Navidrome Daily: Share Settings Finally Honored
A configuration flag meant to control downloadable shares was silently ignored by the server for an unknown period; today's fix closes that gap and cleans up related share-update bugs. Smaller UI, docs, and container updates round out the day.
Duration: PT2M12S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Navidrome Daily.
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- Show: Navidrome Daily
- Published: 2026-09-10T10:00:53Z
- Audio duration: PT2M12S
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Good morning, it's September 10th, and here's what moved in Navidrome.
The headline today: a server setting that developers assumed was working, wasn't. The "default downloadable share" option only ever reached the web UI's checkbox — the actual Subsonic API endpoint for creating shares never read it, so every share created through that API came back non-downloadable no matter how the…
The fix went deeper than the original report. While auditing the code, the team found the update-share path had its own quiet data-loss bug: calling update-share without explicitly setting downloadable would silently reset it to false, and separately, omitting a description field would erase the stored description…
Second theme: small, targeted UI and infrastructure corrections. PR 6115 fixed a visual bug in the Nautiline theme where hover overlays on the album grid had square corners poking out past the rounded cover art — the fix moves border radius and clipping onto the shared container. PR 6116 adds curl to the container…
What's next: if you're integrating with the Subsonic share API, expect downloadable shares to now behave as configured. And check any client code that calls update-share with…
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