# Medlied Media Library & Editor — Local Library, Metadata Editor

> Local Library, Metadata Editor (iPhone/iPad app by Jamie Froggatt.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/medlied-media-library-and-editor/id1606367519 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jamie Froggatt](https://appshunter.io/developer/933327498)
- Category: Entertainment, Productivity
- Price: $0.99 (on sale, was $2.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 37 MB
- Languages: British English
- Released: 2024-05-24
- Data updated: 2026-09-04
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/medlied-media-library-and-editor/id1606367519/reviews.md

## What is Medlied Media Library & Editor?

View your preferred music library folder in a Grid, List, or Cover Flow view.
View album art and lyrics in each track as it plays, and edit the metadata of any track!

Medlied is an app for managing your local music & video library of music files, with support for editing file metadata via context menu. Music can be added to the queue from your library, or from external sources, with options to shuffle and loop tracks. Care has been taken to make your music look its best at any screen/window size and orientation.

Designed to avoid the need to use a Mac to edit one’s local library, edits can be made in-place, and files can be stored anywhere via the Files app. The app itself is developed on an iPad!

Editable file metadata currently includes Title, Album, Artist, Track and Disk Numbers, Artwork, and Lyrics, for MP3 and MP4 files. Unchanged metadata will be preserved when editing.

All supported filetypes support 'soft' metadata editing. Medlied will write edits to a Library file, stored in your chosen library folder, and these will shown instead of the file's own metadata. Setting artwork in this way is not yet supported, but once added it should be backwards-compatible.

Note:
It’s recommended to mark the chosen library folder as available offline if stored in cloud services, as metadata can only be read when the files is available offline. Medlied will attempt to download all media files in the library folder on launch to make metadata available for display purposes.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.0 — 2025-01-23

• Edit any file! Medlied now supports local metadata editing.
  - The track editor now has tabs. You can still edit the metadata of mp3 and mp4 file formats directly.
  - The default edit mode for the track editor is configurable.
  - Changes are saved to a new _Library.medlied bundle, created on first write.
• More robust support for playing wav, mov, aac, and alac file formats.
• Load times to navigate your library are now up to 4× faster, and you can start playing tracks 2× faster. Key data about your library structure is now cached.
• Jump to Files from the metadata editor.
• Apple seems to be experiencing unprecedented delays in updating Swift Playgrounds, so Dark & Tinted icon variants unfortunately remain unavailable.

### 1.3.2 — 2024-10-07

• New app icon! Dark & tinted variants are coming as soon as the Swift Playgrounds iOS 18 update arrives.
• Support for Apple formatted mp4, m4v, m4a files, as well as a few other Apple formats.
• Fix for an issue which could prevent editing mp3 files on iOS 18.

### 1.3.1 — 2024-09-08

FEATURES
• Queue tracks from external sources! The tracks menu now includes a “Queue track” option which presents a file picker.
• Bigger artwork and videos! The app now wraps video just like it does images, no more black bars. It will then try to make the video/image as big as possible, while keeping the lyrics readable.
• Cleaner UI, with Settings now moved to the tracks menu. The page is still important as a means to view the current library folder, but isn’t frequently needed.
• Skip & shuffle controls added to the Now Playing banner context menu, and remain available in the Up Next’s buttons menu. Skip especially makes more sense on Now Playing!

TWEAKS
• Adjusted the width at which the library controls split to the floating variant, to ensure a gap. Default text sizes on portrait phones now get the full-width controls. Adjust your text size down slightly to keep the split form!
• “Add track” now reads “Import track”.

FIXES
• Removed concurrency that could cause the load to stall in some cases.
• When adding tracks to the library, the app was forgetting about your other tracks until next relaunch. Fixed!
• The floating form of the Now Playing banner now zooms in cleanly when long-pressing.
• Now Playing is also tappable across the full width now, rather than just the title and art! This should make things easier on phone screens.
• Touches on the lower portion of the playback controls on the library view could fail. Tracked down the cause as specifying the button shape for interactions, which deprioritised touches in favour of nearby controls, such as the volume slider. The volume slider will now be sized correctly too, as it was still using the height from the old text-size-aware slider.
• Currently playing music will be paused when changing library folder. Seamless playback when changing library folder is not currently supported.

### 1.3.0 — 2024-09-02

FEATURES
• Queue tracks from external sources! The tracks menu now includes a “Queue track” option which presents a file picker.
• Bigger artwork and videos! The app now wraps video just like it does images, no more black bars. It will then try to make the video/image as big as possible, while keeping the lyrics readable.
• Cleaner UI, with Settings now moved to the tracks menu. The page is still important as a means to view the current library folder, but isn’t frequently needed.
• Skip & shuffle controls added to the Now Playing banner context menu, and remain available in the Up Next’s buttons menu. Skip especially makes more sense on Now Playing!

TWEAKS
• Adjusted the width at which the library controls split to the floating variant, to ensure a gap. Default text sizes on portrait phones now get the full-width controls. Adjust your text size down slightly to keep the split form!
• “Add track” now reads “Import track”.

FIXES
• Removed concurrency that could cause the load to stall in some cases.
• When adding tracks to the library, the app was forgetting about your other tracks until next relaunch. Fixed!
• The floating form of the Now Playing banner now zooms in cleanly when long-pressing.
• Now Playing is also tappable across the full width now, rather than just the title and art! This should make things easier on phone screens.
• Touches on the lower portion of the playback controls on the library view could fail. Tracked down the cause as specifying the button shape for interactions, which deprioritised touches in favour of nearby controls, such as the volume slider. The volume slider will now be sized correctly too, as it was still using the height from the old text-size-aware slider.

### 1.2.0 — 2024-08-29

FEATURES
• New Library menu on the toolbar allows importing files directly from the app, and opening your media library in Files.
• Settings now links to the media library too!

TWEAKS
• Smaller inspector in List view mode - now uses 50-50 proportions.
• Now Playing & library search now available in Settings view.

BUG FIXES
• Now Playing controls now update when items are pulled from the queue.
• Inspector now correctly dismisses on tab change. This is intended to avoid confusion.
• Hide the open album/artist view when new/removed files are detected.
• Top picker-style tab bar on tablets now shrinks slightly when needed at small window sizes.
• Reduced battery usage.
• Requests download on launch for files stored in cloud services.

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