Playlists, all in one place. New Playlists screen in Settings. What the engine reads from and what Crankshaft writes back now live together, instead of sitting three taps apart in two different sections. New switch: tell Crankshaft not to write playlists at all. Your cranks still teach the engine. Nothing lands in your library. Road Trip Mode is gone. It could never really download music, because Apple does not let other apps do that, and while it ran it quietly switched the engine off. The knob should be steering. Especially in the car. Fixed: saving recent picks created a brand new playlist every time. There is one Crankshaft Saves list now, and it gets added to. Fixed: with more than a hundred playlists, Crankshaft could only see the first hundred. It sees all of them now. Fixed: Crankshaft could count its own playlists as music you curated. It no longer reads its own output back as your taste. Fixed: No Remix forgot itself on every launch.

Two things this time: a new way to hand a song to somebody, and three bugs in the part that picks what plays next. SENDING A SONG • New button on the player. It sends one song to one person, along with a card showing what that song is actually worth to you — lifetime cranks, the plays you let run all the way, the date you first cranked it. • Those numbers travel phone to phone. They ride in the part of the link that no server ever receives, including ours. LEARNING • Searching for a song while another one was playing made Crankshaft blame the wrong song for the interruption. Twenty seconds of something you liked could get filed as a skip against it. Credit now goes to the song that was actually playing. STATIONS • Asking for an artist in the middle of a song used to kill the station Crankshaft was building around that artist, about a second after it started. It survives the request that created it now. • Fixed a split-second blip between station tracks. Two songs could land in the same slot, and you'd hear a piece of the one that lost. The engine work needs nothing from you. The send button is on the player, right next to whatever's playing.

Mostly fixes this time — but they're the ones you'd have run into. Please keep the feedback coming, these fixes come directly from you! CARPLAY • Cleaner main screen: Play on top, Adjust below, Settings on its own page. • The Up Next button works now. It used to do nothing at all. ASKING FOR A SONG • New "Play something specific" screen — a search field you can actually see, with your recent plays sitting underneath it. • The old search box had invisible placeholder text. Sorry about that one. PLAYBACK • Fixed the one-second false start, where a song would begin, stop, and then start over. • Fixed a matching bug that could hand you the right song title by entirely the wrong artist. • Songs in your library could get marked as played without ever having played. Fixed — and the ones it happened to are back in rotation. PARENT MODE • Explicit songs that Apple hasn't rated no longer slip through. If it isn't rated and it isn't clearly kids' music, it doesn't play. EVERYTHING ELSE • Holiday music stays put until it's actually the holidays. • Crankshaft stops pushing an artist's catalog once it's clear you aren't biting. • Dark all the way through, whatever your phone is set to. • Less battery used in the background.

Crankshaft was in a rut. It's out. Your library has a long tail, and 1.5 finally reaches into it. Songs that kept circling back now make room for ones that had never come up at all. Same taste, wider net. It also turns out that skipping a song three times got it permanently benched — including songs you'd played all the way through a dozen times. That rule is gone, and everything it benched is back in rotation. And when you're blowing through tracks hunting for something, Crankshaft now notices you're not rating them. It stops taking notes until you actually land somewhere. Want a song gone for good? That's what the snowflake is for. Also handled: - Tracks that started a minute in. They start at the start now. - A queue hiccup that could stack two songs where one belonged. - Better instincts about what belongs after a song you let finish. Still no account, still no tracking, still nothing leaving your phone.

Cranks are sticky now. • Crank a track — in the app, on CarPlay, or straight off the volume knob — and it gets filed in your Crankshaft Cranks playlist. One playlist, no repeats. • Fixed: capturing a song created a brand-new playlist every single time. It doesn't anymore. Any duplicates already in your library are safe to delete. • Fixed: the station could snap back and replay something from earlier in the session. Turns out it wasn't your cell signal. • Fixed: the CarPlay screen could look frozen while the music played fine. It follows the actual playhead now. • Fixed: the synthetic-artist filter was catching real bands. Iron Maiden, Air, and Faith No More are allowed back in. • Crank scoring is more accurate — cranking a favorite again is no longer quietly discounted. • Sharing a song now sends an Apple Music link that plays, and mentions where it came from. • Some crashes that were waiting to happen no longer will. Two of these came from r/AppleMusic. Keep them coming.

What's new in 1.3 You cranked, we listened. • Volume slider right in the player — control the sound without leaving the app. • Previous-track button — tap to restart the song, double-tap to jump back to the last one. • Honest crank feedback — the flame now shows when a track is fully cranked, so you know your love landed. • Smarter Settings navigation — Back now returns to the previous screen, not all the way out. • New "Send Feedback" option in Settings — tell us what to build next. We read every note. Still 100% on your device. Still collects nothing. Thanks for listening with us.

New in 1.2 — Save to Apple Music You can now push what you discover in Crankshaft back into Apple Music: • Save your recent picks as a new playlist • Add them to a playlist you already have • Save songs straight to your library • Capture the song that's playing into a running Crankshaft Captures playlist The share button on the now-playing screen now creates a proper Apple Music link you can send to anyone. This update should also fix crashing with enormous music collections. Plus polish and fixes throughout. A lot of this came straight from your feedback. Thank you.

Crankshaft just got deeper. It now reaches further into your own library, surfacing more of the songs you actually own and love instead of the same handful on repeat. And it reaches wider into the artists you already care about to find more that fits you. Everything still runs on your phone and collects nothing. Thanks for listening. Tell me what's working and what isn't at hello@crankshaft.fm