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Changelog — v0.19.x archive

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Releases v0.19.0–v0.19.1, covering 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-21. The current changelog (v0.20.0 onward) lives in CHANGELOG.md.

v0.19.1 — 2026-09-21

Changed

  • The Bars Peak Flash now lights a soft spread of neighboring bars instead of a single bar.
  • With Peak Flash on, loud bars no longer sparkle with random flashes.

v0.19.0 — 2026-09-20

Added

  • Nix users can now build and run nokkvi straight from the repository with its new flake.
  • Smart playlist rules and sorting gain five album-level fields (date added, date modified, duration, song count, size) on Navidrome 0.64+.
  • The smart-playlist editor now warns when a sort field needs a newer Navidrome than the server runs.
  • Smart playlists can set their own refresh delay (1d, 12h, 1w) in the rules editor on Navidrome 0.64+.
  • Album and artist thumbnails show the cover’s dominant color while they load (Navidrome 0.64+).
  • The playlist editor can remove duplicate songs in one click, from the edit bar or a row’s right-click menu.
  • The queue’s right-click menu can remove duplicate songs without interrupting playback.
  • Adding songs a playlist already has now asks whether to skip them.
  • Plain (untimed) lyrics from your Navidrome server, including lyrics embedded in a file’s tags, now show over the Queue cover.
  • Plain lyrics drift with playback so the sheet keeps pace with the song.
  • The mouse wheel over the Queue cover scrolls a plain lyrics sheet by hand.
  • Seek Backward and Seek Forward hotkeys, on Left and Right by default.
  • Holding a seek key keeps the playhead moving until you let go.
  • A Seek Step setting, 1 to 60 seconds, in General > Behavior.
  • nokkvi seek +10 and seek -10 seek relative to the current position.

Changed

  • The About modal now credits Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5.1 as the shipwrights (previously Opus 4.8).
  • The sort-mode cycle moved from Left and Right to Shift+Left and Shift+Right.
  • nokkvi --help now lists queue-push and queue-pull and shows volume’s relative form.
  • Keyboard scrolling, wheel scrolling, and clicks in a very large queue now respond faster.
  • Dropping thousands of selected rows in a very large queue now lands without a pause.
  • Dropping thousands of selected rows in the playlist editor now lands without a pause.
  • Removing many queue rows at once no longer stalls playback.
  • The add-to-playlist confirmation now says how many songs were added.
  • On Navidrome 0.64+, albums and artists with no artwork show a plain square instead of Navidrome’s placeholder picture.
  • On Navidrome 0.64+, a replaced album, artist, or playlist cover shows the next time its row comes into view.
  • On Navidrome 0.64+, the large artwork panel also switches to a replaced cover without a manual refresh.
  • Your Navidrome server’s lyrics now win over LRCLIB downloads, including ones already cached.

Fixed

  • Expanding a genre in the Genres view now lists its albums on Navidrome 0.64.
  • Clicking a genre’s song count now opens the Songs view with that genre’s songs on Navidrome 0.64.
  • Harbour’s Random Genre row now shows its album covers on Navidrome 0.64.
  • Harbour’s Most Played Genres rows now show their album covers on Navidrome 0.64.
  • Genres in Harbour search results now show their album covers on Navidrome 0.64.
  • Centering a genre in Harbour now shows its large collage on Navidrome 0.64.
  • CRC-protected MP3s now play gaplessly between album tracks.
  • Some CRC-protected VBR MP3s no longer stop playing before their real end.
  • MP3s carrying LAME gapless info no longer lose a few milliseconds of audio at the end.
  • Ogg Vorbis and Opus radio stations no longer cut out and reconnect at each song change.
  • Radio stations that are slow to send their first audio no longer fail to start on the first try.
  • Dragging a row in a very large queue no longer freezes the window.
  • Holding a dragged queue row still at the list’s edge now loads thumbnails for the rows it scrolls into view.
  • Holding a dragged playlist-editor row still at the list’s edge now loads thumbnails for the rows it scrolls into view.
  • Dragging a queue row now picks up and drops the row under the cursor with the playlist banner, select column, or browsing panel showing.
  • Clicking an album, artist, or genre link now lands the found row in view when the target view’s select column is on.
  • With Fade on Skip set to Crossfade, playing a list larger than one page while a song plays now keeps the track you clicked.
  • Editing the queue or toggling shuffle, repeat, or consume during a skip crossfade no longer brings the previous track back.
  • Seeking during a skip crossfade now seeks the new track instead of bringing the previous one back.
  • Stopping during a skip crossfade, then pressing Play, now starts the new track instead of the previous one.
  • With ReplayGain on, seeking a track that arrived by crossfade no longer plays it at an earlier track’s level.
  • With ReplayGain on, stopping and replaying a track that arrived by crossfade no longer plays it at an earlier track’s level.
  • Switching bit-perfect mode during a crossfade no longer leaves the badge claiming bit-perfect for a track that isn’t.
  • Seeking during an automatic crossfade no longer makes the next song start without a crossfade.
  • With Fade on Skip set to Crossfade, the progress bar now shows the new track’s time as soon as you skip.
  • With Fade on Skip set to Crossfade, MPRIS clients now see the new track’s position and length as soon as you skip.
  • With Fade on Skip set to Crossfade, synced lyrics now follow the new track’s time as soon as you skip.
  • With Fade on Skip set to Crossfade, a seek sent right after skipping now starts the new track at that point.
  • Desktop media widgets no longer keep the last song’s cover while a radio station without a logo or stream art plays.
  • Radio stations with an uploaded logo now show it in desktop media widgets.
  • Desktop media widgets now show the nokkvi icon when a song’s cover fails to load.
  • Scrolling Genres or Playlists no longer re-downloads thumbnails that are already loaded.
  • Searching the queue or radio stations after clicking a row no longer leaves the results without a highlighted row.
  • The quick-add confirmation no longer ends with a stray apostrophe.
  • A .lrc you add to the lyrics folder now beats a cached LRCLIB copy of the same song.
  • Lyrics added by a library rescan now show up without restarting nokkvi.
  • With crossfade on, skipping during a track’s intro now fades the sheet you were reading.
  • Two actions sharing one key now resolve the same way on every launch.
  • Rapid relative seeks from media keys and playerctl add up instead of landing as one.
  • A seek no longer credits listening time for the part of a track it skipped over.
  • Turning lyrics off mid-crossfade no longer brings the previous track’s sheet back when you turn them on.
  • Removing the playing queue row while a radio station plays no longer replaces the station with a queue song.
  • Removing every queue row while a radio station plays no longer stops the station.
  • Flipping the radio sort order after clicking a station no longer leaves the highlight on the wrong station.
  • Changing the sort mode in Albums, Artists, or Songs no longer leaves the highlight on an off-screen row.
  • Settings > Hotkeys now marks a row whose key another action wins, and names that action.
  • Rebinding a row onto the key it already shares now moves the other action to its own default instead of doing nothing.
  • A rebind that cannot be settled by moving one action now says so instead of reporting a swap that never happened.
  • The smart-playlist refresh-delay hint now says a 0 delay also means the server default.