Musik 1.5.0

What's new in 1.5.0

Musik v1.5.0

This release adds a searchable keyboard guide, makes navigation easier, and fixes
playback-panel flicker and low-contrast text in the Spotify and SoundCloud themes.

Highlights

• Open the keyboard guide from Home or with F1. Browse categories or search by
shortcut and keyword; return to your previous screen without losing typed text.
• Press I on Home or in a song list to read the full song title, artist, duration,
and source in a scrollable details page.
• Navigate longer lists with Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End. Song lists show
the visible range and total count.
• The playback panel updates only changed text and progress cells instead of
repainting four times a second. Pausing, seeking, resizing, and returning from
other screens refresh the relevant parts correctly.
• Spotify and SoundCloud themes use white labels and brighter gray instructions
for readable menus, song lists, and help text.
• Improved layouts keep the player, status messages, and keyboard hints separate
in smaller terminals. Windows emoji widths are accounted for to protect borders.
• Search accepts Q as text, preserves queries when opening help, and supports
starting another query with / from results.
• Includes a complete keyboard and usage guide in the README and release packages.

Validation

• 8,112 regression checks cover terminal text, playback rendering, theme colors,
playlist persistence, and playback queues.
• Live terminal checks cover idle rendering, guide navigation, song selection,
favorites, and theme switching.

Updating

Existing installed copies can update with:

powershell
musik update

Download Musik-Setup.exe for a new installation, or use the portable ZIP.
SHA-256 checksums are included in SHA256SUMS.txt.

WinGet users can install with:

powershell
winget install --id CoderKinley.Musik --exact --source winget

Then run musik update if the catalog still lists an older version.

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