Program beta

A repair build on top of 1.0.26. It fixes one defect, and that defect destroys data, so it is worth installing even if 1.0.26 has been running fine for you.

• Interpreters no longer disappear from the library list — and the app no longer overwrites the stored one with a blank. On some libraries an interpreter would vanish from the Songs pane and come back the moment the song was opened, then vanish again later. Behind that was a repair that ran the wrong way round: when the app rebuilds a missing interpreter from the {artist:} line in the song text, it queues that one column to be uploaded. If a sync brought the server's empty value back in the moment between queueing and uploading, the app sent the empty value — and marked it as the newest edit of that column. From then on the blank won against every later repair, so a song that could still have been healed became permanently blank. Measured against the live database on 12 September 2026, this had already happened to 16 songs across two accounts. Uploading an emptied column this way is now blocked outright: a repair the app performs on its own can only ever add an interpreter, never clear one. Clearing an interpreter yourself still works exactly as before.

What this build does and does not do: it stops any further damage. Songs whose interpreter was already overwritten with a blank keep their {artist:} line in the song text, so the value itself is not lost — those rows need a follow-up repair on our side, which happens once this build is out.