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QBZ 1.1.19 Release Highlights
Highlights
- Scene Discovery — explore artists from the same city or musical scene; MusicBrainz-powered with genre filtering, A-Z grouping, and sidepanel discography view
- Discovery Tabs — redesigned Home with 3 tabs: customizable Home, Editor's Picks, and personalized For You with Radio Stations, Spotlight, and Rediscover Your Library
- Audio engine upgraded — vendored rodio/cpal removed; now on upstream rodio 0.22 with ALSA sample rate fallback, gapless on all backends, and smart quality downgrade
- Booklet viewer — albums with digital booklets get an in-app PDF viewer powered by native MuPDF; includes download button
- 3 Neon visualizers — Laser, Tunnel, and Comet; all music-reactive with bass/mid/high response. Comet extracts colors from album artwork
- Artist discovery — MusicBrainz tag-based recommendations with tag-scoped thumbs down and similarity percentages
- Label Releases redesigned — logo header, sorting, filters, group-by-artist toggle, and search
- Explicit badges — shown across the entire app
Scene Discovery
- Explore artists from the same city or musical scene — powered by MusicBrainz location and genre affinity
- Grid and sidepanel views with A-Z grouping, genre filter, and text search
- Sticky header with scene label and country flag on scroll
Discovery Tabs (Redesigned Home)
- 3-tab home: Home (customizable sections), Editor's Picks (editorial curation), For You (personalized)
- For You features Radio Stations, Artists to Follow, Spotlight artist, Rediscover Your Library, and Genre Essentials
- Sticky compact header with tab navigation and genre filter appears on scroll
- Progressive loading with session cache for instant back-navigation
Audio
- ALSA sample rate fallback when DAC doesn't support requested rate
- PipeWire suspension before ALSA Direct exclusive access
- Gapless playback now available on ALSA Direct, defaults to ON
- Smart quality downgrade with hardware compatibility tooltip
Immersive
- 3-mode background system (Full/Lite/Off) with auto-degrade on low FPS
- Per-panel FPS settings for each visualizer
- Comet visualizer adopts album art palette and fades on silence
Security
- Removed hardcoded key material, cryptographic session IDs, DOM-based sanitization, log redaction
Stability
- Graceful shutdown — no more heap corruption on exit
- Window size validation and clamping
- Flatpak tray icon and Snap MPRIS fixes
Bug Fixes
- Equalizer bars no longer animate when paused
- Navigation scroll position scoped per item with 1-hour TTL
- Home settings apply immediately without reload
- Download paths corrected to Artist/Album/track structure