Navidrome Daily: Zip Downloads Get Artwork and Safer Folders
Artist and album zip downloads now include cover art and keep same-named albums separate, while the persistence layer moves to stateless repositories and plugin startup avoids an unnecessary database lock.
Duration: PT2M20S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Navidrome Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Navidrome Daily
- Published: 2026-09-26T10:01:15Z
- Audio duration: PT2M20S
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Good morning, it's Saturday, September 26th, 2026, and this is Navidrome Daily.
The headline is downloads you can trust offline, plus a quieter storage layer built for concurrent requests.
First, artist and album zips. Pull request 6224 adds a folder cover image to album, artist, playlist and share downloads. That's the image most players and car stereos show next to tracks, resized to 500 pixels and named by its detected type. It matters because transcoding strips embedded artwork, so copies moved to…
That work exposed a second download bug, fixed in pull request 6225. Artist zips used the album name for the folder, so an original and a deluxe edition, or two greatest hits, merged into one folder with mixed tracks and duplicate entries. Folders now use the full album name including version when that setting is…
Second theme is reliability under the hood. Pull request 6149 makes repositories stateless, passing request context per call instead of building a fresh repository per request. That removes a data race where one artist query mutated shared sort mappings, adds a linter to prevent holding request context again, and…
Finally, a startup fix in pull request 6223 skips the plugin…
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