Longplay is now on Mac — beautifully reimagined for the desktop while staying true to its core mission: letting you enjoy your music one full album at a time.
Browse your collection like you would your wall of CDs or vinyls. Longplay filters out singles and scattered tracks to give you a visual grid of just the albums you truly own. Rediscover forgotten favourites using unique sort orders like Negligence, Addiction, or Brightness. Everything syncs seamlessly with your iOS devices via iCloud.
Built from the ground up for macOS, this version features a polished mix of SwiftUI and AppKit with native support for macOS standards:
- MCP integration — Let Claude or other AI tools be your DJ and explore your albums
- AppleScript support — Integrate with your setup using Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, or your own scripts
- Smart Collections — Create smart collections via Shortcuts or using Claude/MCP, with powerful filters like album name, artist, genre, year, and more. These collections are saved in-app and update automatically as your library changes
- Full sync with iOS — All your ratings, collections, and queue flow smoothly between devices
- Smart sort orders — Explore albums by when you last listened, how much you love them, or even how bright their cover is
- Powerful queueing — Play next, play later, drag to reorder — you’re in control
- Infinite Album Shuffle — Non-stop listening, one full album at a time
- In-app star ratings — Rate songs right inside Longplay and skip low-rated ones automatically
- Collections — Curate your own themed groupings of albums and shuffle within them
- Scrobbling — Submit your listens to Last.fm or ListenBrainz
Whether you’re working at your desk or relaxing at home, Longplay brings back the joy of full albums.
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“This iOS music player is perfect… one record at a time, from start to finish.” – @mikker
“Great idea and beautiful design… especially Negligence.” Marco Arment
“Steve Jobs would have loved it.” – Jason Snell
Also featured on MacStories, Upgrade, AppStories, and Comfort Zone.
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Important: Longplay does not include any music. It’s a player for your Apple Music or iTunes library, showing only full or near-complete albums and playlists, so you can rediscover and enjoy them as intended.
Longplay for macOS is a separate purchase from the iOS version.
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New:
- Adds setting to disable up-sizing of playing album
Fixed:
- Tweak colour extraction from albums to better avoid poor contrast, and vibrant text on vibrant background
- When getting random albums via Shortcuts and AppleScript, return a new set each time
- Make search more relaxed regarding colons and dashes in titles
- Increase maximum allowed album artwork size
- Fixes handling of non-square album artwork
- Fixes issue where new collection wouldn't be applied when pressing tab key
- Fixes possible scrobbling mismatch of tracks in a playlists
- Fixes an issue where temporary files could accumulate and eat up disk space
- Performance improvements
Version 1.1.8
The developer, Adrian Schoenig, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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