---
title: "Build b1532 — Kapell"
description: "Final release polish, crate playback improvements, and a rich Artist screen."
canonical: "https://kapell.fm/blog/beta-b1532/"
published: "2026-07-19"
---

Beta July 19, 2026

# Build b1532 v1.0.0-b1532

Kapell is now approved for App Store release and even allows 30-second previews of tracks if you don't have an Apple Music™ subscription. Artist pages are now surface where we have data and they cover everyone from rappers to engineers. We also fixed some bugs.

BUILD MANIFEST BETA · TESTFLIGHT

VERSION 1.0.0 (1532)

MIN MACOS 26.0 Tahoe

ARCH universal · arm64 + x86\_64

ADDED 3 changes

- +
    
    Previews, without a subscription
    
    No Apple Music sub? No problem. Click an album or a song and get 30 seconds.
    
- +
    
    Credits on artist pages
    
    An artist page now carries a Credits block, gathered from Kapell's own enrichment graph — what a person actually did across the records Kapell knows, folded by role. This is going to keep growing!
    
- +
    
    Sleeve credits are links
    
    The producer, engineer, or featured player listed on an album sleeve is tappable now, and opens that person's artist page. A credit is a way into the catalogue, not just a line of text.
    

CHANGED 4 changes

- Crate playback has been improved. An acknowledged bug in macOS (\`FB23707746\`) caused mixed catalog and library queues to silentry drop songs. We've now got an overly complicated, segmented queue abstraction to handle that until a fix comes.
    
- Preview playback no longer pauses between tracks — the whole tail is queued up front, so one preview runs straight into the next.
    
- Your content-rating preference governs previews too.
    
- Fixed some style differences in the Crate view, as it uses a different component.
    

FIXED 2 changes

- ✓
    
    Sometimes now-playing art would jump a few pixels. De-janked that by allocating fixed space for the now-playing icons.
    
- ✓
    
    The Crate playhead no longer stutters as it moves down the list.
    

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)