Dkompos 1.6.1

Dkompos 1.6.1

Dkompos 1.6.1 is the largest native macOS release so far. It rebuilds the listening experience around trustworthy playback, stable recommendations, and a quieter charcoal interface that keeps the music—not the chrome—at the centre.

Highlights

A more alive, consistent native interface

• One charcoal, content-first design language now runs through Home, All Tracks, Albums, Artists, Genres, Hi-Res, Mixes, Audiobooks, playlists, and Now Playing.
• Scrolling, card density, compact headers, artwork treatment, utility controls, and selection states now behave consistently across the application.
• Decorative gradients, card-border highlighting, duplicated subtitles, and view-specific player variations have been removed.
• The global player remains structurally identical in every view and now responds immediately to seeking and volume dragging.

Listening intelligence rebuilt for stability

• Home shelves are now based on explicit eligibility and deterministic ordering rather than timing-sensitive suppression.
• “More like this” uses album similarity confidence, edition collapsing, artist and genre evidence, and stable sparse-library fallbacks.
• Listening statistics and top-artist summaries use canonical artist identities and real playback evidence.
• Continue Listening advances to the actual next album track and no longer wraps or jumps based on stale history.

Qualified playback and signal-path truth

• Playback admission now uses live CoreAudio device and stream evidence.
• Direct-integer and processed routes have explicit preparation, activation, handoff, recovery, and device-restoration states.
• Bit-perfect status is shown only when the source, device container, ownership, and signal path are all proven compatible.
• Output-device disappearance and ambiguous processed-output identities now recover without leaving playback unusable.

Now Playing and playlists matured

• Now Playing is responsive, album-led, and includes album identity alongside track and artist context.
• Recommendation reasoning is integrated without a large disconnected “Why this track” card.
• Playlist identity, artwork mosaics, compact scroll headers, and queue-open layouts now remain stable.
• Reordering is an explicit mode with drag handles and Move Earlier/Move Later actions.

Music and audiobooks stay in their lanes

• Audiobook playback no longer enters the music queue or music recently played history.
• Audiobook progress, chapters, bookmarks, and continuation context remain preserved.
• Music history updates reliably and follows the active music transport.

Distribution

• Apple silicon only.
• Requires macOS 14 or later.
• Distributed as a Developer ID signed and Apple-notarised DMG and ZIP.
• SHA256SUMS is included with the release assets.

Full release notes and checksums are also available at dkompos.com/releases.html.