Changelog — v0.22.x archive

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Releases v0.22.0–v0.22.2, covering 2026-10-04 → 2026-10-07. The current changelog (v0.23.0 onward) lives in CHANGELOG.md.

v0.22.2 — 2026-10-07

Added

The new Reflection setting for Bars and Lines stands the visualizer on a waterline above rippling dark water that mirrors it.
With Reflection on, beats send ripples running sideways across the water.
With Reflection on, the Lines surfing boat rides the line above the water.
The new Horizon setting for Bars sends the last second and a half of bars receding behind the live ones toward a misty horizon.
For Lines, the Horizon setting sends the last second and a half of the line receding behind it as misty waves.
Horizon rows nearest the viewer run off both edges of the visualizer, while farther rows narrow toward the middle.
In LED mode, the Horizon’s receding bars are cut into LED segments too.

Changed

Living Ink now drops rings and amorphous blobs on the music’s hits.

Fixed

With LED Mode and Isometric Depth on, each LED segment now shows its top face in the gap above it, like the topmost one.

v0.22.1 — 2026-10-04

Fixed

Covers in muted greens, blues, plums and reds, like a dark green cloth binding, now color the accent instead of turning grey.
Faintly tinted covers, such as sepia photos or cream paper, now give a matching faint accent instead of grey.
A black cover whose only color is a thin rainbow now takes the rainbow’s colors.
A large muted area, like a dark olive background, now joins the visualizer gradient beside the cover’s vivid accent color.
On dark themes, bars over a bright cover now use deep cover colors where those stay visible, instead of near-white pastels.

v0.22.0 — 2026-10-04

Added

The new Accent From Album Art setting in the Theme tab takes the accent color from the playing cover, adjusted to stay readable.
With Accent From Album Art on, rating stars and love hearts take the accent color too.
The new Visualizer From Album Art setting gives the bars, lines, scope and nokkvi’s MilkDrop presets a gradient from the playing cover.
Black-and-white covers turn the cover-driven accent and visualizer grey instead of keeping the theme’s color.

Changed

A prompt that opens while another window is up now appears on top of it instead of hiding behind it.
The nav-up, nav-down and enter commands now do nothing while the EQ, About or Get Info window or a dialog is open, like the keys.
With Fade on Skip set to Boundary Fade, Next and Previous now cut straight out of a song the server is still transcoding.
Searching in the default playlist picker now keeps the highlighted playlist highlighted while it still matches, instead of jumping to the top.
On dark themes, Harbour’s Trawl scene sky now holds a streaked, slowly folding aurora curtain.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s aurora drifts in front of the moon and stars.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s stars and moon now glow softly.
On dark themes, streaked rays of light now hang down into the Trawl scene’s water.
On dark themes, glowing plankton now drifts through the Trawl scene’s water.
On dark themes, a moving net of light now plays across the Trawl scene’s seabed.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s aurora rays now rise and fall with the music.
On dark themes, each kick now sends a surge of light sweeping across the Trawl scene’s aurora.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s stars now flare on the beat.
The Trawl scene’s aurora and stars react to the music even with the visualizer off.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s longship is now moonlit, keeping its own colors.
On dark themes, a lantern now hangs at the masthead of the Trawl scene’s longship.
On dark themes, the edges of the Trawl scene’s fish now catch the aurora’s light.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s kelp now carries softly blinking, glowing beads.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s anchor now looks like moonlit metal.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s anchor rope now shows a faint lit sheen.
On dark themes, the Trawl scene’s sky notes now glow softly.
On light themes, the Trawl scene’s sky now warms to a soft haze at the horizon.
On light themes, high cloud now drifts across the Trawl scene’s sky.
On light themes, the Trawl scene’s sun now glows in a soft bloom.
On light themes, sun shafts now slant down into the Trawl scene’s water.
On light themes, ripples of sunlight now play across the Trawl scene’s sand.
The Trawl scene’s sea now sways in gentle, low folds instead of rolling hills.
The Trawl scene’s rocks, starfish and kelp now cast soft shadows on the sand.
The Trawl scene’s rocks, kelp and sunken shield now sink into drifted sand at their base.
The Trawl scene’s sunken crate is now a half-buried viking shield painted like the longship’s shields.
The Trawl scene’s bubbles now look like glass.
The Trawl scene’s fish now waggle their tails as they swim.
The Trawl scene’s gulls now flap their wings in bursts between glides.

Fixed

Hovering an active tab or mode toggle is now visible on dark themes with a light accent.
The multi-item drag count badge now stays readable on every theme’s accent.
Check marks in dialogs now stay readable on every theme’s accent.
Selected text in the EQ preset name field no longer hides behind an opaque highlight.
Logging in no longer wipes the rest of config.toml when the file has a typo or can’t be read.
When config.toml has a typo or can’t be read, logging in now warns that the login wasn’t saved to it.
Choosing a theme no longer wipes config.toml when the file can’t be read.
Saving radio scrobbling credentials no longer wipes config.toml when the file has a typo.
Numeric settings hand-edited in config.toml, such as seek step, crossfade length or ReplayGain pre-amp, now stay within their allowed range.
Saving config.toml with a typo no longer resets the visualizer to its defaults.
Dragging an EQ slider now moves the handle all the way to the end of its track.
Saving config.toml with an invalid visualizer value, such as text where a number belongs, no longer resets the visualizer to its defaults.
Saving config.toml with a typo now shows a warning naming the line of the error.
When a section of config.toml holds an invalid value, a warning now names the section that kept its previous values.
Playing several selected items, Shuffle Play, or Replace Queue With All Found while a radio station plays now hands the player back to the queue.
Replacing the queue from Similar or Top Songs results now clears the previous playlist’s header.
Show in Folder in an album’s Get Info no longer opens a different, expanded album’s folder.
Find Similar from the Songs view now titles the results “Similar to: …” like every other view.
The Playlists create menu now closes when the window loses focus, like the other header menus.
nokkvi --help now lists harbour among the switch-view targets.
When the volume can’t be saved, a warning now says so instead of the change silently not surviving a restart.
Playing something else while a long Songs list is still loading into the queue no longer appends the rest of it.
Pressing Enter in the split view’s library pane now only adds to the queue, leaving a playing radio station and the playlist header alone.
Cancelling a roulette spin while a radio station plays now keeps the app in radio mode.
When playing a selection fails while a radio station plays, the app now stays in radio mode instead of switching to the queue.
Playing a row from the smart-playlist rules preview no longer leaves the previous playlist’s “Playing From” header on the queue.
Enter in a full library view now plays instead of only adding to the queue when the split view was left open on the Queue.
With the split view left open behind another view, Enter and the list keys now act on the view on screen, not a hidden tab.
A radio station that drops the connection now reconnects instead of staying silent.
Auto-advancing into a track with a different sample rate now plays it at its own ReplayGain level instead of the previous track’s.
In ReplayGain Track mode, auto-advancing into a track with a different gain now plays it at its own level instead of the previous track’s.
On the non-PipeWire audio fallback, where bit-perfect Strict has no effect, clicking a track now crossfades with Fade on Skip like Next does.
ReplayGain normalization now applies to songs played from albums, artists, genres and the Songs view.
In ReplayGain Album mode, auto-advancing into another album now plays it at that album’s level instead of the previous album’s.
In ReplayGain Track mode, auto-advancing now also honors clipping prevention and album-gain fallback for the next track.
With ReplayGain on, tracks with different gains now follow each other without a gap.
Closing the EQ with Escape no longer brings back an unfinished preset name prompt the next time it opens.
Escape now plays its sound when it closes the EQ, About or Get Info window, like the other windows.
Pressing the EQ key or Shift+I again now closes the EQ or Get Info window it opened.
Escape now closes an open window before cancelling a roulette spin running behind it.
Enter now reaches an open window instead of stopping a roulette spin running behind it.
A list’s scrollbar now fades out even when a window opens before it hides.
A duplicate-songs check that finishes while another window is open now shows a warning toast instead of opening its dialog.
Top Songs on a track inside an expanded album now opens the artist’s top songs instead of doing nothing.
When the queue can’t be saved to disk, a song removed from it no longer still plays next.
When the queue can’t be saved to disk, the queue view and the shuffle, repeat and consume buttons now match what playback does.
With bit-perfect Strict on and Fade on Skip set to Crossfade, Next and Previous now start the next track sooner.
Enter or Ctrl+Enter with several rows selected in Artists, Genres or Playlists now plays the selection instead of the row under the cursor.
In the split view’s library pane, playing several selected rows now adds them to the queue instead of replacing it.
After clicking a song or album, Enter now follows the Enter Behavior setting instead of always replacing the queue with it.
With an album or artist expanded, Enter on an album or artist row below it now plays that row instead of a different one.
Below an expanded playlist, the artwork panel now loads the collage of the playlist in focus instead of another playlist’s.
A Find Similar still loading at logout can no longer replace the results of one started after logging back in.
After logging back in, the playing playlist’s header no longer falls back to a single cover when its first albums left the queue.
Rows selected before logging out are no longer still selected after logging back in, where Enter could play different items.
When a lyrics lookup fails, for example offline, the song no longer shows no lyrics for the rest of the session.
During radio, clicking Shuffle, Repeat, Consume or Lyrics in the player bar’s kebab menu now does nothing, like their buttons.
During radio, the kebab’s Shuffle, Repeat, Consume and Lyrics entries are now greyed out like their buttons.
During radio, the kebab’s Shuffle, Repeat, Consume and Lyrics checkboxes now stay unticked, as their buttons stay unlit.
During radio, the kebab’s dot no longer lights up because Shuffle, Repeat, Consume or Lyrics is on.
The bottom row of the font, theme, default playlist and MilkDrop preset pickers is no longer squashed shorter than the rows above it.

Removed

Genre rows no longer offer Get Info, which did nothing.
Artist rows no longer offer Show in File Manager, which did nothing.