Your Mac's iCloud backup • With iCloud backup turned on in Music Library for Mac, your library, covers and photos stay up to date from your own iCloud, even when the Mac isn't nearby. A new iPhone gets your library without pairing, and shows it arriving instead of an empty screen. • Download gets songs from the backup when your Mac isn't on the same Wi-Fi, and from the Mac as before when it is. • Music your Mac keeps only in iCloud (offloaded there to save space) comes to your iPhone straight from iCloud, right after a Wi-Fi sync. • Your plays, likes and downloads reach the Mac through iCloud too. • Settings ▸ iCloud shows when the library was last updated, with Check Now. A new home • Four tabs: Listen Now (the album playing or played last, what you've been playing, its neighbors on the shelf, your week and what's up next), Collection (your CDs and records, then your digital collection), Explore (Artists, Music DNA and Insights) and Search. Sync and Settings are at the top of Listen Now. • One look in Light and Dark, following your iPhone, or always Light or Dark in Settings. Radio DJ • Show it a photo: tap the camera in the DJ's sheet (touch and hold for your photo library), and it tells you what the record or CD is, which edition, whether you already own it and what a fair price is. Photos are sent without their location. • Choose the DJ's model on your Mac, from Claude models or models on OpenRouter; your choice comes over at the next sync. • Going on the air is free: the DJ says hello for your time of day and offers a few questions to start with.

A radio DJ • With a Claude API key added in the Mac app's Settings ▸ Radio DJ (it comes over when you sync), tap the radio button at the top of any page and a DJ tells you the story behind the album or artist you're looking at, then answers your questions, checking facts on the web and showing its sources. • It can search your own collection ("what else do I have by them, most played first?"); the search runs on your iPhone and only the matching rows are sent. • Albums and artists you own are links, songs on your iPhone play right from the DJ, and songs you don't own play a 30-second preview. • Swipe the DJ away to keep browsing while it stays on the air; tap the radio button (red while it's on) to bring it back. Settings shows what it has cost this month. Also • Syncing is more reliable right after opening the Mac app.

Your physical collection, on your iPhone • A new Physical tab: your CDs and records in their jewel cases and sleeves with their label numbers, what's left to digitize, a page for each one, and Ready to Download (with Download All) for digitized albums whose songs aren't on the phone yet. • Find by Label: pick CD or Vinyl and a number to see what's there and what sits on either side of it on the shelf. Also on the Apple Watch, and with Siri: "Find CD 12 in Music Library". • Records you digitize with the Mac app's new Digitize Vinyl page show as digitized, and their songs can be downloaded like a ripped CD's. • The Physical Collection widget shows the latest CD or record you added, your counts and your next labels, also on the lock screen and the watch face. Clearer names • The tabs are Physical and Digital (your music files, albums bought as downloads included), with Insights, Sync and Search. Insights • A new look for Listening, inspired by Last.fm's listening reports: a banner over your top artist's photo, Top Charts with pictures, New to You, a Listening Clock, Music by Decade and Quick Facts. • Explore at the top: Artists from both collections, and Music DNA, which now includes the players on CDs and records you haven't digitized. • Owned covers everything you own: how much is digitized, your label series, spending by medium, cost per play and best value. Browsing • Sort albums by date added, title, artist, release year, most played or recently played, and songs by title, artist, album, composer, year, time, format or date added. • Covers show how you own an album: a CD's jewel case with its label, a record's sleeve, or a download badge. • Now runs on iOS 26 and later, not only iOS 27.

• Your CDs, in their cases: album pages and the Albums list show each cover in a CD jewel case. • Label numbers: if you number your CDs with stickers, owned albums show that number on a small white sticker on the cover, so you can find the disc on your shelf. Numbers are set in Music Library for Mac. • Show only the CDs you own with the new filter on the Albums page. • Your Copy is now read-only on iPhone: the label number, purchase date and price come from your Mac, where ownership is edited. • Play now starts on the first tap when the next song has a different sample rate (for example, switching albums while using a USB DAC). • Your library is now more reliable at the source: Music Library for Mac checks every CD rip against AccurateRip and can fix misread tracks, so the music you sync to your iPhone is bit-perfect. Get it free at https://davidlago.github.io/music-library/