Bug Reports

I have a number of live records in my collection. When a live record comes up, it sometimes plays tracks of the same name from the artist's studio album that is also in my Apple Music collection. The same behavior is not seen in Apple Music, which plays the correct live versions when I load the same record.

I have shairport-sync running on Raspberry PI connected to DAC and large speakers. Apple Music app works flawlessly in this setup, even remembers last selected AirPlay destination. Longplay shows Raspberry PI in the list of AirPlay destination, so it seems to be aware of its existence, but when I select it, it still plays locally on Mac.

I bought this app for my Mac mainly to try out the MCP and Shortcuts. So I decided to create a collection that contains all my Christmas albums. For all the albums I owned before I subscribed to Apple Music the genre is Christmas. For everything I added after I subscribed the genre is set to Holiday. I also only want the albums and not the playlists. So my shortcut needs to be Albums that have a genre of Christmas or Holiday. I couldn't get find album to do and for some and or for others. So I made two. The first one filtered out the playlists then the second one just kept the Christmas and Holiday albums. When I hooked that up to the Create Playlist and run the Shortcut and it just pops up a dialog to select albums. When I tried the MCP server I ran this prompt. "Add any album with a genre of Christmas or Holiday to the playlist named Christmas". I messed up and said playlist instead of collection. So it made a regular collection instead of a smart suggestion, but it worked. I then tried. "Add any playlist with a genre of Christmas or Holiday to the collection named "Christmas Playlists"" and it created a playlist that has all the Christmas/Holiday albums and playlists. I then tried "Add any album with a genre of Christmas or Holiday to the collection named "Christmas Albums"". It then created the playlist with every album in it. This is the input. { "name": "Christmas Albums", "filter": { "filters": [ { "field": "genre", "value": { "type": "contains", "value": "Christmas" } }, { "field": "kind", "value": { "type": "equals", "value": "album" } }, { "field": "genre", "value": { "type": "contains", "value": "Holiday" } }, { "field": "kind", "value": { "type": "equals", "value": "album" } } ], "mode": "or" } }

This happens regardless of whether the album view is open, the mini player is open, or if they're both open. See attached screenshot.

Apple Music playcounts (and last played dates) aren't updating after playing an album in Longplay MacOS version. I was under the impression that playing in Longplay should update the playcount number and the last played date after a period of time; this isn't happening.

Sometimes when Carplay is displaying some other app and I switch to Longplay, I loose the ability to control the screen. No widget is highlighted as I turn the selection knob on my Mazda3. The touch screen also doesn't work (assuming I stop the car which is required for touchscreen activity on the Mazda) If I manually press my back button on the Mazda I can return to a previous app where I will have full control of Carplay again. Returning to Longplay still has no control.

When I sort by negligence (this is a very cool feature!) and start playing an album, every time a song finishes, the layout in Longplay will shift around, because the album becomes slightly less "negligent" with each track that plays, so it moves further down in the view. When this happens while I have the Longplay app displaying on screen, this is very distracting and it feels kind of "wrong", especially since the album often ends up scrolling entirely away from the viewport, so I longer get the effect of seeing the big artwork. I wonder if there's a way to somehow "suspend" the currently playing album in position until it is finished playing, or until stopped or something? I bet you'd probably have better ideas about this than me, but I thought I'd raise this, since I'm probably not the only person experiencing this issue :) Thanks for Longplay, btw, I'm quite enjoying it. I hope you don't mind all these reports; I'm just trying to be helpful! 😇

Pause button on the album art restarts the playback. Same result from the long-press context menu. iPhone 16 Pro Max iOS 18.5

I use a third party wireless adaptor for Car Play. And iPhone XS. After a phone call, audio on Longplay often becomes so glitchy it can't be listened to. Sometimes this can be fixed by jumping to a new album but usually it cannot. I've got a mental note to see if the Apple Music app is affected in the same way, if it makes any difference whether the call was incoming or outgoing, and whether it can be fixed by restarting the car without restarting the phone. Sorry I see that I already accidentally posted this under feature requests, but I don't see any way to turn that feature request into a big report.

I haven’t been able to identify a pattern that predicts when it will and will not be not broken. But when it is broken, it appears to always be broken in these two ways at the same time: the Now Playing icon no longer appears at the top of the main screen of Longplay the Now Playing app icon in Car Play still takes you to a screen that shows the music that is playing, but it does not show the cover art or the name of the artist, album or song Strangely, even it’s broken in these two way, all information is still visible in the composite view in Car Play that shows you music and maps at the same time. However, pressing that music overview still takes you to the broken Now Playing screen described above.