We’ve been working hard to simplify the user experience, based on feedback from users all over the world. We hope you find this update as enjoyable to use as we do. We’ve completely redesigned the home screen so now you have access to:
Add your favourite albums, playlists, radio stations or podcasts to your home screen, making it quicker and easier to start listening each time you use MusicLife
Show your 30 most recently played albums, playlists, radio stations or podcasts
Hide services you don’t use so the ones you do care about are easier to find
Pick your audio output device on first launch, and we’ll reconnect to it each time
A fresh new theme which fits in perfectly with those late night sessions
Just tried it. The layout is a mess and it keeps crashing on my IPad so I’ve had to go back to the general release one in the App Store and turn off auto app updates so I don’t end up with it when it goes live.
Hi paulguk, it’s too bad that this update crashes on your iPad. Could you share the version of the iOS you’re using? The layout is messed up, could you also share a screenshot of what you’re seeing? I’ll make sure your feedback is forwarded. Thank you.
I created a ticket for the crash. The crash logfiles will be submitted automatically by Test Flight. I think they have enough information. Thanks for reporting.
I’m curious what in particular you didn’t like about the new layout?
Is it the new home screen you didn’t like or the navigation or is something else? It would be very helpful if you could elaborate on this, I suppose this is feedback Arcam is looking for.
I’ll give it another try tomorrow. I was just a bit niggled when it was suddenly totally different to how I’m used to it.
Most of the features don’t interest me anyway as all I do is browse my library on my NAS and play albums in completeness. I don’t do playlists nor do I subscribe to any streaming sites. Occasionally I’ll listen to Radio 2 through it that’s about it.
I’ll be interested to see if I am alone with this. I’m using the latest Version of IOS on an iPad Pro so I would have expected them to have tested it on that.
How do I customize? I tried to press the eye but those items disappear instead of being favourites. I tried pressing the item for a long time but thhen hidden items come back. It seems that the show favourites/show hidden does not work.
I would like my tidal albums, my minimserver albums and some radio stations as favourites. Or in short. I would like to fully customise what to have on the Home Screen.
You can show or hide individual services by using the ‘eye’ icon.
Tap Show Favorites: this will only show the services which have not been hidden
Tap Show Hidden: this will show all services, including hidden ones to allow you to show a previously hidden service.
I found a bug over the weekend where in some cases toggling between show hidden/show favourites does not bring back all the services. I’m currently investigating that to see what the cause is.
To add a specific album, or radio station as a Home Screen favourite, you can add this from the album/radio details view:
The bug is still there, and for me a bit random. I never know which sources turn up.
As for favorites I wanted the whole Album folder. Now Tidal Albums are three levels in (or down), I would like to have that folder (of albums) as a favorite.
There was a bug where toggling Show Hidden/Show Favourites wouldn’t change anything. This has been resolved in 4.0.1 (4017) which is uploading now.
We don’t support adding arbitrary folders, only playable containers (Album, Podcast, Radio). I can’t immediately think of a reason why this wouldn’t be possible.
