• Fixed issues with traffic lights position on macOS by ensuring Museeks is built on macOS 14

• Added a new playback mechanism for Linux, resolving seek and playback issues with large files (thank you @BlueManCZ!)
  • this has been tested the best we could, but if you face some issues, you can disable this mechanism by settings audio_stream_server to false in the config file accessible via Settings -> About -> Open Storage Directory -> config.toml, and restart the app.
• Added an option to set the Artists view as the default view in settings
• Added a button to hard-reload the app in case of crash
• Fixed an issue with Flatpaks where the app may be launched multiple times
• Fixed the vertical alignment of traffic lights and its gap with play controls on macOS

• Added possibility to click on the Playing Track's Artist/Album to quickly get to it it the Artist View.
• Added 🇪🇸 Spanish translation (thank you @Cayetano97!)
• Updated a bunch of dependencies, hopefully bringing some stability improvements, especially to Linux

• Added 🇹🇼 Traditional Chinese translation (thank you @Mukvin!)
• Added 🇯🇵 Japanese translation (thank you again @Mukvin!)

Hello there 👋 Quite a few things this time!

File Associations

I know it took too long! It is now possible to open the files supported by Museeks directly from the File Explorer/Finder.

• Files opened this way won't be added to the library
• Only the selected file(s) will be added to the player queue, not the whole content directly, so if you need to play an entire folder, open all the files at once.

note: there is an uncovered edgecase on macOS where Museeks needs to be already opened to open files. Things should work fine on Windows and Linux.

Accent Color Customization

For those of you who like matching colors for your setups or DEs, it is now possible to define a custom accent color for Museeks via Settings > UI > Accent Color:

Artist View Improvements

The artist view now shows the year next to each album and the albums are sorted by release date, for you music purists.

Side-Navigation Improvements

To help with large lists of artists and playlists, the side navigation will now visually group artists/playlists by their first character. Hopefully this will may things easier to "visually" parse when scrolling large number or artists/playlists.

Copy Track Title/Album/Artist

It is now possible to copy track information from the content menu on the Library or Artist view:

ARM binaries for Linux and Windows

In case you use a Raspberry Pi or a Windows notebook with an ARM chip, Museeks now targets x86/arm64 on all three major platforms. Which should make the app more snappy and energy-efficient on those chips.

This was really only achievable with GitHub actions providing action runners for those platform, so thank you GitHub ❤️!

Opt-in compatibility mode for Wayland

! if you don't have any issues with Museeks on Wayland, do not use this !

In case you are facing issues with Wayland (context menus not showing, black screens, etc), you can now enable a temporary compatibility mode for Wayland, available in Settings > UI. This will force the app to run via xwayland, which may be a more stable experience.

In case you are stuck with a non-starting app or black screen after or before changing this setting, you can update the Museeks config by going to ~/.config/museeks/config.toml, and update wayland_compat to true/false.

Dropped support for Ubuntu < 24.04 / GLIBC < 2.39

Due to Flatpak requirements, upstream issues and my own sanity, Museeks is now built using GLIBC 2.39, so all distros using a previous version may not be able to run Museeks.

An Update on FlatHub

I am kind of giving up trying to create a build-from-source flatpak manifest that would allow the publication of Museeks to FlatHub. The tooling is too fragmented and complex to use, especially when using two languages (Rust + Node).

Flatpak will still be published, but on GitHub, not FlatHub.

In case you are interested in helping sorting that out, please reach out to me :)

Translations

Added Simplified Chinese 🇨🇳 translation (thank you @tangsj-hub!)

Misc Improvements and Fixes

• Improved README for easier onboarding/presentation of the project
• Improved positioning of traffic lights on macOS
• Fixed redirect to first Playlist/Artist broken after second navigation
• Fixed checkboxes background on Light theme
• Fixed an infinite loop on the artist view that would occur in case an artist name was empty
• Fixed a weird background-color over scrollabar on macOS in side-navigation
• Fixed sleepblocker option sometimes not updating on Windows

Internals

• Moved back to npm from bun
• Started adding E2E tests to ensure the UI works as intended and no regressions are introduced
• DB Migrations are now embedded within Museeks' binary directly
• All theme colors use HSL

• Fixed a crash when deleting the current playlist
• Fixed various content flashes when performing some actions, like creating a playlist
• Fixed some un-necessary log statements

Translations Updates

• Added russian translation, thank you @niya3!
• Added missing translations in the Playlists Navigation context menu, settings dialogs and settings descriptions, thank you @niya3!
• Added links to pluralization guides in the README
• Improved french translation

If you would like to help translating Museeks in your own language, please follow the guide here!

• Fixed track count not showing under covers in artist view

• Added an option to reset Museeks in case of repeated fatal crashes
• Fixed playlists/artists not accessible with a slash in their names

Hello again! A new release with not so many crazy features, but a bunch of long awaited things!

Translations

The app supports 🇬🇧 (obviously), and now 🇫🇷 as well. More importantly, it is now possible to translate the app in any language. You can follow the translation guide if you would like to help translate Museeks in your own language.

You can change the app language in Settings > Interface.

Flatpak

At the time of release, the process of submitting to Flathub is still ongoing!

Flatpak binaries are now available, as we were facing quite a few issues with .AppImage. If you have any feedback or face any issues with the Flatpak version of Museeks, please open an issue.

Refreshed Icons

The icons got polished a little bit, particularly:

• The next/previous icons are now real next/previous icons, and not backward/forward
• The volume button got a medium-volume variant
• The muted and zero volume icons are now differentiated
• New Library and Settings icons

This allowed me to get rid of font-awesome which reduced the resources loaded by the UI by 50%. So I'll take that.

Misc Improvements

🐧 Linux got some attention this release:

• Fixed Museeks icon not showing on Dock and Grid View on Gnome with Wayland
• Added app information when installing a .deb or .rpm
• Added a light border at the top of the app to help visually separate the app from the menu/window

General Improvements:

• Fixed Settings link not highlighted when not on library settings view
• Changed config location: ~/.config/museeks instead of ~/.config/Museeks (not applicable for Flatpak)

• Fixed navigation keybindings (go-to library, playlists, settings, playing track...) not working when the app menu is hidden on Linux