One of my favourite iOS apps, Longplay, is now available on macOS, either directly from the publisher or via the Mac App Store. I originally posted about the iPhone version back in January 2021.
TL;DR: One of my favourite iOS apps is now available on macOS. This presents your digital music albums as wall of covers. It's very configurable so you can go all High Fidelity and choose your own sorting scheme.
It's a very simple concept; it just shows the album covers of the music that you have. You select an album and it plays the whole thing.
The image above shows you everything that you need to know, and will probably give you a good flavour on the albums I've played a lot (at least since I got this MacBook Pro).
You can nuance that. For example, I usually sort the albums in priority of addiction and have the size increase the more plays that the album has had. You could reverse that and do it by how much you've neglected the album.
You can also have the player controls only start or stop the album, or allow access to move forward and back amongst the apps.
I love the app because it reminds me of browsing through my old CD collection. You can see the images and get reminded of albums that you used to love, or that you meant to give another go. You can do this with the Music app, but it's nowhere near as delightful.
It looks like the publisher has a trial version on their website, if this sounds like something you'd like.
19 July 2025
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