Date: April 14, 2026 Status: Beta (Build 0.9.2)

The clone introduces :

artist/album/track#2 - title A side panel shows the result for the first selected file before you commit. No more guess-and-check. The ID3v2.4 UTF-16 Debacle It turns out half the MP3s from the early 2000s have corrupted UTF-16 BOMs. KTag silently ignores them. My clone initially crashed with a “invalid surrogate pair” error. Two weeks of encoding_rs later, I now fall back to ISO-8859-1 detection. Ugly? Yes. Pragmatic? Absolutely. The "Read-Only" File Trap NTFS permissions on external drives. NFS mounts on Linux. Windows Defender locking files for indexing. The clone now has a red dot indicator on the status bar: "File locked by: Antimalware Service Executable" . You cannot edit what you cannot touch. Album Art Caching I tried to be clever: store all covers in a SQLite cache. But when you have a 10,000-file FLAC library, the cache grew to 3.2GB. Oops. Now we lazy-load covers on scroll and drop the cache on exit. Performance Benchmarks (Because We Care) Tested on: 2019 ThinkPad, 12GB RAM, 5400rpm HDD (spinning rust) Action: Change Genre from "Rock" to "Alternative Rock" on 5,000 MP3 files.