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Long press on album issues

When performing a long press on an album the album will be magnified and some additional information will be available, sounds great only there are a few issues.

Firstly regarding albums with non square art, the magnified icon will be a different shape to any square art and with albums with art in a portrait orientation the information will be (at least partially) cut off. The example image is of the tool album.

Secondly after long pressing an album there’s an animation of magnifying and the album title morphs into the artist’s name and that bit of information disappears.

Thirdly, a minor inconvenience but when tagging music with MusicBrainz Picard the date is set to the date for the release but also records original year and original release date. I feel these would be more relevant to show as the “date” with options for either. The example image is of heaven and hell by black sabbath which did not originally release in 2022.

I use the latest version of VLC on the App Store (3.6.8), on an iPhone 7+ on iOS 15.8.5 (latest)

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Edited by ethan stobbs
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