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If you like albums, you’ll love Longplay: the album-focussed music player for iOS, visionOS and macOS. longplay.rocks by @adrian.coffee

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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 07/11/2025

Longplay 1.1.4 for macOS just dropped. Includes a number of small tweaks and improvements for AppleScript, the Menu Bar, and global shortcuts. Thanks for the feedback and suggestions! longplay.rocks/changelog/ma...

Longplay's settings with expanded Global Hotkeys section that now includes Play Random Album, Play/Pause, Show/Hide Longplay.

Longplay's menu on macOS, with the new menu item to quickly rate the currently playing track.

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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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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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Longplay @longplay.rocks · 20/06/2025

Longplay for Mac 0.9.2 is now available in Early Access. It adds support for Spotlight. While support for local folders should be working now, including from network shares, it's "experimental" for now. This is effectively the release candidate for 1.0. longplay.rocks

Release Notes for 0.9.2:

- Adds support for searching through albums directly from <b>Spotlight</b>.
- Support for local folders is marked as experimental for now. (See note below.)
- Updated album inspector, including a "Play" menu button to play an album or queue it up for later.
- Enable Help link in the Menu Bar.
- Another fix for playback and loading of artworks of local files.

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If you haven't previously added local folders as a source of albums, you'll now first need to enable this feature by running the following command in Terminal:

defaults write app.longplay.Longplay-Mac settings.sources.enable-local -bool true

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Known minor issues:
- Apple Music playback does not support the in-app AirPlay picker (FB13313634).
- Apple Music playback shows up twice in Control Center and might show outdated information (FB13313624).

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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 · 04/06/2025

Longplay for Mac 0.8.0 is available in Early Access. 🤖 Standout feature is a built-in #MCP server to control playback, create smart collections, and interact with your music library from other apps like Claude Desktop. It's the future that Apple promised at #WWDC 2024. buy.longplay.app/l/longplay

Screenshot of Longplay, a music rediscovery app for macOS, showing a new feature where the user chats with Claude to find albums they added in the last year but haven’t listened to much. Claude uses Longplay's provided tools to return those albums. The user then asks to create a smart collection, which is then displayed in Longplay.

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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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