Features: - Just in time for the 2025 listening report on January 1st (and not a moment sooner!) — the Top Albums component on full-year Listening Reports has a new option to show your top album for each month of the year Fixes: - General performance improvements following app architecture tweaks after watching a recent Apple talk about optimizing SwiftUI apps ;) - Improved logic around cloud queue syncing - Another attempt at fixing the issue where resuming a session could result in a split listening session - Fixed an issue where spooky, blank albums could show up in Quick Collections and cause an incorrect album to play. - Fixed an issue where some years may have been missing from the Sort Year picker on the per-album settings screen - Fixed an issue where an album with a known genre could also display “Unknown Genre” as one of its genres - Fixed an issue where charts on a listening report refreshed unnecessarily when changing the picker on the Top Albums component. - Fixed an issue where the CarPlay “Current Queue” collection showed the wrong title and potentially also contents once loaded - Fixed an issue that could cause iCloud sync to not try again after a certain type of failure - Fixed an issue where the collection picker in Settings -> CarPlay didn’t render correctly on iOS 26 - Fixed an issue where the “Pin to CarPlay” action in a collection would make you pick a collection to replace even if you had fewer than 6. It now correctly just pins the collection. - Fixed an issue where authenticating with last.fm wouldn't work in browsers other than Safari - Fixed an issue where listening reports could display incorrectly depending on the width of the sidebar (Mac only) - Fixed a regression where toggling between collections in the Collection Selection view (Artists, Decades, etc) could cause the app to crash (Mac only) - Fixed an issue where it was impossible to select something from the Library selection of the sidebar if you were viewing a Pinned Collection (Mac only)

- Fixed an issue where the last.fm Settings page would only appear as logged in after playing music for the first time after launching the app fresh - The now playing slider bar now animates more pleasantly back into place after scrubbing through a song - Fixed an issue where the queue could not repeat an album when set to repeat album mode - Fixed an issue where a Release Feed notification could be sent even if you’d already seen the latest items in the feed - Various crash fixes, attempted and definite - Fixed an issue where devices that had not done a cloud sync in over 7 days might not correctly delete Quick Actions and Tags that had been deleted on other iCloud devices older than 7 days ago - Fixed an edge case where a cloud-synced queue could display mixed up metadata - Fixed an issue where an album’s play count might not correctly decrement after deleting a play session - Fixed an issue where the context menu/right-click menu wasn’t available for search results in the app’s sidebar (iPad/macOS) - Fixed an issue where the Number of Albums chart type incorrectly counted non-library albums - Fixed an issue where users without Apple Music subscriptions could only view the first track of a catalog album. - The Over the Years Insights collections now include albums with blank release dates but populated “year” metadata. - Fixed an issue where the queue replace alert would self-dismiss and prevent playback when presented from a collection chosen from Related Artists or an Insight Collection

Features: - macOS App: The day has finally come, y’all! Albums is now available for macOS! Enjoy a seamless listening experience across all of your devices with all the features you know and love from the iOS app, plus some Mac-specific extras like MiniPlayer and Queue windows, and menu actions. - UI Refresh: Between the Mac app and the dawn of the era of Liquid Glass, nearly every screen in the app (plus CarPlay!) has gotten some attention toward improving usability across platforms, fixing design/layout bugs, and, yes, liquid-glassiness. - This update contains tons of behind-the-scenes refinements, improvements, and fixes. Most notably, iCloud sync is quicker and more robust against errors. See the change log for a full list of fixes - Menu Bar: Many actions from the app, like controlling the queue and taking actions on the currently playing album, are now available in various menus in the menu bar of the Mac and iPad app. Fixes: - Finally, finally, finally fixed an issue where an album’s release date could get reset even after manually changing it - Fixed an issue where the iPad app could lock up when expanding an album’s play history - Fixed an issue where using the search bar in the sidebar of the iPad or Mac app would obscure the player - Fixed an issue where the Find Album(s) shortcut action only returned albums in your library - Fixed an issue where Notes might not be linked correctly to their respective albums and sessions when syncing a new device with iCloud - Fixed an issue where albums with unicode characters for zero-width spaces in their names might not show up in search(!) - Fixed an issue where the sleep timer didn’t work if the queue was set to repeat a single album - The section index titles on the collection selection screen are no longer kinda janky! (iOS/macOS 26+) - Fixed an issue where the collection selection screen might not show the correct count of albums for certain credits where a single person could have multiple credit types (producers, engineers, etc) - Fixed issues where songs might not be ratable or show the correct last.fm play count when opening an album in Detail view - Fixed an issue where playlists might be duplicated for users who manually sync with Finder - Fixed an issue where resuming a session from its context menu might incorrectly create a new session - Fixed an issue where an album recently discovered by the Release Feed might show incomplete info if viewed while the Release Feed scan that discovered it is still running - Fixed an issue where shuffled songs could show the wrong album under specific circumstances

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