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If you like albums, you’ll love Longplay: the album-focussed music player for iOS, visionOS and macOS.

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Prima, das klappt also immerhin. Vielleicht wäre ein Sync-Indikator da nützlich und die App könnte die doppelten Sammlungen ausgrauen oder ausblenden, auch wenn die Daten selbst erst etwas später gereinigt werden... 🤔
October 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Hab den Quellcode nochmal angeschaut und die Sammlungen werden automatisch nach ihren Namen dedupliziert wenn die App ihre internen Backups macht. Kann nur etwas dauern falls der iCloud-Sync noch läuft. Sollten aber also automatisch verschwinden.
October 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Verdoppeln der Sammlungen hab ich schon lange nicht mehr gesehen, kann aber vorkommen wenn die App auf mehreren Geräten re-installiert wird. Ich schau mal ob sich da was machen lässt...
October 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Danke! Für neue Alben kommt manchmal der Caching-Mechanismus der Music App in den Weg. Oder Longplay ist noch dabei einen Refresh zu machen. Im Prinzip ist was Longplay macht recht simpel, aber hängt stark von der Music-App ab. Das ist leider ne Black Box.
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Hi Marcus, das letzte Update (1.1.3) hat ein paar Optimierungen für große Sammlungen. Würde mich interessieren, ob sich das auch bei dir bemerkbar macht.
October 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
That makes sense, thanks. That’ll be fine but it’s just on Mac so far. But I’ll start working on it for iPhone soon.
September 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It does play MP3s, yes. What do you mean that they have effects though?

See the section on music sources here: longplay.rocks/guide/macos/...
Guide - macOS - Longplay
Complete guide to Longplay features and functionality on macOS - Learn how to make the most of your album listening experience with detailed instructions and tips.
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September 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
@danielandrews.com The latest update, 1.0.4, has another tweak related to this. Going to Settings > Maintenance > Reset Metadata might also help. Curious if that improves things for you.
July 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Hmm, that is weird. It's working fine for me. Will do some testing what might be causing that... can you make a screen recording by any chance and send that to words@longplay.app?
July 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Good to hear it’s better. It is quite a workout for the collection view at that window size. I’ll dig into the performance trace some more.
July 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This should be much improved in the latest update, 1.0.3. Please give it a try and thanks again for the report.
July 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I think I found the issue. There's a code path where thumbnails aren't properly downsized from the big album art on macOS. This means that the thumbnails could end up with the full size, and that would then obviously impact scrolling performance a lot. On it.
July 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Hmm, dang. Can you please send me the latest log file from your “~/Library/Group Containers/7N3B54ALZK.app.longplay.Longplay/Logs” to words@longplay.app? Will check if there’s something suspicious in there and I’ll do some more performance testing today in case something is misbehaving.
July 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Thanks!

There’s quite some background processing happening initially to get the album thumbnails, analyse their colours, and extract additional metadata from Apple Music. (I need to add a status indicator for that.)

After that it should become smoother. Please let me know if it persists.
July 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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/
June 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM