SongPocket4 - App Store

An immersive Apple Music library player.

. Gallery view: showcase one album’s artwork at a time.
. Manual reordering: put your favorite albums first.

Kinda like a crate of records. Enjoy!

Version History Added:

• Added gallery mode. Showcase one album’s artwork at a time.

Refined:

• Redesigned toolbar.

• Redesigned select mode.

• Redesigned now-playing indicator.

Removed:

• Removed “Jumble”. Focus on reordering items instead.

• Removed “Add to Queue”, because it was confusing without more UI. May revisit. 4 03/05/2025 • Fixed bug in enabling select-range commands after updating library. 3.5.3 01/12/2025 • Improved layout on iPad.

• Sped up updating library to 1.9× as fast.

• Sped up first reading library to 51× as fast.

• Rewrote tons of internals. Under the hood, SongPocket now saves data to a text file, not SQLite. Read more: verbnounenter.net/songpocket-migration 3.5.2 01/07/2025 • Fixed layout bugs on iPad. 3.5.1 01/07/2025 • Made artwork snap to center.

• Removed navigation bar. 3.5 01/05/2025 • Tweaked toolbar overflow menu. 3.4.1 01/04/2025 • Tweaked selection UI and moved “Done” to overflow menu. 3.4 01/02/2025 • Fixed bug: after updating your library, sort menu now refreshes itself if open. 3.3.3 12/29/2024 • Fixed bug: after reordering, select-range commands now enable and disable themselves appropriately. 3.3.2 12/24/2024 • Fixed a crash when interpreting album and song IDs internally. 3.3.1 12/22/2024 • Tweaked playback, sort, and overflow menus in toolbar. 3.3 12/16/2024 • Tweaked fonts to match Apple’s apps.

• Changed “Range” icons to chevrons.

• Hid album titles when any album is open. 3.2.8 12/04/2024 Refined:

• Changed icon for album and song row menus.

• Moved track number into song row menu.

• Renamed “Select Range Above” to “Select Up”, and so on.

• Made “Done” icon circular.

Fixed:

• Made “Reverse” icon consistent. 3.2.7 12/02/2024 • Changed “Reverse” icon.

• Renamed “Randomize” to “Jumble”.

• Prevented “Jumble” from using the default order. (“Sort” → “Shuffle” already did.) 3.2.6 11/29/2024 • Removed automatic scrolling after moving items up or down. 3.2.5 11/26/2024 • Changed empty-library placeholder.

• Improved accessibility labels. 3.2.4 11/25/2024 • Changed unknown album and song title placeholders to “~”.

• Removed “Unknown Artist” placeholder. 3.2.3 11/23/2024 • Removed dash for missing release dates. 3.2.2 11/22/2024 Refined:

• Added lines between song rows.

• Improved responsiveness when scrolling songs with long text. 3.2.1 11/20/2024 Refined:

• Moved “Select” to album and song menus.

• Changed “Range” icons.

• Added dedicated “Sort” menu.

• Reworded “Date” sort options.

• Replaced now-playing icon with colored text. 3.2 11/17/2024 • Fixed bug: range commands now always disable and enable themselves appropriately. 3.1.2 11/08/2024 • Localised “Randomise”. Uses your topmost English variant in the Settings app → General → Language & Region. 3.1.1 11/07/2024 Added:

• Switched to in-app player. Playback no longer affects the Apple Music app.

• Combined playback controls into a 3×3 menu.

• Started requiring iOS 18.1, which fixes “Add to Queue”.

• Added “Play”, “Randomize”, and “Add to Queue” for selected or all items in scope. It’s simple yet powerful.

• Added “Select Range” on albums and songs.

Removed:

• Removed “Play Rest of Album Last”, because “Select Range” replaces it.

• Removed “Artist” and “Title” sort options for albums.

Refined:

• Renamed “Random” sort option to “Shuffle”, because that’s what it does.

• Added borders around items when selected.

• Enabled sorting without entering select mode.

• Made “Play” and “Randomize” turn off repeat.

• Silenced VoiceOver after resuming playback. 3.1 11/06/2024 • Started requiring iOS 18.

• Preserved repeat mode after “play” actions.

• Temporarily replaced “Add to Queue” with “Play Next” because of an iOS 18 bug. I will revert this whenever possible. 3.0.3 09/16/2024 • Improved scrolling performance after you modify your library. 3.0.2 09/04/2024