Changelog

- Fixes scrobbling of first track in an album
- Fixes styling of playlists, especially when they are sized smaller

- Remembers position in previously played album also when re-opening Longplay after a while
- Addresses issue where after re-opening the app the last played album might not re-start
- Further under-the-hood improvements for stability and memory usage

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.

- 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.

- 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

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.

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

I've been looking for… search, much improved Shortcuts, and sort order refinements.

New:
- A search box to filter the albums view by artist or title
- Many, *many* new Shortcuts actions. Create a pretty image of your recently listened albums. Search albums by an artist, sort them by release date, and add them to your queue. Get album metrics and display them in Charty. Find albums by a genre and show them as an ad-hoc collection in the app. Resume your last Longplay session when putting on your smart glasses. Get creative!
- Album inspector to browse tracks of any album, see album stats, and set/overwrite release year and artist sorting
- 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)
- Long-tapping an album will now also show release year, if known.

Improved:
- Refined the CarPlay experience
- Sorting by "Stars" now considers the percentage of the album rated, and five stars tracks give an extra bonus

Fixed:
- Minor styling tweaks and fixes

I can see clearly now... Various fixes to album shuffling and to improve contrasts:

- Fixes low contrast of album queue icons on dark album artwork
- Fixes low contrast of album queue list when listening to an album with light album artwork
- Fix issue where Infinite Album Shuffle incorrectly shuffles from subset of albums
- Re-shuffle the albums "behind" the shuffle button every couple of presses
- Persist last used view between app restarts, i.e., in particular whether you were viewing albums or the player
- Keep album size more similar between portrait and landscape orientations
- Minor style tweaks for the track queue, improving contrast of the little stars, and automatically scrolling to the current track when it changes

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.

Oops... I did it again. Here comes a quick regression fix:

- Fix issue where Album Wall widgets might be stuck on message to open Longplay when randomising library

Fixed in 2.1.4:

- Fix issue where tapping "Random" sort order again would not always re-shuffle
- Fix issue where Album Wall widgets might be stuck on message to open Longplay
- Fix issue where Album Wall widget that's set to display a collection in random order would not randomise its albums
- Renames "Artist" parameter to "Album Artist" in "Find Album" shortcut to match what it actually does
- Minor performance and stability improvements

Unstuck in time, running free

Fixes:

- Fix issue where tapping "Random" sort order again would not always re-shuffle
- Fix issue where Album Wall widgets might be stuck on message to open Longplay
- Fix issue where Album Wall widget that's set to display a collection in random order would not randomise its albums
- Renames "Artist" parameter to "Album Artist" in "Find Album" shortcut to match what it actually does
- Minor performance and stability improvements

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.

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.

Adds:

- Tip jar
- New setting on "Now Playing" widget to make the shuffle button always pick a random album, rather than reflecting the app's sort order or collection.

Fixes:

- Fix progress for Current Album Artwork in StandBy if primary colour is black
- Fix playback from widget not restarting where you last left off
- Fix low contrast colour issues in Now Playing widget, on Sonoma, and sometimes in-app
- Fix for shuffle button occasionally getting stuck cycling through your albums
- Fix crash due to hitting memory limits when importing libraries with large numbers of albums or many large album artworks
- Fix album wall layout when selecting an album at the end
- Removes "(No Title)" shortcuts in Spotlight search on iOS 17
- Default "Now Playing" widget to show album art rather than spider chart
- Minor style tweaks
- Robustness and performance fixes

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

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.

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

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.

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