Navidrome Daily: Weekly Recap - Scanner Accuracy and Playback Reliability
11 pull requests and 2 commits focused on tag mapping, playback compatibility, and interface polish. The pattern this week is small, targeted fixes that make library data more trustworthy and clients more stable.
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- Show: Navidrome Daily
- Published: 2026-10-27T03:34:38Z
- Audio duration: PT2M53S
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Hello and welcome to Navidrome Daily for the week of October 20th through the 27th, 2026.
We tracked 11 pull request activity items, 2 additional commits this week.
The throughline: making library metadata trustworthy and playback predictable across different clients.
First theme, scanning and tag accuracy. This was the busiest area. PR 6357, now merged as commit 56cc32a, maps movement number and count from ID3 and MP4 tags, and handles values stored as number slash total, like track and disc numbers. That means classical movements finally import with both name and position,…
Second, playback, lyrics and API hardening. PR 6367 caps DSD transcoded to lossless formats at 88.2 kilohertz when probe data is missing, fixing silent playback on some clients including Amperfy on iOS, and corrects a double division error for probed files. PR 6385 fixes timed lyrics parsing, folding trailing…
Third, interface and install polish. PR 6376, merged as commit ec2e0a9, stops the playlist list from overflowing on phones by constraining the list card to screen width with horizontal scrolling, keeping the app bar usable. PR 6374 adds the Cave theme, a near-black interface with a single orange accent. On…