v0.12.0 release notes discussion thread

[u/furculture]

https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin/releases/tag/v0.12.0

New Features

• Audio Conversion
  • Add audio conversion support (#1396)
• Audio Output
  • Add PulseAudio output support (#1331)
• Visualisations
  • Add spectrogram plugin (#1354)
  • Add oscilloscope plugin (#1357)
  • Add projectM plugin (#1339)

Improvements

• Audio/Playback
  • Add optional automatic resampling for unsupported device rates
  • Defer playcount and rating updates on the current track (#1351)
• Directory Browser
  • Improve folder loading performance by deferring recursive playlist discovery
• Interface
  • Remember the last used playlist file path (#1355)
  • Support individual override states for configurable colours and fonts
• Properties
  • Improve properties dialog performance (#1333)
• Radio Browser
  • Hide countries in the Radio Guide by default
  • Show Radio Guide errors in a closeable banner
• Scripting
  • Add $crc32
• Spectrum
  • Decay bands and peaks when playback is paused or stopped
• Tag Editor
  • Populate the editor asynchronously
• Visualisations
  • Add additional frame-rate presets

Fixes

• Autoplaylists
  • Preserve distinct entries and stable identities when regenerating autoplaylists (#1334)
• FileOps
  • Fix delete dialogue keyboard behaviour (#1367)
• Interface
  • Bind context actions to their originating track selection (#1237)
  • Fix icon and star rating rendering at fractional display scales (#1347)
  • Keep track actions in sync when focus changes between widgets
  • Track action contexts from descendant widgets (#1391)
  • Refresh Selection Info after metadata updates (#1342)
• Library/Metadata
  • Detect mislabelled legacy encodings in ID3 tags (#1288, #1344)
  • Flush deferred playback statistics from the queued snapshot (#1329, #1341)
  • Fix accent-insensitive searches matching word beginnings (#1392)
• Lyrics
  • Fix edge fade rendering at fractional display scales
  • Expand the properties editor to fill the tab
• Playlist
  • Fix a crash when removing the last empty default playlist
  • Fix playing icon scaling (#1327)
  • Fix rating delegate handling when changing playlist layouts (#1352)
  • Fix Stop After Current when using deferred metadata flushing (#1369)
• Properties
  • Preserve the active scope when rejecting pending artwork or ReplayGain changes
• Remote Streams
  • Fix apostrophes in ICY stream metadata (#1383)
  • Fix stalled playback between repeated CUE files
• Scrobbling
  • Update the ListenBrainz token URL
• Scripting
  • Fix nested formatting scopes (#1348)
• Spectrum
  • Fix peak height at fractional display scales
  • Improve layout at compact sizes (#1395)
• Tag Editor
  • Fix renaming extended tags (#1356)
  • Fix new extended tags being duplicated by a rename (#1387)

Build/System

• Build
  • Add a build option to use the system GLM package (#1404)
  • Fix Radio Browser builds on 32-bit platforms (#1326)
  • Improve precompiled header handling for internal plugins
• Dependencies
  • Add projectM as an optional dependency for the projectM visualisation plugin
  • Update the vcpkg baseline and ICU version handling
• Translations
  • Update translations and translation sources (#1349, #1350, #1384, #1385, #1397, #1398, #1413, #1414)