The "Industrial Strength" Update (v3.0.4)

This major update transforms the core engine for 100% reliability and adds powerful new controls.

✨ NEW FEATURES:
• Expanded Native Restoration: Automatically restores original scripts for ALL non-Latin languages including Thai, Arabic, Greek, and more (beyond the previous Indian language support).
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Switch modes instantly while the lyrics panel is open by pressing 'O' (Original), 'R' (推), or 'T' (Translated).
• Discrete Mode: You can now hide the on-page floating controls via the popup and rely exclusively on shortcuts or the popup remote.
• Searchable Language Picker: Quickly find your target language from over 100 options in the new, high-performance popup selector.

🛠️ IMPROVEMENTS:
• "Unbreakable" Fetch Engine: Completely re-engineered the way lyrics are intercepted to eliminate "Couldn't load lyrics" errors.
• Zero-Latency Startup: Improved caching and module-level token warming ensure lyrics appear instantly without flickering.
• Brotli-Safe Fallbacks: Intelligent header management prevents browser decompression errors when switching between original and translated text.
• UI Polish: Refined dark-mode aesthetics to match the latest Spotify design system.

✨ New Features

• Tamil Romanization: Tamil is now romanized locally using practical phonetics (like zh, th, aa digraphs) rather than relying on external API diacritics.
• Odia Support: Added Odia to the list of supported Indian languages for native-script restoration.
• Custom Settings Modal: Replaced the clunky native browser alert with a beautifully synthesized, custom Settings UI overlay that perfectly matches the Spotify design system. This also resolves a known visual bug where Firefox dialogs appeared squished.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Firefox Cache Fix: Resolved an issue where Firefox's local storage cache would fail to evict old lyrics, preventing unbounded storage growth.
• Flicker-Free Injection: Eliminated occasional visual flashes of original lyrics during song changes by implementing a zero-latency synchronous in-memory cache.
• Injection Reliability: Massively improved the reliability of the fetch-interceptor to ensure native-script lyrics (for Indian languages) are consistently restored on the first try.
• Performance: Reduced DOM observer overhead by dropping aggressive text-node tracking.

v2.0.2 — Native Script Restoration for Indian Languages

Many Indian-language songs on Spotify display lyrics only in romanized form (e.g. "un peyaryl en perai cherttu" instead of Tamil script) even though the original native-script version exists in Musixmatch's database.

This update silently fixes that: when a supported Indian-language song is detected, the extension fetches the native-script synced lyrics directly from Musixmatch and replaces the romanized fallback before Spotify renders it. No settings or toggles required.

Supported scripts: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bengali.

The Romanize and Translate features now operate on the correct native source script, producing significantly more accurate results for these languages.

Welcome to Version 2.0! This is a massive architectural overhaul designed to make Spotify Karaoke faster, lighter, and more accurate.

What's New:
✨ Complete under-the-hood engine rewrite for lightning-fast real-time lyrics synchronization
✨ Brand new "Dual Lyrics" mode: See the original lyrics directly beneath your translated/romanized translation!
✨ Rebuilt translation chunking pipeline for significantly improved syntax and context preservation
✨ Brand new popup UI interface and settings panel
✨ Massive stability improvements across all language romanization engines (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Cyrillic, Indic, Thai, etc.)