This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Albums is the player that cares as much about your music library as you do. Made by music-obsessed solo developer Adam Linder, Albums provides the best alternative to the built-in Music app on Apple platforms for true music lovers, now available on macOS as well as iOS! Relive the glory days of the iPod with album shuffle, and use robust tagging and filtering options to build the album collections of your dreams—you can even tag music not in your library to check out later. Beyond playback and organization, Albums is packed with features to enrich your musical life; the Release Feed keeps track of new and upcoming music from artists and record labels in your library; the app tracks your play history and generates regular listening reports, like Adam’s 2025 Listening Report, attached to this post; and the Insights tab offers dozens of personalized collections to help you experience your library in a new way. Albums is deeply integrated with Apple platform features, including comprehensive Shortcuts support, a first-class CarPlay app, and interactive widgets. It is available for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. With over six years of iterative improvement on the App Store, the app is the best it’s ever been—and only getting better. When you’re ready to level up your music-listening experience, download Albums on the App Store. If you’re looking for something a little different, you can also check out Adam’s chaotic neutral music-discovery app, Univershuffle, which shuffles all of the music on the Apple Music catalog. Seriously! The app can also generate a grid of your most played albums: Follow Albums Online: Albums on Mastodon: https://indieapps.space/@albumstheapp Albums Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/albumstheapp/ Music App Stuff newsletter: https://albumstheapp.substack.com more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos and other embedded content.
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This app looks great on Mac OS. Loving it. Presume there is no way to remotely access your music library from your iPhone on the app? Seems to just look for local music? Now I am wishing I could get it on phone and dedicated Amazon tablet I use as a home speaker control. I suppose that’s a great endorsement for how good it is on Mac!
Nice! Thanks for trying it out. Regardless of platform (iOS or macOS) Albums uses your Apple Music library, so anything you see in the built-in Music app is also available in Albums. The queue is also synced, so if you're listening on your iPhone and switch to your Mac, as long as you have iCloud sync enabled in-app, what you're listening to transfers. An Android version is pretty unlikely any time soon, but I appreciate the enthusiasm!
Thanks for the reply! My digital music library is rather large so the Sync isn’t viable for me on the phone. Regardless, everything about the Mac app is positive so far so I will continue using that - thank you! Does the software stay up to date with the Music library or does it need periodic manual scans?
This is pretty cool, nice app! Is there a way to hide or highlight the albums that are missing songs? I have a lot of individual song files, kind of weird to have them called albums. I assume there's no version of this on the horizon that integrates with Spotify?
Yup! You can toggle the different types of releases that are displayed in the collection settings (Collections Tab -> Gear icon in the top right). From there you can turn on/off Complete and Incomplete albums. You can also add a filter to any given collection that filters on the Is Complete property. As for Spotify, their API is too restrictive -- both in the capabilities it offers and the fact that they recently narrowed the scope of use cases for which they'll approve usage. No Spotify app on the horizon, I'm afraid.