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🚀Changelog

Tracking every iteration of Ling Player

0.12.0.0 2026-06-27 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Jump Bar: A character jump bar has been added to the left side of the track, album, and artist pages. Click any character to automatically scroll the list to the first track starting with that letter. Note: This panel is only shown when the primary sorting criterion is set to "Title" or "Name".
  • Dynamic Gradient Background Color Transition: Added color transition animation to the dynamic gradient background.
⚡ Improvements
  • Russian Text Improvements: Contributed by @DanRug08 (MAYHEM), many thanks.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the process did not terminate properly when exiting the application.
  • Fixed an issue where track covers flickered when switching windows.
0.11.2.0 2026-06-22 Alpha
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where single-track repeat mode would occasionally stop working.
  • Fixed an issue where Steam plugin text displayed incorrectly in certain language environments.
  • Fixed an issue where taskbar thumbnail buttons were not displayed when switching from mini window to main window after startup on Windows.
0.11.0.0 2026-06-12 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Taskbar Playback Control: Hover your mouse over the taskbar icon to access previous track, next track, play, and pause controls — making playback control more convenient.
  • Lyrics Editing: You can now modify and save embedded lyrics for tracks in the track metadata editing dialog.
0.10.0.0 2026-06-09 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • UI Scale Option: You can now adjust the size of interface elements. Path: Settings -> UI
  • Navigation Bar Expanded Width Setting: You can now adjust the expanded width of the left navigation bar within a range of [100,480]. Path: Settings -> UI
  • New Language Support: Added support for Traditional Chinese, English(UK), Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Polish, and Turkish. Translations for these languages may contain errors; feedback is welcome.
⚡ Improvements
  • Lyric Line Switching: Added fade-in/fade-out effect.
  • Lyrics Font Size and Weight Adjustment: Normal and highlighted lyric text now use the same font size and weight.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where artists could not be dragged in the album edit dialog.
  • Fixed a potential crash when right-clicking on the album page.
  • Fixed an issue where the close button became unresponsive after closing the window and reopening it via the taskbar button.
  • Fixed an issue where the default icon was not shown when a track had no cover.
  • Fixed an issue where the end of a track was being truncated.
  • Fixed an issue where auto-scrolling after clicking a track in the playback queue caused the currently playing track to become invisible.
  • Fixed an issue where the previous track's cover and lyrics were still displayed when a track file failed to load.
  • Fixed an issue where existing lyrics were lost when saving track metadata.
0.9.0.0 2026-06-05 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Track Metadata Editing: Supports modifying track cover, title, artist, and year. Changes to track metadata will be written to the track file by default. Note that editing metadata for tracks from CUE files is currently not supported. Path: Right-click a track -> Select Edit Metadata
  • Album Metadata Editing: Supports modifying album title, artist, and year. You can choose to apply album title, artist, year, and cover to all tracks in the album (will be written to corresponding track files). Note that editing album metadata is not supported when the album contains tracks from CUE files. Path: Right-click an album -> Select Edit Metadata
  • Full Scan Option: When enabled, rescans all tracks to ensure track data is up to date. Path: Settings -> Library -> Full scan
⚡ Improvements
  • Included Folders: When adding a new folder, if any subfolders of that folder already exist in the list, those subfolders are automatically removed.
  • CUE File Parsing: Removes possible double quotes attached to the genre field.
  • Page Navigation: After clicking a folder on the folder page, the page indicator stays on the folder menu instead of switching to the track menu; similar adjustments have been made for the playlist page.
  • Thumbnail Generation: Generates thumbnails with a uniform height of 200 pixels. No longer generates different thumbnail sizes for tracks, albums, and artists, reducing disk space usage.
  • Artist/Genre Parsing: Intelligently recognizes and preserves manually modified track artist, album artist, and genre information, preventing them from being overwritten by original tags.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the Add Playlist dialog was too small.
  • Fixed a potential crash when right-clicking on the album page.
  • Fixed an issue where clicking the "Library" button on the track page with no tracks present would incorrectly select the "Settings" menu after navigating.
  • Fixed an issue where saving after deleting an artist while editing album metadata would incorrectly delete that artist.
  • Fixed an issue where rescanning failed to update track information after modifying track metadata externally.
  • Fixed an issue where in some cases, audio files associated with CUE files were incorrectly added to the library as regular track files.
  • Fixed an issue where edited albums or artists could not be removed even when they met the removal conditions.
  • Fixed an issue where incorrect scan results were displayed after dragging folders or multiple track files onto the track or playlist page.
  • Fixed an issue where view settings were not correctly applied when switching to the album page for the first time.
0.8.1.0 2026-05-24 Alpha
⚡ Improvements
  • Mini Window Playlist Operations: Added a playlist operation page for the mini window. Click the playlist button in the bottom-right corner to open it. Supports switching tracks, removing tracks from the queue, clearing the queue, and more.
  • Mini Window Settings: Added a settings page for the mini window. Click the settings button on the far right to open it. Currently includes the following settings: theme (synced with global settings), overlay opacity, and whether to show the mini window icon in the taskbar.
  • Removed Corner Radius from Mini Window Track Cover: Removed the corner radius effect from the track cover in the mini window to avoid black or white areas appearing at the window corners.
  • Default Value Adjustment for Duration Filter: The default value for the duration filter setting has been adjusted to 0 to avoid affecting scan results when scanning tracks for the first time.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where content overflowed on the album details page when the description text was too long.
  • Fixed an issue where content overflowed and the page could not scroll on the artist details page when the description text was too long.
  • Fixed an issue where an image could not be set for an artist when the artist name contained special characters.
0.8.0.0 2026-05-22 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Rendering Mode Option: When experiencing rendering issues such as flickering or display problems, you can try switching the rendering mode. Path: Settings -> UI -> Rendering mode.
  • Automatic Log File Cleanup: The application will automatically delete log files older than 7 days on startup. Additionally, you can click Clear Cache under Log Cache on the About page to delete all log files at any time.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the application failed to start when the settings file was invalid.
0.7.8.0 2026-05-21 Alpha
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a crash when playing 16-bit WAV files (thanks to @FunkeymonkeyTTR).
  • Fixed an issue where the duration of some M4A files was incorrect.
  • Fixed an issue where some M4A files could not be played.
  • Fixed an issue where some artists were not displayed on the statistics page.
Special thanks to @FunkeymonkeyTTR for the help and support.
0.7.7.0 2026-05-20 Alpha
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a crash in the resampling process caused by a buffer write out-of-bounds issue (thanks to @FunkeymonkeyTTR).
  • Fixed an issue where tracks that no longer existed were displayed incorrectly in the statistics page track list.
  • Fixed an issue where the menu icon for ""Add to next"" was displaying incorrectly.
  • Fixed an issue where generated thumbnails could not be read when the album name or artist name contained characters not supported in filenames.
0.7.4.0 2026-05-19 Alpha
⚡ Improvements
  • Track cover art now supports searching up to 3 levels of parent folders. When no cover image is found in the track's folder, the player will search upward through parent directories for up to 3 levels
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where rapidly changing search keywords on the search page could display results from the previous keyword.
  • Fixed an issue where entering a keyword that would never return any results still displayed all tracks on the search page.
  • Fixed an issue where the start offset of tracks parsed from CUE files was incorrect in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue where the duration displayed incorrectly when playing a track corresponding to a CUE file.
  • Fixed an issue where playing a folder did not include tracks from subfolders.
0.7.2.0 2026-05-18 Alpha
🔧 问题修复
  • Fixed an issue where after switching to shuffle mode, clicking on any track did not play the expected track.
  • Fixed an issue where m4a files could not be added to the library due to incorrect duration reading.
  • Fixed an issue where the corner radius of the left button on the bottom playback control panel did not match the corner radius of the track cover thumbnail.
  • Fixed an issue where Steam plugin settings could not be saved.
0.7.0.0 2026-05-17 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Track Page Supports Drag-and-Drop: The track page now supports file drag-and-drop. You can drag one or more track files (or folders) onto the page for scanning, no longer limited to folders
  • Playlists Support Drag-and-Drop to Add Tracks: You can now directly drag one or more track files (or folders) onto a playlist. After the drag is complete, tracks will be automatically scanned and added to the playlist
⚡ Improvements
  • Dynamic Gradient Effect Adjustment: Removed color mixing to avoid unexpected colors
  • Window Transparency Effect Adjustment: On Windows 11, Mica effect is used by default; on Windows 10, Acrylic blur is used by default; in other cases, Blur effect is used by default.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the open source licenses page could not be opened.
  • Fixed an issue where tracks with uppercase file extensions (e.g., .MP3, .FLAC) were not properly recognized.
0.6.0.0 2026-05-16 Alpha
  • Enabled AOT (Ahead-of-Time compilation), significantly improving application performance and startup speed.
  • Thanks to AOT, the application size has been reduced bymore than 50%.
0.5.8.0 2026-05-15 Alpha
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the application failed to start when the settings file was invalid.
  • Fixed an issue where in some cases the dominant color extracted from a track's cover art was still too close to pure white or pure black.
0.5.7.0 2026-05-14 Alpha
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the track information below the cover art was misaligned when the cover art was not square.
  • Fixed an issue where empty albums (i.e., albums not associated with any tracks) could not be deleted.
  • Fixed an issue where removing a specific track would incorrectly remove other track.
  • Fixed an issue where dragging a folder that had already been added onto the track page would cause that folder to be removed.
  • Fixed an issue where the track count on the right side of the track page title did not update after removing a track.
0.5.6.0 2026-05-13 Alpha
⚡ Improvements
  • The dominant color extracted from a track's cover art will now automatically skip colors that are too close to pure black or pure white.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the maximize button displayed incorrectly after entering fullscreen while the window was maximized.
  • Fixed an issue where the left navigation menu and the right scrollbar were clipped after the window was maximized.
0.5.5.0 2026-05-12 Alpha
⚡ Improvements
  • Album Merging Rule Adjustment: A strict artist matching rule has been added. Tracks with the same album name but differing artists will not be merged into the same album.
  • Updated the icons in the sidebar statistics menu.
0.5.4.0 2026-05-12 Alpha
⚡ Improvements
  • Album Merging Rule: Before merging albums, the player will check for conflicts in disc numbers or track numbers. If conflicts exist, they will be automatically split into separate albums.
  • Default Sorting for Albums/Artists: The default sorting rule has been adjusted to ascending order by name.
  • Added "Show Contributing Artists" Switch: Control whether to show featured artists on the artist page. Disabled by default. You can find the ""Show featured artists on artist page"" option in Settings -> UI to enable it.
  • Auto Cleanup After Scanning: After scanning completes, albums without any tracks and artists without any albums or tracks will be automatically deleted. If an album has been edited (e.g., year, cover, album artist), it will be retained; the same applies to artists.
  • Navigation Menu Settings Adjustment: Navigation menu settings have been moved to a standalone settings page. Path: Settings -> Navigation Menu
0.5.1.0 2026-05-11 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Dynamic Gradient Wallpaper for Playback Interface: You can now set a dynamic gradient wallpaper for the playback interface. Find the Wallpaper option under Settings → UI → Playback Interface to configure it
⚡ Improvements
  • Multiple improvements made tothe desktop lyrics feature, enhancing stability and display quality
  • Updated the icons in the sidebar statistics menu.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the popup notification displayed 0 as the song count when adding songs to the playback queue.
  • Fixed an issue where the outer visual effect of the album cover was being clipped in the playback interface.
0.4.0.0 2026-05-07 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Folder drag-and-drop support in the tracks page: You can now drag a folder containing tracks directly from File Explorer onto the tracks page to add the folder and automatically start scanning for tracks.
  • Scan progress dialog: Scan progress is now displayed as a standalone dialog window.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the button spacing in the top-right corner of the playback queue panel was too wide.
  • Fixed an issue where the text and description of the "Image Corner Strength" option did not appear when using English language.
  • Fixed an issue where text in the plugin management page and its settings page did not update after switching languages.
0.3.4.0 2026-05-07 Alpha
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where color extraction from grayscale album covers produced incorrect results.
  • Fixed a UI issue where text labels on the vertical axis of the statistics chart could overlap.
  • Fixed an issue where hour tracking in the time period statistics was incorrect.
0.3.2.0 2026-05-05 Alpha
⚡ Improvements
  • Improved the album cover color extraction algorithm, color results are now more accurate.
  • Songs already in the queue can now be set as "Play Next", the queue position will be adjusted automatically.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where krc and qrc format lyrics files could not be loaded or parsed correctly.
0.3.1.0 2026-05-04 Alpha
⚡ Improvements
  • Adjusted the icon size on the left side of the progress bar at the top of the stats page for better visual alignment.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where today's and this week's play time and play counts did not reset correctly when crossing a day or week boundary.
  • Fixed an issue where play time statistics would unexpectedly increase or decrease when manually adjusting the system time.
0.3.0.0 2026-05-03 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Playback controls can now be always visible. Enable this via the "Settings -> UI" page using the "Play control always visible" toggle.
  • Added image corner strength control. Expand the "Image corner strength" option in "Settings -> UI" to independently adjust the corner radius for song covers, album covers, and artist images.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where Steam Rich Presence would not display according to the format set in the Steam plugin when launching the application.
0.2.1.0 2026-05-02 Alpha
✨ New Features
  • Album list / album details page: Added option to delete album，only available when the album contains no songs.
  • Artist details page Added option to delete artist，only available when the artist has no albums and no songs.
⚡ Improvements
  • Steam plugin is now enabled by default.
  • Tracks shorter than 60 seconds no longer count toward achievements — we want achievements to represent real listening habits.
🔧 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a crash on startup caused by strict disc/track number non-overlap requirements when multiple identical albums with the exact same artist list existed.(thanks to @FunkeymonkeyTTR)
  • Fixed an issue where tracks excluded by the duration filter could not be re-added after adjusting the filter setting and rescanning.(thanks to @Nomstuff)
  • Fixed an issue where artist/album artist properties could contain duplicate identical names.
  • Fixed an issue where old cover files were not deleted when updating album or artist artwork.
0.1.1.0 2026/05/01 Alpha
⚡ Optimizations
  • The ""No Lyrics"" text now applies track cover's main color.
🔧 Bug fixes
  • Fixed incorrect play/pause button state in tray menu.
  • Fixed an issue where tray menu could not be closed after opening.
  • Fixed an issue where clicking a song in the list would always play the first song when the action was set to replace the current queue.
0.0.1.0 2026/05/01 Alpha
    First version of Ling Player.