Music - Releases

Added

• Additional tabs "Albums" and "Tracks" to the artist details pane
• Additional tabs "Tracks" and "Artists" to the album details pane
• Favorite toggle to the details pane of the tracks, albums, artists, playlists, and podcasts
• New filter "Favorite" for the smart list
• OpenSubsonic extensions to the Subsonic API:
• Method getLyricsBySongId
• Property sortName to all artist, album, and song responses
• Property played to all song responses

Changed

• Drop support for PHP versions older 7.4 (i.e. PHP 7.1 - 7.3)
• Drop support for ownCloud versions older than 10.5 (i.e. OC 10.0 - 10.4)
• Drop support for Nextcloud versions older than 20 (i.e. NC 13 - 19)
• New design including cover art on all list-like views
• Ampache and Subsonic APIs: Check the username in case-insensitive manner #1147
• Ampache API:
• The action download doesn't implicitly record the track as played (unlike stream)
• The song property url refers to the stream URL instead of download URL

Fixed

• Playlist sorting not working if the list contains any broken track references
• Nextcloud.log being flooded with the debug-level message "/appinfo/app.php is deprecated" on NC20+ #1043

Added

• Advanced search view #1141
• Support for Nextcloud 29 #1132
• Ampache API:
• Option to change the session timeout with the config.php key music.ampache_session_expiry_time #1134
• Support for the actions search, user, user_playlists, user_smartlists, playlist_add, index, scrobble
• Support for the advanced search rule bitrate on songs
• Subsonic API:
• Support for the method getOpenSubsonicExtensions

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Advanced search operators matches regex and does not match regex supported also on SQLite (this is important to properly support Ample)
• Advanced search operators sounds like and does not sound like supported also on SQLite, and on PgSQL if module fuzzystrmatch is installed
• Advanced search rules album_genre and artist_genre supported also on PgSQL
• Authentication tag can be delivered also using the bearer token header (required to support Ample v3) #1140
• All results with property art have also the property has_art
• Implicitly record the track as played with the actions download and stream

Fixed

• Playlist file not playing within Files in case the first track of the list is in unsupported format
• Some Finnish translations being replaced with English (since v1.9.0)
• Error "Cannot set response code - headers already sent" logged on each played song on PHP 8.3 #1133
• Files player: Menu icon for "Import list to Music" not adjusted correctly for the dark theme
• Standard NC viewer opened instead of embedded Music player when opening file from Dashboard on NC28+ #1126
• Music app page loading randomly failing on Chrome #1137
• Ampache API:
• API not working on ownCloud 10.14.0 (HTTP error 500 on all Ampache API calls) #1138
• Advanced search rule playlist_name not being case insensitive like the other string rules
• Advanced search rules playlist and playlist_name not working with SQLite
• Advanced search operator does not sound like not working
• Advanced search numeric rules (e.g. year, played_times, album_count) not working properly on SQLite
• Advanced search rules album_count and song_count never finding artists whose respective count is 0
• Incorrect root node name on the actions user_preference and user_preferences
• Subsonic API:
• Method getAlbumInfo2 response having incorrect root element name #1125 @perillamint
• On NC28+, every XML API call logged an error 'Undefined array key "" at /var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Http.php#128'. #1142

Added

• Additional tabs "Albums" and "Tracks" to the artist details pane
• Additional tabs "Tracks" and "Artists" to the album details pane
• Favorite toggle to the details pane of the tracks, albums, artists, playlists, and podcasts
• New filter "Favorite" for the smart list
• OpenSubsonic extensions to the Subsonic API:
• Method getLyricsBySongId
• Property sortName to all artist, album, and song responses
• Property played to all song responses

Changed

• Drop support for PHP versions older 7.4 (i.e. PHP 7.1 - 7.3)
• Drop support for ownCloud versions older than 10.5 (i.e. OC 10.0 - 10.4)
• Drop support for Nextcloud versions older than 20 (i.e. NC 13 - 19)
• New design including cover art on all list-like views
• Ampache and Subsonic APIs: Check the username in case-insensitive manner #1147
• Ampache API:
• The action download doesn't implicitly record the track as played (unlike stream)
• The song property url refers to the stream URL instead of download URL

Fixed

• Playlist sorting not working if the list contains any broken track references
• Nextcloud.log being flooded with the debug-level message "/appinfo/app.php is deprecated" on NC20+ #1043

Added

• Advanced search view #1141
• Support for Nextcloud 29 #1132
• Ampache API:
• Option to change the session timeout with the config.php key music.ampache_session_expiry_time #1134
• Support for the actions search, user, user_playlists, user_smartlists, playlist_add, index, scrobble
• Support for the advanced search rule bitrate on songs
• Subsonic API:
• Support for the method getOpenSubsonicExtensions

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Advanced search operators matches regex and does not match regex supported also on SQLite (this is important to properly support Ample)
• Advanced search operators sounds like and does not sound like supported also on SQLite, and on PgSQL if module fuzzystrmatch is installed
• Advanced search rules album_genre and artist_genre supported also on PgSQL
• Authentication tag can be delivered also using the bearer token header (required to support Ample v3) #1140
• All results with property art have also the property has_art
• Implicitly record the track as played with the actions download and stream

Fixed

• Playlist file not playing within Files in case the first track of the list is in unsupported format
• Some Finnish translations being replaced with English (since v1.9.0)
• Error "Cannot set response code - headers already sent" logged on each played song on PHP 8.3 #1133
• Files player: Menu icon for "Import list to Music" not adjusted correctly for the dark theme
• Standard NC viewer opened instead of embedded Music player when opening file from Dashboard on NC28+ #1126
• Music app page loading randomly failing on Chrome #1137
• Ampache API:
• API not working on ownCloud 10.14.0 (HTTP error 500 on all Ampache API calls) #1138
• Advanced search rule playlist_name not being case insensitive like the other string rules
• Advanced search rules playlist and playlist_name not working with SQLite
• Advanced search operator does not sound like not working
• Advanced search numeric rules (e.g. year, played_times, album_count) not working properly on SQLite
• Advanced search rules album_count and song_count never finding artists whose respective count is 0
• Incorrect root node name on the actions user_preference and user_preferences
• Subsonic API:
• Method getAlbumInfo2 response having incorrect root element name #1125 @perillamint
• On NC28+, every XML API call logged an error 'Undefined array key "" at /var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Http.php#128'. #1142

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 28 #1116
• Support for PHP 8.3
• Ampache API:
• Support for argument random in the method playlist_songs
• Method bookmark
• Support for argument include in all methods returning bookmarks
• Subsonic API:
• Property playCount to song responses
• OpenSubsonic API extensions:
  • Properties openSubsonic, type, and serverVersion to all responses
  • Allow getting the whole library with an empty query argument in search3 method
• MusicBrainz link from Last.fm to the artist/album/track details pane, when available
• Filters "Recently added" and "Not recently added" for the smart playlist #1098
• Optional "strict" mode for the history filters of the smart playlist #1099
• Hint about the keyboard shortcuts in the Settings view and in tooltips #1086

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Make advanced_search arguments operator and type optional
• On method bookmark_create, the argument client defaults to null instead of "AmpacheAPI"
• Subsonic API: Methods search2 and search3 support '*' as a wildcard
• Consider also the tag names unsynced_lyrics and unsyncedlyrics when parsing lyrics #1111 @RobertZenz
• Updated the getID3 library to the development version 1.9.23-202312292105
• Fixes the issue of garbage bytes being extracted from some RIFF tags #1115
• Search within the Music app now works with an own input field in the navigation pane instead of the unified search input

Fixed

• Songs with scanned integer property value (like track number) larger than 2147483647 causing error on PostgreSQL #1106
• Lite player in Files attempting to play also audio files with MIME types unsupported on the current browser
• Subsonic API: Use integer-type IDs in getMusicFolders to comply with the API specification #1108
• Playlist details showing length as "NaN:NaN" in case the playlist contains any invalid track references

Added

• Additional tabs "Albums" and "Tracks" to the artist details pane
• Additional tabs "Tracks" and "Artists" to the album details pane
• Favorite toggle to the details pane of the tracks, albums, artists, playlists, and podcasts
• New filter "Favorite" for the smart list
• OpenSubsonic extensions to the Subsonic API:
• Method getLyricsBySongId
• Property sortName to all artist, album, and song responses
• Property played to all song responses

Changed

• Drop support for PHP versions older 7.4 (i.e. PHP 7.1 - 7.3)
• Drop support for ownCloud versions older than 10.5 (i.e. OC 10.0 - 10.4)
• Drop support for Nextcloud versions older than 20 (i.e. NC 13 - 19)
• New design including cover art on all list-like views
• Ampache and Subsonic APIs: Check the username in case-insensitive manner #1147
• Ampache API:
• The action download doesn't implicitly record the track as played (unlike stream)
• The song property url refers to the stream URL instead of download URL

Fixed

• Playlist sorting not working if the list contains any broken track references
• Nextcloud.log being flooded with the debug-level message "/appinfo/app.php is deprecated" on NC20+ #1043

Added

• Advanced search view #1141
• Support for Nextcloud 29 #1132
• Ampache API:
• Option to change the session timeout with the config.php key music.ampache_session_expiry_time #1134
• Support for the actions search, user, user_playlists, user_smartlists, playlist_add, index, scrobble
• Support for the advanced search rule bitrate on songs
• Subsonic API:
• Support for the method getOpenSubsonicExtensions

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Advanced search operators matches regex and does not match regex supported also on SQLite (this is important to properly support Ample)
• Advanced search operators sounds like and does not sound like supported also on SQLite, and on PgSQL if module fuzzystrmatch is installed
• Advanced search rules album_genre and artist_genre supported also on PgSQL
• Authentication tag can be delivered also using the bearer token header (required to support Ample v3) #1140
• All results with property art have also the property has_art
• Implicitly record the track as played with the actions download and stream

Fixed

• Playlist file not playing within Files in case the first track of the list is in unsupported format
• Some Finnish translations being replaced with English (since v1.9.0)
• Error "Cannot set response code - headers already sent" logged on each played song on PHP 8.3 #1133
• Files player: Menu icon for "Import list to Music" not adjusted correctly for the dark theme
• Standard NC viewer opened instead of embedded Music player when opening file from Dashboard on NC28+ #1126
• Music app page loading randomly failing on Chrome #1137
• Ampache API:
• API not working on ownCloud 10.14.0 (HTTP error 500 on all Ampache API calls) #1138
• Advanced search rule playlist_name not being case insensitive like the other string rules
• Advanced search rules playlist and playlist_name not working with SQLite
• Advanced search operator does not sound like not working
• Advanced search numeric rules (e.g. year, played_times, album_count) not working properly on SQLite
• Advanced search rules album_count and song_count never finding artists whose respective count is 0
• Incorrect root node name on the actions user_preference and user_preferences
• Subsonic API:
• Method getAlbumInfo2 response having incorrect root element name #1125 @perillamint
• On NC28+, every XML API call logged an error 'Undefined array key "" at /var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Http.php#128'. #1142

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 28 #1116
• Support for PHP 8.3
• Ampache API:
• Support for argument random in the method playlist_songs
• Method bookmark
• Support for argument include in all methods returning bookmarks
• Subsonic API:
• Property playCount to song responses
• OpenSubsonic API extensions:
  • Properties openSubsonic, type, and serverVersion to all responses
  • Allow getting the whole library with an empty query argument in search3 method
• MusicBrainz link from Last.fm to the artist/album/track details pane, when available
• Filters "Recently added" and "Not recently added" for the smart playlist #1098
• Optional "strict" mode for the history filters of the smart playlist #1099
• Hint about the keyboard shortcuts in the Settings view and in tooltips #1086

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Make advanced_search arguments operator and type optional
• On method bookmark_create, the argument client defaults to null instead of "AmpacheAPI"
• Subsonic API: Methods search2 and search3 support '*' as a wildcard
• Consider also the tag names unsynced_lyrics and unsyncedlyrics when parsing lyrics #1111 @RobertZenz
• Updated the getID3 library to the development version 1.9.23-202312292105
• Fixes the issue of garbage bytes being extracted from some RIFF tags #1115
• Search within the Music app now works with an own input field in the navigation pane instead of the unified search input

Fixed

• Songs with scanned integer property value (like track number) larger than 2147483647 causing error on PostgreSQL #1106
• Lite player in Files attempting to play also audio files with MIME types unsupported on the current browser
• Subsonic API: Use integer-type IDs in getMusicFolders to comply with the API specification #1108
• Playlist details showing length as "NaN:NaN" in case the playlist contains any invalid track references

Version 1.9.0 had an app update problem on some versions of Nextcloud with SQLite. This version works around that issue but is othwerise identical with v1.9.0.

Added

• Smart playlist feature, allowing list creation by user-supplied criteria #619 #1061 @rstefko
• Dragging tracks/albums/etc on the "+ New Playlist" item creates a new playlist containing those items
• Files playlist tab: Tooltip showing the file path or stream URL
• Subsonic API:
• Rating support: method setRating, rating properties in all applicable result entities, type highest to the method getAlbumList
• Empty implementation for the method getNowPlaying #1079 @NattyNarwhal
• Ampache API: #1078
• New methods:
  • rate
  • get_similar
  • genres, genre, genre_artists, genre_albums, genre_songs
  • bookmarks, get_bookmark, bookmark_create, bookmark_edit, bookmark_delete
  • live_streams, live_stream, live_stream_create, live_stream_edit, live_stream_delete
  • list
  • browse
  • user_preference and user_preferences with mock-up content
  • advanced_search with partial support, not all search rules supported and some operators work only with MySQL/MariaDB
• Support for the type album_artist in the method get_indexes
• Support for the parameter album_artist in the method artists
• Support for the type playlist in the method stats
• Support for the type playlist in the methods download and stream
• Support for the type playlist in the method flag
• Support for the parameter top50 in the method artist_songs
• Support for the filter highest in the method stats
• Support for the parameter include in the methods album, albums, artist, and artists
• Fields time, albumcount, songcount, prefix, and basename to the artist type results
• Fields time, diskcount, songcount, prefix, and basename to the album type results
• Fields disk, format, stream_format, stream_bitrate, stream_mime, and playlisttrack to song type results
• Fields time, size, bitrate, stream_bitrate, rating, and preciserating to podcast_episode type results
• Fields rating and preciserating to podcast type results
• Fields flag, rating and preciserating to playlist type results
• Null-valued fields language, lyrics, mode, rate, replaygain_album_gain, replaygain_album_peak, replaygain_track_gain, replaygain_track_peak, r128_album_gain, and r128_track_gain to song type results
• In JSON-mode only, field artists to song and album type results
• All the fields of handshake response on the response of ping within a valid session

Changed

• Ampache API: #1078 #909
• Follow the APIv5 conventions if version 5.x.x requested by the client on handshake
• Follow the APIv6 conventions if version 6.0.0 or higher requested by the client on handshake
• Follow the APIv6 conventions if the client doesn't specify any version
  • this may be overridden using the config.php key music.ampache_api_default_ver
• The URLs returned in the art tag of the entities are now cache-friendly, i.e. don't depend on the session
• Terminate all related sessions immediately when API key deleted; previously, this happened upon session timeout
• Fields rating and preciserating now show the user-given rating instead of constant 0 on all applicable result objects
• Own UI settings storage for each OC/NC instance running on the same server (same HTTP origin). Previously, all instances of the origin shared the settings.
• As a side-effect, any UI settings (like volume, view modes) from the previous version get discarded upon the SW update
• Also, volume settings in the Share and Files embedded players are now distinct from the volume in the main app
• Small optimization on the size of the collection.json loaded by the web front-end
• Order the playlists by name in the navigation pane, navigate automatically to the created or renamed playlist #1083
• Any invalid playlist entries are now visible on the web UI to enable easy removal #1087

Fixed

• Subsonic API:
• Unhandled exception when attempting to delete a non-existent bookmark #1071
• Method getPlaylist failing if the playlist contains any invalid track references (since v1.8.0) #1087
• Scanning breaking if any out-of-bounds numeric value gets scanned from any audio file #1073
• File and folder selection dialogs not working on NC 27.1.0 and 27.1.1 (workaround for a NC bug which should get fixed in NC 27.1.2) #1091
• Application update not working on some versions of Nextcloud with SQLite (introduced in v1.9.0)

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 27 (tested on RC3)

Changed

• Allow UTF-8 encoding also on playlists with the extension .m3u (in addition to .m3u8)
• The file is interpreted as ISO-8859-1 only if not valid UTF-8 or if so specified by the #EXTENC tag #1047

Fixed

• Folder icons not being theme-colored on Nextcloud 25+
• Navigation pane divider lines being invisible with some themes on Nextcloud 25+
• Subsonic: Incorrect interpretation of the optional time argument on the scrobble method #1066
• "Show in Files" link in the track details popping up an empty player bar on Nextcloud (at least on NC23-27)

Added

• Additional tabs "Albums" and "Tracks" to the artist details pane
• Additional tabs "Tracks" and "Artists" to the album details pane
• Favorite toggle to the details pane of the tracks, albums, artists, playlists, and podcasts
• New filter "Favorite" for the smart list
• OpenSubsonic extensions to the Subsonic API:
• Method getLyricsBySongId
• Property sortName to all artist, album, and song responses
• Property played to all song responses

Changed

• Drop support for PHP versions older 7.4 (i.e. PHP 7.1 - 7.3)
• Drop support for ownCloud versions older than 10.5 (i.e. OC 10.0 - 10.4)
• Drop support for Nextcloud versions older than 20 (i.e. NC 13 - 19)
• New design including cover art on all list-like views
• Ampache and Subsonic APIs: Check the username in case-insensitive manner #1147
• Ampache API:
• The action download doesn't implicitly record the track as played (unlike stream)
• The song property url refers to the stream URL instead of download URL

Fixed

• Playlist sorting not working if the list contains any broken track references
• Nextcloud.log being flooded with the debug-level message "/appinfo/app.php is deprecated" on NC20+ #1043

Added

• Advanced search view #1141
• Support for Nextcloud 29 #1132
• Ampache API:
• Option to change the session timeout with the config.php key music.ampache_session_expiry_time #1134
• Support for the actions search, user, user_playlists, user_smartlists, playlist_add, index, scrobble
• Support for the advanced search rule bitrate on songs
• Subsonic API:
• Support for the method getOpenSubsonicExtensions

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Advanced search operators matches regex and does not match regex supported also on SQLite (this is important to properly support Ample)
• Advanced search operators sounds like and does not sound like supported also on SQLite, and on PgSQL if module fuzzystrmatch is installed
• Advanced search rules album_genre and artist_genre supported also on PgSQL
• Authentication tag can be delivered also using the bearer token header (required to support Ample v3) #1140
• All results with property art have also the property has_art
• Implicitly record the track as played with the actions download and stream

Fixed

• Playlist file not playing within Files in case the first track of the list is in unsupported format
• Some Finnish translations being replaced with English (since v1.9.0)
• Error "Cannot set response code - headers already sent" logged on each played song on PHP 8.3 #1133
• Files player: Menu icon for "Import list to Music" not adjusted correctly for the dark theme
• Standard NC viewer opened instead of embedded Music player when opening file from Dashboard on NC28+ #1126
• Music app page loading randomly failing on Chrome #1137
• Ampache API:
• API not working on ownCloud 10.14.0 (HTTP error 500 on all Ampache API calls) #1138
• Advanced search rule playlist_name not being case insensitive like the other string rules
• Advanced search rules playlist and playlist_name not working with SQLite
• Advanced search operator does not sound like not working
• Advanced search numeric rules (e.g. year, played_times, album_count) not working properly on SQLite
• Advanced search rules album_count and song_count never finding artists whose respective count is 0
• Incorrect root node name on the actions user_preference and user_preferences
• Subsonic API:
• Method getAlbumInfo2 response having incorrect root element name #1125 @perillamint
• On NC28+, every XML API call logged an error 'Undefined array key "" at /var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Http.php#128'. #1142

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 28 #1116
• Support for PHP 8.3
• Ampache API:
• Support for argument random in the method playlist_songs
• Method bookmark
• Support for argument include in all methods returning bookmarks
• Subsonic API:
• Property playCount to song responses
• OpenSubsonic API extensions:
  • Properties openSubsonic, type, and serverVersion to all responses
  • Allow getting the whole library with an empty query argument in search3 method
• MusicBrainz link from Last.fm to the artist/album/track details pane, when available
• Filters "Recently added" and "Not recently added" for the smart playlist #1098
• Optional "strict" mode for the history filters of the smart playlist #1099
• Hint about the keyboard shortcuts in the Settings view and in tooltips #1086

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Make advanced_search arguments operator and type optional
• On method bookmark_create, the argument client defaults to null instead of "AmpacheAPI"
• Subsonic API: Methods search2 and search3 support '*' as a wildcard
• Consider also the tag names unsynced_lyrics and unsyncedlyrics when parsing lyrics #1111 @RobertZenz
• Updated the getID3 library to the development version 1.9.23-202312292105
• Fixes the issue of garbage bytes being extracted from some RIFF tags #1115
• Search within the Music app now works with an own input field in the navigation pane instead of the unified search input

Fixed

• Songs with scanned integer property value (like track number) larger than 2147483647 causing error on PostgreSQL #1106
• Lite player in Files attempting to play also audio files with MIME types unsupported on the current browser
• Subsonic API: Use integer-type IDs in getMusicFolders to comply with the API specification #1108
• Playlist details showing length as "NaN:NaN" in case the playlist contains any invalid track references

Version 1.9.0 had an app update problem on some versions of Nextcloud with SQLite. This version works around that issue but is othwerise identical with v1.9.0.

Added

• Smart playlist feature, allowing list creation by user-supplied criteria #619 #1061 @rstefko
• Dragging tracks/albums/etc on the "+ New Playlist" item creates a new playlist containing those items
• Files playlist tab: Tooltip showing the file path or stream URL
• Subsonic API:
• Rating support: method setRating, rating properties in all applicable result entities, type highest to the method getAlbumList
• Empty implementation for the method getNowPlaying #1079 @NattyNarwhal
• Ampache API: #1078
• New methods:
  • rate
  • get_similar
  • genres, genre, genre_artists, genre_albums, genre_songs
  • bookmarks, get_bookmark, bookmark_create, bookmark_edit, bookmark_delete
  • live_streams, live_stream, live_stream_create, live_stream_edit, live_stream_delete
  • list
  • browse
  • user_preference and user_preferences with mock-up content
  • advanced_search with partial support, not all search rules supported and some operators work only with MySQL/MariaDB
• Support for the type album_artist in the method get_indexes
• Support for the parameter album_artist in the method artists
• Support for the type playlist in the method stats
• Support for the type playlist in the methods download and stream
• Support for the type playlist in the method flag
• Support for the parameter top50 in the method artist_songs
• Support for the filter highest in the method stats
• Support for the parameter include in the methods album, albums, artist, and artists
• Fields time, albumcount, songcount, prefix, and basename to the artist type results
• Fields time, diskcount, songcount, prefix, and basename to the album type results
• Fields disk, format, stream_format, stream_bitrate, stream_mime, and playlisttrack to song type results
• Fields time, size, bitrate, stream_bitrate, rating, and preciserating to podcast_episode type results
• Fields rating and preciserating to podcast type results
• Fields flag, rating and preciserating to playlist type results
• Null-valued fields language, lyrics, mode, rate, replaygain_album_gain, replaygain_album_peak, replaygain_track_gain, replaygain_track_peak, r128_album_gain, and r128_track_gain to song type results
• In JSON-mode only, field artists to song and album type results
• All the fields of handshake response on the response of ping within a valid session

Changed

• Ampache API: #1078 #909
• Follow the APIv5 conventions if version 5.x.x requested by the client on handshake
• Follow the APIv6 conventions if version 6.0.0 or higher requested by the client on handshake
• Follow the APIv6 conventions if the client doesn't specify any version
  • this may be overridden using the config.php key music.ampache_api_default_ver
• The URLs returned in the art tag of the entities are now cache-friendly, i.e. don't depend on the session
• Terminate all related sessions immediately when API key deleted; previously, this happened upon session timeout
• Fields rating and preciserating now show the user-given rating instead of constant 0 on all applicable result objects
• Own UI settings storage for each OC/NC instance running on the same server (same HTTP origin). Previously, all instances of the origin shared the settings.
• As a side-effect, any UI settings (like volume, view modes) from the previous version get discarded upon the SW update
• Also, volume settings in the Share and Files embedded players are now distinct from the volume in the main app
• Small optimization on the size of the collection.json loaded by the web front-end
• Order the playlists by name in the navigation pane, navigate automatically to the created or renamed playlist #1083
• Any invalid playlist entries are now visible on the web UI to enable easy removal #1087

Fixed

• Subsonic API:
• Unhandled exception when attempting to delete a non-existent bookmark #1071
• Method getPlaylist failing if the playlist contains any invalid track references (since v1.8.0) #1087
• Scanning breaking if any out-of-bounds numeric value gets scanned from any audio file #1073
• File and folder selection dialogs not working on NC 27.1.0 and 27.1.1 (workaround for a NC bug which should get fixed in NC 27.1.2) #1091
• Application update not working on some versions of Nextcloud with SQLite (introduced in v1.9.0)

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 27 (tested on RC3)

Changed

• Allow UTF-8 encoding also on playlists with the extension .m3u (in addition to .m3u8)
• The file is interpreted as ISO-8859-1 only if not valid UTF-8 or if so specified by the #EXTENC tag #1047

Fixed

• Folder icons not being theme-colored on Nextcloud 25+
• Navigation pane divider lines being invisible with some themes on Nextcloud 25+
• Subsonic: Incorrect interpretation of the optional time argument on the scrobble method #1066
• "Show in Files" link in the track details popping up an empty player bar on Nextcloud (at least on NC23-27)

Fixed

• On ownCloud, flooding the log with errors "Cannot declare class because the name is already in use" (since v1.8.2) #1060 @prsnbrg
• Nextcloud 25 and later not running the Music background tasks: podcast channel updates, database cleanup #1044
• M4A-ALAC files sometimes starting to play simultaneously while the previous file is still playing

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

Added

• Additional tabs "Albums" and "Tracks" to the artist details pane
• Additional tabs "Tracks" and "Artists" to the album details pane
• Favorite toggle to the details pane of the tracks, albums, artists, playlists, and podcasts
• New filter "Favorite" for the smart list
• OpenSubsonic extensions to the Subsonic API:
• Method getLyricsBySongId
• Property sortName to all artist, album, and song responses
• Property played to all song responses

Changed

• Drop support for PHP versions older 7.4 (i.e. PHP 7.1 - 7.3)
• Drop support for ownCloud versions older than 10.5 (i.e. OC 10.0 - 10.4)
• Drop support for Nextcloud versions older than 20 (i.e. NC 13 - 19)
• New design including cover art on all list-like views
• Ampache and Subsonic APIs: Check the username in case-insensitive manner #1147
• Ampache API:
• The action download doesn't implicitly record the track as played (unlike stream)
• The song property url refers to the stream URL instead of download URL

Fixed

• Playlist sorting not working if the list contains any broken track references
• Nextcloud.log being flooded with the debug-level message "/appinfo/app.php is deprecated" on NC20+ #1043

Added

• Advanced search view #1141
• Support for Nextcloud 29 #1132
• Ampache API:
• Option to change the session timeout with the config.php key music.ampache_session_expiry_time #1134
• Support for the actions search, user, user_playlists, user_smartlists, playlist_add, index, scrobble
• Support for the advanced search rule bitrate on songs
• Subsonic API:
• Support for the method getOpenSubsonicExtensions

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Advanced search operators matches regex and does not match regex supported also on SQLite (this is important to properly support Ample)
• Advanced search operators sounds like and does not sound like supported also on SQLite, and on PgSQL if module fuzzystrmatch is installed
• Advanced search rules album_genre and artist_genre supported also on PgSQL
• Authentication tag can be delivered also using the bearer token header (required to support Ample v3) #1140
• All results with property art have also the property has_art
• Implicitly record the track as played with the actions download and stream

Fixed

• Playlist file not playing within Files in case the first track of the list is in unsupported format
• Some Finnish translations being replaced with English (since v1.9.0)
• Error "Cannot set response code - headers already sent" logged on each played song on PHP 8.3 #1133
• Files player: Menu icon for "Import list to Music" not adjusted correctly for the dark theme
• Standard NC viewer opened instead of embedded Music player when opening file from Dashboard on NC28+ #1126
• Music app page loading randomly failing on Chrome #1137
• Ampache API:
• API not working on ownCloud 10.14.0 (HTTP error 500 on all Ampache API calls) #1138
• Advanced search rule playlist_name not being case insensitive like the other string rules
• Advanced search rules playlist and playlist_name not working with SQLite
• Advanced search operator does not sound like not working
• Advanced search numeric rules (e.g. year, played_times, album_count) not working properly on SQLite
• Advanced search rules album_count and song_count never finding artists whose respective count is 0
• Incorrect root node name on the actions user_preference and user_preferences
• Subsonic API:
• Method getAlbumInfo2 response having incorrect root element name #1125 @perillamint
• On NC28+, every XML API call logged an error 'Undefined array key "" at /var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Http.php#128'. #1142

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 28 #1116
• Support for PHP 8.3
• Ampache API:
• Support for argument random in the method playlist_songs
• Method bookmark
• Support for argument include in all methods returning bookmarks
• Subsonic API:
• Property playCount to song responses
• OpenSubsonic API extensions:
  • Properties openSubsonic, type, and serverVersion to all responses
  • Allow getting the whole library with an empty query argument in search3 method
• MusicBrainz link from Last.fm to the artist/album/track details pane, when available
• Filters "Recently added" and "Not recently added" for the smart playlist #1098
• Optional "strict" mode for the history filters of the smart playlist #1099
• Hint about the keyboard shortcuts in the Settings view and in tooltips #1086

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Make advanced_search arguments operator and type optional
• On method bookmark_create, the argument client defaults to null instead of "AmpacheAPI"
• Subsonic API: Methods search2 and search3 support '*' as a wildcard
• Consider also the tag names unsynced_lyrics and unsyncedlyrics when parsing lyrics #1111 @RobertZenz
• Updated the getID3 library to the development version 1.9.23-202312292105
• Fixes the issue of garbage bytes being extracted from some RIFF tags #1115
• Search within the Music app now works with an own input field in the navigation pane instead of the unified search input

Fixed

• Songs with scanned integer property value (like track number) larger than 2147483647 causing error on PostgreSQL #1106
• Lite player in Files attempting to play also audio files with MIME types unsupported on the current browser
• Subsonic API: Use integer-type IDs in getMusicFolders to comply with the API specification #1108
• Playlist details showing length as "NaN:NaN" in case the playlist contains any invalid track references

Version 1.9.0 had an app update problem on some versions of Nextcloud with SQLite. This version works around that issue but is othwerise identical with v1.9.0.

Added

• Smart playlist feature, allowing list creation by user-supplied criteria #619 #1061 @rstefko
• Dragging tracks/albums/etc on the "+ New Playlist" item creates a new playlist containing those items
• Files playlist tab: Tooltip showing the file path or stream URL
• Subsonic API:
• Rating support: method setRating, rating properties in all applicable result entities, type highest to the method getAlbumList
• Empty implementation for the method getNowPlaying #1079 @NattyNarwhal
• Ampache API: #1078
• New methods:
  • rate
  • get_similar
  • genres, genre, genre_artists, genre_albums, genre_songs
  • bookmarks, get_bookmark, bookmark_create, bookmark_edit, bookmark_delete
  • live_streams, live_stream, live_stream_create, live_stream_edit, live_stream_delete
  • list
  • browse
  • user_preference and user_preferences with mock-up content
  • advanced_search with partial support, not all search rules supported and some operators work only with MySQL/MariaDB
• Support for the type album_artist in the method get_indexes
• Support for the parameter album_artist in the method artists
• Support for the type playlist in the method stats
• Support for the type playlist in the methods download and stream
• Support for the type playlist in the method flag
• Support for the parameter top50 in the method artist_songs
• Support for the filter highest in the method stats
• Support for the parameter include in the methods album, albums, artist, and artists
• Fields time, albumcount, songcount, prefix, and basename to the artist type results
• Fields time, diskcount, songcount, prefix, and basename to the album type results
• Fields disk, format, stream_format, stream_bitrate, stream_mime, and playlisttrack to song type results
• Fields time, size, bitrate, stream_bitrate, rating, and preciserating to podcast_episode type results
• Fields rating and preciserating to podcast type results
• Fields flag, rating and preciserating to playlist type results
• Null-valued fields language, lyrics, mode, rate, replaygain_album_gain, replaygain_album_peak, replaygain_track_gain, replaygain_track_peak, r128_album_gain, and r128_track_gain to song type results
• In JSON-mode only, field artists to song and album type results
• All the fields of handshake response on the response of ping within a valid session

Changed

• Ampache API: #1078 #909
• Follow the APIv5 conventions if version 5.x.x requested by the client on handshake
• Follow the APIv6 conventions if version 6.0.0 or higher requested by the client on handshake
• Follow the APIv6 conventions if the client doesn't specify any version
  • this may be overridden using the config.php key music.ampache_api_default_ver
• The URLs returned in the art tag of the entities are now cache-friendly, i.e. don't depend on the session
• Terminate all related sessions immediately when API key deleted; previously, this happened upon session timeout
• Fields rating and preciserating now show the user-given rating instead of constant 0 on all applicable result objects
• Own UI settings storage for each OC/NC instance running on the same server (same HTTP origin). Previously, all instances of the origin shared the settings.
• As a side-effect, any UI settings (like volume, view modes) from the previous version get discarded upon the SW update
• Also, volume settings in the Share and Files embedded players are now distinct from the volume in the main app
• Small optimization on the size of the collection.json loaded by the web front-end
• Order the playlists by name in the navigation pane, navigate automatically to the created or renamed playlist #1083
• Any invalid playlist entries are now visible on the web UI to enable easy removal #1087

Fixed

• Subsonic API:
• Unhandled exception when attempting to delete a non-existent bookmark #1071
• Method getPlaylist failing if the playlist contains any invalid track references (since v1.8.0) #1087
• Scanning breaking if any out-of-bounds numeric value gets scanned from any audio file #1073
• File and folder selection dialogs not working on NC 27.1.0 and 27.1.1 (workaround for a NC bug which should get fixed in NC 27.1.2) #1091
• Application update not working on some versions of Nextcloud with SQLite (introduced in v1.9.0)

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 27 (tested on RC3)

Changed

• Allow UTF-8 encoding also on playlists with the extension .m3u (in addition to .m3u8)
• The file is interpreted as ISO-8859-1 only if not valid UTF-8 or if so specified by the #EXTENC tag #1047

Fixed

• Folder icons not being theme-colored on Nextcloud 25+
• Navigation pane divider lines being invisible with some themes on Nextcloud 25+
• Subsonic: Incorrect interpretation of the optional time argument on the scrobble method #1066
• "Show in Files" link in the track details popping up an empty player bar on Nextcloud (at least on NC23-27)

Fixed

• On ownCloud, flooding the log with errors "Cannot declare class because the name is already in use" (since v1.8.2) #1060 @prsnbrg
• Nextcloud 25 and later not running the Music background tasks: podcast channel updates, database cleanup #1044
• M4A-ALAC files sometimes starting to play simultaneously while the previous file is still playing

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

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 managemnt 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

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

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

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

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)

Added

• Additional tabs "Albums" and "Tracks" to the artist details pane
• Additional tabs "Tracks" and "Artists" to the album details pane
• Favorite toggle to the details pane of the tracks, albums, artists, playlists, and podcasts
• New filter "Favorite" for the smart list
• OpenSubsonic extensions to the Subsonic API:
• Method getLyricsBySongId
• Property sortName to all artist, album, and song responses
• Property played to all song responses

Changed

• Drop support for PHP versions older 7.4 (i.e. PHP 7.1 - 7.3)
• Drop support for ownCloud versions older than 10.5 (i.e. OC 10.0 - 10.4)
• Drop support for Nextcloud versions older than 20 (i.e. NC 13 - 19)
• New design including cover art on all list-like views
• Ampache and Subsonic APIs: Check the username in case-insensitive manner #1147
• Ampache API:
• The action download doesn't implicitly record the track as played (unlike stream)
• The song property url refers to the stream URL instead of download URL

Fixed

• Playlist sorting not working if the list contains any broken track references
• Nextcloud.log being flooded with the debug-level message "/appinfo/app.php is deprecated" on NC20+ #1043

Added

• Advanced search view #1141
• Support for Nextcloud 29 #1132
• Ampache API:
• Option to change the session timeout with the config.php key music.ampache_session_expiry_time #1134
• Support for the actions search, user, user_playlists, user_smartlists, playlist_add, index, scrobble
• Support for the advanced search rule bitrate on songs
• Subsonic API:
• Support for the method getOpenSubsonicExtensions

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Advanced search operators matches regex and does not match regex supported also on SQLite (this is important to properly support Ample)
• Advanced search operators sounds like and does not sound like supported also on SQLite, and on PgSQL if module fuzzystrmatch is installed
• Advanced search rules album_genre and artist_genre supported also on PgSQL
• Authentication tag can be delivered also using the bearer token header (required to support Ample v3) #1140
• All results with property art have also the property has_art
• Implicitly record the track as played with the actions download and stream

Fixed

• Playlist file not playing within Files in case the first track of the list is in unsupported format
• Some Finnish translations being replaced with English (since v1.9.0)
• Error "Cannot set response code - headers already sent" logged on each played song on PHP 8.3 #1133
• Files player: Menu icon for "Import list to Music" not adjusted correctly for the dark theme
• Standard NC viewer opened instead of embedded Music player when opening file from Dashboard on NC28+ #1126
• Music app page loading randomly failing on Chrome #1137
• Ampache API:
• API not working on ownCloud 10.14.0 (HTTP error 500 on all Ampache API calls) #1138
• Advanced search rule playlist_name not being case insensitive like the other string rules
• Advanced search rules playlist and playlist_name not working with SQLite
• Advanced search operator does not sound like not working
• Advanced search numeric rules (e.g. year, played_times, album_count) not working properly on SQLite
• Advanced search rules album_count and song_count never finding artists whose respective count is 0
• Incorrect root node name on the actions user_preference and user_preferences
• Subsonic API:
• Method getAlbumInfo2 response having incorrect root element name #1125 @perillamint
• On NC28+, every XML API call logged an error 'Undefined array key "" at /var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Http.php#128'. #1142

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 28 #1116
• Support for PHP 8.3
• Ampache API:
• Support for argument random in the method playlist_songs
• Method bookmark
• Support for argument include in all methods returning bookmarks
• Subsonic API:
• Property playCount to song responses
• OpenSubsonic API extensions:
  • Properties openSubsonic, type, and serverVersion to all responses
  • Allow getting the whole library with an empty query argument in search3 method
• MusicBrainz link from Last.fm to the artist/album/track details pane, when available
• Filters "Recently added" and "Not recently added" for the smart playlist #1098
• Optional "strict" mode for the history filters of the smart playlist #1099
• Hint about the keyboard shortcuts in the Settings view and in tooltips #1086

Changed

• Ampache API:
• Make advanced_search arguments operator and type optional
• On method bookmark_create, the argument client defaults to null instead of "AmpacheAPI"
• Subsonic API: Methods search2 and search3 support '*' as a wildcard
• Consider also the tag names unsynced_lyrics and unsyncedlyrics when parsing lyrics #1111 @RobertZenz
• Updated the getID3 library to the development version 1.9.23-202312292105
• Fixes the issue of garbage bytes being extracted from some RIFF tags #1115
• Search within the Music app now works with an own input field in the navigation pane instead of the unified search input

Fixed

• Songs with scanned integer property value (like track number) larger than 2147483647 causing error on PostgreSQL #1106
• Lite player in Files attempting to play also audio files with MIME types unsupported on the current browser
• Subsonic API: Use integer-type IDs in getMusicFolders to comply with the API specification #1108
• Playlist details showing length as "NaN:NaN" in case the playlist contains any invalid track references

Version 1.9.0 had an app update problem on some versions of Nextcloud with SQLite. This version works around that issue but is othwerise identical with v1.9.0.

Added

• Smart playlist feature, allowing list creation by user-supplied criteria #619 #1061 @rstefko
• Dragging tracks/albums/etc on the "+ New Playlist" item creates a new playlist containing those items
• Files playlist tab: Tooltip showing the file path or stream URL
• Subsonic API:
• Rating support: method setRating, rating properties in all applicable result entities, type highest to the method getAlbumList
• Empty implementation for the method getNowPlaying #1079 @NattyNarwhal
• Ampache API: #1078
• New methods:
  • rate
  • get_similar
  • genres, genre, genre_artists, genre_albums, genre_songs
  • bookmarks, get_bookmark, bookmark_create, bookmark_edit, bookmark_delete
  • live_streams, live_stream, live_stream_create, live_stream_edit, live_stream_delete
  • list
  • browse
  • user_preference and user_preferences with mock-up content
  • advanced_search with partial support, not all search rules supported and some operators work only with MySQL/MariaDB
• Support for the type album_artist in the method get_indexes
• Support for the parameter album_artist in the method artists
• Support for the type playlist in the method stats
• Support for the type playlist in the methods download and stream
• Support for the type playlist in the method flag
• Support for the parameter top50 in the method artist_songs
• Support for the filter highest in the method stats
• Support for the parameter include in the methods album, albums, artist, and artists
• Fields time, albumcount, songcount, prefix, and basename to the artist type results
• Fields time, diskcount, songcount, prefix, and basename to the album type results
• Fields disk, format, stream_format, stream_bitrate, stream_mime, and playlisttrack to song type results
• Fields time, size, bitrate, stream_bitrate, rating, and preciserating to podcast_episode type results
• Fields rating and preciserating to podcast type results
• Fields flag, rating and preciserating to playlist type results
• Null-valued fields language, lyrics, mode, rate, replaygain_album_gain, replaygain_album_peak, replaygain_track_gain, replaygain_track_peak, r128_album_gain, and r128_track_gain to song type results
• In JSON-mode only, field artists to song and album type results
• All the fields of handshake response on the response of ping within a valid session

Changed

• Ampache API: #1078 #909
• Follow the APIv5 conventions if version 5.x.x requested by the client on handshake
• Follow the APIv6 conventions if version 6.0.0 or higher requested by the client on handshake
• Follow the APIv6 conventions if the client doesn't specify any version
  • this may be overridden using the config.php key music.ampache_api_default_ver
• The URLs returned in the art tag of the entities are now cache-friendly, i.e. don't depend on the session
• Terminate all related sessions immediately when API key deleted; previously, this happened upon session timeout
• Fields rating and preciserating now show the user-given rating instead of constant 0 on all applicable result objects
• Own UI settings storage for each OC/NC instance running on the same server (same HTTP origin). Previously, all instances of the origin shared the settings.
• As a side-effect, any UI settings (like volume, view modes) from the previous version get discarded upon the SW update
• Also, volume settings in the Share and Files embedded players are now distinct from the volume in the main app
• Small optimization on the size of the collection.json loaded by the web front-end
• Order the playlists by name in the navigation pane, navigate automatically to the created or renamed playlist #1083
• Any invalid playlist entries are now visible on the web UI to enable easy removal #1087

Fixed

• Subsonic API:
• Unhandled exception when attempting to delete a non-existent bookmark #1071
• Method getPlaylist failing if the playlist contains any invalid track references (since v1.8.0) #1087
• Scanning breaking if any out-of-bounds numeric value gets scanned from any audio file #1073
• File and folder selection dialogs not working on NC 27.1.0 and 27.1.1 (workaround for a NC bug which should get fixed in NC 27.1.2) #1091
• Application update not working on some versions of Nextcloud with SQLite (introduced in v1.9.0)

Added

• Support for Nextcloud 27 (tested on RC3)

Changed

• Allow UTF-8 encoding also on playlists with the extension .m3u (in addition to .m3u8)
• The file is interpreted as ISO-8859-1 only if not valid UTF-8 or if so specified by the #EXTENC tag #1047

Fixed

• Folder icons not being theme-colored on Nextcloud 25+
• Navigation pane divider lines being invisible with some themes on Nextcloud 25+
• Subsonic: Incorrect interpretation of the optional time argument on the scrobble method #1066
• "Show in Files" link in the track details popping up an empty player bar on Nextcloud (at least on NC23-27)

Fixed

• On ownCloud, flooding the log with errors "Cannot declare class because the name is already in use" (since v1.8.2) #1060 @prsnbrg
• Nextcloud 25 and later not running the Music background tasks: podcast channel updates, database cleanup #1044
• M4A-ALAC files sometimes starting to play simultaneously while the previous file is still playing

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

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 managemnt 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

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

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

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

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)

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

Added

• Supoprt 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