navidrome

Navidrome 0.63 brings a long-awaited upgrade to lyrics: full support for synced sidecar lyrics in multiple formats (TTML, ELRC, SRT, YAML and LRC), including word-by-word karaoke timing and multi-voice (agent) layers, exposed to clients through the new OpenSubsonic v2 lyrics extensions. A huge shoutout to @ranokay, who not only contributed the code for these lyrics enhancements, but also helped shape the OpenSubsonic extension specification behind them. Search also gets noticeably smarter: exact matches now rank above prefix matches (searching for "MØ" brings MØ to the top instead of burying it), and artists with short or non-ASCII names that were previously unfindable now show up correctly.

The other big theme of this release is performance for large libraries and offline-first clients. Full-library synchronization via search3 (the way clients like Symfonium mirror the whole library) is now flat at every offset instead of degrading with depth, roughly 30-50x faster at deep offsets and about 20x faster for a complete sync on a ~1M-track library, and a related pagination-integrity fix eliminates the duplicate and short pages that could corrupt those syncs. Alongside it, getRandomSongs is about 13x faster on the same library size, and a batch of database improvements (annotation-index-friendly smart playlist filters, leaner list-count queries, and new composite indexes for album/artist song sorts) makes everyday operations anywhere from ~9x to ~160x faster. Finally, a heads-up on a behavior change: sharing is now enabled by default, and can be turned off with EnableSharing=false.

Security

• Enforce per-library access on playlist import and sharing paths. In multi-library setups, three read paths did not consistently apply per-library restrictions: M3U import path resolution, shared-playlist track loading, and public share-scoped streams. A user with access to only some libraries could resolve or be served tracks from libraries they weren't assigned to. All three now respect the user's (or share owner's) library access. (#5640 by @deluan)
• Resolve symlinks to their real target when classifying files during scan, preventing symlinked entries from being misclassified. (ecba19a08 by @deluan)

Configuration Changes

| Status | Option | Description | Default |
|--------|--------|-------------|---------|
| New | Scanner.ArtistSplitExceptions | List of artist names that must never be split by tag separators (e.g. "Tyler, The Creator"). (#5701) | [] (empty) |
| New | Scanner.IgnoreDotFolders | Whether to skip folders whose name starts with a dot when scanning. Set to false to index dot-prefixed folders. (#5568) | true |
| Changed | EnableSharing | Sharing is now enabled by default. Set to false to restore the previous behavior. (#5714) | true |
| Changed | LyricsPriority | New sidecar lyrics formats added to the default priority list. (#5076) | .ttml,.yaml,.yml,.elrc,.lrc,.srt,.txt,embedded |

For a complete list of all configuration options, see the Configuration Options documentation.

Lyrics

• Add structured sidecar lyrics support with OpenSubsonic v2 karaoke cues and agent layers: TTML, ELRC, SRT and YAML sidecar files are now parsed with word-by-word timing and multi-voice information. (#5076 by @ranokay)
• Allow lyrics plugins to return lyrics in any supported format, not just LRC. (#5632 by @deluan)
• Keep the player's lyrics in sync on track change and seek, so the previous song's lyrics no longer linger. (7303c9ca4 by @deluan)

Search

• Rank exact matches above prefix matches in search results. (#5704 by @deluan)
• Fix artists with short or non-ASCII names being unfindable after the FTS5 search migration. (#5703 by @deluan)

UI

• Add Rosé Pine themes. (#5664 by @draconivis)
• Fix transient jump to a wrong song when switching tracks in the web player. (#5676 by @deluan)
• Fix profile self-edits not reporting success or failure. (#5699 by @deluan)
• Fix Nautiline theme font and width on mobile devices. (#5590 by @devBoi76)
• Fix DefaultLanguage not being applied on app startup. (#4000 by @deluan)

Scanner

• Add Scanner.ArtistSplitExceptions to protect artist names from being split by tag separators. (#5701 by @deluan)
• Add Scanner.IgnoreDotFolders to allow indexing dot-prefixed folders. (#5568 by @deluan)
• Fix playlists not being imported when the first scan runs before any admin user exists. (#5609 by @deluan)

Subsonic API

• Add OpenSubsonic work and movement attributes, improving classical music metadata for compatible clients. (#5659 by @deluan)
• Speed up getRandomSongs on large libraries with two-phase random selection, about 13x faster on a 1M-track library. (#5618 by @deluan)
• Speed up artist search3 pagination at deep offsets, roughly 5-8x faster on a 300K-artist library. (#5620 by @deluan)
• Speed up search3 empty-query (browse-all) pagination: response times are now flat at any offset, 30-50x faster at deep offsets, making a full ~1M-track library sync about 20x faster overall. (#5601 by @deluan)
• Make "recently added" album order reproducible and consistent with the RecentlyAddedByModTime setting. (#5678 by @deluan)

Smart Playlists

• Extend isMissing/isPresent operators to BPM, bit depth and many text fields. (#5603 by @deluan)
• Speed up smart playlists that filter on play count, rating or loved status, up to ~14x faster end-to-end (the underlying query alone is over 300x faster). (#5662 by @deluan)
• Speed up smart playlists with many negated artist/tag rules, ~160x faster on a real-world case with 120 rules on a 323K-track library. (#5607 by @deluan)
• Fix isMissing/isPresent operators on ReplayGain fields. (#5585 by @deluan)

Recommendations

• Match similar and top songs across all artists credited on a track, improving results for collaborations. (#5668 by @deluan)
• Match ListenBrainz top songs for collaborations using all credited artist MBIDs. (#5670 by @deluan)
• Speed up top/similar song matching with batched lookups, up to ~14x faster on large batches. (#5635 by @deluan)
• Fix song matching to use artist credits, so artist-MBID specificity works and collaborators match correctly. (#5637 by @deluan)

Plugins

• Add a navidrome plugin CLI for managing and inspecting plugins. (#5682 by @deluan)
• Expose the song Matcher as a host service for plugins. (#5643 by @deluan)
• Share plugin DTOs via a common types package, simplifying plugin development. (#5655 by @deluan)

Artwork

• Speed up image resizing and WebP encoding/decoding, up to ~30% faster with far fewer allocations. (#5652 by @deluan)
• Fix artist folder images being incorrectly served as album art. (#5596 by @deluan)
• Fix WebP crash on 32-bit ARM; WebP encoding is now disabled by default in Docker images. (#5606 by @deluan)

Transcoding

• Preserve source metadata when transcoding downloads. (#5628 by @deluan)
• Enforce server-side player MaxBitRate on all stream paths. (#5611 by @deluan)
• Honor the player's forced transcoding format in the web UI playback flow. (#5613 by @deluan)
• Fix partially-written transcodes being served from the cache after a server crash. (#5657 by @deluan)

Server

• Enable sharing by default. (#5714 by @deluan)
• Fix direct log.Log calls not honoring DevLogLevels. (#5700 by @kgarner7)

Database

• Speed up song sorting by album and artist with new sort-order indexes, ~19x faster on large libraries on a cold cache. (#5706 by @deluan)
• Skip library filtering when a non-admin user has access to all libraries, making song counts ~19x faster on a 920K-track database. (#5696 by @deluan)
• Skip unnecessary annotation joins when counting items, up to ~9x faster list counts, with even larger gains on a cold cache. (#5694 by @deluan)
• Make PRAGMA optimize errors non-fatal at startup. (bd3192be0 by @deluan)

Translations

• Update Turkish translations. (#5685 by @deluan)

New Contributors

• @ranokay made their first contribution in #5076
• @devBoi76 made their first contribution in #5590
• @draconivis made their first contribution in #5664

Full Changelog: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/compare/v0.62.0...v0.63.0

Helping out

This release is only possible thanks to the support of some awesome people!

Want to be one of them?
You can sponsor, pay me a Ko-fi, or contribute with code.

Where to go next?

• Read installation instructions on our website.
• Host Navidrome on PikaPods or Danian for a simple cloud solution.
• Reach out on Discord, Reddit and Twitter!