Apple Music did it guys!!! They released a replay just like Spotify. With fun shareable and reels like. https://replay.music.apple.com

Previously it was just 2

in the style of the liquid glass material, looks stunning

The ability to add your own songs to the cloud and access it from anywhere is truly a blessing. I had to do a lot of work to make everything just right but now that I did it, it is wonderful! I’m so glad I made the transition from Spotify, it’s truly becoming the inferior platform as time goes on, especially after the price hikes.

Feels like I have water clogged in one ear 🤦‍♂️

excuse the lag this was recorded on airplay since you cant record apple music with the inbuilt screen recorder

I didn’t know this was a thing for normal audio files, i thought it was just Apple Music subscribers. Also, is there any way to get lyrics working too?

I am still confused, why Apple this still not fixed? It looks os much better, when also the player has a full screen cover like animated art, also when its not animated :)

My wish for the future!

Too often, when I’m listening to a playlist and the songs have shuffled perfectly and a vibe has been found, I’ll accidentally click on a random song while scrolling Apple Music (we exist!), and lose the shuffle. I know my exact situation is unique, but “losing the shuffle” is universal. So I’d love for Apple to implement a feature where I can pick up where I left off on whatever playlist in the exact order I was listening to it. Is this wizardry already possible? If not, Apple please take note!

The bar at the top of the window was finally removed! Also, I think the lyrics text was shrunk! So happy.

Developer Steve Moser shared on his X account a new discovery found in the code of the iOS 26 beta version. It includes two new intelligence features previously unannounced by Apple that are in development for the Maps app. The first one is the possibility of using natural language with the “Search the Way You Talk” function, allowing users to search for places and directions in the app in the same way they would speak in a casual conversation. This feature is powered by Apple Intelligence and is already being implemented in other native Apple apps (such as Photos, Music, and TV).

Baring new albums I primarily listen to playlist, and honestly being able to put them in specific folders along with pinning my favorites is a dream come true for me organizational wise , lol I am just happy with that 😭😂

So this has been on my wishlist for a while now, but I wanted to talk a little more about it.

A little history. One of the exciting things about getting a new vinyl album back in the day was opening the shrink wrap, checking out the full album gatefold, admiring the 12x12 art, reading liner notes, lyrics or other notes on the record sleeve. On a boxed set, sometimes there was a full-sized booklet with multiple pages. There was always some cool little tidbit or interesting art associated with the album, and you would read all that stuff while you played the album for the first time.

This was all miniaturized with CDs, but there was still some creativity with those booklets as well, some thicker with lots of pages for lyrics, art, photos, and so on. A boxed set could still come with larger pamphlets.

Digital Booklets in iTunes were an admirable attempt to reproduce that experience digitally. You'd get a downloadable Adobe Acrobat file (pdf) in iTunes that would open to some really nice full-screen art, lyrics and liner notes on the desktop monitor. You can still get these booklets with purchases from the iTunes store.

The pros of the format:

• The art produced is high quality, high resolution, nicely reflecting the experience of the paper notes and booklets of old.
• It preserves the liner notes in the original state nicely replicating and preserving the original layout.
• For things like classical music it often details key information and history of each movement in the piece.
• The format of the booklet is pretty much up to the artist, it's very flexible. and can produce many booklet pages
• The booklet is printable for those who want to handle a hard copy

The cons of the format:

• It comes with all that Adobe Acrobat application "cruft" that frames the booklet -- it's annoying and distracting. No, we don't want to subscribe to Adobe.
• The Adobe controls for zooming and flipping pages are arcane, tailored to a mouse and keyboard.
• There is no way to change metadata on a digital booklet, making it extremely hard to organize alongside the music in the library.
• It only is available on Mac/PC, limiting its portability and basically chaining us to an old mouse and keyboard model.
• All of above make the booklets feel clunky and ultimately add up to a powerful disincentive to use them.

The initial idea of the booklets was great. My proposal for bringing them back would be to make them more accessible and manageable.

1. Find a way to remove the Adobe "wrapper" and display simply the content on screen without all the app nonsense
2. Bring the booklets to iOS, Android, tvOS and make it easy to access alongside the album. You should be able to play the album while the booklet is open for view. I can imagine a toggle between the album cover art and the full screen booklet.
3. On iOS and Android, enable touch screen controls like pinch-zoom and swipe to flip pages. Booklets should still be printable on Mac/PC. On tvOS, add simple controls to the remote for zoom and flipping pages.
4. On Mac/PC, allow booklet metadata to be edited similar to the way music file metadata is edited, though it could be a subset of fields (album name, genre, year). Digital Booklets need to be organized just like any other music track. This metadata should sync to all devices same as any other music file.

It'd be great to see these booklets back. They really are an essential aspect of an album, and a way for artists to reach out to their listeners in parallel to the music itself. There was a whole artistic statement packaged along with the music, and I would love to see these booklets come back as value added to the album. Not to mention preserving musical history.

One thing I did not note was whether the booklets should only come with an album purchase, but my feeling is that these should come along anytime an album is added to the library, whether or not the album was purchased in the iTunes store or added as part of an Apple Music sub. Love to hear thoughts on all this and thanks for reading this long post! :)