Music Info — Song Metadata 4+
Stats from your library
Jordan Hipwell
Designed for iPad
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- $1.99
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Description
Music Info allows you to view information about songs in your library, including play count, skip count, release date, date added, album artist, composer, genre, comments, lyrics, and more.*
"Apple's Music app on macOS surfaces all kinds of information about the songs you're listening to … But for reasons unknown, that isn't the case with the iOS version of Music. But as Apple likes to say, there's an app for that."
—iMore
Music Info features a clean, modern design that’s simple and efficient to use. When you open the app, if a song is playing in the Music app, its info automatically appears and updates when the song changes. You can also select a song from your library to view its metadata.
You can even get a song’s info directly in the Music app from the share sheet — it’s Music’s missing Get Info button.
The Now Playing widget displays info about the song currently playing in the Music app on your Home Screen, StandBy, and iPad Lock Screen. Edit the widget to customize which song properties are visible. (Requires iOS 17.2+)
More features
-- Drag and drop a song from Music to see its info
-- Look up song info with Music Recognition powered by Shazam
-- Play the selected song in-app
-- Reorder or hide information
-- Tap and hold text to copy information
-- Select words in lyrics to look up, translate, copy, or share
-- Drag and drop artwork into other apps
-- Light and dark mode
-- Home Screen quick actions
-- App Shortcuts
-- Keyboard shortcuts
-- Split view multitasking and multiple windows on iPadOS
-- Full accessibility support including Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and Voice Control
-- No ads, no tracking, no subscriptions
How it works
-- The Music app, like iTunes before it, saves metadata for each song you have in your library. Music Info reveals this information that otherwise isn’t accessible on iOS and iPadOS.
-- All songs in your library can be accessed in the Music Info app, no matter if they were added via Apple Music, purchased, matched, uploaded, or otherwise synced to your device. Songs in Apple Music that haven’t been added to your library have limited information available.
-- The share sheet action is available when sharing a song in the Music app. Note that only songs that are available on Apple Music can be shared. Music Info will try to look up that song in your library which may require an internet connection. It’s possible it may not be able to find the right song, for example, if you’ve renamed it. If that is the case, you can still use the app to access its information even without an internet connection.
Things to note
-- Song metadata cannot be edited on iOS and iPadOS
-- Music Info does not work with any third-party music services
-- Lyrics must be added to your songs via Music or iTunes on your Mac or PC
*All available metadata:
-- Artwork
-- Title
-- Artist
-- Album
-- Album artist
-- Composer
-- Genre
-- Release date
-- Duration
-- Play count
-- Last played
-- Grouping
-- Track
-- Disc number
-- Compilation
-- Explicit
-- Rating
-- BPM
-- Skip count
-- Date added
-- Comments
-- Lyrics
What’s New
Version 1.6.1
-- Support for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
Ratings and Reviews
Lyrics can be seen again
Many generations back the default Music app on iOS was able to display “Custom Lyrics” that a user had added to individual downloaded tracks in their music library. Then, for some reason, Apple took that feature away. The lyrics were still in the songs’ metadata — and could still be viewed in the iTunes app on a Windows or Mac computer — you just couldn’t access them on your mobile device. This app nicely solves this problem (as well as showing all other song metadata as well).
While I expected this app to show the lyrics, I was pleasantly surprised by how well it integrates with the music library. It’s a separate app, not added functionality added to the iOS app like a browser extension. However, when launched it becomes aware of whatever song is being played and cycles through its display to show the metadata of whatever track is currently being played. Quite nice.
FYI, the app is not a music player and has no ability to edit song metadata. I see no problem with that but it is something to be aware of.
This app gets an unconditional five star from me. I couldn’t be happier.
Just what I always wanted!
Great job!
I have spent decades curating my metadata but could never see it in any other app before, only in iTunes.
I don’t use Apple music only my own mp3 files. It would be great if you could add the ability to edit metadata on the iPhone.
I use another app to rate songs since the Music player buries the star ratings too deep.
You could probably write to that field and others. I’d pay extra for that.
Thank you
Yesss
Awesome! Love that I can get the play count from within the Share Song menu when I’m playing music. Thanks for the app 👍
Developer Response ,
You’re definitely welcome, thanks for the review!
App Privacy
The developer, Jordan Hipwell, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Jordan Hipwell
- Size
- 2.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 Jordan Hipwell
- Price
- $1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.