Albums - album focused player 5.3.10
Free Version
Publisher Description
Free Features:
QUICK SELECTION
Just press “shuffle,” scroll through a grid of album art, or browse your library to select an album, and easily skip to the next one with album-focused controls.
WIDGETS & CARPLAY
See your music on your home screen with Now Playing, Collection, and Quick Action widgets. Take it on the road with CarPlay, and pin albums and collections for easy access.
ICLOUD SYNC
iCloud sync ensures you can pick up listening where you left off across all your devices.
ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL
Albums offers robust Siri interactions and supports Dynamic Type.
Premium Tools for Power Users*:
SUBSTANTIAL STATS
Get weekly, monthly, and yearly reports looking back at your listening, and dig into the data with customizable charts.
LAST.FM COMPATIBILITY
Scrobble your listening in real-time or manually. Import your last.fm history to fill in the full picture.
MORE CUSTOMIZATION
Explore built-in Insight Collections highlighting new and unlistened albums, old favorites you haven’t heard in a while, or even music from when you were in high school. Tag albums to create collections of your own. Customize the interface to match the color of your current album’s artwork with a simple two-finger tap.
RICHER DISCOVERY
See what’s next with a release feed of Artists and Record Labels in your library. Delve into production credits from MusicBrainz and Discogs, then browse collections of Record Labels, Producers, and more.
*Requires Albums Premium
Note:
Albums optionally integrates with Apple Health. If you choose to give Albums access to your Workout history, it can create "Workout Jams" Insight Collections, which match up your listening history to your exercise history. You can enable this functionality by going to the Insights tab and tapping the settings gear next to the "Workout Jams" heading. Permission for Albums to access this data can be controlled via the Apple Health app.
Apr 2, 2024
Version 5.3.10
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
- 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
About Albums - album focused player
Albums - album focused player is a free app for iOS published in the Audio File Players list of apps, part of Audio & Multimedia.
The company that develops Albums - album focused player is Adam Linder. The latest version released by its developer is 5.3.10.
To install Albums - album focused player on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2024-04-02 and was downloaded 9 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Albums - album focused player as malware if the download link is broken.
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- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
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- After Albums - album focused player is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
Program Details
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| Publisher | Adam Linder |
| Released Date | 2024-04-02 |
| Languages | English |
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| Category | Audio & Multimedia |
| Subcategory | Audio File Players |
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| Operating systems | ios |
Download information |
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| File size | 30.41 MB |
| Total downloads | 9 |
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| License model | Free |
| Price | N/A |
Version History
version 5.3.10
posted on 2024-04-02
Apr 2, 2024
Version 5.3.10
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
version 5.3.9
posted on 2024-03-15
Mar 15, 2024
Version 5.3.9
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
version 5.3.7
posted on 2024-01-23
Jan 23, 2024
Version 5.3.7
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
version 5.3.6
posted on 2024-01-08
Jan 8, 2024
Version 5.3.6
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
version 5.3.5
posted on 2023-12-14
Dec 14, 2023
Version 5.3.5
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
version 5.3.3
posted on 2023-11-27
Nov 27, 2023
Version 5.3.3
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
version 5.3.2
posted on 2023-10-24
Oct 24, 2023
Version 5.3.2
- 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
version 5.3.1
posted on 2023-09-18
Sep 18, 2023
Version 5.3.1
- 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
version 5.2.5
posted on 2023-07-29
Jul 29, 2023
Version 5.2.5
Fixes:
- Fixed a couple of very silly crashes
version 5.2.4
posted on 2023-07-19
Jul 19, 2023
Version 5.2.4
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
version 5.2.3
posted on 2023-07-03
Jul 3, 2023
Version 5.2.3
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
version 5.2.2
posted on 2023-06-21
Jun 21, 2023
Version 5.2.2
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
version 5.2.1
posted on 2023-06-01
Jun 1, 2023
Version 5.2.1
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.
version 5.1.5
posted on 2023-04-11
Apr 11, 2023
Version 5.1.5
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
version 5.1.4
posted on 2023-03-06
Mar 6, 2023
Version 5.1.4
- 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
version 4.4.5
posted on 2022-08-05
Aug 5, 2022 Version 4.4.5
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.
version 4.4.0
posted on 2022-05-16
May 16, 2022 Version 4.4.0
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.
version 4.3.4
posted on 2022-02-15
Feb 15, 2022 Version 4.3.4
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
version 4.3.3
posted on 2022-02-10
Feb 10, 2022 Version 4.3.3
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
version 4.3.2
posted on 2022-02-01
Feb 1, 2022 Version 4.3.2
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.
version 4.3.1
posted on 2022-01-11
Jan 11, 2022 Version 4.3.1
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
version 4.3.0
posted on 2022-01-04
Jan 4, 2022 Version 4.3.0
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
version 4.2.7
posted on 2021-11-29
Nov 29, 2021 Version 4.2.7
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
