v3.64.0

Updates:

• UI:
  • switched from 6 to 5 albums per line. The album name can now take up to two lines, same for album artist names.
  • can now click on the album cover to view it in fullscreen
  • add keyboard shortcuts for seeking #593
  • use album sort name to sort albums
• Added support for VERSION tag. The field is added next to the album name, and a new section in the UI is added to list the other versions of the current album viewed.
• Added a way to filter by record label or by release type.
• Try to recycle the db's track entry when a file just moved, with no change #612

Bugfixes:

• Distinguish initial scan to import last time write as added time #601
• Fixed crash on corrupted playlists #607
• Fixed arch (and possibly FreeBSD) builds due to boost 1.87 updates
• UI: made the media player work with luakit #609
• Fixed transcoding not working on some implementations #614
• Now remove tag values that are duplicate #415 #611

v3.63.0

Updates

• Added new sort method 'Recently Modified' #571
• Scanner:
  • Parse lyrics files from txt files #582
  • Added an option to skip playlists that are referring to a single album + skip playlists that are empty #577
  • Probe for images instead of performing full decoding #561
  • Use ENCODINGTIME to set the added time, if present, otherwise use the last modified time of the file (only during the first import) #595
  • Added support for partial dates (only year or month) #477
• Added keyboard shortcuts for volume adjustment #591
  • Ctrl + Down decreases volume in 5% increments
  • Ctrl + Up increases volume in 5% increments
• Allowed PUBLISHER and ORGANIZATION to serve as fallbacks for LABEL #576
• Subsonic API:
  • Order directories by name and tracks by filename for directory-based commands #589
  • Added support for explicit tags, using ITUNESADVISORY and rtng

Bugfixes

• Allow the use of an empty lms.conf file, default values are now all hardcoded #584
• Fixed a crash when parsing images #561
• Fixed issue where bitrate was not properly saved in user settings #587
• Properly applied user-defined bitrates in certain transcoding scenarios #588
• Fixed parsing issues with some .wma multi-artist files #597

Note: lms is now statically built with its own libraries

v3.62.1

Bugfixes:

• Fixed typo that prevents m3u8 files from being scanned #574
• Subsonic API: return error code 50 when attempting to modify a public playlist that does not belong to the user #574
• Correctly sort tracks within playlists #574

v3.62.0

Updates:

• Added support for importing and syncing .m3u playlist files. Imported playlists are categorized as shared playlists and exposed via the Subsonic API as public, ownerless playlists #391
• Prefer embedded covers marked as "front"
• Subsonic API:
  • Serve raw cover files if no size is provided
  • Added timestamps in coverArt identifiers

Bugfixes:

• Subsonic API: root music folders are now returned as int
• OpenSubsonic API: use albumArtists and displayAlbumArtist in Child responses for albums, instead of artists and displayArtist

v3.61.0

Caution: this update brings an important authentication change regarding Subsonic API authentication!
Each user has now to generate an API key to use the Subsonic API. This API key can be used as the password for clients that do not implement the new API key authentication extension.
The "Remember me" option of the web interface won't work after upgrading LMS, you will have to manually log in again.

Updates:

• Subsonic API:
  • implemented the new API key authentication extension #555
  • removed createUser, updateUser, deleteUser, and changePassword endpoints, as they are not compatible with a limited API key scope
  • added getAlbumInfo support
  • added savePlayQueue and getPlayQueue support
• Upgraded default bcrypt round count to 12. This can be tweaked in lms.conf using the internal-password-bcrypt-round setting
• Take labels + barcode into account to avoid merging unrelated albums, #550

Bugfixes:

• Subsonic API: fixed xml response to please some clients #559
• Fixed crash when a library is set with a trailing / #552
• Lyrics: fixed bad empty line parsing when timestamps are set

v3.60.1

Bugfixes:

• OpenSubsonic API: fixed getLyricsBySongId
• Fixed lyrics parsing that may crash on very long lines

v3.60.0

Updates:

• Added lyrics support #379
  • Both embedded and external lyrics (.lrc files) are supported.
  • OpenSubsonic API: added Song Lyrics extension support
• Internationalization for date and numbers #539
• Better artist image picking #538

Bugfixes:

• SubsonicAPI: fixed scrobble endpoint for MusicAssistant #542
• Fixed regression on artist display names

v3.59.1

Updates

• Now use a grid view to display artists
• For albums, external images are searched first, using names configured in lms.conf in the cover-preferred-file-names option (default values are "cover", "front", "folder", "default"). There is no longer a fallback to a random picture in the album directory. #503
• Added a user setting to select how to sort albums in the artist view #498
• Better integration with reverse proxy. Two new configuration options have been added in lms.conf: original-ip-header and trusted-proxies #532

Bugfixes

• Fixed last join phrase not being displayed in UI for artists #528
• Fixed bad multi-disc album merging in case of migration/rescan #481
• Updated the way the artist display name is reconstructed #491

Note: a full rescan is mandatory to make album covers correctly associated.

v3.58.0

Updates

• Made some UI states persistent across sessions #484
• Added support for record labels #502
• Added compilation tag support #520
• More permissive grouping of multi disc albums (each disc can now be split on sub directories) when musicbrainz ids are not set #481
• Improved the artist display name string reconstruction to match more case #491
• Apply all custom separators, not only the first one found #518
• Now buildable on macOS
• Subsonic API: report the cover of the release if no embedded cover is found for the track #519

v3.57.0

Updates

• Added comment tag support (in both UI and Subsonic API)
• Handle embedded covers in AIFF and in WAV files
• Improved the display artist name string construction when tags are not set as expected #513
• Subsonic API: added support for 5 stars rating

Bugfixes

• Fixed originaldate tag parsing in m4a files with TagLib 2.0 (used in the official docker image)
• Do not return an error if artist not found in getTopSongs #507