SK Music: Bugs, Comments, And Feedback

Another bug, if I have the main player on one screen and click on another screen the mini player pops up. Probably make sense to make that the mini player only comes up when the main one is minimized. for a user with one screen but I have 3.

Currently my left screen has Jtech open in this tab, middle screen has main player and right screen has mini player.

Do you want reports like these on this thread, or a new dedicated one for desktop?

I built it that its for when main screen becomes not focused - like not in your front - let me see what makes sense to do

I see that you fixed it, thank you!

none of the web links in the app work. For example clicking on a link to GitHub or any link does nothing. It also took me a minute to find the update option, I thought that I will be able to see it on the about page.

I also see that the latest release on Jtech is V 1.1.2 but don’t see it on GitHub.

That was to keep it filtered - I will make the links open in chrome

I will add that as well

lol - because that update didn’t have any changes to the desktop app - it was auto updated via the web part - was just adding some playlists and features

Thanks for the writeup — all three are fixed in 1.1.2, which is up on GitHub now.

Links now open in your browser. You were right that they did nothing. Inside the desktop app a link marked “open in a new tab” had nowhere to go — a native window doesn’t have tabs — and letting it open in place would have replaced SK Music itself with GitHub. So it just silently swallowed the click. Now anything off-site (GitHub, this forum, the license, the Tampermonkey links on the add-on page) hands off to your default browser. SK Music’s own pages still open in the app, and Google sign-in deliberately stays inside the app window — that one has to come back to SK Music with your session, so sending it to the browser would break the login.

“Check for updates” is now on the About page, with the version you’re running right next to it. It was only in the tray menu before, which is a fair place to miss. (It’s still in the tray too — right-click the icon by your clock.)

On 1.1.2 not being on GitHub: good catch, and there’s a boring reason. 1.1.2 was originally a web-only release — the playlist sharing, the duplicate greying-out, the download status. The desktop app loads the web UI, so it picked all of that up automatically and there was no new installer to publish. My release process only cuts a GitHub release when the native app itself changes, so 1.1.2 never got one. Since these two fixes are native changes, the desktop build is now bumped to 1.1.2 as well, so the number on the site, in the app, and on Releases all match.

One thing worth knowing: the link fix needs the new build. If you’re on 1.1.1, links will keep doing nothing until you update — the part that actually opens your browser lives in the app itself, not the web page. Grab it from Releases or let the auto-updater pick it up.

Keep sending me feedback and comments, they’re very helpful.

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On the app it said that I have the latest update but I did not see the update option in the about page. I downloaded the exe manually and updated it, I can now see the update option in about and clicking it works, but does not say if there is an update or not.

Is there also a way to nuke any acapella from any trending or radio? It was done on Zemer.io I don’t want to see it for the next 9 months.

I immensely appreciate the work that you do, SK-Music in general and the desktop app in particular.

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Radio still needs plenty of work till I’m happy with it, so just test it as a beta. Acapella was removed from the trending playlist when u mentioned it on Sunday.

And yeah, I’ve only checked out the web, but it’s looking really nice :slight_smile:

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That one’s a caching quirk rather than a missing feature. The desktop app loads the web version of SK Music inside it, and your cached copy of the page was still the old one — so the app itself had updated, but the page it was showing you hadn’t. Installing the .exe manually forced a fresh load, which is why the option appeared. It would have shown up on its own eventually; reinstalling just got you there faster.

That’s a real bug, and a good catch — thank you. Three separate things could each leave you with no answer: the dialog window opens and the check starts in the same instant, so a fast check could finish before the dialog was listening and the result landed on nobody; clicking during the automatic check that runs a few seconds after launch hit an “already checking” guard that quietly did nothing; and a background check that failed never reported the failure at all. The app now remembers the result of every check, so the dialog always tells you where things stand no matter the timing. Fixed and going out in the next build.

Yes, and it’s already there. Go to Settings → Acapella and press Hide. No sign-in or PIN needed, and it sticks until you change it.
I checked what it actually does rather than just nding currently shows 42 songs, and 14 of them areacapella — the Shmulik Sukkot vocal set, the Acapella versions of New Day Will Rise, Home Again and Any Day Now, Nachman Filmer’svocal set, and more. That’s the Three Weeks backls. With Hide on: zero acapella, still 42 songs —it backfills rather than leaving holes. I pulled a radio station too: 24 songs, none acapella.
It’s enforced in one place, so it covers Trending, Radio, Home, For You, search and the Zemer rows all at once. It also hides artists whose entire catalog is acapella. And youdo it — during the next Sefira and Three Weeks theapp switches itself to Acapella-only, then goes back to your Hide setting afterwards. So it’ll do exactly the nine months you’re asking for.

Thank you, I love to hear that, and you and ars are the reason the app keeps getting better

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Thanks @Shalom_Karr for having in mind the iOS listeners — Merged it with some modifications to fit the PWA.

Recent updates to the SK Music iOS version.
  1. Merged Shalom Karr’s upstream feature drop (ios-feature-drop) into the Sk music iOS repo. This brings:
    • Gapless YouTube playback using a primed standby player.
    • Zemer Radio / Autoplay continuation when the queue ends.
    • Real release dates for “Latest Releases” and “New Songs” via /zemer-new.
    • “For You” cold-start using Zemer app listening stats.
    • Artists A–Z fast-scroll and square-cropped cover art.
    • New Charts page, share timestamps, and improved back navigation.
    • Desktop Tauri 0.2.x shell files.
  2. iOS PWA fixes layered on top:
    • Tapping a new-release album that isn’t in the baked catalog now falls back to its YouTube playlist, so albums no longer show “Not available.”
    • Section-level “Play All” now includes those fallback albums too.
    • Pressing Back while a queue is playing no longer wipes the queue and restarts the current song.
    • The Now Playing “Up Next” queue is visible in mobile portrait, not only landscape.
    • Added a labeled “Clear Queue” button next to the Up Next “Autoplay” toggle.

unrelated but how do you get the bottom bar of info to show on claude code

Can’t believe in Cleveland they’re also listening to this song.

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ccstatusline

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@Shalom_Karr if you want radio stations

Check latest commits here

You can take user playlists too but I’m not finished yet.

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I already built my own user playlists system on SK Music

its part of SK Music Library

I meant shareable

I think that sk-music already has shareable playlists I didn’t test it yet though.

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it has shareable

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Here is an example