Albums - album focused player 4+
Appreciate full albums again
Adam Linder
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Albums is the Apple Music player that puts you in control of your music. Whether you just want to throw on album shuffle or spend hours meticulously sorting and filtering your collection, Albums cares about your music library as much as you do.
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.
What’s New
Version 5.3.13
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
Ratings and Reviews
Perfect!
While the stock Apple Music app is fine for playlists, lyrics, & discovering new music, it’s not great for everything. Sometimes I just want to listen to an album or two, or listen though the entire discography of an artist, and when I do Albums is where I go to do it. Being able to sort by release date lets me start at the beginning & work forward, allowing me to experience how the band change and grow from one album to the next. I fear that albums are becoming less important in favour of singles, but it’s god to know there’s an app out there for those of us who still prefer the old ways.
Not every app is good enough that I’ll pay for a lifetime unlock of the full version, but in this case it was worth every penny.
Superb for listening and discovery
When I “replaced” my large vinyl and CD collection with Apple Music I thought in terms of physical things - I’m used to listening to albums and single most of my life.
Albums supports that mindset wonderfully. It treats my albums as albums rather than a collection of songs to be shuffled and skipped. It provides loads of information about an album, pulling info from the web that allows you connect engineers, or violin players, or studios from one of my albums with other albums that have the same in common. Fascinating stuff.
I love the Insights tab that tells you what was released today 30 (or whatever) years ago and the one that shows me what records were released in my teens, 20s and 30s - instant connections!
I’ve emailed Adam about the app and he always replies and often with some detail which is how support should be. The app has so many really great features if you love nosing around in your collection and discovering more and more useful features appear quite often - look how often the app gets updates.
A really top notch music app
I’ve been using Albums for some time and have come to realise the app is just amazingly brilliant. The stand out feature for me is the “Release Feed” that monitors artists from your library and alerts you of any new releases or updates. I can’t recommend this app enough.
To the developers, thank you.
App Privacy
The developer, Adam Linder, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Adam Linder
- Size
- 30.4 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Sell Fish Software
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Premium (Monthly-Paid) £1.99
- Premium (Yearly-Paid) £17.99
- Premium - Lifetime £59.99
- The Music Nerd £1.99
- Premium Lifetime (Pro-Rated) £44.99
- Last.FM Scrobbling £0.99
- Tip Jar: Medium £4.99
- Tip Jar: Large £9.99
- Tip Jar: Small £1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.
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Siri
Get things done within this app using just your voice.