Platinum Album Music Player4.4 - App Store

Platinum Album Music Player (Platinum for short) is an alternate music album player with a unique style and features for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (universal app works on all your iOS devices). Interact with your albums in ways you haven't been able to before and gain a whole new appreciation for your music collection.

Platinum will show and play any songs/albums that are in your Music Library, either stored locally on your device or on iCloud. It does not require an Apple Music subscription.

FEATURES
. Play or shuffle songs from any album, artist or playlist
. Shuffle albums while maintaining the order of tracks in the album
. Each playlist can have its own preferred action set (Play, Shuffle or Shuffle Albums)
. Wall to wall album covers
. Custom Letter Index for quick access to your albums
. Album Size option (5 sizes on iPhone, 6 on iPad)
. Play and volume controls with AirPlay support
. Swipe from the left edge for options and actions
. Swipe from the right edge for your playlists
. Tap albums for track list, tap a song to play in album queue or play/shuffle whole album
. Tap and hold any album to drag and drop to play or shuffle
. Full screen cover art with gesture-based play controls
. Search for songs, albums or artists
. Mark playlists as favorites
. Quick Actions from iOS home screen including up to 2 favorite playlists

OPTIONS/ACTIONS
. Search
. Reload albums
. Album Size
. Order albums by artist
. Show iCloud music
. Show status bar
. Share what's playing
. Rate/Review app
. Send feedback
. What's New

Tap the album art on the Now Playing bar for the full-screen cover art.

COVER ART GESTURES
. Tap to hide/unhide controls
. 2-finger tap to play/pause
. Swipe left for next track
. Swipe right for previous track
. Swipe down to hide cover art
. Tap and hold on right of screen to seek forward
. Tap and hold on left of screen to seek backward
(this list is also available on the cover art page in the app)

All information about your songs, albums, artists, playlists is read from your Music Library. Any changes you make to your music library will be reflected in the Platinum app. Some changes are reflected automatically, such as playlist changes. For other changes, such as adding/removing songs, you can perform a Reload from within the Platinum app.

Please keep in mind that because Platinum uses the Music Library and its playlists and because certain music library actions are not available to 3rd party apps, you will not be able to perform some actions from within the Platinum app (but you can perform them from within the Music app itself if you need to). These include:
. Adding/removing songs to the library
. Adding/removing/editing/renaming playlists
. Updating album art

Please leave your feedback from within the app or via a review and let us know how you like the app and what else you'd like to see added.

Version History - Performance and UI improvements
- Bug fixes 4.4 Oct 4 - You can now set a preferred action (Play, Shuffle or Shuffle Albums) for each playlist from its info screen. When set, the preferred action will be used when you tap on the playlist from the Playlist menu in the app or from the app's Quick Actions menu on the iOS home screen. The effective action for a playlist without a preferred one set (also the current default) is either Play or Shuffle depending on whether Shuffle mode is currently enabled or not. Each playlist can have a different preferred action set (or not set) and you can still play a playlist with any action manually, either from its long-press menu or from its info screen. The playlists shown in the Quick Actions menu on the iOS home screen will now also indicate what is the effective action.
- Toggle added in iOS Settings > Apps > Platinum, to queue all available album tracks when performing a playlist Shuffle Albums action, for any album included in the playlist, even if not all of its tracks are in the playlist. This helps with album continuity, especially with live albums or tracks with no gaps between them. 4.3 Sep 22 - Additional Album Size options
- In addition to tap-to-cycle through the Album Size options, you can now also long-press the Album Size menu entry for a menu of size options
- Fix with the Letter Index not recalculating when changing the Album Size
- Various other improvements 4.2 Apr 6 Adjustments for latest iOS/iPadOS 4.1 10/14/2025 - Custom Letter Index for quick access to your albums, especially handy for large music collections
- More improvements with album sorting
- Other UI improvements 4.0 04/10/2023 Fixed issue with album sorting 3.8 03/08/2023 UI improvements 3.7 11/27/2022 Improvements with search 3.6 01/01/2022 You can now tap the Playlists heading to toggle between Favorite and All playlists. 3.5 05/02/2021 UI improvements 3.4 02/20/2021 - Revamped Album Details view (iOS 13 or later)
- Other UI and stability improvements

Please leave a review and let everyone know how you like the app and the recent improvements 3.3 12/28/2020 Minor improvements 3.2 12/08/2020 - Improvements with large album collections around loading, playing and search
- New Play and Shuffle buttons on Album Track view 3.1 12/03/2020 - New, on-demand loading of album art is faster and allows for loading of larger music collections
- Added "All Songs" playlist; now you can play/shuffle all songs or shuffle all albums
- Additional full screen album art modes; use new Album Art Mode button on full screen album view to switch modes:
• Original: Album art in the center with blurred background
• New: Just the album art in the center
• New: Fill the screen with the album art, animating it from edge to edge
- Improvements around UI, search, performance and stability 3.0 10/11/2020 - More adjustments for iPhone X
- New Shuffle Albums option will shuffle all albums involved while playing all the available tracks from each album in order:
• With an artist: In the search results, tap and hold an artist and select Shuffle Albums
• With a playlist: In the list of playlists, tap and hold a playlist and select Shuffle Albums, or open a playlist and tap Shuffle Albums 2.3 08/27/2018 Adjustments for iOS 11, iPhone X and minor fixes 2.2 10/30/2017 Adjustments for iOS 11 and iPhone X 2.1 10/29/2017 - iOS 10 adjustments and various UI refinements
- Album Size option (3 sizes on iPhone, 4 on iPad)
- Mark playlists as favorites
- 3D Touch Home screen actions including up to 2 favorite playlists 2.0 10/10/2016 Addressed an issue with how some albums were ordered by artist. 1.2.4 11/21/2014 - Option to Show/Hide iCloud music (iOS 6 and later).
- Minimum iOS supported is now 5.1.1
- Forward compatibility adjustments 1.2.3 09/14/2014 - Fixed album sorting issue with certain artist names 1.2.2 01/18/2014 - Additional support for iOS 7
- Rate/Review option now redirects to the App Store, skipping the internal rate/review process which was not working properly for some users
- Stability improvements 1.2.1 09/07/2013 - Support for upcoming iOS
- Improved album art screen
- You can now open a track's album from a playlist or from the Now Playing bar
- Easier access to rate/review the app when using iOS 6+ (on iPad you can rate without leaving the app)
- Various other adjustments and improvements and bug fixes
- This text now accessible from the options menu 1.2 08/26/2013 - Fixed library filtering to only show songs, podcasts and audiobooks
- Search results now also show podcasts and audiobooks
- Added album art to search results
- Playlists are now ordered by name and with the 'number' ones on top as expected
- You can now open playlists to view/play individual tracks
- Stability improvements
- Updated icon 1.1 08/07/2013 1.0 07/26/2013