Metadata features:
- Display artist, album, title in bottom status bar (left-aligned)
- Display bitrate, codec, sample rate in bottom status bar (right-aligned)
- Fetch metadata from MPV using metadata/by-key properties
- Support both lowercase and uppercase metadata tags
Performance optimizations:
- Split property updates: fast updates (position/duration) vs slow (metadata)
- Update metadata only every 2 seconds instead of every 100ms
- Skip MPV property updates entirely when stopped
- Conditional UI redraws - only when state actually changes
- Variable poll rate: 200ms when stopped, 100ms when playing
- Position update throttling (0.5s minimum change)
- Reduces CPU usage from constant 10 FPS to ~0.1 FPS when idle
Search mode improvements:
- Search results persist until explicitly cleared
- Bold black highlighted chars on selection bar
- Fix fuzzy match scoring to select first occurrence
- Search info moved to bottom status bar
Keybinding changes:
- J/K for next/prev track (was n/p)
- H/L for seeking (was arrow keys)
- Simplified status bar shortcuts
UI improvements:
- Dynamic title bar color (green=playing, blue=paused, gray=stopped)
- White bold text for current playlist item
- Removed mouse capture for terminal text selection
Bug fixes:
- Fix auto-advance triggering multiple times when restarting from stopped state
- Current track shown with bold text instead of selection highlight
- Green bold for playing, blue for paused, yellow for stopped
- Cleaner visual appearance
- Bump version to 0.1.8
- Add vim-style h key: closes folders and jumps to parent
- Implement stop() method in player for proper playback stopping
- Add space key to restart playback when stopped
- Add playlist color coding: green (playing), blue (paused), yellow (stopped)
- Fix n/p keys to preserve player state when switching tracks
- Implement vim-style visual mode with v key for multi-file selection
- Visual mode exits automatically on play/add actions
- Remove unused play_previous method
- Bump version to 0.1.7
- Enable video playback by removing --no-video flag
- Add --profile=fast for better performance
- Add --audio-display=no to prevent cover art windows
- Implement mpv process respawn when closed
- Add process death detection and cleanup
- Show refresh status immediately in title bar
- Fix playlist playback after clearing
- Add folder priority boost in fuzzy search scoring
- Show search results in top status bar after Enter
- Change keybindings: v for mark, a for add to playlist, c for clear
- Add playlist management: add_to_playlist() and clear_playlist()
- Fix playlist index reset when clearing playlist
- Display incremental search status in bottom bar while typing
- Left/Right arrows: seek backward/forward 10 seconds
- +/- keys: adjust volume by 5% increments
- Volume clamped between 0-100%
- Only allow seeking when track is playing
- Update status bar help text with new controls
- Add title bar at top: 'cm-player • Playing/Stopped' (cyan bg)
- Three-section vertical layout: title, content, status bar
- Content area: left (files) | right (player + playlist)
- Bottom status bar centered with • separators
- Player state moved to title bar
- Progress and volume in Player panel
- Matches cm-dashboard layout structure
- Merge Status, Progress, Volume into one compact top panel
- Add Playlist panel showing queue with highlighted current track
- Move help to bottom status bar (cm-dashboard style)
- Bottom bar shows all keybindings in one line
- Right panel now: Status (top) + Playlist (bottom)
- Current playing track highlighted in cyan in playlist
- Add is_refreshing flag to AppState
- Display 'Refreshing library...' in status panel during scan
- Note: scan is currently blocking, message may be brief
- Infrastructure ready for future async scanning
- Cache is now only refreshed when user presses 'r'
- Empty cache on first launch - user must manually scan
- More explicit control over library updates
- Remove libmpv dependency to avoid version mismatch issues
- Spawn mpv as subprocess with --input-ipc-server
- Communicate via Unix socket with JSON IPC protocol
- Add update_properties() to poll MPV state
- No linking required, only mpv binary needed at runtime
- More stable and portable across MPV versions
- Initialize libmpv with audio-only configuration
- Implement play, pause, resume, stop, seek controls
- Add position and duration tracking from MPV
- Auto-advance to next track when current ends
- Update keybindings to use actual player
- Add shell.nix for development environment with libmpv
- Real playback now working with Enter/Space/n/p keys
- Mark files with 't' key (shown with * prefix in yellow)
- Clear marks with 'c' key
- Enter plays: marked files > whole folder > single file
- Navigate playlist with 'n' (next) and 'p' (previous)
- Show playlist position in status (e.g., "song.mp3 [3/10]")
- Collect all files recursively when playing folder
- Remove emoji icons from status panel
- Update help text with new keybindings
- Clean display with only directory names and / suffix
- No [+] or [-] markers shown
- Directories still expand/collapse with h/l
- Minimal vifm-style appearance
- Directories now start collapsed by default (vifm-style)
- User must press 'l' to expand directories
- Preserves expanded state during rescan
- Remove unused collect_all_dirs function
- Replace arrow keys with j/k for navigation
- Add h/l for collapse/expand directories
- Remove emoji icons, use clean text markers
- Show directories with [-]/[+] expand markers
- Track expanded state per directory path
- Add directory suffix (/) for clarity
- Update help text with vim bindings
- Add Cargo project with TUI and async dependencies
- Implement cache-only architecture for low bandwidth operation
- Add file scanner with media type detection
- Create two-panel TUI layout (file tree and status)
- Add config file support for scan path management
- Implement XDG-compliant cache and config directories
- Add Gitea CI/CD workflow for automated releases
