v5.1.0

Highlights

• New Audio-Source plugins. Ability to add custom audio source created by community aside from official supported sources like YT, Piped etc.
• NewPipe support for Desktop platforms
• Single connection streaming instead of chunked streaming
• Improved download manager with faster download speed, thanks to parallel chunked downloading
• Queue batch operations support

Features

• Show plugin source and set the only plugin as default if no plugin is there
• playback: Add dab music source
• playback: Add uncompressed flac playback support
• Add plugin audio source models and api service
• plugins: Filter plugins by abilities in plugins page and show abilities as badge
• Add setting default audio source support
• Move away from track source query and preferences audio quality and codec
• Add NewPipe support for desktop platforms
• Add default plugin loading capability
• queue: Add multi-select and bulk actions to queue (#2839)
• android: Add 16KB page size support

Bug Fixes

• Change plugin download directory to application support
• playback: Play next not working
• Downloaded tracks are not tagged with metadata
• Download not working in different devices and slow
• playback: Use stream instead of chunked serving of audio bytes

New Contributors

• @Rahul-Sahani04 made their first contribution in #2839

Full Changelog: v5.0.0...v5.1.0

v5.0.0

Thanks for supporting Spotube. The app was in a non-working state for a long time due to legal and other issues.
Well, I am happy to report that your Spotube is officially back. Now, even more customizable and community-driven.
I hope users of Spotube will finally be enjoying using Spotube.

Highlights

• Support for any music metadata service through plugins.
• Musicbrainz + Listenbrainz official plugin for music metadata.
• Listenbrainz scrobbling support (through plugin)
• Documentation for using and developing your own plugins: https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/docs
• Playback improvements including reduction of skipping issue and HLS support
• Performance improvements:
  • Efficient image handling
  • UI refactors geared towards performance benefits
  • Offloading of heavy operations like track source search to secondary thread (Isolate)

Features

• Add ISRC track search for YouTube (#2594)
• Add new icons #2676 by @alexio-dev (#2678)
• Add connect confirmation dialog
• Add metadata api service and models
• metadata-plugin: Add pagination support, feed and playlist CRUD endpoints
• metadata-plugin: Add local storage api
• Add webview, totp and setInterval apis for plugins
• Enhance local storage and webview APIs with improved error handling and resource management
• metadata_plugin: Add logout method
• Update plugin configuration with more fields
• Implement metadata plugins based on hetu
• Update models to match hetu_spotube_plugin signature
• Add user endpoint calls in metadata and paginated async notifiers
• Add playlist endpoint and providers
• Add albums metadata endpoint and provider
• Add artist and album providers
• Add track endpoint for metadata service
• Remove green corp names formally
• metadata: Add plugin form
• Add support for entity specific search
• Enhance image handling
• Add support for automatic plugin repository from github and codeberg
• Use isolate for youtube_explode engine
• Add repository and plugin API version fields to metadata plugins
• Update new pipe version
• metadata: Add plugin update checker and dialog for available updates
• Optimize track options and related artists
• Add plugin scrobbling support and support button
• Add ErrorBox and NoDefaultMetadataPlugin components

Bug Fixes

• Calling /track/:streamId endpoint causes active sourced track to be anything
• mobile: Dialogs in bottom sheet are not opening
• Default accent color is orange but it shows blue in settings
• Artist images are not loading up
• CVE: Remote path traversal through websocket when devices are on same network
• Endless playback not working
• android: NewPipe invalid search content filters
• Make YoutubeExplode engine faster
• Create and delete playlist not working
• Local track not working and images of local not showing up
• Local playback not working for tracks with special # (hashtag) characters
• Inaccessible streaming url causing rapid skips
• yt: Fallback to different search result if all streaming url is inaccessible
• playback: Skip network requests if cached file already exists
• Yt-dlp playback not working and add partial support for HLS streaming
• Windows webview2 environment permission issue
• playback: Play not fetching full playlist if playlist is too long
• track_options: Tapping on option doesn't close the menu
• playback: Alternative track sources switch not working
• ui: Lyrics white text in white background and small player buttons

Translation

• Add Traditional Chinese translation (#2762)
• Fix Japanese translations (#2732)
• Correction of the dutch language (#1306)

Pull Requests

• feat: fix track search by @ehfd in #2594
• chore: revise filter by @ehfd in #2614
• i18n: Add Chinese Traditional translation to Spotube and update Chinese Simpified translation file by @510208 in #2762
• Update app_ja.arb Japanese translation by @maboroshin in #2732
• Removed Google Play Store link from readme file by @lori28167 in #2638
• doc: compilation with fvm by @richard-hajek in #2254
• Update app_nl.arb by @Stephan-P in #1306

New Contributors

• @ehfd made their first contribution in #2594
• @510208 made their first contribution in #2762
• @lori28167 made their first contribution in #2638
• @richard-hajek made their first contribution in #2254

Full Changelog: v4.0.2...v5.0.0

v4.0.2

Highlights

• Fixes the empty home screen and "Something went wrong" bug

Bug Fixes

• invalid access token exception #2525

Full Changelog: v4.0.1...v4.0.2

v4.0.1

NOTICE: If login isn't working after installing the app, logout and login.

Highlights

• Fixed authentication Error 400 or 429 status due to Spotify API change
• Fixed system navigation bar on top of bottom navigation

Bug Fixes

• android: navigation overlaying in app navigation
• add to playlist not working in smaller screen devices
• language picker search broken
• generate_playlist: create playlist not adding tracks nor navigating to playlist page
• desktop: double titlebar in local library folders and massive space in overlay player
• lastfm form broken in other locales #2447
• spotify login broken due to new totp requirement #2494
• spotify authentication 429 errors

Features

• local_library: add support for x-flac, opus and x-wav
• translation: add tagalog language support #2504
• translation: add tamil translation for spotube #2501

New Contributors

• @JusArthur made their first contribution in #2504
• @vishnumur777 made their first contribution in #2501

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.0.1

v4.0.0

Highlights:

• Revamped UI from Material V3 to Shadcn design system
  • More intuitive user interface
  • Performant, responsive and adaptive design
  • Better visuals, feedbacks and OLED friendly (pure black) color palette
• Alternative YouTube engine support
  • yt-dlp for desktop platforms
  • NewPipe for Android
• Android: Home screen widget support
• Fixed music skipping, buffering or not playing at all
• Custom editable Piped and Invidious instance support

Bug Fixes

• SafeArea for global bottom items not working
• SafeArea not working for bottom floating widgets
• youtube video unplayable issue and use more ytClients
• ios: downloads not working due to permission errors (#2180)
• remove automaticallyImplyLeading from root tabs
• android: back button not working and safe area issues
• duplicates in recent section
• youtube source taking too long to buffer
• youtube tracks keeps skipping despite being matched correctly
• follow artist not working #2057
• youtube_explode_dart failing for many videos due to youtube ios client visitor data change
• piped api not working

Features

• android: home widget support (#2148)
• rewrite entire app in shadcn-ui replacing material eww
• grid/list customizable playbutton view
• flag to hide spotify generated images with patterns
• show placeholder images where there is no item or on empty page
• pause playback when no internet connection
• implement yt-dlp for desktop and NewPipeExtractor for Android (#2316)
• custom piped & invidious instance support

What's Changed

• fix(ios): downloads not working due to permission errors by @malikmiran in #2180

New Contributors

• @malikmiran made their first contribution in #2180

Full Changelog: v3.9.0...v4.0.0

v3.9.0

Highlights

• New Invidious source addition
• Track caching with export support

Bug Fixes

• UI glitch when loading more user artists and albums
• selecting an Alternative Track Source removes the current song from the queue #2039
• mobile: ensure audio session is activated when playback is resumed after interruption #2092

Features

• add invidious audio source and fix auto skipping tracks (#2005)
• track caching and cached track export support (#2117)

Full Changelog: v3.8.3...v3.9.0

v3.8.3

Bug Fixes

• update youtube_explode_dart to 2.2.3 to fix no playback (#1980)

Features

• macos: enable same window webview support

What's Changed

• Update youtube_explode_dart to 2.2.3 by @XaviFortes in #1980

New Contributors

• @XaviFortes made their first contribution in #1980

Full Changelog: v3.8.2...v3.8.3

v3.8.2

Highlight

• Fixed no playback from the app due to recent change in YouTube API

What's Changed

• Update youtube_explode_dart dependency version (fixes endless loading issue) by @sunryze-git in #1925

New Contributors

• @sunryze-git made their first contribution in #1925

Full Changelog: v3.8.1...v3.8.2

v3.8.1

Highlights

• Lyrics support for anonymous users
• Login error in Getting started page fixed
• Android: Queue doesn't persist after quitting & restarting the app
• Touch support for desktop
• Error dialog if webview is not found on login

Bug Fixes

• translations: correct some basque incorrect translations (#1815)
• lyrics: LRCLIB lyrics should be usable without logging in #1803
• playlist displaying descriptions unescaped html #1784
• android: pressing back while the player is open doesn't take to previous page
• handle dublicated items in playback queue correctly #1852
• desktop: scrollbar overlapping with more options of tracks and playlists
• discord: stop discord rpc from try update presence when not connected
• stats: minutes page shows plays and streams page shows minutes which should be the opposite #1880
• android: clears queue upon swiping away notification
• player: shuffle button state resets after closing page #1657
• getting started page login page exception #1800
• mobile: queue doesn't persist
• local tracks takes time to load
• start radio not working #1629

Features

• desktop: show error dialog if webview is not found on login #1871
• manually detect and define touch behavior #1763

What's Changed

• webview user agent typo by @sonu36437 in #1807
• Update winget-releaser to latest by @vedantmgoyal9 in #1840
• correct some basque strings by @josuigoa in #1815
• docs: add small logo image in inno setup installer by @fuegans4213 in #1795

New Contributors

• @sonu36437 made their first contribution in #1807
• @fuegans4213 made their first contribution in #1795

Full Changelog: v3.8.0...v3.8.1

v3.8.0

Highlights

• Webview based login on Desktop (special thanks to @SantiiRepair)
• Discord RPC support for MacOS and Linux arm64
• Fixed Linux tray icon not visible

Features

• translations: make state page's hard coded strings translatable (#1719)
• discord: add listening activity type
• discord: album art, playing time and play pause support (#1765)
• linux: Use XDG_STATE_HOME to storage logs (#1675)
• discord rpc for macOS, windows-arm64 and linux-arm64 (#1713)
• desktop: implement webview based login
• stats: add lazy loading support

Bug Fixes

• translations: fix Russian translations (#1696)
• ios: permission exception
• linux: tray icon wrong name for flatpak
• windows: app crashes when no internet
• windows: local tracks plays but disabled playback controls
• go to track album shows up for local tracks
• local track metadata timeout
• windows: window stretching #1553
• android: app getting killed from background
• linux: OS Media control not working for Flatpak #1627
• incorrect datatype used for MPRIS position property #1521
• Too many artists for a track causing overflows
• playlist share button does not work #1639
• unescape html escape values #1300
• lyrics page doesn't scroll to top after song ends #885
• changed source doesn't get saved and uses the wrong once again
• null exception in album page navigated from /home
• popup menu item opacity
• linux: change app id in flatpak environment

Outside Contributions

• feat(linux): Use XDG_STATE_HOME to storage logs by @arenekosreal in #1675
• Improve Discord RPC by @nexpid in #1765
• fix(l10n): fix russian tranlsations by @marat2509 in #1696
• Make some hard coded strings translatable by @josuigoa in #1719

New Contributors

• @arenekosreal made their first contribution in #1675
• @nexpid made their first contribution in #1765
• @marat2509 made their first contribution in #1696

Full Changelog: v3.7.1...v3.8.0