Changelog

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that crashed the app at launch for some users.

Bug fixes.

Fixes and improvements.

Fixes and improvements.

■ Add to Playlist
• When the 'Allow Adding to Multiple Playlists' setting is enabled, clicking on a playlist no longer adds music to the selected playlist instantly, but waits until you are done with choosing all your playlists and click ‘Save’.
• Enabled playlist searching when the Add to Playlist screen is set to view as Home.

■ Displayed Metadata
• Added “Accent” for the Color setting option that automatically uses your chosen accent color for the metadata color.

■ Player
• Added the option to hide Full-Player artwork.
• Added the option to edit Displayed Metadata for the Queue Songs. Set up from Marvis Settings → Player → Queue → Displayed Metadata.
• [Last.fm] Displayed Metadata for Mini-Player & Full-Player now supports Global Scrobbles, Listeners Count, and My Scrobbles for Albums, Album Artists, and Artists in addition to previously being available only for Songs.

■ Smart Rules
• The “Maximum Items” limit rule now lets you choose the media type for which you want to limit the number of items. For example, in a song-based section, you can now apply a maximum 3 artists limit and it’ll show songs from 3 artists only.
• Remember, having a sort rule before your limit rule helps you to apply a limit on your given sort criteria. For example, having a shuffle sort before a 25-song limit will provide you with 25 random songs.

■ More
• Enabled the ability to drag media selections outside of Marvis, so that you can seamlessly drop content out of Marvis and to apps like MusicBox which have support for drop to import.
• Fixes and improvements.

It’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).

Time flies so fast, Marvis Pro is turning 5 soon. Here’s a cool new update to celebrate.

■ Add to Playlist
• New UI, fully customizable.
• Ability to search playlists on the Add to Playlist screen
• Ability to add to multiple playlists (Can be enabled from Add to Playlist settings)
• View as Home, set up Add to Playlist screen to view as Home with sections that suit your needs.

■ Playback Speed Control
• Slow down or Speed up your music playback.
• Marvis Settings ‣ Player ‣ Customize Elements, add Playback Speed Control to your desired location.

■ Last.fm+
• Scrobble Log: A log of Marvis submitted scrobbles.
• Setting to change Scrobble Timestamp to start or end time.
• Setting to change Bulk Scrobble timestamp to timestamp of first or last song, the timestamps for other songs are adjusted automatically.

■ More
• New Add to Playlist element for Full Player Customizable Elements.
• Playlist Folder filter to filter the list of playlists to include only those in a specified folder.
• Fixes and improvements.

Fixed the issue that prevented Greyscale Artwork from working in widgets.

Bug fixes and improvements.

Bug fixes and improvements.

Bug Fixes

The new versions of iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 are here and we're so excited about the possibilities it brings.

• Interactive Controls for Now Playing Widgets

• Playback Controls in small Now Playing Widgets
iOS & iPadOS 17 only.

• StandBy Widgets
View and Control your music from StandBy on your iPhone with iOS 17.

• iPadOS Lock Screen Widgets
Enabled support for Lock Screen widgets on iPadOS 17.

• iPadOS Live Activities
Enabled support for Live Activities for iPadOS 17.

• Enabled new Symbols added to iOS 17 in the Symbol Picker.
Now there are 5000+ symbols to choose from

Fixes and Improvements.

We’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.

■ Multi-window support for iPadOS.

■ New Section Setting: Spacing.
• Choose from Regular and Thin.
• Tip: Try using the Thin spacing with Cover Flow.
• Go to Marvis Settings → Display → Default Spacing to set a default.

■ Per-playlist, per-genre, and per-artist setup.
• All playlists, genres, and artists have a common setup for each type, and any changes made to one will affect all, but it's now possible to customize them individually as well.
• Example: To customize an individual playlist, view the settings page for that item and change the 'Edit For' setting to 'This Playlist'.

■ Custom Full-Screen View
• Added the ability to customize view settings for the full-screen section view separately from the compact section view settings.
• Open the section in full-screen view and enable ‘Custom Full-Screen View’ from the section settings.

■ Show Hidden Music
• Marvis now shows unplayable music in your library that used to be previously hidden. The unplayable music includes pre-order items from albums and unavailable songs due to the expiration of licenses, or any other hidden music.
• If you prefer to hide these, go to Marvis Settings → Advanced → Library Filters, and disable ‘Show Hidden Music’.

■ New Smart Rule Filters
• Current Device (iPad/iPhone)
• Current View State (Section/Full-Screen)
• Playable

■ Miscellaneous
• Added support for editing 'Show Add Button' and 'Add Button Action' on a per-section basis.
• Additional options for Marvis Settings → Advanced → Action Sheet → Song.link URL → Never, Always, Always Ask.

■ Fixes and Improvements.

Bug fixes.

We're thrilled to see so many of you enjoying the new sidebar and we're back with a new update to take it to the next level.

■ Sidebar
• Enabled Sidebar Pinning for iPadOS and larger iPhones in Landscape orientation.
• Enabled per-tab symbol customization, i.e. color, size, and weight.
• Added support for customizing the sidebar background under Display settings.
• More improvements to Sidebar and its gestures.

■ Accent Color
• A fresh coat of paint to Marvis' UI.
• Choose your favorite color under Settings → Display → Accent Color.

■ More
• New refined look for setting pages.
• New default app icon.
• Add the option to play a notification sound when Track Change or Scrobble Notifications are sent.
• If you've started playback from a playlist or a section, the playback source name will appear under 'Up Next' in the full-player.
• Fixes and improvements.

Happy customizing!

Bug Fixes

■ New Sidebar
• Boasts a new design to match the iPadOS sidebars.
• Customizable: you can add custom tabs to the sidebar like you add sections to the home.
• The Sidebar Flow gesture to navigate the sidebar with one hand is still supported.

■ New Player Setting: Confirm Before Playing
• Use this setting to change the behavior of whether you want to see a confirmation alert before starting a new queue.

■ New Section Setting: Arrangement
• This setting is for multi-row multi-column sections on home, to change the arrangement of items by row or column.

■ Fixes and improvements.

Bug Fixes.

Bug fixes.

■ GLOBAL SEARCH
• New layout for global search.
• Added a persistent search button for quick access.

■ SMART RULES
• Added support for viewing and filtering based on metadata of a type’s relationships. For example, you can now filter a songs-based section by the Songs' Album’s Play Count.
• Added the ability to invert filters for Rule Groups.
• New Limit Type “Duplicate” lets you find duplicate songs in your library.
• For the Unique limit, you can now fetch multiple items per type.

■ NEW METADATA
• Item Position on List (Displayed Metadata only)
• Playlists Included In (Displayed Metadata only)
• Rated Tracks Count (for Collections)
• Unrated Tracks Count (for Collections)

■ NEW PLAYER METADATA
• Queue Items Count
• Queue Remaining Items Count
• Time Until Queue Ends
• Time Until Now Playing Album Ends
• Shuffle State
• Repeat State
• Listeners Count (Last.fm)
• Global Scrobbles (Last.fm)

■ PLAYBACK SOURCE
• When starting playback from a Playlist or Home Section, you’ll see “Go to Playlist” or “Go to Section” actions on the action sheet for mini-player and full-player.
• Enabled “Is Now Playing” for playlist and section metadata.

■ MORE
• Added the ability to change line limit for full-player displayed metadata rows.
• Skip Song on Dislike, a new setting for the player lets you skip the now-playing song on dislike.
• Added the ability to create Playlist folders within Marvis. Note: Requires Apple Music subscription with Sync Library enabled.
• Tap action customization for Live Activities.
• Mini-Player background overlay content customization.
• Fixes and improvements.

■ 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!

We'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.

■ Live Activities
• For Lock Screen & Dynamic Island.
• 2 Activity Types, Now Playing & Up Next.
• Customize activities to view your choice of metadata.
• You can run up to 5 activities at once.
• More customizations coming soon.

■ Displayed Metadata Font Customization
• Added Text Size, Weight & Color customization support for Displayed Metadata.
• This opens up many new possibilities and lets you personalize Marvis even further.

■ Fixes and improvements.

Bug Fixes.

We’ve all been enjoying iOS 16 and having fun customizing our Lock Screens. In this update, we’ve added support for Lock Screen widgets in Marvis.

■ Section Widget
• Link a section you’ve set up on your Home tab.
• Assign an action to play or shuffle the section when you tap on the widget.
• TIP: Rename a section and assign a symbol to the left or right decoration so the section widgets can use those symbols.
• IMPORTANT: Due to major changes to the widget format, all your previous Home Screen Section widgets would either be removed or show up blank, and you’ll need to add new ones.

■ Quick Action Widget
• Get quick access to Marvis from your Lock Screen.
• You have access to many of the Marvis actions like Now Playing actions and Sidebar actions but you’re not limited to that, you can have your custom actions and assign a URL Scheme to them.
• With custom actions, you’re not limited to Marvis URL Schemes, you can use URL schemes of other apps or HTTP links that open in your default browser or app.
• The custom actions let you choose your own symbol and title and the widget settings have more options to make your widget appear the way you prefer.

■ Modern Progress Bar
• New iOS 16 style progress bar that allows you to start dragging from anywhere to scrub.
• You can switch back to the old style from Marvis Settings → Player → Progress Bar Style.
• Regardless of the style you choose you still get the ability to start dragging from anywhere to scrub.

■ New Smart Rules and metadata for Collections.
• Rate Progress
• Like Progress
• Median Play Count

■ New Smart Rule
• Current Date & Time
• You can use this rule to set up different conditions based on the time of day, day of the week, or day of the month.

■ Smart Conditions for Section Rename
• Includes a special condition ‘Displayed Location’, to toggle content based on whether it appears in-app or in the widget.

■ Added New Symbols to the Symbol Picker
• You can find them at the bottom of the symbols list.
• The original symbols are from Apple’s SF Symbols Library while the newly added ones are custom symbols made by us.
• Thanks to SF Symbols, we can build our own custom symbols while getting all the benefits of properties that SF Symbols have.

■ URL Schemes
• Open Home Section by ID. Copy a Section’s ID from the Section Edit screen and scroll down to find the ••• button.
• Section Playback Action, you can now directly play, shuffle, and more when using an Open Section URL Scheme.
• Now Playing Actions, perform actions for the now playing media, like view details, go to artist, go to album, add to playlist, and more.
• Sidebar, quickly access the sidebar or switch tabs using the Sidebar URL Scheme.
• You can view all supported URL Schemes from Marvis Settings → Tips & Tricks.

■ Miscellaneous
• Removed Clipboard Monitoring setting due to the iOS 16 paste prompts that prevent us from reading a clipboard automatically and without reading the clipboard, we can’t tell whether the copied link is a music URL.

• Added a setting to disable the Show Complete Album button inside Albums. Toggle it from Marvis Settings → Apple Music → Show Complete Album Button.

• Fixes and improvements.

Have fun customizing your Lock Screens!

We’re delighted to know you all have been enjoying the latest update and it’s great to see you come up with smart ways to use the new metadata features.

AUDIO QUALITY
‣ Added support for the audio quality badge on the full player.
‣ Available for iOS 16 users & Apple Music subscribers only.
‣ If you prefer to disable it, you can do it from Marvis Settings → Player → Show Audio Quality Badge.

METADATA
‣ Player Audio Quality, as Displayed Metadata & Smart Condition for mini-player and full-player.
‣ Output Device Type, as Displayed Metadata & Smart Condition for mini-player and full-player.
‣ Artwork Resolution, as Displayed Metadata.

SHARE
‣ Displayed Metadata & Smart Rules.
‣ You can now share your creativity with others by exporting the displayed metadata & smart rules files.
‣ If you use multiple devices linked to the same iCloud account, you can now use Universal Clipboard to copy and paste Displayed Metadata & Smart Rules across devices.

• Fixes and improvements.

If you’re enjoying Marvis please consider rating it on the App Store, your support would help us tremendously.

We’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!

• 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.

We’re delighted to see you all enjoy the latest update of Marvis.

Here’s what’s changed in this version,

In the previous update, we added support for opening music URLs in Marvis, and one way to do so was to copy the URL and simply open Marvis, Marvis monitored your clipboard for URLs and automatically opened the music resource in the app. But before reading the clipboard Marvis can’t tell if it is a music URL or not, and if Marvis read the URL iOS would show the clipboard privacy notification which is a great way to prevent apps from spying on your clipboard, but in the case of Marvis even though it isn't meant to spy on your clipboard, some users might have thought differently, especially those who aren’t aware of the new feature or don’t have any use for it.

• In this update, we’ve made monitoring clipboard for URLs optional and disabled by default. If you want to automatically open copied URLs in Marvis you can enable it from Marvis Settings > Advanced > Monitor Clipboard for URLs.

• Added support for Bit Rate as displayed metadata, smart rule filter, and sort option for songs and albums.

• Relocated the song popularity stars when opening an album page.

• Some fixes and improvements.

To read what's new in v7.0 check out the version history on the App Store.

We are finally back with a major update.

• Added support for sections like Related Albums, Other Versions, and Featured On on the albums page.
‣ Can be disabled for library albums from Marvis Settings > Apple Music.

• Added support for new section types on the Apple Music Artist page.
‣ Essential Albums, Full Albums, Singles & EPs, Live Albums, Compilations, Appears On, and Similar Artists.

• Last.fm+ Text Replacement
‣ With text replacement, you can replace several metadata in your songs before submitting your scrobbles.

• Added the ability to Skip to the Next/Previous album in the queue.
‣ Assign to a gesture or customize full-player elements to place the buttons on the player screen.

• Added a URL Scheme to open a music URL in Marvis.
‣ In addition to Apple Music URLs, Marvis also supports Spotify, Tidal, Prime Music, and many other services.
‣ You can even copy a URL to the clipboard and open Marvis, and it will open the resource automatically.
‣ Also added action for share extensions in other apps to open a music URL in Marvis.

• Added a URL Scheme to open sections in Marvis.

• Learn all the URL Schemes that Marvis supports from Marvis Settings > Tips & Tricks.

• Added Playlist Name, Description & Type as filters for media types like songs, albums, artists, and more.

• Added "Playlist Order" as a sort option for albums, artists, etc. grouping inside of playlists.

• You can now search for home sections in the global search.

• Added support for the 'Skip to Previous' button in the mini-player.

• You can now tap the disc groupings inside an album for playback actions for the selected disc.
‣ Similarly, in the case of classical music listeners, this helps you tap on the work groups for playback actions.

• In addition to the now-playing track highlighted in bold letters, the now-playing album, artist, and genre are highlighted in bold as well.

• Added a setting to disable the "Add to Library" button that shows next to non-library tracks.

• Added keyboard shortcut to scroll to the top or bottom of the screen.

• Added "Beats Studio Buds" and "Beats Fit Pro" icons for the AirPlay button.

• Many more improvements and fixes.

We hope you enjoy this update. If you enjoy using Marvis please take a moment to rate it on the App Store.

It 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!

It 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.

This update aims to fix some of the lesser-known bugs.

Happy listening!

Some 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.

We’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!