musicat

📦 0.9.0

• Tag support. Sometimes playlists just aren't the right tool for the job, so now you can also organize and search your library by tags. Right click a track (or multiple) to edit tags. Click on any tag in the library to open up the new tag cloud. Select between AND/OR as the filter condition.
• Wiki view. Click on the artist name in the sidebar, or use the right-click track menu to open up the new Wikipedia article panel for an artist. The article view also shows connections to other artists/albums in your library.
• Theme support. Musicat now comes with some built-in themes! You can switch between them in settings. If you'd like to contribute a theme, please submit a PR with an updated themes.ts.
• Collapsible sidebar / bottom bar mode. You can now collapse the sidebar, which reveals the transport controls at the bottom in a new horizontal bar.
• Switch audio device. By default, Musicat follows the default system output device, but you can now select a different device to send the audio to. Note: This is still wonky on macOS.
• Performance improvements. Reduced RAM usage during import, and better scrolling response when jumping quickly in the library view.
• Open audio file with Musicat (file association). You can now open any audio file on your system with Musicat, straight from your file explorer.
• Tauri v2. Migrated to Tauri v2.

📦 0.8.0

BREAKING RELEASE. The storage of Smart Playlists has been updated. Please re-install.

• New Internet Archive view. A built-in browser for archive.org where you can browse collections, listen to tracks, and download to your library for free. When playing in Internet Archive view, the offline library player is disabled. You can configure the download location in settings. Hint: If you download to the same location as your set "Folder to watch", it will be automatically imported to your library and you can jump straight to the track from the download popup.

• Date Added column. You can now sort your library by Date Added column (requires re-import)

• Smart Playlists v2. The Smart Playlists feature is now easier to use - with playlists appearing in the sidebar just like regular playlists. There are two built-in smart playlists: Favorites and Recently Added, and your user-created Smart Playlists appear below. You can delete or rename Smart Playlists you created.

• The Genre tag is now available for edit in bulk tagging mode
• Dragging albums to the queue or playlists is supported now
• Fixed Map View not loading properly in some cases
• ID3: Fixed track number not written correctly

• Reduced app size. The app size is now is a reasonable 35MB, down significantly from a whopping 200MB 😬 which was due to asset bloat (unused icons, uncompressed images).

BREAKING RELEASE. The way albums are stored internally has changed, please delete and re-import your library.

• Gapless playback. The audio playback component has been re-built to support gapless playback (between files of the same sample rate), resampling (automatically switches on when the audio device doesn't support the file sample rate), and better performance than the previous web-based version.
• New: Queue. Press "Q" to open up the new queue panel. You can drag and drop tracks from the library, re-arrange tracks in the queue, and quickly create a new playlist from the current queue. Multi-select works via Shift/Cmd + click. The queue has two modes: Custom and Same as Library. When in "Same as library" mode, playing a track from the library will reset the queue to library order.

• Waveform View. Click on the wave icon next to the volume to open up the Waveform view. Here you can drag to create loop regions, or Cmd/Ctrl + Click to set markers of your favourite song moments. You can scroll to zoom in and pan around the waveform.

• Metadata fixes. Parsing and writing metadata should be more stable now, as well as album artwork scanning for the Album grid.
• Library columns state is saved. The order of columns, and which columns are visible is now remembered between app restarts.
• Lots of many things. Revised UI panel layout. Fuzzier search. New release notes. Remember window size and position. Smoother oscilloscope. Folder watcher now detects new folder additions.

New features & improvements

Fixes

• Fixed #4, playback state now updated correctly
• Fixed #2, player now starts up on Windows
• • many more

Full Changelog: https://github.com/basharovV/musicat/compare/v0.5.0...v0.6.0

• A brand new Map view! Click on the "MAP" view to display your library as a map 🗺 Click on countries to play
  

• Assign Origin Country. For the map to be useful, enrich your library with country data (right click track → "Origin country"), and it will be added to all songs by that artist.

• Stats view with AI model support. The stats view shows you insights into your library. Play count, popular genre and countries, as well as a timeline view that shows albums by release date.
  

• Get insights via an AI model. Musicat is now integrated with two APIs - Open AI's and Ollama (local), which analyse your music library and provide further insights. At the moment, it asks the model for sentiment analysis, a brief summary and some fun facts about your library. To configure AI, open settings.

• Shuffle. You can finally shuffle the current play queue.

• Sticky artists + albums. As you scroll, the artist and album acts as a sticky header.

• Button to scroll to Now Playing track

• Column picker. Right-click on the column header to open the column picker.

• Introducing the Artist's Toolkit - helping you write songs and organize musical ideas inside your music player. How cool is that!
  • You can use the Scrapbook to keep your "messy" ideas, tag them and easily find them later.
  • You can create new songs, attach audio, video, image files (or just drag ideas from the scrapbook), and even write lyrics!

• Album View! Browse and play albums in your library, with all the artwork on display, and beautifully animated CD covers.

• The default sort in the Library is now the 'discography' sort. As you scroll, you see Artists in alphabetical order, albums in release date order, and tracks in the right order
• The default visualizer in the Now Playing section is now an oscilloscope, with a full screen option. More visualizers will be added in later releases.
• You can now filter the library by compression type "lossy", "lossless", or "both"

📦 0.3.0 "Enhance, enhance!"

• The new Smart Query section allows you to create powerful query chains, made up of condition blocks such as "where genre is x" and "released between year1 and year2".
• Save your Smart queries and treat them like smart playlists that are always updating for you.

Mac Universal build only for now. Windows/Linux binaries are not yet ready (although you can build it using npm run tauri build)