default to Squeezelite and MPD live sources (by @marcelveldt in #5602)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Surface Bandcamp label-released performers as their own artists (by @teancom in #3824)
• Only return the Phish artist when the query matches its name (by @OzGav in #5583)
• Fix guests seeing another guest's web player (by @maximmaxim345 in #5590)
• Fix sync group not re-forming after a leader switch (by @marcelveldt in #5595)
• Fix Spotify pairing authorization (by @marcelveldt in #5599)
• Improve live source playback compatibility (by @marcelveldt in #5600)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Compact the mobile player in settings (by @marcelveldt in #2428)
• Add a radio group rendering for expanded config entry options (by @arturpragacz in #2401)
• Give the player list, group and volume panels more room (by @marcelveldt in #2410)
• Keep the fullscreen player open when picking a player (by @marcelveldt in #2406)
• Consistent settings screens and a save button that stays clear of the player bar (by @marcelveldt in #2407)
• Add Milkdrop visualizer plugin (by @jozefKruszynski in #2340)
• Add ability to collapse collections in the author / narrator details view (by @fmunkes in #2351)
• Keep the mobile save button close to the player (by @marcelveldt in #2429)
• Keep the mobile menu clear of phone controls (by @marcelveldt in #2427)
• Keep the settings save button above the mobile player (by @marcelveldt in #2425)
• No more keyboard popping up over short filter lists (by @marcelveldt in #2419)
• Apply the mobile sidebar side setting right away (by @marcelveldt in #2423)
• Stop the "items selected" box floating too far above the player bar (by @marcelveldt in #2424)
• Don't open the on-screen keyboard when a search list opens (by @marcelveldt in #2420)
• Let the group volume popout scroll instead of running off screen (by @marcelveldt in #2418)
• Remember the last selected player when opening from Home Assistant (by @marcelveldt in #2417)
• Stop the "items selected" box covering the player menus (by @marcelveldt in #2412)
• Don't open the on-screen keyboard when a search dialog opens (by @marcelveldt in #2411)
• Keep the selection bar and playback speed dialog clear of the player bar (by @marcelveldt in #2408)
• Fix shortcut drag-reorder and duplicate prevention (by @dmoo500 in #2380)

Other Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5581)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

6 changes

• Add mined review precedents as Copilot code-review instructions (by @chrisuthe in #5582)
• Remove a redundant library from the test setup (by @marcelveldt in #5587)
• Add Zvuk version metadata, ordering cleanup, and regression coverage (by @trudenboy in #5588)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.186 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5593)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.14 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5597)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.268 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5604)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@OzGav, @arturpragacz, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @teancom, @trudenboy

2.9.13

📦 Stable Release

Changes since 2.9.12

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Spotify playback authorization (by @marcelveldt in #5601)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@marcelveldt

2.10.0 BETA 14

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.10.0b13

🚀 New Providers

• Move library recommendations to plugin provider and add new folders (by @dmoo500 in #3890)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Update and improve Sendspin pairing (by @arturpragacz in #5472)
• Always state the TTS pronunciation rules in AI Radio queries (by @OzGav in #5509)
• Add Milkdrop visualizer plugin (by @jozefKruszynski in #5511)
• Better default player icons (by @marcelveldt in #5521)
• Show dashboards on Fully Kiosk displays (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5531)
• Allow collapsing of collections when acquiring the audiobooks of an author or narrator (by @fmunkes in #5533)
• Support casting the Music Quiz dashboard (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5535)
• Clarify output protocol toggle (by @marcelveldt in #5550)
• Add a configurable volume step size to the players core config (by @quadcom in #5571)
• Make the Spotify setup steps easier to follow (by @marcelveldt in #5575)
• Explain the background library import after adding a music provider (by @marcelveldt in #5576)

🐛 Bugfixes

• End dashboard sessions with a warning when the receiver dies unexpectedly (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5157)
• Impersonate users by auth provider link (by @arturpragacz in #5417)
• Fix AirPlay software volume attenuating stream when another control owns volume (by @OzGav in #5454)
• Report a clear error when AI Radio TTS generation fails (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5497)
• Account for deleted metadata in a provider sync of audiobookshelf (by @fmunkes in #5516)
• Fix MusicCast zone2/main-sync players never refreshing outside UDP push (by @bsny in #5517)
• Report a failed Cast receiver app launch instead of ignoring it (by @OzGav in #5520)
• Keep the full duration of an audiobook when resuming mid-book (by @marcelveldt in #5524)
• Fix player not coming back after disabling and removing it (by @marcelveldt in #5525)
• Resolve OpenSubsonic search and top tracks without per-track lyrics fetches (by @GraysonCAdams in #5526)
• Make an author or narrator playable (by @fmunkes in #5532)
• Open Subsonic: Fix extension name (by @khers in #5536)
• Don't resolve a filesystem image path that points at a directory (by @chrisuthe in #5543)
• Play announcements on muted speakers that announce natively (by @marcelveldt in #5549)
• Enrich matched playlist entries with provider metadata during import (by @OzGav in #5554)
• Fix missing artists on Apple Music playlist tracks (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5558)
• Fix YouTube Music episode description breaking player state (by @andrei-marinache in #5560)
• Fix Spotify playback (by @marcelveldt in #5568)
• Fix minor typo in strings.json (by @dovy6 in #5569)
• Keep bridged AirPlay speakers in sync after a seek or track change (by @marcelveldt in #5570)
• Update strings for radio stations settings for OpenSubsonic Provider (by @frjol in #5572)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Improve player control spacing (by @marcelveldt in #2349)
• Add settings links to player menus (by @marcelveldt in #2348)
• Make player setup actions easier to find (by @marcelveldt in #2347)
• Make provider setup actions easier to find (by @marcelveldt in #2346)
• Align player control links (by @marcelveldt in #2345)
• Check the fake server data in our tests against the real models (by @marcelveldt in #2344)
• Remove an unused favorite button component (by @marcelveldt in #2341)
• Remove unused folder handling from list view descriptions (by @marcelveldt in #2342)
• Music Quiz dashboard for TVs and casting (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2352)
• Simplify player output protocol settings (by @marcelveldt in #2362)
• Add DSP limiter, High/Low Pass and compressor filters (by @OzGav in #2158)
• Improve player bar controls (by @marcelveldt in #2355)
• Show a clear message for oversized convolution files instead of a failed upload (by @marcelveldt in #2358)
• Add missing metadata fields to the API types (by @marcelveldt in #2365)
• Share the queue item and stream details test fixtures (by @marcelveldt in #2361)
• Use a shared podcast fixture in the shortcuts tests (by @marcelveldt in #2364)
• Match audio processing types to what the server sends (by @marcelveldt in #2363)
• Remove API fields the server never sends (by @marcelveldt in #2359)
• Match the API error code type to the number the server sends (by @marcelveldt in #2360)
• Use the shared artist fixture in the guest artist tracks tests (by @marcelveldt in #2357)
• Roboto (by @stvncode in #2376)
• Fix Music Quiz getting stuck for non-English users (by @marcelveldt in #2366)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

25 changes

• Keep the fake AcoustID fingerprinter in sync with the real one (by @marcelveldt in #5444)
• Stop speakers from reappearing while their provider is shutting down (by @marcelveldt in #5493)
• Clean up library items left behind without a provider (by @marcelveldt in #5522)
• Remove an unused internal helper from the music controller (by @marcelveldt in #5523)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.185 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5527)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.263 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5528)
• Let dependency bump merges trigger the stale-PR refresh (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5529)
• Bump pre-commit from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5540)
• Bump huggingface-hub from 1.22.0 to 1.26.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5541)
• Bump usearch from 2.25.3 to 2.26.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5542)
• Remove leftover unused audio reading code from the streams controller (by @marcelveldt in #5544)
• Clean up queue settings when a player is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5545)
• Keep protocol players working when their parent player is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5546)
• Start playback at the saved position on Media Station X players (by @marcelveldt in #5547)
• Never leave a library item without a playable source (by @marcelveldt in #5548)
• Make failing background tasks fail the announcement tests (by @marcelveldt in #5551)
• Clean up player settings when a player provider is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5552)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.264 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5555)
• Change Google Filesystem monochrome icon to white (by @OzGav in #5561)
• Bump ytmusicapi to 1.12.2 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5562)
• Update One Drive icon_monochrome.svg (by @OzGav in #5564)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.265 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5565)
• Bump CodSpeedHQ/action from 5.0.2 to 5.0.3 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5566)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.266 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5578)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.13 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5579)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@GraysonCAdams, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @andrei-marinache, @arturpragacz, @bsny, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @dovy6, @fmunkes, @frjol, @jozefKruszynski, @khers, @marcelveldt, @quadcom, @stvncode

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026081103

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026081100

🚀 New Providers

• Add Mamma Mi Radio music provider (by @florianhorner in #3836)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Stop Sonos S1 speakers from dropping on a single missed request (by @OzGav in #5556)
• Fix a brief audio hiccup on the first playback after starting the server (by @marcelveldt in #5577)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add a pull request template so contributors know which label to pick (by @marcelveldt in #2343)
• Keep the test fixtures' item ids and uris in sync (by @marcelveldt in #2377)
• Use the shared media item fixtures in the smart playlist seed tests (by @marcelveldt in #2378)
• Share a player queue test fixture (by @marcelveldt in #2381)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.267 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5580)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@OzGav, @florianhorner, @marcelveldt

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026081100

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026081018

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add a configurable volume step size to the players core config (by @quadcom in #5571)
• Make the Spotify setup steps easier to follow (by @marcelveldt in #5575)
• Explain the background library import after adding a music provider (by @marcelveldt in #5576)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Spotify playback (by @marcelveldt in #5568)
• Fix minor typo in strings.json (by @dovy6 in #5569)
• Keep bridged AirPlay speakers in sync after a seek or track change (by @marcelveldt in #5570)
• Update strings for radio stations settings for OpenSubsonic Provider (by @frjol in #5572)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Fix Music Quiz getting stuck for non-English users (by @marcelveldt in #2366)
• Show formatted text and working links in provider setup steps (by @marcelveldt in #2382)
• Tidy up API types that are always sent by the server (by @marcelveldt in #2379)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

4 changes

• Make failing background tasks fail the announcement tests (by @marcelveldt in #5551)
• Clean up player settings when a player provider is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5552)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.266 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5578)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.13 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5579)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@dovy6, @frjol, @marcelveldt, @quadcom

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026081018

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026081003

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Update and improve Sendspin pairing (by @arturpragacz in #5472)
• Add Milkdrop visualizer plugin (by @jozefKruszynski in #5511)
• Allow collapsing of collections when acquiring the audiobooks of an author or narrator (by @fmunkes in #5533)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Report a clear error when AI Radio TTS generation fails (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5497)
• Enrich matched playlist entries with provider metadata during import (by @OzGav in #5554)
• Fix missing artists on Apple Music playlist tracks (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5558)
• Fix YouTube Music episode description breaking player state (by @andrei-marinache in #5560)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Roboto (by @stvncode in #2376)
• Scrolldown on player fullscreen (by @stvncode in #2375)
• Remove player name in the song desc in player bar (by @stvncode in #2374)
• Improve player selection (by @marcelveldt in #2372)
• Music Quiz TV dashboard polish (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2370)
• Improve player settings controls (by @marcelveldt in #2369)
• Handle 'stop' player command from companion apps (by @teancom in #2367)
• Match the mobile status bar colour to the app background (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2373)
• Small fixes for player bar drawers (by @stvncode in #2371)
• Sort dashboard cast targets by provider and name (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2368)
• Fix a timing-dependent race condition on ItemsListing with tabs (by @fmunkes in #2353)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

5 changes

• Change Google Filesystem monochrome icon to white (by @OzGav in #5561)
• Bump ytmusicapi to 1.12.2 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5562)
• Update One Drive icon_monochrome.svg (by @OzGav in #5564)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.265 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5565)
• Bump CodSpeedHQ/action from 5.0.2 to 5.0.3 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5566)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @andrei-marinache, @arturpragacz, @fmunkes, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @stvncode, @teancom

2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026081003

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026080903

🚀 New Providers

• Move library recommendations to plugin provider and add new folders (by @dmoo500 in #3890)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Always state the TTS pronunciation rules in AI Radio queries (by @OzGav in #5509)
• Better default player icons (by @marcelveldt in #5521)
• Show dashboards on Fully Kiosk displays (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5531)
• Support casting the Music Quiz dashboard (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5535)
• Clarify output protocol toggle (by @marcelveldt in #5550)

🐛 Bugfixes

• End dashboard sessions with a warning when the receiver dies unexpectedly (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5157)
• Impersonate users by auth provider link (by @arturpragacz in #5417)
• Fix AirPlay software volume attenuating stream when another control owns volume (by @OzGav in #5454)
• Account for deleted metadata in a provider sync of audiobookshelf (by @fmunkes in #5516)
• Fix MusicCast zone2/main-sync players never refreshing outside UDP push (by @bsny in #5517)
• Keep the full duration of an audiobook when resuming mid-book (by @marcelveldt in #5524)
• Fix player not coming back after disabling and removing it (by @marcelveldt in #5525)
• Resolve OpenSubsonic search and top tracks without per-track lyrics fetches (by @GraysonCAdams in #5526)
• Make an author or narrator playable (by @fmunkes in #5532)
• Open Subsonic: Fix extension name (by @khers in #5536)
• Don't resolve a filesystem image path that points at a directory (by @chrisuthe in #5543)
• Play announcements on muted speakers that announce natively (by @marcelveldt in #5549)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Improve player control spacing (by @marcelveldt in #2349)
• Add settings links to player menus (by @marcelveldt in #2348)
• Make player setup actions easier to find (by @marcelveldt in #2347)
• Make provider setup actions easier to find (by @marcelveldt in #2346)
• Align player control links (by @marcelveldt in #2345)
• Check the fake server data in our tests against the real models (by @marcelveldt in #2344)
• Remove an unused favorite button component (by @marcelveldt in #2341)
• Remove unused folder handling from list view descriptions (by @marcelveldt in #2342)
• Music Quiz dashboard for TVs and casting (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2352)
• Simplify player output protocol settings (by @marcelveldt in #2362)
• Add DSP limiter, High/Low Pass and compressor filters (by @OzGav in #2158)
• Improve player bar controls (by @marcelveldt in #2355)
• Show a clear message for oversized convolution files instead of a failed upload (by @marcelveldt in #2358)
• Add missing metadata fields to the API types (by @marcelveldt in #2365)
• Share the queue item and stream details test fixtures (by @marcelveldt in #2361)
• Use a shared podcast fixture in the shortcuts tests (by @marcelveldt in #2364)
• Match audio processing types to what the server sends (by @marcelveldt in #2363)
• Remove API fields the server never sends (by @marcelveldt in #2359)
• Match the API error code type to the number the server sends (by @marcelveldt in #2360)
• Use the shared artist fixture in the guest artist tracks tests (by @marcelveldt in #2357)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

14 changes

• Keep the fake AcoustID fingerprinter in sync with the real one (by @marcelveldt in #5444)
• Stop speakers from reappearing while their provider is shutting down (by @marcelveldt in #5493)
• Clean up library items left behind without a provider (by @marcelveldt in #5522)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.263 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5528)
• Let dependency bump merges trigger the stale-PR refresh (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5529)
• Bump pre-commit from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5540)
• Bump huggingface-hub from 1.22.0 to 1.26.1 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5541)
• Bump usearch from 2.25.3 to 2.26.0 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5542)
• Remove leftover unused audio reading code from the streams controller (by @marcelveldt in #5544)
• Clean up queue settings when a player is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5545)
• Keep protocol players working when their parent player is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5546)
• Start playback at the saved position on Media Station X players (by @marcelveldt in #5547)
• Never leave a library item without a playable source (by @marcelveldt in #5548)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.264 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5555)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@GraysonCAdams, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @arturpragacz, @bsny, @chrisuthe, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @khers, @marcelveldt

2.9.12

📦 Stable Release

Changes since 2.9.11

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Sonos S1 speakers no longer reacting instantly after a network hiccup (by @marcelveldt in #5432)
• Keep the full duration of an audiobook when resuming mid-book (by @marcelveldt in #5524)
• Fix YouTube Music episode description breaking player state (by @andrei-marinache in #5560)
• Fix Spotify playback (by @marcelveldt in #5568)
• Fix Spotify playback (by @marcelveldt in #5574)

Other Changes

• Keep the full duration of an audiobook when resuming mid-book (by @marcelveldt in #5534)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@andrei-marinache, @marcelveldt

2.10.0 BETA 13

📦 Beta Release

Changes since 2.10.0b12

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Allow configuring Snapcast TCP stream sample rate and bit depth (by @rwjack in #5140)
• Addendum to collection support: Enhance search ability and overwrite collection metadata on provider sync (by @fmunkes in #5226)
• More accurate release years for much reissued songs (by @marcelveldt in #5442)
• Drop the entity dropdown from the Home Assistant settings (by @marcelveldt in #5446)
• Show the real reason when AirPlay pairing fails (by @marcelveldt in #5486)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Bose SoundTouch preset search and assignment (by @Odn0 in #5158)
• Resolve OpenSubsonic playlist tracks without per-track album and lyrics fetches (by @GraysonCAdams in #5359)
• Change ABC radio monochrome icon from black to white (by @OzGav in #5392)
• Fix Pocket Casts sync failing on episodes without a duration (by @OzGav in #5397)
• Plex: fix artist top tracks always being empty (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5405)
• Fix Bluesound players cutting off the end of a track (by @marcelveldt in #5408)
• Fix cast dashboards freezing for players with reserved characters in their id (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5415)
• Fix playback stopping after an AI Radio announcement (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5416)
• Fix Sonos S1 speakers no longer reacting instantly after a network hiccup (by @marcelveldt in #5432)
• Fix Sonos connections lingering after a provider reload (by @marcelveldt in #5433)
• Say which type failed when JSON serialization fails (by @OzGav in #5439)
• Show player settings in your own language again (by @marcelveldt in #5447)
• Keep simulated-mute speakers muted when the group volume changes (by @marcelveldt in #5449)
• Remove the last spurious error log entries for shared work (by @marcelveldt in #5453)
• Fix slow Home Assistant logins when a provider fails to finish loading (by @OzGav in #5455)
• Fix a stray error in the log when a Cast speaker fails to join a group (by @marcelveldt in #5470)
• Play announcements on muted speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5474)
• Fix the OpenAI Compatible provider failing to load (by @marcelveldt in #5487)
• Fix playlists not loading in Home Assistant (by @marcelveldt in #5489)
• Fix Apple TV now-playing screen losing progress and artwork (by @marcelveldt in #5490)
• Skip the provider search for an empty search query (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5500)
• Fix filesystem sync never converging on changed files (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5506)
• Fix file shares importing nothing and hiding playlists (#6019) (by @OzGav in #5510)
• Skip unreachable IPv6 addresses when connecting to Cast devices (by @OzGav in #5513)
• Fix broken playlists page after upgrading from stable to beta (by @marcelveldt in #5515)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add Timeline view for MusicBrainz artist events (by @dmoo500 in #2042)
• Fix the Discord playback position after seeking (by @marcelveldt in #2299)
• Restrict the test workflow to read-only repository access (by @marcelveldt in #2311)
• Remove an unused config setting type (by @marcelveldt in #2310)
• Run the test suite once per commit (by @marcelveldt in #2309)
• Cover the config link buttons in the disabled-state tests (by @marcelveldt in #2305)
• Import the API client normally in the companion and auth plugins (by @marcelveldt in #2294)
• Clean up unused props on the player bar timeline (by @marcelveldt in #2300)
• Player card no longer uses its own copy of the queue lookup (by @marcelveldt in #2293)
• Only load track waveforms while something is showing them (by @marcelveldt in #2295)
• Stop the player timeline animating when there is no track length (by @marcelveldt in #2296)
• Document when a queue counts as active (by @marcelveldt in #2297)
• Add tests for the settings field disabled state (by @marcelveldt in #2283)
• Share the app mount helper across the initialization tests (by @marcelveldt in #2288)
• Fix the playback position shown in Discord Rich Presence (by @marcelveldt in #2291)
• Party guest page no longer changes your selected player (by @marcelveldt in #2290)
• Stop test runs from reporting success when errors escape a test (by @marcelveldt in #2292)
• Search for a Home Assistant entity to use as a player control (by @marcelveldt in #2316)
• Add artist name sorting to library views (by @dmoo500 in #2268)
• Add support for authors and narrators (by @fmunkes in #2000)
• Make test fixtures match the real API models (by @marcelveldt in #2337)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

63 changes

• Search Home Assistant entities to use as player controls (by @marcelveldt in #5271)
• Keep group players up to date regardless of who triggers the update (by @marcelveldt in #5393)
• De-duplicate the metadata controller test fixture (by @marcelveldt in #5398)
• Show what a settings action did instead of redrawing the form (by @marcelveldt in #5402)
• Make player test config mocks behave like the real config (by @marcelveldt in #5422)
• Catch vulnerabilities a dependency update pulls in indirectly (by @marcelveldt in #5424)
• Stop tests crashing at random on a shared compile cache (by @marcelveldt in #5426)
• Tidy up where the Music Quiz AI limits live (by @marcelveldt in #5428)
• Share playlist track requests again on Yandex Music and KION Music (by @marcelveldt in #5430)
• Report Sonos S1 grouping failures as proper player errors (by @marcelveldt in #5431)
• Load the AcoustID fingerprinting library only when it is needed (by @marcelveldt in #5434)
• Stop providers from reloading twice after a lost connection or settings change (by @marcelveldt in #5435)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.260 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5436)
• Keep all members of a cached tuple value intact (by @marcelveldt in #5437)
• Open Subsonic: Add API token based authentication and update to py-opensonic 10.3.0 (by @khers in #5438)
• Keep the PR label in sync when the description changes (by @marcelveldt in #5441)
• Clean up unused leftovers in the Sonos S1 player (by @marcelveldt in #5443)
• Clean up unused code in the Sonos S1 error handling (by @marcelveldt in #5445)
• Share the Music Quiz AI limit checks between quiz types (by @marcelveldt in #5448)
• Fix wrong playback position and track length for HEOS players (by @marcelveldt in #5450)
• Tidy up duplicated fixtures in the controller tests (by @marcelveldt in #5451)
• Tidy up duplicated fixtures in the provider tests (by @marcelveldt in #5452)
• Fix failing cache controller test on dev (by @marcelveldt in #5456)
• Correct the cache docs on what single_flight=False does (by @marcelveldt in #5457)
• Limit the length of AI-written smart playlist descriptions (by @marcelveldt in #5458)
• Tidy up the duplicated Tidal test fixtures (by @marcelveldt in #5459)
• Tidy up the API value parser (by @marcelveldt in #5460)
• Keep a playback position of zero instead of treating it as unknown (by @marcelveldt in #5461)
• Stop the dependency check from blaming a PR for a vulnerability it did not introduce (by @marcelveldt in #5462)
• Remove duplicated code around waiting for shared work (by @marcelveldt in #5463)
• Share My Wave and My Mix track requests between listeners (by @marcelveldt in #5464)
• Keep a muted speaker working normally after it leaves a group (by @marcelveldt in #5465)
• Make the Tidal ISRC lookup test check the real API URL (by @marcelveldt in #5466)
• Show which vulnerability findings the dependency check set aside (by @marcelveldt in #5467)
• Tidy up the helper order in the API helpers module (by @marcelveldt in #5468)
• Stop confusing an unknown DLNA position or volume with zero (by @marcelveldt in #5469)
• Name the argument in dictionary parse errors (by @marcelveldt in #5471)
• Fix volume changes when unmuting a speaker (by @marcelveldt in #5473)
• Make shared-request deduplication reliable for media item arguments (by @marcelveldt in #5475)
• Fix pre-commit hooks failing when committing from a git worktree (by @marcelveldt in #5476)
• Fix DLNA players reporting a position that runs ahead of the audio (by @marcelveldt in #5477)
• Stop Sonos S1 discovery from freezing the server (by @marcelveldt in #5478)
• Prevent Sonos S1 speakers from reconnecting after a provider reload (by @marcelveldt in #5479)
• Clean up pending Sonos speaker setups when the provider is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5480)
• Stop Sonos S1 from scanning for speakers after it is turned off (by @marcelveldt in #5481)
• Keep speaker grouping correct for every user (by @marcelveldt in #5482)
• Clean up disabled players when a player provider is unloaded (by @marcelveldt in #5483)
• Keep unloading a provider when one of its players fails to shut down (by @marcelveldt in #5484)
• Add test coverage for removing a player provide...