Welcome to the Center for Spite Studies, a place to review notes on the latest release, report your concerns, and suggest new features that I will probably resist for a while before eventually deciding it might be a good idea.
v4.8 • February 8
- Special premium luxury superfresh playlist on iOS that automatically loads the five most recent albums added to your macOS library
- This one's a shout-out to the perfectionists and obsessive-compulsives: right-click a song to edit the info in Meta.
- Other crucial but unglamorous improvements: better file id logic, single iOS/macOS song registry,and set up library watching but who is watching the watching?
- Added a search function to iOS because life is too short to be scrolling around.
- 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.
- I can confirm Spite is very speedy with loading and cacheing a library of five thousand songs. But I run a tight ship. Some people like to hoard 35,000 songs in case they live until the 22nd century, and while Spite should perform honorably under these conditions, I'm not going to swear to it.
- Now with 17% less scrolling: double-clicking the Playlists/Albums/Artists tab takes you back to the top (thank you, Michael at the Tonearm!)
- Clicking the Now Playing artwork or song info will display the current song in the left panel.
Coming Soon: v5.0 • February 15
- Dropbox support for telephone sync. (But Jesus, Apple makes it so painfully bureaucratic to integrate not-Apple things.)
- last.fm scrobbling (thank you for the nudge on this, Jon Hicks!)
- Support for opus files (thank you Christian!)
- A new ‘Labels’ tab so you can gather your Chain Reaction flowers into a beautiful bouquet.
- Renamed ‘playlists’ to ‘mixtapes’ and found myself in a heated debate with C about nomenclature. She thinks “mixtapes” is skeuomorphic and hokey. She prefers “mixes.” But I think “mixtapes” conjures the correct mood whereas “mixes” sounds like a deejay set. This debate will probably rage on until v99.0
- A little less dumb-looking on an iPad
- Design tweaks and obsessive-compulsive polishing will probably continue until the heat death of the universe.
If you notice something's broken or have any complaints, revelations, or psychic upheavals, feel free to share it below.
