Changelog

All the newest features, fixes and improvements I've shipped for Tracknack.

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October 2026

Features

Improvements

  • Labels with a slash or pipe in their name, like Floor / Vision or She/Her Records, no longer get split into two made-up labels, so their releases end up under the right label.
  • Adding Tracknack to your home screen now gives you the bolt on the blue circle instead of a bare bolt or a black square, and on iPhone the top bar matches the blue header.

Fixes

  • Fixed two Spotify import problems: one broken entry in your saved albums could drop all of them, and the weekly listening history sync kept failing for some heavy listeners.

September 2026

Features

Improvements

  • Genre pages now list far more artists. The bigger genres were only showing a fraction of what they hold, and the counts in search results were stale on top of that.
  • The artist and label strips on the new music pages show how many releases each one put out, and rank on releases and follows together, so a distributor pushing out hundreds of tracks no longer buries a label people actually follow.
  • Profile and genre pages load faster, including the first visit after an update.
  • Your profile picture stays put instead of quietly breaking after a while.
  • Clearer messages when connecting Apple Music goes wrong, and if part of a page fails to download you now get a reload button instead of a raw error code.
  • If one of your connected services fails while syncing listening history, the other one's data stays intact instead of getting wiped.
  • Your first playlist gets built about a minute after you follow your first artists. If none of them have put anything out lately, you're told so instead of watching a spinner that never finishes, and following more kicks off another try.
  • If your Spotify connection drops, the releases you'd have gotten in the meantime are held for you. Sign back in, or connect Apple Music, and your playlist updates straight away with all of them.
  • Producer and songwriter credits fill in more completely. A lookup that fails partway through an album now gets retried instead of leaving the rest of the tracks without credits.
  • Unsubscribe links in emails now ask you to confirm. Some email security scanners open every link in a message, which was unsubscribing people who never clicked anything.

Fixes

  • Fixed some followed artists and labels going a long time between checks for new releases. Every one of them now gets checked on schedule, oldest first.
  • Fixed Starter plan playlists ignoring the update frequency picked in settings and always running weekly.
  • Spotify artist follow sync is more dependable. If adding a newly followed artist failed, it used to get marked as done anyway and was never retried.
  • Fixed old tracks not being cleared out of playlists for accounts that needed to sign in again. Those accounts were also getting the same "sign in again" email more than once, which is fixed too.
  • Fixed Apple Music playlist updates stalling on tracks that matched a release already on file.
  • Fixed a stray comma in the track title keyword filter emptying the whole playlist.
  • Fixed the plan comparison on the pricing page showing the wrong follow limits for Free and Starter, and some blog posts sending logged-out readers to the login page.

June 2026

Improvements

  • Background updates that hit a snag now wait longer and try more times before giving up, so fewer follows and playlist updates need a second nudge.
  • Rewrote page and article titles across the site so they read better in search results.

May 2026

Features

  • New music pages. This week and this month show every new release from the artists and labels Tracknack tracks, newest first and refreshed about every hour. No algorithm, no editor picks. Both pages also show who shipped the most, which labels are busiest, and which genres are moving.
  • The Apple Music import now reads your library directly, so it finds artists Tracknack hadn't come across yet instead of only the ones it already knew.
  • New post on the blog: why new music drops on Friday.

Improvements

  • Importing a big Apple Music library is much faster. Artists get followed in batches now instead of one at a time.
  • If your Apple Music connection expires mid-import, you get a reconnect button instead of an empty list.
  • Various Artists compilations and a handful of spam labels are filtered out of the new music feeds.

Fixes

  • Fixed the site failing to load in browsers set to block site data. The cookie banner was throwing an error before anything else got a chance to render.

April 2026

Features

  • Apple Music support is here. You can now connect your Apple Music account alongside Spotify — follow artists and labels across both platforms.
  • Redesigned the landing page to show release highlights — a quick look at what's new from artists you might want to follow.
  • Genre pages. Browse artists by genre, see which labels and producers are behind the sound, and check what's come out recently in each one.

Improvements

  • Smoother re-authentication flow when your streaming service connection needs refreshing.
  • The homepage now features popular artists and labels, so there's somewhere obvious to start if you're new and not sure who to follow.
  • Playlists update faster again, especially for people following a lot of artists and labels.
  • You now get an email if a payment fails, instead of finding out when your playlist quietly stops updating.

Fixes

  • Fixed playlists showing nothing when you first opened them.
  • Fixed a few ways onboarding could get stuck partway through.
  • Unsubscribe links now work even after an account has been deleted.

March 2026

Improvements

  • Artist and label profiles are richer now — bios, related artists, and more detailed information pulled in automatically.
  • Profile pages load faster again. Did another round of performance work on both the frontend and backend.
  • Search results are more accurate and relevant.

Fixes

  • Fixed images not showing up on some follow pages.

February 2026

Features

  • Major frontend upgrade under the hood. Pages load faster, routing is cleaner, and artist/label profiles render more reliably.
  • Launched the Tracknack blog — posts on music discovery, credit tracking, and label deep dives.

Improvements

  • Playlists update faster and more reliably now. Did a lot of work behind the scenes to speed up how tracks get fetched and added.
  • Release linking is more resilient — if something fails mid-batch, it keeps going instead of stalling out.
  • Artist and label profile pages load noticeably faster.
  • Various SEO improvements across the site, including cleaner URLs and better descriptions on profile pages.

January 2026

Improvements

  • Improved stability under heavy load — things shouldn't slow down when a lot of users are updating at once.
  • Better error tracking so I can catch and fix real issues faster.
  • Fixed a bug where new users' playlists didn't update right away after onboarding.
  • Switched to a more reliable email delivery provider.

June 2025

Improvements

  • Profile pages now stay fresh automatically — no more waiting for a full rebuild to see updated data.
  • Various content and layout updates across the site.

March 2025

Fixes

  • Artist and label profiles now handle missing data properly instead of showing a broken page.

February 2025

Improvements

  • Various UI bug fixes and improvements.
  • Added a for labels page with info about the label owner use-case fro Tracknack.

January 2025

Improvements

  • Moved Tracknack to a new server to improve performance and reliability.
  • Various UI bug fixes and improvements.
  • Various minor server-side improvements.

December 2023

Improvements

  • Fixed a nasty bug that caused scrolling issues in the playlist view of the app
  • Improved navigation performance between website views.

November 2023

Improvements

  • Made various UI improvements in onboarding, dashboard and recommendations sections.
  • Improved performance of processing release search jobs.
  • Improved API performance.

October 2023

Features

  • AI recommendations will now be available only to paid users.

Improvements

  • Greatly improved the reliability with which Tracknack is able to find new music releases.

September 2023

Improvements

  • A new onboarding experience to help users get started with Tracknack.
  • Added a Dashboard section to provide a quick overview of users' current follow and playlist state.
  • Backend updates to improve release search reliability and efficiency.

Fixes

  • Fixed some minor UI bugs.

August 2023

Improvements

  • AI recommendations now use GPT-4

Fixes

  • Fixed navigation issues

July 2023

Improvements

  • Improved AI recommendations. They should now be more varied and less predictable on average.

June 2023

Features

  • Added AI recommendations based on ChatGPT as a fun feature to let you discover new artists to check out.
  • Added weekly email notifications with recommendations based on your recent listening history on Spotify as well as the AI generated ones.

Fixes

  • Fixed search results displayed in incorrect order when changing sort settings.

May 2023

Features

  • Added Condensed Mode that adds only one track per release to playlists in order to keep them cleaner.
  • Added automated old track removal to reduce playlist clutter.
  • Added automated Spotify sync to keep your follows in sync between Spotify and Tracknack.
  • Added a referral feature to enable rewards for users inviting their friends.
  • Added a yearly billing option for Tracknack Premium.
  • Reworked recommendations to include more information about the recommended artist/label.
  • Launched Tracknack Blog (this place!).

Improvements

  • Minor UX improvements.

April 2023

Features

  • Added popularity change metrics to artist and label profile pages.

Improvements

  • Minor updates to how unfollowing is performed.

March 2023

Improvements

  • Minor UX improvements.
  • Improved maintenance of healthy Tracknack internals.

February 2023

Improvements

  • Moved frontend app to Netlify.
  • Improved performance of artist/label profile pages.
  • Minor UX improvements.

January 2023

Fixes

  • Fixed search not giving results if query contains special characters (the $uicideboy$ issue).

Improvements

  • Minor UX improvements.

November 2022

Features

October 2022

Improvements

  • Moved frontend app to Nuxt 3.