5.2.2
2023-06-21
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
5.2.1
2023-06-01
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.
5.2.0
2023-05-25
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
5.1.5
2023-04-11
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
5.1.4
2023-03-06
- 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
5.1.3
2023-02-28
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
5.1.2
2023-02-01
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
5.1.1
2023-01-03
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
5.1.0
2022-12-20
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.
5.0.4
2022-11-08
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.
5.0.3
2022-10-18
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
5.0.2
2022-09-27
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
5.0.1
2022-09-15
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.
5.0.0
2022-09-12
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
4.4.5
2022-08-05
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.
4.4.4
2022-07-13
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.
4.4.3
2022-06-22
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
4.4.2
2022-06-06
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
4.4.1
2022-05-27
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.
4.4.0
2022-05-16
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.
4.3.4
2022-02-15
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
4.3.3
2022-02-10
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
4.3.2
2022-02-01
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.
4.3.1
2022-01-11
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
4.3.0
2022-01-04
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