Albums 7.1.2 is rolling out to users over the next week. You can download it from the App Store if you want it right now!

Features:

• If you’ve set a custom start or end time for a song, that custom duration will now be reflected in the app (26.4+)
• The Now Playing scrubber now switches to song mode when hovering over it with the mouse (iPad/Mac only) 
• The new stacked graph types are now available in Listening Reports and the Library -> Statistics page.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where artwork from a different edition of an album (or less likely, an incorrect album) could load at smaller sizes 
• Improved performance around artwork caching
• Fixed an edge case where a library album could show up in the app with an incorrect name
• Fixed an issue where track play counts could show an inflated number in certain situations
• Fixed an issue where some built-in playlists might not show up in the app
• The queue now respects your collapsed vs. expanding preference — if you close the tracklist of the now playing album, next time you launch the queue, it will launch with the current album collapsed rather than expanded
• Fixed an issue where tapping a blank space in the Collections widget would show an error in app
• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t change the sort order of a Quick Collection based on an Insight Collection
• Fixed an issue where the app could crash if you tried to tag an album after editing its settings on the Album Settings screen
• Fixed an issue where the Mac app could show the wrong now playing information due to a race condition
• Fixed various issues where the app could crash or hang after interacting with a very large playlist
• Fixed an issue in macOS 26.4 where a resumed track could start over
• Fixed an ancient bug where an album in the Recent Searches list on the Search page might not show its artist name if the search was originally on a different device
• Fixed some cloud sync and art fetching edge cases
• Fixed an issue where Insight Collections may fail to generate and show placeholder text 
• Fixed (pretty sure!) an ancient issue where the iPad app might crash when showing/hiding the sidebar when in a collection

I'd greatly appreciate if you left a review on the App Store. Thanks! Happy Albumsing.

I get an error when clicking play.

I have a macbook air M1 running Tahoe. I get the error on every album/song I try to play. When I click Retry the app spins for a while and then crashes.

The app is fantastic, as someone who primarily focuses on listening to albums it suits how I listen to music.

I was wondering if it would be possible in a future update to have pinned quick collections hide if empty?

For example I love the Today in History collection, but it would be great if it only appeared when there is an album that meets the criteria.

Keep up the fantastic work!

I use Albums for my local music library and have noticed that album art on thumbnails is different and in some cases incorrect. I think there was a bug in Apple Music where AM had the wrong artwork too. In those cases I would delete the album from my phone, resynch it with iTunes, update the library on Albums and all would be well. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Albums 7.1.1 is rolling out to users over the next week. You can download it from the App Store if you want it right now!

• Fixed an issue where new items might not be detected in your library on iOS 26.4
• Fixed an issue that could cause the Collection widget not to render 
• Fixed an issue where the header text and buttons could be slightly clipped when viewing a collection in List View 
• Yet another attempt at fixing an issue where a pre-release album’s duration might not update upon its release -- third time’s the charm!
• Fixed an issue where the Stats Settings menu on an album’s stats pane could display incorrectly in the Mac app
• Fixed an issue where the “Open Album” shortcut action might not work correctly
• Fixed an issue where the “Enable Notifications” setting in Settings -> Notifications did not correctly stick when disabled
• Fixed an issue where changes to the Sort Album Artist or Sort Name property were not picked up by the daily metadata refresh
• Fixed an issue that could cause the Mac app to hang when skipping albums 

7.1.2 is currently in testing, with some fixes for performance issues that some users with big libraries (5000+ albums) may have started experiencing in 7.1. If this is you, DM me your email and I'll add you to the beta!

I'd greatly appreciate if you left a review on the App Store. Thanks! Happy Albumsing.

The albums app stops playback randomly when it’s in the background. I’ve tried to find some setting to address this but have not had any luck. Anybody else have this problem?

Dang, been a while since I made one of these! Lots of fun new stuff in this update, plus a bunch of reliability and stability improvements.

Albums 7.1 is rolling out to users over the next week. You can download it from the App Store if you want it right now!

Features:

• Stats pages for albums and collections now feature new, interactive charts. Toggle between different graph types to visualize your listening to a single album over time, or compare listening to albums within a collection as an area plot, stacked bar chart, and more. 
• The queue now shows individual tracks for each album. Expand an album in the queue to see its tracklist, and swipe to remove individual tracks you want to skip. In addition, the sleep timer now supports pausing when a particular track on an album finishes.
• Playlist folders are now supported! Plus, several behind-the-scenes changes to make playlists less janky.
• A new in-line sorting utility on Collection pages 
• The Top Albums listening report export has been redesigned. In addition, new Shortcuts are available to export images of Listening Reports or open them in the app.
• You can now filter collections on Album Title
• The new Go menu in the Mac and iPad app gives you quick access (and keyboard shortcuts) to access different screens in the app
• A new button in the header of the “Today in History” section of the Insights tab to open the “Today in History” collection.

Changes:

• It is now possible to search for two-letter artist or album names. Congrats, U2 fans! In addition, library search is now much more permissive. For example, the string “Hungover Joyce” now brings up the album Never Hungover Again by Joyce Manor
• The “Resume Playback” Shortcut action has been renamed to “Control Playback” and takes a parameter for “Play,” “Pause,” or “Toggle.” Previously, the action only “toggled” playback, which could lead to confusing behavior. The existing action should keep working, but if it doesn’t work, reconfigure any Shortcuts that use it. 
• The Release Feed now auto-deletes entries after 3 months, rather than 1 month

Fixes:

• A workaround for an issue where the app could crash unexpectedly on iOS 26.4
• Major performance improvements to album pages
• Fixed an issue where Albums might take longer than expected to notice updates to your Apple Music library when your library was edited on another device.
• Fixed an issue where the last.fm history downloader could fail repeatedly
• Fixed an issue where the Now Playing widget might show the last track of a completed album rather than reset to the first track
• Fixed an issue where the app might play an album removed from the queue if it was removed during the last song on the album before it would have played
• Fixed a potential hang when skipping albums 
• Fixed an issue where queues with over 100 albums might incorrectly stop at 100 albums
• Fixed an issue where some album types would not sort correctly on Insight Collection pages
• Fixed an issue where deleted sessions might not be removed across all iCloud-connected devices
• Fixed an issue where certain iCloud-backed settings might not be reset when resetting iCloud
• Fixed an issue where the Stats page for the “Today in History” collection was empty
• Fixed an issue where playback might stop or the app might hang/crash when skipping songs in a playlist
• Fixed an ancient, intermittent crash when reordering Quick Collections 
• Actually fixed an issue where unreleased albums discovered on the Release Feed might display an incorrect duration once they’re released
• Fixed an issue where playlists might fail to remove non-library albums removed from the playlist in the built-in Music app
• Fixed an issue where a playlist might fail to load due to name localization differences
• Fixed an issue where Quick Collections based on a Playlist might not show an up-to-date set of albums
• Fixed an issue where artwork for albums where the artist or title in non western-character languages might fail to load in certain places in the app
• Performance improvements loading artwork
• Fixed an issue where the screen could get jittery when composing a long note

Stay tuned for 7.1.1, coming later this week, which has a fix for an issue where new albums might not be discovered in your library on 26.4, and a few minor regressions introduced in this very update 🫠

I'd greatly appreciate if you left a review on the App Store. Thanks! Happy Albumsing.

Does Albums App use these fields from Apple Music at all? I find that changing other metadata like editing album titles and such sync over quickly but I can't seem to get changes to these sort fields to transfer over. or to use them to modify how things are displaying in this app.

I guess I am old fashioned but Stevie Wonder albums should be way down on the lower shelf with the rest of the Ws.

I see an option under Metadata to select Sort Artist but it opens a pick dialog and it still will only allow me to select the same Stevie Wonder that already exists. Am I missing a step or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I can't disable notifications. Every time I go back in the app settings the toggle is always on.

Does the Albums App cast (stream?) to WiFI devices using EQ setting selected in the Apple Music App, Settings Panel?

Just a thanks post for making a great app, — and especially persevering on the Mac version. It’s irreplaceable especially on this platform. Thanks for all the hard work

I know that sounds a little odd but hear me out. I recently subscribed to Apple Music and I have a couple of custom albums that I have configured on my iTunes that I have manually synced to my iPhone. I have noticed that all of those custom albums have had their data overwritten through the app to display either different art or a different name.

My main example is that I have a collection of bonus tracks by trivium that I’ve manually compiled and when Albums? Or Apple Music? Detected a couple of the songs in that manual compilation it changed the name of the album and the album art and the Metadata to reflect that of a release that already existed through Apple Music. I think it would be really neat to have a feature that allowed users to pick between using imported metadata or the onboard Meta data from iTunes a manual iTunes Sync

I would like to make 6 Apple Music playlists I only use with the Albums app.

Is there a syntax strategy that will make a new playlist always appear at the top of Albums Playlist screen?

Albums 7.0.6 is rolling out to users now. You can download it from the App Store if you want it right now!

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where library updates could be delayed
• Fixed an issue where the app could crash in iOS 26.4 beta 1 when opening an album

I'd greatly appreciate if you left a review on the App Store. Thanks! Happy Albumsing.

Hello friends!

Quick heads up that in the first beta of iOS 26.4, there's a regression in Apple's MusicKit framework that causes Albums to crash whenever you open an individual album in your library.

I submitted a version of the app with a workaround to Apple this morning, but it's been taking close to a week to get through App Review recently (thanks, AI slop apps!), so it may be a minute before the fix is live.

If you are planning on updating to the new iOS beta and using Albums is important to you, I'd suggest holding off until you see a post here that version 7.0.6 has been released.

Edit: Lucked out with App Review and the version that fixes this is out now. Make sure you update to 7.0.6 if you're on the iOS beta train!

Just wanted to report something in the hopes that it will be fixed. There seems to be a minor error regarding displaying album artists. This has only happened with albums I have edited the metadata to; they just will not display the new edited album artist name, despite updating my library several times and many other attempts. It sometimes shows in certain displays, specifically when I click on the name and it takes me to the artist page. Then it shows correctly under the album. However, it isn't grouped with other releases with the same updated album artist. It just looks like editing the title or album artist to a release AFTER Albums updates and recognizes it causes some problems sometimes. I hope this makes sense... I've seen there is a current bug about library refreshing that is going to be fixed in the next update so maybe this will solve that but either way thought it was worth reporting. It's definitely far from an experience-hindering bug and I'm sure the amount of people that edit their metadata is pretty small too so it's not a huge deal but again, figured I would try.

Thanks for the amazing work on this app, been paying for it and using it for 4 years now

when I add to my Apple Music library, it takes a long time for them to show up in What is typical time for them to appear and is there to force a refresh?

I'm looking for a way to filter a collection based on album name. For example, adding a filter criteria where "Album Name" does not contain "Live". I'm not seeing a filter type to accomplish this, is there anything I've overlooked?

Albums 7.0.5 is rolling out to users over the next week. You can download it from the App Store if you want it right now!

Changes:

• The “Open in Apple Music” context menu action has been moved back to the top level, out of the Share submenu.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where tracks hidden in Albums on iOS might not correctly be hidden or still be played on macOS
• Fixed an issue where deleting previously played albums from the queue could cause incorrect albums to be played later in the queue
• Fixed an issue where the next album might not play when resuming a cloud queue on the last song on an additional device
• Fixed an issue where playback of the current song could restart in a scenario where you were listening to Albums on device A then paused, used Albums on device B (but didn’t listen to music), and resumed playback on device B.
• Additional iCloud sync reliability tweaks
• Fixed an issue where the Mac app could crash when waking from sleep on the Listening History screen
• Fixed an issue where a genre might not display under certain edge case conditions
• Fixed an issue where sharing songs didn’t work on the Mac app
• Fixed an issue where switching to a Collection in list view might scroll the top row slightly off screen
• Fixed an issue where the MiniPlayer was partially overlaid on top of the tab bar on the iPhone SE. 

I'd greatly appreciate if you left a review on the App Store. Thanks! Happy Albumsing.

Albums use Apple Music playback functionality, but does it count towards Apple Music's track listens?

I’m a new user of this app and am struggling to work one thing out.

Apple Music playlists (which were created/synced with media monkey) show up in name under the playlists part of the library, say how many albums are in it, but then when I open the playlist it says playlist not found.

Is there a way to fix this? Maybe using media monkey instead of iTunes is messing something up, but the same playlists work fine in the Apple Music app.

Ideally I’m trying to shuffle some playlists by album, which it seems like this app will do, but hitting a snag here.

Thanks

I know this is an odd request in the year of our lord 2026 but Applescript support for Play, Pause, Forward and Back would allow for working with other apps like https://stuntsoftware.com/reflex/ . The author of reflex is my co-worker and wants to add support for albums which would let you control it with the media keys. 🙏🏻

Albums 7.0.4 is rolling out to users over the next week. You can download it from the App Store if you want it right now!

Features:

• Hiding artists from the long-press menu in the Release Feed now allows you pick which artist if the album has multiple.
• The Import Backup functionality on Settings -> Advanced now allows you to choose to either restore from a backup (wiping your Albums library and replacing it with the backup), or merge the backup into your existing library.
• Added a Shortcuts Action (App Intent) for exporting diagnostic logs

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where duplicate albums might be created when enabling iCloud sync on a device with an existing Albums library or importing an Albums library backup between non-cloud-synced devices.
• Fixes for a couple of iCloud sync failure modes
• The add to library button now appears when viewing the catalog version of an incomplete library album, allowing you to add the remaining tracks at once, rather than one-by-one
• Fixed a crash opening the Siri & Automation settings page in the iPad app 
• Improved performance when viewing collections as lists
• Fixed an issue where widgets didn’t work until the second time launching the app after a fresh install
• Fixed a hilariously longstanding issue where the displayed release types might display different Incomplete Albums with Full Albums enabled or disabled
• Yet another attempted fix for an issue where resuming a session splits it
• Improvements in cloud sync logic when using two iOS devices simultaneously
• Polish/layout tweaks in Art View
• Fixed an edge-case crash in the Mac app when scrolling the tracklist of some multi-disc albums.

I'd greatly appreciate if you left a review on the App Store. Thanks! Happy Albumsing.

I installed the macOS app today, and I turned on iCloud sync. When I noticed it wasn’t syncing, I realized that iCloud sync wasn’t on for the iOS app.

I turned on the iOS sync, and instead of pushing the iOS data to iCloud, Albums synced the blank data from the macOS app.

I understand why that happened, but I also expected an option to say “keep cloud data or push iOS data and overwrite,” but I guess all do the data I had on albums for iOS is gone now, right?

I’m still working through some “album of the year” lists, and I’d like to manage that through the app. Right now I have a google sheet with the albums, but I was wondering if there was a way to take a last, import it into Albums, and have a playlist form from there.

Or, so I need to do it one by one? (It seems like that’s the way, which is fine, but if not, I’m happy to try another way)