Longplay

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If you like albums, you’ll love Longplay: the album-focussed music player for iOS, visionOS and macOS. longplay.rocks by @adrian.coffee

Longplay's settings with expanded Global Hotkeys section that now includes Play Random Album, Play/Pause, Show/Hide Longplay.
Alfred screenshot showing the Now Playing command in action, showing current track, playback and rating controls.
Dear Album Lovers: This App is Made for You Screenshot of Longplay for Mac with its album wall and mini player.
iPhone screenshot of Spotlight with a search for "muse" showing several Muse albums, provided by Longplay.
Release Notes for 0.9.2: - Adds support for searching through albums directly from <b>Spotlight</b>. - Support for local folders is marked as experimental for now. (See note below.) - Updated album inspector, including a "Play" menu button to play an album or queue it up for later. - Enable Help link in the Menu Bar. - Another fix for playback and loading of artworks of local files. --- If you haven't previously added local folders as a source of albums, you'll now first need to enable this feature by running the following command in Terminal: defaults write app.longplay.Longplay-Mac settings.sources.enable-local -bool true --- Known minor issues: - Apple Music playback does not support the in-app AirPlay picker (FB13313634). - Apple Music playback shows up twice in Control Center and might show outdated information (FB13313624).
Release Notes: - Adds support for local folders as the source of your music. Works in conjunction with Apple Music, too. - Fixes album art in dock icon not updating immediately when album changes.
Screenshot of Longplay, a music rediscovery app for macOS, showing a new feature where the user chats with Claude to find albums they added in the last year but haven’t listened to much. Claude uses Longplay's provided tools to return those albums. The user then asks to create a smart collection, which is then displayed in Longplay.
A screenshot of Script Editor on macOS provides a peak at AppleScript commands and classes supported by Longplay.