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title: "Build b1230 — Kapell"
description: "Crates keep what's playing near the top, leaving one is calmer, and Suggest less now skips the track too. Plus faster now-playing enrichment and a few fixes."
canonical: "https://kapell.fm/blog/beta-b1230/"
published: "2026-06-23"
---

Beta June 23, 2026

# Build b1230 v0.1.0-b1230

This build is about staying in the listen. I've been using the crate feature more and learning how to stay in the zone. Didn't stop me getting distracted on a few other things, though.

BUILD MANIFEST BETA · TESTFLIGHT

VERSION 0.1.0 (1230)

MIN MACOS 26.0 Tahoe

ARCH universal · arm64 + x86\_64

ADDED 2 changes

- +
    
    Played tracks fold away
    
    While listening through a crate, tracks more than a couple behind the playhead collapse behind a "Show N earlier tracks" disclosure, so what's playing stays near the top — no jump-to-playhead needed. The unfocused and edit views still show every track.
    
- +
    
    Suggest less also skips
    
    Marking the current track Suggest less now stops playback immediately — it advances to the next track, or ends playback if it was the last. Un-disliking or rating a track that isn't playing leaves playback alone.
    

CHANGED 3 changes

- Crates are supposed to be calm. The title-bar Leave button now opens the app's own compact confirmation card instead of a native dialog that ballooned to fill the window.
    
- Inside a crate, the now-playing artist name is plain text rather than a link, so a stray tap can't drop you out of the crate onto the artist screen. Outside a crate it's a link as before.
    
- Track, album, and artist profile enrichment lookups run concurrently instead of one after another, so the now-playing enrichment fills in faster. Yay, faster!
    

FIXED 2 changes

- ✓
    
    A play that paused before its first sound could get stuck "preparing" forever — an animated meter and dimmed chin on a track that wasn't playing. It now settles to a static, idle meter.
    
- ✓
    
    The enrichment lip text is optically centered — it had been sitting a \_hair\_ low.
    

Kapell — for macOS

Press play. Meet the band.

A deeper way to play the Apple Music® library you already have — the credits, samples, and history, surfaced as the music plays. Buy it once, own the whole thing. No subscription.

[Download](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kapell/id6779394524) [See other journal entries](https://kapell.fm/blog)