Changelog

General

• feature The left sidebar can now be collapsed.
• feature Added a “New Playlist” button to the left sidebar.
• feature Added more context menus:
  • feature Added context menus to the track and album lists.
  • feature Added a context menu to the info section of the controls (in the bottom left).
• feature Added lyrics (synced and unsynced) support.
• feature Added auto-updating support. (@143mailliw, @transitoryangel)
• feature You can now copy information critical for bug reporting from the Help menu or command palette. (@transitoryangel)
• feature You can now open the log file from the Help menu or command palette. (@transitoryangel)
• feature Added tooltips to most otherwise unlabeled buttons.
• feature The previous window size is restored when the application restarts.
• improvement Added 4 new languages:
  • improvement Finnish (@jansol)
  • improvement German (@jansol)
  • improvement Japanese (@jansol)
  • improvement Spanish (@hystericca)
• improvement Various improvements to the Nix flake. (@AgentElement, @camuward)
• fix The About dialog can now be closed with the Escape key. (@transitoryangel)
• fix Ellipses should no longer be displayed in areas where the entire text can fit.
• fix The minimize/maximize button now uses a minimize icon when the window is maximized.
• fix The window can now be unmaximized when on Windows.
• fix Sliders are now limited to updating every 1 millisecond, reducing stuttering.
• fix Memory usage was signifigantly reduced.
• fix The macOS “Services” submenu now works properly.

Library

• feature The album and artist listings can now be displayed side-by-side with the main content pages (two-column view).
• feature The library search now includes tracks and artists.
• feature You can now shuffle all tracks in the library using Library -> Shuffle All or the command palette.
• feature Middle-clicking on search items, tracks, and albums now queues the item to be played next.
• feature Playlists can now be renamed.
• feature Table columns are now reorderable by dragging and dropping.
• feature Clicking on artists’ names in the release page now navigates to the artist’s page.
• feature Playlists can now be exported from the context menu and imported from the Library menu.
• feature The track listing now shows album art. (@transitoryangel)
• feature The escape key now returns to the previous navigation page when in a detail page. (@PeterHevesi)
• improvement The like song button is now a different color when the song is already liked.
• fix The track listing should now be more tolerant of improperly tagged music.
• fix The artists list should no longer be sorted in a case-sensitive manner.
• fix The grid view should no longer cause the application to stutter when loading images takes too long.

Queue

• feature The queue now automatically scrolls to the current queue item when it changes.
• feature Track duration is now displayed in the queue.
• feature The queue now displays individual track artists.
• improvement The queue can now be resized up to 800px (instead of 450px). (@mvanhorn)
• improvement The current track is now kept when the queue is cleared. This can be disabled in the settings. (@transitoryangel)
• fix The queue should no longer leak memory in certain album art configurations.

Settings

• feature Multiple themes can now be placed in the themes folder, which allows them to be selectable from within the settings. (@transitoryangel)
• feature Added a setting to always show scrollbars, instead of hiding them when interaction stops. (@transitoryangel)
• feature Added a setting to change the library page displayed on startup. (@transitoryangel)
• feature The settings window can now be closed with the Escape key. (@transitoryangel)
• improvement Multiple folders can now be selected from the “Add Folder” dialog.
• improvement The appearance of settings items has been changed.
• fix Enabling/disabling the “Always Repeat” setting is now properly represented in the UI.
• fix The contents of the settings window can now be scrolled. (@transitoryangel)

Playback

• feature Added ReplayGain support.
• feature Shuffling and repeat settings now persist on restart.
• feature Hummingbird now connects to Discord.
• feature The artist and track names in the info section (bottom left) can now be clicked on to bring you to the related artist/album page. (@transitoryangel)
• feature The info section and secondary controls (left and right sides of the bottom section) can now be resized. (@PeterHevesi)
• improvement Hovering over the volume slider now shows the current volume percentage. (@transitoryangel)
• improvement The scrobber now updates more frequently (30 times a second instead of 1 time a second)
• fix Fixed several race conditions in the implementation of OS integrations (eg. Now Playing on macOS) that caused metadata retreival to become unreliable.
• fix Scrolling with the trackpad no longer causes volume to always be set to 100% or 0%.
• fix The artist name in the info section now falls back to the album artist when it is known and the track artist is not.
• fix Playing a track while paused no longer causes a few milliseconds of the previously playing track to play.
• fix Playing, pausing, and changing the volume should no longer cause audible crackling on Linux and macOS. This will be fixed on Windows in a future release. (@transitoryangel)
• fix Hummingbird no longer attempts to play unsupported files.

Scanner

• feature Added an item to the “Library” menu that allows you to perform a regular (non-force) scan.
• feature Disc Subtitle tags are now scanned and displayed in the library.
• feature Pressing Alt + S now scans the library.
• fix Some improperly formatted Disc tags are now scanned correctly.
• fix Month + year release dates are now properly parsed (previously only year-only or full dates were parsed). (@transitoryangel)
• fix MusicBrainz Album ID tags are now read correctly from ID3-contained audio files (eg. MP3).
• fix Scanning is stopped before a rescan is started.
• fix The scanner now writes partial scan records, allowing it to recover from a crash properly.
• fix The scanner now attempts to detect case changes on case-insensitive file systems. This is known not to work.

General

• feature The sidebar and queue are now resizable.
• feature Added a settings window.
• feature The user interface has been redesigned to be more consistent.
• feature Changed the default theme colors to have improved contrast.
• feature Added localization support.
  • feature Vietnamese translation (@vicr123).
  • feature Slovak translation (@PeterHevesi).
  • feature Czech translation (@PeterHevesi).
  • feature Partial Greek translation (@SuperScope96 (Discord)).
• feature Added forward navigation.
• feature M4 and M5 now move back and forward respectively.
• feature Backspace now moves back, and Alt/Option + Left/Right now move back/forward.
• feature Added a menu bar to the top of the main window.
• fix Command palette actions should now work more reliably.
• fix Images should be removed from video memory more reliably.

Library

• feature Added the Track view.
• feature Table columns can now be resized.
• feature Right-clicking on a table column now shows a menu allowing you to show/hide columns.
• feature Record-style disc/track pairs (eg. Side A, Track 1) are now fully supported.
• feature The Album view can now be displayed as a grid of album art.
  • feature The grid size can be adjusted in the settings.
• feature Added a setting that allows the library to take up the full width of the area provided.
• feature Added a “Play next” option to the context menu for tracks.
• improvement Reduced the number of times album art was loaded, reducing CPU and memory usage.
• fix Improved Album view performance.
• fix The Album table now properly displays release years.
• fix Resolved a database contention issue that resulted in Hummingbird freezing or crashing when adding a song to a playlist while scanning.

Queue

• feature Added a context menu to queue items, allowing you to remove them from the queue or view the album/artist.
• feature The queue can now be reordered via drag-and-drop.
• feature The queue is now preserved across restarts.
• fix The queue should no longer leak memory when playing files not in your library.

Playlists

• feature Playlists can now be reordered via drag-and-drop.
• fix A failure to import one item in a playlist no longer causes the entire playlist to fail to import.

Scanner

• feature Hummingbird now fully supports external hard drives.
  • feature When a folder present in the library is found to be missing, Hummingbird will now ask the user if they want to keep it or delete it from their library.
  • feature Missing files are now displayed as grayed-out in the library and cannot be interacted with.
• improvement The scanner now takes better advantage of multiple CPU cores, improving scan times by ~50% on mid-range systems.
• improvement Changed scan record format to reduce disk size of record.
• improvement Hummingbird now attempts to retrieve only the first track’s album art, preventing single-track album art from replacing the album’s art.
• fix Hummingbird will no longer panic when it encounters a missing directory. (@Skittyblock)
• fix Path canonicalization failures no longer cause Hummingbird to panic.
• fix Artists and albums are now properly removed/modified when a track is updated.
• fix The scanner now handles non-UTF-8 paths more correctly when encountered.
• fix Files that failed to be commited to the library’s database are no longer stored in the scan record.
• fix Removal of deleted files is no longer prevented by their presence in a playlist.
• fix Paths from the Windows system music Library are now normalized before being sent to the scanner.

Playback

• feature Volume is now preserved across restarts. (@Skittyblock)
• feature Double-clicking the volume slider now resets the volume to 100%.
• feature The album art of the currently playing track can now be shown by hovering over the preview in the bottom left.
• improvement Signifigantly reduced playback allocations, reducing CPU utilization by ~1-2% on mid-range systems.
• fix Resampling of non-stereo files should now function correctly.
• fix Improved format detection logic, allowing more reliable playback of unusual formats.

• feature Added Opus decoding support.
• feature Added scrollbars.
• feature The albums page now remembers the last scroll position.
• feature last.fm credentials can now be set at runtime. (@camuward)
• improvement Improved AAC decoding support on non-Windows-on-ARM systems.
• improvement Improved logging. (@camuward)
• improvement Performance and stability improvements, cutting RAM usage by 70-90% and CPU usage by 50%.
• improvement Nix packaging improvements. (@camuward)
• fix Importing a playlist no longer blocks the UI thread. (@camuward)
• fix Fixed a caching issue that prevented images from being removed from video memory.
• fix Fixed an issue where displaying a track item would cause several threads to be created per-item.
• fix You can no longer delete the “Liked Songs” playlist.
• fix The text VERGEN_IDEMPOTENT_OUTPUT is no longer displayed in the about dialog. (@camuward)