Separating the Production Layer from the Listening Experience

At launch, the app contained two distinct categories of screens within a single binary: playback interfaces for listeners, and operational interfaces for managing content creation and visibility. This structure left functions that users should never access exposed within the same app.

The production and operations screens were extracted from the user-facing app, and direct content modification paths were closed at the data layer. Screen flows were also reviewed: profile, mode entry, and navigation transitions that had been presented as a disconnected list were restructured into a coherent sequence. Consistency between Now Playing controls, the lock screen remote, and actual playback state was verified and corrected.

With this separation in place, the user app is scoped exclusively to the listening experience. Content curation and visibility decisions are handled through a separate operations tool, and the app interface is correspondingly simplified.