Do you have an album collection of dozens to thousands of albums? Does the next song of an album already start playing in your head when one finishes? Longplay is for you.
Longplay presents a beautiful view of the album artworks of the (near) complete albums in your music collection. It let's you rediscover forgotten favourites or just play the music you love, and explore it with various smart sort options:
- Orderliness: by artist, then by album
- Addiction: by amount of time spent listening
- Brightness: by the primary colour of the album artwork
- Negligence: by the time it’s been since you’ve last listened to the album, weighted by the rating
- Recency: by date added
- Memory: by last played
- Stars: by the rating you’ve provided for each song
- Random: a new order, every time you tap it
You can organise your albums into collections, which sync across your devices.
Infinite album shuffle let's you stay in the flow, with smart shuffle depending on your current collection or sort order.
It comes with a home screen widget that displays the top albums by your nominated sort order. On the larger widget, tap an album to play it, on the smallest it doubles as a "Feeling lucky" button to start playback of one of them.
It supports CarPlay, Siri, and Shortcuts.
It works well with Apple Music, music purchased from iTunes or synced manually.
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Important: Longplay does not ship with any music included, it is instead a player for your music library - be it from Apple Music, iTunes or your synced music. It provides a filtered view of just the albums of which you have all or most of the songs, as well as your playlists; thus focussing on your album collection without any singles or albums where you only have very few songs.
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Tap an item to play (or pause). Long tap for additional options, such as adding to your album queue or to a collection.
It works with libraries big and small, and besides regular albums it also handles compilation albums and playlists.
Comes with Shortcuts actions to play a random top album by a defined sort order, or a random album, optionally filtered by artist or genre. All of that with Longplay's logic that makes sure that it's an album for which you have all or most songs.
It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Fully VoiceOver accessible.
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4.91 out of 5
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What an app!
Buy this immediately. It’s beautiful, simple and makes just choosing and listening to an album very enjoyable. Feels like going through your record collection like in the old days. The dev’s responsive and open to ideas. Just very much worth the money and a few tips after that. Fully recommended.
Just what I wanted
So many albums I’d forgotten about have become visible again and I’ve rediscovered so many old favourites. I still use Music when I just want to shuffle a big playlist but I now use Longplay for all other listening.
Excellent!
This app is a nearly exact implementation of the way I prefer to listen to music.
Well done
Wonderful
Great app. I initially thought it would be good to have collections of albums so tried another app that did just that. But I now think seeing everything together as in Longplayer is a much better idea and allows for serendipity. Thank you for making this.
Update (after 3 month): yay, collections = ❤️
Wonderful
Great app. I initially thought it would be good to have collections of albums so tried another app that did just that. But I now think seeing everything together as in Longplayer is a much better idea and allows for serendipity. Thank you for making this.
Excellent
I do enjoy occasionally listening to albums like the good old days. This app is great for that. My feedback below:
- CarPlay! This app would be killer for CarPlay. To just have a nice array of albums like a visual CD changer.
- Show only complete albums: Not sure if this is the default but I can’t seem to find an option to show only complete albums.
Perfect
I love the app!
Genius!
Great App, simple concept done well! Can’t fault it. 5 stars!!!
Great but flawed on iPad
Love the idea, love the big artwork, love the single play without tracks and love the quirky sorting options.
Much less keen on the fact that on an iPad there is no way to get back to the start or to the sort/settings after you’ve scrolled across several screens of albums (let alone thousands of albums as the developer implies) - it’s a real pain in the whatever! These are both simple & quick on the iPhone so there’s hope, but until it works on iPad too, 3 stars.
Love it!
Great to browse my collection visually. Would love to see some size randomisation to the cover art grid to bring a little more visual irregularity to the collection, but other than that it’s perfect.