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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