psysonic/WHATS_NEW.md

What's New

User-facing release highlights for the in-app What's New screen. Maintainers refresh the current line before promoting to next / release. Technical details and PR credits stay in CHANGELOG.md.

Within each section, order by user impact (most noticeable first) — not PR merge order. CHANGELOG.md keeps strict PR order inside Added / Changed / Fixed.

[1.49.0]

Highlights

AutoDJ — minimum pauses, maximum music

• New AutoDJ mode — a smart crossfade that blends tracks intelligently. Each transition is shaped to fit the music: awkward gaps fade away, handovers feel natural, and you spend less time in silence between songs. It's now its own choice in Settings → Audio and its own button in the queue toolbar, sitting alongside Crossfade and Gapless — pick one at a time. Off by default; classic Crossfade is unchanged.

Playlist folders — your playlists, organised

• Folders on the Playlists page and in the sidebar keep long lists tidy — group by mood, occasion, or anything you like. Drag playlists in, rename and collapse folders, or choose Move to folder from the right-click menu. Switch back to a flat list whenever you prefer.

Theme store — spot updates, pick your style

• Version numbers on store themes and ones you have installed make it obvious when an update is ready.
• Filter for animated or static themes only — less scrolling when you already know the look you want.

Settings — tidier and easier to scan

• Settings are grouped into clear, labelled panels so related options sit together — less hunting around. The Native Hi-Res Playback option now explains in plain language what it actually does.
• Normalization and Track transitions are now their own sections under Settings → Audio, and the queue options (display mode, toolbar, and Play-Next order) are gathered into one Queue Settings group under Personalisation.

Japanese — now in your language

• Psysonic is now available in Japanese (日本語) — pick it from the language menu on the Settings and Login screens.

Artist artwork — richer artist and fullscreen views

• Switch on External Artwork Scraper under Settings → Integrations to pull artist imagery from fanart.tv: a wide backdrop on the fullscreen player and a banner across the top of the artist page. Off by default, your Navidrome covers stay in charge, and turning it back off removes the fetched images again.

Equalizer — a profile per output device

• Turn on Remember EQ per device under Settings → Audio and Psysonic keeps a separate equalizer setup for each output — speakers, headphones, a USB DAC — and switches to the right one automatically when you change devices. Off by default.

Themes — follow your system's light and dark mode

• The theme scheduler can now match your system's light/dark setting instead of a fixed clock: pick a light theme and a dark one, and Psysonic switches along with your OS. Choose Time of Day or System Theme under Settings → Themes — the existing time-based schedule is still there.

Fixed

Playback and audio

• Opus/Ogg tracks no longer fight the seekbar while they are still loading — scrub to where you want to be and keep listening.

Player and playlists

• Add to playlist from the player bar adds the song you are hearing, not the whole album.

Browse and library

• Albums sorted by artist now list each artist's work A–Z by title — no more random order within a name.
• Artist → Year keeps artists grouped but walks through their albums chronologically, oldest first.

Windows

• Windows: Previous, Play/Pause, and Next are back when you hover the taskbar icon — and Play/Pause shows whether music is playing or paused.

[1.48.1]

Fixed

Playback and audio

• Changing tracks — skipping, or the automatic advance at the end of a song — no longer freezes the interface for a few seconds: the progress bar and lyrics keep updating, and on Windows a change of output device now takes effect right away.
• Seeking an Opus/Ogg track — and then pressing Stop — no longer crashes the app.
• macOS: pausing or stopping playback and then unplugging headphones (or switching the output device) no longer makes playback restart — it stays paused or stopped.

Offline, Now Playing, and Navidrome

• On large Navidrome libraries, background library sync no longer locks up database writes for minutes at a time, so play history, ratings, and other saves go through without long delays.

Themes and integrations

• Discord Rich Presence shows the album cover again when a server profile has both a local and a public address.

Other

• Windows: the system media controls (Quick Settings media tile, lock screen, and third-party flyouts) now show the album cover and display Psysonic with its icon instead of "Unknown application".
• macOS: closing the window with the red close button now respects Minimize to Tray — with it on, the window hides to the tray instead of quitting.

[1.48.0]

Highlights

Offline listening

• When the server is unreachable, browse and detail pages show what you already have locally instead of empty errors — albums, artists, playlists, and cross-server favorites.
• Starred tracks, pinned albums, and playlists live under one media folder; browse them in Offline Library and see disk usage at a glance.
• Favorites auto-sync keeps loved songs on disk; pinned albums and playlists refresh when the library index updates.

Music Network — scrobble beyond Last.fm

• Settings → Integrations now hosts a Music Network: connect Last.fm, Libre.fm, ListenBrainz, Maloja, Rocksky, Koito, or your own GNU FM instance — and scrobble to several at once.
• Pick a primary service for loved tracks, similar artists, and stats; other connections still receive scrobbles. Your existing Last.fm setup migrates automatically.
• A master switch turns the whole network on or off.

Theme Store

• Browse and install community themes from Settings → Themes — search, dark/light filter, full-size previews, and sort by popularity or date.
• Six palettes ship with the app; everything else installs on demand and works offline after the first download.
• Now Playing follows every theme cleanly, including light palettes.
• Import a theme from a local .zip when you have a package from a friend or your own design.
• The sidebar nudges you when an installed theme has an update; one-click update from the theme card.

Fullscreen player

• Rebuilt for much lower CPU and memory use: a calm, sharp fullscreen view with album art, waveform seekbar, up-next queue, synced lyrics, ratings, and a clock that follows your Clock format setting.
• The song title no longer shows a leading track number, and descenders (g, j, p, q, y) are no longer clipped.

Live — richer now playing on Navidrome 0.62+

• On servers with OpenSubsonic playbackReport (Navidrome ≥ 0.62), Live shows who is playing or paused, how far into the track they are, and playback speed when another client sends it — with smooth position updates between refreshes.
• In Who is listening?, each listener shows a small status dot (playing, paused, or idle) instead of a vague “minutes ago” line.

Queue — Timeline mode

• A third queue layout keeps the current track in the middle with history above and up next below — great for long listening sessions. Cycle the header control or pick it in Settings → Personalisation → Queue display.

Settings → Servers

• Each card shows the server software and version (e.g. Navidrome 0.62.0) under the name, with a cleaner two-line layout and compact actions.
• Navidrome 0.62+ shows a green AudioMuse-AI badge when the plugin is detected — no manual toggle on current Navidrome.

Sidebar — pin Now Playing to the top

• New Settings → Sidebar toggle moves Now Playing to the top of the sidebar instead of the bottom (off by default).

Startup

• A themed loading splash appears while the app starts — colours follow your active theme, including community palettes.

Improved

• Audio decoding runs on Symphonia 0.6; streams start sooner and recover from stalls without restarting the player.
• The Preload Next Track toggle under Settings → Storage → Buffering is gone — playback no longer waits on that extra RAM prefetch. Gapless, crossfade, and Hot Cache behave as before.
• New Semitones playback-speed strategy (±12 st, 0.1 step) with two-decimal speed readout; optional fine steps in Settings → Audio → Advanced.

Fixed

Playback and audio

• Windows: the app no longer keeps the audio device open while idle, so the system can sleep when music is not playing.
• macOS: steady playback stutter from background device polling is gone on the default output path.
• After a long pause, the seekbar shows the saved position immediately and the next Play resumes without an audible blip at track start.
• Stop keeps the real waveform on the seekbar instead of falling back to flat bars.

Offline, Now Playing, and Navidrome

• Now Playing cards (from this album, discography, most played) stay populated during cached and offline playback instead of blanking out on track change.
• Navidrome Show in Now Playing and play-count scrobbles work when audio plays from hot cache, offline pins, or auto-synced favorites.
• Mixed-server queues still report to the correct Navidrome server.

Themes and integrations

• Self-hosted Music Network targets (Koito, Maloja, custom GNU FM with a pasted token) scrobble again — reconnect once if you connected before this fix.
• Favoriting from the player bar, fullscreen player, or shortcuts updates the star in track lists and playlists immediately.
• Discord Rich Presence shows album art again when covers come from the server.
• Focus rings and dropdown borders follow the active theme consistently.

Browse and library

• Tracks tagged with several genres in one field (e.g. Metal/Ambient/Experimental) match each genre again in browse, filters, and search.
• All Albums → Only compilations returns results for common tagging patterns.
• Album grids show the album artist on compilations instead of a random track artist.
• Song rails (Random Picks, Discover Songs, etc.) link each name in multi-artist credits separately.
• Artist → Top Tracks play works even when the artist page has no albums loaded yet.
• Home → Most Played no longer jumps the page when you load more albums.
• Mainstage hero backdrop stays in sync when you skip albums quickly.

Other

• Linux: the curl | bash auto-installer works again.
• Linux: internet radio no longer appears twice in the desktop now-playing overlay.
• On Navidrome 0.62+, add/edit/delete radio stations is shown only to admin accounts; everyone can still play and favourite stations.
• Linux custom title bar: pick window button styles (dots, flat, pill, and more) and optionally hide minimize in Settings → Appearance.
• The active server card under Settings → Servers draws a complete border on all sides.

Under the hood

• Navidrome 0.62+ auto-detects AudioMuse-AI and routes Instant Mix / Lucky Mix through the smarter API when the plugin is present — older Navidrome keeps the manual toggle you already know.