📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026061307

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Smart crossfade: transition on audible content instead of silent outros (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4178)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel

Contributors

• @MarvinSchenkel

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026061207

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Automatically check if CPU is supported for Audio Analysis (by @chrisuthe in #4166)
• Add API command to get the color palette for any image (by @marcelveldt in #4193)

🐛 Bugfixes

• fix(alexa): include track metadata in the initial play_media push (by @croll83 in #4168)
• Remove local providers without wiping the entire library (by @marcelveldt in #4183)
• Fix sync group member playing out of sync after concurrent group changes (by @marcelveldt in #4189)
• Skip stale artist paths during filesystem track parsing (by @chrisuthe in #4191)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add scroll to description dialog for long descriptions (by @dmoo500 in #1908)
• Add field icons to smart playlist rules (by @dmoo500 in #1866)
• Fix settings breadcrumb for disabled provider instances (by @OzGav in #1909)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.187 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4195)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@OzGav, @chrisuthe, @croll83, @dmoo500, @marcelveldt

Contributors

• @marcelveldt
• @croll83
• @OzGav
• @chrisuthe
• @music-assistant-machine
• @dmoo500

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026061108

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Universal Group Player producing no audio on some members (by @OzGav in #4116)
• Fix Sendspin grouping with Cast devices (by @maximmaxim345 in #4170)
• Restore 'ignore volume reports' setting for AirPlay players (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4172)
• Fix track duration shrinking when seeking near the end with smart crossfade (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4176)
• Fix invalid scope error when adding a custom Spotify client ID (by @marcelveldt in #4182)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• Bump zeroconf from 0.149.7 to 0.149.12 (by @dependabot[bot] in #4174)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345

Contributors

• @marcelveldt
• @MarvinSchenkel
• @OzGav
• @dependabot
• @maximmaxim345

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026061105

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• Fix release notes for minor releases skipping most changes (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4171)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel

Contributors

• @MarvinSchenkel

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026061014

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Improve smart crossfade audio quality: true frequency sweep and equal-power curves (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4158)
• Default artist fix (by @chrisuthe in #4163)
• Add unofficial-integration disclaimer to streaming provider settings (by @marcelveldt in #4164)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Lokalise: Translations update (by @marcelveldt in #1904)
• fix: update artist enqueue-selection option labels (by @chrisuthe in #1906)
• Add per-provider listings and a provider selector to the artist page (by @marcelveldt in #1905)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.186 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4165)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @chrisuthe, @marcelveldt

Contributors

• @marcelveldt
• @MarvinSchenkel
• @chrisuthe
• @music-assistant-machine

📦 Stable Release

🌟 Read all about it in our 2.9 blog post! 🌟

Changes since 2.8.9

⚠ Breaking Changes

• Refactor plugin sources to first-class AudioSource MediaItems (by @marcelveldt in #3938)

🚀 New Providers

• Add WebDAV provider (by @OzGav in #2484)
• WiiM provider (by @davidanthoff in #2947)
• Add Last.fm Recommendations metadata provider (by @OzGav in #3020)
• Add MSX Bridge Player Provider (by @trudenboy in #3123)
• Add Samsung WAM player provider (by @Oliver-Stevens in #3334)
• Add MPD Player Provider (by @OzGav in #3337)
• Add MusicMe music provider (by @JulienDeveaux in #3393)
• Add QQ Music provider (by @xiasi0 in #3511)
• Add Local Audio Out player provider (by @marcelveldt in #3585)
• Add Mother Earth Radio music provider (by @FlorianReiterer in #3599)
• Add Yandex Music Connect (Ynison) plugin provider (by @trudenboy in #3614)
• Add Yandex Smart Home plugin provider (by @trudenboy in #3615)
• Add Hue Light Sync plugin provider (by @marcelveldt in #3627)
• Smart playlist plugin (by @dmoo500 in #3630)
• Smart fades Audio Analysis provider (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3636)
• Add NetEase Cloud Music provider (by @xiasi0 in #3640)
• Add NTS Radio (Music Provider) (by @mike-sheppard in #3722)
• Add iTunes artwork metadata provider (by @OzGav in #3740)
• Add Sonic Analysis audio-analysis provider (CLAP-driven scalars + embedding) (by @chrisuthe in #3795)
• Add Yandex Music Connect (Ynison) (by @trudenboy in #3856)
• Add MCP-spec-compliant FastMCP server provider v0.3.20 (by @trudenboy in #3858)
• Add Acoustid audio analysis provider (by @OzGav in #3892)
• Add Wikipedia provider and associated plumbing (by @OzGav in #3972)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add artist artwork display for radio streams (by @OzGav in #3110)
• Add configurable max size for metadata thumbnail cache (by @lukaszwawrzyk in #3196)
• kion_music: upgrade to yandex-music v3 - raw/enc FLAC, lyrics, similar artists, browse (by @trudenboy in #3234)
• zvuk_music: Browse, recommendations, lyrics, similar tracks, throttling (by @trudenboy in #3242)
• Add min and max volume functionality per player (by @OzGav in #3360)
• Add musicbrainz get_release_group functions (by @OzGav in #3384)
• Add support for legacy Shoutcast servers using ICY protocol (by @OzGav in #3386)
• Create Services for Playlist Export / Import (by @chrisuthe in #3387)
• Apple Music: Add support for radio stations (by @dmoo500 in #3433)
• Add favorites browsing and editing support to Emby provider (by @neurocis in #3457)
• Add Audio Analysis controller and Audio Analysis provider (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3509)
• Apple Music: Add content rating check for explicit tracks (by @LosCV29 in #3514)
• Add Infinite Mix dynamic builtin playlists (by @dmoo500 in #3555)
• Enable Sendspin bridge for Cast stereo pairs (by @marcelveldt in #3563)
• Handle Ogg FLAC in-band metadata in chained radio streams (by @a2hill in #3575)
• Add manual item management API and on_item_updated provider callback (by @OzGav in #3602)
• Add dynamic leader switching support for Sendspin sync groups (by @marcelveldt in #3603)
• Yandex Music: rotor session API, Wave Modes, user presets, library sync improvements (by @trudenboy in #3606)
• Add AI_QUERY and TTS to HA Plugin (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3607)
• Add audio quality option for Pandora provider (by @cryptk in #3617)
• Add secondary sort by year for album artist sorting (by @OzGav in #3619)
• Add ability to take over Pandora stream during concurrent streaming error (by @cryptk in #3620)
• Propagate now-playing info to Chromecast media_player (by @robtpaton in #3621)
• Add Apple Music station recommendations to Discover page (by @dmoo500 in #3622)
• Implement metadata provider priority (by @OzGav in #3623)
• Add Tidal starred tracks virtual playlist (by @FL550 in #3653)
• Subsonic: Cache requests (by @khers in #3662)
• Play from here respects user's sort order (by @philjackson in #3663)
• Add per-player delay configuration for Sendspin players (by @maximmaxim345 in #3689)
• Add setting to replace Pause with Stop for DLNA (by @peteS-UK in #3704)
• Subsonic: Add option to always request stream of raw file (by @khers in #3710)
• Forward Sendspin Cast app logs to Music Assistant (by @maximmaxim345 in #3713)
• Smart crossfade: Add gradual timestretching (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3737)
• Last FM: Add one-click auth (by @duanyutong in #3739)
• Improve TuneIn browse, search and add recommendations (by @dmoo500 in #3764)
• Add recommendation translation keys for QQ and NetEase (by @xiasi0 in #3778)
• Revert "AirPlay 2 provider now supports sync" (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3780)
• Update yandex_smarthome provider to v1.4.5 — auto-create skill flow (by @trudenboy in #3785)
• Enrich Sendspin metadata with track number, year, album artist, and artist artwork (by @OnFreund in #3788)
• Set PlayerFeature.SELECT_SOURCE when the FINAL source list is multi-entry (by @rnewman in #3789)
• Add custom playlist image functionality to local file provider (by @OzGav in #3794)
• Emby Music Provider: add on played event handler (by @hatharry in #3805)
• Throttle torch to max 25% of CPU to prevent spikes during analysis (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3808)
• Allow Plugin Providers and Metadata providers to implement music related ProviderFeatures (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3811)
• Add option to use local genre metadata only when available (by @OzGav in #3815)
• Add player filter to scrobble providers (by @Tommatheussen in #3823)
• Add manual IP addresses setting to the Sendspin provider (by @staticdev in #3846)
• audio_analysis: add coverage endpoint + bulk merged accessor for sonic_similarity (by @chrisuthe in #3851)
• Detect Sendspin Cast Receiver failures and show them in the frontend (by @maximmaxim345 in #3853)
• Fix double sendspin bridges for devices with both Airplay and Cast (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3854)
• Apple Music similar artists via views=similar-artists API (by @dmoo500 in #3861)
• Use MB lookup to resolve ambiguous artist names (by @OzGav in #3862)
• TuneIn: add translation_key to trending recommendations folder (by @dmoo500 in #3865)
• TuneIn: store image URLs as HTTPS instead of HTTP (by @dmoo500 in #3868)
• Set PlayerQueue.is_dynamic when radio_source changes (by @dmoo500 in #3886)
• Improve Listenbrainz multi-artist track scrobbles (by @Tommatheussen in #3887)
• Improve UX of Sync groups (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3897)
• Subsonic: Provide close implementation that cleans up (by @khers in #3906)
• Implement the color@v1 Sendspin role (by @maximmaxim345 in #3917)
• Fix WiiM external source reporting (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3918)
• Add variable playback speed for audiobooks and podcasts (by @OzGav in #3939)
• Sonic Similarity Plugin (by @chrisuthe in #3943)
• Add stale-while-revalidate option to @use_cache (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3946)
• Stabilize group players: session-lifecycle instead of mandatory power (by @marcelveldt in #3947)
• Detect source audio format from ffmpeg log output (by @marcelveldt in #3950)
• Add Flow Mode sample-rate selection and per-player declared rates (by @marcelveldt in #3951)
• Improve imageproxy (by @marcelveldt in #3960)
• AudioSource follow-up (by @marcelveldt in #3964)
• Use passthrough PCM format for realtime AudioSource items (by @marcelveldt in #3969)
• Allow scrobble providers to filter by media_type (by @Tommatheussen in #3975)
• Allow Plugin Providers to implement ProviderFeature.SEARCH (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3978)
• Return a track sample for dynamic playlists when browsing (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4004)
• Emby Music Provider: add genres (by @hatharry in #4005)
• Smart Playlist: multi-seed support with album/playlist seeds (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4012)
• fast MCP server: debug & config namespaces, external-source playback, OpenClaw/Hermes presets (v0.7.1) (by @trudenboy in #4019)
• Show real source format for piped AudioSource providers (by @marcelveldt in #4027)
• Separate library artist views from per-provider artist listings (by @marcelveldt in #4039)
• Implement the Sendspin visualizer@v1 role and rework Hue Lights Sync (by @maximmaxim345 in #4042)
• Import album tracks when manually adding an album and Import Album Tracks setting enabled (by @OzGav in #4046)
• Add Bandcamp feed and wishlist recommendations (by @rnewman in #4047)
• Add Settings to allow Control of default similar_track action (by @chrisuthe in #4053)
• Support changing audiobook covers (by @OzGav in #4055)
• Add album_type filter to smart playlist rules (by @dmoo500 in #4059)
• Cache recommendations() for sonic_similarity and audiobookshelf (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4099)
• Speed up YouTube Music recommendations loading (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4120)
• Spread metadata maintenance schedule across the day (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4126)
• Add get_artist_toptracks to lastfm recommendations provider (by @OzGav in #4141)
• Enable WiiM and Last.fm Recommendations by default (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4142)
• Smart playlists: optional AI-generated descriptions (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4144)
• Lastfm improvements (by @OzGav in #4148)
• Improve playlog for artists and albums (by @chrisuthe in #4149)
• ACoustID Switch to shared API key by default (by @OzGav in #4154)
• Default artist fix (by @chrisuthe in #4163)
• Add unofficial-integration disclaimer to streaming provider settings (by @marcelveldt in #4164)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Adjust Spotify endpoints post deprecation notice (by @OzGav in #3303)
• Plex Connect: refactor and fixes plugin (by @anatosun in #3510)
• Fix MusicBrainz track lookup to aggregate release groups from all rec... (by @OzGav in #3520)
• Fix audio analysis version gating for non-track media (by @marcelveldt in #3566)
• Fix DLNA pause fallback for stale transport actions (by @xiasi0 in #36...

Contributors

• @philjackson
• @rnewman
• @loopj
• @bartbunting
• @cryptk
• @teancom
• @CodeCommander
• @duanyutong
• @neurocis
• @davidanthoff
• @jhbruhn
• @apophisnow
• @staticdev
• @mike-sheppard
• @robtpaton
• @OnFreund
• @a2hill
• @robsonke
• @marcelveldt
• @SuperSandro2000
• @lukaszwawrzyk
• @khers
• @ijc
• @jdaberkow
• @Tommatheussen
• @delatt
• @bradkeifer
• @hatharry
• @mcaulifn
• @MarvinSchenkel
• @OzGav
• @stvncode
• @sprocket-9
• @chrisuthe
• @dependabot
• @maximmaxim345
• @anatosun
• @FL550
• @Shi-553
• @FlorianReiterer
• @jozefKruszynski
• @peteS-UK
• @iVolt1
• @Oliver-Stevens
• @JulienDeveaux
• @BQPVegas
• @fmunkes
• @thrunkmo
• @xiasi0
• @trudenboy
• @music-assistant-machine
• @dmoo500
• @LosCV29
• @sdhomecode

📦 RC Release

Changes since 2.9.0rc6

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Default artist fix (by @chrisuthe in #4163)
• Add unofficial-integration disclaimer to streaming provider settings (by @marcelveldt in #4164)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Lokalise: Translations update (by @marcelveldt in #1904)
• fix: update artist enqueue-selection option labels (by @chrisuthe in #1906)
• Add per-provider listings and a provider selector to the artist page (by @marcelveldt in #1905)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.186 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4165)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@chrisuthe, @marcelveldt

Contributors

• @marcelveldt
• @chrisuthe
• @music-assistant-machine

📦 RC Release

Changes since 2.9.0rc5

🐛 Bugfixes

• Last.fm provider search bug fixes (by @OzGav in #4159)
• Fix 30s delay when grouping some Sendspin devices (by @maximmaxim345 in #4160)
• Prevent out-of-memory crash when compacting the library database (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4161)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Store some settings per user (by @OzGav in #1335)
• Fix heart icon spacing in list view and keep listing search visible (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1903)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.185 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4162)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @maximmaxim345

Contributors

• @MarvinSchenkel
• @OzGav
• @maximmaxim345
• @music-assistant-machine

📦 RC Release

Changes since 2.9.0rc4

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Lastfm improvements (by @OzGav in #4148)
• Improve playlog for artists and albums (by @chrisuthe in #4149)
• ACoustID Switch to shared API key by default (by @OzGav in #4154)

🐛 Bugfixes

• AirPlay: fix mDNS cross-match when device name is substring of another device name (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4098)
• end of queue results in track being reported as played twice (by @chrisuthe in #4150)
• Fix sendspin unmute (by @OzGav in #4151)
• Cap concurrent MusicBrainz ISRC lookups in Last.fm recommendations (by @OzGav in #4155)
• Fix cache cleanup missing most records and skip needless startup vacuum (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4156)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add refresh top picks + Fix two shorcut bugs (by @stvncode in #1901)
• Add refresh top picks + Fix two shorcut bugs (by @stvncode in #1901)
• Add back redirect to album/artist... from genre (by @stvncode in #1900)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• Use the standalone hue-entertainment library in the Hue Lights Sync plugin (by @marcelveldt in #4152)
• Fix guard_single_request type-var bound so media controllers don't need ignores (by @OzGav in #4153)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.184 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4157)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @chrisuthe, @marcelveldt, @stvncode

Contributors

• @marcelveldt
• @MarvinSchenkel
• @OzGav
• @stvncode
• @chrisuthe
• @music-assistant-machine

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026061009

🐛 Bugfixes

• AirPlay: fix mDNS cross-match when device name is substring of another device name (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4098)
• Last.fm provider search bug fixes (by @OzGav in #4159)
• Fix 30s delay when grouping some Sendspin devices (by @maximmaxim345 in #4160)
• Prevent out-of-memory crash when compacting the library database (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4161)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Store some settings per user (by @OzGav in #1335)
• Fix heart icon spacing in list view and keep listing search visible (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1903)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.185 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4162)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @maximmaxim345

Contributors

• @MarvinSchenkel
• @OzGav
• @maximmaxim345
• @music-assistant-machine