v2.0.9

Added

• (experimental) Embed metadata into audio files for audiobooks #141
• (experimental) Generate RSS feeds for podcasts #553

Fixed

• Account tag permission accessible tags #542
• Continue series home page shelf #545
• Hide edit/search buttons on authors card for users without update permissions #549

Changed

• Edit modal submit closes modal

v2.0.8

Added

• Continue Series section no home page (adding back from pre-v2) #541
• Podcasts: Run manual check for new episodes in Episodes tab (helps troubleshooting auto-download issues)
• "Change password" button in account modal for root user

Fixed

• Series on search page directing to correct series page url #533
• Series covers on home page not spread out correctly #505
• Removing section from upload page (take 2) #530
• User permissions access all libraries/tags reset after toggle
• Account types select dropdown could be unselected
• Set next accessible library if currently selected library gets removed

Changed

• Admin user types can create podcasts and download podcast episodes #507
• Guest user accounts cannot change the account password #537
• Server settings now returned with authentication requests (instead of on socket connection)

v2.0.7

This release is just fixing the version mismatch issue.

v2.0.4

Now using Github Docker registry! (updates will still be pushed to Docker Hub)

Added

• Important API update for the latest android app (0.9.43-beta) to fetch current progress when downloading
• Putting a file named .ignore inside a directory will ignore the entire directory when scanning #516
• Library setting to optionally skip scanning library items if they already have an ASIN/ISBN 84dd06d
• (experimental) Support for treating single audio files in library folder root directory as library items #401

Fixed

• Checkbox on batch edit page not showing checkmark #521
• Default user setting to orderBy title and default to sort ascending for titles and authors #515
• Uploader drag n' drop folder
• Uploader removing a single item from list #530

v2.0.3

Added

• Button on issues page to remove all library items with issues #476
• Button on series page to mark all series as finished #452

Changed

• Optimized home page performance (/personalized api endpoint)
• No longer showing errors on podcast episode cards

Fixed

• Empty podcasts still labeled as invalid after first episode is added
• Show books with invalid audio files on issues page and error icon on book items #491
• Sort authors and series alphabetically in filter dropdowns #497
• Sort authors on authors page alphabetically #497
• Null author names slipping through the cracks, added extra check #502
• Overlapping text for long book names on collections page #410
• Upload page files table rows text was not selectable #406
• File owner was not getting properly set for download/uploaded covers #394
• File owner and permissions for /config and /metadata dirs if they need to be created #394

v2.0.2

Added

• Configure maximum backup size #489
• Podcast episodes on home page shelves w/ recent episodes & currently listening episodes
• Podcast landing page shows current downloading episode and number of episodes in queue
• Podcast page ability to clear download queue

Changed

• When sorting by author in library sort by series and sequence as a secondary sort #274
• Set description when quick matching #486
• Remove open playback sessions for user when starting a new playback

Fixed

• Persist playback rate #419
• Batch mark as finished #490
• Error queueing many podcast episodes for download (increased max request size to 5MB) #493
• Edit modal when using the next/prev buttons not updating details #483
• Global search library item links #484
• Selecting podcasts on podcast library home page
• Scanner using old path #485
• Audiobooks with missing tracks flagged as an issue #491

v2.0.1

Server v2 and the latest mobile apps v0.9.41-beta are not backwards compatible! You must be using mobile app versions v0.9.41-beta or higher to work with server v2 or higher.

Added

• Audio player supports direct playing
• Podcast support w/ search and auto download episodes #408
• Authors page w/ author metadata + photo lookup #187
• Allow a book to have multiple series #409 #236
• Add/update library supports manually entering folder paths (solves debian multi-library issue #269)
• Filter for missing metadata #414 #395
• User permission to restrict user access to library items by tag #421
• Support for WMA, AIFF and OGG audio files #449 #420
• Show green mark on series when all books are finished #454
• Library stats page add links to genres/authors/items #453
• Support for books split into CD folders to use CD# from folder name #393
• iTunes metadata provider for audiobooks and podcasts
• Home page bookshelf categories for recent series and authors

Changed

• Scanner performance improvement limit number of audio probes by file size
• Show currently set item metadata value when matching #431
• Update server setting "Ignore prefixes when sorting title" to allow customizing prefixes #358
• Experimental: Download tab now called "Merge" (for merging multiple tracks to m4b w/ metadata)
• Now using node v16!

Fixed

• Fix use first accessible library sorted by display order

v1.7.2

Added

• Select library media type (changes icon only for now)
• Sleep timer #165
• Experimental: Direct play audiobooks

Changed

• Book page progress show start/completion date #383

Fixed

• UI: backups table, audio player
• User table show correct last read audiobook

v1.7.1

Added

• New metadata file named metadata.abs is created & updated for every book (docs coming soon)
• Server setting for choosing to store metadata.abs in your book folder or in default /metadata/books folders
• metadata.abs file parsed by scanner if added or modified inside book folder (overrides book details)
• Series volume number is parsed from book folder name if it is the first number (e.g. 10 - Book Title)
• Sort by audiobook folder birthtime or modified time #215

Changed

• Cleaning up variables on server
• mtime, ctime and birthtime is saved with book folders and files

Fixed

• Bug where Quick Match required book to have a cover set
• Remove unnecessary server dependency

v1.7.0

This is a condensed list of notable changes since v1.6.0 in chronological order.

Added

• User listening sessions & stats pages #167
• Collections #151
• API endpoints for syncing progress (needed for mobile progress sync)
• Experimental: Authors page #187
• Multiple narrators support #182
• Support Audible metadata matching #190
• Scanner log files
• Experimental: Change bookshelf texture #186
• Square cover image support & set as default #210
• Cover image caching, resizing and webp conversion #223
• Support for AAC audio files #244
• Alternative bookshelf to show title/author and sort value #232
• Additional ID3 tags used #305 & more OPF details extracted #218 #343
• Server setting for default cover art provider #291
• Collapse series in library #322
• PWA support #354
• Server setting to ignore "The" prefix when sorting #361
• Library button to quick match all books (mass updating metadata) #359
• Batch set book details #370
• Chromecast support #367
• Server setting to disable folder watcher & library setting #378
• Multi-book uploads by drag n' drop folders or folder picker #248

Changed

• Too many UI updates to list
• Lazy load bookshelf (huge performance improvement for big libraries)
• Improved blur effect for covers #216
• Remove interactive commands from Debian installer #242
• Series volume numbers to use language sensitive sorting #261
• Series bookshelf covers limited to 30 #321

Fixed

• Many bug fixes
• Reading multiline data from file tags by using node-ffprobe #300 (requires additional env for FFPROBE_PATH #302)
• Smarter sort of audio tracks by using CD# #155