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Skipping intros stops being a switch and becomes a three-way choice —
never / ask / always — matching what Jellyfin offers and giving viewers a
way to turn the prompt off, which the boolean could not express.
Contract revision 6 → 7: adds playback.intro_skip_mode (enum, default
"ask", profile + profile_device scopes) and marks playback.auto_skip_intro
deprecated without removing it. Every shipped client still reads the
boolean, so for one release the server keeps the pair in step at write
time: canonical PUT/DELETE, the legacy /profiles route, and the legacy
runtime /settings/{key} route all land both rows, and a profile-scope enum
write refreshes user_profiles.auto_skip_intro so GET /profiles stays
truthful. Existing rows are carried onto the new key by a Goose migration
(Postgres) and an InitSchema twin (per-user SQLite); the settings-migrate
planner emits the companion for installs whose backfill runs later.
The spec in docs/design/2026-08-16-intro-skip-mode.md also defines the
prompt state machine every client (web, Android, Apple; browser, tablet,
mobile, TV) implements against this key. It builds on the Android TV
Skip Intro work in silo-android#210 — wall-clock timer, rebuffer-vs-pause
debounce, root-level key handling.
Co-authored-by: evulhotdog <365456+evulhotdog@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Feature Changelog
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## 2026-08-16
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### Let viewers turn the intro prompt off
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Skipping intros stops being a switch and becomes a choice of three: leave intros alone, offer a Skip Intro button, or skip automatically and offer an undo.
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- Adds `playback.intro_skip_mode` (`never` / `ask` / `always`, default `ask`) at contract revision 7 and deprecates `playback.auto_skip_intro`, which could not express "never".
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- Migrates every stored auto-skip-intro preference onto the new key, on both the PostgreSQL and per-user SQLite backends, so nobody's existing choice changes.
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- Mirrors the two keys at write time for one release, so a preference set on an older phone, TV, or browser still shows up correctly on an updated one.
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## 2026-04-09
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Covers commits from 2026-04-08 22:32 EDT through 2026-04-09 20:02 EDT.
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### Add artwork selection in the metadata editor
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Admins can now browse and apply poster, backdrop, and logo images from enabled metadata providers without leaving the edit flow.
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- Adds an `Images` tab in the item metadata editor for movies, series, seasons, and episodes.
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- Pulls image options from provider plugins, shows provider badges and popularity ordering, and highlights the current selection.
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- Applies the chosen image through new admin endpoints, caches it to storage, and locks image fields so future refreshes do not overwrite the manual choice.
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### Add native ASS and SSA subtitle support
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The player and backend now preserve styled anime subtitles instead of flattening them into simpler text formats.
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- Serves ASS tracks natively across the main playback API, Jellyfin compatibility routes, and the proxy subtitle path.
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- Integrates JASSUB in the web player so fonts, positioning, karaoke effects, and other advanced subtitle styling render correctly.
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- Keeps existing SRT and VTT handling unchanged while exposing subtitle format badges in the subtitle picker.
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### Show live server activity in the web app
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Admins now get a Plex-style live activity indicator directly in the UI.
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- Adds a real-time dropdown that summarizes direct play, remux, and transcode sessions alongside task progress and active library scans.
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- Keeps the activity affordance visible on admin screens and only exposes it on regular app pages when activity is actually happening.
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- Reuses existing realtime channels instead of introducing new backend plumbing.
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### Improve playback reliability and control flow
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Recent playback work focused on making copy-mode streaming behave more like direct play while reducing restart-related failures.
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- Preserves copy-mode when seeking, enables seek-anywhere manifests when duration is known, and allows supported HDR content to stay in direct play or remux paths instead of forcing full transcodes.
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- Retries Firefox copy-mode startup with a compatibility fallback to reduce failed starts on that browser.
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- Separates player exit and minimize controls so watch-page navigation is less ambiguous.
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- Handles transcode restarts more cleanly during segment waits and fixes copy-mode buffering after a restart so old segments are not served back to the player.
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### Refresh playback surfaces after watch-state changes
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A few related UI changes now keep browsing and episode detail views aligned with what the viewer just watched.
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- Refreshes home sections after watched-state updates so progress-sensitive shelves stay current without a manual reload.
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- Shows sticky version preferences on episode detail pages so preferred cuts or versions remain visible when choosing playback options.
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### Add a cinematic Playing Next experience
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Episode-to-episode playback now transitions through a richer post-roll flow.
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- Replaces the bare post-roll screen with a `Playing Next` screen that can appear about 30 seconds before the end of an episode.
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- Keeps the current episode running in a resizable mini-player while showing the upcoming episode with a more prominent background treatment.
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- Adds auto-play-next playback settings and supports cross-season next-episode lookups.
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### Support S3 key prefixes for stored media and assets
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Storage configuration can now target a scoped path inside an S3 bucket instead of requiring a bucket root layout.
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- Adds S3 key prefix configuration in server config loading, admin storage settings, and setup flows.
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- Updates the S3 client so Silo reads and writes through the configured prefix consistently.
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### Add chapter thumbnails and chapter-aware navigation
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Playback now has much deeper chapter support, including generated preview images and more resilient thumbnail processing.
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- Scans and stores embedded chapter metadata, exposes it through watch detail responses, and adds player chapter menus and seek-bar chapter affordances.
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- Introduces library settings and backfill tasks for chapter thumbnail generation, with realtime thumbnail delivery into active playback sessions.
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- Tracks thumbnail failure state, retry timing, and HDR thumbnail policy so generation can recover more predictably when extraction fails.
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