v0.9.0-alpha

Cassette v0.9.0

Reworked Glyph rendering

• Significantly reduced chances of visual desync

Improved Undo / Redo system

• Increased maximum history size to 1000 actions (Well I can make it even bigger but... why?)

Audio

• New engine for UI sounds: sound system is now more stable and less prone to glitches.
• The player has been rewritten using the miniaudio library, which is lighter and faster than sounddevice.

Performance & Optimization
Cassette is now noticeably lighter, and more efficient.

• Removed dependency on pygame entirely.
• Fixed extremely slow startup on macOS.
• Introduced a custom built-in FFmpeg build (~6MB).
• Overall application size significantly reduced.
• Animation update pipeline optimized. Even smoother.
• Fixed major lag when copying large amounts of glyphs.
• Greatly improved stability during fast project switching.
• Startup time on Linux is as fast as 200 ms.

Compositor

• Fixed scaling issues: Position reset and incorrect position in Mini Preview Widget.

Project Menu

• Added Search Textbox.

Textbox

• Fixed textbox cursor distortions.

Export Menu

• You can now add a watermark to your composition. Supports cyrillic, numbers, symbols, upper / lower letters.

Settings

• Settings menu got scroll area, so it's not giant now.

On - phone Visualization
Working with devices is now faster and more seamless.

• Real - Time Visualizer now connects once per session

No more constant reconnecting.
Persistent connection between phone and Cassette.

Cassette Receiver

• Updated to work with 4a, but needs testing.
• Enhanced speed management.
• When you create a glyph, it pulses on your phone.

Features

• Added Import function for:

BNGC files
Label files

• Keyframe - Based Brightness Control

A new way to control Glyph brightness. Hold Alt and move the keyframes.
Accessible via: Effect Menu → Fade.
4 easings supported.

• Effects

Some effects were removed as they can be easily recreated, while new effects were added.
Added additional settings to some effects.

• Glyphtone Editor

A tool to crop your ringtones.

• 4a Support.

For Nerds / Devs
Yes, the codebase also got its life together.

• Adopted Single Source of Truth architecture.

Fewer state - related bugs and desyncs.

• Reduced technical debt (less hacks, more logic).
• Removed wildcard imports.
• Improved overall code structure and maintainability.
• Added type annotations.
• Unified code style across the project.
• Renamed functions for better readability.
• Removed unnecessary _ prefixes where meaningless.
• ~90% of files were updated and optimized.
• General editing performance significantly improved.
• Project folder is moved to $USER$/Cassette/Songs

Don't forget to reinstall Cassette Receiver!