Release 1.2.0

This release brings a collection of new features, UX improvements, and critical bugfixes aimed at making your listening experience smoother and more robust.

📝 Changelog

Added / New Features

• Introduced an automatic yt-dlp update dialog to update yt-dlp if the players fails to load a video
• Integrated “missing system dependency” information display when playback fails due to missing dependencies on the system (Most common on Linux)
• Enabled song / playlist duration display in the statistics screen, plus a loading screen when stats are being fetched
• Added a wait / loading screen while exporting playlists
• Added jump‑navigation for the “use-analyzer” view
• Implemented “queue backwards” button behavior to restart the current song when pressed

Improvements & Refactoring

• Performed general internal refactoring to clean up structure / code paths
• Improved the logic for deleting temporary directories used during file conversions
• Better error handling when loading I/O configuration — more robust in face of bad configs or missing fields
• Updated song‑load JSON (GSON) builder logic for more reliable parsing / defaults
• Migrated playlist storage: now storing songs in sets instead of lists (to reduce duplicates)
• Playlists will now automatically remove unexisting songs from their content if such are detected
• Efficiency improvements in song management inside playlists by lazy-loading objects
• Cleaned up redundant variables, debug messages, and unnecessary code paths
• Improved list view highlighting and auto-scrolling behavior (better UX)
• Specified fixed widths for auto-completion popups (better UI alignment)
• Tidied up README styling and updated documentation
• Improved About section under Help -> About

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue: song export fails when there is no thumbnail available
• Fixed URL loading failure for pre-defined images
• Fixed incorrect external process command logging / UI output for process errors
• Bugfix: ESC key did not close song list when 'list view' element had focus
• Corrected a bug where the first random ID generated was always AAAAAAAAAA
• Trimmed special characters from exported file names

Dependency / Version Updates

• Upgraded dependency jaudiotagger to version 2.3.15
• Updated dependency Mango‑Utils to v2.1.0

Other Changes

• Enhanced external process destruction logic (tries to run a cleanup, in case process gets stuck)
• Enhanced alert UI: added missing stylesheet references (so that alert dialogs can be styled in the future)
• Scheduled utility alerts now run on the UI thread (to avoid thread‑safety / race issues)
• Improved time comparator logic for sorting playlist durations

Release 1.1.0

The initial release of the MangoPlayer, containing the basic application