sonarche: v0.7.0

0.7.0 (2026-07-20)

Features

• browse the library by album, artist and genre — and the perf work to scale it (d41c266)
• library: add the albums grid and album page (5c719eb)
• library: browse the genres themselves, not only their families (bb50d58)
• library: browse the library by artist (e181f4c)
• library: browse the library by genre family (8918971)
• library: pin the album's identity once the hero scrolls away (8c0a12a)
• library: place the album metadata affordance, drop the recency sort (d322572)
• library: redesign the tracks page as a columned list (3406094)
• library: redesign track metadata inspector panel (b105425)
• shell: give startup a real splash instead of a half-live shell (774b654)

Bug Fixes

• library: return to the top of the list when the search changes (203fd5d)
• library: stop the album hero stuttering on arrival (da87fcb)
• library: stop the artist thumbnail reading as an album cover (d8b8c59)
• library: stop the mock library echoing genres as their own bucket (aa6f532)
• player: take durations from the audio file, not the release (d670232)
• ui: fade page transitions without movement or a gap (a398c4b)
• ui: make hover, scrolling and page transitions feel immediate (05acec3)
• ui: show a pointer cursor on hand-rolled buttons (3cc3ecd)

Performance Improvements

• library: read the listing straight from SQLite instead of beets' ORM (40b8ee3)
• library: render only the visible rows of the tracks table (339676e)
• library: resolve cover art once per album, not per track (b89a5ba)
• player: split the playhead out of the player context (2bc6823)
• ui: defer cover art that lives in a list (49b2b56)