// 04 - Blog
Long-form writing on the player, the format, and the act of listening.
The audio pipeline has been redesigned from the ground up. The Crossfeed filter has been updated with a low-frequency shelf compensation and a new Settings window!
Read → Apr 19, 2026If you have ever listened to a record mixed for speakers through headphones, you have noticed something subtle but unsettling. The stereo image feels too wide, too hard. Instruments that
Read → Apr 18, 2026I've been wanting a proper crossfeed stage in Zenteek since the first day I started the project. Tonight it finally landed. There are four presets in Output Tools covering different
Read → Apr 18, 2026A weekend detour: Zenteek now has a full-screen Milkdrop visualizer. ProjectM-4 under the hood, classic Winamp-era presets reacting to whatever is playing.
Read → Apr 15, 2026Three things tonight, all of which have been on my list for weeks. First, the preamp simulator got a proportional waveshaper blend. In practical terms, this smooths out the loudness
Read → Apr 12, 2026Notifications got a redesign tonight. The old ones were fine, functionally, but they had that slightly-too-glossy feel that pulls your eye away from the track you're trying to listen to.
Read → Apr 11, 2026Autoplay has been slightly broken for longer than I care to admit. If you were navigating the library and the queue ran out, playback would just quietly stop. Technically correct
Read → Apr 10, 2026Info messages used to sit in the sidebar where the background process info lives, which meant that whenever the indexer was running you couldn't see what the app was trying
Read → Apr 9, 2026I've been measuring grid view performance for weeks and quietly grinding at it. Tonight the work paid off - grid views are now up to thirty times faster than they
Read → Apr 8, 2026Every few months someone asks me which lossless format they should rip their CDs into. FLAC, ALAC, or WAV. For the audio, it does not matter. All three decode to
Read → Apr 8, 2026The Artists enrichment pipeline learned a new trick tonight: it now tracks artists it couldn't find metadata for and paints them red in the artists listing. At first I thought
Read → Apr 7, 2026This one hits close to home. I've been a liner-notes reader my whole life — the kind of person who reads credits with the same attention as the music itself.
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