What's new in
Spinstack 1.6

Spinstack, on both screens

Closed, and open on its side, the tab bar and toolbars run down the side the way iPhone Duo places them, with an icon on every button so it reads there.

• Open in book or table pose, pages split across the fold instead of running under it.
• A record's page sets its cover and photos on one half and the rest on the other.
• Crate Genius gives the record you started from a column of its own, and Crate Dig's card sits clear of the fold.
• Rows that scroll sideways fade out where the side bar begins, and an artist's picture carries on under the bar to the edge of the screen.

Your record, on a turntable

Open iPhone Duo and Ambient Mode plays your record on a turntable: on the flat half in table pose with the controls on the half facing you, beside the controls in book pose, and below them when the phone lies open flat.

• The label is the sleeve, 33 and 45 change the speed, and the round button stops the record and ends the session.
• Choose Midnight, Space Black or Silver.
• The turntable is the stage for Ambient Mode's own playback, as on every iPhone, not a new audio source.

A record page that opens like a sleeve

On the open iPhone Duo, tap Open the Sleeve on a record and its page turns into a gatefold sleeve. The cover swings with the hinge and settles as the phone lies flat; a band of light slides across it, and its shadow falls over the inside while it stands.

• Printed inside like a sleeve: a line from Apple Intelligence when it has one, the tracklist by side with its lengths, the credits, the pressing, the notes and your copy, with your grades in the Condition tab's colors.
• The spine, with the artist, title and catalogue number, is printed along the fold.
• Tap a track to hear its Apple Music preview, swipe the cover for the other pictures Discogs has, and Details returns to the page.
• Close the phone and the sleeve waits; open it again and it is back.
• Only on iPhone Duo's open screen. Every other iPhone, and the closed Duo, shows the record page as before.

Built from what you already own

By artist, label, style, era, key and tempo, and the records you have played together. Open it from Insights, or from any record's menu. It needs ten records or more on the shelf.

Play it like a DJ

Order plays the crate as Flow, Wind Down, Build Up or Steady, and once a few records have been measured in a Silent Session it blends neighbours by key and tempo.

• Each record shows the side to play and how long it runs; the crate shows its total listening time.

Listen through a crate

Start Listening opens Ambient Mode with the crate queued.

• Up Next shows what is coming, and Start Next moves on from the end-of-side card, the Lock Screen or the bottom accessory.
• Every record's spin is logged on the way.

Tuned to you

Not This One, the records you go on to play and the previews you try all tune the crates that follow, privately and in step across your devices through iCloud. Once a crate says Tuned to You, tap it to start over.

Dig for this

When a crate runs thin or one record is a long way from the next, Dig for This suggests a record you don't own that bridges them, ready for your Wishlist. This one asks Discogs; everything else works from the shelf on the device.

With a friend, or in a shop

With a Friend builds the crate from your shelf and a friend's, and says who brings each record. Share Crate sends the list.

• In a record shop, point Vinyl Vision at a sleeve and Spinstack says how it would fit what you already own.
• Ask Siri: “Build a crate from Kind of Blue in Spinstack”.

Appears On

Track-level credits show on the record page for the first time, and the Collection's search finds people by name.

• Ask Your Collection answers “which records does Joe Henderson play on”.
• Credits come with each record you open, so the index costs nothing and grows as you browse.
• Settings, Advanced, Credits shows how much of the shelf is covered, with one switch to ask Discogs for the rest in the background. Off by default.

Players

Players ranks the people credited most across your collection, grouped as Players, Studio and Sleeve, each a tap from their records.

Syncs that finish

A refresh interrupted by your next change, a grade saved or a record added, no longer shows as a failure with a Retry button. The list keeps what arrived and finishes on its own, in the background.

• A second copy of a record you already own is its own row again, so a collection with duplicates reaches its full count.
• Recently Added and Stats follow every change, and Stats shows the same total as Home.
• A record's page asks Discogs about your copy when the list might be behind, so Replace Cover Art and your grades are there for a record added on another device.

Edge to edge

On iPad, on an iPhone held sideways and on iPhone Duo, Today's Pick sits on a blurred wash of its own cover that runs to the edges of the screen. Pull down at the top and it stretches.

Held sideways, and on a Mac

Condition, Search, Stats, Spin Analytics, Wax Timeline, Vinyl DNA and the charts inside them fill the width.

• The 720-point reading column is for an iPad and for iPhone Duo's open screen, where it keeps a single column readable.
• Collection, Wishlist and folders show their sort order as the first chip in the filter row: tap it to change the order without opening a menu.

The date a record came to you

If one of your Discogs fields holds the date a record came to you, Settings, Advanced, Discogs Fields can name it as Date acquired, or find it by its name in any of the app's languages.

• The record page shows it in Your Copy as a date, in your own precision: a year stays a year.
• On iPhone Duo the Gatefold's sleeve says On your shelf since that year, instead of the day Discogs first saw the record.
• It reads what people type: 2021-03-14, 14.03.2021, 3/14/2021, March 2021, März 2021. It never guesses a date you did not enter.

Folders, like the Collection

A folder opened from Home is the same grid as the Collection tab: the Format button and the row of genre chips beside Sort and Genre, Edit Grading and Remove from Collection on a long press, and a record page that knows it is your copy.

• The two syncing fixes reach the Apple TV too.