Notes from Kapell.

The narrow path

Genre pages now browse Apple's whole catalog, ranked by your storefront, plus a lot more artists connected to their records.

Kapell v1.4.1 released

• ADD Ability to browse songs when searching artist roles (production, etc)
• FIX Clicking on album covers in the 'Worth a First Listen' rail now work

Kapell v1.4.0 released

• ADD Browse Apple's whole catalog by genre, with deep filters
• ADD A bento-style Home, and views tinted by album art
• ADD Sort and filter Crates and Playlists, with Playlist Folders

Everything is everything

Genre pages now browse Apple's whole catalog, ranked by your storefront, plus a lot more artists connected to their records.

Kapell v1.3.0 released

• ADD Search albums and tracks by studio, genre, and decade
• ADD Musicians, labels, and studios are clickable in enrichment
• ADD Artist pages show every contribution and group member

We give it to you real

Song search, storefronts, real popularity, Apple's genres, and a lot more on the Artist page.

Build b2062 v1.3.0-b2062

• ADD Track lists have a cursor — click selects, not plays
• ADD Share an album, artist, or the exact track playing
• FIX Navigating away mid-load no longer yanks you back

Don't have to worry about me squashin' other deals

Fixing some busted samples.

v1.2.0 released, Enrichment Edition

• ADD Every Grammy win and nomination, linked
• ADD Band membership and years active on the Bio tab
• FIX Featured artists on a work now link correctly

v1.2.0 released, UI Edition

• ADD Split view with a slim left rail and a tabbed enrichment pane
• ADD Telemetry rack moves into the chin, and expands per unit
• ADD ⌘-K command palette and sidebar hotkeys

It ain't hard to tell

Kapell has > 4.6M new track-level details.

Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums, Part 1

Notes from the first 50 albums from Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums

v1.1.0 released

• ADD Share albums, tracks, and artists, with deep links into Kapell
• ADD Track lists have a cursor: selected, hover, and playing
• ADD Clickable album credits and a revamped Artist page
• ADD Sturdier playback for Crates with songs in your Library

Build b1611 v1.1.0-b1611

• ADD Track lists have a cursor — click selects, not plays
• ADD Share an album, artist, or the exact track playing
• FIX Navigating away mid-load no longer yanks you back

Find another service like me

Kapell now contains an extensively connected dataset with GraphQL interface.

Build b1532 v1.0.0-b1532

• ADD 30-second previews without a subscription
• ADD Credits on artist pages, linked from every sleeve
• FIX Revamped Crate playback

Build b1455 v1.0.0-b1455

• ADD Kapell opens without an Apple Music® subscription, and offers one in place
• ADD Library search matches across title, artist, and album
• FIX Mixed library/catalogue queues play every song in order

Luther Vandross

Luther Vandross was incredible, releasing a run of 11 consecutive platinum albums over 15 years.

You don't know nann

Improved artist names for album matches.

There's levels to this

Speeding up enrichment queries with a long-lived L2 cache.

Build b1420 v0.1.0-b1420

• ADD Help menu reaches Colophon, the website, and the newsletter
• FIX Enrichment and the trial marker appear reliably on installed builds

Build b1413 v1.0.0-b1413

• ADD Buy Kapell any time from a new Purchase pane
• ADD A real Help menu, and a quiet trial countdown
• FIX Scrobbler sign-ins now stick across relaunches

Build b1386 v0.1.0-b1386

• ADD Scrobble your plays to ListenBrainz and Last.fm
• ADD Private Mode keeps a session off the record
• FIX Jumping deep into a live crate lands on the right track

Build b1289 v0.1.0-b1289

• ADD First-run tips that read like liner notes
• FIX Big crates play from your playhead, and jumping works
• FIX Private crates stay out of your Apple Music history

And I remember and

The connecting word `and` gives us a hard time, but we found another bug under that particular rock and more matches are the result.

Build b1259 v0.1.0-b1259

• ADD Manual crate control
• ADD Crate settings rebuilt
• FIX Album tracklist stops reflowing as credits load

Build b1243 v0.1.0-b1243

• ADD Read the album from the now-playing sleeve
• ADD "Find it on" link-outs as a headed section
• FIX Album action buttons no longer wrap mid-label

Build b1230 v0.1.0-b1230

• ADD Played tracks fold away to keep the playhead in view
• ADD Suggest less now skips the current track too
• FIX Tracks no longer get stuck "preparing" forever

Introducing Kapell

Streaming flattened the album into a stream of anonymous audio. The liner notes — who played, who wrote, where it was cut — got left in the box. Kapell is a better place to listen, then it surrounds the music with the people, samples, and history behind it.

Build b1220 v0.1.0-b1220

• ADD Songs are tri-state — favorite or suggest less
• ADD Play next & track-actions menus
• FIX Favorites no longer wiped by a stale rating read