AttackFM 0.3.293

Everything from this round, on every platform. Ninety-two updates since 0.3.201.

Install: download the file for your machine and open it. It installs over your existing AttackFM and keeps your data. The web half of this also reaches installed apps over the air, so this matters most for a fresh install or a new device — but the features marked (new install) below live in the app itself and only arrive this way.

Your music, on other hardware (new install)

• Chromecast. A Cast to section joins the device picker, and a tap sends the music to the TV. The phone keeps the queue and the scrubber, the TV gets the sound, and stopping the cast hands the song back mid-note
• A home-screen widget, on Android and iPhone — the song, its artist and its cover, straight off the same state the lock screen reads
• Android Auto carries every playlist now, beside Liked, All songs and Shuffle, and a tap plays one in its own order
• AirPlay sits beside Connect on Now Playing, on iPhone

Playlists

• Descriptions, folders and covers of your own choosing. All three live with the playlist on your server, so everyone in the household sees the same thing, and anything you wrote before moves across by itself
• Press and hold a playlist on the shelf for everything its page can do — rename, file, re-cover — without opening it first
• Long playlists get a Find box, for the one song in four hundred
• Press and hold any song row — anywhere on it, not just the title — for its menu, and letting go no longer starts the song playing underneath

Off the network

• Your playlists come with you: every song in every playlist is kept on the phone, right behind the ones you liked
• Songs kept on the device now bring their look with them — covers and Canvas clips travel with the music, so an offline library stops drawing grey squares
• Choose the quality your phone downloads at — Lossless, 256k, 128k or 96k. At 128k the same space holds about seven times the music
• Storage tells the truth about what you kept, and can free it again

Discover and Spotify links

• Open a Spotify link in AttackFM and it pops a preview card — the exact song with its sleeve and a 30-second preview, and a tap to Like it or file it in a playlist
• Anything you add downloads, files itself where you asked, and opens that list when it lands
• Curator mixes and plugin lists open as real pages now, drawn exactly like your own playlists

The look

• The four cards at the top of your library have a printed halftone look, and a picker in Settings › Appearance for three ways to wear it
• The genre and mood tiles have their own artwork — nineteen objects in frosted glass, printing through the dot screen
• Liked, All songs, On repeat and your playlists open on a slow-drifting wall of their own album covers
• The library sits first on the bottom bar now, where your hand already is

Also in this build

• The app looks for its update as it opens, installs it, and starts on the new version, instead of interrupting you twenty seconds later
• A short guided tour the first time you open the app
• Stems have levels, not just on and off — a vocal can sit faint under the rest
• The sound button carries a count of everything you have changed, so a part you dropped two songs ago is not a silent surprise
• Shake to shuffle, flick to skip — off until you turn them on, in Playback
• Music Date has an undo
• Settings is a full screen, and folds to one column when the window is too narrow to hold both

Notes

• macOS is unsigned and unnotarised; the first launch needs right-click → Open.
• Android is a universal APK, sideload it. Android Auto hides side-loaded media apps until you allow them: Android Auto settings → tap Version about ten times → Developer settings → Unknown sources, then tick AttackFM under Customize launcher.
• iPhone and iPad build from the same source; there is no App Store listing yet.