v1.6.0

Added

• Option to set the playback rate. This can be found by long-pressing the play/pause button on the controls pane.
  #972
• Show the broadcasted song title on Icecast/Shoutcast -type radio streams
  #992 @medismail
• Show other metadata broadcasted by the radio station in the details pane
• Gapless play with preloading of the next track in the queue
  #685
  #776
• Artist and album names from Last.fm to the Last.fm tab of the track details
  #995
• Album art from Last.fm on the album details pane when no local art available
• Support for radio stream URLs which point to a playlist file containing the actual audio stream URL
  #966
• Configurable option to ignore articles in the alphabetical ordering of the artists (by default, ignore: The, El, La, Los, Las, Le, Les)
  #984
• Support for Nextcloud 25 (tested on beta 1)

Changed

• Allow playing audio/aac files within Files if the MIME type is mapped in the cloud configuration
• If updating a podcast channel fails, don't retry it each time the background task runs but only upon the normal podcast update schedule
• HLS-type radio streams are now relayed via the cloud server, removing the need to whitelist each allowed source server
• Subsonic: Use album-based track numbering also on playlists, to help DSub in cache management
  #994
• Allow playing external audio streams from playlist file also on link-shared folders
  • HLS-type streams are not allowed, though
• Albums with the same name but different artist now each have their own color on placeholder album art

Fixed

• Previous radio station being played without any error messages when failed to start playing an HLS stream
• Playback of a local track starting from a non-zero offset after playing an HLS stream
• Errors being logged because of incomplete exception case handling
  #989
  #988
• Podcast episodes shown in wrong order after channel updated via the web UI
• Fallback Aurora.js player not working in the main app (i.e. worked only within Files; broken since Music v1.2.1)
• Fallback Aurora.js not working on most versions of Nextcloud (starting from NC15 or NC16)
• The manifest file of the HLS stream was being polled indefinitely after listening to the stream was stopped
• Severe performance problem in the background cleaunup task when PostgreSQL used
  #997
• Not able to start playing a podcast episode which happens to have the same ID as currently playing song or radio station