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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Building Zenteek, one late night at a time.
Liner Notes, Finally In 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.
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.
Why Zenteek Doesn't Have A Subscription?
When I started building Zenteek, I made one decision early that shaped everything after it: no subscription. Music means identity. We can't really identify with subscription services, can we?
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
Switching Over To DMG
A quick one tonight. I moved the distribution format from a zip to a proper DMG. Not glamorous, but it matters more than I thought. The zip flow was fine
Oversampling And Better Drive Knobs
I couldn't leave the preamp alone. Yesterday's release went out and I immediately started hearing the places where the saturation was being a little too aggressive on high transients -
Four Preamps And A Proper Output Stage
Today I jumped a minor version because this one actually earns it. The signal chain got two significant additions, both things I'd been sketching out in a notebook for weeks.
Fine-Tuning The Little Things
This one was all about the corners. The artwork-based color detection I put in yesterday worked, but there were edge cases.
Letting The Album Cover Pick The Color
I've always been a little annoyed by music players that wash every album out in the same palette.
The Day After Ship Day
The morning after a release is always quieter than you expect. No celebration, just a list of tiny things i have noticed + MCP addons.
The First Cut Is Always Rough
Today I cut the first build of Zenteek Player and pushed it out into the world. It feels strange - you work on something for months in the quiet of