This release focuses on improving the listening experience and navigation of your music library. It includes redesigned pages, a configurable audio engine, improved search, and more.
New features:
- Like Songs: a star button on hover lets you like or unlike tracks in playlists, albums, and the queue.
- Follow or unfollow artists, albums, and playlists directly from their pages.
- Saved Artists page: browse all your followed artists from the sidebar.
- Audio engine with a 10-band equalizer, stereo pan, pitch shift, mono audio, volume curves, and configurable audio formats.
- Close window behavior: choose to quit or keep running in the background when closing while music plays.
- Playlist context menus: right-click or long-press playlists in the sidebar for quick actions.
- Sidebar pagination: all your playlists now load in the sidebar.
- Shuffle play button on album, artist, and playlist pages.
- Searchable via "Spotify" in desktop app launchers.
- Improved logout that clears your session, credentials, and cached state.
- Improved search that finds tracks and playlists, and can be scoped to artists only.
- Filter an artist's releases by albums, singles, and compilations.
- Automatic Spotify link detection for easier sharing.
- Filter explicit tracks to exclude them from your listening.
- Session management inhibition keeps your computer awake so music is not interrupted.
UI improvements:
- Redesigned playback bar with better alignment, less clutter, and improved mobile support.
- Reorganized sidebar with renamed and reordered entries.
- Redesigned Now Playing, Artist, Album, Playlist, and Tracks pages.
- Card list rework with adjustable icon sizes, multiple layout styles, and sorting.
- Improved login page with a premium-requirement notice and clearer error messaging.
- Updated About page with links to Discord and GitHub.
- Skeleton loading states while pages load.
- Improved mobile layout with a new header widget.
- Closer conformance to the Human Interface Guidelines.
- Riff now uses your system accent color instead of its default green.
- Collapsible side panel to give your library more room.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a crash when scrolling to change volume via mouse wheel or MPRIS.
- Fixed the play button sometimes showing an error when opening albums or playlists.
- Fixed pages loading duplicate content when scrolling quickly.
- Fixed playback controls getting out of sync when a new track starts.
- Fixed a crash when a non-Premium account tried to log in; invalid credentials are no longer saved.
- Expired tokens now refresh automatically and requests are retried.
- Fixed an index-out-of-bounds crash on partially loaded shuffled playlists.
- Fixed long playlist and album titles pushing the play button off-screen.
- Fixed inconsistent album cover sizes in the library grid.
- Fixed the PipeWire audio backend not working correctly in Flatpak.
- Improved keyring reliability on startup with automatic retries.
- Librespot sessions are now more stable and self-heal to prevent playback interruptions.
- Accounts affected by Spotify's PlayPlay DRM now get a clear notice.
Disabled features (available in the Experimental Feature Panel):
- Selection mode for selecting multiple tracks at once.
- Device selector for switching playback between Spotify Connect devices.
- Create new playlist button in the sidebar.
Beta feature (opt in via the Experimental Feature Panel):
- Audio normalisation to automatically adjust tracks to a standard loudness.
Known issues:
- Podcasts and audiobooks are not supported.
- Creating and managing playlists is not supported.
- There is no Home or Suggestions page for discovering new media.
- Viewing lyrics for the current track is not supported.
- The track list widget has some visual bugs.
- Some translations and localizations are missing or incorrect.
- Some UI elements load slowly.
- There is no default art for missing artist or album images.