spotube

Bug Fixes

• newpipe: Fallback to muxed streams if no audio stream is available
• Dismiss search dropdown and keyboard on submission
• Custom image helper null exception

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v5.1.1...v5.1.2

v5.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Upgrade NewPipeExtractor to latest version fixing playback issue
• Lyrics not working

What's Changed

• chore: replace windows app icon by a higher resolution by @TobseF in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2838

New Contributors

• @TobseF made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2838

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v5.1.0...v5.1.1

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 https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2839

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v5.0.0...v5.1.0

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

New Contributors

• @ehfd made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2594
• @510208 made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2762
• @lori28167 made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2638
• @richard-hajek made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2254

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v4.0.2...v5.0.0

Highlights

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

Bug Fixes

• invalid access token exception #2525

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v4.0.1...v4.0.2

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 https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2504
• @vishnumur777 made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2501

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v4.0.0...v4.0.1

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 https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2180

New Contributors

• @malikmiran made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/2180

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v3.9.0...v4.0.0

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: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v3.8.3...v3.9.0

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 https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/1980

New Contributors

• @XaviFortes made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/1980

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v3.8.2...v3.8.3

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 https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/1925

New Contributors

• @sunryze-git made their first contribution in https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/pull/1925

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/compare/v3.8.1...v3.8.2