Navidrome Daily: Per-Library Album Rules and Playback Fixes
Libraries can now override global album grouping rules, replacing the old global scan marker. Shuffle spreading, lossless streaming fixes, and playlist and artwork stability work round out the day.
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- Show: Navidrome Daily
- Published: 2026-09-30T10:01:49Z
- Audio duration: PT2M8S
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Hello and welcome to Navidrome Daily for September 30th, 2026.
The through-line today is control: giving you more control over how music is grouped, shuffled and streamed, while removing a few long-standing interface glitches.
First, library scanning gets more flexible. PR 6252 lets each library override the global settings for album and track identity. That means one library can group by tags while another groups by folder, with no re-tagging. Each library now remembers which identity rules its last scan used, replacing the old global…
Second, playback gets fairer and more compatible. PR 6251 reworks shuffle for albums, playlists and context menus to spread same-artist tracks evenly across the queue, using even spacing with random offset and jitter, then cleaning up remaining adjacencies. On the streaming side, PR 6248 fixes explicit lossless…
Third, stability and speed. PR 6250 fixes a crash when the playlist list stays open for more than ten minutes and cached rows lose their data, by rendering empty toggles until the next refresh and consolidating duplicate switch logic. PR 6249 fixes unreadable Undo and Save buttons in dark themes by tying them to the…
Both interface fixes have…
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