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Release October 10, 2026

Kapell v1.5.0 released

Sharing cool stuff you find in Kapell should be easy!

Version 1.5.0 of Kapell has just been released on the App Store. This release is all — in a roundabout way — about artists. Both the banner ones on the song and the countless behind the boards, instruments, and more. I want Kapell to be a way to share rich little corners of music with friends.

Sharing Links

Kapell’s Share feature allows passing a link to your Kapell-loving friends for albums and for artists. You can, for example, share a link to Clyde Stubblefield (on Kapell), the drummer on the James Brown’s Funky Drummer (Pt. 1 & 2) (on Kapell) which is one of the most sampled drum breaks ever.

Share menu, opened from Clyde Stubblefield's artist page in Kapell
Share a link to Clyde Stubblefield’s artist page and impress your friends with your breakbeat knowledge.

The new trick, however, is a new Share item in the File menu. This allows you to generate Share links from new places in Kapell. For example, you might still be in a James Brown run and wonder to yourself what are all the tracks that Bootsy Collins has produced (on Kapell)?

The “Share” menu item wil now light up in the file menu for many screens. Get to sharing. Good god, huh!

Browse Artists by Genre

Hankering to find a new R&B artist to croon about your love or an Alternative band to… be alternative? Kapell now has an Artists section atop any genre for your to browse:

A shot showing a listing of artists by genre in Kapell, which is a new feature. Alternative, specifically.
Alternative artists as a big list. Useful if you like Alternative!.

Classical Works

I’m not a classical listener, but I noticed there are extensive classical bits around movements, composers, and the like in both Apple’s Catalog and in MusicBrainz. If you happen to be a classical nerd who uses Kapell, drop me a line and we can work together. 🥰

When Kapell encounters a classical album with movements, the movements are added as headers and styled as in Yo-Yo Ma’s Six Evolutions - Back: Cello Suites (on Kapell):

A track listing of Yo-Yo Ma's Six Evolutions - Back: Cello Suites which shows the momvements as headers
The movements of Bach’s Suite für Violoncello solor no. 1 are set as headers, and link to the work.

When Apple and MusicBrainz agree — they don’t sometimes! — those movements are linked to the greater “work”, in this case Bach’s Suite für Violoncello solor no. 1. That way, you can find other artist’s renditions.

And More!

  • Situations where an artist could have two screens — a disagreement between Apple Music and MusicBrainz — have been fixed.
  • A setting has been added for choosing at what point in a song’s progress it will be considered “heard” by Kapell’s Listen Log. It has a 50% (default) and 90% option.
  • Scrobbling (ListenBrainz, Last.fm) get the same setting.
  • Viewing all of an artists singles & EPs now opens a proper faceted search. And compilations! There was a mess in here.
  • Improved the accuracy of “Performed on” searches.
  • Artist screens now show the artists latest release.
  • Searches no longer hog the input box and reject you trying to click in it. My bad.
  • Adjusted the “Just play something” to be pinned to your personal station in Apple Music.