Changelog

Interface

• ●Redesigned focus for input fields: searches, filters and forms light up as a whole in the accent color; in high contrast, a crisp outline follows the field’s rounded corners

Folders

• ●Each folder shows the cover art of what it contains (a mosaic when it holds several albums), its track count and its best quality, such as “FLAC 24/96” or “DSD128”
• ●Files show their title, artist and duration, and play from a button on hover
• ●“Covers” option in the toolbar: without it, folders and files get illustrations tinted by quality
• ●Redesigned breadcrumb, and a toolbar on a single line

Playback

• ●Play on startup (Settings → General → Startup): the last track starts on its own, at the exact second if “Resume where I left off” is on
• ●Adjustable listen threshold (Settings → General → Playback): a track counts as played after 1 minute or half, or at 25, 50, 75, 80 or 90% of its length. Last.fm and ListenBrainz keep their own rule
• ●Launch commands: /play, /pause, /playpause, /stop, /next, /prev, /show and /exit. If RustMusic is open, the command is passed to it without raising the window: control your music from a Stream Deck, a shortcut or a script

Tags

• ●.m4a and .m4b files (AAC and ALAC) can be edited: title, artists, album, year, genre, comment, composer, track and disc numbers, cover art. The audio is never rewritten, and other data (lyrics, ReplayGain, MusicBrainz) is kept
• ●The composer of .m4a files, stored by iTunes in a separate field, now shows up
• ●Track and disc totals are read in every format

Library

• ●ALAC and AIFF recognised as lossless: files already imported are fixed during the update
• ●A rescan removes files that are gone and follows files renamed or moved within the same library folder: no more duplicates, and rating, plays, playlists and likes are kept. Nothing is removed if the scan is cancelled or a folder suddenly looks empty
• ●Genres merged regardless of case: “Classical” and “classical” are now one

Interface

• ●Genre page like the year page: an Albums / Tracks / Artists selector, and albums sorted by year, title or artist
• ●Play count updated live, in lists and on a track’s page
• ●“See all” for recently played, and liked tracks, also show tracks outside the library
• ●Long titles cut off cleanly on macOS on the home page

• ●ListenBrainz (Settings → Online listening): each profile links its account with its personal token. Tracks played halfway (or for 4 min) are sent, with the track now playing if you wish; offline, plays wait and are sent later; disconnecting asks for confirmation, showing any listens still waiting

• ●Import and export .m3u / .m3u8: each list becomes a playlist, its tracks found even if it was written on another computer; “Export as .m3u8” in a playlist’s menu

• ●Compilations merged: without an “album artist” tag, Navidrome or Jellyfin split a compilation into one album per artist. RustMusic merges them into a single “Various Artists” album, as for local folders, and two different albums with the same title stay separate

• ●System language at first launch (French, English, German, Spanish or Italian, otherwise English); an existing installation keeps its language
• ●Profile picture: a photo or an image of your choice, cropped to a square, instead of the initial
• ●Collapsible settings: clicking a group title collapses or expands it, and the app remembers; a search reopens everything
• ●No more browser menu on right-click where the app has no menu of its own; copy and paste still work in text fields

• ●Clear history: recently played stations and songs heard on air; favourite stations stay

Sources

• ●“Source” button at the top of the sidebar: “This computer”, each server or “All sources”. It only appears once a server is added
• ●Each source has its own libraries, playlists, liked songs, history, search and home; switching source does not stop playback
• ●“All sources”: an album both local and on a server is a single result, played in the version you prefer

Search

• ●Rebuilt results page: top result, tracks with quality and duration, albums, artists, type filters and “Play all”
• ●Search now only looks in the active profile’s libraries

Interface

• ●A megaphone in the top bar presents each version’s new features in a few slides, with a “Try it” button
• ●Customizable sidebar: sections, pinned playlists, “Liked songs” and “Recently played” can be moved, and the order is kept
• ●Megaphone and theme button can be hidden (Settings → General → System integration)

Playback

• ●Output settings applied right away: switching output, exclusive or shared mode, native DSD or the quality profile restarts the current track at the same spot, without restarting the app. When paused, the change applies on resume
• ●Audio output lost mid-playback (flaky USB cable, DAC reset, format changed in Windows): it is reopened on its own and the track resumes where it cut out. If it doesn’t come back within 5 s, playback moves to the system output, with a message
• ●Linux, exclusive mode: the DAC stays in the output list, selected, instead of giving way to “Dummy Output”
• ●Linux: sound restored with PipeWire alone, without a PulseAudio cookie (notably in the Flatpak package), instead of a silent ALSA output
• ●Leaving a network player for a local output resumes directly on the chosen output

• ●The amplifier plays through the tracks of an album or folder instead of stopping after the first one, and finds the pause control. An album or folder reports its real number of tracks

Library

• ●Faster import, especially from a NAS: a folder’s cover art is read once per folder, and each file is opened only once. On 10,000 FLAC files over a network share: 15 files per second instead of 1.6. A rescan no longer rereads unchanged files
• ●Folder missing during a scan (share not mounted, disk unplugged): it is marked “Unavailable”, a message says so, and its tracks are kept instead of being reset to zero
• ●Network share remounted under another name (by its address, then by its name, or the other way round): RustMusic recognises the same share and offers to update the library; tracks, playlists, favourites and queue follow
• ●Selection: the same checkbox in every track list, even when the “#” column is hidden, and a single “Select” button per page
• ●Readable status bar during an import: a single badge follows the rescan with the current file, without overlapping anything

• ●Windows: RustMusic is on winget (package LaRevueGeeK.RustMusic). “winget install rustmusic” installs it, “winget upgrade” keeps it up to date
• ●Linux: Flatpak package (dev.rustmusic.RustMusic) prepared for Flathub
• ●Sharp logo on high-density screens: the window and dock icon now starts from the 512 px image
• ●Linux: starts under Wayland without XWayland, and the .deb package shows a real description in software centres

• ●Rebuilt workshop: a table, a collapsible edit panel, Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Write (Ctrl+S). The tools are grouped in two menus, Tags and Files
• ●Items to check: missing title, artist, album or genre, empty album artist, "feat." in the artist, each fixed with one button
• ●Editing in the table (double-click or F2, then Enter or Tab) and a per-column menu: copy across the selection, Title Case, clear, hide
• ●MusicBrainz joins Deezer: composers, 1200 px cover art (Cover Art Archive), and editions told apart by year, country and format
• ●Complete online in two steps: pick the edition ("Best match" first), then Fill the blanks, Update everything or Custom, field by field
• ●Multi-disc albums: tracks with the same number on two discs are no longer mixed up, and the disc number is suggested

Mini and micro player

• ●Volume in the mini player: a button at the end of the controls opens mute and the slider, and the mouse wheel sets the volume. Vertical or horizontal popup, your choice in Appearance → Mini player
• ●New micro player: the window shrinks to a square of album art. On hover: previous, play, next, the timeline and volume. The corner handle enlarges the cover up to three times, and the size is remembered
• ●The mini and micro players stay fully on screen: docked to an edge, they no longer spill over when they grow

Playback

• ●More precise gapless playback: the next track starts in the same audio block as the end of the previous one. With resampling (a 44.1 kHz file on a 48 kHz output), the end of the track is no longer cut short and the start no longer has a brief silence
• ●Instant start in shared mode: the output stays open from one track to the next. Some USB DACs took over 1.5 s to reopen their stream; only the first track now pays that delay
• ●A track no longer drops out mid-playback when decoding falls behind (on a network drive, for example): the transition waits until the track is fully decoded
• ●Replay Gain mode and preamp apply immediately to the current track, not only from the next one
• ●Linux: exclusive output works again on USB DACs that PipeWire and ALSA name differently. DAC capabilities (sample rates, bit depth) are shown in the output list

Playlists and library

• ●Playlists, Liked tracks and Recently played use the library table: same columns, same sorting, same menu. "Remove from playlist" and "Remove from likes" are in each track's menu
• ●Select button on a playlist, on the Playlists page (several playlists at once) and on artist, genre and year pages
• ●Faster Albums and Artists tabs on large collections: covers load as they approach the screen instead of all at once
• ●Tracks from a compilation without an "album artist" tag are no longer lost on import: a new scan brings them back
• ●Manage a library from the sidebar (⋯ button), rename it and set it as default

Appearance

• ●Choose your accent color in Appearance → Theme: ten presets or any color. The logo, buttons, selections and links follow it
• ●Every dialog (libraries, playlists, tag editor, import, audio outputs…) adopts the settings look and follows the theme and accent color
• ●Visual effects Auto, Full or Light (Appearance → Expert options). Auto lightens the interface with software rendering, in a virtual machine or on a modest computer, and says why
• ●Hide the sidebar playlists in one click, like pinned albums and artists
• ●Linux: no more flickering while scrolling. The "Auto" DMA-BUF setting turns it off based on the actual graphics driver (virtual GPU, older Radeon, proprietary NVIDIA)

Playback

• ●DSD converted to PCM finally moves on to the next track (macOS, DACs without native DSD): when decoding returned slightly less than the announced length, the end of the track was never signaled and the queue got stuck
• ●"Open a folder": tracks arrive in album order and play one after another
• ●Exclusive mode on Mac speakers: no more silence with the system output (CoreAudio "!obj" error). Native DSD gets the same fix

Library

• ●Adding an external drive no longer blows up memory: the scan no longer loops forever through folder shortcuts that point back on themselves, skips the trash and "System Volume Information", keeps only the cover of tracks that embed a whole booklet, and no longer decodes giant images

Window

• ●macOS-style window buttons in the system order (red, yellow, green), with their symbols: close, minimize, full screen. The settings preview too

Audio

• ●True bit-perfect in exclusive mode on Windows, Linux and macOS: the output lowered the volume by 2% even in exclusive mode, and the conversion to the DAC wasn't the exact inverse of decoding. At 100% volume with no ReplayGain, every sample now arrives untouched, verified by tests on 16- and 24-bit reference files
• ●The "Bit-perfect" badge no longer claims it wrongly: it also requires matching channels, a lossless source and neutral ReplayGain. An "Exclusive" badge flags a reserved DAC whose sound is still altered
• ●Exclusive mode on Windows: the DAC went silent for 2 to 4 seconds at every track change. It now stays open as long as the format doesn't change, and the next track starts in 30 ms
• ●AIFF, ALAC and Opus are actually played, and uppercase extensions are recognized. WMA and APE, which never played, are removed
• ●Gapless native DSD (DoP) on Linux and macOS, as on Windows; on Windows, the start of the first DSD track is no longer cut
• ●When exclusive mode or native DSD doesn't go through, the app tells you why (format rejected, DAC busy, output without direct access, DoP rejected, sample rate converted): in the audio chain, on the player badge and in Settings → Audio
• ●On Linux, shared output goes through the sound server (PipeWire or PulseAudio): picking your DAC no longer blocks other apps, real output names are shown, and the "f32 format not supported" and "device busy" errors are gone
• ●The selected output is remembered between launches; exclusive mode and native DSD on Linux hand the card back to the system cleanly, without sending other apps' sound to the HDMI display
• ●No system sleep during playback (setting, on by default); on Linux, playback pauses cleanly when the computer goes to sleep
• ●A ring spins around the play button until sound starts; system media controls no longer get inverted; in shared mode on Linux, pause, volume and seeking react instantly

Understanding sound

• ●Explanation bubbles: DAC, DSD, DoP, PCM, bit-perfect, resampling… are underlined and a click shows the definition. They can be turned off in Appearance
• ●New "Understanding sound" page in settings: the sound path in shared and exclusive mode, what the player badges mean, and a glossary
• ●Settings → Audio texts explain more clearly what each mode does

Years and mixes

• ●Years tab: a timeline by decade, most recent first, with a page for each decade or year (albums, tracks, artists) and a mix of the era
• ●Mixes page: daily mixes, one mix per genre and per decade, and your own
• ●Create a mix: a recipe (genres, ratings, never played, Hi-Res…) from which RustMusic draws 30, 50 or 100 tracks every day. New draw, and "Keep as playlist" to freeze today's draw
• ●Varied mixes: a genre only gets a mix from 5 artists and 30 tracks, and an artist places no more than about 3 tracks in it. "For you" changes genres every day
• ●Mix and smart playlist editor redesigned: thumbnail preview, recipes as cards, live count of matching tracks

Playlists

• ●Playlists page: all playlists, with search, regular / smart filter, sorting, grid or list
• ●The sidebar only shows pinned playlists, like albums and artists. All are pinned on update, and new ones are pinned automatically
• ●"Your playlists", "Your mixes", "All mixes" and "All years" on the home screen
• ●"Add to playlist" no longer offers smart playlists, which received nothing

Import and first launch

• ●Imports can be followed live: the folder shows up right away in "Synced folders", with the file search, progress and current file. On a network share, the screen no longer stays silent
• ●An import or rescan can be stopped at any time: what's imported is kept, and a message says how many tracks, albums and artists were added
• ●After an import, even a stopped one, Home, Tracks, Genres and Folders reload; an import no longer prevents saving playback position and history
• ●Welcome screen without a library: "Import my music", the three steps, a preview of the sections, or just play a folder without importing anything
• ●Import page: library name, import a folder or files, supported formats. In an empty library, every tab offers the import directly

Navigation and library

• ●Tabs in the order Tracks, Artists, Albums, Genres, Years, Folders, Mixes, Playlists; Years, Mixes and Playlists can be toggled in Appearance. In "tabs on top" mode, the sidebar no longer has tiles
• ●Selection checkboxes in Folders and in every track list; off-screen columns are no longer empty, only the list scrolls horizontally
• ●Covers and portraits: fetching can be cancelled, no longer re-downloads everything, and a network outage no longer marks an artist "not found". "Clean up image cache" removes unused images; file tags are never touched
• ●Genre page redesigned in the style of the other pages; track page shows cover and artist portrait even when the file has none
• ●Light mode finally readable everywhere (profiles, menus, Feedback); DLNA menus appear in the app's language on the amplifier

Window and Linux

• ●No more white screen at launch: a loading screen in the theme's colors fades out when the app is ready
• ●macOS: the green button goes full screen, like in other apps; ⌥ + click keeps zoom
• ●Linux: no more grey window at startup (Flatpak font cache cleaned), scrolling twice as smooth in 4K (37 frames per second instead of 17), blurred backgrounds much lighter on the CPU
• ●Settings → Appearance → Expert options: rendering mode, DMA-BUF transfer and blurred backgrounds, for machines that need it

Home

• ●Resume where you left off: the top of Home shows the current or last-played track over its blurred cover, with « Resume » at the saved position and an « Up next » panel
• ●« For you » mixes: two genres of the day, « Forgotten » (not played for over six months) and « High resolution », each as an album mosaic. « New mixes » shuffles others
• ●« Through the decades »: one tile per decade in your library, starting a mix of that era
• ●« Browse by genre » as icon tiles, « Recently added », and « Recently played »: a click resumes the album at the last-played track

Sidebar and title bar

• ●Redesigned sidebar: tile sections, library picker, playlists with their cover mosaic, live scan status, profile at the bottom. Collapses to icons
• ●Pin albums and artists from their menu: they stay one click away in the sidebar
• ●A single 60px bar at the top: logo, navigation, search (Ctrl K), timer, theme, profile and window buttons. The old header is gone
• ●The « Synced folders » window is redesigned and no longer trapped at sidebar width
• ●Light mode moves to warm tones, softer than pure white
• ●Disabling favorites also hides « Liked tracks » in the sidebar

Player

• ●A floating dock tinted by the cover art: its color follows the current album. Status line with format, depth, frequency, bitrate, path and audio chain as colored pills (bit-perfect, native DSD, processing, output, DLNA)
• ●Output menu: readable device names, quality badge per output (CD, Hi-Res, Ultra Hi-Res), toggles for exclusive mode and native DSD (DoP)
• ●The album year is clickable: it opens the albums of that year
• ●Mini-player redesigned, also tinted, with queue and synced lyrics as tabs. Returning to the full player no longer leaves a tiny window

Library

• ●Shared header across all tabs: name, counts (albums, artists, tracks, size, last scan) and a « Manage » menu (rescan, folders, covers, artist images, import, deletion)
• ●Albums: search, filters Hi-Res / Compilations / No cover / Genre / Year, sort by title without article, grid or list, quality badge on the cover
• ●Artists: same toolbar, « No portrait » filter, sort by number of albums, tracks or listening time
• ●Tracks: Compact / Detailed densities, Quality column, filters Hi-Res / Lossless / Favorites / No cover / Genre, resizable columns. « Play all » plays the list as displayed
• ●Genres: colored mosaics, three key artists, library share, « Main » and « Without genre » filters, « Random mix »
• ●Folders: cards or rows, breadcrumbs, per-folder scan status, « Play folder »
• ●A–Z navigation on Albums, Artists, Genres and Tracks when the sort is alphabetical

Pages

• ●Album: best-quality badge, play, shuffle, favorite the whole album, genres, release date and label from tags, tracks grouped by disc, similar albums. Previous/Next follows the Albums view order
• ●Artist: portrait, active period, discography carousel, tracks grouped by album (collapsible), « Appears on », similar artists
• ●Track: full details: audio, tags, file, plays, rating, « Play next », other tracks from the same album
• ●The top of each page lights up with its cover's color

Settings

• ●New layout: section column, settings search, « n modified · Reset » counter on each page
• ●Appearance: live previews of theme, sidebar and navigation; window-button style as illustrated cards
• ●Audio: output list with connection type and actual tier, « Test DAC » on the chosen output, decoding quality and Replay Gain as illustrated selectors
• ●Playback resume (on by default): the session's first playback picks up where you left off. « Gapless » moves to General
• ●New Shortcuts section; Network, Storage and About redesigned

Fixes

• ●Queue missing covers and titles from the Folders view: on a network drive, paths took their UNC form. They now keep the imported folder's form, and already-saved queues are repaired on open
• ●« Add music » then Cancel no longer freezes the UI
• ●Drag-and-drop of files into a library works: paths now arrive
• ●A genre like « 100% Hits » opens again
• ●The maximize / restore button tracks the actual window state
• ●A late response no longer shows stale content (lyrics, folders, autocomplete, covers, library, A–Z letters)
• ●« Léa » or « The-Dream » keep their initial in sort order; Shift+click selects a range again after leaving selection mode

Translations

• ●About 400 texts that remained in French are translated to English, Spanish, German and Italian: menus, notifications, forms, windows, columns, smart playlists. Plurals are correct, and numbers/sizes/durations/dates follow the language

Performance

• ●Opening a library no longer loads all its tracks, only albums and artists
• ●Genre statistics come from the database in one query instead of one per genre
• ●The Tracks tab keeps at most 500 rows while scrolling, smoothly, and only renders those approaching the viewport
• ●Lists no longer redraw on every playback position update (around ten times per second)
• ●Album and Artist search no longer re-sorts on every keystroke; cover thumbnails aren't re-requested on each display
• ●Only the actually-used icons are bundled: UI code drops from 12 MB to 2.5 MB

Albums

• ●A compilation no longer becomes 52 one-track albums: an album is now recognized by its title and folder, with CD1/Disc 2/Disc 3 attached to the parent set. 333 spurious entries out of 1,236 for « NRJ Hit Music Only 2019 », « NRJ Music Awards 2012 », « Taxi 4 »…
• ●Automatic merge on first startup: the merged album keeps its majority « album artist » tag, or « Various Artists » otherwise. Legitimate homonyms (AC/DC's Best Of vs Suprême NTM's) stay separate

Artists

• ●« Various Artists » no longer replaces a track's real artist: 309 tracks had the wrong name (PJ Harvey, The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Nick Cave…). A « Repair artist links » button fixes older files
• ●An artist no longer shows zero albums: 504 out of 1,512 had tracks but nothing to display. An « Appears on » section gathers the records they only feature on

Playback

• ●Music now flows to the next track: clicking a track used to reduce the queue to just that one: the list you clicked from now becomes the queue (library, album, artist, playlists, search, folders, home)
• ●The queue is written to the database in the background: a full library is ~6 MB, waiting for it delayed the sound on every click
• ●In « double-click to play » mode, a single click no longer cuts the current track

Navigation

• ●The player's title, artist and album are clickable: they open the matching page, with an underline on hover. A file opened on the fly stays plain text
• ●In « Recently played », a track's artist and album open their page. The title still starts playback

Menus

• ●A « … » button on Playlists, Library and Open: unhide masked playlists, move sections, hide one
• ●Right-click on a playlist row: play, edit, delete
• ●Option to hide « Add to favorites » everywhere it appears

Memory and CPU

• ●Cover art no longer crosses the IPC bridge twice: raw bytes were traveling in the clear on every read: over a megabyte serialized for nothing. A test now checks the payload stays under 4 KB
• ●The data cache is bounded to forty entries, with main lists protected
• ●Grid hover throttled to 250 ms, cache checked before any query
• ●Off-screen grid rows are no longer laid out or kept in memory

Display

• ●Hidden playlists no longer flash for two seconds at startup: settings are now read before the first render

Playback

• ●Action queue: a double-click was sending click, click, dblclick, and stopping a selection that finished late was cutting the playback that had just started
• ●Title and cover art were triggering two actions per click: fixed
• ●Liking a track or opening its menu no longer starts it by accident

Multi-artist tags

• ●New « Repair artist links » button in Settings → Storage. Doesn't re-read any file, can be run again without creating duplicates
• ●One link per credited artist on a track's page: featured artists actually exist now

Artists

• ●The track counter no longer shows 0: an artist is linked in two ways, the list only counted one
• ●Artists without tracks or albums are filtered out, header included
• ●The top artists in statistics is no longer empty
• ●Similar artists and albums drawn at random

Library sections

• ●Placement on the left, top or both, with choice of which sections to display
• ●« Explorer » is now called « Folders » everywhere in the app

Columns: Width

• ●Mouse resize via a handle on the right edge of each header, outside the sort button
• ●Double-click on the handle: column auto-fits its content (measured via canvas, not DOM, to account for off-screen rows)
• ●Widths saved per column, with « Restore widths » to reset
• ●Title no longer shrinks below 180 pixels: the only compressible column, it absorbed everything and vanished past a few added columns

Columns: Display

• ●Sticky header on scroll: a value without a label means nothing, especially with self-chosen tags
• ●Number, cover and title enter the picker: the first three columns can be hidden and reordered like the others
• ●Settings written before this change are carried over, otherwise the three would have disappeared at once

View modes

• ●Table view available for the Genres and Folders tabs, which only had grid
• ●Grid/list toggle also shown on detail pages: the mode existed there but couldn't be requested
• ●Sub-sections on detail pages follow the mode: other albums by the artist, albums in the same genre, similar artists, discography

Multiple selection

• ●Works on albums, artists and genres, in grid or list. Checking an album expands its tracks: counter shows « 47 tracks », not « 3 items »
• ●The « Select » button moves to the tab bar: it only existed on four pages, the Folders tab and detail pages had no way to enter selection
• ●Shift + click extends from the last clicked item, like in a file explorer
• ●« All » works everywhere: it relied on a list only the Tracks tab filled
• ●Right-click on an already-checked row acts on the whole selection

Playlists

• ●Play count shows on each row, only when there is one
• ●Smart playlists have a badge in the sidebar, and their counter recomputes instead of staying frozen at save time
• ●The header of a smart playlist spells out its rules in plain text
• ●Recipes are available in edit mode, under « Replace with a recipe »: starting over from a recipe is exactly what fixes a badly-tuned playlist

Smart playlists

• ●Rules on 24 library fields and any tag present in your files, with nested groups, sort and limit
• ●The number of matching tracks updates live as you write the rules
• ●Eight ready-made recipes to get started, including « most-played genres » which sums plays per genre instead of freezing a list
• ●No field name or rule value ever enters a query string: everything goes as bound values, including tag names from your files

Play counter

• ●It didn't exist: the function was written but never called, and play_count was zero across the entire library
• ●A play counts past half the track, capped at one minute

Custom columns in track lists

• ●21 library fields and every tag actually present in your files, listed with their frequency
• ●Header-based sorting on any of them, both directions: in-database for the Tracks tab, in-memory elsewhere
• ●The table view now extends to albums, artists, genres and playlists

Export and import

• ●Settings, profiles, playlists and liked tracks are now exportable and re-importable
• ●Playlists don't carry IDs (which would be meaningless elsewhere): each track leaves with its path and enough info to be recognized if the path has changed
• ●Import announces what it will do before writing anything

Half-star ratings

• ●Decimal ratings (0.5, 1.0, 1.5…): existing ratings already sit at 1.0 to 5.0, no data is transformed

Fixes

• ●The queue wouldn't chain in bit-perfect: the Drop of exclusive outputs was raising the stop flag, and playback-ended was never emitted. WASAPI and ALSA both affected
• ●Playlist counters were lying: removing a folder cascades-deletes files, tracks and playlist entries, but the counter stayed on its old value. It's now read instead of trusted
• ●Missing scroll on the three playlist pages
• ●White dropdowns in dark theme: color-scheme wasn't declared, and a translucent background can't serve as a dropdown surface
• ●Smoother lists: content-visibility on rows, and a per-track background blur removed (its background was uniform)
• ●Artist portrait downloads can be disabled
• ●The window remembers its size and position between sessions

Workshop: « To fix » inventory

• ●The workshop opened without a selection now shows what needs attention: files without title, artist, album, year, track number, cover art, or in a non-writable format
• ●Detection of album inconsistencies: diverging years, compilations without album artist, duplicate track numbers, gaps in numbering
• ●Duplicate detection: same title and same artist, within 2 seconds, chained proximity-based to catch variations
• ●Clicking a category loads the concerned files directly into the spreadsheet

Workshop: File renaming

• ●Field-based patterns with zero-padding (track:02), fallbacks (albumartist|artist) and optional groups that disappear when the field is empty
• ●Before/after preview line by line, recomputed as you type, with individual selection: uncheck what you don't want to rename
• ●Pre-execution detection of collisions, already-taken targets, chained renames and too-long paths
• ●Windows/macOS/Linux sanitization: / \ : | separators become a dash instead of underscores, forbidden characters removed
• ●The pattern applies to the fixed tags: correct in the spreadsheet, rename based on what you just wrote

Workshop: Folder reorganization

• ●The pattern rebuilds the full tree, with four common templates suggested
• ●Companion files follow: .lrc and .cue with their track, cover art and .m3u with their folder (if the whole folder moves to the same place)
• ●Cleans up folders that became empty, never beyond your library roots
• ●Cross-volume moves handled properly: copy, verify, then delete source: never the other way around

Workshop: Log and undo

• ●Each batch is logged: renames, moves, and the state of tags before rewrite
• ●History screen with the pattern used, counters, and two-step undo. Last 50 batches kept
• ●Undo reports as a batch and can fail: a file touched since the operation is not put back

Workshop: Cleanup rules

• ●Five rules, none checked by default: underscores to spaces, leading-number removal from titles, « feat. » unification, extra spaces, English title case
• ●Cell-by-cell preview, the result goes into pending changes, not directly to files

Fixes

• ●A renamed track became unplayable: the queue kept the old path. Fixed and covered by undo
• ●The workshop and library cache now refresh after a move (they were keeping old paths)
• ●The app wouldn't start after a partial update: when the database was migrated by a newer version, the error was silent on Windows. Clear message now displayed

Bit-perfect output on all 3 systems

• ●Native DoP on Linux via ALSA exclusive access: DSD goes straight to the DAC, no PCM conversion. Linux equivalent of Windows WASAPI exclusive.
• ●Native DoP on macOS via CoreAudio hog mode: same bit-perfect guarantees, DAC displays « DSD »
• ●Exclusive PCM output now also available on macOS and Linux (in addition to DSD)
• ●D-Bus reservation: PipeWire/WirePlumber releases the card for exclusive access, no more manual intervention
• ●Persistent output device: choice restored at startup, cleaner enumeration (no more duplicates)

Replay Gain

• ●Read REPLAYGAIN_* tags and apply gain without database, DoP chain preserved
• ●Adjustable preamp, track / album modes, in Audio Settings

Full tag editing (MP3, FLAC, DSF, DFF)

• ●Write text tags AND cover art on all 4 formats: nothing lost: unedited frames and blocks copied identically
• ●Fixing a title doesn't lose the cover, rating, or MusicBrainz IDs. A preserved image is copied byte for byte.
• ●In-place write when possible (2613 ms → 20 ms on a 34 MB FLAC over SMB), atomic full rewrite fallback otherwise
• ●Individual editor as two-column popup, per-field change tracking, complete embedded media handling

Batch tag workshop

• ●New dedicated page with two view modes: spreadsheet or list + panel
• ●Smart multi-edit: an unchanged field is omitted, not sent empty (« don't touch » vs « erase » distinction)
• ●Fill down, auto-numbering, column sorting, common cover art
• ●Parallel file reading: 769 ms → 35 ms cold for 16 files, with progress and error report

Tag import from Deezer

• ●Album search, track matching by title, duration and number, with score and confidence level
• ●Per-track review screen: file values next to Deezer's, expandable field by field
• ●Three choice levels: a value, a track, a field across the whole selection. Cover art with dimensions and weight shown
• ●Nothing written directly: everything goes through workshop pending changes before writing

Settings as sub-pages

• ●Monolithic page split into sub-pages: General, Appearance, Audio, Network, Storage, About
• ●Sidebar navigation by section, sticky header, reusable components (OptionRow, ToggleSwitch, ActionButton)

Linux rendering reliability

• ●Auto-fallback to software rendering: if GPU startup crashes before the UI shows, app auto-switches on next launch (sentinel file + WebKit listener)
• ●SteamOS detection: software rendering by default on Steam Deck
• ●RUSTMUSIC_RENDER=gpu|software|auto env variable to force mode. fix-appimage-wayland.sh script fixes EGL crash on SteamOS/Arch

High contrast mode

• ●New accessibility mode: all secondary grays become readable at once, without touching individual components
• ●Background blurs disabled (they blurred text), keyboard focus clearly visible
• ●Checkboxes fully redrawn: SVG check background, clean rendering on WebKit and in empty states

Library & network reliability

• ●Default library: per-profile marker, automatic pickup when creating first library or deleting the default
• ●SMB NAS editing fix: mapped drives (S: for \\NAS\music) now recognized as network, RAM preloading works correctly
• ●« Fix tags » added to album and listing context menus, right-click menu in « Recently played »

Sleep timer

• ●New button in the app header to stop playback after a chosen delay
• ●Quick durations 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 min or custom minute input
• ●« End of track » mode: playback stops cleanly at the end of the current track, without going to the next one
• ●Toggle in Settings to hide the button if you don't use it

Mini-player (compact window)

• ●New mini-player mode: a small always-on-top window to keep RustMusic visible while you work
• ●Dedicated button in the player to toggle between full and mini modes, return to normal window in one click
• ●Cover, transport (previous/play-pause/next), clickable seek and quality badges (DSD / Hi-Res, sample rate)
• ●Slide-down Queue panel: browse the queue and pick a track directly
• ●Synchronized Lyrics panel with active line highlighting and auto-scroll

Internationalization

• ●New translations for the sleep timer, mini-player and related settings (FR, EN, ES, DE, IT)

WASAPI exclusive: bit-perfect (Windows)

• ●Event-driven WASAPI exclusive backend: full Windows mixer bypass, native format sent to the DAC (true bit-perfect output)
• ●Format pre-negotiation before the decoder → no stray resampling (the decoder outputs directly at the DAC's native rate)
• ●Precise device targeting, FullBuffer playback and anti-click buffer pre-fill on start
• ●Toggle in Settings and in the player's audio-output popup, permanent badge in the status bar

Native DSD (DoP: DSD over PCM)

• ●DSD files (.dsf / .dff) are sent as-is to a DoP-capable DAC, which decodes them natively: no more PCM conversion
• ●The DAC shows "DSD" and rebuilds the original 1-bit stream (bit-perfect): DSD64 / DSD128 / DSD256
• ●Persistent gapless DoP engine: the DAC locks only once, DSD tracks chain instantly with no click
• ●Automatic fallback to DSD→PCM if the DAC rejects the format; volume handled by the DAC/amp (bit-perfect requires it)

Enriched output devices

• ●Detailed per-device capabilities: supported sample rates, formats, channels, Hi-Res detection
• ●WASAPI probing of the DAC to reveal its REAL exclusive-mode capabilities (beyond the OS's generic table)
• ●Detailed device sheet and output selection directly from the player and Settings

Audio quality profiles

• ●5 audio profiles: Auto, Maximum quality, Balanced, Compatibility, Degraded mode
• ●Automatic machine detection (VM, CPU core count) to choose the right preset
• ●Degraded mode: 256-tap DSD filter, 44.1 kHz output, full pre-decoding in RAM (zero underrun guaranteed)
• ●DSD filter configurable per profile: 2048 / 1024 / 512 / 256 taps
• ●Resampler chunk size and sub-chunks adapted to the chosen profile
• ●New Settings section: 5 selection cards and information block showing resolved profile and detected machine

Multichannel DSD: parallel decoding & downmix

• ●DSD2PCM parallelization via rayon: 1 thread per channel for 3+ channel files (SACD 5.0 / 5.1)
• ●Stereo and mono kept in sequential mode (overhead not justified)
• ●Near-linear speedup: a DSD64 5.0 SACD in Maximum quality is now playable without artifacts on a normal CPU
• ●Multichannel to stereo downmix following ITU-R BS.775 (3.0, 4.0 quad, 5.0, 5.1 with integrated LFE)
• ●Multichannel SACDs now play correctly in stereo (center voice and surrounds preserved)

Pre-loading, seek & audio robustness

• ●RAM pre-loading of files on network shares (GVFS/SMB/NFS/SSHFS) or Low profile: eliminates I/O-related dropouts
• ●Instant seek in Degraded mode for DSD: ring buffer drained into a Vec<f32>, CPAL in indexed FullBuffer mode
• ●Fixed CPAL race condition on seek in Symphonia Degraded mode (dedicated atomic pending_seek_frames)
• ●CPAL BufferSize::Fixed now clamped to the device-supported range (fixes silent stream on some Intel HD cards)
• ●CPAL error logging rate-limited (first one, then 1 in 100 up to 1000, then 1 in 1000): on weak VMs hundreds per second can occur
• ●Defense-in-depth DSD scanner: catch_unwind at DSD entry: impossible to kill the import batch on a corrupted file
• ●Aggregation of skipped files during import + enriched Tauri event (skipped counter)

OS notifications & media controls

• ●Native notification on track change: Windows Action Center, macOS, Linux libnotify (title + artist)
• ●Notification toggle in Settings (bell icon)
• ●System Media Transport Controls: track appears in Windows mini-player (volume flyout) and lock screen
• ●MPRIS on Linux (KDE Plasma, GNOME) and macOS Now Playing widget
• ●Keyboard media keys (play/pause/next/prev) now work
• ●Local HTTP server dedicated to serving covers cross-OS: bypasses Windows unpackaged file:// limitation (based on souvlaki)

Linux rendering & offline icons

• ●Render mode: manual override Auto / GPU acceleration / Software rendering
• ●Automatic VM detection with switch to software rendering for stability
• ●Dedicated Settings section with "Restart required" banner
• ●Iconify offline: pre-bundling of 7 collections (lucide, heroicons, mynaui, ph, radix-icons, tabler, uit): fixes invisible icons on Debian 12 + WebKitGTK 2.40
• ●Linux auto-config: WebKitGTK / GDK environment variables applied before Tauri to prevent freezes (KVM, KDE Wayland, AMD Mesa)

Player & Pipeline UI

• ●Styled hover popover on the source→output badge: Source / Decoding / Resampling / Output / Profile with Bit-perfect, DSP, DSD→PCM badges
• ●Correct multichannel indication in popover: 3.0 / 4.0 / 5.0 / 5.1 / 6.1 / 7.1
• ●Responsive layout with 3 breakpoints: mobile stacked, intermediate 500-768px (cover + actions on top, transport at bottom), desktop ≥768px (3 columns)
• ●Title fallback from file name for DSF/DFF without DITI/ID3 tag
• ●Pre-decoding indicator in the StatusBar (MB decoded / total) instead of a loader in the Player

Internationalization

• ●Full parity across 4 languages: FR, EN, DE, ES (282/282 strictly identical keys)
• ●Sections caught up: library (genres, total_duration), settings (audio_quality, render_mode, scan_on_startup, album_covers), pipeline, statistics, search

DSD playback (DSF + DFF)

• ●Native DSD playback (.dsf and .dff) in pure Rust, without Symphonia or FFmpeg
• ●DSD → PCM conversion via the Gesemann algorithm (DSD2PCM) with a 2048-tap Blackman-Harris filter
• ●Automatic detection of DSD64 / 128 / 256 / 512 / 1024 rates with MHz display
• ●Full pipeline: decoding → conversion → resampling → ring buffer → CPAL with seek and bit-perfect output
• ●Dedicated golden badge across all views (list, grid, detail, status bar) to spot DSD tracks at a glance

DLNA / UPnP server

• ●Stream your music to DLNA-compatible amps and hi-fi systems on your local network
• ●Automatic discovery via SSDP: no manual pairing, the amp finds the server on its own
• ●Browse by Artists, Albums and Folders with cover art embedded in DIDL metadata
• ●Multi-library support: each library exposes its own artists, albums and folders
• ●HTTP streaming with Range request support so you can seek directly from the amp
• ●Dedicated Network section in settings: server name, port, status, access URL
• ●Status indicator in the player bar so you can check the server is up at a glance

Custom metadata extractor

• ●Complete rewrite of audio tag extraction: zero external dependencies (no more lofty or id3 crates)
• ●In-house ID3v2.3 / ID3v2.4 parser supporting 35+ frames (TIT2, TPE1, TALB, TCON, TBPM, POPM, APIC, USLT, ...)
• ●All standard encodings handled: ISO-8859-1, UTF-16 BE/LE with or without BOM, UTF-8
• ●Extended POPM rating mapping with 0-5 / 0-100 / 0-255 normalization to stars
• ●Automatic fallback to folder images (cover.jpg, folder.jpg, front.jpg/png/webp/avif)

Interface

• ●Display bitrate in Mb/s for very high rates (instead of kbps when ≥ 1000)
• ●Reusable NowPlayingCard component (default + blur variants), shared between the queue and lyrics panels

Synchronized lyrics

• ●Synchronized lyrics with auto-scroll on the active line
• ●Automatic fetch via the LRCLIB API (cascading /get + /search to find the synced version)
• ●Support for sidecar .lrc files placed next to the audio file
• ●Local SQLite cache to avoid repeated network calls
• ●Blurred cover background with gradient veil for cinematic immersion

Appearance

• ●New "Appearance" section in settings with visual selectors
• ●Theme choice: Auto (system), Light or Dark: applied instantly
• ●Compact visual previews for every option (responsive cards)
• ●Automatic system theme tracking when Auto mode is enabled

Window controls

• ●Four available styles: Auto, macOS (traffic lights), Windows or Linux (GNOME buttons)
• ●Configurable position: left or right side of the titlebar
• ●Auto mode picks the style based on the detected operating system
• ●Visual previews in settings for every combination

Album covers

• ●Automatic cover fetching via the Deezer API from the album context menu
• ●Manual search with a premium popin and a grid of results
• ●Pick a local file as album cover
• ●Batch action "Album covers" in settings to process every album without a cover
• ●New "Missing cover" filter to isolate albums without artwork

Track rating

• ●Automatic extraction of POPM/Rating tags during scan (supports 0-5, 0-100 and 0-255 formats)
• ●Clickable star component with hover preview and real-time updates
• ●Rating column in list and grid views, and on the track detail page
• ●Sort tracks by rating (unrated tracks placed at the end)

Alphabet navigation

• ●A-Z jump bar on albums, artists and tracks pages to skip straight to a letter
• ●Letters dimmed automatically when no entry starts with that letter
• ●Dedicated toggle button in the view bar to show or hide the navigation

Filters and sort

• ●Premium filter bar redesign with a sort dropdown and integrated direction toggle
• ●"Missing cover" filter extended to tracks
• ●Default descending order for rating, duration and date (more intuitive)
• ●Sort preference memorized per context (tracks, albums, artists, genres)

Interface

• ●New "Single-click to play" option in settings to start a track in one click
• ●"Add to playlist" submenu in context menus (batch add from an album or a multi-selection)

Stability

• ●Double crash protection during scan with sequential fallback when a batch fails
• ●Logging of problematic files to help identify culprits

Multi-selection

• ●Selection mode on track lists with floating action bar (play, add to queue, add to playlist)
• ●"Select" and "Select all" buttons in the filter bar

Albums & Artists

• ●Play and context menu buttons on album cover hover
• ●Add to playlist from context menu (all tracks of an album at once)
• ●Track sorting (number, title, duration) and album sorting (year, title) on album and artist pages
• ●Lightbox zoom on album covers and artist photos

Queue & Player

• ●Functional drag & drop to reorder the queue
• ●Play/pause button in the queue header
• ●Fixed pause button that was restarting the track from the beginning

Profiles

• ●Visible "Edit" button under each profile in the selection popup
• ●Delete confirmation: you must type "delete" to confirm
• ●Creating a profile no longer closes the popup or auto-selects it

Performance: Artist page

• ●Progressive loading with skeletons: the header appears instantly, sections fill in progressively
• ●New targeted backend commands (get_albums_by_artist, get_similar_artists) instead of loading everything
• ●SQL query optimization: removed expensive subqueries
• ●Added 6 missing SQLite indexes to speed up artist, album and search pages

Playlists & Fixes

• ●Added "Play all" button on the playlist page
• ●Fixed artist link in search results
• ●Redesigned feedback page with contact@rustmusic.dev link (removed RiffFlow references)

Linux

• ●Fixed cover display on Linux (WebKitGTK 2.50 bug workaround with asset:// protocol)
• ●Fixed %2F encoding in asset URLs on Linux
• ●Added .deb and .rpm build support
• ●Fixed GTK gtk_widget_get_scale_factor warning

Covers & Thumbnails

• ●New CoverImg component with async loading and LRU cache (max 300 entries, ~40 MB)
• ●Rust command read_cover_as_base64 to serve covers via IPC (base64 fallback)
• ●assetSrc() function to fix Linux path encoding
• ●Thumbnail size support (full, 1x, 2x) with background generation
• ●Cover reorganization: covers/albums/ and covers/artists/ with full/1x/2x subfolders
• ●Automatic migration of old covers to the new structure
• ●Fast resizing via fast_image_resize (SIMD) instead of the image crate
• ●On-the-fly thumbnail generation (resolve_thumbnail) with full fallback
• ●Dedicated thread pool (50% of cores) for background thumbnail generation
• ●Dual display mode: asset protocol (direct, fast) or base64 IPC (fallback)
• ●Filtering of default Deezer artist images (URL pattern detection without hash)

Artist images

• ●Live update of artist images: real-time appearance during Deezer fetch
• ●Reactive artistImageReadyStore with artist-image-ready event
• ●Force mode for artist image fetching (re-downloads even if path exists in database)
• ●Artist images saved in covers/artists/full/ with background thumbnails

Import & Progress

• ●New premium import component: progress circle with glow, shimmer, ETA
• ●Live ETA estimation during import
• ●Redesigned StatusBar: gradient, shimmer, percentage, cancel button on hover
• ●Automatic data refresh after import (libraryContentStore.refresh())
• ●Fixed 30s freeze when canceling the import dialog
• ●Import loader added to Genres and File Explorer pages
• ●Cover migration with progress in the statusbar

Settings

• ●Added "Open data folder" button (opens the file explorer to the AppData folder)
• ●Notifications disabled by default (option removed from settings, will be reintroduced later)
• ●Translations added (FR, EN, ES, DE) for new entries

Optimization

• ●Context-aware cover sizes: 1x for lists, 2x for grids, full for detail pages
• ●SQL transaction for cover migrations (rollback on error)
• ●2-pass thumbnail generation: move + DB (fast) then parallel resize