Every release thus far

• INDEXER Fixed importing issues with paths containing special characters.
• ARTIST PROFILE Fixed albums grid capturing vertical scrolling on the page.

• INDEXER Files with broken or unreadable artist tags (e.g. -, @, or ??? from mis-encoded names) are now indexed instead of being skipped. Tracks come into the library; the bad artist link is just dropped.
• INDEXER Multi-artist tags separated by / (for example: "Artist A / Artist B") are now split into individual artists. Band names without spaces around the slash (e.g. "AC/DC") are preserved as-is.

• PLAYLISTS Can now be managed in Folders.
• M3U IMPORT Known files won't trigger an additional tag scan.
• TRACKS You see now a "playing" indicator in all track tables.
• ROUTING (beta) When enabled with active outputs new mixer panel next to volume slider appears for easier access.

• HOTFIX Fixed rare indexer crash when there's trouble reading files. Problematic files are now skipped logged.
• SOURCES Add per-source indexer reporting that will list unreadable files for debugging. (Help > Open Indexer Reports Folder)

Introducing PLEX Support and REMOTE CONTROL Web App

• SOURCES Added full Plex integration with secure account linking (plex.tv/link), PIN-based authentication and integrated server selection and sync.
• REMOTE Added an optional Remote Control Web Interface for phones and tablets. Enable it in Settings, scan the QR code with your camera, and browse and control Zenteek remotely from any browser on your local network.
• SIDEBAR Search is now context-aware. Results automatically adapt to the current view, allowing you to filter albums, artists, tracks and more directly inside the active section.
• FORMATS Zenteek now supports OggFLAC (*.oga) natively.
• METATAGS Added a new "Inspector" window to display all metatags of the currently selected local file. Open it via CMD + I or Right Click > Open in Inspector.
• METATAGS Current artwork is now embedded automatically when using "Write Metatags".
• SETTINGS Reorganized the Settings window. Common options at the top. More advanced options grouped toward the bottom.
• BUGFIX Discovery should now be faster and no longer list duplicate entries without artwork in some situations.
• BUGFIX Artist Detail sections sometimes displayed without vertical scrollbars until you resized the window. Fixed.
• BUGFIX Fixed an issue were orphaned tracks from removed sources were inflating album track counts.

• CORE You can now host a continuous HTTP audio stream (WAV/FLAC) for systems like Lyrion Music Server. The feature is available in the Settings menu.
• BUGFIX When switching from 6- or 8-channel speaker configurations to stereo devices, the speaker configuration now resets correctly.

Introducing Multi-Channel Support

Full pass through (no DSP) and stereo-upmix (with DSP)

• ENGINE Zenteek now supports multi-channel audio front to back.
• OUTPUT Added a Mode switch in Output Tools: Speaker / Headphones.
• OUTPUT In Speaker mode you can select 2.0 (Stereo), or choose 5.1, 7.1 with channel mixer
• OUTPUT In Headphone mode you have Crossfeed and Room settings
• NEW DSP Added 5.1/7.1 Stereo Upmix with a number of filters (requires multi-channel interface)

Remote Media

• SOURCES Added a lightweight log system (Help > Open Sources Log)
• SOURCES Made sure all new remote sources index runs can be cancelled.
• SOURCES You can now disable "start up scan" per remote source for faster launch

Misc

• BUGFIX Tracks View "Filter-Bar" now stays visible even with zero matches

• ROUTING Added experimental low-latency mode.
• SOURCES Added button to "Sync Now" on remote sources.

1.4.0 - Introducing Output Routing (BETA)

A new continuous audio transport system for remote playback.

Zenteek can now stream audio in parallel to AirPlay and DLNA/UPnP receivers using the new Output Routing engine. Unlike traditional renderer-based playback, audio is mixed and processed locally first, then distributed as one continuous synchronized stream to your receivers/speakers.

New

• Per-device delay compensation
• Per-device stream gain control
• Optional local output mute while remote outputs continue playing
• Added AirPlay 2 receiver pairing flow
• Added DLNA/UPnP renderer discovery and streaming
• Added continuous transport bus architecture for smoother transitions and crossfades

Architecture

• Track changes, seeks and crossfades are handled locally inside Zenteek
• Remote devices behave as audio endpoints rather than independent players
• Greatly improved transition smoothness and multi-device consistency

Notes

• Output Routing is currently released as BETA as i have limited hardware options to test.
• Hardware compatibility may vary depending on the receiver implementation. (Looking at you, Samsung)
• Some devices may require manual delay adjustment for synchronization

• SOURCES Added support for UPnP/DLNA, including Plex-specific DLNA implementations.
• SOURCES Added support for Lyrion Media Server (LMS).
• UI HomeView now displays all sections instead of trying to be overly smart. Full control is back in your hands.
• UI The HomeView welcome screen now includes the new source picker and all remote server options.
• CORE Added automatic database backups, configurable in the Settings menu. Better to have them than need them.
• CORE Added a launch-crash detector. If the app refuses to open for some reason, it now presents a recovery menu.

• PLAYBACK Seek in intervals using CMD+SHIFT+LEFT or CMD+SHIFT+RIGHT (tap or hold).
• PLAYBACK Set your preferred seek interval in the Settings menu (5s, 10s, 20s or 30s).
• UI You can now also seek by holding down the mouse button on the "Previous Track" and "Next Track" toolbar controls.
• UI The Back button (<) is now easier to click. The clickable area has been enlarged for better usability.
• BUGFIX Embedded FLAC artwork is now imported correctly. The system previously detected a false positive.

• CORE Upgraded the File Indexer architecture to support multiple types
• CORE Enhanced the Playback Engine to resolve the best possible match.
• CORE PlaybackEngine now accepts HTTP Streams to support remote media servers
• SOURCES Added support for Subsonic/Navidrome
• SOURCES Added support for Jellyfin.

More sources are planned in the future. Plex is on the roadmap.

• TRACKS You can now hide low-quality duplicates from track tables. New toggle in "View" menu.
• ARTISTS You can now sort albums in artist profiles by name, year and date-added.
• ARTISTS Alphabet Index and Name Sorting now ignore the common "The..." band name prefix.
• BUGFIX Crossfade rarely calculated the next track gain wrong which had unpleasent volume jumps. Now fixed!

• UI Artist Detail View gained a secondary "Albums" layout for artist having more than 4 albums in your library.
• BUGFIX Multi-channel DAC config is no longer collapsed to 2 channels in exclusive mode; original device format is restored when exclusive mode ends.

• UI Fixed the look of the toolbar in Tahoe

• FEATURE Settings: You can now edit the sidebar menu, hide features you don't use or change order.
• FEATURE Radio: Open any stream url via "File" menu or CMD + SHIFT + O.
• FEATURE Radio: Add custom Streams to our library. Added "+" button to the top left header
• FEATURE Radio: You can now tame stream volume by measuring loudness via [calibrate lufs] button inside the display, f.ex. at the loudest part of a song, then normalize using "output tools" panel.
• BUGFIX Radio: Still had the sample rate configuration issue i fixed last time with local files. Fixed in Shared and Exclusive mode.
• BUGFIX Track Context Menu: Filtered "Mixtape"-Playlist from the submenu since those lists are usually considered "archived".
• FEATURE Improved Mid-Side Decoding: When enabled you can now bring the vocals forward with new "Body" control and re-align panning. Enjoy those hard panned 60s mixes in a new stereo blend.
• FEATURE Help: Added a new "Support" panel. If you need assistance getting to know Zenteek or just want to say hello. The form to submit a requests, that was only available on the website, is now built in.

• UI The main album context-menu is now available in everywhere.
• FIX Rare crash during device format negotiation fixed.

• FIX Reduced idle energy usage. The Mac can sleep easy again. :)
• FIX Rare no-sound issue in "shared audio" mode finally fixed.
• UI Welcome Screen got messed up in 1.3.0 and took full width which looked a little weird.
• UI New icon, new display fonts, prepping for upcoming launch

Introducing Zenteek's unique Timeline view

• FEATURE Timeline View: calendar view of your local playback history
• FEATURE Timeline Mixes: get weekly and monthly mixes curated by your local data. Added option to "regenerate" on demand.

More Exploration Features

• FEATURE Editorial Album descriptions: Enrichment API now delivers descriptions (hint: refresh-all profiles at least once)
• FEATURE Hi-Res Albums now get a small badge in the detail view
• FEATURE Credits now displayed in a compact popover window. No more context switch. Easier to explore.
• FEATURE Cover Flow now displays a teaser if album has a description.
• FEATURE You can now search through all album descriptions, like you could with lyrics. CMD+SHIFT+F
• FEATURE Sources now show total library size in GB alongside number of tracks total
• FEATURE Sources can now be excluded from album/artist indexing via an exclusion filter (toggle switch)
• FEATURE Albums can now be filtered by Release Type. You can also assign a Release Type manually per album.

New DSP and better Performance

• FEATURE Calibrated all meters and level displays. Removed "input gain" slider. No longer needed.
• DSP: Optimised all DSP to consume much less CPU. Most come at no cost and those that do are in the 5% region
• DSP: Added Oversampling Selector in the Playback settings (1x, 2x, 4x). Default is 4x. Eliminates aliasing artifacts.
• DSP: New global switch to A/B the DSP work, with integrated gain compensation (no loudness bias)
• DSP: New Transient Shaper module, allowing you to carve out dynamics in overly compressed records.
• DSP: New Room module simulates psychoacoustic listening distance and early reflections. This is not a reverb.

Interface and Fixes

• FEATURE Improved Milkdrop Visualizer responsiveness by tweaking the signal equalisation.
• FEATURE Added shortcut to the Help menu to quickly access the Visualizer user-presets folder
• UI New toolbar and icons, and smoother look for the main display.
• UI Reorganised Sidebar and some Key-binds. You can now switch views using CMD + 0-9.
• UI Window key-binds also follow a pattern: CMD + SHIFT + W for main-window, M for mini-player, V for visualizer
• UI New Album Detail View layout and colors. Much more compact and larger artwork.
• BUGFIX Fixed occasional Shared/Exclusive switch sample-rate reconfigure bug (2x and ½ speed)

• Albums: New Coverflow view alongside the default Grid. A little nostalgic nod to classic iTunes - switch anytime via the view toggle in the top-right corner. Enjoy!
• BugFix: Fixed a rare crash when opening the Discogs search window.
• Trial Time: Extended from 7 to 14 days. Current users get an extension on top of the remaining days.

Zenteek launches in May 2026. Join the waitlist on the homepage for early access and special launch pricing.

• Album Artwork management (right click > select from disk, search online & remove from cache)
• Artist Image management (right click > select from disk, search online & remove from cache)
• Indexer: Simply drop "cover.jpg" or "folder.jpg" into an album folder for it to be picked up immedietly with "auto-scan" enabled.

Note: when you have enrichment enable, and try to remove a cover/artist-image, it might get pulled from server immediately again. So while enrichment is on, you can't really have "empty cover" items, even if you force delete. This is not a bug, its a feature. :)

• New Output Tools: High-end DACs use reconstruction filters to eliminate ringing artifacts around transients. Zenteek now does the same in software, with 5 filter models to match your preferred sonic character.
• Bugfix Harmonic Exciter: The effect blend knob added in the last build introduces phase cancellation at 50% that went unnoticed. I rewrote the effect mix and now you can safely and delay-free control the amount of added harmonics.
• Update Interface: Cleaned up the effect panels for a more unified look.

• New UI Panel Enhancements: Bass Extender, Harmonic Exciter and the new Vitalizer - all in one place
• New DSP Module SPL Vitalizer-inspired psychoacoustic: resonant bass contouring, subtle mid demasking, and HF air lift for a more three-dimensional, open sound.
• New Control: Harmonic Exciter: Now gained a dry/wet knob at its new home. You can now control the amount.
• Interface: Volume and Mute had to make room for the new panel. Might take some time getting used to though.
• Interface: Spectrum Analyzer bands were slightly moved on full scale and i've added the missing dB labels.

Happy Weekend!

• Introduction of "Physical Media" features: New "Collection" view and context-menu actions on Albums to add "Vinyl" and "CDs" with Goldmine Standard rating options. Track your personal media collection together with digital. Just right-click on an album artwork to add in the new submenu available in Albums View and and Album Detail..
• Goldmine grade model (M > NM > VG+ > VG > G+ > G > F > P)
• Removed track-level Vinyl/CD flags from "Edit Details" window, as ownership is now an album-level concern
• Artist/Album Navigation: Context menu for Artist Details are not better. Related Artists has a "Play/View Artist" action now.
• Crossfade: Bug fixed where it would skip to the next track abruptly due to format change (exclusive mode constraints).
• VU Meter: Now fully calibrated to 0dBFS in conjuction with peak indicator and much more responsive and fluid
• Peak Indicator: no longer showing false alarms. True dBFS read, so it only warns on user-actionable clipping (f.e. too much preamp gain on EQ)
• UI: Added a small divider line to the Sidebar as it would sometimes blur too much with the main content.

• Optimized FFT CPU usage
• Click free DSP Toggles
• DSP pipeline restructured
• Artwork Update Propagation fixed
• Headroom Ceiling corrected

• New "Global Search" utilty. Press CMD+K to open and search across artists, albums, tracks, labels, lyrics and credits.
• New Instrument: Oscilloscope, full configurable via new context aware config button in main display
• New Instrument: Spectrum Analyzer, fully configurable FFT with peak hold, Blackman or Hann windowing
• New Utility: Sinus Wave Generator for testing DSP Effects scientifically.
• Improved Bass Enhancer: Gradually control between linear to non-linear bass extension at unity gain
• Peak Indicator: Now less sensitive.

• Minor UI tweaks for light-mode. Some areas had low contrast.
• New appearance setting to switch dark/light mode
• Help Menu: "Install Zenteek MCP" instead of just "Install".

• added "Install in Claude Desktop" one-click setup for MCP.
• added "Show MCP Config..." in Help menu with instructions.

• Playback Engine: Rewritten decode pipeline for stable gapless playback and crossfade support.
• Display Instruments: gain boost slider added (calibrate the volume meter to your system)
• Playback Settings: Crossfade between tracks (1 - 12 seconds variable fade)
• Stereoize Upgrade: Much improved unique multi-band mono to stereo effect
• Harmonic Exciter: New DSP adding subtle upper harmonics and air to dusty recordings
• Gain Reduction Indicator: Know when your signal is too hot. The volume slider will flash red when peaking.

• Playback: Negotiation for audio devices and between material made more robust (unplug, switch, upgrade, etc).
• Crossfeed Filter: Improved unit with a LF-Shelf Compensation following closer the Meier/Bauer design.
• Interface: All new Settings dialog. Now structured by category and in a separate window.
• Tahoe Support: Replaced the "glass" option picker with a custom control that behaves as intended.

• Crossfeed for Headphones: New in Output Tools - four presets and an adjustable speaker angle bring speaker-like imaging to your headphones.
• Bug Fix: Switching between audio sample rates in Shared Mode could halt playback. Fixed.
• New Feature: GPU-accelerated visualizer window with multiple presets. Enjoy the show.

• Pre-Amp Sim: Added proportional waveshaper blending to smooth loudness variance.
• Interface: Reworked Artist and Album View for much faster and CPU friendly scrolling
• New Feature: Output Tools gained a "Bass Enhancer" with 3 specialized modes.

• Enhanced Trial Mode

• New notification design
• Throttled unecessary notification center updates

• bugfixes regarding autoplay and queue end
• session history for navigation autoplayed tracks without queue
• in-app status messages are now less distracting

• Info messages now displayed inside the main display area, no longer hiding background process info
• New MCP knowledge-graph powered playlist generation tools with mood detection.

• Hotfix

• Major speed upgrade for all Grid Views. (Up to 30 times faster)
• New MCP Tool "search_by_contributor" to find all music by producer/engineer
• New MCP Tool "get_album_credits" & "get_track_credits" to find credits for an item
• New MCP Tool "shuffle_playlist" to mix generated playlists (or any existing)
• General maintenance and tweaks

• Artists Enrichment now tracks unknown Artists and paints them red in Artists listing.
• Enrichment toggle now includes starting initial Album Profile downloads on enable.
• Indexer now automatically purges orphaned entries so your library stays clean
• The scanning background process now shows a progress counter in the sidebar
• Removed experimental "remixer" Artist Detection. Was not useful enough.

• New Feature: Album and Track Credits
• New Feature: Related Album Section in Album Detail Views
• Improved: Clearer Format Menu Structure for Enrichments
• New Feature: Clean Orphaned Library Entries (Library Menu)
• New Feature: Search and download missing lyrics online.
• Fixed some minor bugs here and there

• Bug Fix: Stereoize crashed with hi-res material.
• Equalizer: Choose EQ shape per band per simple toggle button (peak, hi-shelf, lo-shelf)
• AutoEQ: Low/High Shelf Bands are fully supported now.
• MacOS 26: Tahoe-related issues with the UI are not mostly cleaned up.

• New "Stereoize" DSP. Multiband Mono to Stereo conversion effect

• Switchting from ZIP to DMG release

• 2x Oversampling for Tape Saturation and PreAmp Modelling
• Improved PreAmp emulation for added harmonics
• More musical controls for PreAmp Drive/Sat with better scaling

• Amp Modelling: you can now pick from 4 different EQ PreAmps with specific characteristics
• Output Tools: Control Loudness Target, M/S processing, Phase Inversion and Stereo Width

• Improved Artwork Based Color Detection
• Added Loudness Normalizer Status Info
• Add/Remove to Favorites now fully reactive
• Added Display Chip to toggle favorite status
• Calibrated Normalizer Target LUFS against Visualizers

• Feature: Use current artwork color as accent color (select Note circle in Appearance)
• Bugfix: Artwork caching issue resolved. Load speed back to normal.

• MCP updated
• minor UI fixes

Initial Release