Features: - Somehow filters for “Is Compilation” and “Is Complete Album” didn’t already exist, so they’ve been added. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where hiding a track on an album synced via Finder didn’t work correctly - Fixed an issue where liking a track on last.fm from an album synced via Finder would show that every song on the album had been liked - Fixed an issue where the app could get killed by the system during a background cloud sync - Fixed an issue where multi-select on the Add to Playlist screen didn’t actually let you select multiple playlists - Fixed an issue where the Add Note to Album and Add Note to Listening Session shortcuts actions didn’t properly accept input from other actions - Fixed an issue where “Play in Order” on a collection sorted by year didn’t use the same tertiary sorting as the collection itself, so albums would play in a different order than displayed - Some esoteric crash fixes
Features: - Two new session-related Shortcut actions! You can now add notes to and tag listening sessions via Shortcuts. - Added the ability to filter the Find Album(s) and Find Listening Sessions Shortcuts actions by the content of Notes linked to those entities. - Library Added Date is now visible on an album’s stats Changes: - Added a tip to clarify the “Tracks Removed” Release Feed notification Fixes: - Fixed an issue where tapping the Collection Widget’s title to open its source collection wouldn’t open to the collection if the app did a cold launch - Fixed an issue where “Tracks Removed” Release Feed entries weren’t actually hidden when toggling on the setting to hide them. - Fixed an issue where the Is Single filter property in the Find Album(s) Shortcut action didn’t work - Fixed an issue where the Complete Listen filter property in the Find Listening Sessions Shortcut action didn’t work - Fixed an issue where manually scrobbled albums might scrobble out of order - Fixed an edge case where trying to share a song might fail - Fixed an issue where certain built-in Quick Collections (Hidden Albums, Today in History) were erroneously able to be deleted. These collections will be restored shortly after installing this update if they’ve previously been deleted.
Fixes: - Additional improvements/crash fixes when loading large Apple Music playlists - Fixed an issue where scrobble counts weren’t being used for track play counts for users logged into last.fm
Features: - Added a new Shortcuts action to a play a playlist of songs in your desired sort order - Added a new Shortcuts action to add one or more albums to one or more playlists Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the Discography Browser wouldn’t display anything in “Newest First” sorting for Record Labels with less than 100 releases - Fixed an issue on iOS 16 where the What’s New in 6.1 screen would pop up every time you launched the app. After installing this update, it will pop up just one more time and then not again. - Improved matching logic in credit downloader - Fixed an issue where the Hidden Albums quick collection would always show as having 0 albums in the Library -> Quick Collections list - Setting a sleep timer when listening to a Playlist in song mode no longer crashes the app - Improved performance when loading large playlists - Reliability improvements when playing playlists with more than 100 songs. - Fixed an issue where the Now Playing widget might not update if playback was started from a widget or Shortcut when the app wasn’t already running - Fixed an issue where the album or queue repeat modes might behave inconsistently
Features: - Actual, honest-to-goodness, playlist support! Switch between viewing and listening to playlists as a list of albums (with non-library albums now supported!), or as a list of songs, like, you know, a playlist. You can also now add songs and albums to playlists via context menu actions throughout the app (requires an Apple Music or iCloud Music Library subscription) - Go to Library -> Notes or select “Notes” from the Explore category in the iPad sidebar for a unified place to browse all the notes you’ve created. - Two new bulk collection actions: add albums to one or more playlists; add a note to multiple albums at once. - Bulk session actions! Tap the … menu on the Listening History screen to add a note, a tag, or a workout to multiple sessions at once. - The “Add Albums” screen from within a Tag or Playlist collection, plus the “Pass in and Tag an Album” and “Tag an Album” Shortcut actions have been updated to support multiple tags at once. - “Copy Text” has been added as an option to the … menu for an individual Note Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the collection selection screen could fail to display content when using the section title scrubber - Fixed an issue where renaming a quick collection didn’t update its name in the dock until the app was restarted - Fixed an issue where the alternate versions picker could show the checkmark on an album other than the selected one - Fixed issues excluding songs on multi-disc albums - The search bar now activates when tapping the Library or Search tab icon when that tab is already selected (iOS 18 only) - Fixed an edge case where a resumed session might still separate into two sessions - Standardized three-panel navigation presentation behavior in the iPad app - Fixed an issue where resuming an album with hidden tracks might restart the album from the first track - Fixed an issue where an artist’s bio wouldn’t display if you have all of their music on the Apple Music catalog in your library - Added an alert if scrobbling fails to the Pending Scrobbles screen - Fixed an issue where the most recent date processed by the last.fm history importer could be reset to the beginning in certain circumstances - Additional cloud sync reliability improvements - Fixed an issue where Quick Collections based on the “All Albums” source collection would open that collection rather than the correct Quick Collection when opened from the Quick Collection widget.
Fixes: - Fixed some cloud sync issues
Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the credits download could get stuck and fail to restart on iOS 18 - Fixed an issue where credit role names could display duplicated - Improved cloud sync efficiency/reliability. Also, the Settings -> iCloud Sync screen now shows the progress of a current import. - Resuming an unfinished listening session now correctly reflects any excluded tracks from the initial session - Fixed an issue where listens to singles and incomplete albums were erroneously included in certain stats charts - Fixed an issue where the All Time stats range mistakenly only included listens to library albums while the other ranges included all listening. All ranges now reflect listens to both library and non-library albums. - Fixed an issue where Notes linked to listening sessions didn’t maintain their session link when synced over iCloud to another device - Fixed an issue where creating a new tag from Library -> Tags -> Manage Tags didn’t automatically refresh the list of tags.
Fixes: - Fixed an edge-case crash when loading a new album into the queue that is split between being matched/uploaded in your iCloud Music Library. - Fixed an issue where if the now playing song had a particularly long track or artist name, the text might display erratically on the tracklist as the duration counted down - Fixed an issue where the “Add to Library” track option could display even if the track was already in your library. - Fixed an issue where canceling editing a note could still save your changes :( - Added the ability to re-select an album’s original artist from the Sort Artist picker on an album’s settings page.
Features: - Track Rating is now available in CarPlay! Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the iPad app might not correctly open an album or collection from a Collection widget - Actually fixed an issue where actions to rate a track on last.fm wouldn’t show up if a user wasn’t an Apple Music subscriber - Fixed an issue where the app could play the wrong album when adding a new album to play next on the last song of the current album - Fixed an issue where the current album could restart if you selected a new album in the queue while playback was paused - Fixed an issue where hiding compilations behaved incorrectly on the Collections tab - Fixed an edge case where the last.fm authentication flow could fail - Fixed a regression where tapping an album while in Apple Music search now correctly opens the catalog version, rather than library version. - Fixed an issue where the Now Playing Settings popover didn’t display on iPadOS 18 - Fixed an issue where the album page might not display correctly when using the thinnest Split View option on iPad - Improvements when syncing a device that hasn’t been used in over a week - Fixed an issue where the first several albums in a collection could load artwork at potato quality. - Fixed an issue where resuming a listening session might split into two sessions - Fixed a regression where the “Auto-Download Credits” toggle in Settings -> Advanced didn’t do anything - The tag picker is now case-insensitive when sorting tags by name - Fixed an issue where the iPad tracklist table could pick an illegible color for the selected track - The CarPlay app no longer displays the “next album” button on the last album in the queue - Fixed an issue where changing tabs on the iPad app could restore a screen you’d already navigated away from
Features: - Well look who’s back: the pre-6.0 iPad layout for the album page has returned! You can now pick between that view (Art View) and the 6.0 layout (Detail View). - Tap the info icon next to an album’s play count on the stats tab for more information about why Albums chose that play count. - Okay, fine, widgets now support tinting! Fixes: - Fixed a couple of issues where widgets could crash on iOS 18 - Fixed an issue where changes to Quick Collection names didn’t sync across iCloud - Fixed an issue where an album’s duration might not be updated when all its tracks become available - Sidebar visibility is now remembered across iPad app launches - Fixed an issue where if the iPad app was last closed on the Now Playing screen, relaunching it could show incorrect now playing information - Fixed an issue where track ratings might not appear for users not subscribed to Apple Music on iOS 17 and below - Fixed an issue where the Collections tab required a pull-to-refresh before a change to the Local Only Music toggle would be shown
- Fixed a crash where the iPad app could crash when opening a Pinned Collection from the Now Playing screen on iOS 18 - Fixed various navigation issues in the iPad app - Fixed an issue introduced in 6.0.2 where buttons in the tracklist table on iPad weren’t tappable - Fixed an issue where buttons in the tracklist table weren’t visible for the selected song - Fixed an issue where Similar Artists didn’t display on iOS 16
- Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when opening a pinned collection in the iPad app - Fixed an issue that could cause the app to hang when tapping the search bar on the bulk library/bulk tag screens. - Fixed an issue where the context menu for a hidden track didn’t offer an option to Unhide the song - Fixed an issue where the Add Note context menu action could hang the app - Fixed an issue where an artist’s bio wouldn’t show if you had all of their Apple Music releases in your library - Fixed an issue where unplayable tracks didn’t display correctly in the tracklist on iPad - Fixed an issue where setting an album’s tint color manually was still behind the paywall - Fixed an issue where the text field didn’t show up when adding a filter on notes content - Fixed an issue where the app could navigate to the wrong page when switching between pinned collections in the iPad app
Features - Got some thoughts about an album you want to jot down? Add a note! You can add/view notes on an album’s page, and you can also add a note to an individual listening session. Notes are searchable, too! Search the text in a note and any albums with that text in their notes will appear. - Artist pages now show an image of the artist, a biography, and similar artists along the bottom. - Browse entire discographies from Record Labels, Producers, Musicians, etc. using the new Discography Browser at the bottom of their collection pages. In addition, biographies and images for these Collections are now displayed when available. - Lots of minor and medium tweaks have been made all throughout the app to improve performance and quality of life. The album page on the iPad has also been redesigned from the ground up! - Skip forward and back by album using the new Control Center Widgets. More places outside of the app to do that! - Albums has a new icon for the first time in 5 years! There are also some new alternate icon choices, including the classic icon, which you can select on the Settings tab. - The Tag Picker now has a “Recent Tags” section at the bottom Changes: - Due to changes in the latest OS, the “Tag an Album,” “”Untag an Album,” and “”Add Album(s) to Library” Shortcut actions have been split into two actions each: one that takes an artist and album name, and one that takes an “Album” as returned from another Albums Shortcut action. - The swipe gesture between tracklist/credits/stats has been removed. You can use the segmented picker to switch. - It may take 24 hours for notes you’ve added to album sessions in previous versions to be viewable as Album Notes - Several features have been freed from behind the paywall. Sorting collections, viewing the current day’s releases on the Release Feed, and Immersive UI are now available for all! Fixes: - Improved search performance - Improved scroll performance on the Insights tab - Improved performance on the collection list page - Fixed an issue where tracks on multi-disc albums couldn’t be hidden - Fixed an issue where albums presented from an Insight Collection would dismiss when hitting the play button - More consistent handling of non-square artwork - Fixed an issue where the next album in the queue wouldn’t play after skipping albums and listening through a single-song album - Fixed an issue in the iPad app where the Collections tab would be blank if the app is opened in full view on a tab other than then Collections tab, then converted to splitview or slideover - Fixed an issue in the latest OS where music might not resume when hitting the play button - Fixed an issue on the latest OS where the skip forward/back song buttons in the Now Playing widget didn’t work
Changes: - The Release Feed “don’t scan in background” setting no longer syncs across devices Fixes: - Fixed a regression in 5.3.11 where the Shuffle/Play in Order button stopped working in certain Insight Collections - Fixed an issue where the queue could start playing again when it ends in certain conditions - Improvements to tag syncing - Fixed an issue where the artwork might fail to load on an album opened from the Release Feed while the Release Feed is running - Fixed an issue where an album’s play count would update if you listened to it in another app, but its last played time might not. - Improved logic for picking the best match for an Apple Music album
Fixes: - Finally(!) fixed an issue where the iPad app could reset the view when backgrounding the app, sometimes crashing in the right circumstances - Fixed timing edge cases that could cause the wrong album to play when skipping albums - Fixed an issue where viewing a “Recorded At” or “Mixed At” credit didn’t load the correct collection. - Fixed an issue where a partial listen of an album could resume at the wrong song after restarting the app - Excluding an artist in the release feed now correctly causes existing entries to disappear without having to reload the screen - Fixed an issue where long-pressing to remove a tag from a session on the Listening History screen didn’t remove the tag - Resuming a session from its context menu no longer results in a pop up asking if you want to resume where you left off - Fixed an issue where rating a song on last.fm might not reflect in the tracklist even if the rating was successful. - Fixed an issue where the date added for an album could be incorrect for users who sync music to their device in Finder but had previously viewed the Apple Music version of an album in Albums. - Fixed an issue where if the same song is on multiple albums, the wrong album might be shown while it’s playing. - Fixed additional instances where the “keep or replace queue” could pop up and disappear in the iPad app, the album from being played - Fixed an issue where the “Show Complete Album” didn’t show up for some partial albums - Fixed an edge case where the app could show the incorrect currently playing album after the queue ended - Fixed an issue where a listening session for a queue with a single song might save with the wrong end date - Improvements to the iCloud restore process - Improvements to iCloud sync process - Fixed an issue where shuffling Heavy Hitters insight collections could play an album that isn’t displayed in the collection - The workout picker on the Session Settings page now makes it easier to choose the workouts you actually use
Features: - Say you want to want to play an album somewhere between up next and the very end of your queue… there’s now a new “Play After” button to do just that! Changes: - The Release feed is no longer limited to 100 items. It now displays as far back as one month, split by days. - Restored the ability to add an album to your library even if iCloud Library Sync isn’t enabled. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the Album Info menu option wasn’t available on the Collections Tab with the “Play Album” tap action selected - Fixed an issue where the “All Albums” source collection couldn’t be pinned in CarPlay. - Fixed an issue where a deleted session might come back from the dead - Fixed an issue where the “Play Partial Album” action replaced the queue without asking - Fixed a crash when backgrounding the iPad app when on the now playing screen in slideover or horizontally-compressed Split View - Fixed inconsistent playback of songs with no track number metadata
Fixes: - Fixed a couple of additional instances of the issue where tapping the “Play” button dismisses the album on iOS 17.4, depending on the navigation path you took to open the album. - Fixed an issue on the Collections tab in List View where swiping to play an album could play the wrong album in a collection with multiple release types. - Fixed an issue in the CarPlay app where the first song after resuming an album would show “1 of 0” as its track number. - Creating a session now automatically adjusts the end time when you set the start time - Fixed an issue selecting a non-Apple Music catalog album to fix unmatched scrobbles - The last.fm -> Unmatched Albums screen now remembers your preferred sorting. It also now lets you search by artist or album - Fixed an issue where filters weren’t being applied when shuffling a Quick Collection from its Library page. - Improved performance loading Library Stats - Fixed a few navigation bugs in the iPad app - Fixed cases where Immersive UI might show or flash the wrong color - Fixed an issue where progress through an album might be displayed incorrectly for a prerelease album with only some tracks available
Changes: - The “Edit Dock” button in the Quick Collection dock is back. Also, you can now pin/unpin a Quick Collection to the dock from its edit screen and from the long-press menu in Library -> Quick Collections Fixes: - Fixed an issue introduced in 5.3.8 where exiting search might not correctly reset for the next search - Hid add to library and rating buttons for users with active Apple Music subscriptions but iCloud Music Library disabled since those actions aren’t possible - Fixed an issue where the albums on a Record Label’s collection page wouldn’t display if the label wasn’t found on MusicBrainz - Fixed an issue opening an artist’s page from an Apple Music sidebar search in the iPad app - Fixed an issue in the iPad app where the number of columns in Art View and Detail View could be incorrect after resizing the window - Fixed an issue where images in Art View or Detail View could display at the wrong resolution after changing the number of columns - Fixed an issue where the iPad app could restore to an invalid navigation state - Artists’ Apple Music discographies now load faster - Fixed an issue where the replace queue dialog could auto-dismiss itself and the album you were trying to play in iOS 17.4 - Fixed an issue where picking colors for Tags and Quick Collections didn’t correctly support alpha values - Other assorted tidying up
Features: - You can now replace and remove session tags from the Listening History page, as well as replace tags from a session’s Settings. - You can now set a sleep timer from the MiniPlayer’s context menu. Changes: - After four and a half years, queues are no longer limited to 100 albums! They are now limited to infinity albums. - You can now pull to refresh the release feed. Why not! Fixes: - Fixed an issue where starting to play a new album from the same queue could show the previous album’s information instead - Fixed an issue where non-library songs might not show the correct track number on the now playing screen - Fixed an issue in the CarPlay app where collections beginning with “A” or “The” were sorted incorrectly. - Fixed an issue where removing an album from earlier in the queue than the current album might lead to an inability to rearrange or open the queue - Fixed an issue where the time elapsed in a song wouldn’t update if you pressed the back button to restart it while playback was paused - Fixed an issue where pre-release albums discovered by the Release Feed might not update their durations after being released. - Fixed an issue where rating library items could fail if iCloud Music Library wasn’t enabled - Fixed an issue where a multi-album sleep timer might pause one album too early - Cleaned up the animation when presenting/dismissing search - De-jankified the animation when a toast is presented - Improved error handling when music library access is interrupted - Fixed an issue where the queue might reset when skipping albums while the player is paused, as well as other associated wonkiness - Fixed an issue where alternate versions of an album might not load - Fixed an issue where a completed session could save with the time you started listening to something else, not the time you completed listening to the session’s album. - Fixed an issue where some art didn’t load on the Listening History screen - Fixed an issue where skipping tracks forward or back didn’t work before playing something since launching the app fresh - Fixed an issue where searching for a collection in the CarPlay pinned collection picker didn’t work
Changes: - Screens with swipe actions (Release Feed, Listening History, Search, and Collections in List View) now show both an icon and a text label rather than just an icon Fixes: - Fixed an issue where playback could continue or reset when disconnecting from CarPlay or headphones - Renaming a tag now correctly updates any Quick Collections using it as a source collection or as a filter - Fixed an issue where exporting a Top Albums report could generate a 5x5 grid when there are only enough albums for a 4x4 grid. - Fixed an issue where the Release Feed might fail to check all Record Label subscriptions
Features: - You can now manually create play sessions for albums. Great for tracking your listens to vinyl! Open an album and go to the Actions menu or tap the three-dot menu in Listening History and choose “Add Play Session.” - You can now change the album a play session is associated with by tapping the album in Session Info. - Open the date picker in Listening History for new filtering options, like showing only complete or incomplete listens, as well as sessions imported from last.fm - If Albums has matched an album in your library to the incorrect album on the Apple Music catalog, you can now clear the match or pick a new one from its Album Settings. - You can now set different tap actions for Art, List, and Detail view in the Collections Tab settings. Changes: - Listening History now remembers the last range length you used. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where choosing to “Keep” the queue on the Collections tab when playing a new album could play the wrong album - Fixed an issue where compilation albums were not displayed in Detail or List view for non-Artist collection pages - Fixed an issue where the Now Playing widget displayed incorrectly in Standby Mode. - Fixed an issue where the Release Feed subscriptions page would also dismiss when choosing a new collection to subscribe to. - Improvements to how albums no longer on the Apple Music catalog are displayed - Fixed an issue where the date picker didn’t display correctly when showing a full year in Listening History - Fixed an issue where onboarding wouldn’t work on the first try if a device wasn’t signed into an iCloud account - Fixed an issue where albums from the current year could display in the Anniversaries section/Today in History widget - Fixed an issue where an album could play on a loop if it was added twice in a row to a queue - Added a retry for certain situations where songs fail to buffer - Fixed an issue introduced in 17.2 where the last song on an album won’t play if a sleep timer is set - Fixed an issue where the “hours listened” stat on an albums page might not calculate correctly
Fixes: - Fixes a potential crash loop after installing 5.3.4 if the last thing you listened to on an earlier version was a queue of shuffled songs - Fixes issues around shuffling songs
Fixes - Fixed an issue where the Local Items Only setting may not display all locally downloaded albums - Fixed an issue where the now playing album page could mismatch the current song in a shuffled songs queue over a certain size - Fixed an issue where the selection page for credits-based collections like Producers could show collections with 0 albums - Fixed some issues where presenting new screens could cause the base screen to reset - Fixed an issue where the now playing item might not update on the latest iOS version - Fixed some contrast/display issues throughout the app
Changes: - The medium Now Playing Info widget has been re-redesigned - Changed rating icons from hearts to stars in keeping with new Apple Music design - Stop me if you’ve heard this one before — music played in Albums again now shows in the Recently Played section of the built-in Music App for users on iOS 17.1 or later. - Tap the name of the collection you’re viewing on the Collections tab for a menu of more options. The “Edit Dock” button and the ability to collapse/expand the dock have been moved to this menu. - Albums now collects anonymized analytics about app usage and settings configuration. If you would like to disable this analytics collection, you can do so in Settings -> Advanced. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where playing the full version of an incomplete library album wouldn’t play - Fixed an issue where Today in History was broken for certain date localization formats - Fixed an issue preventing the All Albums Quick Collection from being displayed in a Custom Collection Widget - Albums consisting only of music videos will no longer display in the app since they cannot be played - Fixed an issue on the iPad album page where album art didn’t correctly grow to fill the available space when hiding the sidebar - Fixed an issue presenting Apple Music Editorial Notes on iPad - Fixed an issue that could delay playlists being generated after restoring from iCloud and clarified error messaging - Fixed an issue where the sort artist picker on the Album Settings page could fail to open - Fixed an issue where the Queue page might not highlight the now playing album - Visual polish
- Improved cloud syncing reliability, especially tags - Fixed an issue where resuming a non-library album could restart the album - Fixed an issue where the “load next page” button didn’t appear in Apple Music search - Fixed an issue where long album titles might clip other text on the album page on the iPad, especially in Stage Manager - Fixed an issue where the Shuffle Scheduler pinned collection button stopped working in 5.3 - Fixed an issue where the app could crash in the background - Fixed an issue where play counts on the tracklist might be double-counted - Sections in the sidebar in the iPad app now remember their expanded/collapsed status between launches - Fixed an issue where the iPad app would not correctly show albums in a collection if it first opened to an album - Fixed an issue where a Top Albums export from the Statistics page would have the title “All Time” regardless of the selected range - Fixed an issue where tapping an album in a collection may fail to open it - Fixed a regression where Single Album Mode on the Collections tab stopped working in 5.3 - Fixed an issue where the skip album buttons in CarPlay might not work correctly - Fixed some threading issues in the CarPlay app that could cause crashes - Fixed an issue in the CarPlay app where the Now Playing buttons might not load
- Fixed an issue where playback couldn’t be started if a cloud queue restore was in progress - Fixed an issue where a bunch of empty space might load beneath an album’s tracklist - Fixed an issue that could lead to an incorrect “Hours Listened” stat on an album’s stats page - Fixed an issue introduced in 5.3 where the Shuffle Albums app shortcut was erroneously a premium feature. It is now available for free users as intended - Fixed an issue where the “…” menu couldn’t be clicked using the trackpad on a Magic Keyboard
Features: - Play controls in the Now Playing widget! We truly live in a golden age of computing. The Now Playing Info widget has been redesigned from the ground up to feel more in line with the Now Playing screen in the main app. - The Collection widget now includes a Play button to start playing that collection. Long-press the widget on your home screen to set whether tapping an album in the widget should open it in the app or play it. - Albums is now much more automatable, with new Shortcuts actions for tagging, starting queues, and toggling in-app settings. Collections, albums, listening history sessions, and Release Feed entries are now queryable from the Shortcuts app so you can build the automations of your dreams! Head to Settings -> Siri & Automation for details and some prebuilt Shortcuts - Several screens throughout the app have gotten some design touch-ups, including Listening History and the album detail page. iPad users will enjoy navigation behavior more befitting of a nice, big screen. - You can now add selected tracks from an album to your queue from the play menu on the album detail page. Changes: - Apple Music albums are now displayed when viewing a collection in Art View, not just Gallery and List view. - The following Shortcut actions have been removed. You can now use the “Get Now Playing Album” or “Find Album(s)” utility actions to return objects with the information these shortcuts provided: - Get Now Playing Album Release Date - Look Up Album Release Date - Get Now Playing Album's Record Label - Look Up Album Record Label - Return Now Playing Album Credits - Look Up Album Credits - Configurable tap actions for the small and medium Now Playing Info widgets have been removed. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where albums on the Collections tab might not load if the app is opened to a different tab. - Fixed an issue where scrobbling might not work immediately after logging into last.fm - Fixed an issue where the full tracklist might be cut off for albums with very long track lists, especially if using accessibility font sizes - Fixed an issue on phones where tapping the Settings tab when the tab was already selected didn’t scroll to the top. - Fixed an issue where all-lowercase collections would be sorted at the end of their letter on the collection selection screen - Improved performance on the Collection Selection screen. Also, the album count now live updates - Improved performance displaying non-library album artwork on album pages
Fixes: - Fixed a couple of very silly crashes
Features - You can now define scrobbling-excluded Tags in Settings -> last.fm. Albums tagged with excluded tags will not be scrobbled. Fixes: - Fixed a regression in 5.2.3 where “Tag !=” or “Tag Does Not Contain” filters didn’t work properly - Fixed an issue where albums with sessions tagged with stats-excluded tags might still show up in stats - Fixed an issue where shuffled songs might not play after listening to an album queue in certain circumstances - Yet another fix for Release Feed notifications not respecting settings — you will no longer receive notifications for artists you’ve excluded from the Release Feed - Fixed an issue where the wrong tracks might be excluded from playback on multi-disc albums with hidden tracks
Features: - “Today” is now available for date-comparison filters Changes: - Music played in Albums will no longer automatically display in Apple Music Recently Played. If this behavior is important to you, there is a new setting in Settings -> Apple Music to force using the new player API. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where collection-specific stats could display incorrectly - Fixed an issue where the app might skip songs during playback on certain OSes - Fixed an issue where collections filtered by tag might not include albums with listening sessions with that tag - Release Feed notifications now respect all of the Release Feed settings
Changes: - The Release Feed is now available for users without an Apple Music subscription - The Previous Searches section of the Search tab now scrolls and shows up to 25 searches - The Actions menu is now available for Artist collections with only Apple Music catalog (no library) items Fixes: - Fixed an issue introduced in 5.2 where playing purchased music might not work - Improvements to search performance - Fixed an issue in search where albums that don’t match the search string are shown - Fixed an issue searching for terms with punctuation - Fixed an issue where the first collection opened from a listening report wouldn’t load - Better live updating of listening reports/mini reports - Fixed an issue where liking songs loaded onto the device manually didn’t correctly report last.fm liked status - Fixed an issue where filters weren’t applied to the “All Albums” collection in CarPlay. - Fixed an issue affecting iPhone 8 where scrolling would become disabled on the album page for albums with one song or no stats - Fixed an issue where the app could get confused if you edited the capitalization of an album in your library - Fixed an issue where the player could play a previously-listened album when resuming in certain circumstances - Improved the reliability of the Release Feed when running in the background - Fixed an issue where the queue might not repeat even if it’s set to if the app is in the background - Fixed an issue where you could still be notified about new singles in the Release Feed even if you have singles hidden
Changes: - Searching an artist’s name when searching for albums will now also return compilations they’re on Fixes: - Fixed an issue that could cause the CarPlay app to crash in certain configurations - Fixed a crash that could occur during the last.fm history import - Fixed a crash that could occur when starting playback on an iPad in slideover and Split View with the “Auto-Launch Now Playing” setting enabled. - Fixed an issue that could prevent a listening report notification from being sent - Fixed an issue where the full list row wasn’t tappable in collection List View - Fixed an issue where navigation from a list of collections into a collection might not animate correctly - Fixed an issue introduced in 5.2 where the tracklist could display the incorrect now playing item for music loaded directly onto the device.
Features: - Wish you could see your individual song ratings in an album’s tracklist? Wish granted! There’s a new button to the top right of the tracklist that lets you display the track’s duration, its play count, your rating, or a menu of additional actions. - Albums can now notify you of new releases in the Release Feed, as well as when a new Listening Report is available. Configure your notification settings in Settings -> Notifications. - Listening Reports now show comparisons to the previous report for the top-line stats. Tap the settings icon at the top of a report to disable them if they're not your vibe. - The collection “List View” layout has been redesigned, and now offers swipe actions to quickly tag, play, or queue an album. - There is a new Setting on the Settings tab to choose whether you want the Miniplayer skip button to skip songs or albums - There is a new Play button in the quick collection context menu - A new filter option “Has Hidden Tracks” so you can easily find albums that… have… hidden….. tracks. Changes: - If you are running iOS 16.4 or later, music you listen to in Albums will now be displayed in the Recently Played section of Apple Music - If you’re sorted by anything other than random on the Collections tab, pulling to refresh on the Collections tab now presents the sort screen. - The Release Feed now runs overnight by default Fixes: - Fixed an issue where a track’s duration might not display in the tracklist - Improved the process when enabling iCloud on a secondary device that had been used with Albums but wasn’t already syncing with iCloud - Fixed a crash when replacing tags - Fixed an issue where albums added recently via a manual device sync might not show up with Local Music Only enabled - The Insight and Search tabs now correctly react to toggling the Local Music Only setting - Fixed an issue where the listening report chart configuration presented incorrectly - Fixed an issue where a partial play of an album might fail to start after displaying the AirPlay prompt from the “Don’t Use Phone Speaker” setting on. - Improved tracklist load time - The Search tab now correctly changes which collection types it displays based on the allowed types in Collection settings. - An album’s stats now regenerate live if you happen to be looking at them when the album finishes. - Fixed an issue where starting a new queue before the cloud queue finished syncing might play the old queue or display an old album depending on timing - Fixed an issue where the All Time Favorites collection wouldn’t load the correct albums when opened with a sorting of Time Listened
Features: - The ability to “Play Select Tracks” from an album is now available in the Play button menu on album pages. Changes: - Changed the last.fm history importer’s “wait time” to 48 hours after an album is scrobbled. - Hiding a song on the now playing album now removes it from the queue FIxes: - Fixed an issue where the CarPlay app might fail to launch if the app wasn’t already running on your phone - The Collections and Search tabs now live update more reliably. - Hiding a song on a tracklist via a long press now animates correctly - Fixed an issue where the wrong next album might play if you rearrange the queue while the last song on the current album is playing - Fixed an issue where a compilation in a collection sorted by artist might not correctly sort according to its album artist - Fixed an issue where selecting the Apple Music version of an album in your library on the search screen might display the wrong album in certain situations - Fixed a situation where multiple alerts might pop up over each other when playback fails to start - Fixed an issue where the Collection and Quick Action widgets might be blank after a reboot (I think) - Fixed a crash that could occur when using the date picker in listening history. - Fixed an issue where the queue might reset to a song other than the first song in the queue when it ends - Fixed an issue on the Tag selection screen in the library where it wouldn’t show albums with tagged listening sessions - Editing a dock collection on the Collections tab now automatically updates the displayed albums when you save. - Fixed an issue where the second play session might not be created correctly if you listen to the same album twice in a row - Fixed an issue where the last.fm history downloader wouldn’t work if you enabled it the same session you logged into your account
- Fixed an issue introduced in 5.1.3 where opening an album might crash the app :( - Fixed an edge case crash when swiping right to play an album on the Search screen - Fixed an edge case where the next album in the queue might not play when the current one finishes - Fixed an edge case where a deleted session on the Listening History screen might get recreated - Fixed an issue where Album Settings -> Merge Album might not work. - Fixed an issue where the resume album prompt might still display even if the setting to disable it was on - Improved timeout handling for the last.fm history import
Features: - Who doesn’t love some new context menu options? There is now an “Edit Collection” option in the context menu on items in Library -> Quick Collections, as well as a “Remove from Dock” option for Quick Collections in the dock on the Collections tab. - The “Add to Library” bulk collection action is now enabled in the Forgotten Scrobbles insight collection. - You can now resume a session by long-pressing it in Listening History or on an album page. If you never want to resume an album, there’s a new toggle in Settings -> Advanced to set that. - Added a “Today” button to the Listening History date picker Changes: - A new design for searching collections in Search - Album Settings now displays consecutive hidden tracks as a range rather than listing each track number - If you open an album no longer available on the Apple Music catalog, a pop up will now ask if you want to hide that album. - Settings -> About now has a link to the Albums Mastodon account Fixes: - The CarPlay app now correctly syncs the current Cloud Queue without having to open the app on your phone first - Fixed an issue where credits for new albums added to your library might not automatically download with the Automatically Download Credits setting enabled. - Fixed an issue where the CarPlay app would crash on launch if you had a Yearly Top Played Insight Collection pinned - Fixed a crash when rearranging the queue - Fixed an issue where the wrong item might be highlighted after rearranging the queue - Fixed an issue where the Edit button in Library -> Quick Collections didn’t actually enable edit mode - Back-end improvements to bulk adding albums to the library. - Fixed a situation where an album that only has play sessions imported from last.fm might incorrectly show a play count of 0 - Fixed a few instances where some text became illegible if the Immersive UI tint color was white in dark mode - Fixed an issue where Duration collections 1,000 minutes and above wouldn’t load correctly. - Fixed an issue with displaying the “This Year” listening report on the play history screen. - Fixed an issue where an errant share icon appeared on the Top Albums grid when sharing your listening report. - Fixed an issue introduced in 5.1.2 where on certain screen sizes Now Playing controls wouldn’t swipe down to reveal album info when listening to an album with a single song - Fixed an issue where incomplete album sessions weren’t resumable in certain conditions - Fixed an issue where liking a song would fail on last.fm if the artist or song name contained an ampersand
Features: - Album pages now support displaying full album titles. Tap a truncated title to expand it, and Albums will remember your preference. - Tap the song title on the Now Playing screen for a menu of actions, included expanded rating options Changes: - In order to make room for the new one-line row of buttons, the “Album Settings” button is now a sub-item of the “Actions” menu on album pages - Alt version text now displays number of tracks rather than year Fixes: - Fixed a crash when selecting “View in Listening History” on an album’s listening history - Fixed a crash when switching quick collections - Fixed issues when rearranging the current album’s position in the queue - Improvements to dynamic type - Cloud queue reliability improvements - Improvements to alternate album search - Fixed a case where the last.fm history downloader might not start the download - Tapping an album while editing the queue will now longer start playing it - Hiding tracks on an album no longer generates a “Tracks Removed” Release Feed entry. - Fixed an issue where the Listening History screen didn’t always refresh correctly - Fixed a case where playing a non-library album with hidden tracks would still play the hidden songs
Features: - Show off your superior music taste! Tap the share icon in any Listening Report or on the Statistics screen to customize and export a grid of your top albums. - You know how sometimes you just want to listen to the original album but you can only find the Super Deluxe eight-disc remaster? An album's tracklist will now display the above icon if there are other versions of it on the Apple Music catalog. - Sync your likes between last.fm and Apple Music as you listen. If Albums finds you've liked the current song on one service but not the other, it will add the like on the other service. Enable this in Settings -> last.fm - If you always want to view a particular Quick Collection a certain way (in List View, for example), you can now edit your Quick Collections and set default display modes. - You can now customize Duration collections in Library -> Durations. Chop up your library into 5-minute intervals. Who's gonna stop you? Changes: - If an album is explicit, that is now displayed next to its year and duration. - Multi-disc albums are now displayed with each disc separated in their tracklists. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where updating a Quick Collection’s color from the “Edit Collection” menu action wouldn’t update it in the Quick Collection dock until it was reloaded. - Fixed a possible crash when removing songs from a song shuffle queue - Additional crash fixes
Features: - Just in time to look back over your 2022 listening, the Listening History screen has gotten some useability and visual improvements. Check out the sweet dual-panel experience on the iPad! - Speaking of the iPad, this update brings much-improved support for resizing the app in Stage Manager, split-view and slideover. Various screens throughout the app now resize gracefully, as opposed to catastrophically - A couple of new buttons in CarPlay! The “Albums" tab now has a button to resume the current album, and the "Collections" tab now has a button to view the current queue. - You can now sort collections by Composer. I was as surprised as you to learn this wasn’t already possible! - The people have spoken! There is a new setting on the Settings tab to restore the pre-5.0 behavior of automatically launching Now Playing screen when starting a new queue. Changes: - State restoration! Albums finally restores what you were last looking at when you closed the app. - Tapping an icon on the bottom tab bar now in iOS supports the platform convention of popping back to the root of a navigation stack or scrolling to the top of the current window if you’re already there. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the most recently added album(s) might not show up with Local Music Only enabled - Cloud Queue and iCloud sync reliability improvements - Tag syncing reliability fixes - Fixed an issue where the tag swipe action on the search screen didn’t work for non-library albums - Fixed an issue that could cause the creation of duplicate Recently Searched items - Fixed an issue where albums with multiple tracks with the same name might behave strangely - Fixed a few different edge cases that could cause the app not to play the next album in the queue - Fixed an issue that might cause the app not to play the latest album when resuming via Shortcut or widget action. - Fixed an issue where tapping an album on the CarPlay collections tab might play the wrong album - Tracks without track number metadata are now played at the end of the album, rather than the beginning.
Features: - You can now use multi-select when building filters! If you want to filter a collection down to albums from several different genres, you can now build one genre filter that uses multi-select rather than making a separate filter for each genre. - You can also now use multi-select when modifying your Artist and Record Label subscriptions in the Release Feed. - Apple Music album search is now paginated, so you can load a new set of results if you haven’t found what you’re looking for. Changes - You can now see your CarPlay settings on an iPad if you’ve used the CarPlay app before from your iPhone. Fixes: - After a brief and mostly accidental hiatus, embedded lyrics are now available again. If the currently playing song has lyrics embedded in its metadata, a lyrics button will be available in the bottom row of buttons on the Now Playing screen. You can also view available lyrics by long-pressing songs. Note that lyrics from the Apple Music catalog are not available in Albums. - Fixed an issue where the next album in the queue might not play when resuming the last song on an album after freshly launching the app - Fixed an issue where deleting a session from Listening History on iPad might make the list render strangely until you scrolled. - Fixed an issue where hiding tracks on an album might erroneously mark the album as incomplete - Fixed an issue that could cause artwork colors not to load in album settings on iOS 16 - Fixed an issue where a listening session to an album with a music video could appear incomplete. - Fixed a crash when loading library statistics after configuring a chart for certain credit types - Fixed an issue where resuming an album might result in two split entries in Listening History - Fixed an issue where the previous queue could be accidentally overwritten and thus not restorable in Settings -> Advanced.
Changes: - Tapping a collection on the Quick Collections widget now opens it, rather than starts shuffling albums from it. - The Now Playing status bar now uses the iOS 16 style - Tweaked the design of how the Now Playing song’s audio variant is displayed - Long-pressing the collection title on the Collections tab while the Quick Collections dock is hidden will now show the selected collection’s menu. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where selecting collections in the library didn’t update correctly on iPad in iOS 16. - Fixed an issue where non-library songs might not appear ratable - Fixed an issue where a collection page might animate in with a jerky motion - Fixed an issue where skipping albums while paused might play the original album on resume - Fixed an issue where non-library albums in Recent Searches wouldn’t display the artist name - Fixed a crash when playing an album from a collection with a Year filter applied - Fixed an issue preventing Today in History from working in locales that use a period rather than a slash to separate short-formatted dates. - Fixed an issue where you couldn’t rate the first song on an album after using the skip album button - Fixed an issue where collections on the Dock tab in CarPlay sorted alphabetically, rather than using their configured sorting. - Fixed an issue where the app might choose the wrong version of an album for playback or display when there are two with the same exact artist and album name. - Fixed an issue where the Now Playing screen might never update if you start a new queue while a Cloud Queue check is running. - Fixed an issue where filters using a custom date comparison didn’t work - Fixed an issue where partial album scrobbles were being submitted as full album scrobbles - Fixed an issue where tracks from Apple Music catalog items in your library might not be able to be opened in Apple Music or shared. - Fixed an issue where the tracklist might not display for an album added to your library from within Albums - Improvements to the iCloud sync engine
Features: - A song shuffle action is now available on CarPlay collection pages. Changes: - The “Quick Collections” tab has been renamed to “Dock” in CarPlay, and tapping an entry now loads the collection rather than starts playing it. Fixes: - Improvements to song shuffle queue generation and restoring - Fixed an issue where Quick Collections on the dock weren’t draggable on iOS 16 - Reliability and speed improvements to restoring a device from an iCloud backup. - Fixed an issue where restoring a song queue on iOS 15 could start the queue over. - Fixed an issue where playing an unreleased album might show an incorrect track count/tracklist. - Fixed an issue where the navigation bar on the library screen becomes clear and doesn’t scroll correctly. - Fixed a performance issue on the search screen that could cause letters to be added out of order. - Fixed an issue where starting playback from the widget while the app wasn’t running might not work. - Fixed an issue where starting playback from the “Resume Playback in Albums” shortcut while the app wasn’t running might not work. - Improvements to error messages when playback fails. - Fixed an issue where track numbers in the tracklist in CarPlay were off by one - Fixed an issue where the collection selection picker might hang when adding a filter. - Fixed an issue where the Shortcuts Gallery in Settings -> Automation Corner might not load the correct shortcut when tapping. - Fixed an issue where “Single Album Mode” wasn’t applied to the first album in the grid. - Fixed an issue where rating a song from the context menu on an album’s tracklist might fail - Search screens are now diacritical-insensitive. You don’t have to type accented letters to pull up results with those characters. - Fixed an issue where “Decade” filters didn’t work correctly. - The section index titles on collection pages in the library now correctly filter when searching. - Reports on the library tab/in the sidebar on iPad now update to reflect sessions that sync from iCloud
Albums 5.0.1 contains the following enhancements: - Fixed an issue where the app could hang indefinitely if a request to play music fails - Fixed an issue where the bulk library add and bulk tag screens didn’t work correctly on iOS 16. - Fixed an issue where the search screen would dismiss if you tried to scroll to select a collection type below the keyboard. - Fixed an issue introduced in 5.0 preventing restoring the previous queue from Settings -> Advanced - Fixed an issue where Recently Added on the Search page and collections on the Collections tab sorted by recently added might not update when albums are added to the library - Fixed an issue that might cause an album not to update to Released in the Release Feed. - Fixed an issue where an album with imported last.fm history earlier than the date it was added to your library may be incorrectly represented in stats. - Fixed an issue where the app could crash on launch if you had the “Prefer Clean Apple Music Releases” setting enabled. - Fixed an issue where Shuffling Albums in the Today in History quick collection would play the collection from oldest to newest.
Features: - The app has gotten a significant design overhaul! The "Albums" tab is now the "Collections" tab, where you can toggle between your pinned Quick Collections. Several other screens have been updated as well, including creating Quick Collections and adding Filters. - Look, I know that some of you don't always listen to full albums. It's okay. I don't think you deserve to be banished to another app whenever you want to do that. Shuffle songs in any collection by long-pressing it on the Quick Collections dock or in a list, or from the Shuffle menu on its page. There is also a new configurable Shortcut to shuffle songs in a collection. - iOS 16 users listening to Lossless audio will now see the audio quality of the song they're currently listening to on the Now Playing screen. In addition, the available variants of an album are displayed on its page. - You can now tag and add text notes to individual album listening sessions, enabling new depths of organization and sentimentality. - The Shuffle Scheduler is now available from the “Shuffle” menu in every collection with 25 or more albums. - You can now pull to refresh collections on the Collections tab (iOS 16 only). - You can now long press collections in the library view to easily shuffle their songs or albums, or add them to the queue. - The Search, Listening History, and Release Feed screens have been updated with swipe actions for tagging and adding albums to the queue. Changes: - The "Shuffle Albums" button has been removed. Instead, long press the collection you'd like to shuffle from the Quick Collections dock. Fixes: - Fixed an issue that could cause some stats to be inaccurate - Fixed an issue where a credit might show that there are more albums for that person but there aren’t for that credit type - The app will now detect changes to locally downloaded music more quickly. - Fixed an issue where the app might not correctly play the next item in a queue after finishing an album you had skipped to
Features: - Album stats pages now have a “stats settings” menu which allows you to hide partial listens from the album’s play history, as well as toggle the ranking metric between “time listened” and “play count.” Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the action buttons on an album page didn’t correctly update to use a new album when skipping albums in a queue with the Now Playing screen up. - Fixed an issue where a finished queue might show a mismatched album to the now playing song. - Fixed an issue that could cause a non-library album not to update from Announced to Released in the Release Feed - Cloud queue improvements. - The last.fm history download now restarts more gracefully if it hits a server error - If you’re configured to only like songs on last.fm, you no longer have to deal with the indignity of a submenu to take that context menu action. - Improvements to the display of tags on the album page - Fixed a crash when changing the sorting of Workout Jams Insight collections. - A couple of crash fixes.
Fixes: - Backend improvements leading to a speedier app launch and improved responsiveness across the app. - Improvements to loading images for non-library albums. - Release Feed efficiency improvements. - You can now search for the band U2, as the Search screen no longer requires 3 characters or more to search. - Fixed an issue where Today in History shows incorrect albums on the first, second, or third day of the month in some locales. - If a track isn’t able to be rated, you won’t be given the option to rate it anymore - Fixed an issue that could lead to a library album being displayed when listening to an alternate version of that album from the Apple Music catalog - Fixed an issue where the queue wouldn’t move on to the next album if you added an album to play last on the last song of the last album in the queue - Albums without release dates are now correctly sorted using their year.
Changes: - This update introduces a new backup format when exporting a backup from Settings -> Advanced. If you need to import a library backup you made prior to this version, long-press the “Import Library Backup” button and choose “Restore Legacy Backup” Fixes: - Fixed an issue where playlists might not update since 4.4 - Fixed an issue where non-library albums didn’t filter correctly in collections - If you live in a country where Monday is the first day of the week, play history and listening reports now respect that rather than insisting it starts on Sunday. - Fixed an issue where the Today in History section of the Insights tab might not display albums from before 2000 in some locales. - Fixed an issue where the last.fm history importer might incorrectly split one album listen into different sessions in certain conditions. - Fixed an issue where rating tracks with non-alphanumeric characters in the artist or song title on last.fm would fail. - Fixed an edge case where non-library albums could have a duration of 0:00 - Improvements to cloud session syncing - Fixed a crash when changing the color of a tag after you’ve deleted a tag. - Fixed a crash loop when enabling Local Music Only after configuring the Workout Jams insights. - A few other crash fixes
Features: - Apple Music editorial notes are now displayed on the Info tab for albums that have them. Changes: - Additional beautification of the iPad album page layout. Fixes: - Improvements to CarPlay app launch time and general performance. Also fixed a couple CarPlay-related crashes and situations where playback wouldn’t start until you addressed a prompt on your phone. - Rating iCloud Music Library items you uploaded yourself now works instead of popping up an alert telling you to send me logs because it didn’t work. - Fixed an issue where choosing to keep the queue would restart the queue from the beginning, albeit with the album you wanted to listen to now added in. - Fixed an issue where the now playing or collection widgets might crash if displaying generic artwork. - Fixed an edge case where the now playing album page wouldn’t update as tracks/albums changed. - Fixed an issue where headers for credits sections on the album Info tab might display incorrectly. - Updates to some duplicate management and other database cleanup stuff
Features: - There is a new “Shortcuts Gallery” section in Automation Corner, which offers pre-built automations for common actions. - There is a new Shortcut action called "Play a Collection" that lets you choose and play any collection or Quick Action. - If there are albums you don't want to completely hide in the app, but that you want to exclude from stats/Insights... you can do that now using tags. Choose "Exclude tag from stats" in the Actions menu on the tag's page or tap the gear icon in Library -> Statistics to choose tags to exclude. - Added a new toggle in last.fm settings to disable scrobbling Changes: - If two listening reports fall on the same day, like if the first day of the week is also the first day of the month, both reports will now be displayed. - There is now a “Show All Results” button on library searches that have more than 20 results. - The "Play Quick Action" and "Shuffle Collection" Shortcut actions have been retired. You can use the far superior "Play a Collection" action instead. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the “Rate Track on” preference in last.fm settings didn’t work correctly if you had iCloud Sync enabled. - Added support for downloading last.fm history if you have the “hide recently played tracks” setting enabled for your last.fm account. - Fixed an iPad issue where the track indicators on the Now Playing status bar would end up in the wrong location if you rotated the iPad or locked the device with the Now Playing screen in the foreground. - Fixed an issue where the change log indicator didn’t go away after viewing the latest update's notes. - Fixed an issue that caused incorrectly matched albums from last.fm to still show a play count/last play time even after their sessions had been matched to the correct album. - Fixed an issue where listening to the same non-library album multiple times in a row wouldn’t count each listen as a separate session. - Fixed an issue where a quick collection made from an insight collection wouldn’t sort correctly. - Fixed an issue where incorrect art might be displayed for non-library albums. - Tapping the settings tab button now correctly navigates back to the main Settings screen if you’re in a subpage. - Per-track artwork is now correctly displayed in the MiniPlayer and on the now playing screen. - Some crash fixes and visual tweaks for good measure To configure this, tap the settings gear in Library -> Stats, or select the “Exclude tag from Stats” action in the Actions menu when viewing a tag.
Features: - Two new Insight Collections: ”Yearly Top Played" collections show your most played albums of each year since you started using Albums. "Workout Jams" collections match your listening history to your Health app workout history. Head to the Insights tab to give Albums permission, and enjoy collections of albums you listened to during each type of exercise you've tracked. You can also now tap "Edit" on the Insights tab to hide sections you aren’t interested in. - You can now long-press an individual song on a track list to bring up a menu of available actions, like viewing the artist page for any featured artists or rating it on Apple Music. To take an action on the currently playing song, long-press on the Miniplayer. - Import your last.fm history into your Albums Listening History to include all full album plays in in-app stats. A new Insight Collection called "Forgotten Scrobbles," made up of albums you’ve scrobbled that aren’t in your library, will become available in the "Diamonds in the Rough" section. Finally, the new "Yearly Top Played" Insight Collections will reflect your listening back to the beginning of your last.fm account. - Improvements to Listening History, including showing the tracks listened in an incomplete album, or the workout associated with a session. When viewing previous listens on an album page, you can tap a session to open that week in your play history. Also, if you are logged into last.fm, you can now show a given day on last.fm by tapping the last.fm logo. - Head to "Automation Corner" on the settings tab to view the many options available to use Albums with Siri. Configure shortcuts to start playing collections and tagging albums. For the true automation nerds, view information about the new Albums URL Scheme you can use to write your own shortcuts to open an album, artist, or track in Albums. - The Apple Music tab on the search screen now supports searching for Record Labels. You can also search for and subscribe to labels in the Release Feed settings by choosing “Manage Subscriptions.” - If you only want to add some tracks from an album to your library, like in the case of a deluxe edition, you can long-press the "Add" button on an album’s page to select specific tracks." - Long-press an album on the Listening History page to view the songs you listened to from that album during that listening session. This only works for music you listened to after installing this update, as well as for imported last.fm history. - You can now change the sort artist of an album from its settings. - There is a new feature in Settings- > Advanced to configure the player to always repeat the current queue. Changes: - Redesigned screens throughout the app, most notably album pages. Fixes: - There is a new image loading and caching engine, which reduces the memory footprint of the app, and increases scroll performance in image-heavy areas. - Fixed issues leading to poor scroll performance on the Albums tab, Listening History, and in other places throughout the app. - Fixed an issue where queues with multiple albums not in your library might behave strangely and not play correctly or support skipping to the next album. - Fixed an issue where the “Don’t Use Device Speaker” setting only worked on devices where the language was set to English - Fixed issues that could cause widgets to use too much memory and crash/stop updating. - Many, many visual bug fixes. - Many little improvements to the Cloud Sync and Cloud Queue engines. - Much more! Check the change log in the app to see if your favorite bug was squashed.
Changes: - Changes to the Composer field in the built-in Music app will now sync over to Albums within 24 hours. - The Cloud Queue activity indicator now shows up in a few cases where it didn’t before. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the now playing item might not reset to the first track when a single-album queue finished - Fixed an issue where the Now Playing widget could display artwork at a low resolution - Fixed an issue where an album changed from Complete -> Incomplete could switch back to Complete - Fixed an issue where updating an album’s release date might not be reflected when displayed in its source collection - Fixed an issue where Heavy Hitters insights would display a count of “0 Releases” - Fixed an issue where playlists that previously had music then became empty would not add new items - Fixed a crash when viewing the Apple Music version of an incomplete compilation in your library - Fixed inconsistent behavior with the "skip to previous song" button
Features: - Good news for all the filter freaks out there! There’s a new Record Label filter type, and that type, plus Artist, Composer, Genre, Playlist, and Tag filters now support CONTAINS and DOES NOT CONTAIN comparison types. - Tags can now be renamed on the Add Tag screen. Changes: - The “Sort as Single” option now shows up for albums of any length, not just one-track albums. Fixes: - Cloud sync reliability and performance updates - Fixed a crash that could happen after choosing to “Keep” the existing queue - Heavy Hitters Insights now correctly respect hidden release types - Fixed the tap targets on the lyrics/add to library buttons so now you won’t accidentally start playing the song. - Fixed an issue where a play session could become associated with the wrong album if there were multiple albums in your library with the same album title
Features: - Non-library albums on artist pages can now be sorted by their popularity on Apple Music. If you don’t know where to start with an artist that has a large discography, now you do! - There is a new Shortcut action called “Tag an Album.” This action takes input in the format of “Artist - Album Name” and adds the album to the Tag you specify. If you’re an Apple Music subscriber, it will search the Apple Music catalog if it doesn’t find the album in your library first. Changes: - Stats and Listening Reports now reflect only listens to Complete Albums. You can choose to include other release types, like Singles or Incomplete Albums, by tapping the gear icon in the top left of Stats pages and Listening Reports - The sleep timer now moves to the next album into the queue before pausing - Tweaked the formula that calculates full album plays to be more conservative in cases where the tracks on an album have very different play counts. - Genre is now displayed on an album's info tab, and it's also now an option when setting a custom detail label within collections. - Due to an underlying database change, the full app needs to be opened to finalize this update before widgets will be able to display data. Until that happens, they’ll display a message to that effect. Fixes: - Cloud Queue syncing improvements - Fixed an issue where albums deleted from the library could get confused after an iCloud sync. - Fixed an issue where the app could crash in the background when creating especially large playlists during a library update - Fixed an issue where you couldn’t pin an album in CarPlay after searching for it in Settings -> CarPlay - Fixed an issue where songs with custom stop times set might not scrobble or might prevent an album listen from being considered complete - Fixed an issue where the queue might erroneously pick the wrong next album after an insert, rearrange, or deletion. - Fixed an issue where the Keep/Clear queue popup wasn’t selectable when shuffling a collection viewed as a popover. - Fixed a crash when viewing a chart of top Quick Collections in a date range - Apple Music albums are no longer erroneously included in artist stats - Fixed an issue that could cause the mini player highlighting that shows the album progress to be inaccurate - Removing an album from a tag no longer reshuffles the collection - Fixed an issue where duplicate “tracks added” Release Feed items could be added - Fixed an issue introduced in 4.3.1 where the back button in the library on iPhone would act weird - Deleted release feed entries no longer come back - Fixed an issue where re-listening to the album that just finished would start playback at track 2 (technically the very last millisecond of track 1…) - Fixed a couple of bugs that might cause completing an incomplete album to fail, or the completed tracks not to display after completing it.
Features: - Tap the share icon when viewing a Listening Report to export it nice and big so you can brag to your friends about your great taste in music. Changes: - The mini report on the Library tab no longer auto-dismisses after you view its full report - The Stats page now allows you to select time ranges from before you used Albums, but it will display a message that the data displayed may be incomplete - Improvements to split view behavior on the Library and Settings tab on iPads. Fixes: - Fixed a crash when viewing stats in an insight collection - Insight Collections now correctly sort and remember your preference within their type (Heavy Hitters, etc) - Fixed an issue where entries on top charts in the listening report weren’t tappable. - Fixed an issue where the Restore Purchase button could work but not give feedback - Fixed an issue where editing a Quick Action then tapping the cancel button would delete the Quick Action. Oops. - Fixed an issue where if you applied a filter to the All Albums screen on the Library tab that filtered it to 0 albums, you could never remove the filter and that screen would be useless forever… until now! - Fixed presentation of the color picker on the Add/Edit Quick Action screen on iPad - Fixed an issue where some Quick Collections might display incorrectly in the Library - Added better messaging and a fallback option if iCloud connectivity fails during onboarding - Fixed an issue where the report preview on the Library tab might load at the wrong size. - Various other visual, stability, and usability tweaks
Features: - Just in time for the end of the year, new ways to look back at your listening. The Library tab now shows a listening report on the first day of the week, month, and year. To generate reports on-demand, head to the Report tab on the Listening History screen. - Library, collection, and album stats have gotten an upgrade throughout the app, including a new design, new stats, and the ability to toggle between time listened and play count. - The Now Playing and Collection widgets now support the extra-large size for iPad OS. In addition, the Collection widget has been redesigned, and there are new varieties of Now Playing widget. - See what tracks are missing from an album and add them to your library by tapping the "Show Complete Album" button at the bottom of any incomplete album's tracklist. - If an album has songs you never want to hear again, go to its settings and exclude them. - You can now resume albums you didn't finish last time you listened. A half-filled circle icon in your Listening History or on an album's page denotes a resumable album. - Collections can now be sorted by Time Listened. - You can now add an album to your library or to a tag by scanning its barcode. Changes: - You'll now be prompted before playing something new if it will clear your current queue. If you do accidentally clear your queue, you can restore your previous queue in settings -> Advanced. If you find the prompt annoying like me, there is a setting on that screen to disable it - Select the Settings icon on the Albums tab to configure the tap behavior of the grid. - You can now drag to reorder the Quick Action dock, as well as long press an action in the dock to edit it. - The legacy “Shuffle By” and “Play Quick Action” shortcuts have been removed. Head to Settings -> Siri to configure Play Collection shortcuts. - The Insights tab has been given a fresh coat of paint - There is now a notice when enabling/disabling immersive UI with the two-finger tap gesture Fixes: - Fixed issues that could cause widgets to fail to display - The add tag screen now correctly filters tags that are already applied to an album - Fixed an issue that caused weirdness skipping to a previous album in the queue - Search performance improvements - Fixed an issue that caused recent searches to sync incorrectly - Improvements to Tag syncing in iCloud - Insight collection quick collections now sort correctly - You can now change the sort order of insight collections - Release feed seen status now correctly syncs across devices - The Siri Shortcut to pause playback when the album ends actually works now - Fixed a crash when opening Quick Collections from search - Tweaks to when Albums refreshes an artist’s full Apple Music discography - Improvements to internal handling of albums without release dates - Improvements to dynamic type across the app
Albums 4.2.7 includes the following enhancements: Features: - You can now add tags to Apple Music albums not in your library. All of the bulk tagging actions have been updated to allow both library and non-library albums. Fixes: - Fixed edge cases where the app starts playback from the wrong song when coming back to the app after a while. - Made improvements to iCloud sync in poor network conditions - Made improvements to iCloud sync background timing - Fixed an issue where the Release Feed would show the new badge even if nothing was new - Fixed cases where pre-added albums could incorrectly unlock before release - Fixed an issue where the app could get into a loop trying to download nonexistent art from Apple Music - Performance improvements when processing big playlists - Fixed an issue where deleted albums weren’t automatically disappearing from the albums tab. - Fixed an issue where adding a “Play in Order” collection to Play Next/Last wouldn’t respect the sort order. - Improved the reliability of quickly skipping albums - Polished up the Apple Music search screen and other screens across the app - Other misc. fixes
Albums 4.2.6 includes the following enhancements: Changes: - The Quick Action dock can now be hidden on iPhones by going to the Settings gear on the Albums tab - There is a new setting to make the default Quick Action behavior be to display its collection, rather than playing it. Set that by going to the Settings gear on the Albums tab. - Tapping on an artist's name on an album page now shows that artist's page. Fixes: - Many visual and performance tweaks too tedious to mention that come together to merit their very own bullet point. - Fixed an issue where non-album recent searches did not open - Fixed issues that caused the Now Playing screen to launch inconsistently when starting playback of a new queue. - Fixed issues that caused the Pending Scrobbles screen to function incorrectly on iOS 15. - Improved performance for users with very large amounts of music saved locally when using the "Local Music Only" setting - "And" and "&" are now interchangeable when searching. - You can no longer add the same filter multiple times to the same collection - Fixed buttons and toggles that could become illegible with too light an Immersive UI tint color in dark mode - Improved reliability of “Recently Played” sorting - Fixed an issue where sorting by Artist would eventually break if you had iCloud sync on. Dumb! - Improvements to Apple Music artwork caching. - General Cloud Queue and iCloud reliability fixes.
Albums 4.2.5 brings the following enhancements: - A fix for an issue where the app could crash when selecting an individual track on an album - A fix for an issue where the app could crash when processing changes to locally saved items