Longplay for Apple Vision Pro – and get creative with Shortcuts

With version 2.2, Longplay brings its album focus to Apple Vision Pro: the same features as on iOS and adding a rich immersive experience of your albums on a massive curved wall — which could be straight out of the Matrix.

On iOS, the 2.2 update greatly improves and extends the Shortcuts support with over two dozen new actions, opening up a variety of customisation and advanced use cases.

Standout features for visionOS:

• View and pick albums from an immersive space where the app breaks beyond the window and the albums wrap around you. See video.
• The "regular" app window has been optimised for visionOS, with ornaments and toggling between the album view and now playing mode in the same window.

Some examples of what's possible with Shortcuts:

• Create a pretty image of your recently listened albums, or share it as a weekly note, or add it to your diary.
• Smart ad-hoc collections: Search albums by artist, genre, year, metrics; then view them in the app, and play or add them to a collection.
• Tap your iPhone's Action Button to resume your last Longplay session if nothing is playing yet, or rate the current track if something is playing.

Details and other improvements:

• Universal purchase between iOS and visionOS
• Search/filter albums
• Sort albums by release year
• An album inspector to view tracks, playback stats, and edit some details

This update will be available when Apple Vision Pro ships on 2nd February 2024.

Longplay is an app for music lovers with a sizeable Apple Music or iTunes library who like to listen to entire albums. With its unique, chrome-less user interface, it focuses on rediscovering, organising and simply enjoying your library of albums.