Welcome to the Center for Spite Studies, a place to review notes on the latest release, report problems, and suggest new features that I will probably resist for a while before eventually deciding it might be a good idea.
Latest Build: v4.7
Current assessment: January 31, 2026
- I've deleted my other music apps and use Spite daily for home, work, and travel as well as while driving and jogging. So far it has solved all my complaints about other music players, although I'll keep polishing and tuning it as things come up.
- My biggest concern is iCloud sync (e.g. "Syncing is paused because your battery is at 91%")—not much I can do with Apple's nanny state controls, but I am looking into a Dropbox option.
New features
- Special premium exclusive super-fresh playlist on iOS that automatically loads the five most recent albums added to your macOS library
- Memory improved, accent color from playlist artwork, less code, fewer crashes (hopefully zero), fwd/back logic for shuffle, right-click a song to edit info in Meta, cosmetic tweaks, fixed a dumb playlist glitch, cosmic order restored.
- I can confirm Spite is quite speedy with loading + cacheing my library of 5000 songs. (But I like to keep a tight ship. Some people like to collect 30,000 songs in case they live until the 22nd century—Spite should work under these conditions, but I'm not going to swear to it.)
- Other crucial but unglamorous improvements: better file id logic, single iOS/macOS song registry, removed redunancies, and set up library watching but who is watching the watching?
- If you don't like the Lynchian red curtain, you can upload your own wallpaper in Settings that will display in the left panel on macOS and the background of your iPhone.
Coming Soon: v5.0
- Internal metadata editor for renaming tracks and adding artwork
- Dropbox support for telephone sync. (But Jesus, Apple makes it hard to use not-Apple things.)
- Maybe add a search option to iOS but stilll not sure if I need it.
- Better onboarding messages, e.g., the iOS version is pointless without making playlists on macOS.
- Make it look a little less dumb on an iPad
If you notice something's broken or have any complaints, revelations, or psychic upheavals, please leave a comment below.
