What changed in spotube from 4 to 5

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

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