Longplay

I don’t need to pay four dollars for an app that freezes and crashes. After all, we all always have Ventura to do that for us. This is an entire waste of money and time.

When immersive view is selected the app crashes.

This is a great app for listening to albums. Scroll down a list of album covers (sortable in a variety of useful ways), tap on a cover to play the album, and you are done. It is easy to see many albums at once, and the arrangement of album covers is visually delightful without wasting any space. Apple’s built-in players have always been focused more on individual songs rather than albums, especially in more recent versions. Longplay puts albums first.

This is awesome! So much fun to see metrics on when and how much time spent listening to my 400+ albums! Well worth the price. I wish all the albums had release date auto filled in. It’d be nice to sort by that. Great app!

My previous review mentioned my concern that the app no longer works in tandem with Apple Music. The developer reached out to me and explained the app’s new features, and that you can swipe left to access the track list. Now there is no need to go into Apple Music at all. I agree this is a change for the better! Thanks!

Looks great, works well and gets me out of the constant shuffle of other music apps. Just what I wanted.

Easily the best money I’ve ever spent on a music app.

This app used to rock but now the widget, even after the latest update, still has problems showing the album artwork. It’s a shame because this app was one of my favorite apps. 😞

I had a problem initially setting up on an ipad (couldn’t see the album wall icon). I set it up on iphone and it works now on ipad too. Pilot error maybe. I dunno.

Update: Decided to give this another try after some time. Disappointing. Continues to be unusable and a complete waste of money. Starts loading my music library and then just crashes. Over and over. It’s a toy. If you’ve got like 10 songs in your library it might work, but it doesn’t work with any decently-size one. Exactly the target audience for a non-first-party music app, and this app just doesn’t work. Hype and useless. Save your money and keep using the Music app. For all it’s faults and warts, it at least loads and plays music most of the time. Old review: It has a very difficult time loading all the music in my library and the UI is constantly frozen and my device gets very hot when that happens, and then crashes. I’ve had to completely uninstall and reinstall it several times. Even when it’s supposedly done loading everything, it doesn’t actually show everything I have in my music library. It constantly crashes and freezes. I don’t have Apple Music, I’m using iTunes Match and all of my music is downloaded locally on my device, so it should be pretty straightforward. Seems like a small hobby app that can probably work with a handful of items in one’s library but it has *not* been tested with decently-sized libraries and is definitely not for anyone who actually cares about listening to music. I despise subscriptions but this is exactly why they are preferred because when coming across duds like this app, the developers would have some incentive to fix things, whereas there’s no incentive here as I’ve already paid for the app. Disappointing.