YouTube Music testers

Cross-service change — paywall lives in Settings regardless of music service.

• Settings → Premium → Pro pill. Pro benefits list now shows only "Remote Multiplayer" as the Plus-additive perk (the previous "Custom Themes" row was removed).
• New "Have a code? Redeem it here." button on the same paywall — Apple offer-code redemption sheet.

Cross-service fixes — both work regardless of which music service you have connected.

• Play → Games → Musical Hangman → finish a round → Play → Profile shows Musical Hangman card with 1W or 1L. Overall + Solo rails update to match.
• Concert push cooldown (7d per artist) — applied server-side, no app change required.

Cross-service feature — the Play stats surface is the same regardless of which music service you have connected.

• Storage was wiped: the aggregate Leaderboard reads "No wins yet" on first launch of 243. Profile stats card reads "No sessions yet" until you finish a game.
• Finish a solo round (any game) → Profile stats card shows Overall + Solo rails with matching W/L/% and a per-game card under "By Game" with no sub-rows.
• Pair another device and run a multi session → Profile gains a Multiplayer rail; the per-game card for that game expands with Solo + Multi sub-rows.
• Reset leaderboard → Profile stats drops back to "No sessions yet".

Every share path now appends an artist hashtag + app hashtag tail. Cross-service feature — works the same regardless of which music service you have connected.

• Pulse → Feed → share an article via any social row chip. The body should end with a blank line, then #ArtistName #EQfluency. Capitalization preserved (Taylor Swift → #TaylorSwift).
• SMS / email / Copy paths from the same share sheet should carry the same hashtag tail.
• Share a YouTube Music-resolved song or album from Now Playing → tail reads #ArtistName #EQfluency.
• Concert share, playlist share, game-result share: all carry at least #EQfluency; artist-aware ones also include #Artist.

Drill into any well-known artist.

• New "Official accounts" section above hashtag rows with direct links to artist's verified Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Vimeo, TikTok.
• Cross-service: works regardless of which music service you have connected — Wikidata sourcing is independent.
• Obscure artist (no Wikidata page) → only hashtag rows appear, header reads "Social".

Direct relevance for YT-Music-only testers — 239 likely showed both bugs.

• Get a Hint now shows "Looking up hint…" briefly while iTunes resolves the song/album title instead of going blank.
• Hear Sample no longer gets stuck on "Loading…" — 8-second iTunes timeout means the button always lands on a defined state (Playing or No Sample Found).
• Sample now plays exactly 15s (was previously the full ~30s).

Direct relevance for YT-Music-only testers.

• "Hear Sample" hint previously always ended at "No Sample Found" because the MusicKit fetch needed Apple Music auth. Switched to the public iTunes Search API — should play a real 30s preview regardless of your service.
• "Get a Hint" text fallback uses the same iTunes source for song/album titles.
• Genre hint still comes first when artist metadata is available locally.

Play → Games → Musical Hangman.

• Hint button (after 3 wrong) surfaces one of the artist's top song or album titles instead of the old letter/word count fallback.
• Genre still comes first when available; song → album → "(no hint)" is the new chain.
• Hangman uses Apple Music catalog search regardless of your service for in-app data — no YT Music dependency here.

Flip iOS Settings → Notifications → EQfluency between OFF and ON.

• OFF: per-artist Shows / Releases / Alerts icons gray out + refuse taps on the Artists list and Artist Detail. News stays interactive.
• Artist Detail footer changes to an explainer with an "Open iOS Settings" button.
• ON: no regression.
• Toggling iOS Settings without relaunch should update the gray-out on next foreground.

Three Musical Hangman changes.

• Bug fix: with no Apple Music library, Musical Hangman used to drop into a broken game with empty word. Now you get a "No artists to guess" empty state. YT-Music-only testers: this is the path that affected you.
• Get a Hint after 3 wrong (was 2). Genre/letter-count revealed.
• Hear Sample after 4 wrong. 10-second clip of one of the artist's top songs via Apple Music preview.

Settings → Premium — paywall now leads with a tier picker.

• Top: Plus / Pro pill toggle. Plus shows 4 benefits + 2 plan cards ($2.99/mo, $19.99/yr). Pro shows "Everything in Plus +" with Remote Multiplayer + Custom Themes, plus 2 plan cards ($5.99/mo, $44.99/yr).
• Annual card has a SAVE X% badge computed live from price values (~44% Plus / ~37% Pro).
• Subscribe button reads "Subscribe — $X.YY" with a gradient matching the selected tier. Free-trial copy is explicit on each card.
• Don't actually buy — sandbox/USA-only records.

Settings → Premium (paywall sheet).

• All 4 plans resolve with prices: Plus $2.99/mo · $19.99/yr · Pro $5.99/mo · $44.99/yr, each with a 1-week free trial.
• Before 234 the paywall would show empty because Swift was asking for stale product IDs.
• Don't actually complete a purchase — these are sandbox/USA-only test records.

Settings → Pulse → Data & Privacy → tap "Anonymous Analytics".

• The opt-in sheet should render on a deep purple-tinted dark background with readable white text. Before 233 it was white-on-white in light mode (issue #56).
• Easiest way to confirm: set your iPhone to LIGHT MODE before opening the sheet.

Pulse and Play now remember the last tab you were on across app launches.

• Open the app, switch to Pulse → Artists, force-quit (swipe up from app switcher), relaunch. Should land on Pulse → Artists.
• Same on Play: switch to Play → Mixtape, force-quit, relaunch. Should land on Play → Mixtape.
• Cross-side: while on Play → Leaderboard, force-quit + relaunch. Should land on Play side AND Leaderboard.
• Not yet persisted: nav-stack depth (drilling into Artist Detail → Setlists → setlist returns to Artists tab's root after quit).

On Pulse, scroll the Feed (or any tab with a list).

• The 6-item bottom bar should collapse to the small leading pill + now-playing + side-switch layout on the very first scroll movement — not after 8pt of scroll like before.
• On a light Feed day, this lets you reach the "Show older articles" button at the bottom of the list; before, it was trapped under the expanded bar.
• Scroll back to the top and the full 6-item bar should re-expand. Tiny rubber-band wobble at the top should NOT spuriously re-expand.

Open More → My Stuff. The "Tracked" section had an empty hint promising tap-to-track from Feed / Releases / Mixtape — but no tap actually wired into it before 230.

• Feed: tap an artist badge on any article card. The artist should appear in My Stuff → Tracked.
• Releases: tap a track inside an inline release track list. The album (not the song) gets tracked.
• Mixtape: tap the play (preview) button on any song. The song gets tracked.
• Re-tapping the same item should NOT double-track.
• The × on each Tracked row still untracks.

Two small but visible behavior changes.

• Launching does NOT stop other music: start YouTube Music in the YT Music app, lock the phone, launch EQfluency. YT Music should keep playing. Browse Pulse / Play / Settings without ever playing in-app — YT Music should never be interrupted.
• First in-app play: after the previous test, tap any Top Songs row. First-play should work; may have a ~100–500ms initial buffer (one-shot per session).
• Album track long-press: Play → Games → Queue Music → Albums (Apple Music library only — YT Music testers without Apple Music will see this tab empty, expected). If you have any Apple Music library content, long-pressing a track in an album shows an Add to Queue / Play Next / Play Now context menu — no confirmation dialog needed.

Play → Games → pick any game → Queue Music → tap the new Albums tab.

• Browse your Apple Music library albums in a 2-column grid — this tab reads from MusicKit, not YouTube Music. If you don't have Apple Music, the grid is empty (expected).
• Tap an album to see its full track list. Tap a track for Play Now / Play Next / Add to Queue. Album header has Play Album / Add Album shortcuts.
• If you're paired to an Apple TV, tracks route to the TV.

Open any artist → Setlists → expand a setlist.

• Three YouTube Music action buttons appear per setlist: Play Now, Queue, Playlist.
• Play Now → resolves matched tracks to YouTube videos and starts playing via the in-app IFrame player.
• Queue → matched videos append to your queue.
• Playlist → creates a real playlist on your YouTube account (capped at 25 tracks per setlist — see the API quota note below). Success modal also offers Play Now + Add to Queue for the fresh list.

Scroll Feed, Artists, Releases, Shows, or any artist drill-down.

• Scroll-top: full 6-item menu, with the full Now Playing pill above it when a YouTube Music video is playing.
• Scroll down → menu collapses to two pills; mini player slides inline between them.
• Scroll back to top → menu + full Now Playing pill return.
• Long-press the player → "Clear Queue" appears. Tap → player disappears, queue empties.