iMusic v1.21.1 This update makes every list feel like a session in progress, lets Mood Walk go further, and polishes Cover Flow and the Now Playing widget. Open it to meet one song worth hearing through. 1. Lists look and behave as one family. Categories, collections, search, favorites, Listen Later, listen lists, recent history, More on Apple Music on an artist page, and the essay layer in the player now show clear track numbers. The playing row lifts forward and the play control becomes a waveform while audio is on. Editorial tracks, catalog results, and saved Apple Music songs share one now-playing rule, so mixed favorites never highlight the wrong row. 2. The editorial library grows to 5,305 pieces. New entries include Kelly Chen Notebook, Xu Liang Bad Girl, Pull Away, and Ke Guan Bu Ke Yi, each with fresh essays, plus tighter Apple Music matching so playback stays closer to the credited recording. 3. Two new famous lines join the daily line and browsable list. Compare adds two curated pairs: Notebook with Kelly Chen and Steve Chou on the same song, and Bad Girl with Pull Away for Xu Liang joking then saying goodbye. 4. Mood Walk now defaults to twenty pieces. On the picker you can choose ten through two hundred. Roam on Home still plays ten unique random pieces; the two paths stay separate. 5. Cover Flow in the player moves closer to classic desktop: angled side covers, the focus card stacked forward, and a pre-rendered mirrored reflection under each artwork. Swipe settles briefly before the track changes. 6. When queue playback cannot match a track on the storefront, the immersive player holds on the recovery card for about five seconds with a countdown before trying the next song, with a light toast when playback resumes. 7. On the essay lyrics reading page, Play opens a menu: play now, play next, add to queue, or Listen Later, without leaving the reader. 8. Vinyl, cassette, CD, and score defaults live in one place: Settings and the player More menu write the same preference for the whole app, instead of a per-track temporary override. 9. The Home Screen Now Playing widget spins vinyl, cassette, or CD while audio is on, with clearer labels in tinted glass modes. Reduce Motion and Low Power Mode keep it still. 10. Swiping up to expand the player keeps bottom controls aligned with the cover through the spring, so progress and buttons no longer drift alone on large screens. 11. The Home Screen Now Playing widget: the large size shows year, era, a magazine hook, and up to three Up Next tracks (title and artist); medium adds progress; small cassette fills the shell face. 12. When playback cannot match Apple Music, recovery cards name the track in the title; jumping to another music app copies the visible title and artist to the clipboard first. We welcome your rating and a note on the App Store. One line from you helps the next song land closer.

iMusic v1.12.0 This update turns the player into a room you can dress, and lets songs you already hear in Apple Music live on your own lists. Open it to meet one worth hearing through. 1. A Now Playing widget on the Home Screen follows the cover and the song. Tap previous, play, or next. When nothing is playing, it returns to Today's Piece, and reminds you that today is still worth one full listen. Control Center can hold a play toggle too. 2. Favorites can import a library playlist, recently added, or recently played into a new listen list, an existing one, favorites, or Listen Later. Editorial matches keep their essays. Sync again only adds songs that are new on the other side. What you already arranged stays. Up to 3,000 songs. 3. Below the editorial works on an artist page, you can open More on Apple Music. Tap one to play this session from there, without leaving the page. The essay layer of the player has the same shelf. 4. The immersive background can become Frosted, Motion, Poster, or Spotlight, or stay with the color wash from the cover. Settings and the player menu change the same choice, and every song follows it. 5. The player can switch to Cover Flow for this session. The playing cover faces you. The one on the left is previous. The one on the right is next. Swipe to move along. You can also switch to Spectrum. On a 30-second preview, the bars can follow the sound. These two looks do not follow the era, and they last only for this session. 6. Settings can show the encoding now playing. Lossless, Hi-Res, and Dolby Atmos still change in the Music settings on your device. You can prefer the studio recording, or let a live version sit closer to the front, and decide whether cellular should prefetch the next preview and a sharper cover. 7. If the storefront does not have this song right now, the recovery card can search the title and artist in another music app you already use. The essay stays. You can still finish reading. We welcome your rating and a note on the App Store. One line from you helps the next song land closer.

iMusic v1.11.0 This update opens more doors into the next song, and lets a song you just found stay on your own lists. Open it to meet one worth hearing through. 1. Mood Walk is no longer only a mood. Step in through Mood, Scene, Era, Genre, or Place. One tap draws ten pieces, spreads the artists, and skips what you just heard. Stack a few to walk a narrower path. Within one kind, any choice is enough. Across kinds, every kind has to match. Start with Night, then add Hong Kong, and the pieces you draw stay inside those doors. The player names where this walk came from. Just walk is still there. 2. Apple Music songs from search can sit with your curated library. Favorite them, add them to Listen Later, or put them on a listen list. The corner reads Apple Music. These songs have no essay. Tap to play. If another region no longer matches, the row stays and says it cannot play right now. Settings can hide the entry. What you already saved remains. Up to 1,000 songs. With iCloud sync on, they can follow you to your other devices. 3. The essay page can open the lyrics to read. Lines gather as intro, verse, chorus, bridge, and outro, beside the essay, and the page does not follow playback. If this song is already playing and the words were found, they are there when you open the page. 4. On a full track, when the lyrics mark their sections, the progress bar shows the chorus. Tap it to jump there. A 30-second preview does not show it. You can turn this off in Settings. 5. The queue separates what comes next from what plays after this round. Move a song up, remove several, save a listen list, add all to Listen Later, or clear the rest and keep the one that is playing. If the queue is empty, roam ten pieces from there. A queue made only of Apple Music songs cannot be saved as a list. 6. A music card made from the player, or from one lyric line, can use a Player style and keep this moment on the card. 7. Artist pages, collections, and famous lines can sort in either direction. Year can run from new to old, or from old to new. Title and artist can reverse too. The choice stays as you move between pages, and it is not written into Settings. 8. A curated song is more likely to play as the one you chose. Playback looks for that recording first, then checks the storefront title. Title and artist both have to agree, so another recording of the same name is less likely to play. 9. On iOS 26, when a page reaches the top, the meeting with the navigation bar becomes a soft blur, and reading feels quieter. We welcome your rating and a note on the App Store. One line from you helps the next song land closer.

iMusic v1.10.0 The line under the title is now a magazine dek, and cover style can be remembered in Settings. 1. The dek no longer restates year, artist, or title. Those already sit on their own rows. It is about thirty characters of situation. 2. VoiceOver on Today's Piece reads the dek. An empty artwork hit is hidden. 3. Essays and listen tips that told you to use headphones, play through at bedtime, or avoid shuffle were rewritten from the song itself. 4. Cover style in Settings now persists. Following the era: score for classical or before 1955, vinyl for 1955–1979, cassette for 1980–1999, CD from 2000. The player menu can still change this track only. We welcome your feedback and a rating on the App Store. Every piece you hear through is a reason we keep writing.

iMusic v1.9.0 Major Update This release goes deeper into the library: more work from names you already love, collections that are no longer thin, search that understands how you type a title, and a mini bar you can shape to your own hand. It still opens for one reason, to meet the next song worth finishing. 1. Two hundred ninety more pieces. The editorial library grows from 5,000 to 5,290, with 1,341 artists. New names include Zeng Yike, Mengran, and Shi Lei. Older IDs stay put. 2. Headliners now have enough to hear through. The Four Heavenly Kings, Beyond, Alan Tam, Sam Hui, Dave Wang, Richie Jen, and Fish Leong each reach about 30 pieces; Cyndi Wang reaches 20; Nicholas Tse, Priscilla Chan, Rene Liu, Penny Tai, G.E.M. and others reach 10. An artist page is no longer just a handful of hits. 3. All 58 collections were re-picked. They used to hold only 6 to 16 songs. They now put signature work first, rotate artists, and always include titles named in the intro, up to 72 pieces each. Golden-hit nights, folk roads, and love-letter rooms become rooms you can actually walk. 4. Search understands how you write. Dots, spaces, and parentheses are ignored, so she finds S.H.E. Chinese abbreviations can skip characters, so a short query still lands on the full title. Results rank by title and artist, not by catalog order. 5. Recent searches keep fifty terms. A tap on a result, an artist, or a daily chip is remembered. Typing along the way is not. 6. Mini-bar buttons are yours. Settings now lets you pick up to three of Essay, Queue, Next, Previous, Favorite, Listen Later, AirPlay, and playback mode, in any order, with a live preview. When the bar collapses to one row, portrait keeps the button next to Play and landscape shows them all. You can hide the row. Play stays pinned at the right. 7. Artist pages can sort. Newest year first is the default; title or catalog order are one tap away. Start playback from an artist page and the immersive player can take you back to that artist. 8. Browsing collections is smoother. Sorting a few dozen pieces no longer flashes a packing spinner. A short queue is no longer mistaken for a collection. 9. More than five thousand essays and 1,300 artist biographies were proofed again. Today's Piece, a collection, or an artist page still tells this song and this person. We welcome your feedback and a rating on the App Store. Every piece you hear through is a reason we keep writing.

iMusic v1.8.0 Major Update This release finishes the job on lyrics: found, understood, and within reach. Today's Piece can now draw from the whole library. It still opens for one reason, to meet the next song worth finishing. 1. Lyrics are easier to find. While a track plays, storefronts are tried step by step, and a public lyrics library is used when Apple Music carries no text. Title and artist must both match. When nothing turns up, the reason is named: offline, an Apple Music subscription is needed, or the song simply is not carried. You can retry right there. 2. One song, several versions of the words. Public libraries often list more than one take, so the player menu now offers another version of the lyrics when the timing does not line up. 3. Lyrics you can read. Chinese lines can carry pinyin, Japanese lines romaji, Korean lines romaja, all generated on your device without a bundled dictionary. On iOS 18 and later the whole song can be translated at once, on device. On iOS 17 the system translator still works. The switches sit under the lyrics and are remembered per interface language. 4. Lyrics you can act on. Long-press any line to copy it, play from that line, translate that line alone, or turn it into a music card. The card draws only the line you chose, with the title, the artist, and credit for the lyrics source. 5. Scrolling lyrics by hand no longer snaps back. After you move away it waits a few seconds, and a small Back to the line playing button returns you to the current line. 6. Today's Piece refresh now draws from the whole library. It used to circle a seasonal pool. It now picks from five thousand pieces, skips what you already saw today, and prefers a different artist. Home and the widget share one path, and the day's reminder is rescheduled. The first pick of each day still follows festivals and seasons. 7. Intros for all 44 categories and 58 collections were rewritten. Each one talks only about the work behind that entrance instead of sharing the same listening boilerplate. 8. Five thousand essays and 1,338 artist biographies were proofed again. Repeated paragraphs and template lines were removed, and decade wording is now written as 1960s through 2020s, including the category names. 9. The player menu can now share the song itself. The lyrics layer, the essay layer, and tracks found through Apple Music search can all be shared directly. 10. Fixes. Long-pressing a lyric line or an essay paragraph no longer lifts a blank panel, and paragraphs on the same page keep their own menus. Rapid Next on Lock Screen or headphones is steadier and no longer skips a track that is still resolving. We welcome your feedback and a rating on the App Store. Every piece you hear through is a reason we keep writing.

iMusic v1.7.0 Major Update This version writes five thousand essays back onto the song itself, and lets Lock Screen and headphones follow the queue you started. 1. Nearly five thousand essays and listen tips were rewritten. They no longer tell you to play this on a commute, before bed, or in the rain. Each essay stays with this recording: where to lean in, how loud to sit, and what to hear from the intro. Scene shelves remain. They just no longer enter the essay. 2. More than a hundred artist notes were checked so featured titles match the library. 3. With a full Apple Music subscription, Next and Previous on Lock Screen, Control Center, Dynamic Island, or headphones follow your queue instead of stopping on this track. Repeat All wraps to the start. Repeat One stays on this song. 4. Compare now has 192 curated pairs. The set is cleaner, and a stronger pair was added. We welcome your feedback and a rating on the App Store. Every piece you hear through is a reason we keep writing.

iMusic v1.6.0 Major Update The library now holds five thousand pieces. Lyrics can follow the line you are in, covers stay sharp, and playback is less likely to land on the wrong recording. 1. The catalog is now 5,000 pieces and 1,338 artists. Each category and collection has its own intro, instead of sharing one generic paragraph. Several titles were replaced with the confirmed original, and we keep appending pieces worth sitting with. 2. Famous lines grow to 344. Browse by region. The list rotates by day. Today's line on Home is separate, so leaving and coming back the same day does not jump. 3. Compare now has 195 curated pairs. When you start from a category, collection, or a Compare pair, the player can open that source without stopping playback. 4. Lyrics are looked up while a track plays. Nothing is bundled. Timed lines can be tapped to seek, and you can nudge timing for this track. Translate the full lyrics from the lyrics layer. 5. A storefront title that adds two characters, or appends Live or instrumental without brackets, still matches the editorial recording. Stage names and bilingual spellings are recognized. If it does not match, playback stays on an explainer card and does not skip ahead. 6. Artist album covers now loop: swipe past the last one and you are back at the first. Full-screen artwork appears first, then sharpens. Pinch-zoom is not reset when the clearer image arrives. 7. Closing the player sends the cover, title, and play button back to the mini bar. Scrolling a list can hide the bar and give the height back to the content. On newer iPhones, the system tab bar already hides as you scroll, so the mini bar stays visible by default. Pause from Control Center, Dynamic Island, or headphones now keeps the play button in sync. 8. Apple Music search loads more as you reach the end. Long-press a title or artist to search or copy. On iPad, home shelves keep the same first eight pieces as iPhone that day, then fill out to sixteen. A long-press on a shelf card opens the menu for that card, not the first one in the row. We welcome your feedback and a rating on the App Store. Every piece you hear through is a reason we keep writing.

iMusic v1.5.0 Major Update Open the app and meet the next song worth sitting with. Discovery now rotates, Compare places two pieces together, and vinyl speaks more quietly. 1. Home shelves for Artists, This week's curation, Mood picks, and Chinese and world music now rotate by day or by week. Leave and come back the same day and the order stays put. Pull down for another round. Listen Later, recents, and favorites stay where you left them. 2. Mood Walk lets you pick a mood, then plays ten pieces. Artists are spread out and recent listens are skipped, so you are not stuck on the first title in a category. 3. Compare now offers 131 curated pairs across eight ways of listening, from covers and echoes across decades to arrangement and vocal craft. Today's pair stays pinned. The default list rotates by day. On the detail page, swap the two sides in one tap. 4. Favorite an artist from the artist page or a long-press menu. Favorite artists get their own section in Favorites and can sync with iCloud. 5. Recognize is rebuilt. The disc spins while it listens, ripples travel from the label to the rim, and the tonearm drops only when it knows the song. Traditional Chinese titles from Hong Kong and Taiwan storefronts now match the library. You can also revisit recent matches. 6. In the immersive player, View cover opens this artwork full screen. Cover style can temporarily switch the object to vinyl, cassette, CD, or score. It applies to this track only. The next song returns to its era default. The spindle is now a glass hub and does not spin with the disc. 7. The sleep timer keeps 30 minutes and Stop after this track up front. Other durations sit under More options. Guess the Song scrolls on small screens or large type. Era Corridor and Compare cards keep the title on one line. 8. The Favorites widget is now a list: 3 songs on small, 4 on medium, in the order you saved them. Tap a song for its guide, or tap the title to open Favorites. Refresh pages the list only when you have more than one screen. 9. Apple Music search results now play as a round from the song you tap. You can also play all or shuffle. This round is not saved, and it ends when you return to editorial playback. Lock Screen Next follows the round you are in. 10. Category, collection, and All pieces lists now rotate by day. Same-day order stays put. Tap Another mix to shuffle again. Favorites now opens in cards. Sections can collapse, and Play all sits in the section header. Artist cover browsing pans and pages more smoothly. We welcome your feedback and a rating on the App Store. Every piece you hear through is a reason we keep writing.

iMusic v1.3.0 Major Update Our first big update since launch. Essays are written out in full, the player has more room to breathe, and it is easier to find a song, flip album art, and keep a whole group playing. 1. All 4847 listening essays and 1337 artist profiles are now written out in full. Nothing is cut short. You can read where to lean in, how the arrangement breathes, and why the song stayed. 2. Immersive playback is calmer and clearer. In portrait, vinyl, cassette, CD, and score sit in the center, with progress and controls pinned at the bottom so the bar stays put when the object changes. In landscape, the era object stays on the left, and play, lyrics, and the guide stack on the right. iPad scales the object to your screen. 3. Search now greets you with picks for today. Tap one to walk into the library. Recent searches sit as tags, and you can remove one at a time. 4. Open an artist page and step into a full-screen cover gallery. Pinch or double-tap to zoom, swipe to the next album, and save this cover or all of them to Photos. 5. Essay pages now end with shelves for related, same-artist, and same-era pieces. Favorites, listen lists, search, and history can play a whole group, add it to the queue, drop it into a list, or save it for later. 6. The queue now wraps as you expect. Previous and next loop the list, what comes next follows the real order, and Play All starts from the first track. 7. If a 30-second preview is already on your device, it can play again without a network. Guides and FAQs are clearer too. A rating or a short note on the App Store means a lot. Thank you for listening with us.