Navidrome Daily: API Grants and Library Accuracy Fixes
API version one gains password login with long-lived, revocable grants behind a development flag, while merged work focuses on UI consistency and library correctness. The pattern is foundation for the future API plus trust fixes for browsing today.
Duration: PT2M1S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Navidrome Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Navidrome Daily
- Published: 2026-09-29T10:01:33Z
- Audio duration: PT2M1S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's September 29th, 2026, and this is Navidrome Daily.
The headline is a new login model for the next API, still behind a development flag, while the merged work is mostly small fixes that make browsing and editing more trustworthy.
First, authentication. Proposal 6245 adds password login and first-admin setup to API version one, returning a long-lived grant that represents one client signed in as one user, with scope and revocation built in. Clients send that secret as a bearer token on each request, and the server checks the database every…
Second, interface consistency and library accuracy. Change 6238 unifies read-only values in edit forms into a dimmed outlined field that matches surrounding inputs, stays on theme, and is skipped when tabbing, which helps keyboard users and theme maintainers. Change 6234 makes the cover-animation setting actually…
Related to trust in collections, change 6207 adds an unplayed quick filter for albums with zero plays, and fix 6241 corrects adding an artist to a playlist so jointly credited albums are included, not just those where the artist is listed first.
What's next is validation: whether the grant model moves past preview…
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