Release 0.4.1

Release v0.4.1

📝 Changelog

Minor Changes

• Added playlist browsing and add-to-playlist functionality
  • Added "Playlists" option to right-click context menu for browsing user playlists
  • Created PlaylistView to browse playlists and play tracks from them
  • Added "+" button to LayoutB for adding the current song to any playlist
  • Implemented AddToPlaylistModal component for quick playlist selection
  • Added Spotify API functions for fetching playlists and adding tracks
• Integrated TOON format for AI DJ tool responses to reduce LLM token usage
  • Added @toon-format/toon dependency for Token-Oriented Object Notation encoding
  • Updated all Spotify tool responses to use TOON format for track and artist data
  • Track data now uses compact format: n=name, a=artists, u=uri
  • Artist data now uses compact format: n=name, g=genres, p=popularity, id=artistId
  • Updated AI DJ system prompt to explain TOON format parsing
  • Expected token savings of 30-50% on structured data responses
• Added Discord Rich Presence integration
  • Shows currently playing track on Discord profile
  • Toggle in Settings → Connections to enable/disable
  • Displays: Track name, Artist, "Listening to MiniFy"
  • Automatically updates when track changes or playback pauses
  • "View on GitHub" button linking to the MiniFy repository
  • AI Queue indicator: Shows "Artist • AI Queue" when AI Queue is active
  • Enabled by default
• Enhanced AI DJ with automatic user context and privacy transparency
  • AI DJ now automatically sends user context with each message for better recommendations:
    • Display name, current time, currently playing track
    • Recent tracks (last 15), top artists with genres
  • Added privacy notice in Settings → Privacy explaining what data is sent to LLM providers
  • AI Queue info box now updates in real-time showing correct "Next" track and remaining count
  • Queue monitoring interval reduced from 5s to 3s for faster updates
• Added AI Queue feature for endless automated playlists
  • New AI Queue mode that generates continuous playlists based on listening history
  • Analyzes last 30 played tracks and top artists using TOON format (saves ~40% tokens)
  • Automatically queues 5 tracks at a time with smart prefetching
  • Caches user preferences for 10 minutes to minimize API calls
  • Red border indicator when AI Queue is active (shows token usage)
  • Toggle in Settings > AI DJ to disable the border warning
  • Queue button in AI DJ view to start/stop the feature
  • Uses compact TOON data format for efficient LLM communication
• Performance optimizations and Volume control feature
  • New Volume control accessible via right-click menu
    • Slider for precise volume adjustment (debounced for smooth operation)
    • Preset buttons for quick volume levels (Mute, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%)
    • Shows current playback device name
  • PlaylistView: Implemented lazy loading - loads 30 tracks initially, loads more on scroll
  • Added lazy loading for album art images (loading="lazy")
  • SpotifyClient optimizations:
    • Token caching to avoid repeated Tauri invocations
    • Request deduplication for concurrent identical GET requests
    • Fire-and-forget pattern for player controls (play, pause, next, prev)
    • Debounced seek to avoid API flooding during scrubbing
  • AI Queue auto-stops when user manually starts a different song
  • TOON format verified across all AI-related code for token efficiency

Patch Changes

• Code cleanup and improvements
  • Replaced dynamic imports with static imports in aiQueueService for better performance
  • Added error handling for AI suggestion JSON parsing with descriptive error messages
  • Fixed stale closure issue in PlaylistView loadMoreTracks callback
  • Removed unused SplashScreen component and related CSS animations
  • Removed unused ContextMenu component
  • Fixed linter warnings in keyboard shortcuts switch statement
• Added keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation
  • Ctrl+S: Open Search
  • Ctrl+P: Open Playlists
  • Ctrl+E: Open Settings
  • Ctrl+M: Open Volume Control
  • Ctrl+D: Open AI DJ (when configured)
  • Escape: Return to player view
    Shortcuts are displayed in the right-click context menu.

📦 Commits since v0.4.0

• feat: add discord_rpc_enabled setting to readSettings function (6acc54a)
• refactor: improve AI queue and playlist handling (bdfac29)
• feat: integrate AI Queue and Discord RPC features (f4b2319)
• chore: update development URLs in env.example (76356be)
• chore: update README to include Discord link (e0f5be1)
• chore: refine Dockerfile for MiniFy Docs build process (bb7e04d)
• chore: update Dockerfile for improved asset handling (94bc15a)
• chore: update Dockerfile and .dockerignore for improved build process (d3c490d)
• chore: delete changesets after release v0.4.0 (b5856ee)

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