Liner Notes, Finally In The Player
· by Kjell
This 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. I also have a fairly large vinyl collection and love to spent time with the album packaging and the personal artist notes here and there. And yet, for years, every digital player I've used has treated credits as an afterthought.
Tonight that changes in Zenteek. Album and track credits are now first-class citizens, pulled in through the enrichment pipeline and displayed where you'd actually want them. You can see who played bass on that one weirdly great track, who engineered the session, who mixed it. The kind of detail that turns listening into a conversation with the music.
Album detail views now also show related albums, so one good record leads to another without you having to dig. The Format menu got restructured to make the enrichment options less confusing, there's a new tool to clean orphaned library entries that got left behind after file move. A lot of small improvements, but together they make the library feel deeper and more alive.
And to round it off: Lyrics also can now be enriched! Search for missing lyrics with a click of a button. Synced and unsynced. Whatever is available and you can load it in mid-playback even. Give it try.