Museeks Files

Hello there 👋

File Associations

I know it took too long! It is now possible to open the files supported by Museeks directly from the File Explorer/Finder.

• Files opened this way won't be added to the library
• Only the selected file(s) will be added to the player queue, not the whole content directly, so if you need to play an entire folder, open all the files at once.

note: there is an uncovered edgecase on macOS where Museeks needs to be already opened to open files. Things should work fine on Windows and Linux.

Accent Color Customization

For those of you who like matching colors for your setups or DEs, it is now possible to define a custom accent color for Museeks via Settings > UI > Accent Color:

Artist View Improvements

The artist view now shows the year next to each album and the albums are sorted by release date, for you music purists.

Side-Navigation Improvements

To help with large lists of artists and playlists, the side navigation will now visually group artists/playlists by their first character. Hopefully this will may things easier to "visually" parse when scrolling large number or artists/playlists.

Copy Track Title/Album/Artist

It is now possible to copy track information from the content menu on the Library or Artist view:

ARM binaries for Linux and Windows

In case you use a Raspberry Pi or a Windows notebook with an ARM chip, Museeks now targets x86/arm64 on all three major platforms. Which should make the app more snappy and energy-efficient on those chips.

This was really only achievable with GitHub actions providing action runners for those platform, so thank you GitHub ❤️!

Opt-in compatibility mode for Wayland

! if you don't have any issues with Museeks on Wayland, do not use this !

In case you are facing issues with Wayland (context menus not showing, black screens, etc), you can now enable a temporary compatibility mode for Wayland, available in Settings > UI. This will force the app to run via xwayland, which may be a more stable experience.

In case you are stuck with a non-starting app or black screen after or before changing this setting, you can update the Museeks config by going to ~/.config/museeks/config.toml, and update wayland_compat to true/false.

Dropped support for Ubuntu < 24.04 / GLIBC < 2.39

Due to Flatpak requirements, upstream issues and my own sanity, Museeks is now built using GLIBC 2.39, so all distros using a previous version may not be able to run Museeks.

An Update on FlatHub

I am kind of giving up trying to create a build-from-source flatpak manifest that would allow the publication of Museeks to FlatHub. The tooling is too fragmented and complex to use, especially when using two languages (Rust + Node).

Flatpak will still be published, but on GitHub, not FlatHub.

In case you are interested in helping sorting that out, please reach out to me :)

Translations

Added Simplified Chinese 🇨🇳 translation (thank you @tangsj-hub!)

Misc Improvements and Fixes

• Improved README for easier onboarding/presentation of the project
• Improved positioning of traffic lights on macOS
• Fixed redirect to first Playlist/Artist broken after second navigation
• Fixed checkboxes background on Light theme
• Fixed an infinite loop on the artist view that would occur in case an artist name was empty
• Fixed a weird background-color over scrollabar on macOS in side-navigation
• Fixed sleepblocker option sometimes not updating on Windows

Internals

• Moved back to npm from bun
• Started adding E2E tests to ensure the UI works as intended and no regressions are introduced
• DB Migrations are not embedded within Museeks' binary directly
• All theme colors use HSL