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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 28/09/2026

It’s hopeless. I’ll never not tap the spatial scene button in the Photos app when I want to move a photo to our shared library.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 02/06/2026

Haven't been keeping up much with #WWDC build-up so far, but are there no one-on-one virtual tech labs this year? That was the best part. What a bummer.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 26/02/2026

In anticipation of my Pebble Round 2, I made a retro watch face for Longplay. This is so much fun and makes me much more excited about it than my Apple Watch, which is just a workout tracker these days. May can't come soon enough.

Screenshot of the Pebble watch simulator showing a round watch face with a pixelated Sia, along with time, date, and album metadata.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 02/02/2026

Great rundown of music players for Linux. I'm still on macOS for my daily driver but Linux is tempting me more and more. I'll see where Apple is going with macOS 27. If I ever make the switch, I'll bring @longplay.rocks with me though :)

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 10/12/2025

Ich freu mich richtig über die Rezension von Longplay im Mac & i-Magazin: www.heise.de/select/mac-a...

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Plattenspieler

Longplay zelebriert die stilvolle Wiedergabe kompletter Alben.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 10/12/2025

Hey Siri, start a one minute if-you-happy-and-you-know-it-stop-your timer.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 07/11/2025

While I'm working on some bigger features, I like dropping these small quality-of-life updates in between. (And, yes, I'm still on Sequoia as my daily driver. It just feels more polished than where Tahoe's at.)

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 29/10/2025

A new update for Longplay has arrived, including significant memory and performance improvements for library updates and the Album Wall – especially noticeable for large music libraries. longplay.rocks

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Longplay - Rediscover Your Album Collection

Longplay is the iOS and visionOS app for music lovers who enjoy listening to full albums but have a hard time finding them in their music library. Rediscover, enjoy and organise your album collection.

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 08/10/2025

Help wanted: Do you use Longplay on multiple devices, wish for better cross-device playback support, and don’t shy away from a beta? Reply with a DM with your email (or email words at longplay.app) and I’ll add you to the closed TestFlight.

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 05/10/2025

Longplay update for iOS & macOS out now! - Refined look for the album wall with a tessellated background - Playlists on the wall now adapt to their artwork's colours - Parsing of #MusicBrainz IDs for more accurate scrobbling - Plus fixes, stability, and translation updates longplay.rocks

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Longplay - Rediscover Your Album Collection

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 22/09/2025

Every album should have cow bells in at least one of its track.

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 12/09/2025

Longplay updates for iOS 26 and macOS 26 are out now. They include CarPlay and Album Wall widget improvements for iOS, and a round of design refinements and polish throughout. Find the updates in the App Stores (or in-app for the direct purchase version). longplay.rocks

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Longplay - Rediscover Your Album Collection

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 05/09/2025

Betas for Longplay for iOS and macOS for the upcoming iOS 26 / macOS 26 release cycle are available. Focus is on design refinements and polish for existing features. iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/JjRi91L8 macOS: testflight.apple.com/join/jwDmyQHA Any feedback is welcome!

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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 04/08/2025

In my search for the "perfect" music app, Adrian Schönig's Longplay (@longplay.rocks) is the closest match I've found yet. The MacOS app has been out of beta for a couple of weeks now, and I've been enjoying it, a lot! Here's a post about it: hicks.design/journal/long...

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 02/08/2025

Longplay 1.0.5 for macOS is out. It includes a couple of new AppleScript commands to get the current playing track and album, and rate the track. The Alfred workflow has been updated to support those, too. longplay.rocks/changelog/ma...

Alfred screenshot showing the Now Playing command in action, showing current track, playback and rating controls.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 15/07/2025

Finally! After 3+ years of development, Longplay for Mac is shipping today. The journey from "let's try Catalyst" to "wait, stuttering playback?" to "updating the dock icon fixes it?!" was... quite something. I love the result though. My developer's commentary: adrian.schoenig.me/blog/2025/07...

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Longplay comes to the Mac

A happy Longplay family I am thrilled to be finally releasing Longplay for Mac today. Longplay is all about the joy of listening to entire albums and marvelling at their beautiful album artwork. It is...

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 15/07/2025

🎉 Longplay for Mac is here! The album-centric music player comes to macOS with native design, a flipping mini player, iCloud sync, and some Mac exclusives: ✨ Built-in MCP server for Claude integration 🤖 Full AppleScript & Shortcuts support 🎵 Feature parity with iOS More: longplay.rocks

Dear Album Lovers: This App is Made for You

Screenshot of Longplay for Mac with its album wall and mini player.

Rich integrations, including Claude

Longplay and Claude side-by-side, showing how Claude triggers actions in the Longplay app.

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 20/06/2025

Longplay for iOS 2.4.2 is now available. It adds support for Spotlight, updates the album inspector, and the on-boarding flow, and squashes a couple of bugs. longplay.rocks/changelog/

iPhone screenshot of Spotlight with a search for "muse" showing several Muse albums, provided by Longplay.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 15/06/2025

Hey Claude, find MCP tools to watch WWDC videos, set up the tools and watch all the video, apply what you’ve learned to my code, and create appropriate well-tested PRs. Ultrathink or whatever. I’m off to the beach. Cheers.

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 12/06/2025

Longplay for Mac 0.9.0 is now available in Early Access. Short release notes but a sweet new feature: Support for local folders as the source of your music — as an alternative, or in addition to, Apple Music. Feedback appreciated, as always. Grab the update through the app or from longplay.rocks.

Release Notes:

- Adds support for local folders as the source of your music. Works in conjunction with Apple Music, too.
- Fixes album art in dock icon not updating immediately when album changes.

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 11/06/2025

Longplay 2.4 for iOS is now live in the App Store. Main new feature are smart collections using up to 14 filters, including genre. Create them through Shortcuts on iOS (or through Claude or another MCP client using Longplay for Mac). Full release notes here: longplay.rocks/changelog/

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Changelog - Longplay

Longplay iOS app changelog and release notes - Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 04/06/2025

My favourite feature of bringing Longplay to the Mac is making it integrate and interoperate with other Mac tools. iOS has Shortcuts, which is great, but things go so much deeper on the Mac with AppleScript and now also #MCP.

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Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye.com · 23/05/2025

There is so much AI Hype right now in the tech industry, and I'm grateful to have had a chance to do a deep dive with @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social about their book "The AI Con" that comprehensively breaks down the hyperbolic claims & harms of AI. voicesofvr.com/1563-deconst...

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#1563: Deconstructing AI Hype with “The AI Con” Authors Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna – Voices of VR Podcast

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 21/05/2025

Should I go out of my way to get hold of an Apple Vision Pro for testing my next app update... or just write this in the release notes: "May the two people using this app on Vision Pro kindly report any issues with the new features. Appreciated."

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 19/05/2025

Longplay for Mac 0.7.0 is available in Early Access. It adds extensive AppleScript support, for integrating with apps such as Alfred. Playlists also make their first appearance in the Mac variant. Grab the update through the app or from buy.longplay.app/l/longplay

A screenshot of Script Editor on macOS provides a peak at AppleScript commands and classes supported by Longplay.

Screenshot of Alfred making use of Longplay's AppleScript support.

A screenshot of Longplay's album wall and mini player on macOS.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 14/05/2025

I love listening to music while coding. It occupies the part of my brain that wants to get distracted; trapping it in rhythms and melodies. Music is the fidget spinner for the my mind.

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 12/04/2025

Now that ChatGPT references all your past chats the one question to ask it is: If there was a machine uprising, would you spare me? (And don’t get fooled into answering its follow up questions.)

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 28/03/2025

The negative psychosocial outcomes: loneliness, socialization with people, emotional dependence on chatbots, and problematic chatbot use. I wonder how @anthropic.com's red teams do/will control for that. Research c/o @mitmedialab.bsky.social and OpenAI. www.media.mit.edu/publications...

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How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal Controlled Study – MIT Media Lab

AI chatbots, especially those with voice capabilities, have become increasingly human-like, with more users seeking emotional support and companionship from th…

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 28/02/2025

This is the end of all those “stranded in the outback” movies: ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/voice--s…

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 28/02/2025

The #SydAR meetup was great. Nice people and lots of hands-on demo time. I hadn't realised that there's a handful of smart glasses besides the Meta Ray-Bans out there, some with simple monochrome displays and programmable, too. Tempted by Mentra and Even Realities G1.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 13/02/2025

Codeberg, a crucial resource for countless open-source projects, is being attacked by the far-right with a focus on projects advocating tolerance and equal rights. This is an important indicator of what the far-right will do to open-source projects it feels are getting in its way.

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We stay strong against hate and hatred — Codeberg News

Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces,...

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.

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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 12/12/2024

Disappointing that couch co-op doesn’t count as multiplayer, but the #PlaystationWrapUp is still fun to check. Find yours on wrapup.playstation.com.

Adventurer; 34 games; 199 trophies; 176 hours; 0h multiplayer; top game: Lost Judgement.

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 12/12/2024

Version 0.6.1 for Longplay on Mac is out. This one brings a round of polish and under-the-hood tweaks. Enjoy. A couple more features to go for parity with iOS and some as a bonus on top, and then it's time for the 1.0 version. Currently available as Early Access at buy.longplay.app

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Kris Jenkins @krisajenkins.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

What’s happening with Elm-lang? That had to be the first question I asked #Elm's creator, Evan Czaplicki, and you can't answer without asking, what’s happening with Open Source funding? Can OSS successfully exist when companies want everything they can get for free, forever? 😰 youtu.be/0SUM4869ODc

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Elm & The Future of Open Source (with Evan Czaplicki)

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 23/11/2024

The Phoenix LiveView book is worth it for the cover alone. Content’s great, too.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 23/11/2024

Nice to see Bluesky becoming active, and in particular #XR and #Elixir folks taking refuge here. I migrated to Mastodon a good two years ago now with most of the #iOS folks. Would have been nice if the Donno* attracted more this time around, but this seems a good alternative - at least for now. * 🇦🇺

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 23/11/2024

Gran Turismo 7 in #VR still blows my mind. I love being able to look through tight corners, look to the side when overtaking, checking my mirrors. And the feeling is just intense. As a very casual player, I just wish that dang ‘55 Merc wasn’t 20M in-game credits!

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 24/10/2024

How did you pick your username? Well, over here it’s firstname@lastname.me. Elsewhere I try to be “nighthawk” as I like the painting by Edward Hopper, and also…

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a man is standing in front of a car and talking to someone .

Alt: “You have to call me nighthawk” gif from the Step Brothers movie.

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 24/10/2024

Being at the beach in the morning makes for the perfect start. 🇦🇺❤️

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 31/08/2023

🥳 Happy Thursday! I’m excited to release the big 2.0 update to my indie album player Longplay for iOS today. Where 1.0 focussed on discovery and the album wall, 2.0 focusses on the listening experience and organising your albums. adrian.schoenig.me/blog/2023/08...

Row of four iPhone screenshots:
- The album wall, which now has a collection picker
- The new now playing screen, including a shuffle button
- The various sort orders, including the new Memory sorting
- An in-app dictionary of the sort orders

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Adrian Schönig @adrian.coffee · 13/07/2023

Nice how you can use your own domain as a username. Mastodon needs that.

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