Version 9.4.111 February 2024It’s great to see users have been enjoying the latest update that includes a stunning new Add to Playlist interface with tons of customization options, a super cool Playback Speed Control option to speed up or slow down your music, and some great new features for users with Last.fm+ add-on.
This update includes fixes and improvements, and enables the ability to add the Scrobble Log section to the Sidebar and Home (Last.fm+ add-on required)..
Version 9.3.512 November 2023Fixed the issue that prevented Greyscale Artwork from working in widgets..
Version 9.2.106 September 2023We’re delighted to know you have been enjoying the latest update with features like multi-window support for iPadOS, new thin spacing that goes really well with cover flow grids, and much more.
This update includes some critical bug fixes and a new smart filter ‘Contains Hidden Music’ for finding collections that contain unplayable/hidden music..
Version 9.1.106 July 2023Bug fixes..
Version 8.4.213 April 2023Bug Fixes..
Version 8.3.218 December 2022■ New Quick Action for Tracks: Add to Playlist • You can enable it for all song-based sections from Marvis Settings → Gestures → (Tracks) Quick Action. • Or, enable it on a per-section basis for song-based sections.
■ Added the ‘Show Artwork’ setting to toggle artwork visibility on the mini-player
■ Renamed ‘New Home’ to ‘Section Folder’
■ Fixes and improvements
Happy Holidays!.
Version 8.3.101 November 2022We're delighted to see you all enjoying Live Activities from Marvis.
• You can now view more upcoming songs by adding multiple 'Up Next' Live Activities.
• Added the option to change text alignment for multirow metadata, i.e. in Full-Player and Live Activities. ‣ Swipe left on a row and click on ••• to reveal text formatting options.
• Fixes and improvements..
Version 8.009 September 2022We’ve been working hard on a brand new update with a revolutionary enhancement to the Displayed Metadata feature and so much more.
DISPLAYED METADATA ‣ Choose what metadata you see in each label and use smart conditions for intricate customizations. ‣ Metadata customization is not only available for cells on the list or grid but also for mini-player and full-player. ‣ Metadata isn’t limited to media metadata but you can also add symbols or custom text. ‣ Use smart conditions on your metadata to conditionally show/hide them based on rules you set up. For example, you can use the new smart filter ‘Is Now Playing’ to conditionally show a symbol that would only appear if the song is the now-playing song. ‣ With all the new tools, the possibilities are endless, and we have plans to implement even more. ‣ We can’t wait to see how you use the new metadata feature to personalize Marvis.
RENAME SECTIONS ‣ With the help of new tools built for Displayed Metadata we’ve added support for advanced customization for section headers. ‣ You can now add symbols to left or right positions. ‣ You can also add some of the supported metadata, like ‘Items Count’ or ‘Selected Sorting’ to section labels. ‣ We’d love to see your brand new setups with these new section customizations.
SMART FILTERS ‣ Is Now Playing ‣ Selected Sorting ‣ Size (per minute) ‣ (For Collections Only) Played Tracks Count, Play Progress, Unplayed Tracks Count, Unplayed Ratio
CREATE STATION ‣ Play Song or Artist stations from Marvis using action sheets. ‣ If you don’t prefer to view this action, disable it from Advanced Settings → Action Sheet. ‣ Thanks to a fellow developer, Rudrank Riyam for helping me realize the way to create radio stations for songs.
LAST.FM+ ‣ Text Replacement now supports adding Smart Conditions to a replacement pair that would trigger replacement only if the conditions are met.
GESTURES ‣ Added support for swipe gestures to mini-player. ‣ Added support for triple-tap gestures in addition to the exiting double-tap gestures. ‣ Added ‘Pop to Previous Page’ action to navigation bar gestures. ‣ Added ‘Go to Artist’ action for mini-player and full-player. ‣ Added ‘Toggle Player App’ action for all gestures.
PER-SECTION SETTINGS ‣ You can now toggle the ‘Show Like Button’ and ‘Quick Action’ settings on a per-section basis for song-based sections. ‣ Added additional sort options to the section settings that were previously only available inside of Smart Rules. ‣ Added support for 7 & 8 columns for standard and cover flow grid style on iPad. ‣ Added support for 1 & 2 columns for columned list style on iPad.
MISCELLANEOUS ‣ Added support for showing Audio Quality badges on the Albums screen. ‣ Added a setting in Search settings to make the local search bar persistent. ‣ Recent section on Add to Playlist screen now shows all recently modified playlists from the last 7 days. ‣ New Advanced Setting ‘Show Download Status on Tracks’. ‣ Dropped support for iOS 14.
• Added a new playlist group type, ‘Replay’. ‣ You can also use the new playlist type as a filter using Smart Rules.
• Action Sheet settings in Advanced Settings. ‣ Setting to choose default action for ‘Go to Artist’ action, Go to Library Artist, Go to Apple Music Artist, or Always Ask. ‣ Setting to show ‘Add to Library’ action for songs, albums, or playlists on the action sheet.
• Now Playing media has a new background highlight style support for list styles. ‣ This is in addition to the bold text style that has existed so far. ‣ You can toggle each style on/off from Super Advanced settings.
• Fixes and improvements.
There are many more changes throughout the app that we couldn’t mention in this change log, but if you can discover them we’d love for you to show them off on our Subreddit, Discord, or Twitter.
Happy Listening!.
Version 7.126 June 2022• Swipe Actions on list rows. ‣ Swipe from right-to-left on list rows to add to play next/last in the queue.
• New Apple Music Sections ‣ Recently Played Songs with data coming from Apple Music Web APIs. ‣ City Charts. ‣ Genres. ‣ Radio Station Genres. ‣ Live Radio Stations. ‣ Personal Radio Stations.
• New Metadata for Collections (Albums, Artists, and more). ‣ Last Played (Less Recent) ‣ Last Played (Recent) (formerly Last Played) metadata chooses the most recently played date from a collection's tracks, however, the new Last Played (Less Recent) selects the least recently played date. ‣ One of the use cases for this metadata is to let you create a section of albums that you want to listen to but haven't yet. So, you can add the "Last Played (Less Recent) is empty" rule, and the album will stay on the list as long as all of the album's songs haven't been played.
• Super Advanced Settings: A new settings section in Advanced Settings. ‣ When we have as many settings as there are in Marvis, it gets difficult to manage them, and name them in a way that they're concise and self-explanatory. But it's always a challenging task to correctly group settings and give them a name. Having too many settings on a single page also get overwhelming, and that's why when some of you request a setting, we don't add those to the main settings because we feel it only caters to a very small audience and will end up overwhelming others. ‣ This is why we've added Super Advanced Settings, where the settings won't necessarily cater to everyone, won't require us to worry about naming them, and won't need users to revisit too often. ‣ One of the first new settings there is "Navigation Bar Large Titles" which lets you disable large navigation bar titles. ‣ In the future, we'll add more settings to this page.
• Redesigned Add/Manage buttons. ‣ Also added keyboard shortcuts to open the add/manage pages.
• Bug Fixes and improvements..
Version 6.7.315 February 2022It has been 3 years since Marvis Pro first launched on the App Store. It's been a wonderful journey, from developing the app to communicating with users, we have built such a great community of people who not only are music enthusiasts but also have a specific way of navigating their music that only Marvis can fulfill. We're glad to have been able to build Marvis and bring it to you all, and we're grateful for the support we've received.
Fixed a crash that occurred on tapping the album inside of artists with only one album in the library.
Happy listening!.
Version 6.7.109 November 2021Some of you might have experienced that a few Apple Music-based sections like Hot Tracks, New Releases, and Coming Soon weren’t loading in the app for the past few days. This is because Apple silently ended support for those RSS feeds, we tried to look for ways to see if there’s an alternate way to fetch this data from Apple but since removing those feeds, Apple hasn’t really added any other way to fetch this data. This is why this update drops support for those sections in Marvis. We hope to someday be back with more sections but until then this is how it needs to be.
Miscellaneous fixes and improvements..
Version 6.721 September 2021We’re excited for the launch of iOS 15 and we’ve made optimizations to make Marvis run better on iOS & iPadOS 15 as well as upcoming Apple devices like iPhone 13 lineup & iPad mini.
• Added support for extra-large widget size that’s now available in iPadOS 15.
• Bug fixes and improvements.
Happy listening!.
Version 6.6.202 August 2021• Fixed an issue that prevented widgets from loading correctly in case the artwork wasn't available.
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We recently launched v6.6 and here's what's new:
• Background Customization ‣ A vibrant background for the now-playing screen you’ve all asked for is here. ‣ That’s not all, it’s customizable and you can apply a similar style to the main screen and mini-player too. ‣ The customization options range from the ability to toggle between different blur styles, change the saturation of the background image & add an overlay color on top of the background. Combined with all those settings you can have a highly customized background that suits your needs. ‣ Now it’s also possible to set the theme of mini-player & full-player differently than the main screen. ‣ Also, all the background settings are linked to the theme, so you can have separate settings for light and dark themes.
• New Drag & Drop action, Add to Playlist. ‣ Drag & Drop allows you to drag multiple items simultaneously so it’s easier to add them to your playlist rather than going into the context menu for each item separately.
• New filter & sort option for smart rules ‣ Play Ratio & Skip Ratio, it’s a percentage calculated by dividing play count & skip count by the sum of play count and skip count.
• New Displayed Metadata ‣ Album, for Song-based sections. ‣ Genre, for Album & Artist based sections. ‣ Time Spent Listening, for all library sections. ‣ Play Ratio & Skip Ratio, for all library sections.
• New URL Schemes ‣ marvis://nowplaying to open the now-playing screen. ‣ marvis://minimize or marvis://minimise to quickly jump out of Marvis. It’ll be useful after running a shortcut that doesn’t require Marvis to be active after the shortcut is completed.
• Miscellaneous Changes ‣ The now-playing screen on iPad now covers full-screen, and it looks beautiful. ‣ Album screen now shows release date at the bottom. ‣ Non-Square Artwork now shows with their correct aspect ratio in grid style. ‣ Changed sorting behavior for null or empty metadata, previously when sorting by ascending order empty metadata was always put at the end, now it correctly sorts on top. ‣ Added ‘Go to Home’ as gesture action for most gestures. ‣ Dropped support for iOS 12 & 13.
• And as always there are many fixes and improvements.
We hope you enjoy this update, and if you do please consider leaving a review on the App Store as not only do we love reading your reviews but it also helps Marvis reach more eyes..
Version 6.521 December 2020• Background Images for Widgets. ‣ You can now choose your own background image for Widgets, and make them even more personal. The possibilities are endless. ‣ With the right trick, you can even make the widget background appear transparent. Tip in Marvis Settings > Widgets on how to achieve this. ‣ This was one of the most requested features for Marvis after the introduction of Widgets. We're happy to have implemented it before Christmas.
• Added support for Keyboard Shortcuts. ‣ Useful when connecting to a hardware keyboard to your iPhone and iPad. ‣ On your iPad, you can hold the command key on your keyboard to view a list of supported shortcuts.
• Added support for the AirPods Max icon for the AirPlay button. ‣ To make sure that you see the correct icon, please have the text 'AirPods Max' in the name.
• Added the ability to sort playlists by their description text. ‣ You can find this sorting under Smart Rules > Add Sort Rule. ‣ This is useful in cases where you'd like to have a custom sorting for your playlists but do not want to change the playlist's name. ‣ You can edit the description for the playlists that you've created on your own from the stock Music.app.
• Bug fixes and improvements.
We hope you enjoy the new Widget Background customization. We’d love to see your widget setup, so tweet it and mention us @marvis_music. Your setup could inspire other users as well.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope the upcoming year brings us all joy and peace.
Happy Holidays..
Version 6.4.303 December 2020• Added Recently Played Section preset that is available under the For You tab for Apple Music subscribers. ‣ This can be added separately as a section to the Home feed.
• Added Last Played and Last Skipped as a filter for Artists & Genres. ‣ Those metadata were already available when sorting but were missing when filtering. ‣ Thanks, Brian for pointing it out.
• Removed Curators and Activities section preset. ‣ Sadly Apple Music APIs have stopped providing the list of Curators and Activities, so we had to remove this. We did report to them in case this wasn’t intentional but haven’t heard from them yet. If they fix it in the future we’ll make sure to re-enable the section presets. ‣ If you had already added these sections you’ll need to remove them manually. ‣ Tip: You can still manually add the Apple Music Search section with Curator/Activity type and add your own search terms that match curator/activity names.
• Added Apple Curators section preset. ‣ We hope this will compensate for the lack of Curators section. We understand it’s not the same but it should hopefully be useful.
FIXED
• Details page on iPhone 12 Pro Max which was not dismissible.
• Progress bar on the player page showed a visual glitch when selecting flat edges for full-player artwork.
• More fixes & improvements..
Version 6.4.203 November 2020• Improvements for the NowPlaying Widgets.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the loading of playlist headers with non-square playlist images.
• Increased hit target for the full-player progress scrubber..
Version 6.4.121 October 2020• Optimizations for iPhone 12.
• Fixes and improvements..
Version 6.205 October 2020We have a great new update for Last.fm users.
This update brings a ton of new premium features to Marvis for Last.fm and we have plans to include even more. Last.fm⁺ is a one-time purchase to unlock those premium features.
Here’s what Last.fm⁺ offers:
• Background Scrobbling ‣ Keep scrobbling your music even when Marvis is in the background.
• Scrobble Manually ‣ Scrobble songs and albums you hear on the radio, vinyl, or somewhere else when you need to scrobble manually.
• Scrobble by Progress ‣ Choose how long your track should be played before they qualify for Scrobbling.
• Love Tracks ‣ Love a track on Last.fm whenever you love it inside of Marvis.
• Scrobble Notifications ‣ Receive a notification when a track has been scrobbled.
• Smart Scrobble Rules ‣ Setup smart rules to only scrobble songs that match the rules.
• Scrobble Short Tracks ‣ Scrobble tracks that are less than 30s in duration.
• Prefer Album Artists ‣ Sends Album Artist instead of the Artist tag for non-compilation albums.
We hope you enjoy these new features.
Happy Scrobbling!.
