I built an iOS app to browse and play albums from your Apple Music library and I think it’s finally ready to see the light of day. I have lots of fun plans for it and would love to get feedback from people outside my immediate circle. What’s working for you? What isn’t? Thanks for taking a look! 🎧
(If you can spare a boost, I’d really appreciate it! 🚀)
I’m loving the app so far. It’s a really pleasant UI. Especially a fan of the graphic experience of seeing all of the album covers, and the ability to favorite and easily find my favorite music (my biggest gripe with Apple’s app)
A few things that feel like they are missing:
⁃ An indicator showing which song on an album is playing
⁃ A way to restart a song
⁃ More ways to filter out albums would be nice. 80% of songs required is helpful, but I still have a lot of singles in my list
@mclaughj I like the focus on albums. I’m not sure if your overall goal is to fully replace Apple’s app, but if you added a playlists tab and a search function, I think that would be enough for me to use this almost exclusively.
That may conflict with the album focus you are trying to create, but I think you could do it in a way that still maintains that focus, while also having the other functionality so that users don’t have to toggle between apps based on use case.
@JaxonEvans thanks so much for the detailed write up and the kind words dude!
→ Now playing indicator: coming!
→ Adding a now playing screen with full queue control (and a skip back button), just didn’t make the 1.0.
→ Filtering and search is coming! Tentatively 1.1 for filtering, search is likely 1.2.
→ Definitely been thinking about how much of a full featured replacement I want it to be. I have ideas around “collections” and maybe playlists fit, we’ll see.
Roadmap: https://zero1software.com/albums/
Joseph McLaughlin
Jaxon Evans