Several improvements to announcements (#2145)

* Snapcast: remove obsolete cancel_timer

* Snapcast: remove player update in cmd_volume_set

No changes are made in the player here, and the update is called with
snap_client_id, not player_id.

* Snapcast: implement native announcements

* Faster TTS pre-announce, without waiting for TTS data

* Snapcast: use -probesize for faster announcements

fix typo

frontend-2.15.0 (#2148)

* Update pyproject.toml for 2.15.0

* Update requirements_all.txt for 2.15.0

Chore(deps): Bump plexapi from 4.16.1 to 4.17.0 (#2140)

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Chore(deps): Bump actions/setup-python from 5.5.0 to 5.6.0 (#2147)

Bumps [actions/setup-python](https://github.com/actions/setup-python) from 5.5.0 to 5.6.0.
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Add nugs.net music provider (#1974)

tidal: allow audio quality switching after authentication (#2144)

Update FUNDING.yml

Chore(deps): Bump yt-dlp from 2025.3.27 to 2025.3.31 (#2129)

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Chore(deps): Bump zeroconf from 0.146.4 to 0.146.5 (#2138)

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Bumps [syrupy](https://github.com/syrupy-project/syrupy) from 4.8.2 to 4.9.1.
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Chore(deps): Bump pillow from 11.1.0 to 11.2.1 (#2141)

Bumps [pillow](https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow) from 11.1.0 to 11.2.1.
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Subsonic: Fix spelling and grammar (#2137)

Fix spelling and grammar

Audible: adding multipart audiobooks (#2143)

adding multipart audiobooks

Co-authored-by: Ztripez von Matérn <ztripez@bobby.se>

Fix.

gpodder: grammar tweak

Tidal: Modify recommendations setup (#2136)

fix: Modify recommendations setup

Parse both home and for_you pages, as Tidal have made modifications
to page/module structure

Tidal: Add limits to certain api calls (#2135)

fix: Add limits to api calls

Added limits to get_artist_albums and get_album_tracks to ensure that
the tidal default of 10 does not kick in

Suggested grammar change (#2134)

Add LRCLIB lyrics metadata provider (#2123)

Audible: fixes type error of release_date metadata (#2104)

Add lrc lyric parsing to tidal (#2081)

Fix all lowercase display names for AirPlay players (#2126)

The Zeroconf cache keys are all lowercase, use service name from AsyncServiceInfo.

YTMusic: Add recommendations (#2128)

Fix AirPlay branding (#2127)

The correct Apple branding is "AirPlay". Also fixed "macOS" a few places.

Chore(deps): Bump zeroconf from 0.146.1 to 0.146.4 (#2130)

Bumps [zeroconf](https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf) from 0.146.1 to 0.146.4.
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Chore(deps): Bump ruff from 0.11.2 to 0.11.5 (#2131)

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Chore(deps): Bump orjson from 3.10.15 to 3.10.16 (#2132)

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Chore(deps): Bump isort from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1 (#2133)

Bumps [isort](https://github.com/PyCQA/isort) from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1.
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fix: library items removed by music provider not removed in MA library (#2124)

add open home badge (#2125)

fix readme

add open home badge

Merge branch 'dev' of https://github.com/music-assistant/server into dev

Fix playing announcements on snapcast

Round loudness measurements to two digits (#2122)

This avoids very long floating point nunbers showing up in the frontend

Chore(deps): Bump ytmusicapi from 1.10.2 to 1.10.3 (#2110)

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Bumps [ytmusicapi](https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi) from 1.10.2 to 1.10.3.
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Fix: improve selection of webserver IP

Prevent selection of a loopback address

Make Zeroconf only bind to the default interface (#2100)

Fix cast players not available at startup (#2121)

* Fix for registering players at startup that are not yet available

* guard missing multichannel info in cast info

Tidal: Various playlist and mix changes (#2118)

Various minor bugfixes and enhancements (#2120)

* Fix invalid loudness measurements in volume normalization

* Fix sort order of podcast feed

* Prefer cache for podcast episodes

* Fix fade-in effect only when resuming from idle

* Chore: fix comments

Enhancement: gPodder - optional handling of delete action (#2115)

frontend-2.14.9 (#2119)

* Update pyproject.toml for 2.14.9

* Update requirements_all.txt for 2.14.9

fix: snapcast delete client (#2117)

* Handle exceptions when removing a snapclient and log warnings

* Fix exception handling for snapclient removal to specifically catch TypeError

Chore: Fix player register order

Various small bugfixes and enhancements (#2116)

Audible: inverse of the suppoorted content type rule (#2106)

Chore(deps): Bump pytest-cov from 5.0.0 to 6.1.1 (#2112)

Bumps [pytest-cov](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov) from 5.0.0 to 6.1.1.
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Chore(deps): Bump async-upnp-client from 0.43.0 to 0.44.0 (#2113)

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Also use previous track to work out if an album is playing (#2108)

Chore(deps): Bump pre-commit from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0 (#2111)

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Chore(deps): Bump aiohttp from 3.11.12 to 3.11.16 (#2114)

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Fix usage of album loudness during playback (#2107)

Snapcast fix external server stream (#2103)

Several small fixes for playback and enqueuing (#2105)

Bluesound provider: use ip_address not address (#2102)

`music_assistant_models.player.DeviceInfo` has an `ip_address` field, not an `address` field. I had been getting the following exceptions in the bluesound provider for a while:

```
2025-04-04 09:00:47.446 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant] Error doing task: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/mass.py", line 797, in process_mdns_state_change
    await prov.on_mdns_service_state_change(name, state_change, info)
  File "/app/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/providers/bluesound/__init__.py", line 251, in on_mdns_service_state_change
    if cur_address and cur_address != mass_player.device_info.address:
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'DeviceInfo' object has no attribute 'address'. Did you mean: 'ip_address'?
```

This commit addresses that exception.

Fix: don't crash recommendations if one provider fails

cleanup

Chore:  tweak enqueue next a tiny bit

Merge branch 'dev' of https://github.com/music-assistant/server into dev

Chore: allow to choose default media receiver for cast

Snapcast implement remove_player  (#2099)

Should repair
https://github.com/music-assistant/support/issues/3345#event-15895725534

add missing await

Marcel's recommendation, remove the task

Implement  remove_player

frontend-2.14.8 (#2096)

* Update pyproject.toml for 2.14.8

* Update requirements_all.txt for 2.14.8

Snapserver v0.30.0 don't support add/remove stream (#2098)

Fix: Round volume level coming from player control

Postpone preloading a bit

Fix preloading of next track

Merge branch 'dev' of https://github.com/music-assistant/server into dev

Ignore play at power on when announcement active

fix: Remove unused Sample Rate config from the Web Player (#2095)

fix: Remove unused config entries from the Web Player

Co-authored-by: Marcel van der Veldt <m.vanderveldt@outlook.com>

Fix crappy copilot typo

frontend-2.14.7 (#2094)

* Update pyproject.toml for 2.14.7

* Update requirements_all.txt for 2.14.7

Fix enqueue track on last item

Merge branch 'dev' of https://github.com/music-assistant/server into dev

Chore: preload next item asap

fix: abs - recommendation, series handling (#2093)

fix: series shelf might be ShelfBook

YT Music: Fix missing track thumbs (#2092)

* Fix missing track thumbs

* Fix missing track thumbs

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fix: Built-in Web Player Part 4 (#2091)

* fix: add missing player update on unregister

* fix: reuse the existing player on re-registers

* fix: incorrect instances check

* fix: keep old player object on re-register

* fix: always use IDLE on re-register

Add dnscache package to base image

Fix typo in snapcast

Fix radio stream playback (#2090)

Merge branch 'dev' of https://github.com/music-assistant/server into dev

Fix: possible fix for snapcast provider streams not starting on external server

Chore(deps): Bump ruff from 0.9.6 to 0.11.2 (#2083)

* Chore(deps): Bump ruff from 0.9.6 to 0.11.2

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Chore(deps): Bump bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2 (#2084)

* Chore(deps): Bump bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2

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Chore(deps): Bump yt-dlp from 2025.3.26 to 2025.3.27 (#2082)

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Chore(deps): Bump pychromecast from 14.0.5 to 14.0.7 (#2085)

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Fix: enqueue next item (#2089)

when callling enqueue next item too early the metadata is wrong on dlna

fix: Recommendations for ABS and iTunes Podcasts (#2086)

* fix: itunes_podcasts - recommendations

* fix: abs recommendations

* exclude only word

frontend-2.14.6 (#2088)

* Update pyproject.toml for 2.14.6

* Update requirements_all.txt for 2.14.6

Revamped Crossfade support (#2087)

* Completely refactor crossfade support

Handle crossfade entirely in the streams controller, even if a player natively supports crossfading.

Support crossfading without flow mode if a player supports gapless.

Optionally support crossfade between different sample rate (only if player supports that).

Do not crossfade tracks of same album.

Unify the crossfade settings.

All players can now set the crossfade duration

Allow crossfade duration up to 15s

* Chore: Ensure sonos queue gets refreshed when items update

feat: add DSP Config changed event (#2079)

feat: send `PLAYER_DSP_CONFIG_UPDATED` on DSP changes

Update snapshots

Bump models to 1.1.45

Chore: some tweaks to sonos

preparation to bringing in a legacy playback mode