Metal Archives on iOS

Metal Archives (a.k.a. Encyclopaedia Metallum) is the biggest encyclopedia of all metal bands around the world. From most well-known worldwide bands like Metallica to underground local bands in countries that you may never have heard of.

Official website: https://www.metal-archives.com/
Official facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metal.archives

Available on App Store since January 2016, this application is an unofficial iOS version of the site.

Feature requests, bug reports, need helps? Reach me at the app's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MetalArchivesIOSApp/

Made with 🤘, by metalhead for metalheads.

Screenshots

Features

The application provides almost everything you can do on the site for research purposes. If you want to contribute to the site's contents, like wikipedia, you will have to register an account, make changes and wait for moderator approvals. In this case you have to use the web interface. iOS interface doesn't mean to be a complete alternative.

Replicated features:

• Homepage which shows: statistics, news, latest additions/updates/reviews, upcoming albums.
• Band details: general infos, logo and photo, discography, members list, reviews list, similar artists, related links.
• Release details: general infos, cover photo, reviews list, track listing, song’s lyric, lineup list, other versions, additional notes.
• Artist details: general infos, biography, photo, bands involved.
• Label details: general infos, sub-labels, current & past roster, releases, related links.
• User details: general infos, reviews, collection, submitted bands, modification history.
• Manage your bookmarks: add/remove/edit bands/artists/labels/releases.
• Manage your collection: add/remove/edit releases.
• Deezer Search & Preview (30 seconds preview) which allows user to listening to band's top tracks and releases inside the app.
• Search & track history.
• Simple search by: band name, music genre, lyrical themes, album title, song title, label name, artist name.
• Advanced search: band, albums, songs.
• Browse bands by letter, country of origin & music genre.
• Browse labels by letter & country of origin.
• Browse deceased artists.
• Random band
• Statistic: top 100 bands/albums.
• News archives.

Extra features:

• Shortcut (3D touch) for quick actions: open search page, open with a random band.
• Today Widget which display updates from the homepage: band latest additions, band latest updates, latest reviews, upcoming albums.
• Customizable interface:
  • 4 built-in themes: default, light, vintage, unicorn.
  • 3 font size options: default, medium, large.
  • Default discography mode.
  • Enable/disable thumbnails.
  • Today widget sections.
• Badge system: a release with more than 10 positive reviews (>=75%) is annotated with a badge 🏅.

3rd party Dependencies

• Alamofire
• AlamofireNetworkActivityIndicator
• SlideMenuControllerSwift
• Kanna(鉋)
• UIColor-Hex-Swift
• SDWebImage
• Toaster
• BetterSegmentedControl
• Charts
• SkyFloatingLabelTextField
• AttributedLib
• Siren
• NotificationBanner
• MBProgressHUD
• KeychainAccess
• MaterialComponents/Snackbar
• Floaty

Notices for 3rd party libraries in this repository are contained in NOTICE.md.

License

Copyright © 2019-2020 Thanh-Nhon NGUYEN

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.