v0.3.8 • Bug-Bash #9

April 6, 2023

• Fixed an issue that caused playback to start from first track instead of the track clicked if current queue was finished.
• Fixed an issue that caused ink ripple to display on various surfaces when opening context-menu with right-click.

v0.3.7 • Stabilizing

April 4, 2023

• Added support for HARMONOID_CACHE_DIR environment variable to set cache location.
• Fixed missing metadata of some music files on Android.
• Fixed theming of some components e.g. switches.
• Fixed an issue that made process not terminate on some versions of Windows (#408).
• Update package:media_kit to v0.0.3.
• Update package:safe_local_storage to v1.0.2.

v0.3.6 • Breeze

February 23, 2023

• Added setting to change speed of animation effects or disable them entirely (#341).
• Added Ctrl + Q key-binding to close the application (#403).
• Reduced size of Windows installer & build by ~10 MB & ~30 MB respectively.
  • Thanks to @Quackdoc for stripping unused FFmpeg decoders.
• Improved route animations.
• Improved default window size (used on fresh install).
• Improved "Show Album" performance. It is O(1) now.
• Improved album screen, artist screen & playlist screen animations.
• Improved directory picker layout on mobile.
• Improved music library & settings layout on mobile.
• Re-arranged settings.
• Now language selection dialog shows country (#401).
• Now resolved album arts are cached for rendering.
• Fixed issue that caused new tracks to not show in album artists & artists after pressing refresh.

v0.3.5 • Going Ahead

January 5, 2023

• Fixed NAS / SMB support on Windows.
• Fixed issue that caused opening music from File Explorer making Harmonoid restored (if maximized) on Windows.
• Added ability to disable all audio filters on Android (disabled by default).
• Disabled GTK header-bar on GNOME desktop environment (#380).
• Fixed unresponsive process when closing window on Windows 7 only.
• Updated new page animation when clicking on hyperlinks.
• Added support for installing for current users only on Windows (#372).
• Fixed next/previous buttons not greyed out in ModernNowPlayingScreen (#369).
• Made fallback album arts configurable (#379).
• Fixed missing thumbnail toolbar buttons on Windows.
• Fixed "CANCEL" button on minimum file size dialog popping Navigator on the wrong BuildContext.
• Migrated project to API changes in package:media_kit.
• Safer hyperlinks. Added null-check after lookup for album/artist in package:media_library HashSet(s) (#366).
• Added multiple genre support (not exposed yet).
• Added Play all button next to Shuffle on Albums, Tracks & Artists screens to play them orderly.
• Now background visuals are stored as animated WebP. This has significantly reduced bundle size & also improved Linux's performance with ModernNowPlayingScreen (?).
• Aligned text & label inside various TextField(s).
• Fixed issue that made manually entering values in "Control Panel" difficult.

v0.3.4 • Essentials

November 16, 2022

• Ability to configure parameters (year, album artist & album name) which identify an album uniquely.
• Remembering window position, size & maximized state on fresh start.
• Ability to set custom libmpv options, properties & flags (#329).
• Smoother animations (upstream from Flutter 3.3.x).
• Smoother scrolling with trackpad/touchpad (upstream from Flutter 3.3.x).
• Fixed/improved FLAC & OGG bitrate calculation/approximation.
• Fix track order in AlbumScreen. Now accounts disc-number.
• AlbumTile context menus (#339).
• Fixed crash on Windows 7.
• Fixed legacy NowPlayingScreen.
• Fixed annoying line below window controls on Windows (rarely experienced on some PCs).
• Rewrite custom window frame, more stable DPI-change handling, hit-box testing & fullscreen.
• Use Win32 API to fetch AppData & default Music folder on Windows instead of environment variables.
• Prevent data-redundancy in music library caching.
• Improve "show in file explorer" behavior on Linux.
• Improve Android launch speed.
• Improve the quality of color palette extraction (further tweaks).
• Better & performant URI & file path parsing.
• Re-designed missing folders screen.
• Add missing "Add to playlist" & "Shuffle" buttons on Android (at-places).
• Enable Linux / Android-x86 touchscreen & mouse drag scroll (#342).
• Old streaming recommendations behavior i.e. refresh on page revisit.
• Fixed an issue that caused Harmonoid to request last-modified time stamps of all files already present in cache. This is a major issue. Now, cached last-modified time stamps are used. This will also improve start-up performance & safety with long file-paths on Windows. Apologies for the inconvenience.

v0.3.3 • Bug-Bash #8

September 21, 2022

Few more tweaks & fixes for Android only.

• perf: fix animation lag when opening ArtistScreen.
• perf: redundant UserScrollNotification bubbling.
• fix: unhandled RangeError(s) in pre-caching image MiniNowPlayingBar.
• fix(android): shuffle behavior on manual skipToNext or skipToPrevious.
• fix(android): add android:requestLegacyExternalStorage in manifest for android 10 specifically.
• fix(android): unable to start app on some android ROMs.
• feat(android): add android:hasFragileUserData in manifest to show keep app-data prompt before uninstall.

v0.3.2 • Bug-Bash #7

September 19, 2022

This release mainly addresses a newly discovered issue that caused indexing process to completely freeze (in rare cases) for some users.

v0.3.1 • Final Steps

September 19, 2022

All Platforms

• feat: ripple effect on NowPlayingScreen with extracted color palette.
• feat: display audio output bitrate, sample rate & format on NowPlayingBar & NowPlayingScreen.
• feat: .lrc caching.
• fix(style): showMenu constraints causing overflow with some languages.

Mobile Specific

• feat: configurable grid size (4, 3, 2, 1).
• feat: add volume slider.
• feat: slideable NowPlayingScreen.
• feat: sliding panel playlist viewer.
• feat: scoped storage compilant (android 10+) directory picker & delete permission dialogs.
• feat: special permission settings for android 13 or higher, giving granular control over images or notifications.
• fix: migrate scoped storage on android.
• fix: LyricsScreen jitter on scroll.
• style: use Icons.favorite instead of Icons.thumb_up for like indicator.
• style: add themed icon for android 13 or higher.
• build: upgrade targetSdkVersion & compileSdkVersion to 33.

v0.3.0 • Bug-Bash #6

September 04, 2022

• fix(critical): music files without any embedded metadata taking way too long to load (android).
  • big thanks to @RapidzDE for descriptive reports.
• fix(critical): application not reading tags from some music files (#321) (windows, linux).
  • big thanks to @lars-goeran for descriptive reports.
• fix(critical): some files not being indexed from added folders (#322) (windows, linux).
  • big thanks to @sakuramodokich for descriptive reports.
• fix: view album art button not working for some albums containing ascii characters (windows, linux).
  • big thanks to @sakuramodokich for descriptive reports.
• fix(critical): next & previous buttons not skipping tracks when on "repeat-one" mode (android).
  • big thanks to @NoeRi9n for descriptive reports.
• fix(critical): discord rpc album arts & metadata do not correct for missing tag files (windows, linux).
• fix(critical): improve now-playing-screen & android notification performance (windows, linux, android).
  • these freezes were more noticable with there were more files without any embedded metadata & album art.
• fix: make fallback album art lookup (cover.jpg, Folder.jpg) experimental (windows, linux, android).
  • looking up for additional files at rendering can be expensive.
• fix: do not spam console with RangeError messages redundantly (windows, linux).
• perf: improve android storage path retrieval.
• style: fix TextField paddings on linux.
• feat: dedicated like button on android now-playing-screen.
• translation updates (thanks to our kind translation providers):
  • update Azerbaijani translations. thanks to @Lucifer25x.
  • update German translations. thanks to @MickLesk.
  • update Indonesian translations. thanks to @KesiTakeshi.
  • update Japanese translations. thanks to @yulog.
  • update Portuguese translations. thanks to @maisondasilva.
  • update Simplified Chinese translations. thanks to @wcxu21.
  • update Swedish translations.
  • update Russian translations. thanks to @Feelogil.

v0.2.9 • New Horizons

August 30, 2022

All Platforms

• feat: ability to independently sort/order albums, tracks, artists & genres.
• feat: direct metadata reader (from file picker, direct URL or file-path) & copy as JSON.
• feat: add file picker to play a media file directly without file explorer.
• feat: LRC setter & reader.
• feat: volume boost.
• feat: file info viewer.
• feat: added ability to avoid indexing files below a certain size.
• feat: easter eggs.🥚
• style: follow material design more precisely. more consistency & better design. 🎈 massive adjustments to sizes, dialogs, buttons, paddings, colors & widgets.
• style: revamp error screen.
• fix(regression): broken fallback album art discovery [cover.jpg, Folder.jpg etc.].
• fix: year not appearing correctly for some tracks [but reading date instead].
• fix: deleting tracks not updating artist screens in rare cases.
• fix: possible bug where app could result in blank screen, if package:palette_generator failed to extract a palette from album art.
• fix: removing a directory not updating album-artists tab unless restarted.
• fix: sometimes web recommendations fail to render.
• fix: seekbar position/duration & Duration display at other places in app interface safer with Durations larger than 1 hour.
• perf: deserialize music library cache concurrently on separate threads on start-up.
• fix: improve lyrics accuracy.
• Special thanks to:
  • @maisondasilva for quickly updating the Portuguese translations.
  • @wcxu21 for quickly updating the Simplified Chinese translations.
  • @gaetan1903 @hal9174 for quickly updating the French translations.
  • @mytja for quickly updating the Slovenian translations.

Desktop Specific

• perf: improved indexing performance even more!!! now indexing around 50 tracks per second. since app caches songs for future automatically, this is important only for new users or during re-indexing.
• fix: addressed & improved linux memory management.
• feat: new music sorting/ordering ui & floating panel for desktop.
• fix: non-square album arts being stretched.
• fix: visual image picker in linux.
• fix: unsafe file explorer association & "Play URL" implementation [with certain file paths].
• fix: race condition in discord rpc.
• fix: non-tagged media showing incorrect album arts in discord rpc.
• fix: safer File I/O EditDetailsScreen album art change on windows.
• fix: compatibility with older libmpv versions (before v0.33.0).
• fix: disable custom window frame on windows 7, 8 & 8.1.
• fix: application not restoring the last played playlist's index on fresh start.

Mobile Specific

• feat: pitch shift & rate control on mobile.
• feat: play raw URL & open media file directly on mobile.
• feat: edit details screen on mobile.
• feat: time-synced lyrics for mobile.
• feat: pull to refresh in web recommendations.
• feat: stacking notification lyrics.
• style: enforce android 12 over-scroll & ink-sparkle effects.
• style: visible context menu buttons on web related widgets on mobile.
• fix: file opening from file-explorers/whatsapp/chrome etc. like third-party apps on android & general stability.
• fix: file opening not working from some file browsers on android.
• fix: notification service dying randomly.
• fix: improve android home, cache & default collection directory retrieval.
• fix: yeet exit confirmation dialog.
• fix: MiniNowPlayingBar theme in-case no palette is extracted on mobile.
• fix: about page link opening is not in external application.
• fix: android app not saving state upon exist.
• fix: improve TextFields in web search on mobile.
• perf: prevent whole MiniNowPlayingBar re-builds on every position update.
• perf: switch to package:just_audio & package:audio_service for audio-output & notification-handling on mobile.
• perf: fix android app becoming jittery over prolonged use.
• perf: improve search experience in web with persistent floating search bar on mobile.

Please report bugs, if you find any. It is really important for us to build a stable experience, though everything seems to be working fine for us.

v0.2.6 • Bug-Bash #5

July 23, 2022

Like we do, minor releases after a major release to fix the broken things.

There weren't much broken things this time. So, likely we won't need another one.

See you at the next major one.

• feat: lyrics size configuration from the settings (@alexmercerind).
• feat: shuffle buttons on AlbumScreen, ArtistScreen & PlaylistScreen (@alexmercerind).
• perf: improve performance of ModernNowPlayingScreen especially when opening the "Coming Up" list (@alexmercerind).
• perf: improve animation performance when navigating through albums, playlists or artists. No jitter can be observed now (@alexmercerind).
• perf: discord rpc fallback to track artists tag, if album artist is not found (@alexmercerind).
• feat: warn if an attempt is made to close the app in the middle of indexing (@alexmercerind).
• fix: windows 7 frame on resize (@alexmercerind).
• fix: user loaded images not showing inside app upon fresh start (@alexmercerind).
• feat: update notifier (@alexmercerind).
• intl: update portuguese translations (@maisondasilva).

v0.2.5 • Get Well Soon Mom

July 13, 2022

This release is being made after a really long time. I've largely worked on the missing features, made implementation a whole lot safer, added some new functionalities that set a standard for us & separate us from the crowd. The good ol' modern, consistent & cohesive Material Design that we follow & perfect animations still make us stand out. I'm still determined to make this experience even better in future updates & this update brings a lot of it to reality.

• Time-synced lyrics & visuals during music playback (@alexmercerind).
• In-app hyperlinks for local music collection. Now everywhere a album's name or artist's name is present in the UI, you can just click it to reach it quickly. This only works for your local music library (@alexmercerind).
• Pitch shifting (@alexmercerind).
• Improved Discord RPC with album art & remaining time (@alexmercerind).
• Details editor screen (@alexmercerind).
• Improved color generation from artwork (@alexmercerind).
• Added option to show a local music directly in File Explorer (@alexmercerind).
• Added ability to disable Discord RPC (@alexmercerind).
• Patches to libmpv bindings to fix a number of media playback related issues (@alexmercerind).
• Refactored indexing to use HashSets. Now indexing is way faster, safer & efficient (@alexmercerind).
• Improved caching mechanism inside the application to be more safe to corruptions, power-cuts or other interruptions (@alexmercerind).
• Add "copy-link" & "open-in-browser" buttons right at the NowPlayingBar for quicker access (@alexmercerind).
• Other performance improvements & UI tweaks to make things more pleasant to use (@alexmercerind).
• Now the application warns if any of the folders you added to your library are inaccessible (@alexmercerind).

I want to especially thank:

• @kellerkolle for being my only Patreon for this project, thanks a lot for your trust & support. Hope you like this update.
• @naturallymitchell for the large donation, hope you enjoy this update & my internal source-code & other projects too.
• @yehudakremer for awesome contributions earlier to the project & the donation.
• @DomingoMG for the donation. Hope you are finding my internal source-code & packages useful.
• @stonega for becoming my first GitHub sponsor. Thankyou!
• @mytja for being an awesome person & housekeeping the project!
• People in Harmonoid's Discord server for staying with me.

Notes:

1. This update will cause one-time-only re-indexing in your music collection. It is important because re-indexing logic is refactored completely to be more efficient (& will remain same in future releases).
2. Android version is not being released yet, as I don't feel confident about it yet & needs a lot of features/accessibility-related improvements. This update was already very delayed & can't wait anymore. In future update, I will release Android along with patches to issues that are reported for Linux or Windows.

v0.2.4 • Bug-Bash #4

May 10, 2022

A new release with minor new features, tweaks & fixes. Now that we have built a solid & stable ground to add features on-top of, expect next release to be bigger.

• Feat: Linux application is now single instance (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Now application handles following separators in artist tag (as opposed to just /) (@alexmercerind):
  • ;, \, \\, // & /.
• Feat: "Stats" section in Settings (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: "Show in file manager" option in track menu for Windows & Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Improve tooltip style on desktop (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Improve ArtistScreen animation on mobile (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Update default album art (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Ability to disable minimal scaffold background artwork (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: No longer limiting the size of libmpv demuxer cache on Windows & Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improve app persistence & state saving (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improve libmpv specific API calls (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Currently playing track's metadata & artwork being scrambled when shuffling was enabled on Android (@alexmercerind).
• Translations: Update French (@ejacquemoud).

v0.2.3 • Bug-Bash #3

May 08, 2022

No ground-breaking fixes or features, just a few performance improvements, minor fixes & other tweaks to make the day better.

• Perf: No longer parsing & indexing music files under 1 MB (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improved playlist event handling & get rid of redundant UI redraws (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Dynamic now-playing-bar coloring improvements (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Certain tracks missing artworks on Android (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Color of refresh button & navigation bar text when "Dynamic now-playing-bar coloring" is enabled on mobile (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: No longer clamp playlist index overflow/underflow but avoid event (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Color of context menu button on WebTrackTile (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Safer cache management & file-write transactions (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Shuffling on Windows & Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Improve Android animations & PlaylistScreen indexing bug (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Few UI tweaks to put everything together nicely (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Now currently playing track's name is shown on window title & taskbar tooltip on Windows (@alexmercerind).
• Translations:
  • Japanense is now completely translated (@yulog).
  • Added Indonesian translation (@KesiTakeshi).
  • Portuguese is now completely translated (@maisondasilva).

v0.2.2 • Levels

Apr 26, 2022

• Fix: Addressed randomly occurring issue that made adding new folders to library impossible (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Added "History" playlist (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Android support & mobile friendly UI written from ground-up. Key features involve (@alexmercerind):
  • Same consistent Material Design animations & UI.
  • Floating Search Bars & improvised search experience.
  • Improvised bottom navigation bar experience.
  • Good ol' time-synced lyrics in notification.
  • Handling of intents from file explorer etc.
  • Scroll sensitive "Now Playing Bar".
• Feat: Auto-coloring now-playing-bar (optional) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: .rpm packaging for Linux (@prateekmedia).
• Feat: Ability to play any web media URL & fetch its metadata (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Improvise TextFields to follow Material Design (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improved file explorer integration on Windows & Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Translation updates:
  • Russian: @Feelogil, @raitonoberu.
  • Portuguese: @maisondasilva.

v0.2.1-hotfix2 • Bug-Bash #2

May 20, 2022

• Fix: Unable to open music files from some linux file browsers e.g. elementaryOS Files (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Broken MPRIS controls on linux in last release (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Windows version of Harmonoid now runs in single instance (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Windows installer icon (@YehudaKremer).
• Fix: Increase demuxer cache & fix stutter (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Slight jank when opening artist/album/playlist pages (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Broken album art in Windows' System Media Transport Controls (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Now album arts are extracted for each music file regardless of album (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: artists' albums not getting populated when auto refresh is disabled (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Disable auto-refresh by default & make it optional as "Experimental" (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Sometimes unable to remove tracks from playlists (@alexmercerind).
• Translation: Updated Portuguese (@maisondasilva).

Just last batch of bug-fixes for now.

v0.2.1-hotfix1 • Bug-Bash #1

May 03, 2022

As we are moving forward to improve the overall stability of the app, we've decided to release yet another hot-fix to address many crucial bugs, performance hits & other file-system/indexing related issues.

• Feat: Now various app settings like volume, rate, shuffle, playlist etc. are not lost after restarting app (@YehudaKremer).
• Fix: Handle long file-paths on Windows (#214) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Handle network drives correctly (#224) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Incorrect album artist in .FLAC (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Corrupt files cause indexing performance to drop massively (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: play/pause related bug (@YehudaKremer).
• Perf: Improve music collection refresh & adding/removing directory performance (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improve app transitions & animations (@YehudaKremer).
• Add Persian translation (@0xj0hn).
• Update Portuguese translation (@maisondasilva).

v0.2.0 • Penguins Again

Feb 18, 2022

• New! Added new artist-album screen for browsing music (@alexmercerind).
• New! Linux support is back with libmpv for music playback & parsing (@alexmercerind).
• New! Linux: D-Bus MPRIS controls (@alexmercerind).
• New! Linux: Switch to Inter font family (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor: AlbumScreen & ArtistScreen now show album arts in perfect square shaped (@alexmercerind).
• Massive improvements to scroll performance (@alexmercerind).
• Added ability to configure following parameters (@alexmercerind):
  • Show track progress on taskbar icon.
  • Automatically add other songs from collection after album completion.
  • Automatically jump to NowPlayingScreen after playing a track.
• Accessibility: Fix NowPlayingScreen's coming up list to be more user friendly (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Scrollbar not working in NowPlayingScreen.
• Windows: Fix window could be dragged from caption buttons (@raitonoberu).
• Windows: Fix delay when pressing any of Windows caption buttons (@raitonoberu).
• Windows: Add Harmonoid to context menus with "Add to Harmonoid's Playlist" entry (@alexmercerind).
• Windows: Stripped installation size by ~10MB.
• Windows: Installer now deletes .Harmonoid folder after uninstall (@raitonoberu).
• Linux: Add minimum size for the window (@alexmercerind).
• Linux: Added new RPM package (@prateekmedia).
• Fix: Randomly flickering tracks in AlbumScreen (thanks to @sleepdaemon for report) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 crashes (@mytja).
• Fix: Windows left & right borders on Windows 10 or older (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Now scrolling over volume/rate slider can control the value (@alexmercerind).
• We no longer distribute application under GPL-3.0 but End-User License Agreement for Harmonoid.
• Big thanks to @Poopooracoocoo for bug-reports.
• Added Turkish translation (@TuranBerlin).
• Updated Portuguese translation (@maisondasilva).
• Added Russian translation (@raitonoberu).
• Fix: "Add to now playing" pauses music on Linux (#121) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Arabic language rendering on Linux (#122) (@alexmercerind).

v0.1.8 • Back To Life

Feb 05, 2022

• New! Material re-designed UI. Now very strictly following material.io guidelines (@alexmercerind).
• New! Material designed iconography & icons for various UI elements.
• New! Better context menus for desktop (@alexmercerind).
• New! Improvised animations & user accessibility (@alexmercerind).
• New! More efficient tagging & indexing using libmpv (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Revamped search UI to improve experience (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Ability to sort music based on year (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Ability to order local music ascending or descending (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Add "Show Album" option to track context menus (@alexmercerind).
• Windows: Integration with ITaskbarList3 (@alexmercerind).
• Windows: Integration with SystemMediaTransportControls (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor: Rewrite music player & indexer using libmpv (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor: Add new Collection.getAlbumArt method to get ImageProvider for a Media item (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor: Rewrite models with improved null-safety (@alexmercerind).
• Translations: Updated Slovenian translation (@mytja).
• Translations: Add Japanese translation (@HiSubway).
• Translations: Add Mandarin translation (@stonega).
• Translations: Add Malagasy translation (@c3k4ah).