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This release fixes a playback issue and adds some polish for Flathub

Patch Note:

• Fixed a playback issue introduced by Spotify on Aug 10, 2026
• Updated banner colors on Flathub
• Updated application summary on Flathub
• Removed Pipewire as an audio backend to improve Flathub's risk rating

This release focuses on improving the listening experience and navigation of your music library. It includes redesigned pages, a configurable audio engine, improved search, and more.

New features:

• Like Songs: a star button on hover lets you like or unlike tracks in playlists, albums, and the queue.
• Follow or unfollow artists, albums, and playlists directly from their pages.
• Saved Artists page: browse all your followed artists from the sidebar.
• Audio engine with a 10-band equalizer, stereo pan, pitch shift, mono audio, volume curves, and configurable audio formats.
• Close window behavior: choose to quit or keep running in the background when closing while music plays.
• Playlist context menus: right-click or long-press playlists in the sidebar for quick actions.
• Sidebar pagination: all your playlists now load in the sidebar.
• Shuffle play button on album, artist, and playlist pages.
• Searchable via "Spotify" in desktop app launchers.
• Improved logout that clears your session, credentials, and cached state.
• Improved search that finds tracks and playlists, and can be scoped to artists only.
• Filter an artist's releases by albums, singles, and compilations.
• Automatic Spotify link detection for easier sharing.
• Filter explicit tracks to exclude them from your listening.
• Session management inhibition keeps your computer awake so music is not interrupted.

UI improvements:

• Redesigned playback bar with better alignment, less clutter, and improved mobile support.
• Reorganized sidebar with renamed and reordered entries.
• Redesigned Now Playing, Artist, Album, Playlist, and Tracks pages.
• Card list rework with adjustable icon sizes, multiple layout styles, and sorting.
• Improved login page with a premium-requirement notice and clearer error messaging.
• Updated About page with links to Discord and GitHub.
• Skeleton loading states while pages load.
• Improved mobile layout with a new header widget.
• Closer conformance to the Human Interface Guidelines.
• Riff now uses your system accent color instead of its default green.
• Collapsible side panel to give your library more room.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a crash when scrolling to change volume via mouse wheel or MPRIS.
• Fixed the play button sometimes showing an error when opening albums or playlists.
• Fixed pages loading duplicate content when scrolling quickly.
• Fixed playback controls getting out of sync when a new track starts.
• Fixed a crash when a non-Premium account tried to log in; invalid credentials are no longer saved.
• Expired tokens now refresh automatically and requests are retried.
• Fixed an index-out-of-bounds crash on partially loaded shuffled playlists.
• Fixed long playlist and album titles pushing the play button off-screen.
• Fixed inconsistent album cover sizes in the library grid.
• Fixed the PipeWire audio backend not working correctly in Flatpak.
• Improved keyring reliability on startup with automatic retries.
• Librespot sessions are now more stable and self-heal to prevent playback interruptions.
• Accounts affected by Spotify's PlayPlay DRM now get a clear notice.

Disabled features (available in the Experimental Feature Panel):

• Selection mode for selecting multiple tracks at once.
• Device selector for switching playback between Spotify Connect devices.
• Create new playlist button in the sidebar.

Beta feature (opt in via the Experimental Feature Panel):

• Audio normalisation to automatically adjust tracks to a standard loudness.

Known issues:

• Podcasts and audiobooks are not supported.
• Creating and managing playlists is not supported.
• There is no Home or Suggestions page for discovering new media.
• Viewing lyrics for the current track is not supported.
• The track list widget has some visual bugs.
• Some translations and localizations are missing or incorrect.
• Some UI elements load slowly.
• There is no default art for missing artist or album images.

This new maintenance release brings simple but fundamental changes.

Highlights:

• Playback state is now saved and restored properly.
• Minor under-the-hood improvements.
• More Russian translations.

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