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 - Show artwork on album wall widget quicker after refresh or clearing cache - Fixes handling of non-square album artwork - Fixes missing text in Track Listens settings - Fixes possible scrobbling mismatch of tracks in a playlists - Fixes an issue where temporary files could accumulate and eat up disk space - Performance improvements

- Addresses race condition where previously selected album could resume playing when starting playback of another album right after app launch - Stability improvements, in particular when encountering corrupted album artwork

- Fixes a regression where tapping the playing album to pause/resume might need a double tap - Fixes large album wall widget with "different day, different order" setting not getting albums - Fixes a glitch where next queued up album might ping pong between two due to a sync issue - Improve reliability for the "Show in Apple Music" action - Make sure albums fill the wall edge to edge - Robustness fix for showing artworks of recent albums

- Fixed the tessellated background sometimes not showing up - Fixed a remaining rare case of playback tracking issues that could cause the app to show stale track info and prevent the queue from advancing - Tweak album info in Spotlight

- Fix for album refresh not consistently picking up new albums - Fix "Open in Apple Music" action often failing - Fix for offset in track not always getting restored properly after pausing in background - Performance improvements

- Fixed occasional playback tracking issues that could cause the app to show stale track info and prevent the queue from advancing - Much reduced memory footprint when loading album library - Reduced memory footprint of album wall - Performance improvements for smoother scrolling of the album wall - Other minor performance and robustness tweaks

- Start playing an album by dropping it on the Now Playing view when nothing is playing (rather than adding it to the queue) - Reflect new ratings immediately - Fixes a rare issue where an album on the queue does not get dequeued - Update German translations - Require iOS 17.6 rather than 17.0

Improvements: - Adds tessellated background to the space on the wall not covered by albums - Longplay now parses MusicBrainz IDs from local files and passes those on when scrobbling - Updated German translation Fixes: - Fix issue where app icon might not always appear in widget when it should - Fix issue where local player might overwrite remote ratings when updating play counts - Fix playlist/album toggle not updating album wall view - Workaround for issue where pausing from a Bluetooth device might reset track progress back to the first track - Stability fix

Design refinements, including: - Refreshed look for the Now Playing view - Long tap album artwork in Now Playing, or use the new "More" button in various places to trigger album-specific actions - When "Show Stars" is enabled, show rating of current track on main Now Playing, too - Basic menu bar on iPad Album Wall widget: - New options for to show app icon and always include 'Now Playing' album. That means you get an app launch, playback controls, and an album picker all in a single widget even a single one. It's like an adorable, tiny Longplay on your home screen. CarPlay improvements: - Add "Up Next" and show queue - Swap "Random album" button for "Next album" button if there's something in the queue - Add section headers to CarPlay for smart collections and regular collections - Use star icon for rating button and indicate if current track has a rating - Fix issue where Now Playing screen might be missing album artwork and name - Fix "do not push the same template twice" error message when tapping an album twice in CarPlay - Minor style updates for CarPlay screens Fixed: - Update track list immediately when track ratings is changed externally, too, e.g., via sync from different device - Fix issue where "Pause" context action doesn't work in "Downloaded" view - Fix missing "Hide/Unhide" context actions when viewing smart collection - Light background behind album wall in Light Mode, and fix readability of albums without artwork in Light Mode - Switch bug report mechanisms to mails to auto-attach logs

- Adds font setting - CarPlay: Adds more button to rate current track - Increases likelihood that Longplay will stick around as Now Playing album when playback is paused and app is backgrounded - Tweaks album filter to include albums also that have multiple discs but few tracks per disc, such as classical albums with discs where each has a single long track - Tweaks album filter to include albums where the total number of tracks per album isn't set; will then use the highest known track number as an indicator instead - Disables auto-correction on search field on iOS - Fixes issue where album wall widget might not show albums and gets stuck on placeholder screen - Fixes a UI flicker while starting playback on CarPlay - Fixes Now Playing screen being offset from centre - Fixes offset of albums over settings after rotating device

Improvements: - Show playlist artwork from Apple Music - Adds sync status to settings - Add next/prev buttons to album inspector - Shortcuts: Playlists will now also be returned from the "Find" action - Shortcuts: Add "kind" property to differentiate albums from playlists, including for filtering and smart collections - Shortcuts: Add "downloaded" property to albums, including for filtering and smart collections - Smart collections now ignore and disable the global "Show hidden albums" and "Show playlists" toggles Minor fixes: - Show remaining time in album after pausing and re-opening the app - UI tweaks for the album inspector - Speed up for initial library load --- On release close: - https://feedback.longplay.app/feature-requests/p/playlist-art - https://feedback.longplay.app/feature-requests/p/filter-downloaded-collection-to-albums-only (Achievable via smart collection) - https://feedback.longplay.app/feature-requests/p/support-playlists-in-siri

- Spotlight can now search through Longplay albums. Tapping an album will then bring up the album inspector in-app. - Updated album inspector, including a "Play" menu button to play an album or queue it up for later. - Fixes recent regression where album wall might disappear when returning from the background

- Improved on-boarding screens - Lower memory footprint, especially when app is in background

Smart collections can now be created through Shortcuts and saved in the app. Also: - Longplay now persists the dates that an album was added to your library, which means that it'll be preserved even if you (have to) remove and re-add an album through Apple Music - Under-the-hood tweaks to increase chances of Longplay staying alive in the background when playback has been paused - Higher granularity of stats in album inspector - Fixes alignment of starts in track list if there are tracks with >10:00 duration - Fixes "collection count" metric of albums after removing them from a collection - Fixes a typo in settings - Minor performance tweaks

Fixed: - Fix for infinite album shuffle not picking from all albums when 'Random' sort order is selected - Fixes issue where sort order could sometimes get messed up after finishing a track or adding an album to a collection - Fixes visual glitch of tiny album grid cells on top and bottom of screen on iPhone - Fixes albums sometimes not appearing when switching from Slide Over to Full Screen on iPad - Minor style fixes for iPad

- Tweak background colour of dark icons - Addresses some rare stability issues - Update German translations

New: - "Album Shuffle" button for Control Centre or Lock Screen - Album purity playback mode Also: - Require iOS 17 - Widgets are now tint-friendly - Dark & tint-friendly app icon - Pull-to-refresh while on "Random" sorting will reshuffle the wall - Fixes wrong album title when scrobbling while listening to playlists - Fixes colouring issue in album queue - Tweak contrast of collection list colours

- Improves the welcome screen on iPad - Fixes "Show in Music" links - Fixes issue where some albums might not play after restoring your device

New: - Auto-populate release years (Apple Music only) - Show percentage listened - Show ratings at top level, if toggled on Fixes: - Fix release year not being used in Orderliness sort when sorting artists as in Music app (you'll need to do a manual album refresh once, by pulling to refresh) - Fix album shuffle not being very random when selecting Random sort order - Widgets that use the Random order will now (again) get a new set of albums every day - Performance improvements, in particular when triggering new random album - Style tweaks

- 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