What's New — Aludel

0.24.0 4 July 2026 New features

macOS menu bar. File menu: New Conversation (⌘N), New Summary (⌘⇧N), New Audiobook (⌘⌥N), Import .aludel… (⌘O). Edit menu: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All — all native roles so they work in every text field. Aludel app menu: About, Services, Hide, Quit.
Open .aludel files from Finder. Double-clicking a .aludel file or using "Open with Aludel" imports the package directly — whether Aludel is already running or launching cold.
Exact SRT / VTT timestamps. Subtitle files now use the actual TTS clip durations instead of word-count estimates. Timestamps are stored in the item snapshot so they survive re-opens and re-exports.

TTS provider and voices not restored after importing a .aludel. Navigating back to the Voice step on an imported item was showing the user's current default provider instead of the one saved in the package. The snapshot now takes priority.
Music asset names showing hex IDs after .aludel import. Assets bundled in older packages had their internal storage ID as the display name. They now show "Imported jingle" or "Imported bed" — both on import and retroactively on next launch for any already-affected assets in your library.

0.23.1 4 July 2026 Bug fixes

.aludel file icon and "Open with" not appearing in Finder. The UTI declaration was missing from the app bundle, so macOS didn't associate the file type with Aludel. The cobalt icon and "Open with Aludel" now appear correctly after install.

0.23.0 4 July 2026 New features

Export item as .aludel package. A "Export .aludel…" option appears in the Save step and in the right-click menu of any item in the sidebar. The archive bundles the item metadata, snapshot, TTS segment clips, the final audio output, and any user-imported music assets used in the mix. Use it to back up an item, hand it off, or move it to another machine.
Import .aludel package. A folder-open button in the sidebar toolbar opens a native file picker. After selecting a valid .aludel file, a confirmation sheet shows the package summary — item type, pipeline stage, clip count, and bundled music — before adding the item to the active project. The item resumes at the same pipeline stage it was exported from. Importing Summary and Audiobook items requires Aludel Pro.
.aludel file icon. Files with the .aludel extension now display a custom Finder icon and open with Aludel via "Open with" in the context menu.

Export included ~400 MB of intermediate mix files. The export previously bundled every file from the job directory, including the full uncompressed mix intermediates. Only the TTS segment clips and their manifest are now included, keeping exports compact.
Referenced bed-music asset was missing from the archive. User-imported music tracks could be excluded from the export when their library entry carried an unexpected source tag. All assets referenced by the snapshot's mix options are now bundled regardless of source.

0.22.0 4 July 2026 New features

Voice language filter for Piper. Voice selectors now dim and disable voices whose language doesn't match the episode's output language. If no compatible Piper voices are downloaded yet, a hint links directly to Settings → Services. Switching the output language automatically re-maps Voice A and Voice B to the first compatible downloaded voice.
Free music source links in the Music Assets page. Once at least one track is imported, a persistent bar at the bottom of the Music Assets page shows four quick-links to free / CC0 music libraries (Pixabay Music, Free Music Archive, ccMixter, Freesound). On first open (empty library) the same sources appear as tiles in the empty state.
Voice preview — hear any voice before committing. A play icon appears inline in every voice option. Click to hear a short audio sample; click again to stop. Samples are fetched once and cached locally so the first play hits the network and every replay is instant. Works across all four TTS providers:
- Piper — sample fetched from the HuggingFace model card (samples/speaker_0.mp3).
- OpenAI TTS — sample fetched from the OpenAI CDN (all voices except Ballad and Verse, which have no hosted sample).
- ElevenLabs — preview clip from the preview_url returned by the ElevenLabs Voices API.
- OpenRouter TTS — short snippet synthesised on-demand from the first segment of the current script (or a short fallback phrase); result cached for re-use.

0.21.2 4 July 2026 Bug fixes

The "add segment" (+) stayed visible after hovering. The insert-row "+" was revealed by fading a button's opacity; the macOS WebView left stale pixels on the composited layer when the animation reversed. Switched from CSS fade to conditional DOM insertion — no stale pixels possible.
Long episodes were cut off at around 90 segments. The script-generation request was capped at 4096 output tokens, which a "long" (~25 min, ~3000-word) episode overruns. Cap raised to 8192 for all OpenAI-compatible and OpenRouter providers.
Update check didn't surface a new version on launch. A 24-hour throttle meant any previous check — including the manual "Check now" — blocked the launch check for a full day. The launch check now always runs (still off-switchable in Settings), so a new release appears on the next launch.

Confirm before leaving the Script step. Going back from Script to Analyse now shows a confirmation prompt so an edited script isn't discarded silently.
Local model duration gate. The "Long (~25 min)" duration option is automatically disabled when a local Ollama model is selected — local models have limited context windows and would truncate a long script. A hint explains why.

0.21.1 June 2026 Bug fixes

Piper TTS failed on first run with a missing library error. The libespeak-ng dylib was missing from the app bundle's runtime on clean installs. The Piper runtime tarball is now included and extracted on first launch.
macOS "Intel-based component" warning at launch. A bundled x86_64 binary triggered the Rosetta compatibility warning on Apple Silicon Macs. The Piper runtime is now bundled as native arm64.

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