Albums - album focused player

Fixes: - Finally(!) fixed an issue where the iPad app could reset the view when backgrounding the app, sometimes crashing in the right circumstances - Fixed timing edge cases that could cause the wrong album to play when skipping albums - Fixed an issue where viewing a “Recorded At” or “Mixed At” credit didn’t load the correct collection. - Fixed an issue where a partial listen of an album could resume at the wrong song after restarting the app - Excluding an artist in the release feed now correctly causes existing entries to disappear without having to reload the screen - Fixed an issue where long-pressing to remove a tag from a session on the Listening History screen didn’t remove the tag - Resuming a session from its context menu no longer results in a pop up asking if you want to resume where you left off - Fixed an issue where rating a song on last.fm might not reflect in the tracklist even if the rating was successful. - Fixed an issue where the date added for an album could be incorrect for users who sync music to their device in Finder but had previously viewed the Apple Music version of an album in Albums. - Fixed an issue where if the same song is on multiple albums, the wrong album might be shown while it’s playing. - Fixed additional instances where the “keep or replace queue” could pop up and disappear in the iPad app, the album from being played - Fixed an issue where the “Show Complete Album” didn’t show up for some partial albums - Fixed an edge case where the app could show the incorrect currently playing album after the queue ended - Fixed an issue where a listening session for a queue with a single song might save with the wrong end date - Improvements to the iCloud restore process - Improvements to iCloud sync process - Fixed an issue where shuffling Heavy Hitters insight collections could play an album that isn’t displayed in the collection - The workout picker on the Session Settings page now makes it easier to choose the workouts you actually use

Features: - Say you want to want to play an album somewhere between up next and the very end of your queue… there’s now a new “Play After” button to do just that! Changes: - The Release feed is no longer limited to 100 items. It now displays as far back as one month, split by days. - Restored the ability to add an album to your library even if iCloud Library Sync isn’t enabled. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the Album Info menu option wasn’t available on the Collections Tab with the “Play Album” tap action selected - Fixed an issue where the “All Albums” source collection couldn’t be pinned in CarPlay. - Fixed an issue where a deleted session might come back from the dead - Fixed an issue where the “Play Partial Album” action replaced the queue without asking - Fixed a crash when backgrounding the iPad app when on the now playing screen in slideover or horizontally-compressed Split View - Fixed inconsistent playback of songs with no track number metadata

Fixes: - Fixed a couple of additional instances of the issue where tapping the “Play” button dismisses the album on iOS 17.4, depending on the navigation path you took to open the album. - Fixed an issue on the Collections tab in List View where swiping to play an album could play the wrong album in a collection with multiple release types. - Fixed an issue in the CarPlay app where the first song after resuming an album would show “1 of 0” as its track number. - Creating a session now automatically adjusts the end time when you set the start time - Fixed an issue selecting a non-Apple Music catalog album to fix unmatched scrobbles - The last.fm -> Unmatched Albums screen now remembers your preferred sorting. It also now lets you search by artist or album - Fixed an issue where filters weren’t being applied when shuffling a Quick Collection from its Library page. - Improved performance loading Library Stats - Fixed a few navigation bugs in the iPad app - Fixed cases where Immersive UI might show or flash the wrong color - Fixed an issue where progress through an album might be displayed incorrectly for a prerelease album with only some tracks available

Changes: - The “Edit Dock” button in the Quick Collection dock is back. Also, you can now pin/unpin a Quick Collection to the dock from its edit screen and from the long-press menu in Library -> Quick Collections Fixes: - Fixed an issue introduced in 5.3.8 where exiting search might not correctly reset for the next search - Hid add to library and rating buttons for users with active Apple Music subscriptions but iCloud Music Library disabled since those actions aren’t possible - Fixed an issue where the albums on a Record Label’s collection page wouldn’t display if the label wasn’t found on MusicBrainz - Fixed an issue opening an artist’s page from an Apple Music sidebar search in the iPad app - Fixed an issue in the iPad app where the number of columns in Art View and Detail View could be incorrect after resizing the window - Fixed an issue where images in Art View or Detail View could display at the wrong resolution after changing the number of columns - Fixed an issue where the iPad app could restore to an invalid navigation state - Artists’ Apple Music discographies now load faster - Fixed an issue where the replace queue dialog could auto-dismiss itself and the album you were trying to play in iOS 17.4 - Fixed an issue where picking colors for Tags and Quick Collections didn’t correctly support alpha values - Other assorted tidying up

Features: - You can now replace and remove session tags from the Listening History page, as well as replace tags from a session’s Settings. - You can now set a sleep timer from the MiniPlayer’s context menu. Changes: - After four and a half years, queues are no longer limited to 100 albums! They are now limited to infinity albums. - You can now pull to refresh the release feed. Why not! Fixes: - Fixed an issue where starting to play a new album from the same queue could show the previous album’s information instead - Fixed an issue where non-library songs might not show the correct track number on the now playing screen - Fixed an issue in the CarPlay app where collections beginning with “A” or “The” were sorted incorrectly. - Fixed an issue where removing an album from earlier in the queue than the current album might lead to an inability to rearrange or open the queue - Fixed an issue where the time elapsed in a song wouldn’t update if you pressed the back button to restart it while playback was paused - Fixed an issue where pre-release albums discovered by the Release Feed might not update their durations after being released. - Fixed an issue where rating library items could fail if iCloud Music Library wasn’t enabled - Fixed an issue where a multi-album sleep timer might pause one album too early - Cleaned up the animation when presenting/dismissing search - De-jankified the animation when a toast is presented - Improved error handling when music library access is interrupted - Fixed an issue where the queue might reset when skipping albums while the player is paused, as well as other associated wonkiness - Fixed an issue where alternate versions of an album might not load - Fixed an issue where a completed session could save with the time you started listening to something else, not the time you completed listening to the session’s album. - Fixed an issue where some art didn’t load on the Listening History screen - Fixed an issue where skipping tracks forward or back didn’t work before playing something since launching the app fresh - Fixed an issue where searching for a collection in the CarPlay pinned collection picker didn’t work

Changes: - Screens with swipe actions (Release Feed, Listening History, Search, and Collections in List View) now show both an icon and a text label rather than just an icon Fixes: - Fixed an issue where playback could continue or reset when disconnecting from CarPlay or headphones - Renaming a tag now correctly updates any Quick Collections using it as a source collection or as a filter - Fixed an issue where exporting a Top Albums report could generate a 5x5 grid when there are only enough albums for a 4x4 grid. - Fixed an issue where the Release Feed might fail to check all Record Label subscriptions

Features: - You can now manually create play sessions for albums. Great for tracking your listens to vinyl! Open an album and go to the Actions menu or tap the three-dot menu in Listening History and choose “Add Play Session.” - You can now change the album a play session is associated with by tapping the album in Session Info. - Open the date picker in Listening History for new filtering options, like showing only complete or incomplete listens, as well as sessions imported from last.fm - If Albums has matched an album in your library to the incorrect album on the Apple Music catalog, you can now clear the match or pick a new one from its Album Settings. - You can now set different tap actions for Art, List, and Detail view in the Collections Tab settings. Changes: - Listening History now remembers the last range length you used. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where choosing to “Keep” the queue on the Collections tab when playing a new album could play the wrong album - Fixed an issue where compilation albums were not displayed in Detail or List view for non-Artist collection pages - Fixed an issue where the Now Playing widget displayed incorrectly in Standby Mode. - Fixed an issue where the Release Feed subscriptions page would also dismiss when choosing a new collection to subscribe to. - Improvements to how albums no longer on the Apple Music catalog are displayed - Fixed an issue where the date picker didn’t display correctly when showing a full year in Listening History - Fixed an issue where onboarding wouldn’t work on the first try if a device wasn’t signed into an iCloud account - Fixed an issue where albums from the current year could display in the Anniversaries section/Today in History widget - Fixed an issue where an album could play on a loop if it was added twice in a row to a queue - Added a retry for certain situations where songs fail to buffer - Fixed an issue introduced in 17.2 where the last song on an album won’t play if a sleep timer is set - Fixed an issue where the “hours listened” stat on an albums page might not calculate correctly

Fixes: - Fixes a potential crash loop after installing 5.3.4 if the last thing you listened to on an earlier version was a queue of shuffled songs - Fixes issues around shuffling songs

Fixes - Fixed an issue where the Local Items Only setting may not display all locally downloaded albums - Fixed an issue where the now playing album page could mismatch the current song in a shuffled songs queue over a certain size - Fixed an issue where the selection page for credits-based collections like Producers could show collections with 0 albums - Fixed some issues where presenting new screens could cause the base screen to reset - Fixed an issue where the now playing item might not update on the latest iOS version - Fixed some contrast/display issues throughout the app

Changes: - The medium Now Playing Info widget has been re-redesigned - Changed rating icons from hearts to stars in keeping with new Apple Music design - Stop me if you’ve heard this one before — music played in Albums again now shows in the Recently Played section of the built-in Music App for users on iOS 17.1 or later. - Tap the name of the collection you’re viewing on the Collections tab for a menu of more options. The “Edit Dock” button and the ability to collapse/expand the dock have been moved to this menu. - Albums now collects anonymized analytics about app usage and settings configuration. If you would like to disable this analytics collection, you can do so in Settings -> Advanced. Fixes: - Fixed an issue where playing the full version of an incomplete library album wouldn’t play - Fixed an issue where Today in History was broken for certain date localization formats - Fixed an issue preventing the All Albums Quick Collection from being displayed in a Custom Collection Widget - Albums consisting only of music videos will no longer display in the app since they cannot be played - Fixed an issue on the iPad album page where album art didn’t correctly grow to fill the available space when hiding the sidebar - Fixed an issue presenting Apple Music Editorial Notes on iPad - Fixed an issue that could delay playlists being generated after restoring from iCloud and clarified error messaging - Fixed an issue where the sort artist picker on the Album Settings page could fail to open - Fixed an issue where the Queue page might not highlight the now playing album - Visual polish