The 1s snapshot poll re-read and re-parsed the whole worker state file
— which retains every completed item's result (history row, possibly
full synced lyrics; 1.5-5 KB each) for the entire run — then
re-serialized it across the channel and re-iterated it on the Dart UI
isolate. Late in a 1000-track batch that is megabytes parsed several
times per second, on the Android main thread.
Pollers now echo back the state_serial of the last snapshot they fully
processed; when the state has not advanced, the native side serves a
cached compact header (no items, no results, no settings) merged with
the small progress delta — steady-state polls are O(1) regardless of
batch size, and the full payload is delivered exactly once per state
transition. The channel handler also reads and parses off the main
thread now, matching its neighbours.
The captcha/OAuth flow relied on the OS routing the spotiflac://
callback back into the app. In sideload containers (LiveContainer)
the guest app's URL scheme is never registered with iOS, so after
solving the challenge the redirect went nowhere and the user could
not return to the app (LiveContainer#242/#162 — unresolved upstream).
ASWebAuthenticationSession intercepts the callback scheme in-process,
so no OS-level scheme registration is involved: the session sheet
closes itself on completion and the callback URL is fed into the same
deep-link handler the OS path uses. Verification challenges, the help
dialog's open-browser action, and extension OAuth logins all prefer
the session on iOS, falling back to url_launcher if it fails to start.
Safari's cookie store is shared so captcha providers see an
established browsing context.
- Verification challenge no longer abandons the batch: batch mates the
worker cancel would mark skipped are requeued and fenced from later
snapshot applications, and the adoption loop restarts the queue for
requeued items when the run ends
- Pause vs cancel race: a cancelled result with no pause flag set waits
up to 1.5s for the pause intent to land on the main looper before
being classified as a permanent skip
- Stale Go cancel flag: new ResetDownloadCancel export (wired through
Android and iOS bridges) drops a pre-registered cancel with no active
download; retryItem/retryAllFailed call it so the first retry of a
cancelled-before-start item no longer aborts instantly
- Reconcile-loop errors now cancel the native worker and clear the run
id before marking items failed, instead of leaving the service
downloading a batch the UI already wrote off
The two folder-access failure messages are stored on items as fixed
English sentinels so code can match on them; translate the known
sentinels at display time (error dialog and failed-row message) via new
downloadErrorSafPermissionLost / downloadErrorFolderAccessLost keys.
Also replace em dashes in recently added comments.
When a download hit a verification challenge while the app was in the
background, the browser launch was attempted immediately (blocked or
silently dropped by the OS) and the 5-minute grant timeout kept running,
so the item failed without the user ever seeing the CAPTCHA.
Wait for AppLifecycleState.resumed before opening the challenge and
before starting the grant timeout, and post a local notification asking
the user to return to the app. If the process is killed while waiting,
the persisted queue already restores the item as queued on next launch.
A persisted SAF tree grant can die silently (folder deleted or renamed,
SD card removed, app data reset, system revocation). Downloads then fail
with no recovery path beyond digging through Settings.
- Add isSafTreeAccessible bridge method: the grant must still be in the
system's persisted permission list and the tree writable
- Show a warning banner in Files & Folders when the saved SAF folder is
no longer accessible, with an inline re-select action
- In the download error dialog, replace Retry with a Re-select folder
action when the failure is a lost folder grant (Android SAF or iOS
bookmark); a successful re-pick retries the item automatically
- Share the folder-access error messages as constants so the UI can
match on them reliably
The download/library folder picker on iOS previously took the bare path
string returned by file_picker and rebuilt a URL from it to create a
security-scoped bookmark. By then the picker's access grant is gone, so
bookmark creation either failed (folder selection silently rejected) or
produced a bookmark that could not be re-opened, after which the first
download run overwrote the user's chosen folder back to app Documents.
- Add a native pickIosDirectory method channel that presents
UIDocumentPickerViewController itself and creates the bookmark inside
the delegate callback, while the security-scoped grant is active
- Use it for the download directory (settings + first-run setup) and
the local library folder pickers
- Stop overwriting the saved download directory when the bookmark fails
at queue start; fail queued items with a clear message instead
- Skip the launch-time iOS path normalizer when a bookmark exists, so
it no longer rewrites external folder paths and drops their bookmark
Fixes#454
Add a platform bridge to finish session grants on Android and iOS with
JSON success validation, let users paste callback URLs from the
clipboard, and auto-dismiss the verification help dialog after grant.
Let users choose FFmpeg dithering when reducing bit depth and SoXr or
SWR resampling when changing sample rate across single-track and batch
lossless conversion flows.
Expose a root navigator for global dialogs, show a fallback help sheet
with copy and reopen actions when verification URLs cannot launch, and
schedule the same prompt after a timeout during pending grants.
Add debug/info logging around audio focus interruptions, becoming-noisy
events, and user pause requests to make preview playback issues easier
to diagnose.
Load queue local album tracks from album_key when available and fall back
to album/artist matching with empty album_artist handling. Thread album_key
through grouped local album rows for more reliable navigation.
Move hardcoded strings in library settings, announcement link errors,
and unknown track title/artist fallbacks to AppLocalizations. Sync
locale-dependent fallback strings from MainShell.
- Up Next sheet supports drag-to-reorder via ReorderableListView with
drag handles; MusicPlayerHandler.moveQueueItem keeps current track active
- Active lyric line centers higher in viewport (0.35) so it sits visually
centered instead of leaning low
- Audio focus rework: explicit music AudioContext, ignore duck
interruptions, drop the fragile ignore-complete timer, recover playback
on transient stop/complete during track switches
- LosslessConversionQuality model with bit depth/sample rate caps,
applied only when they reduce source quality
- FFmpegService probes sample rate and appends codec-specific args
(-ar, -sample_fmt, -bits_per_raw_sample) for FLAC/ALAC/WAV/AIFF
- Batch + single-track convert sheets expose quality cap options
- Persist real converted bit depth/sample rate to history/library DB
- track_metadata: recognize and convert to WAV/AIFF targets
- convertedAudioQualityLabel reflects actual output quality
Add a preview player provider and PreviewButton, a previewUrl field on Track (parsed from search and local redownload), preview buttons in search results, and stop the preview on navigation/tab change via per-tab navigator observers. Includes preview play/stop/unavailable localization strings.
- Queue/Library: switch from growing-limit refetch to offset-based append pagination per filter/search/sort, with page cache reassembly and protected-page eviction to avoid top-of-list gaps
- Queue/Library: watch only the active filter page instead of all/singles/albums simultaneously; filter mode follows PageView swipe and tab tap
- library_database: combine three union-based count queries into a single round-trip
- library_scan: parallel scan of non-CUE audio files with a bounded 2-4 worker pool, preserving order, progress, and cancellation; CUE handling stays sequential
- extension_manager: cache compiled goja.Program per extension and RunProgram per isolated download instead of re-reading and re-parsing index.js
Add a setting that relaxes the SSRF guard so extensions and built-in network code can reach private/local/loopback targets, for users routing traffic through a local proxy or custom DNS. Disabled by default. Wired end-to-end: Go backend (SetAllowPrivateNetwork toggles isPrivateIP guard), Android/iOS platform bridge, Dart settings model/provider, and a toggle in Download settings.
Back up the store registry URL plus each installed extension (id, version, enabled flag and settings) and restore them on a new device by reinstalling from the store and re-applying settings. Secret-flagged settings (tokens/API keys) are excluded by default behind an opt-in 'Include extension credentials' toggle. Device-bound signed sessions are never backed up. Settings are merged on restore so omitted secrets are not wiped; failed reinstalls are reported.
Add a Backup & Restore page that exports app settings, download history, liked tracks, wishlist, playlists (with cover images) and favorite artists into a single JSON file, and restores them on another device. Settings restore preserves device-specific storage location (SAF tree URI, download dir). Includes EN strings and ID translations.
Add a playlist position token usable in filename templates, plumbed from the playlist screen through the download queue to the Go backend. Auto-prefix playlist downloads with the position when the template lacks the token. Includes Go filename test.
Decrypt AC-4 via the FFmpeg mov muxer with a -f mov fallback, then repair the output to a standards-compliant ISO MP4: inject the dac4 config box from the encrypted source, normalize the QuickTime container/sample entry, and write iTunes metadata (incl. cover and lyrics) natively. Codec-keyed and generic, so it applies to any extension that returns AC-4 streams. Wired through PlatformBridge/MainActivity for both SAF and local decrypt paths.
Write R128_TRACK_GAIN/R128_ALBUM_GAIN (Q7.8, ref -23 LUFS) alongside the existing REPLAYGAIN_* tags for .opus files so spec-compliant Opus players (RFC 7845) apply gain. Covers per-track and album embed during download (incl. SAF) and standalone re-scan.
FFmpeg's MP4 muxer drops ISRC and label, so write them as iTunes freeform atoms natively after every M4A embed pass. The metadata screen now reads all edited fields from the file on load (file is the source of truth), fixing edited values reverting to stale cached values after reopening.
- iOS: begin/end UIBackgroundTask while a download queue is active so in-flight downloads survive backgrounding for the limited window iOS allows
- extensions: serialize install/upgrade/remove in the Go manager (mutationMu) and in the Dart store provider to stop concurrent goja VM teardown/reload from hard-crashing the app
- main: add runZonedGuarded + FlutterError/PlatformDispatcher onError so uncaught Dart errors are logged, not fatal
- batch convert sheet: precompute localized title/label before showModalBottomSheet to avoid Localizations lookup via a deactivated context
WAV/AIFF: library scan, quality probe, native tag read/write via embedded ID3 chunk (RIFF id3 / AIFF ID3), cover art, ReadFileMetadata, ExtractLyrics, and FLAC<->WAV/AIFF conversion (PCM, bit-depth preserved via ffprobe). Treat WAV/AIFF as lossless across all convert sheets (no bitrate picker, Lossless labels) via isLosslessConversionTarget. Native MIME maps for SAF. Redesign the track metadata three-dot menu to a settings-style grouped card with a single divider above Share.
LyricsPlus (KPOE): word-by-word synced lyrics with multi-server failover, converted to enhanced LRC. ReplayGain: standalone EBU R128 (re)scan writing REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_* tags via native writers or FFmpeg, with batch action in queue/album screens and SAF support.
- Rename downloadProviderMatchesBuiltIn -> downloadProviderReplacesLegacyProvider
- Rename Tidal DASH ffmpeg helpers and lossy format pickers to generic names
- Add utils.decryptCTRSegments crypto API + raw/bytes file read path in extension runtime
- Update l10n strings/descriptions to drop hardcoded service names
- Bump version to 4.5.7+134
FFmpeg doesn't always embed lyrics correctly to MP3 files. This adds
manual ID3v2.3 USLT (Unsynchronized Lyrics) frame writing after FFmpeg
metadata embedding to ensure lyrics are properly stored.
Implementation:
- Extract lyrics from metadata (UNSYNCEDLYRICS or LYRICS key)
- Build ID3v2.3 compliant USLT frame with UTF-16LE encoding
- Insert or replace USLT frame in existing ID3v2.3 tag
- Create new ID3v2.3 tag if file has no ID3 header
- Skip gracefully for unsupported ID3 versions or flags
Also includes minor audio analysis improvements:
- Consistent dynamic range calculation (peak - rms)
- Filter out 'unknown' and 'n/a' labels
- Add -vn -sn -dn flags for more robust stream selection
Audio Analysis:
- Add rescan capability by bumping cache version
- Display channel layout (stereo, 5.1, etc.) and bitrate
- Use astats filter for more accurate peak/RMS measurements
- Support more formats: mp4, ac3, eac3, mka, wv, ape, tta, aif
- Only report bit depth for codecs that store it (FLAC, ALAC, WAV)
- Validate cache for SAF content:// URIs
Conversion:
- Add AAC as conversion target format
- Recognize ALAC as lossless source
- Prevent accidental deletion when source and target URI match
- Store format and bitrate in database after conversion
Utilities:
- Add audio_conversion_utils.dart for centralized conversion logic
- Add isSameContentUri() helper for safe URI comparison
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.
Introduce AppRemoteConfigService which fetches a platform/version/locale-aware JSON payload from api.zarz.moe/v1/spotiflac-mobile/config and caches it in SharedPreferences. main_shell shows a one-shot announcement dialog (respecting dismissible, CTA, time window and version gates) when no update prompt is pending; dismissed IDs are persisted so each announcement surfaces only once.
Tweaks bundled in: the service health dot loses its blur halo in favour of solid Material 3 tones, and AppInfo gains the remote config endpoint constant. The share listener and SAF migration hook stay synchronous inside the post-frame callback so share-intent URLs never race the network-bound checks.
New unit tests cover the announcement CTA/active-window rules.
The SAF and local post-download branches used to rush an ffmpeg 'M4A to FLAC' remux whenever the output extension was .flac, which silently upscaled AAC or EAC3 streams into a lossless container. Each branch now mirrors the native worker by probing the primary audio codec before converting: lossless sources (and true FLAC-in-MP4 files) stay in their native container with the right extension, while genuine ALAC/WAV payloads still get remuxed.
Add an outputExt field to DownloadRequestPayload so the Go backend always knows the user-requested container, and use it together with _shouldRequestContainerConversion to pick the right behaviour for shouldPreserveNativeM4a and the Kotlin finalizer. Decryption descriptors no longer force M4A preservation on their own; the codec probe already makes that call correctly.
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.
Downloads from providers that stream FLAC inside an fMP4 container (e.g. Amazon Music) were being written to disk with a .flac extension while the payload still carried ISO-BMFF atoms. The container-conversion guard then saw codec=flac and skipped the remux, leaving native FLAC tag writers to fail with 'fLaC head incorrect'.
Force '-f flac' on the decryption command whenever the target extension is .flac so FFmpeg emits a real FLAC stream, and add an 'fLaC' magic-byte probe on both the Dart and Kotlin container-conversion guards so a FLAC-in-MP4 source is remuxed rather than silently passed through as a tag-writer hazard.
The native-worker container conversion used to remux any .m4a download to .flac whenever the user requested a FLAC output, which silently upgraded lossy AAC streams to a FLAC container without adding any information. Guard the remux with an FFmpeg/FFprobe codec probe on both the Dart and Kotlin finalization paths so only genuinely lossless sources (ALAC, WavPack, PCM, etc.) are converted, and expose a requires_container_conversion capability so extensions can force conversion when they know the source is lossless.
When the native worker result advertises a requested non-FLAC output extension (for example '.m4a'), skip the m4a-to-flac container conversion in both the Dart and Kotlin finalizers so the native output container is preserved end-to-end.
- ffmpeg_service: propagate the top-level 'output_extension' hint into the download-result descriptor for both the map-backed and legacy paths; expose a normalized getter for consistent comparisons.
- download_queue_provider: short-circuit the native-worker container-conversion step when the descriptor's requested extension is not '.flac', with a debug log describing the skip.
- NativeDownloadFinalizer: mirror the guard on the Kotlin side so the finalizer does not force a container conversion that would clobber the requested native output.
Replace in-memory list merging in the queue tab with fully database-
backed pagination using ATTACH DATABASE to join library and history
tables in a single UNION ALL query.
Queue tab:
- Remove localLibraryAllItemsProvider and _queueHistoryStatsProvider
- Add _queueLibraryPageProvider and _queueLibraryCountsProvider backed
by LibraryDatabase.getQueueTrackPage/getQueueCounts/getQueueAlbumPage
- Implement infinite scroll via _handleLibraryScrollNotification with
_libraryPageLimit growing by 300 per batch
- Album/single/total counts computed via SQL GROUP BY aggregates
History database (v5 -> v8):
- v6: add idx_history_track_artist index
- v7: add history_path_keys table for cross-DB dedup, backfill from
existing rows
- v8: add spotify_id_norm, isrc_norm, match_key normalized columns
with indexes, backfill from existing data
- Add getAlbumTracks, findByTrackAndArtist, getGroupedCounts,
existsTrack, findExistingTrack, existingTrackKeys batch lookup
- deleteBySpotifyId now returns deleted count for accurate totalCount
- All write paths maintain history_path_keys consistency
Library database (v7 -> v8):
- v8: add library_path_keys table for cross-DB dedup
- Add getQueueTrackPage, getQueueCounts, getQueueAlbumPage with
ATTACH DATABASE for cross-DB UNION ALL queries
- Dedup local items against history via path_keys JOIN
- All write/delete paths maintain library_path_keys consistency
Download history provider:
- Load only 100 recent items into state.items at startup
- Store lookupItems as immutable List field instead of recomputing
from maps on every access
- Add async fallback to DB in _putInMemoryHistory for items outside
the 100-item window
- Add downloadHistoryPageProvider, downloadHistoryGroupedCountsProvider,
downloadedAlbumTracksProvider, downloadHistoryBatchExistsProvider
- Add catchError to adoptNativeHistoryItem async block
- Fix removeBySpotifyId to query actual DB count instead of decrement
Screen migrations:
- album/artist/playlist/home screens use async DB lookups instead of
sync in-memory state for track existence and playback resolution
- downloaded_album_screen uses downloadedAlbumTracksProvider
- library_tracks_folder_screen uses downloadHistoryBatchExistsProvider
for skip-downloaded checks and cover resolution
Replace the full in-memory List<LocalLibraryItem> in LocalLibraryState
with a lightweight lookup index (ISRCs, matchKeys, filePathById) and
database-backed FutureProvider.family pagination providers.
Database changes:
- Add library schema v7 with normalized lookup columns (track_name_norm,
artist_name_norm, album_name_norm, album_artist_norm, match_key,
album_key) and corresponding indexes
- Backfill normalized columns on migration from v6
- Add getPage, getPageCount, getAlbumPage, getAlbumCount, getLookupIndex,
getCoverPaths, getByFilePath, findFirstByTrackAndArtist DB methods
Provider changes:
- LocalLibraryState no longer holds items list; uses totalCount and
loadedIndexVersion for change tracking
- Deprecate synchronous getByIsrc/findByTrackAndArtist (return null);
add async findExistingAsync, getByIsrcAsync, getById on notifier
- Add localLibraryPageProvider, localLibraryAlbumPageProvider,
localLibraryAllItemsProvider family providers for paginated access
- Add localLibraryCoverProvider and localLibraryFirstCoverProvider
for async cover path resolution from DB
Screen migrations:
- album/artist/playlist screens use findExistingAsync for playback
- library_tracks_folder_screen uses async cover providers and
existsInLibrary for local library indicator
- queue_tab watches localLibraryAllItemsProvider instead of state.items
- library_settings_page uses state.totalCount
- playback_provider uses findExistingAsync
Track metadata screen:
- Replace pushReplacement navigation with in-place state swap using
AnimatedSwitcher for smooth cross-fade transitions on track swipe
- Add metadataLoadGeneration counter to prevent stale async callbacks
- Reset all transient state (lyrics, cover, file check) on track change
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.
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