Longplay's settings with expanded Global Hotkeys section that now includes Play Random Album, Play/Pause, Show/Hide Longplay.

Longplay's menu on macOS, with the new menu item to quickly rate the currently playing track.

Longplay 1.1.4 for macOS just dropped. Includes a number of small tweaks and improvements for AppleScript, the Menu Bar, and global shortcuts. Thanks for the feedback and suggestions!

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Prima, das klappt also immerhin. Vielleicht wäre ein Sync-Indikator da nützlich und die App könnte die doppelten Sammlungen ausgrauen oder ausblenden, auch wenn die Daten selbst erst etwas später gereinigt werden... 🤔

Hab den Quellcode nochmal angeschaut und die Sammlungen werden automatisch nach ihren Namen dedupliziert wenn die App ihre internen Backups macht. Kann nur etwas dauern falls der iCloud-Sync noch läuft. Sollten aber also automatisch verschwinden.

Verdoppeln der Sammlungen hab ich schon lange nicht mehr gesehen, kann aber vorkommen wenn die App auf mehreren Geräten re-installiert wird. Ich schau mal ob sich da was machen lässt...

Danke! Für neue Alben kommt manchmal der Caching-Mechanismus der Music App in den Weg. Oder Longplay ist noch dabei einen Refresh zu machen. Im Prinzip ist was Longplay macht recht simpel, aber hängt stark von der Music-App ab. Das ist leider ne Black Box.

Hi Marcus, das letzte Update (1.1.3) hat ein paar Optimierungen für große Sammlungen. Würde mich interessieren, ob sich das auch bei dir bemerkbar macht.

A new update for Longplay has arrived, including significant memory and performance improvements for library updates and the Album Wall – especially noticeable for large music libraries.

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Help wanted: Do you use Longplay on multiple devices, wish for better cross-device playback support, and don’t shy away from a beta? Reply with a DM with your email (or email words at longplay.app) and I’ll add you to the closed TestFlight.

Longplay update for iOS & macOS out now!

- Refined look for the album wall with a tessellated background
- Playlists on the wall now adapt to their artwork's colours
- Parsing of #MusicBrainz IDs for more accurate scrobbling
- Plus fixes, stability, and translation updates

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Longplay updates for iOS 26 and macOS 26 are out now.

They include CarPlay and Album Wall widget improvements for iOS, and a round of design refinements and polish throughout. Find the updates in the App Stores (or in-app for the direct purchase version).

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Betas for Longplay for iOS and macOS for the upcoming iOS 26 / macOS 26 release cycle are available.

Focus is on design refinements and polish for existing features.

iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/JjRi91L8
macOS: testflight.apple.com/join/jwDmyQHA

Any feedback is welcome!

That makes sense, thanks. That’ll be fine but it’s just on Mac so far. But I’ll start working on it for iPhone soon.

It does play MP3s, yes. What do you mean that they have effects though?

See the section on music sources here: longplay.rocks/guide/macos/...

Alfred screenshot showing the Now Playing command in action, showing current track, playback and rating controls.

Longplay 1.0.5 for macOS is out.

It includes a couple of new AppleScript commands to get the current playing track and album, and rate the track. The Alfred workflow has been updated to support those, too.

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A round of Longplay updates just dropped: 2.4.4 for iOS and 1.0.4 for macOS.

On quality-of-life improvement on iOS is that Longplay will now stick around longer when playback is paused and the app is in the background.

Many more tweaks, fixes and polish. See longplay.rocks/changelog

@danielandrews.com The latest update, 1.0.4, has another tweak related to this. Going to Settings > Maintenance > Reset Metadata might also help. Curious if that improves things for you.

Hmm, that is weird. It's working fine for me. Will do some testing what might be causing that... can you make a screen recording by any chance and send that to words@longplay.app?

Good to hear it’s better. It is quite a workout for the collection view at that window size. I’ll dig into the performance trace some more.

This should be much improved in the latest update, 1.0.3. Please give it a try and thanks again for the report.

I think I found the issue. There's a code path where thumbnails aren't properly downsized from the big album art on macOS. This means that the thumbnails could end up with the full size, and that would then obviously impact scrolling performance a lot. On it.

Hmm, dang. Can you please send me the latest log file from your “~/Library/Group Containers/7N3B54ALZK.app.longplay.Longplay/Logs” to words@longplay.app? Will check if there’s something suspicious in there and I’ll do some more performance testing today in case something is misbehaving.

Thanks!

There’s quite some background processing happening initially to get the album thumbnails, analyse their colours, and extract additional metadata from Apple Music. (I need to add a status indicator for that.)

After that it should become smoother. Please let me know if it persists.

Finally! After 3+ years of development, Longplay for Mac is shipping today.

The journey from "let's try Catalyst" to "wait, stuttering playback?" to "updating the dock icon fixes it?!" was... quite something. I love the result though.

My developer's commentary: adrian.schoenig.me/blog/2025/07...

Dear Album Lovers: This App is Made for You Screenshot of Longplay for Mac with its album wall and mini player.

Rich integrations, including Claude Longplay and Claude side-by-side, showing how Claude triggers actions in the Longplay app.

🎉 Longplay for Mac is here!

The album-centric music player comes to macOS with native design, a flipping mini player, iCloud sync, and some Mac exclusives:

✨ Built-in MCP server for Claude integration
🤖 Full AppleScript & Shortcuts support
🎵 Feature parity with iOS

More: longplay.rocks

iPhone screenshot of Spotlight with a search for "muse" showing several Muse albums, provided by Longplay.

Longplay for iOS 2.4.2 is now available.

It adds support for Spotlight, updates the album inspector, and the on-boarding flow, and squashes a couple of bugs.

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Release Notes for 0.9.2: - Adds support for searching through albums directly from <b>Spotlight</b>. - Support for local folders is marked as experimental for now. (See note below.) - Updated album inspector, including a "Play" menu button to play an album or queue it up for later. - Enable Help link in the Menu Bar. - Another fix for playback and loading of artworks of local files. --- If you haven't previously added local folders as a source of albums, you'll now first need to enable this feature by running the following command in Terminal: defaults write app.longplay.Longplay-Mac settings.sources.enable-local -bool true --- Known minor issues: - Apple Music playback does not support the in-app AirPlay picker (FB13313634). - Apple Music playback shows up twice in Control Center and might show outdated information (FB13313624).

Longplay for Mac 0.9.2 is now available in Early Access.

It adds support for Spotlight. While support for local folders should be working now, including from network shares, it's "experimental" for now.

This is effectively the release candidate for 1.0.

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Release Notes: - Adds support for local folders as the source of your music. Works in conjunction with Apple Music, too. - Fixes album art in dock icon not updating immediately when album changes.

Longplay for Mac 0.9.0 is now available in Early Access.

Short release notes but a sweet new feature: Support for local folders as the source of your music — as an alternative, or in addition to, Apple Music. Feedback appreciated, as always.

Grab the update through the app or from longplay.rocks.

Longplay 2.4 for iOS is now live in the App Store.

Main new feature are smart collections using up to 14 filters, including genre. Create them through Shortcuts on iOS (or through Claude or another MCP client using Longplay for Mac).

Full release notes here: longplay.rocks/changelog/

Screenshot of Longplay, a music rediscovery app for macOS, showing a new feature where the user chats with Claude to find albums they added in the last year but haven’t listened to much. Claude uses Longplay's provided tools to return those albums. The user then asks to create a smart collection, which is then displayed in Longplay.

Longplay for Mac 0.8.0 is available in Early Access.

🤖 Standout feature is a built-in #MCP server to control playback, create smart collections, and interact with your music library from other apps like Claude Desktop. It's the future that Apple promised at #WWDC 2024.

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GitHub - nighthawk/alfred-longplay: Alfred workflow for Longplay for Mac Alfred workflow for Longplay for Mac. Contribute to nighthawk/alfred-longplay development by creating an account on GitHub.

Alfred workflow is available at github.com/nighthawk/al...