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Apr 23, 2026

New Search, New Instruments and improved DSP handling

Global Search - If you've used Spotlight or Raycast, you already know how to use this. Press CMD+K, start typing, and Zenteek searches across artists, albums, tracks, labels, lyrics and credits.

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Apr 18, 2026

crossfeed - headphones with a sense of space

I've been wanting a proper crossfeed stage in Zenteek since the first day I started the project. Tonight it finally landed. There are four presets in Output Tools covering different

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Apr 18, 2026

winamp flashbacks, in a window

A weekend detour: Zenteek now has a full-screen Milkdrop visualizer. ProjectM-4 under the hood, classic Winamp-era presets reacting to whatever is playing.

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Apr 15, 2026

smoother saturation and a new bass stage

Three things tonight, all of which have been on my list for weeks. First, the preamp simulator got a proportional waveshaper blend. In practical terms, this smooths out the loudness

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Apr 12, 2026

Calmer in-app notification design

Notifications got a redesign tonight. The old ones were fine, functionally, but they had that slightly-too-glossy feel that pulls your eye away from the track you're trying to listen to.

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Apr 11, 2026

autoplay that actually keeps playing

Autoplay has been slightly broken for longer than I care to admit. If you were navigating the library and the queue ran out, playback would just quietly stop. Technically correct

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Apr 10, 2026

a playlist oracle worth actually talking to

Info messages used to sit in the sidebar where the background process info lives, which meant that whenever the indexer was running you couldn't see what the app was trying

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Apr 9, 2026

30x faster grids and better MCP tools

I've been measuring grid view performance for weeks and quietly grinding at it. Tonight the work paid off - grid views are now up to thirty times faster than they

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Apr 8, 2026

Artist unknown? A cleaner library

The Artists enrichment pipeline learned a new trick tonight: it now tracks artists it couldn't find metadata for and paints them red in the artists listing. At first I thought

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Apr 7, 2026

Album Credits have been added to the player

This one hits close to home. I've been a liner-notes reader my whole life — the kind of person who reads credits with the same attention as the music itself.

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Apr 6, 2026

a crash, a toggle, and some tahoe cleanup

The Stereoize DSP I was so happy about yesterday turned out to have a nasty bug - it crashed on hi-res material. Which is, you know ... bad.

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Apr 5, 2026

waking up old mono recordings

I have a lot of mono recordings. Early jazz, a handful of fifties blues sides, some classical records from before stereo was a thing. They sound wonderful on a single

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