Bitcrush Studio v1.0.7

This release fixes image captioning with local and OpenAI-compatible servers:

• Fixes WebP images being skipped when captioning through LM Studio and other OpenAI-compatible servers. Studio now converts images to a universally-supported format before sending, so an entire folder of WebP files captions reliably instead of failing.
• WebP images also preview correctly in the caption tool.

Bitcrush Studio v1.0.6

This release improves Studio responsiveness and reliability:

• Prevents overlapping database cleanup previews from stacking and slowing Studio down.
• Moves thumbnail and transcode cache sizing into the background so cleanup previews stay responsive.
• Hardens caption file writes when multiple operations finish at the same time.
• Fixes GPU memory detection with current PyTorch versions, avoiding repeated hardware warnings.

Bitcrush Studio v1.0.5

Bitcrush Studio v1.0.5

Fixes for the GPU environment, Linux setup/updates, and batch captioning against remote servers.

Fixed

• "Restart Studio to activate the new environment" no longer sticks. After installing the GPU environment and restarting, the banner now clears (it was staying up permanently even after restarting).
• Linux: "Open Setup (repair)" now reopens the setup wizard instead of the app just closing. (AppImage relaunch fix.)
• Linux: the app now reliably reopens after an update installs. (AppImage relaunch fix.)
• Batch captioning no longer stops on an image it can't read. If an image can't be decoded, Studio now tries the original once and skips it if the server rejects it, so the rest of the batch keeps going (previously a single bad file could 400 against strict servers like LM Studio).

Changed

• Only one copy of Studio runs at a time — launching it again focuses the window that's already open.

Bitcrush Studio v1.0.4

Bitcrush Studio v1.0.4

A follow-up to v1.0.3 addressing the remaining issues reported by Linux users running against a remote captioning server.

Fixed

• Batch captioning with a remote OpenAI-compatible server (e.g. LM Studio) now works when GPU setup was skipped. Previously, Preview succeeded but Start Batch failed with a "backend unreachable" error, because the tool required local AI components even when captioning entirely over the network. Remote (OpenAI-compatible / Gemini) backends no longer need any local AI install.
• Live progress now streams in the packaged app. The operations panel could sit without live updates (and the log filled with repeated connection-rejected messages) because the progress connection was being refused in the packaged build. It now connects correctly.
• Clearer messages when a local component isn't installed. Choosing a local captioning backend without the AI components installed — or opening Masking without its components — now shows an accurate, actionable message instead of a misleading "backend unreachable".

Bitcrush Studio v1.0.3

Bitcrush Studio 1.0.3

A hotfix release addressing two issues reported after launch.

Fixes

• Linux setup crash. On some Linux systems the first-run GPU setup could fail
  during the Install step with pip exited with code 127 /
  /bin/sh: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: rl_print_keybinding. The
  bundled library path is now cleared from the installer's subprocesses, so the
  system shell and pip link against the system libraries. Setup completes normally.

• OpenAI-compatible (LM Studio) captioning. When the Batch Caption backend was
  pointed at a bare server address such as http://127.0.0.1:1234, requests hit
  the server root and were rejected ("Unexpected endpoint or method. POST /").
  The address is now completed to the full /v1/chat/completions endpoint for both
  Preview and batch runs, and the field shows a hint. Existing full URLs are
  unaffected.

Notes

• Windows and Linux builds are both included; existing installs update in place.

Bitcrush Studio v1.0.2

Hotfix: v1.0.1 packages were built incompletely and shipped without the GPU setup engine and media tools — GPU setup reported 'No GPU detected'. v1.0.2 contains the complete, verified package (GPU detection re-tested on hardware). Includes the v1.0.1 fix for setup exiting immediately after the splash screen.

Bitcrush Studio v1.0.0

Initial release version.