Brilliant App
I love this music app. It just makes playing my favourite albums so much easier and surfaces all those old albums I have not played in a while so much much easier.
It’s brought joy of listening to music back to my life.
It’s brought joy of listening to music back to my life.
Brilliant
Apple Music’s album experience (visualisation, discovery, playback) pales into insignificance in comparison to Longplay’s. Kudos to the developers for building this.
This app is fantastic!
Perfect companion app for Apple Music. I realize how many workarounds I have tried over the years to have something like this. I used custom labels on iTunes to tag complete albums. I created complicated shortcuts to shuffle albums, and not songs. But those were just that - workarounds. This is the real thing, and I say thank you to the developer! I wouldn’t change a thing… or maybe, just one. Have a view of the album cover, and just that, while playing on the iPad.
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Great way to view / play your albums
If you like listening to albums, this app is great to explore them in different ways - stuff you’ve forgot about - or your favourites / go to’s etc. Developer very helpful if any issues too.
Response from developer
Hi Delatron, that is odd. Those should be working. Can you please get in touch with me by mail at words@longplay.app and I’ll do my best to figure out what’s going wrong for you there. Cheers, Adrian
Superb
I love music. I love sometimes listening to a succession of bangers. However, I also love listening to music in its original context. A𐤡BA’s “Me and I” is a banger. It’s even better as part of “Super Trouper” which is where I originally heard it.
I love how this app also allows me to rate my music with Star Ratings on CarPlay. (Remember them, Apple?)
I love how I can sort albums by Negligence. Rediscovering a great album that I had simply forgotten about is now easy.
If there were also a tvOS app, I’d be made up.
Buy this app now. Your ears deserve it.
I love how this app also allows me to rate my music with Star Ratings on CarPlay. (Remember them, Apple?)
I love how I can sort albums by Negligence. Rediscovering a great album that I had simply forgotten about is now easy.
If there were also a tvOS app, I’d be made up.
Buy this app now. Your ears deserve it.
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3 stars
The app is interesting but I am experiencing several issues to load the albums/tracks. The UI and UX are not the best as I expected. There are several points to improve.
Good but features gone wrong sine ios26
The sort by has gone awol since iOS 26. Can’t view by addiction, neglected etc.
Top!
Ich liebe diese App! Ich hab nur ein Problem, wie bekomme ich neue Alben in die App? Es scheint sich nicht zu aktualisieren? Bitte ein Tipp wie es klappt! Danke
Response from developer
Danke für das Feedback, und freut mich zu hören, dass dir Longplay gefällt, Alex. Ich habe den Bug gefunden, der dafür verantwortlich ist, dass neue Alben nicht immer zuverlässig angezeigt werden. Ein Fix ist unterwegs und sollte in Kürze verfügbar sein (mit Version 2.5.4). Bis dahin hilft folgender Workaround: Longplay komplett beenden (also die App im App-Switcher nach oben wischen), erneut öffnen und dann per „Pull-to-Refresh“ die Alben neu laden. Nicht ideal, aber immerhin erscheinen die neuen Alben dann zuverlässig.
Just look at it!
There is a natural reluctance to be suspicious of superlative reviews but I offer no apology for echoing all those who have given this app the five stars it so richly deserves. I should love to know if Mr J.Ive has it installed and have to believe that Mr S.Jobs would wholeheartedly approve. It is a delight to use and behold on all platforms.
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Entry point to my music library
Great way to see only my full albums. Just as if you were browsing through your record collection.
Fantastic
I love listening to full albums and this app is perfect for that, beautiful and intuitive UI with all the modern iOS tweaks and functionality you'd expect, if you're an album listener buy this now!
So much potential
Great potential here! Panorama album view is excellent, but there are a few UI issues to work out before this is a preferred music listening experience on the Apple Vision Pro. Currently, the Settings window cannot be minimized, and the allow selection toggle has no memory. Also, in panorama mode, the player window is just too large. Finally, if you could actually pull an album off the wall and look at it in your hands maybe even turn it over and see liner notes and add immersive listening room spaces or environments and this app would be an absolute killer.
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Response from developer
This is great feedback. Much appreciated!
Crashes constantly on open recently
Recently stopped working. I see the Downloaded screen briefly and BAM, it's gone. Over & over.
When it works, it's a neat idea, and does a good job picking out what albums I have... or nearly have.
Unfortunately the pretty nifty album selection UI doesn't make its way to CarPlay, which was disappointing!
But none of that matters until, you know, I can open it successfully again. :(
When it works, it's a neat idea, and does a good job picking out what albums I have... or nearly have.
Unfortunately the pretty nifty album selection UI doesn't make its way to CarPlay, which was disappointing!
But none of that matters until, you know, I can open it successfully again. :(
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Long live the album
This is a great little app that allows you to focus on albums without interruption in a simple interface. I use it regularly when a playlist isn’t the thing for the moment.
❤️
Swipe left and right for different functionality
Scrobbling is finicky
Seems to only scrobble the first few songs of the album
Meh! Really, Jason Snell?
This was a MacBreak Weekly podcast pick from Jason Snell. I’ve been both a MBW listener and a reader of Jason’s forever. Both almost always offer great recommendations. But yikes. This is an “opinionated” UI. Cheers for that. And opinions can’t be wrong, right? That’s why they’re opinions!
Wrong!
This opinion is wrong wrong wrong.
I’m glad I “only” blew six bucks on the iOS app instead of 25 on the Mac app.
On the plus column, looks like it has great Apple Shortcuts support so I never need to look at or try to navigate this hot mess. But the UI was the point and it’s a dull one.
Wrong!
This opinion is wrong wrong wrong.
I’m glad I “only” blew six bucks on the iOS app instead of 25 on the Mac app.
On the plus column, looks like it has great Apple Shortcuts support so I never need to look at or try to navigate this hot mess. But the UI was the point and it’s a dull one.
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Gap between songs
It seems to me the main thing a player should do is to be able to play Abbey Road. This one can’t. It puts a gap between all songs. Same on Sgt Pepper and every other album. They added a “Purity” option which is suppose to enable gapless play but it doesn’t work. It overlaps the songs and you can’t control the overlap timing, to 0 for example. iTunes/Apple Music plays albums better than this app. It’s a waste of money.
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Response from developer
That is odd. The app does not specifically add an overlap – and the underlying frameworks don’t even provide that option. If you reach out via mail to words@longplay.app, I’d be curious to investigate as it might be something to report to Apple engineers. Cheers, Adrian
Die Erwartungshaltung war hoch
leider eine totale Enttäuschung, ohne Apple Music praktisch unbenutzbar.
Auf meinem 15 Pro Max 512 sind genug Alben offline abgelegt mittels Doppler.
Aber hier ist nur richtig Handarbeit angesagt.
7€ für die Tonne.
Auf meinem 15 Pro Max 512 sind genug Alben offline abgelegt mittels Doppler.
Aber hier ist nur richtig Handarbeit angesagt.
7€ für die Tonne.
Response from developer
Tut mir leid, das zu hören, Gatto-Bello. In der Beschreibung und auf der Webseite steht ausdrücklich, dass nur Musik angezeigt wird, die auch in der Music-App vorhanden ist: Apple Music, Käufe oder manuell synchronisierte Titel. Unterstützung für lokale Dateien direkt ist in Arbeit.
Enfin le shuffle par album
Je n’ai jamais compris pourquoi l’app Musique ne le fait pas.
Toujours est-il que Longplay le fait, et le fait bien, y compris en voiture avec CarPlay.
Ça mérite largement le prix demandé, voire un tip complémentaire.
Toujours est-il que Longplay le fait, et le fait bien, y compris en voiture avec CarPlay.
Ça mérite largement le prix demandé, voire un tip complémentaire.
