Music Meta by Mozbeats

1.5.5

• Prevented Deezer album imports from altering manual posts when a matching release already exists.
• Generated album tracks now reuse equivalent automatic posts instead of creating duplicates.
• Restored the new-post safeguard for the automatic Music Metadata Sheet, preventing it from appearing on older manual posts.
• Added a dedicated Pro Activation and Backup tab.
• Expanded Premium backup and restore to include posts, content, Music Meta fields, terms, artists, Deezer active-sync data, queues, and synchronization history.
• Added an export option for including synchronized artists and their Deezer state.
• Full backups can restore the same site by post ID and safely create or match posts by source and slug on another site.

1.5.4

• Changed Deezer artist synchronization from every 12 hours to once daily at the configured WordPress site time.
• Corrected next-sync timestamps to display in the WordPress site timezone.
• Added an optional Premium internal download redirect that keeps download links on the site domain before redirecting to the saved external file.
• Internal download redirects validate a signed link, count downloads server-side, and become invalid when the destination link changes.
• Applied the optional internal redirect to download buttons, alternative links, playlists, Deezer CTAs, and the download-link template variable.

1.5.3

• Corrected Deezer scheduled synchronization to use the WordPress site timezone and immediately apply a newly saved sync time.
• Scheduled runs now queue all active artists with a valid Deezer URL in small batches, avoiding timeouts.
• Added the number of eligible scheduled artists, configured time, and next execution to the Synchronizations tab.
• Improved Deezer cover downloads with compatible request headers and response validation.
• Added a repair action for up to 25 Deezer-generated posts without featured images per run.
• Deezer synchronization now skips albums with a future release date, preventing unpublished tracks from being posted early.
• Cover repair now falls back to the album cover when a released track has no individual cover data.

1.5.2

• Added Premium Deezer artist synchronization for creating the latest recent track post when it is not already published.
• Deezer synchronization now checks every track in the newest release before concluding that no new post is available.
• The sync processes only the newest release and stops after creating one new post, preventing older releases from being published unexpectedly.
• Added the checked-track count to synchronization results, artist status, notices, and history.
• Added a Synchronizations tab after Duplicate Repair with all active Deezer artists and their recent updates.
• Moved the synchronization history out of the Artists page into the Synchronizations tab.
• Manual Deezer synchronization now returns to the same Music Meta screen instead of the default WordPress tag/category term page.
• Plugin activation queues an initial Deezer synchronization for every active artist that already has a valid Deezer profile URL.
• New Deezer posts now use the track primary artist supplied by Deezer; an associated artist is added as feat. when they are only a participant.
• Added a bulk repair action for correcting the primary artist, titles, terms, SEO metadata, and image metadata on existing Deezer-generated posts.
• Added a Premium setting to choose the base time for Deezer artist synchronization.
• Deezer artist sync now schedules daily checks at the configured time using the WordPress site timezone, and saving a new time immediately reschedules the next run.
• The Synchronizations tab now shows the number of eligible scheduled artists, configured base time, and next scheduled execution.
• Artist sync status now displays the configured sync time and next scheduled run.
• Added a dedicated Music Meta artist editor with Artist, Biography, and Synchronization tabs.
• Added inline biography editing inside the artist editor and kept biography editing available for free users.
• Added Premium-only Deezer artist URL, automatic sync, verified artist, manual sync, status, and recent history controls.
• Added a Deezer generated-post CTA with Download, Download unavailable, and Stream on Deezer states.
• Added Premium color controls for the Deezer CTA bar, download button, and stream button.
• Added Premium Deezer CTA style alternatives: gradient bar, split buttons, compact, and glass.
• Added a visible pulsing status dot to the Deezer CTA.
• Added free manual playlist by renaming track titles from the post editor, with repeatable fields and automatic numbering without creating posts.
• Added a default music genre field to the Music Meta artist editor.
• The default artist genre is selected from the genres configured in the plugin settings.
• Deezer-generated posts now use the artist default genre when the track does not provide a valid music genre.
• Artist cards now display the selected default music genre.
• Deezer artist sync now detects existing duplicated generated posts, completes the best post with metadata, tags, and cover, and moves duplicated auto-generated posts to the trash.
• Removed the old separate Add Biography button from artist cards in favor of the unified artist editor.
• Added verified artist badge output for associated posts.

1.5.1

• Prevented Spotify track posts from being duplicated when the album/EP post is updated.
• Created Spotify track posts now store an internal Spotify track key and parent album ID for reliable future matching.
• Created Spotify track posts keep the default WordPress category and default post format.
• When post type source is configured as categories, Album/EP/Mixtape now replace the default category instead of being added beside it; Music keeps the default WordPress category.
• Spotify cover import now handles image URLs without file extensions and applies the cover to the album and generated track posts.
• Created Spotify track posts now fill the Yoast SEO focus keyphrase with the generated post title.
• Spotify playlist titles now keep all album artists as main artists and only move extra track artists into feat.
• Duplicate feat names are removed when Spotify repeats an artist in the title and in the artist list.
• Created Spotify track posts now use the album/EP post URL as the download link instead of copying the album download file URL.
• Created Spotify track posts inherit valid music genres from the album/EP post even when genres are mixed between tags and categories.
• Created Spotify track posts now use 320Kbps as the default quality.
• Spotify cover imports now run in the background to prevent album saves from timing out with server error 500.
• Album/EP updates now reuse cached Spotify tracks when the album link has not changed.
• Added Premium admin toggles for Spotify cover import, applying album covers to generated tracks, inheriting album genres, and default 320Kbps quality.
• Improved Spotify playlist and generated post featured artist formatting so two names use “&” and three or more names use commas with “&” only before the last artist.
• Spotify playlist and generated posts now preserve the main artist text exactly as written in the album/EP post title.
• Generated Spotify track posts now always use the parent album/EP post URL as the download link, including previously generated tracks.
• Generated Spotify track posts can now use individual download links when edited manually.
• Artist auto-tagging now preserves valid music genres when artists and genres share the same taxonomy.
• Spotify import errors now include the API response detail when available.
• Added an optional Premium toggle for importing artist genres from Spotify to reduce Too Many Requests errors by default.
• Spotify rate limit responses now keep the existing imported track cache instead of clearing the playlist.
• Added Deezer album/EP links as an alternative source for importing playlist tracks, durations, cover images, and generated posts with the same Premium rules.
• Corrected Deezer participant detection using artists, contributors, and featured_artists.
• Refreshes old Deezer track caches so playlists created during testing can rebuild with featured artists.
• Applies the generated-track rules equally to Spotify and Deezer, including Music type, track playlist role, Yoast focus keyphrase, inherited genres, featured artists, and album artwork.
• Added a playlist source selector box so each album/EP uses only one automatic source: none, Spotify, or Deezer.
• Improved Artists tab pagination alignment and visual style.

1.5

• Separated the post type taxonomy from the music genre taxonomy.
• Posts automatically created from Spotify now apply Music/Album/EP/Mixtape to the configured post type taxonomy.
• When an Album/EP Spotify link is added, the plugin imports the cover and sets it as the featured image when the post does not already have an image.
• Music genres imported from Spotify are filtered to prevent years, Album, EP, Music, and other non-musical terms from being added.
• The Artists tab now ignores years, genres, post types, and terms associated only with posts without musical indicators.
• Added a Premium option to automatically create posts from Spotify tracks without an internal post.
• Created posts receive the Music type, track number, duration, artists, genres inherited from the Album/EP, featured image, and download link from the main post.
• The release type selected in the post now creates or selects the corresponding term in the configured taxonomy.
• Improved the Artists tab filter to hide genres and release types.
• Internal posts linked to the playlist now display the title exactly as published.
• Removed “(Download)” text from internal playlist items.
• Spotify-imported tracks now appear in the format Artist – Title (feat. Featured Artist).
• Tracks linked to internal posts retain the link to the published post.
• The playlist now displays clean titles when a Spotify track points to an existing post.
• Artists are separated from the title, and multiple artists are joined with &.
• Featured artists detected in posts now appear after the title as “feat.”.
• Fixed a fatal error when attempting to link Spotify tracks to existing posts.
• Simplified detection by combining the first Spotify artist with the track title in the published post title.
• Improved automatic linking of Spotify tracks to already published posts with full titles such as Artist – Song.
• Imported tracks no longer appear as separate items when a corresponding post exists on the website.
• Added Spotify integration to import tracks and durations from Albums and EPs into the playlist’s main post.
• Premium Playlist can now combine tracks published on the website with tracks imported from Spotify.
• Tracks already published on the website have priority to prevent playlist duplication.
• Fixed the automatic shortcode so it does not duplicate when the post already contains a shortcode or Music Metadata Sheet template.
• Removed the date restriction to maintain compatibility with valid older music publications.
• The automatic template now requires a music category, preventing it from appearing on posts about other subjects.
• Fixed detection of music posts in the automatic shortcode when genres appear in tags or categories different from the main configuration.
• Added an individual post option to manually enable the automatic Music Metadata Sheet for older songs.
• Maintained protection against automatic application to old posts or content without musical indicators.
• Added Premium options to customize primary color, accent color, and dark color.
• Custom colors now affect download buttons, Music Metadata Sheet, release layouts, and Premium Playlist.
• Fixed the automatic shortcode so it only appears on posts created after the option is activated.
• Added checks to prevent automatic Music Metadata Sheets on old posts or content without musical indicators.
• Updated translations for the new Premium color section.
• Improved the plugin dashboard with a visual header, modern navigation, and statistics cards.
• Styled the settings, Premium, templates, artists, tables, and button sections.
• Added interactive states for buttons, genre lists, and download links.
• Improved the responsive experience of the WordPress admin panel.
• Updated translations for the new interface.
• Fixed tracklist detection to maintain compatibility with tracks using the main Album, EP, or Mixtape post link.
• Playlist-by-code mode now also finds older tracks associated through the main post link.
• Normalized release type detection across new metadata, old categories/tags, and old links.
• Track numbering is now automatically filled with the next available number when the post has a playlist/code but no track number.
• Playlist sorting is now smarter: it uses the track number when available and the post date as a fallback.
• Updated translation strings for the new version.