Release Notes

v2.4.2

November 17, 2025

Split artist navigation links, fix for external-only album art

• Added split artist parsing for track artists, enabling navigation links to existing album artists from the now playing UI
• Enabled scanning of external album art for files that lack embedded art by matching common file names in the same directory

v2.4.1

November 12, 2025

Bug fixes for track transitions and lyrics display

• Fixed crash when manually selecting a track during gapless playback transition
• Added support for parsing embedded LRC-format lyrics with timestamps

v2.4

November 09, 2025

Multi-artist album support, track in window title

• Added the option to show albums with multiple album artists under each artist in the library
• Multi-line album artist tags are parsed separately, single-line album artist tags can be split with configurable delimiters
• The title and artist for the current track are now shown in the window title
• Performance improvements and reduced memory usage during library scanning

v2.3.3

October 27, 2025

Bug fixes for MPRIS album art, case-insensitive artist grouping, and theme switching

• Album art now appears in the MPRIS widget when using the Flatpak build
• Artists are now grouped case-insensitively in the artists list
• Tracks with case-mismatched album artists now appear in search results as expected
• Improved system theme detection for switching between light and dark modes without a restart

v2.3.2

October 20, 2025

Improved system tray context menu and synchronized lyrics during paused state

• System tray context menu now includes playback options and playlist picker
• Added Flatpak permissions for KDE system tray support
• Lyrics highlighting is now synchronized when playback is paused

v2.3.1

October 20, 2025

Bug fixes for lyrics refresh and file watcher

• Fixed a bug where newly added lyrics would cause the lyrics display not to update properly when changing tracks
• Fixed a bug where playing from the All Songs playlist after adding or removing tracks with the watcher enabled could cause a crash

v2.3

October 13, 2025

Lyrics support, file watcher, automatic library updates, minimize to tray

• Support for displaying unsynced and synced lyrics embedded in track metadata and external .lrc and .txt files
• Displays synced lyrics with line highlighting and reverse seeking by clicking a line in the lyrics
• External lyrics stored in the same directory as audio files are detected by the scanner and associated with the track with the best filename match
• New file watcher that updates your library to reflect added and removed music and lyrics files without manually triggering a scan
• Added library management options to choose between automatic library updates, refresh on startup, or manual updates
• Improved stability of the album carousel when albums are added and removed
• Added the option to minimize to tray when closing the main window
• Added the option to single-click to play tracks

v2.2.4

September 8, 2025

Bug fixed for album carousel with large libraries, album sorting consistency, and carousel reflection consistency

• Fixed a bug where the album carousel would not display albums when the library contained more than 1000 albums
• Improved sorting consistency for non-alphabetical characters in artist names
• Fixed a bug where the reflections for albums in the carousel using placeholder art were showing other albums' reflections

v2.2.3

August 27, 2025

Thumbnail size options, improved thumbnail loading performance, audio engine settings bug fixes, UI polish

• Added thumbnail size selector with options for 100%, 150%, and 200%, offering a choice between reduced memory usage or higher visual quality
• Added the option to rebuild thumbnails from the settings window
• Clicking an album in the carousel now scrolls to and selects that album in the artists list for improved bidirectional continuity between the two album browsing interfaces
• Thumbnail cache optimizations for performance
• Improved programmatic scrolling in the artists list is now smoother and more predictable
• Asynchronous loading of grid views in the artists list loads thumbnails without blocking list height and position calculations for faster performance and smoother scrolling
• Option to expand or collapse all album grids in the artists list, accessible by right-clicking the artists list selector
• Fixed a bug where the carousel position could shift by 1px after clicking on an album
• Fixed a bug where positive gain values in preamplification and fallback gain settings were not being applied (positive gain now increases loudness and causes clipping distortion as expected)
• Fixed a bug where the slider handles in the settings appeared slightly misaligned from the slider position
• Album grid selection indicators are now 2px larger
• Relative width setting of the columns in the library pane now persists when resizing the window, changing layouts, and restarting the app

v2.2.2

August 22, 2025

Improved portal path handling, main window visibility option, region-aware search

• Library search is now region-aware, returns accent-insensitive results
• Added the option to keep the main window visible along with the mini player
• Fixed a bug where playlists containing tracks outside of the ~/Music directory didn't work in the Flatpak build of mtoc
• Fixed a bug where slider handles in the settings window were not receiving mouse input, and increased the size of the handles
• Miscellaneous layout and UI bug fixes

v2.2.1

August 19, 2025

Fix for AAC playback bug, system accent color integration

• Fixed a bug that caused a few seconds of silence between tracks when playing AAC audio
• Use system accent color for list selections
• Artists/Playlists tab selection is maintained when switching layouts

v2.2

August 18, 2025

Mini player, gapless playback, and ReplayGain support

• New mini player hides the main window and shows basic playback controls in a compact window, with three layout modes to choose from
• Precise gapless playback for supported files, with a continuous audio pipeline, next track preloading, and seamless transitions
• New audio engine features including ReplayGain support for volume normalization on supported tracks and albums, fallback gain setting, and preamplification slider

v2.1.1

August 9, 2025

Bug fixes for elevated GPU usage and missing close button icon

• Scrolling text now scrolls on hover to prevent high GPU usage from nonstop scrolling animations
• Fixed a bug causing the icon in the close button in the album art popup to be invisible

v2.1

August 7, 2025

Compact layout mode and light theme

• Compact layout moves the playback controls to below the library, and the queue and full-size album art to their own popups; ideal for use on small screens and tiling setups
• Light theme brings a new white and and pastel-colored interface
• Options in settings for compact & wide layouts, light & dark modes, and automatic switching for both
• Contextual queue header labels the current queue source
• Performance and image quality improvements for the album carousel with better anti-aliasing, and a slightly compacted layout
• Improved sorting consistency for artists with locale-aware handling of accented characters

v2.0.2

July 31, 2025

New icon and layout tweaks for small screens

• New icon to match the updated branding
• Library pane is now wider at small window widths for improved usability

v2.0.1

July 29, 2025

Fixed laggy image loading during fast scrolling in the album carousel

• Improved performance in album carousel with delegate recycling and improved connection handling
• Implemented multithreaded asynchronous image response for higher performance thumbnail loading
• Improved thumbnail size efficiency
• Dynamic pixmap cache sizing based on available system memory for improved image loading performance

v2.0

July 28, 2025

Functional overhaul expanding library management, playback features, and interface

• Support for queue management and context menus for queue actions
• M3U playlist support
• Playlist management with saving and editing playlists
• Shuffle and repeat modes
• All Songs virtual playlist for playback of the entire library
• Track info panel
• State persistence between sessions for queue, playback state, and interface selection
• New animations throughout the interface

v1.2.1

July 11, 2025

• Fixed a bug that prevented the MPRIS previous control from restarting the first track in the queue

v1.2

July 08, 2025

• Added persistence to track selection and playback position that restores upon restart
• Separated album art processing from the rest of the metadata extraction for improved scanning speed
• Asynchronous album art population happens in the background after a library scan

v1.1.6

June 30, 2025

• Improved delegate recycling behavior in the artists column to resolve glitchy scrolling
• Fixed bug where albums would appear under the wrong artist

v1.1.5

June 29, 2025

• Fixed visual bugs in the track list causing blurry text and erroneous highlighting

v1.1.4

June 22, 2025

• Improved keyboard input handling for library navigation

v1.1.3

June 20, 2025

• Performance improvements for library scanning
• Fixed a bug that caused the carousel to lag while navigating a large library

v1.1.2

June 19, 2025

• Fixed the offset of the progress bar slider

v1.1

June 17, 2025

• New touchpad-specific navigation for the carousel that directly manipulates content with inertial flicking and snapping

v1.0.9

June 16, 2025

• Trimmed whitespace in the UI for better layout on small screens
• Fixed the off-center playback control buttons

v1.0

June 15, 2025

• Initial release with basic functionality