Arbeite ich am Mac, steht das iPad in Armlänge als „Status Board“ im viveroo. Eine Homescreen-Seite widme ich dort verschiedenen Widgets, die ich so mit nur einem Seitenblick einsehen kann. Das XL-Widget von Albums startet meine Musikwiedergabe auf dem HomePod mini – mit simulierter Play-/Pause-Taste. Dafür bedient es sich einem alten Trick: Das Widget öffnet…

There’s new and exciting developments every year in the realm of iOS third-party music players, and 2021 was no exception. While 2019 enjoyed an explosion of new players like Power Player and Albums that through time came to lead the space, 2020 in contrast received only a modest handful of new players and is instead…

Albums 4.0 is out today, but rather than wax poetic about its great new features, like Apple Music integration or the Release Feed, I’m going to talk about… myself. You can only weather so many pandemic-induced existential crises before you reluctantly learn something about yourself. I came to a hard-won conclusion this year: instead of…