Smart Shuffle 4+

The Album-Centric Music Player

Spudfish Software

    • 5.0 • 3 Ratings
    • $1.99

Description

Do you miss the old "Album Shuffle" on your Apple device? Here at Spudfish Software, we did, so we did something about it!
Smart Shuffle: The Album-Centric Music Player

Smart Shuffle brings album shuffle back to you, randomly shuffling your music and playing it back one album at a time with songs selected in the order that the artist intended. If you love albums, Smart Shuffle is the only music player you need!

Version 3.9 also includes a host of new features to help you further take charge of your album collection!

SIRI SHORTCUTS
- train Siri to tell Smart Shuffle to Shuffle Albums, Play Next Album or Play Previous Album

PLAY ALBUMS FROM THE CLOUD
- Smart Shuffle can now access your albums in the cloud, seamlessly adding them to your selection list. Have a bad data plan or spotty internet connectivity? Just turn off this feature from the Settings app for Smart Shuffle.

ENHANCED ALBUM SELECTION
- Sort your albums by Title, Artist, Genre, Composer, or Release Date
- Filter the selection list to refine your selections. You can create an album playlist to match your mood by filtering on any combination of:
- Artist
- Genre
- Grouping
- Composer
- Rating
- Play Count
- Decade Released
- Minimum Song Count
- Inclusion in one of your Playlists
- Cloud Availability
- Filter by Selected to see only the albums you have currently selected for shuffling, or those that you haven't selected yet.

- Start Album: Select the first album to play, then pick random albums thereafter.
- Split Multi-Disc Albums: treat each volume of a multi-disc set individually

APPLE WATCH INTERFACE
- Control the playback of your album selections on your Apple Watch. Play or pause the current album, skip to the next album, or re-play the previous album.

SLEEP MODE
- Touch and hold the play/pause button for a second to request Sleep Mode
- Smart Shuffle will automatically pause after 30 minutes, an hour, or after the current album. You'll get lulled to sleep listening to your favorite albums without missing a bunch of them while asleep!

ANNOUNCEMENT AND DELAY
- Smart Shuffle now comes with settings to announce each new album before it is played, and to delay for up to 30 seconds between albums to let you cleanse your musical palate.

RESPONSIVE TO TOUCH EVENTS
- Double tap the screen to play/pause music
- Swipe left/right on the album art to skip to the next/previous album
- Swipe left/right on the now playing information to skip to the next/previous song
- Swipe down in the pull-tab to show your entire shuffled album queue. Swipe up to view the currently playing album art.
- Touch the progress bar to change songs
- Touch the time remaining to show the time of day that the currently playing album will end. Touch again to return to time remaining.
- Touch and hold the progress bar to get a list of songs to choose from
- From the Selection Screen, touch and hold an album to play it first in your shuffled list

REMOTE CONTROL EVENTS
- In addition to the usual remote control events (play/pause, next song, previous song), Smart Shuffle can now skip to the next/previous album using the "skimming" remote control events. Double-click and hold the remote control on headphones, or touch and hold the forward arrow on the remote control panel on your lock screen.

If you quit the application, your music keeps playing. Open the Music app, and your Smart Shuffle mix is retained. Pop right back into Smart Shuffle to skip albums or select new albums to mix.

Happy Shuffling!

See our website for additional information, FAQ's and contact us to report bugs or request new features.
http://spudfish.com/smartshuffle

What’s New

Version 3.16

Fixed a bug that caused the start-up to be extra long and/or start shuffling randomly.

Ratings and Reviews

5.0 out of 5
3 Ratings

3 Ratings

devilbond ,

Nicely fills the gaping whole left by Apple

So, my theory is that Apple wanted to generate a culture of buying individual songs, rather than albums, as they predicted the iTunes store would be more successful that way. I don't know if I'm right, or if so, whether Apple's business plan was. All I can say is I wanted to kick them in the kahuna's for removing the Shuffle Albums preference from their music app on iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch.

Albums were meant to be listened to from front to back. It's cool if you don't want to listen to albums that way, all I want is to be able to do just that, if I want to.

This app fills the void left by Apple nicely. Think of it as kind of a 'launcher' for album shuffle. Once you've hit shuffle within this app you are free to return to the stock-standard Music app and continue as normal… rating, skipping, stopping & starting etc. The only reason you need to go back into this application is if you want to skip the entire playing album, which is something the Music app can not (will not) do.

It's simple, it's about as elegant as we're going to get, and it's highly recommended. Especially at the very affordable price of ZERO dollars.

Enjoy.

DeadEyeDog ,

Does exactly what it says

Always enjoyed the album shuffle, and it's back. Simple to use, and it works

Steerage250 ,

Getting disgruntled!

Have been using it for 12 months or more, but have noticed in the last few months that it starts playing again where it started last time (not where it finished last). Might look for a replacement.

App Privacy

The developer, Spudfish Software, 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.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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