Longplay App Reviews

UPDATE: Can now see my entire music collection. Looks great!

the brilliance of this app is not only what it does, but what it doesn’t do as well. i’ve been able to revisit albums i haven’t listened to in years and enjoy albums i’ve just discovered. been going through a rough patch and this app has helped with the healing. take time to slow down and enjoy the art made for your ears.

When I was growing up, my dad had a 100-CD disc changer for the house. Most of the time he just had it on the shuffle mode which would play an entire album before changing to the next one Ever since entering the digital music era, I’ve dreamed of having that experience with my own music. Thank you for making my dreams come true. Albums deserve being listened to as distinct works of art, not as mixtapes or playlists. I will evangelize this app far and wide. Thank you especially for adding Ca

One of my favorite apps

I honestly would drop Apple Music in a heartbeat if I couldn't have Longplay

Seems to only scrobble the first few songs of the album

Swipe left and right for different functionality

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

Great way to see only my full albums. Just as if you were browsing through your record collection.

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.

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

Got this on a recommendation from someone on Mastodon, and it’s a really novel way of reconnecting with your music library by putting everything on display all at once. Artwork, not text. Plus: sorting based on “Addiction”, “Brightness”, “Negligence” etc. It’s a really unique _album_ based approach. Loving it. Another plus: I found one reproducible crash almost immediately after purchase, which the developer fixed nearly overnight. Overall, well worth it. Really enjoying this app.

Longplay brings back the satisfying and relaxing way of listening to albums, not as individual songs, but as whole albums. The focus options make it easy to find neglected albums you’ve forgotten about. It will bring your album collection back to life and make your listening experience enjoyable and relaxing again!

I’ve had the app for a few weeks and find it hard to use - find stuff to listen to or search for albums or artists. I still haven’t found a way to search for specific albums. I didn’t know that there was a screen by swiping right to see ordering, sorting, and settings. I get the desire to have a simplified UI but a user shouldn’t accidentally stumble upon the settings because they randomly swiped. It should be clear where to control things.

Great for viewing and rediscovering your albums. Some additional features would be very useful, such as seeing what tracks are on an album and what trackers are currently playing. Other now playing controls would also be useful, such as skip or go back, etc. —- Updating review: you can see the usual now playing screen in the Apple Music app, which I didn’t realize initially. That helps!

There needs to be a way to view and play individual songs. There also need to be a tree for easier searching by alphabet. Then when you click on the artist you get the albums. My collection is large and I have to scroll for a week to get to an album I want. It was inexpensive so I gave it a try. The author seems to care about his product so maybe in time it will improve. Right now it’s only worth it with small libraries. I would stick with Soor or Marvis Pro for now.

Apple Shortcuts can no longer handle searching through my library, picking a random song, and then getting the album from that. Longplay has shortcut support and simplified the shortcut to just playing a random album through Longplay. I owe this app my productivity.

I don’t often spend money on apps, but this one is worth the $4! I’ve always preferred to listen to whole albums, and this makes it so much easier to browse them. Beautiful!

My apple music library is small, mainly because of the LACK of an interface like this one. If this scales well to large music libraries, apple should just give up and buy this app and the dev team and make it the default way to browse apple music.

Fills a real gap in Apple’s music app. Wish I could queue up multiple albums using Play Next like in Apple Music.

Installed instantly at <3 MB, almost no set-up, and I’m right into my music! Easily worth trying at $3 and almost no learning curve

This application has a good concept but, it doesn’t show all of my music.

This is a great app for people who like to listen to whole albums. I got this app shortly after it launched and it just keeps getting better with updates!

Nice looking app. I was hoping that there would be a way to have to shuffle albums randomly. I’ve been looking for an app that does that for years.

I love the simplicity but an album’s track listing is essential. Perhaps an addition to the long press menu?

Love this app. Old enough to have had an album collection but didn't realize how much I missed flipping through albums to decide what to play. This app comes as close to that experience as you're going to get on a digital device --thanks!

Fills a real gap in Apple’s music app. I only wish the app would let me limit the view to downloaded albums (instead of only greyjng out non-downloaded) and shuffle albums instead of playing one album at a time.

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 t

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. :(