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title: "Build b1386 — Kapell"
description: "Kapell can now scrobble your plays to ListenBrainz and Last.fm, and keep a session off the record with Private Mode."
canonical: "https://kapell.fm/blog/beta-b1386/"
published: "2026-07-02"
---

Beta July 2, 2026

# Build b1386 v0.1.0-b1386

Your plays can now be scrobbled — or not. This build adds scrobbling to ListenBrainz and Last.fm, a one-switch Private Mode for listening off the record.

BUILD MANIFEST BETA · TESTFLIGHT

VERSION 0.1.0 (1386)

MIN MACOS 26.0 Tahoe

ARCH universal · arm64 + x86\_64

ADDED 5 changes

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    Scrobble to ListenBrainz and Last.fm
    
    A new Scrobbling pane in Settings connects either service — a pasted user token for ListenBrainz, an OAuth browser sign-in for Last.fm, with credentials held in the macOS Keychain and sent straight from your Mac, never through Kapell. A play qualifies once it's run four minutes or half its length, whichever comes first; skips don't count, and there's no "now playing" ping — only finished listens go out.
    
- +
    
    A durable, capped scrobble outbox
    
    Scrobbles are written to an on-device outbox first and flushed to the service when the network returns, so a dropped connection never costs you a play. The queue is bounded on both age and count, so a long offline stretch can't let the backlog grow without bound.
    
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    MusicBrainz recording IDs on every scrobble
    
    Where Kapell can resolve one, each scrobble to ListenBrainz carries a MusicBrainz recording MBID rather than plain artist-and-title text — so your history lands on the exact recording, not a same-named live cut or remaster.
    
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    Private Mode
    
    One switch from the View menu (⌘⇧P) takes a session off the record — your plays stop feeding Apple Music's recommendations, your Listen Log, and any connected scrobblers for as long as it's on. A red PRIVATE chip in the chin means there's never a doubt about whether you're being recorded.
    
- +
    
    Private Mode flips clean mid-song
    
    Toggling Private Mode while something's playing rebuilds the queue quietly in place — playback holds its position and your play/pause state — and a confirmation spells out exactly what the switch will and won't record.
    

CHANGED 3 changes

- Outgoing scrobbles ride their own pillar in the rack telemetry, with their own tape color, so you can watch them go.
    
- A final icon for the App store!
    
- Revamp of the settings window.
    

FIXED 2 changes

- ✓
    
    Tapping a track deep in a live crate now plays exactly that track instead of a nearby one from the loaded window.
    
- ✓
    
    The rack's Bus no longer gets cut off at the smallest window height.
    

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