Nora v3.1.0-stable Minor Update

• v3.1.0-stable - ( 29^th of March 2025 )

• 🎉 New Features and Updates

  • Added experimental playback support for m4a and opus songs. Fixes #247 #242.
  • Added support for fetching lyrics from LRCLIB. Fixes #252.
  • Added Vietnamese translation. Thanks @ElectroHeavenVN.
  • Added full translation support for lyrics.
  • Original lyric will now be shown along with the translated lyric.
  • Added support for reading LRC files without the relevant song extension.
  • Added support for symbolic links in file paths. Thanks @Brunight.
  • Configured to build Nora in the rpm package. Fixes #261.
  • Configured to build Nora for arm systems. Fixes #268.
  • Added support for copying lyrics lines. Fixes #253.
  • Added a blurred background for the full and mini player.
  • Added a how to use prompt when visiting the lyrics editor for the first time.
  • Added a new shortcut to open the shortcuts prompt
  • Added skip lyrics lines functionality to the mini and full-screen player
  • Added volume control to full-screen player.
  • Added support for lyrics romanization for supported languages. Thanks @ElectroHeavenVN.

• 🔨 Fixes and Improvements

  • Fixed a bug where the correct lyrics line won't scroll to the center of the screen if the song is paused.
  • Fixed a bug where items in ArtistPage, AlbumPage, PlaylistPage, and GenrePage are not centered in their grid cells.
  • Fixed a bug where Discord Presence doesn't update as the player state changes. Fixes #244.
  • Fixed a bug where the sidebar shows a dynamic theme color in dark mode even though dynamic themes are disabled.
  • Fixed a bug where some views show light mode even though the dark mode is selected.
  • Fixed a bug where some buttons in the About section of the Settings page are misaligned.
  • Fixed a bug where non-library songs were not showing in Last.FM.
  • Fixed localization issue in LyricsPage title, not allowing changing lyrics offline/online status.
  • Fixed a bug where lyric metadata are lost when saving lyrics from lrclib to lrc files.
  • Fixed a bug where the first metadata line in LRC lyrics is considered a lyric line.
  • Fixed a bug where the app starts with the white splash even though the app is in dark mode. Fixes #272.
  • Updated hyperlinks always to be underlined.
  • Fixed lyrics that were not updated on LyricsPage right after modifying them in LyricsEditingPage.
  • Fixed lyrics lines in LyricsEditingPage don't follow dynamic theme colors.
  • Fixed app name showing "Electron" instead of Nora. Fixes #288.
  • Removed full-screen player that starts with lyrics showing.
  • Updated discord-rich-presence to display the current song position. Thanks @ElectroHeavenVN.
  • Fixed song filenames cut off at periods. Fixes #308.
  • Added a fix for file names with special characters that cannot be played in Nora player. Fixes #323.
  • Set true to disable background artworks as default to improve app accessibility and to maintain text contrast.
  • Update font-family stack in styles.css for improved typography consistency.
  • Added an advanced settings section with an experimental setting to toggle saving verbose logs.
  • Fixed translated lyrics do not show their original lyric above them.
  • Added a fix for image alignment issues. Fixes #307.
  • Added a fix for the app description shown when Nora is viewed in Task Manager. Fixes #333.
  • Fixed the like button not working in the mini-player. Fixes #341.
  • Fixed incorrect song ordering in playlists. Fixes #342.
  • Fixed the shuffle button not working and some shuffling issues. Fixes #343.

• 🚀 Development updates

  • Migrated to @tanstack/store for efficient app state management reducing unnecessary re-renders and resource usage.
  • Nora was fully converted to an ESM-packaged app.
  • Fixed some localization errors in the en.json file.
  • Updated the build workflow to fix a bug for the Nora app that is missing sharp dependencies in Linux environments.
  • Updated app dependencies.

• 🐜 Known Issues and Bugs

  • Artist names are split when the name has a comma. #321.
  • Bigger song libraries make the interface unresponsive and halt the song parsing process. #313.

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed the like button not working in the mini-player #341.
• Fixed incorrect song ordering in playlists #342.
• Fixed the shuffle button not working and some shuffling issues #343.

Fixes & Improvements

• Added a possible fix for Nora not starting in Linux environments (missing sharp dependencies).

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed song filenames cut off at periods
• Added a fix for file names with special characters cannot be played by Nora player.
• Added a blurred effect to background images
• Set true to disable background artworks as default to improve app accessibility and maintain text contrast.
• Add advanced settings for saving verbose logs and update related components.
• Fixed translated lyrics do not show their original lyric above them
• Improved song and album cover image positioning

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a bug where translating English lyrics, replaces the first lyric line with the translated text.
• Fixed a bug where song metadata cannot be edited.

Known issues

• App lags when resizing on the Home page.

Footnote

• Thanks @JustCallMeQuincy for the help in finding these bugs.

Changelog

Nora v3.0.0-stable Major Update

Changelog:

• 🎉 New Features and Updates

  • Added an experimental full-screen player mode. Fixes #222.
  • Added support for translating lyrics. Fixes #239.
  • Added support for dynamic themes based on the currently playing song.
  • Added experimental support auto-updating Nora.
  • Added support for navigation between prompts for supported prompts.
  • Greatly reduced unnecessary re-renders in turn improving overall performance.
  • Added a feature to prevent the display from going to sleep in situations with no user activity like displaying lyrics.
  • Moved notifications to the bottom right corner of the window.
  • Added support for Discord Rich Presence.
  • Added a progress bar to the bottom of the full-screen player.
  • Added keyboard shortcuts to control prompt menu back/forward navigation buttons.
  • Added Turkish translations. Thanks @mikropsoft.
  • Added support for filtering songs and artists in selected pages.

• 🔨 Fixes and Improvements

  • Greatly improved palette generation duration. (90% faster)
  • Fixed some localization bugs in Nora.
  • Fixed a bug where Nora doesn't send albumArtist data when scrobbling songs.
  • Improved performance when sending scrobbling and now playing data to Last.fm.
  • Fixed a bug where albums related to artists are not shown.
  • Fixed a bug where special characters are not shown when localizing text in Nora.
  • Fixed a bug where metadata updates of songs outside the library fail.
  • Improved animations when displaying lyrics.
  • Fixed a bug where the auto-scrolling button in LyricsPage doesn't have a tooltip label.
  • Fixed a bug where the close button shows an incorrect tooltip label.
  • Updated English translations. Thanks @JustCallMeQuincy.
  • Added a CODE_OF_CONDUCT file to the repository.
  • Fixed a bug where buttons and dropdowns don't have enough contrast to read text when a background image is displayed.
  • ListeningActivityBarGraph now shows ListeningActivityBars according to the available width.
  • Added a possible fix to a missing dependency for Nora when launching in Linux-based operating systems.
  • Improved animations in notifications.
  • Fixed a bug where the app window would be hidden if the monitor it was in got disconnected.
  • Fixed a bug where app storage metrics show incorrect metrics when the app is installed in other than the C: drive.
  • Improved import playlist performance.
  • Fixed a bug where importing the Favorites playlist will make the app unresponsive due to many like/dislike notifications.
  • Fixed a bug where Nora will forget about sub-folders inside parent folders.
  • Improved app performance when displaying synced lyrics.
  • Fixed a bug where lyrics copyright info is positioned incorrectly in the full-screen player.
  • Fixed a bug where Nora doesn't check for LRC files in the custom LRC file path.
  • Fixed a bug where lyrics with the same timestamps don't appear correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where users can't change pages through the sidebar when the app language is changed to other than English.
  • Fixed showing the musixmatch disclaimer twice in the disclaimer dialog.

Nora v2.5.0-stable Minor update

This update includes some of the most requested features such as 10-band equalizer, localization support, reading/writing lyrics from LRC files and a lot of bug fixes.

• 🎉 New Features and Updates

  • Added localization support for Nora.
  • Added a setting to change the language in Nora.
  • Added support for reading album artists in songs.
  • Added support reading and writing song lyrics to .LRC files. Fixes #215.
  • Added a feature to play the next/previous lyrics line using Alt + Up/Down shortcuts for synced lyrics in LyricsPage. Fixes #216.
  • Added support for 10-band equalizer.
  • Added partial support for saving song album artist.
  • Added migrations support for local storage.
  • Added support for saving LRC files in a separate folder other than the folder where the relevant song is located.
  • Added support for renaming the playlist.
  • Scrobble song requests now include albumArtist data.
  • Sorting songs with track number now also considers their disk numbers. Fixes #211.
  • Added up next song popup for the mini-player.
  • Added a button to clear app local storage data.
  • Added support for holding metadata saves if that song is currently being played to prevent player confusions and song corruptions.
  • Added support for saving lyrics to an LRC file if edited through the SongTagsEditingPage.
  • CurrentQueuePage now shows the remaining time of the queue.
  • Added a new button to add an instrumental line below when editing lyrics lines.
  • Added a duration bar for lyrics lines to display current line duration.
  • Added auto scrolling as a button in CurrentQueuePage.
  • Added support for recording and storing song seek data.
  • Most seeked position and the seeked frequency of a song will be displayed in the SongInfoPage.
  • Added a new icon to show the lower volume level.

• 🔨 Fixes and Improvements

  • Improved app performance when parsing large libraries and toggling favorites.
  • Improved how index numbers are displayed in songs.
  • Improved animations overall fluidness of the app.
  • Fixed a bug where multiple selections add duplicates to the selections.
  • Fixed a bug where albums persist from the previous page when in ArtistPage page if the previous ArtistPage had albums but the current one doesn't. Fixes #202.
  • Fixed a bug where lyrics offset is showed as positive even though it is set to negative.
  • Fixed a bug where total song duration in Playlists, CurrentQueue are reset to if they count to more than 24 hours.
  • Fixed padding issues when displaying song index.
  • Fixed a bug where default artist artworks are not displayed.
  • Fixed a bug where albums are created using data from artist tag in a song instead of the albumArtist tag.
  • Fixed a bug where sorting option is not saved in FoldersPage and PlaylistInfoPage.
  • Fixed a bug where the user cannot remove unsynchronized lyrics from a song.
  • Fixed a bug where listening data are not recorded if the song is being repeated.
  • Fixed a bug where Last.FM scrobbling data is not sent if the song is being repeated.
  • Fixed a bug where images flash when components re-render.
  • Fixed a bug where correct equalizer preset name is not displayed when changing different presets.
  • Fixed a bug where SongTagsEditingPage shows that there are metadata updates even though there aren't any when opening the page.
  • Improved enhanced synchronized lyrics support.
  • Fixed a bug where the last lyric line shows its range ends in Infinity.
  • Improved animations when displaying enhanced lyrics.
  • Fixed a bug where background image doesn't update when a new artist artwork is downloaded in ArtistInfoPage.

This update includes a few fixes for some reported vulnerabilities from app dependencies.

🔨 Fixes and Improvements

• Updated dependencies to fix some security vulnerabilities.

This update fixes Last.Fm and Musixmatch activation issues. Sorry for too many updates. 🙏

• 🔨 Fixes and Improvements

  • Fixed a bug where the installer doesn't include required environment variables.
  • Fixed a bug where users can't apply custom musixmatch tokens.
  • Fixed a bug where users can't authenticate with Last.FM.