# pear-desktop v3.11.0

- Product: pear-desktop (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pear-desktop)
- Vendor: pear-devs
- Date: 2025-09-07
- Version: v3.11.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/pear-devs/pear-desktop/releases/tag/v3.11.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pear-desktop/releases/v3.11.0

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- **added** — Add transparent-player plugin
- **added** — Add Custom Output Device plugin
- **added** — Add websocket endpoint to API Server
- **changed** — Enhance synced lyrics with preferred provider and Thai romanization support
- **changed** — Add song and artist URLs to Discord RPC rich presence
- **changed** — Add option to display artist/title in Discord RPC status
- **changed** — Add context menu button for playlists and albums in downloader
- **fixed** — Fix audio-compressor real-time behavior and duplicated audio bug
- **fixed** — Fix missing videochange dataupdated event when using shuffle
- **fixed** — Fix exponential-volume desync bug
- **removed** — Remove Lyrics Genius plugin; use Synced Lyrics instead
- **deprecated** — Lyrics Genius is deprecated

##### New plugin

###### [transparent-player](https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/pull/3175)

![458960038-96325f4b-09bb-49af-9adf-14a0015442b4](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b7cd5249-d2a8-4440-b712-c7255ec264d0)

- Thanks to @frostybiscuit!

###### [Custom Output Device](https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/pull/3789)

<img alt="483601925-5bd7e9ff-d49b-463c-bc86-174dfeef8966" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a78d4d7c-38cf-412e-b091-e62466e0e282" />

- Thanks to @Benjas333!

##### Enhancement

###### Synced lyrics with preferred provider / thai romanization

<img alt="476423171-5c6c8e88-2c4c-4491-a237-9d215e8a87a0" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1bed4996-7807-4edd-9bb3-a1ba52474383" />
<img alt="476407564-8f842ba8-221c-4445-ba15-3d2446f7b7d5" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/600eede1-cd5a-4f95-8ad0-a3b3f17543ab" />
<img alt="465763046-43f4179f-eb40-44c2-9ab2-ab20275f209f" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4b1e5b96-727b-4c56-8812-eaf19938377a" />

- Thanks to @ArjixWasTaken, @hax0r31337!

###### API Server

###### Add websocket endpoint

- Thanks to @Johannes7k75, @cxntered!

###### Discord RPC

- add song & artist URLs to rich presence (@foxfirecodes)
- add option to display artist/title in status (@pynappo)

###### Downloader

<img alt="479800754-278514cd-b2df-4a81-8243-a7cacab866aa" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c0021210-d39a-4b43-a275-afaa1cfcc1af" />

- Add context menu button for playlists and albums (@lolsuffocate)

##### Bug fixes

- fix(audio-compressor): real-time behavior and duplicated audio bug (@Benjas333)
- Fixed missing videochange dataupdated event when using shuffle (@rewhex)
- fix(exponential-volume): volume desync bug (@Benjas333)
- Fix https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/issues/3621 (@Daksh777)
- chore(docs): update copyright footer year (@RealCyGuy)

##### Breaking Changes

- `Lyrics Genius` is deprecated and removed. Please use `Synced Lyrics` instead.

##### Other changes

- See [changelog](https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/blob/master/changelog.md#v3110) for the list of updates and the full diff.

Thanks to all contributors! 🏅

###### (Note for macOS: see https://github.com/pear-devs/pear-desktop#macos)
###### (Note for Ubuntu >=24.04: see #2007)
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