r/AppleMusic

With all due respect to the mods, I just wanted to share that NostalgicPod is finally live on the App Store!!!

It's a music player inspired by the iPod Classic, built to work with Apple Music. You can browse your library, playlists, albums and artists with the click wheel, just like back in the day. It runs on the native iOS player, so it keeps working with the screen locked, in the background, and from Control Center.

There's even Cover Flow for flipping through your albums the old-school way.

It's not just Apple Music, though:

• Local music stored on your iPhone
• Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Navidrome
• Internet radio and podcasts
• The classic iPod games: Music Quiz, Brick, Snake and Solitaire

The default look is slightly modernized. That was actually one of Apple's conditions for approving the app on the App Store. But you can switch to the Classic Ring style anytime from Settings, and I show how to do it in the video.

No subscriptions, no hidden extras, No ads. You pay once and it's yours forever!!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostalgicpod/id6781631808

Website: https://nostalgicpod.com/

Want to try it for free first? The TestFlight beta is open: https://testflight.apple.com/join/T3k9TQPu (Heads up: it's the beta version)

Feedback is super welcome, especially from Apple Music users ❤️

Hey,

A few weeks ago I released vibez (https://github.com/simonepelosi/vibez), an open-source, keyboard-first TUI music player built with Go and Bubble Tea. It lets you stream full-track Apple Music and local audio files directly from your terminal, without needing Cider, Electron wrappers, or official apps.

Today I am happy to announce vibez v1.1.0, introducing native Windows support, crisp dithered album art, and stability fixes.

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### What is vibez?

For those discovering it for the first time:
- Full-track streaming: Apple Music streaming via a headless Chrome session and Widevine CDM (not 30-second preview clips).
- Local playback: Play your local MP3, FLAC, M4A/AAC, and OGG collection with a built-in 10-band parametric EQ.
- Vibe Mode (v): Type what you are doing or feeling in plain English ("late night lofi coding", "synthwave highway"), and vibez curates a tailored queue for you.
- Discovery and Radio Modes (d / R): Continuous smart auto-queue with dialable similarity from same-artist to pure exploration.
- Vim-style navigation: Jump with gg/G, scroll with j/k, and command line mode with : (:save, :vol, :mute).
- Animated mascot: A terminal bear that naps when idle and dances when music is playing.
- System integration: Discord Rich Presence (RPC), Last.fm scrobbling, and desktop notifications.

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### What is New in v1.1.0?

#### 1. Native Windows Support (amd64, Pure Go, Zero CGO)
Until now, Windows users had to rely on WSL2. v1.1.0 brings first-class native Windows builds:
- Automated Google Chrome discovery across registry App Paths, per-user paths, and PATH.
- Local audio playback served over an authenticated, loopback HTTP session.
- Native Discord Rich Presence over Windows named pipes (\\.\pipe\discord-ipc-*).
- Windows self-updating with automatic rollback if binary replacement fails.
- Thanks to @hiKareeem for implementing native Windows support (#148).

#### 2. Dithered Album Art (:art) with Unicode Sextants
The :art view has been completely overhauled:
- Downsamples album covers to a 16-color palette and applies Atkinson error-diffusion dithering.
- Renders using Unicode sextants (U+1FB00) (2x3 sub-pixels per terminal cell). On modern terminals that render sextants natively (kitty, Ghostty, WezTerm, Alacritty, foot), covers look sharp and gap-free.
- Automatically falls back to half-blocks on terminals without sextant support (such as Apple Terminal).
- Thanks to @chriopter for implementing this renderer (#146).

#### 3. Linux In-Place Auto-Update Fix
- Fixed an issue where the self-updater on Linux silently failed with ETXTBSY ("Text file busy") when verifying file writability on the executing binary. The updater now probes directory permissions properly.
- Thanks to @ianswope for uncovering and fixing this bug (#160).

#### 4. Concurrency and Stability Polish
- MusicKit Debouncing: Prevented duplicated m.play() calls and race conditions when rapidly changing queues or resuming tracks (thanks to @Wang-Yang-source, #153).
- Data Race Fix: Synchronized request logging across goroutines with a mutex in Apple Music search tests (thanks to @ianswope, #159).

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### Installation and Getting Started

#### Linux / macOS (One-liner):
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonepelosi/vibez/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

#### Windows:
Download the pre-compiled vibez_windows_amd64.zip archive from the GitHub Releases page, or build from source:
go build -o vibez.exe .

#### Already installed?
Run:
vibez update

#### Test-drive without an Apple Music subscription:
You can test the full TUI with simulated playback using demo mode, or point it to your local music directory:
```sh
vibez --demo
# Or local library:
vibez --local --music-dir ~/Music
```

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### Links

- GitHub Repository: https://github.com/simonepelosi/vibez
- Release Notes: https://github.com/simonepelosi/vibez/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Feedback, bug reports, and terminal setup impressions are welcome!

I've been building a replacement motherboard for classic iPods. This clip is a 3rd gen iPod streaming Apple Music over WiFi, with the original screen, buttons and clickwheel. The iPod is playing audio to a Bluetooth speaker off camera.

It uses MusicKit on the web. It's so much better than the Spotify API, but it's quite power hungry as it needs a whole web browser running to work.

A bit about the board:
- It's a drop-in replacement for the iPod 3rd/4th gen. No soldering, and it's fully reversible.
- It uses all the original iPod parts except the battery and hard drive, so it still looks and feels like a classic iPod.
- WiFi for streaming, plus Bluetooth audio for wireless headphones and speakers.
- A HiFi DAC (CS43131) through the original headphone jack.

Also working on a lower power board that only does offline playback but adds WiFi and Bluetooth.

Still working on stations and radio, but so far it works great.

Sign up for updates to learn when it's ready: https://www.crowdsupply.com/certain-things/sprout-pi-mainboard

More demos here: certainthings.studio/sprout

Hey guys! With Apple rolling out custom artist logos for main profile branding, I wanted to push that concept further to see how it could redefine the visual experience of an album rollout.

I designed a concept called Immersive Album Logos for iOS 27. The idea is to move branding freedom straight into individual album pages. Instead of a rigid system font, artists & labels can upload custom project wordmarks/logos to match the exact aesthetic of that albums' era.

Let me know your thoughts! Would you like to see Apple give artists this level of UI freedom?

I was just going to change what I was listening to but when I opened my library the Backstreet Boys were there randomly. I have never listened to them on my phone so I’m just wondering if anyone else ever has albums randomly appear in their library?

I like to use the Nothing Phone 2a without navigation bar, but the bottom dock doesn't look in it's place. It looks so weird and stuck to the chin. But it's fine with the navigation bar visible.

Is there any way to have the 2nd slide dock placement with the navigation bar hidden ?

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So I don't know when exactly this change happened, but I noticed that recently, when I search for and play a specific song, the app will populate the "playing next" list with what it thinks are similar songs.

This is very frustrating for me because I generally loathe auto-play features, and I even have Autoplay off! I checked and double-checked and it's not active. The button is solid gray-on-gray, not red. The songs are listed under "Playing Next" too, not auto-play. Here's a screenshot for proof.

Before, when I played a single song, it would either queue up the remainder of the album (if I did it form the album page) or just play whatever is next alphabetically. I can't find any mention of this change online, and I can't think of anything I did to make this start happening. Does anyone know of a way to stop this, or better yet, to stop the "playing next" menu fron automatically filling up entirely? Thanks.

suddenly this artist's songs are unplayable when i select them from my playlists, but i can still play them just fine from her profile directly.

Hi all! I have posted a few times here before to share my app with the community, but I wanted to come back and showcase it again after revamping the entire app over the last 3 months.

Let me start by introducing myself - my name is Anthony and I'm super passionate about sharing music with friends. Last year, I ran into a scenario where I met my now-current partner and they used Spotify while I used Apple Music. Naturally I went along with the awkward searching between platforms at first, but I thought to myself: how can I make this experience much better for relationships, friends, and anyone else that you might want to share music with?

This is what brought me to creating TuneTransit, and in the last 3 months, I really brought the entire app experience back to the drawing board. With the support of my partner (that ironically was the one that I created the app for in the first place), we took TuneTransit to the drawing board and created a design that's both fun and functional. This also meant going out into the world and asking people what they want to see when they share music, and more importantly, what thoughts go into sharing music.

Instead of droning on about all the features here, I invite you to check out the website and the app itself -- I'm super open to feedback and want to make this an app that benefits the community at large, so please feel free to let me know in the comments.

This has been such an exciting project for me, and I'm really excited to hear what people think about the design along with the new features in the app, like Mixtapes and being able to send the link creator a song back from the TuneTransit link that was generated.

Website: https://tunetransit.app
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tunetransit/id6743822790

Thanks in advance for reading my post and I can't wait to hear what you think!

(Also in anticipation of any questions: an Android version is definitely something that I want to tackle next, but not before an iPhone Duo compatibility update which will drop in the next few weeks!)

I checked storage in settings apple music took 11GB even tho i dont have any downloads. When i went back and i open settings again it showed 2GB.

It happened before as well.

For few years now I’ve been developing Plum, a personal pet project of mine which helps keep my coding skills sharp while my bosses keep insisting on using Claude for everything at work.

It’s a music app focused on music already in your library. There are no ads, no recommended playlists, no discovery - just your music with plenty of options to browse and play it.

As one reviewer put it nicely - it’s an app for people who like what they like.

Highlights:

• Works with your Apple Music and Spotify libraries (selectable within app settings)
• Any item can be added to favourites for quick access on dedicated Favourites page (synced via iCloud)
• Create folders from any combination of albums, playlists or artists (also synced via iCloud)
• Group songs within playlists by album or artist
• Build new playback queue before actually playing it (Queue Builder)
• Easy one-handed usage - swipe left to open Search, swipe right to open sort menu for current screen, swipe up to open tab switcher, swipe down to start Queue Builder
• Landscape mode (cleverly called Album Flow)
• Last.fm integration for sending scrobbles and fetching album/artist descriptions

Pricing:

Plum is free to download and you can try all features without any restrictions for 14 days. After that you'll still be able to use every feature available but may encounter an annoying popup here and there serving as a reminder to purchase Full version. You can choose between yearly subscription or one-time lifetime purchase. During trial period the latter option can be purchased with a whooping 40% discount. Check out App Store page for exact prices.

Website: https://plumapp.carrd.co

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/plum-music-player/id1441625664

both my devices are up to date with the latest os. (the video consists of one clip that shows the problem, a clip that shows am working correctly🎉, another clip showing the problem and then finally a self made clip of how it sounds on my apple watch)

so I've been noticing apple music being a bit laggy when transitioning (without transition) to a new song. there's like a small 1 sec pause between both songs. I have tried lowering the quality/downloading the songs. none of it worked.

ironically enough, it works perfectly fine on my apple watch STREAMING, by using wifi. whereas my iphone and macbook both fail. not only that, but it outright refuses to transition songs from different albums. the jay p --> transition works perfectly fine on my apple watch, but has this stupid break on the other two devices.

idk if I have certain settings wrong. again, have tried playing around with the surround sound, the audio quality. transitions. nothing helps