SongPocket

Removed:

• REMOVED FOLDERS. All albums now appear in one list. Much less context-switching.

• Removed “Oldest” sort option.

Added:

• Added “Recently Added” and “Artist” sort options. Makes the album list more useful.

• Added “Now Playing” button. No more hunting for the current song.

Refined:

• Capitalized the P in SongPocket, to match GarageBand and FaceTime.

• Moved release dates to song lists. The album list is now pure artwork.

• Moved “jump 15 seconds” buttons into menu.

Refinements:

• Tweaked appearance of now-playing indicators.

• Redesigned song rows.

Internal changes:

• Rewrote song rows using SwiftUI.

• Fixed a bug that made song row overflow buttons harder to tap.

• Refactored some internal components.

• Swapped “select” and “more” toolbar buttons.

• Separated “repeat off” and “repeat on” buttons.

• Changed “repeat on” icon.

• Changed “unknown track number” placeholder to “#”.

• Changed first-launch and empty-library placeholders.

Refinements:

• Redesigned folder and album rows.

• Made “Previous” and “Next” dismiss the menu automatically.

• Added space before “sort” button in folders and songs views.

Internal changes:

• Rewrote folder rows using SwiftUI.

• Removed some obscure gestures for selecting rows.

New features:

• Updated the overall look. Made backgrounds grey, and changed accent color to light blue.

Removals:

• Removed “Combine” and “Move By Artist”. I’m rethinking those.

Refinements:

• Hid status bar, and kept navigation bar backgrounds visible.

• Removed all mentions of “crates”.

• Made highlighted rows light blue.

• Rearranged and changed icons for “Edit”, “Previous”, “Restart”, “Next”, “Repeat”, “Move”, and “Sort” buttons.

• Changed “No Albums”, “No Songs”, no-artwork, and empty-library placeholders.

Internal changes:

• Rewrote using newer Apple Music APIs: playback controls, requesting library access, and “play” commands on song rows. If I did it right, you should notice nothing.

• Indented separators above and below album titles.

• Started requiring iOS 17.

• Refactored showing and hiding “Allow Access” and “Open Music” placeholders.

Refinements:

• Redesigned first-launch and empty-library placeholders on iOS 17.

Bug fixes:

• Disabled “Edit” if you revoke access to Apple Music.

Added:

• Huge artwork in album lists

• Arrange albums → “Newest” and “Oldest”

Removed:

• All settings, for a more focused experience

• “Play Next”

• “Repeat All”

• Arrange songs → “Recently Added”

Refined:

• Renamed “Folders” to “Crates”.

• Adjusted fonts to match Apple Music.

• Top-aligned contents of song rows.

• Rearranged buttons in “Combine” and “Move” sheets.

• Tweaked “Move By Artist” logic.

• Changed default crate title to “~”. No more pressure to think up names if you don’t want to.

• Stopped exiting edit mode after moving albums.

Fixed:

• Made “Start Playing” and “Play” always turn off Repeat.

• Updated some internal components for future compatibility.

Refinements:

• Removed black flash during launch in light mode, because Songpocket now always matches your device’s light/dark mode setting.

• Disabled large title in folders view.

• Removed accent color from highlighted rows.

• Removed Back button titles.

Internal changes:

• Rewrote some UI components using SwiftUI, including accent color settings.

• Refactored tons of internal components, deleting 1,000-ish lines of code (10%).

Bug fixes:

• Aligned a row separator in Settings.

Removals:

• Removed “Apple Music” button from toolbar.

• Removed light/dark mode picker.

Refinements:

• Improved contrast of all accent colors.

• Made toolbar background always visible.

• Disabled large title in albums view.

New features:

• Added “Settings” → “Contact”.

Refinements:

• Redesigned Settings slightly.

Added…

• “pawprint” and “Luxo lamp” now-playing markers

• songs view → “Arrange” → “Recently Added”

Removed…

• “bird”, “sailboat”, and “beach umbrella” now-playing markers

• albums view → “Sort” → “Oldest Release”

Changed…

• “Play to Bottom” to “Start Playing”. You can now use Previous to go to songs above.

• “Sort” to “Arrange”

• various text and icons

Fixed bugs where…

• “Arrange” rearranged identical folder names

Refinements:

• Renamed “Rest of Album” to “to Bottom”.

• Renamed “Newest First” to “Newest Release”; likewise for “Oldest”.

Refinements:

• Reorganized actions when you tap a song or its “more” button.

• Replaced mentions of “Music” app with “Apple Music”, to match Apple’s support articles.

Internal changes:

• Refactored integrating with Apple Music during startup to use SwiftUI.

New features:

• Added Repeat controls.

Refinements:

• Renamed Options to Settings, and moved it to the bottom toolbar.

• Redesigned album row artwork.

• Redesigned songs view album headers.

• Added smart resizing for songs view artwork: it keeps itself as big as possible while remaining able to fit onscreen.

• Added no-artwork placeholder in songs view.

• Added haptics for Insert and Queue commands.

• Changed icons for and renamed some sort options.

• Randomized Random sort option icon. :)

• Disabled sort options when only 1 item is onscreen or selected.

• Made Rename Folder dialog show existing title as placeholder.

• Added Combine preview.

• Removed Combine Folders and New Folder dialogs.

• Renamed Organize By to Move By.

Internal changes:

• Rewrote parts of songs view and Settings using SwiftUI.

New features:

• Added “jump 15 seconds” buttons.

Refinements:

• Updated “Insert” and “Queue” icons to match Music app.

• Improved row-resize animations when toggling editing mode.

New features:

• Added alternative now-playing markers: bird, fish, sailboat, and beach umbrella. Yes, really—have fun!

Refinements:

• Made “Insert” and “Queue” commands stay in the same order.

Internal changes:

• Started requiring iOS 16.

New features:

• Added “Open Music” button to toolbar.

• Added “Insert Song” and “Insert Song and Below” commands to song rows.

Refinements:

• Updated all accent colors, improving contrast.

• Renamed “collections” to “folders”.

• Updated “Previous” and “Next” icons.

• Made “Rename”, “Combine”, “Organize”, and “Move” exit editing mode after applying changes.

• Dimmed disabled rows within “Organize” and “Move” sheets.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where changing the accent color showed a checkmark on the new row in the old color for 1 frame.