Changelog — v0.24.x archive

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Releases v0.24.0–v0.24.1, covering 2026-10-11 → 2026-10-12. The current changelog (v0.25.0 onward) lives in CHANGELOG.md.

v0.24.1 — 2026-10-12

Changed

The About modal now credits Claude Opus 5.5 instead of Opus 5 among the shipwrights.
The metadata strip now defaults to Player Bar Above instead of Mini Player.
A config.toml that doesn’t set track_info_display now loads the metadata strip on Player Bar Above.

Fixed

With Merged Mode off, the metadata strip’s fields now fill the space between format and bitrate instead of the middle third.

v0.24.0 — 2026-10-11

Added

Text fields now undo and redo with Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y.
The raw rules JSON editor now deletes a whole word with Ctrl+Backspace or Ctrl+Delete.
Bars and Lines have a new Reflection Below Cover setting, on by default.
Lyrics with word timing (TTML, enhanced LRC, server cues) now light the current line word by word as it is sung.
A new Playback setting, Lyrics: Word Highlight, picks Sweep (a karaoke fill), Word (each word lights whole) or Off.
On Navidrome servers that offer API keys, nokkvi now connects with its own revocable key instead of a token derived from your password.
nokkvi’s API key lives on its own player in Navidrome’s Players list, named after your computer.
The API key’s player starts with your current nokkvi player’s transcoding, bit-rate and scrobbling settings.
Logging out revokes nokkvi’s API key on the server.
A new Metadata Strip option, Player Bar Above, shows the strip on top of the player bar’s controls.

Changed

Beside the artwork column, the player bar now spans only the list.
The artwork column beside the list now runs down to the window’s bottom edge.
With the Metadata Strip on Top Bar or Top Bar Under, the strip now spans only the list beside the artwork column.
Toasts now sit over the list instead of across the artwork column.
The artwork’s resize handle is now invisible, marked only by the resize cursor at the artwork’s edge beside the list.
Mouse-wheel scrolling in Settings, the Get Info dialog and the rules editor now glides instead of jumping.
Clicking a scrollbar’s track in Settings, Get Info or the rules editor now pages toward the pointer instead of jumping there.
Hotkey badges in Settings are now at least 96 pixels wide.
With the Metadata Strip on Top Bar or Top Bar Under, the top nav bar now spans only the list beside the artwork column.
With the Metadata Strip on Top Bar or Top Bar Under, the artwork column beside the list now reaches the window’s top edge.
With Reflection Below Cover on, the Reflection’s water now hangs below the cover over the UI, where there is room for it.
With Reflection Below Cover on, Bars and Lines now stand on the cover’s bottom edge and fill Visualizer Height when their water fits below it.
Lyrics over a large Queue cover now grow with the cover, the same size Theater Mode shows at that size.
With Bars or Lines in the bottom band, the visualizer now spans only the list beside the artwork column.

Fixed

Typing in a text field no longer briefly maxes out a CPU core after each keystroke.
Resizing the window no longer crashes the app while the rules JSON editor’s cursor is scrolled out of view.
The Horizon’s receding waves and bars now crest above the visualizer instead of being cut off along a straight line at its top.
Typing in the Queue’s search while a playlist plays no longer knocks focus out of the field after the first letter.
Playing or queueing a genre, or mixing one in Trawl, now includes songs tagged with a different capitalization of its name.
On Navidrome 0.64 and newer, importing a .nsp file with an unreadable refresh delay now stops with an explanation before uploading anything.
Importing a .nsp file with a refresh delay now warns when the server is older than 0.64 and will ignore it.
Adding, removing or moving songs late in a track no longer turns the next crossfade or gapless join into a hard cut.
Changing a crossfade or bit-perfect setting late in a track no longer turns the next transition into a hard cut.
With Fade on Skip set to Crossfade, a song reached by pressing Previous late in a track no longer ends in a hard cut.
With Fade on Skip set to Crossfade, pressing Next twice quickly on the second-to-last song now plays the last song.
Seeking at the instant a crossfade finishes no longer jumps back into the previous song.
Clearing the queue while a radio station plays now leaves the station playing, as removing every song already did.
With ReplayGain on, a radio station now plays at the untagged-track level instead of the previous song’s.
Top Songs now shows the chosen artist’s songs, not those of another artist with the same name, on Navidrome 0.64 and newer.
A Top Songs request the server fails now shows an error instead of “No similar songs found”.
Starring, rating and scrobbling no longer make every other user’s open Navidrome sessions refresh.
A rejected or expired server token now returns you to the login screen instead of showing an error toast.
Accounts whose username contains characters like + or & now play songs and load covers.
A playlist the server fails to send now shows an error when played, expanded or edited, instead of opening as empty.
A radio station list the server fails to send now shows an error instead of an empty Radios view.
A failed library list fetch now shows an error instead of clearing your library selection.
A Find Similar request the server fails now shows an error instead of “No similar songs found”.
Adding the same song to a playlist twice in quick succession now adds it once, then asks about the duplicate.
In Theater Mode, the nav-up, nav-down, enter, add-to-queue and remove-from-queue commands now leave Theater Mode instead of acting on the hidden list.
Switching between a radio station and the queue no longer briefly shows the previous item’s cover in desktop media widgets.
Desktop media widgets no longer show a seek bar while a radio station plays.
Desktop media widgets now receive a track ID for the playing song or station.
A media widget’s jump to a position in a previous song, or past the song’s end, is now ignored instead of moving the playhead.
Launching nokkvi twice in quick succession now opens one window instead of two.
A song the server transcodes on the fly now ends and moves to the next song instead of restarting.
The progress bar now shows no seek handle for a song the server transcodes on the fly.
Desktop media widgets can no longer seek a song the server transcodes on the fly.
A song the server transcodes on the fly is no longer labelled bit-perfect.
A song the server transcodes on the fly now shows the codec the server actually sends.
A radio station whose server reports a stream length now reconnects when it drops instead of ending like a song.
The Artists view now shows an artist’s biography even when no other app has opened that artist on the server before.
An artist biography’s link now names the site it opens instead of always saying Last.fm.
Clicking an artist off the centre row now loads that artist’s full-size artwork instead of a blurry thumbnail.
Scrolling an expanded artist’s albums no longer loads another artist’s artwork in the background.
Several server rejections at once now return you to the login screen once, with one toast, instead of wiping the form repeatedly.
A server rejection left over from an earlier login no longer logs out the session that replaced it.
A genre or playlist list the server fails to send now shows an error and keeps the rows, instead of an empty view.
A rejected session while loading genres or playlists now returns you to the login screen.
Playing several items at once, or a Trawl mix, on a rejected session now returns to the login screen instead of saying “No songs found”.
A failed unstar no longer rates the song five stars locally and on the server.
With “Skip the N already there” checked, a song that reaches the playlist while the add-to-playlist confirm is open is no longer added twice.
A library list that fails to reload now keeps its header count instead of showing 0 above the rows it kept.
With Navigation Layout set to Side, bottom-band Bars now fit beside the sidebar instead of losing their rightmost bars off the window’s edge.
Seeking in a variable-bitrate MP3 now resumes exactly where you aimed instead of seconds off.
After a gapless transition, the new song’s position and lyrics no longer run about a second ahead of its audio.
Pausing with lyrics on now keeps the Queue cover and its lyrics on the playing song.
Holding an arrow key in a list no longer requests the same full-size cover again while it is still loading.
Scrolling a list on a slow server no longer requests a thumbnail again while it is still loading.
The “Playing From” cover’s 2×2 collage now loads even when its albums are scrolled out of view.
The playing song’s title now waits at most half a second for its cover before showing in the app and desktop media widgets.
Logging into a different server no longer shows the previous server’s queue.
Logging back into a server now brings back the queue you left there.
The Playing From playlist now switches along with the queue when you log into another server.
After config.toml is edited to name another server or user, nokkvi now shows the login screen instead of resuming the old session there.
A network error while scrobbling no longer writes your server credentials into nokkvi.log.
A server URL typed with a capitalized scheme, like HTTPS://, no longer makes every song fail to play.
nokkvi no longer follows a redirect from your server to another host, which could have handed that host your login.