Guide

The Album Wall is the main view of Longplay. It shows you a filtered view of those albums where you have added most of the songs to your library.

From this view you can browse your albums, play them, organise them into collections and more.

Longplay lets you sort your albums by various unique sort orders, such as Orderliness which sorts by artist, Negligence which reveals highly rated albums that you haven't listened to in a while, and many more.

See the 'Dictionary' for an explanation of the sort orders. Some of them can also be further customised in the settings.

The Now Playing view shows you what is currently playing, lets you control playback, play a new random album, view the track list and your album queue.

View your albums as a life-size wall of album artwork, that curves around you. Select albums to play, sort them, or use the playback controls to control your music.

Group your albums and playlists, for a road trip, kids, by language, live albums, you name it.

Stay in the flow, with a smart shuffle depending on your current collection or sort order.

Do it your way and queue up albums manually.

Search for albums in your library by artist or title. Quickly play those albums, add them to your queue, or add them to your collection.

Each word is treated like its own search term, and you can exclude words by prefixing them with a hyphen. For example, searching for `beatles -white` will return all albums by The Beatles except for The White Album.

Access your albums and collections from your driver's seat. Perfect for road trips.

The album inspector shows you information about an album, including its tracks, release year, and various statistics and metrics. You can also adjust an album's release year or sorting or rate tracks from the inspector.

Scrobble using Last.fm or track you listens using ListenBrainz. Longplay will submit your played tracks.

Longplay features over two dozen Shortcuts action for controlling anything from playback to your queue to your library. You can find and filter items by many different criteria, including genre or the number of collections they are in. You can get the album artwork for albums, view them in Longplay as an ad-hoc collection, save them as smart collections, and many more things.

View the Shortcuts examples in the app for some inspiration, or check out the list of Shortcuts actions in the Shortcuts app.

Smart collection can be created through Shortcuts (or MCP on the Mac). First, use the "Find Albums" action with filters of your choice. And then either use the "Create Collection" Shortcut to save the smart collection directly, or the "Open and show" collection to first preview in the app and save as a smart collection from there. Alternatively, searches in the app can also be saved as smart collections.

Sort your library by release year to see your albums in chronological order, and to see an artists' albums in the order they were released when using the 'Orderliness' sort.