Go backend:
- Add AudioCodec field to DownloadResult and DownloadResponse
- Extension download results can now include audio_codec/audioCodec
- ffmpegGetInfo and probeAudioQuality now return codec field
- Add trackItemBytes option to file.download() for custom progress handling
Flutter:
- Check audio_codec before container conversion
- Skip FLAC conversion if source codec is lossy (AAC, MP3, Opus, etc.)
- Prevents fake upscale from lossy to lossless containers
- Extract _formatDownloadProgressLabel() for cleaner code
- Show received/total size when bytesTotal is available
- Estimate total size from progress when only bytesReceived is known
- Add text overflow handling with ellipsis
New lyrics providers using Paxsenix API:
- Spotify: Synced lyrics from Spotify
- Deezer: Synced lyrics from Deezer
- YouTube: Lyrics from YouTube
- Kugou: Lyrics from Kugou (Chinese service)
- Genius: Plain text lyrics from Genius
Implementation:
- Add lyrics client implementations for all providers
- Smart search result scoring based on track name, artist, and duration
- Support for both synced (LRC) and unsynced lyrics formats
- Fallback search with simplified track names and primary artist
UI updates:
- Add provider entries to lyrics priority settings page
- Add display names for new providers in settings
The HIGH-quality lossy format picker can now produce an AAC/M4A 320 kbps output alongside MP3 and Opus. FFmpegService.convertM4aToLossy/convertAudioFormat, the Dart queue pipeline, the Kotlin finalizer, and the library database format helper all route .m4a through a unified aac codec path and tag the resulting file with the M4A metadata writer. The Lossy Format setting gains a new option, and the track metadata convert dialog lists AAC next to the other targets.
Apple Music lyrics gain a 'eLRC word sync' switch (default off). When disabled the pax-to-LRC formatter strips inline word timestamps, producing line-synced LRC that is safer for players that choke on eLRC; enabling it restores the previous word-by-word behaviour. The change propagates through SetLyricsFetchOptions and invalidates the global lyrics cache on toggle.
Broad l10n migration: roughly 400 previously hardcoded English strings across queue, settings, track metadata, repo, audio analysis, setup and extension screens now live in the ARB catalog, with matching plural/placeholder forms. No behaviour change beyond localisation. Existing and new unit tests (lyrics eLRC toggle and Dart settings round-trip) pass.
Bump the history schema on both the Kotlin finalizer and the Dart database to v9, adding bitrate (kbps) and format (codec label) columns, and let the download flow fill them from backend/probe metadata so lossy downloads keep a 'AAC 256kbps' label instead of falling back to the stored placeholder. Library filtering and the track metadata screen now read format/bitrate directly from those columns, which also fixes mis-tagged quality badges after re-downloading a track at a different format.
Additional fixes bundled in: EditFileMetadata now routes ReplayGain writes through the M4A path whenever the file starts with ftyp (fixing .flac files that actually hold MP4 containers); GetM4AQuality falls back to the first trak/mdia/mdhd duration when mvhd is zero so EAC3 streams no longer report 0s; and both Kotlin and Dart reject bitrate values below 16 kbps to prevent probe noise from surfacing as '0 kbps' labels. New unit tests cover the EAC3 mdhd fallback and the mis-named M4A replaygain path.
GetM4AQuality now recognizes fLaC, alac, ec-3, ac-3, and ac-4 sample entries and parses the MP4 FLACSpecificBox so library entries carry the real codec rather than the container extension. The AudioQuality struct exposes Codec and Bitrate fields (with an estimator for compressed streams), and ReadFileMetadata publishes format + audio_codec so Flutter and Kotlin can make format decisions based on the actual stream.
Downstream: library_scan labels M4A-family items as flac/alac/eac3/ac3/ac4/m4a, zeroes the bitrate for lossless formats, and the filter UI + quality badges use the codec-derived format instead of only the file extension. Scans and SAF importers also accept .mp4 and .aac file extensions. New unit tests cover codec name mapping and MP4 FLACSpecificBox decoding.
GetM4AQuality previously defaulted to 16-bit whenever the audio sample entry was not ALAC, which silently labeled lossy AAC downloads as CD quality in the library and in extension APIs. Only fill BitDepth when the atom is ALAC (including the ALACSpecificConfig refinement), and leave it as zero for AAC/mp4a, matching how the MP3 and Opus probes already report lossy sources. Tests cover both the ALAC and AAC branches.
Staged SAF outputs and library-scan partials now share a single naming pattern: '<name>.partial' regardless of the audio extension. The previous '<name>.partial.<ext>' form caused SAF / media-scanner to surface half-written files as valid audio.
- SafDownloadHandler: force 'application/octet-stream' MIME for staged docs and collapse buildStagedSafFileName to '<name>.partial'. Keep the legacy form behind buildLegacyStagedSafFileName and sweep both via deleteStaleStagedFiles so upgrades clean old residue.
- library_scan: add isLibraryStagingFile that skips both the new and legacy partial patterns during collectLibraryAudioFiles so residual staging files never show up in the library.
- library_scan_supplement_test: seed both legacy and new partial files and assert they are ignored by the scanner.
Prevent premature 'downloading' status before actual byte transfer
starts, and cache async provider values to avoid UI flicker during
queue library reloads.
Progress pipeline:
- StartItemProgress now initializes with 'preparing' status instead
of 'downloading'
- SetItemProgress ignores synthetic pre-download progress updates
while status is still 'preparing' (no byte data yet)
- DownloadService reads backend status field and propagates preparing/
downloading/finalizing to native worker item snapshot
- Dart progress stream maps 'preparing' to DownloadStatus.downloading
with progress 0.0 (indeterminate spinner)
Queue tab:
- Add _queueLibraryCountsCache and _queueLibraryPageDataCache to
retain last successful data during FutureProvider refetches
- Prevents empty-state flash when loadedIndexVersion bumps trigger
provider invalidation
- Caches trimmed to max 24 entries via FIFO eviction
Long track names (especially CJK/emoji) could exceed filesystem limits
when used as SAF document display names, causing write failures.
- Add truncateUtf8Bytes in Go, Kotlin (MainActivity + SafDownloadHandler),
and Dart to truncate strings at valid UTF-8 codepoint boundaries
- Limit SAF filenames to 180 UTF-8 bytes (preserving file extension)
- Limit SAF directory segments to 120 UTF-8 bytes
- Fix Go sanitizeFilename to use UTF-8 aware truncation instead of
byte slice which could split multi-byte characters
- Add Go test for multi-byte truncation correctness
- Sanitize SAF relative directory in Dart native worker and regular
download paths via _sanitizeSafRelativeDir
All search, metadata, and download providers are now exclusively
supplied by extensions. The built-in provider registry that previously
exposed Deezer/Tidal/Qobuz as hardcoded providers is fully removed.
Removed across Go, Dart, Kotlin, and Swift:
- BuiltInProviderSpec class, registry, and all accessor helpers
- SearchProviderAllJSON, GetBuiltInProvidersJSON, ParseProviderURLJSON,
ParseDeezerURLExport Go exports and their platform channel bindings
- Built-in provider items in search dropdown, service picker, and
provider priority UI lists
- provider_ui_utils.dart helper file
Deezer metadata enrichment (ISRC lookup, extended metadata, cover
upgrade) remains fully functional through direct DeezerClient calls
in the download pipeline — these are not part of the provider
registry and are unaffected.
Mark deezer as a retired built-in metadata provider so stale user
priority lists are cleaned up on next launch.
Introduce a service-owned download worker that offloads the full
download-and-finalize pipeline to DownloadService on Android, keeping
downloads alive independently of the Flutter UI process.
Key changes:
- Extract SAF download logic from MainActivity into SafDownloadHandler
- Add NativeDownloadFinalizer for Kotlin-side decryption, format
conversion, metadata embedding, ReplayGain, post-processing, and
history persistence
- Extend DownloadService with native queue management (start, pause,
resume, cancel) using coroutine-based worker with AtomicFile snapshots
- Add Dart-side orchestration: snapshot polling, run-id correlation,
adoption on app restart, and fallback to Dart queue
- Forward embedReplayGain, tidalHighFormat, and postProcessingEnabled
through Go backend DownloadRequest struct
- Add nativeDownloadWorkerEnabled setting with UI toggle
- Make DownloadQueueLookup collections unmodifiable
- Add 16 Go supplement test files covering extension runtime, providers,
health checks, lyrics, metadata, HTTP utils, library scan, and more
- Add Dart model/utils test suite (test/models_and_utils_test.dart)
- Update settings.g.dart with deduplicateDownloads serialization
- Add stopProviderFallback manifest field with backward compat for skipBuiltInFallback
- Expose stop_provider_fallback in extension JSON API
- Unify service and search provider chips into 4-per-row grid layout
- Enable Ask Before Download for extensions with quality options
- Force useExtensionProviders always-on (built-in providers retired)
- Update localization: Built-in -> Legacy, remove obsolete description text
- Clear hardcoded donor names list
- Add Duration field to AudioQuality for FLAC (streaminfo) and M4A (mvhd atom)
- Expose duration via ReadFileMetadata and extension runtime Go-backend API
- Pass duration_ms to extension CheckAvailability for better track matching
- Fix home tab showing empty state before extensions finish initializing by
keeping the search bar visible with a loading indicator until ready
- Refactor hasSearchProvider helper to account for built-in providers
- Refine homeEmptyTitle/Subtitle copy (EN + ID translations)
- Bump version to 4.5.0+127
- Replace hardcoded provider prefix checks with resolveEffectiveMetadataProvider using replacesBuiltInProviders manifest capability
- Add preparing/downloading/finalizing progress status constants and SetItemPreparing/SetItemDownloading APIs
- Expose setDownloadStatus to extension JS runtime for fine-grained progress control
- Skip lyrics search for instrumental tracks detected by title heuristic
- Pass tidal/qobuz IDs to extension checkAvailability for richer matching
- Add shouldAbortCancelledFallback helper for robust cancellation propagation
- Add resolvePreferredTrackIDForExtension for intelligent track ID selection per extension
- Remove ambiguous Auto/Default search provider option, always resolve to concrete provider
- Add tests for shouldAbortCancelledFallback and progress status transitions
Delete the entire Qobuz downloader implementation (qobuz.go, qobuz_test.go)
including all API clients, search, metadata, download, and track matching
code. Empty the builtInProviderRegistry now that all built-in providers are
retired. Remove Qobuz-specific exports (SearchQobuzAll, GetQobuzMetadata,
ParseQobuzURLExport) and the downloadWithBuiltInQobuz adapter. Stub out
PreWarmTrackCache and cache management since no built-in providers remain.
Move qobuz cover upgrade regex to cover.go. Update Dart screens, providers,
and localization strings for the provider-agnostic UI.
Empty the builtInProviderRegistry now that all built-in providers are
retired. Introduce isRetiredBuiltInDownloadProvider and
isRetiredBuiltInMetadataProvider to classify deezer/qobuz/tidal/spotify
as retired, replacing ad-hoc string checks. Add Dart-side metadata
provider priority reconciliation that replaces retired providers with
extensions declaring replacesBuiltInProviders. Remove getQobuzMetadata
from native bridges and platform_bridge.dart. Update crowdin.yml with
additional locale mappings.
Remove Tidal from built-in provider registry (metadata, search, download,
URL parsing) and delete tidal.go. Introduce extension runtime APIs for
lyrics lookup (getLyricsLRC), ISRC existence check (checkISRCExists), and
ISRC index management (addToISRCIndex). Refactor extension download response
construction into normalizeExtensionDownloadResult/overlayExtensionDownloadMetadata
helpers with AlreadyExists support and ISRC indexing. Switch download mirrors
to DoRequestWithUserAgent for ISP blocking detection. Add 50+ new
localization keys and accessibility labels across all supported locales.
Replace hardcoded Tidal/Qobuz switch/case with builtInProviderSpec registry
pattern. Unify searchTidalAll/searchQobuzAll into searchProviderAll,
getDeezerMetadata/getTidalMetadata/getQobuzMetadata into getProviderMetadata,
and parseDeezerUrl/parseQobuzUrl/parseTidalUrl into parseProviderUrl. Remove
extension-specific getAlbum/Playlist/ArtistWithExtension in favor of generic
getProviderMetadata routing. Extract provider UI helpers into
provider_ui_utils.dart. Preserve track_number fallback for zero-value
TrackNumber in album/playlist track lists.
- Add reference-counted cancel entries to prevent premature cleanup when multiple operations share the same itemID
- Propagate cancellation to DownloadTrack, DownloadWithFallback, DownloadWithExtensionsJSON, extension providers, and ISRC search
- Fetch album artist from MusicBrainz when missing during download and re-enrich
- Make ALBUMARTIST tag nullable to avoid writing artistName as album artist
- Add home feed 'Off' option in extension settings
- Skip deezer in download provider priority sanitization
- Add monochrome.tf and samidy.com Tidal API mirrors
- Guarantee resolvedProvider is never null by defaulting to 'tidal'
- Replace stale 'Deezer' default label with 'Tidal' (Deezer moved to extension)
- Show dynamic provider target in auto label for search dropdown
- Bind cancel context to all extension HTTP calls (fetch, httpGet, httpPost,
httpRequest, fileDownload, authExchangeCodeWithPKCE) so in-flight requests
are aborted when user cancels a download
- Make initDownloadCancel idempotent: return existing context if entry already
exists and preserve pre-cancelled state
- Force SAF output filename to match actual file extension when extension
returns a different format than requested (e.g. FLAC requested but M4A produced)
- Map ALAC/AAC quality to .m4a instead of falling through to default .flac
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