Songpocket

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.

New features:

• Added a “Play Song” action. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Refinements:

• Changed the transport buttons to use outline icons, for a lighter look.

• Inset the separators between rows on both sides, for neater alignment with content.

• Made the “Sort” and “Move” menus show the number of items they’ll apply to.

• Added icons for commands in the “Sort” and “Move” menus.

• Made the “Rename Collection”, “Combine Collections”, and “New Collection” dialogs automatically select the existing title.

• Made the “Combine Collections” and “New Collection” dialogs always show their suggested title in the text field, even if it’s just “Combined Collection” or “New Collection”.

• Made the “Organize by Album Artist” command insert new collections above the current collection, not at the top.

• Moved track numbers to the left side of song rows.

• Made “Queue Song and Below” and “Queue Song” leave your shuffle mode untouched.

• Made “now playing” indicators match your preferred text size.

• Moved the “now playing” or “paused” portion of VoiceOver descriptions to the beginning. You no longer need to listen to the entire description of a collection, album, or song to know whether it’s now-playing.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a memory leak in the “Sort” and “Move” menus which caused the system to never deallocate albums and songs screens.

• Fixed a memory leak in the “New Collection” dialog which caused the system to never deallocate collections and albums screens.

Internal changes:

• Rewrote startup code in SwiftUI. Note: this triggers a bug currently in iOS that causes Songpocket to show an empty black screen after you install this update. Force quit and reopen Songpocket, and you should be all set—it should only happen once.

• Adopted Swift Concurrency for various internal components.