2.2.3
2024-02-26
- Adds several keyboard shortcuts
- Fix highlight of current track in track list when shuffling tracks
- Fix shuffled playback to start on random track, rather than always the first
- Fix album inspector sometimes not appearing
- Fix landscape layout on Max and Plus sized iPhones
- Improves reliability of Last.fm scrobbling
- Improves text contrast of sort order colours
- Style tweaks for the collection picker
- Update German localisation
In case you missed it, recent updates also added:
- Search box to filter the albums view by artist or title
- Album inspector to browse tracks of any album, see album stats, and set/overwrite release year and artist sorting
- Many new Shortcuts actions, along with several example Shortcuts accessible through the in-app settings
- Longplay will now include albums with one or two tracks if you have all the tracks and they exceed a minimum duration.
- Choose between skipping current track or album by long-tapping the "next" button in the Now Playing screen
- New 'Release' sort order (but see the in-app guide for how the enable that, as it's not automatic)
Feedback is always welcome and I read it all and try to reply, too. Best to reach out by mail to words@longplay.app. If you want to provide extra support, I'd appreciate if you leave a review or a top up the tip jar.
2.2.1
2024-02-09
Show me how to… create some Shortcuts.
New:
- Added several example Shortcuts accessible through the in-app settings
Changed:
- Longplay will now include albums with one or two tracks if you have all the tracks and they exceed a minimum duration.
Fixed:
- Tweak reports from Last.fm scrobbling
- Some minor style and wording tweaks
2.1.3
2023-10-18
Improved:
- Adds page indicator on iPhone while swiping between settings, album wall and player. Fully VoiceOver accessible.
- Omit „The“ from playlists when sorting alphabetically.
Fixes:
- The shuffle button in the Now Playing widget now shuffles through all your albums, not just a subset.
- Fixes restoring selected collection on app-restart.
- Fixes issues where some compilations might be missing primary artist.
- Fix crash when using CarPlay when phone is set to German. 'tschuldigung.
- Robustness tweak for stats calculation.
- Reviewed and improved the VoiceOver support.
Feedback is always welcome and I read it all and try to reply, too. Best to reach out by mail to words@longplay.app. If you want to provide extra support, I'd appreciate if you leave a review or a top up the tip jar.
2.1.1
2023-09-20
Baby, You Can Drive My Car
Added:
- New "Current Album Artwork" widget, which nicely complements the "Now Playing" widget in StandBy mode.
- Shuffle button on the "Now Playing" won't get disabled if album just started playing; or configure the widget to always have the button enabled.
- New "Recently Played" list item in CarPlay for your last listened album, in case you want to resume that in the car.
Fixed:
- Addresses issue where CarPlay might not show your collections
- Playlist tracks maintain their order as defined in the playlist
- Minor style tweaks for "Now Playing" widget
2.1
2023-09-18
So Darlin', Darlin', Stand By Me
Updated Album Wall widget:
- Shows a grid of albums, tapping one starts playing it, tapping it again will pause playback.
- Playback status is indicated by the album resizing, just as in the app. Like an adorable mini Longplay.
- This widget is now available in sizes small (9 albums), medium (18 albums), and large (36 albums).
All new Now Playing widget:
- Show the currently playing album, or suggests a random one, if nothing is playing; with play/pause button.
- Shuffle button to switch to a random album (disabled while album is playing; pause playback first)
- Shows a spider chart of the album's metrics (recency, memory, length, negligence, stars, addiction) – tap it or the album artwork to toggle between the two.
- Available in small and medium.
Other improvements in this update:
- The "My Library" dropdown will fade away as you scroll through your albums, giving you a pristine chrome-free look of just your albums (can be disabled in the settings).
- New Shortcuts actions.
2.0.1
2023-09-08
Brand New Day for a round of fixes:
New:
- Time in the track list of the current track ticks down
- Pull-to-refresh when viewing "My Library"
Fixes:
- Always show "Downloaded" smart collection
- Show sizing options also for large libraries
- Tweaks size of Now Playing buttons in CarPlay
- Fixes multi-selection gesture to add multiple items to a collection
- Fixes progress bar updates on Welcome Screen
- Fixes some typos
- Stability and performance improvements
2.0
2023-08-30
Back in Black
- [New] Now Playing screen, including track list
- [New] Create collections of albums
- [New] Infinite album shuffle
- [New] Album queue
- [New] CarPlay support
- [New] Siri support
- [New] "Memory" sort order
- [New] Dictionary to explain sort orders
- [New] iCloud Sync
- [New] Revised iPad layout
- [New] Much improved performance to handle thousands of albums
And a lot of other small-to-medium-sized improvements and fixes.
1.2
2021-09-20
I Got Some If You Need It:
- [New] New "Size by" option
- [New] New 'Random' sort order, re-shuffling whenever you tap the option again
- [New] In-app settings screen, including alternative app icons
- [New] iPad: Show a button in the bottom left when scrolling through the albums to quickly access your settings
- [New] iPad Keyboard support: Arrow keys to navigate around, play/pause via enter
- [New] Longplay, jetzt auch auf Deutsch
- [Fix] Fixes issue where second long tap on an album wouldn't show its title
- [Fix] Performance improvements for laying out the albums grid
- [Fix] Stability fix after Longplay went into background
- [Fix] Small tweak to light mode and when no albums are available
- [Fix] Fix potential crash during start-up or when quickly switching sort orders
1.0.2
2020-08-23
What have we found?
- Longplay now shows more of your albums by relaxing and tuning the filtering criteria and taking album duration into consideration. This if for you, Pink Floyd fans.
- Large albums showed during playback and when long-tapping now display in higher resolution.
- Automatic refresh of the albums when coming back to the app, so if you add an album through the Music app, it'll show up when you go back to Longplay.
- Sorting by orderliness now ignores "the" prefix of artists when using an English locale.
- Performance improvements and stability tweaks, in particular for very large album collections.
Thanks again for all the feedback so far. Much appreciated!
1.0.1
2020-08-19
Ch-ch-ch-changes:
- Inverts the play/pause indicator to match the Music app (by unanimous and unarguably correct demand)
- Long-tapping an album now shows additional info based on your selected sort order, i.e., when sorting by "addiction" how many times you've listened to the album, when sorting by "recency" when you've added the album, and when sorting by "stars" what's the average rating.
- Fixes album's title and subtitle not always appearing when long-tapping album
As Longplay just launch I very much want to thank everyone for the feedback so far. I read it all. Keep it coming!