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            <title>2.0</title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:39:19 +1000</pubDate>
            <link>https://longplay.rocks</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[<h2>New in this build</h2>

<p><b>New</b></p>
<ul>
  <li><b>Play the next album in the artist's discography</b> — a fourth "At end of album" choice. Longplay plays the artist's next-newer album in your library before anything queued, then falls back to your queue and shuffle. Up Next shows it on top as "Next release · &lt;year&gt;".</li>
  <li><b>Keep Longplay running in the background</b> — Settings › General › Startup adds launch at login, and a mode where ⌘Q closes the windows but Longplay stays running for Connect, the screensaver, the CLI and AI clients. The Dock icon only shows while something is playing.</li>
  <li><b>Merge duplicate albums</b> — select two or more albums and choose Merge Duplicates… A sheet previews the combined plays, ratings and collections, and warns before merging a doubtful match. Longplay writes a backup first.</li>
  <li><b>The Inspector handles multiple albums at once.</b></li>
  <li><b>Reorganised Settings</b> — Connect and Updates get their own tabs; Backup and Maintenance move into Advanced.</li>
  <li><b>Status messages in the toolbar</b> when nothing is playing, such as library scan progress or a stream that dropped.</li>
  <li><b>Siri on iPhone and iPad</b> can search for and play albums again. It knows which album is on screen and handles titles like "(Live)" or "(Remastered)" much better.</li>
  <li>Longplay for Mac now runs on Apple Silicon only. The album wall needs its unified-memory GPU, so it never worked on an Intel Mac.</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixed</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>When Apple Music refuses to start an album, Longplay now says so instead of pretending to play.</li>
  <li>Loading no longer looks like playing — it has its own indicator.</li>
  <li>Scoped shuffles now shuffle, and a planned shuffle can't hold the same album twice. A shuffle started from search is named and leads back to the results.</li>
  <li>The mini player can be dragged again on macOS 27, and the albums window works there too.</li>
  <li>Clicking the Dock icon brings the mini player back, and the AirPlay button's menu opens again.</li>
  <li>Album wall: covers that load late fill in, big covers come back when you scroll back to them, and a label never draws over a cover.</li>
  <li>The album wall uses much less memory. It keeps high-resolution covers only for what's near the screen, gives memory back, and sheds its caches in the background.</li>
  <li>One album no longer shows up as two tiles when its sources spell it with different dashes or apostrophes.</li>
  <li>A track you resumed part-way through now counts as played when it ends.</li>
  <li>Custom playlist artwork loads again.</li>
</ul>

<p><b>CLI / MCP / automation</b></p>
<ul>
  <li><code>longplay ascii</code> — your library as ASCII art, in a terminal.</li>
  <li>Album merging over Connect: <code>longplay library albums merge &lt;a&gt; &lt;b&gt;</code> with <code>--dry-run</code>, <code>--keep</code> and <code>--suggestions</code>. There's a <code>merge_albums</code> MCP tool, and the interactive shell has a <code>suggestions</code> browser.</li>
  <li><code>nextInDiscography</code> is a new <code>--at-album-end</code> value, and <code>set_album_end_policy</code> accepts it too. <code>queue show</code> lists the next release.</li>
  <li>Interactive mode: PgUp/PgDn work in every list, and you can search artists and genres with <code>/</code>.</li>
  <li>The client no longer stalls on an unreachable host or a slow reply.</li>
</ul>
<hr/>

<h2>Longplay for Mac 2.0 highlights</h2>

<p><b><i>The album wall, rebuilt in Metal:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>One continuous zoom from a few big covers out to your entire library, on Mac and iPhone/iPad.</li>
  <li>Multi-select, keyboard navigation, and dragging albums out to collections, the queue, or another app.</li>
  <li>A first run that builds your wall in front of you, from your library as it's scanned.</li>
  <li>First-class VoiceOver, on the wall and on the regular iOS grid.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Longplay Connect:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Sync your playback across devices. Leave right where you left off as you switch between them.</li>
  <li>Remote control one device from another, or many others — jukebox mode. Works across iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, and Mac.</li>
  <li>HandOff support.</li>
  <li>Your own devices trust each other. A guest is bound by a preset: View-only, Jukebox, or Full remote.</li>
  <li>Keep Longplay running in the background, optionally from login — your Mac stays reachable over Connect and your hotkeys keep working, with no window open.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Library management:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Hand-pick singles, EPs, or incomplete albums to show in Longplay, and find them again with the "hand-picked" search token.</li>
  <li>Rate albums, not just tracks. Star ratings appear as outlines on unrated tracks of a rated album. Filter by rating, and combine into smart collections.</li>
  <li>Ignore individual tracks within an album so they're skipped during playback.</li>
  <li>Merge duplicate albums into one, pooling their plays, ratings and collections — with a preview first, and a backup written before anything changes.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Enhanced search and create smart collections in-app:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Auto-completion to filter by artists, genres, release year, or decade.</li>
  <li>Quickly filter by recently played, added, downloaded, artist or playlist, whether added to collections or not, hidden or not.</li>
  <li>Combine filters and save as smart collections.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Playback:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Pause after the current track.</li>
  <li>Choose what happens when an album ends: play what's next in your queue, stop even if something is queued, repeat the album, or play the artist's next album in their discography.</li>
  <li>Shuffle properly from search results, and find your way back to them.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Extended support for Apple Music catalogue albums:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Listen to albums not yet in your library: drop a URL on the mini player or your queue, or ask an AI client to queue them up.</li>
  <li>Add to your Apple Music library directly from Longplay.</li>
  <li>Pre-release albums grey out their unreleased tracks and skip them, then fill in the real ones once the album is out.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>CLI, for terminal lovers, AI and automation:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Embedded <code>longplay</code> CLI inside the app. Interactive mode for terminal lovers; JSON output for automation. Drives any Longplay over Connect, iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro included.</li>
  <li>Metadata storage on albums and collections — build automations like syncing your collections to MusicBrainz or Discogs.</li>
  <li>An MCP server with a UI: a mini wall of albums right in your AI client, click to play or enqueue.</li>
  <li>Your AI client can suggest Apple Music albums you don't own yet, and play, queue or add them.</li>
</ul>

<p><b>A big lot of UI polish, performance, and robustness improvements, plus:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>An in-app ASCII screensaver on iPad — your library as a calm wall of text, covers descrambling out of it in colour.</li>
  <li>A rebuilt immersive album wall on Vision Pro — far faster and smoother, however big your library.</li>
  <li>Rainbow sort orders your wall by colour, with a diagonal variant a second tap away.</li>
  <li>An audio output indicator — the AirPlay button reflects your current output and updates live on plug/unplug.</li>
  <li>Status messages in the status bar, the toolbar and the mini player — library scan progress, a stream that dropped, and more.</li>
  <li>MusicBrainz IDs from local file tags, sent on to ListenBrainz.</li>
</ul>
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            <title>1.1.10</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:25:04 +1000</pubDate>
            <link>https://longplay.rocks</link>
            <sparkle:fullReleaseNotesLink>https://longplay.rocks/changelog/macos/</sparkle:fullReleaseNotesLink>
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            <description><![CDATA[<h3>Version 1.1.10</h3>

<ul>
  <li>Compatibility with macOS 27 Golden Gate</li>
  <li>Cached album artwork takes up far less space; oversized caches are rebuilt automatically after updating</li>
  <li>Scrobbling robustness if service is temporarily not reachable</li>
  <li>Faster and lighter on large libraries</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.9</h3>

<ul>
  <li>Keyboard shortcuts now match macOS conventions: ⌘+ / ⌘− for zoom, ⌘⌥S for Show Sidebar</li>
  <li>ListenBrainz scrobbles now correctly tag Longplay as the media player</li>
  <li>Small performance improvements</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.8</h3>

<p><b>New:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Adds setting to disable up-sizing of playing album</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Tweak colour extraction from albums to better avoid poor contrast, and vibrant text on vibrant background</li>
  <li>When getting random albums via Shortcuts and AppleScript, return a new set each time</li>
  <li>Make search more relaxed regarding colons and dashes in titles</li>
  <li>Increase maximum allowed album artwork size</li>
  <li>Fixes handling of non-square album artwork</li>
  <li>Fixes issue where new collection wouldn't be applied when pressing tab key</li>
  <li>Fixes possible scrobbling mismatch of tracks in a playlists </li>
  <li>Fixes an issue where temporary files could accumulate and eat up disk space</li>
  <li>Performance improvements</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.7</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Addresses race condition where previously selected album could resume playing when starting playback of another album right after app launch</li>
  <li>Stability improvements, in particular when encountering corrupted album artwork</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.6</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Fixes a regression where tapping the playing album to pause/resume might need a double tap</li>
  <li>Fixes a glitch where next queued up album might ping pong between two due to a sync issue</li>
  <li>Fixes rare crash on resuming previous album with invalid timestamp</li>
  <li>Improve reliability for the "Show in Apple Music" action</li>
  <li>Make sure albums fill the wall edge to edge</li>
  <li>Robustness fix for showing artworks of recent albums</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.5</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Fix for the tessellated background sometimes not showing up</li>
  <li>Fixed a remaining rare case of playback tracking issues that could cause the app to show stale track info and prevent the queue from advancing</li>
  <li>Fix for album refresh not consistently picking up new albums</li>
  <li>Fix "Open in Apple Music" action often failing</li>
  <li>Fix for offset in track not always getting restored properly after pausing in background</li>
  <li>Revisions to German translation</li>
  <li>Performance improvements and minor style tweaks</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.4</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>New Global Hotkeys: play/pause and show/hide app</li>
  <li>New 'Rate Current Track' and 'Skip Album' menu items</li>
  <li>AppleScript: Add `visible`, `next track` and `previous track`</li>
  <li>AppleScript fix: Allow looking up albums with no artwork, too</li>
  <li>MCP server: Add `next track` and `previous track`</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Style tweaks for sidebar and Now Playing indicator</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.3</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Fixed occasional playback tracking issues that could cause the app to show
    stale track info and prevent the queue from advancing
  </li>
  <li>Much reduced memory footprint when loading album library</li>
  <li>Reduced memory footprint of album wall</li>
  <li>Performance improvements for smoother scrolling of the album wall</li>
  <li>Speed up restoring last playing album in mini player after app launch</li>
  <li>Other minor performance and robustness tweaks</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.2</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>
    Start playing an album by dropping it on the Mini Player when nothing is
    playing (rather than adding it to the queue)
  </li>
  <li>Adds toolbar style toggle for Tahoe</li>
  <li>Update German translations</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Reflect new ratings immediately</li>
  <li>Improves legibility for Now Playing toolbar on Tahoe</li>
  <li>Fixes Mini Player style when Reduce Motion is enabled</li>
  <li>Fixes a rare issue where an album on the queue does not get dequeued</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.1</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Added tessellated background to the space on the wall not covered by albums
  </li>
  <li>Added "Find" menu bar item with Command+F keyboard shortcut</li>
  <li>
    Longplay now parses MusicBrainz IDs from local files and passes those on
    when scrobbling
  </li>
  <li>Updated German translation</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Fixed issue where local player might overwrite remote ratings when updating
    play counts
  </li>
  <li>
    Fixed glitch where playback might start then stop then resume when resuming
    tracks from a spinning disk
  </li>
  <li>Fixed playback of Apple Music tracks that are in state "Waiting"</li>
  <li>
    Workaround for issue where pausing from a Bluetooth device might reset track
    progress back to the first track
  </li>
  <li>Stability improvements</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1</h3>

<p>
  <b><i>Ready for macOS 26 Tahoe</i></b>
</p>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Adds "More" button in various places to trigger album-specific actions
  </li>
  <li>Adds in-app dictionary</li>
  <li>Adds settings to disable the dynamic app icon (macOS 26 only)</li>
  <li>
    Simpler set-up of Claude Desktop using a one-click MCP install file (DXT /
    MCP Bundle)
  </li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Workaround for Apple Music tracks being played in alphabetical order on
    macOS Tahoe
  </li>
  <li>
    Update track list immediately when track ratings is changed externally, too,
    e.g., via sync from different device
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix dragging mini player by the album art if queue list was visible on back
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix for library refresh not doing anything when albums window was closed
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix missing "Hide/Unhide" context actions when viewing smart collection
  </li>
  <li>Switch bug report mechanisms to mails to auto-attach logs</li>
  <li>Minor style tweaks throughout</li>
</ul>
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            <title>2.0</title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:20:22 +0200</pubDate>
            <link>https://longplay.rocks</link>
            <sparkle:fullReleaseNotesLink>https://longplay.rocks/changelog/macos/</sparkle:fullReleaseNotesLink>
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            <description><![CDATA[<h2>New in this build</h2>

<p><b>New</b></p>
<ul>
  <li><b>The album wall is now drawn in Metal, on Mac and iPhone/iPad</b> — one continuous zoom from a few big covers out to your whole library. Pinch on iOS; trackpad, ⌘+/⌘− or the slider on the Mac. Covers stay sharp at every size.</li>
  <li><b>Rainbow sort orders by colour</b> — red through violet, then albums without artwork. Tap the chip again for a diagonal variant.</li>
  <li><b>An all-new first run</b> — Longplay builds your wall in front of you as it scans your library, then hands it over. Upgraders get a What's-new card instead.</li>
  <li><b>An in-app screensaver on iPad</b> — your library as descrambling ASCII album art, from a button beside the wall's controls.</li>
  <li><b>The visionOS immersive wall is rebuilt on RealityKit</b> — far faster and smoother, and it no longer strains the device on a big library.</li>
  <li><b>VoiceOver reaches the album wall</b> on Mac and iOS, and the regular iOS grid, which had none at all.</li>
  <li><b>Longplay Connect gets a guest policy</b> — three trust tiers instead of one on/off toggle. A guest is bound by a preset: View-only, Jukebox, or Full remote.</li>
  <li><b>Your own devices trust themselves</b> through your iCloud Keychain, so they no longer land as guests. The trusted list is account-wide.</li>
  <li><b>Connected Devices names the client</b> — app, CLI, MCP server or bridge — not just the machine.</li>
  <li><b>The dice is the shuffle entry point on iOS</b> — even if nothing was playing yet, so you don't miss out on the animation.</li>
  <li><b>The search bar names what you're filtering</b> — "My Albums", "My Playlists", or "My Library".</li>
  <li><b>One album order, so the picker goes.</b> Digits and symbols file after the alphabet, quotes and brackets are ignored, and Vol. 1 &lt; Vol. 2 &lt; Vol. 10 holds.</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixed</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Tapping a built-in smart collection in the widget crashed the app.</li>
  <li>Hand-picked albums wouldn't play from the widget.</li>
  <li>A crash during library refresh when a CloudKit sync landed mid-fetch.</li>
  <li>Apple Music albums only partly in your library stalled after the first track.</li>
  <li>Bulk actions applied to one album only — "Hide 5 Albums" hid one.</li>
  <li>The Mac crashed when two library reads overlapped.</li>
  <li>A truncated track-number tag in a local file crashed decoding.</li>
  <li>The wall ran a tap behind — tap album B, and B only highlighted once you tapped C.</li>
  <li>Album covers were cached at full quality — one library had 344 MB of thumbnails. Now about a third of that.</li>
  <li>Longer battery life on iOS: Connect and library bookkeeping stand down while backgrounded and idle.</li>
  <li>Disconnecting from a remote player no longer reconnects a few seconds later.</li>
  <li>The mini player showed the local album after an automatic reconnect.</li>
  <li>"Pause after current track" set from a remote now applies on the host.</li>
  <li>Pressing Play on a remote whose player had gone away now offers to become the player here.</li>
  <li>Repeating an album announced "Queued Album" instead of "One More Time".</li>
  <li>ListenBrainz listens are no longer dropped when the server errors.</li>
  <li>The Longplay Connect card floated detached and clipped its last row on iPad.</li>
  <li>A collection could be sized by another collection's statistics.</li>
  <li>A synced shuffle scope could rebuild a different stack on the receiving device.</li>
  <li>Pre-release albums fill in their real tracks once released.</li>
  <li>Hover tooltips on truncated album, track and artist names.</li>
</ul>

<p><b>CLI / MCP / automation</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Infinite Album Shuffle takes a scope: CLI <code>shuffle</code> gains <code>--filter &lt;SmartFilter JSON&gt;</code> and <code>--collection &lt;id&gt;</code>; MCP <code>shuffle</code> takes <code>filter</code> / <code>collectionID</code> / <code>libraryOrder</code>. Status reports <code>shuffleScope</code>.</li>
  <li>A "Start Album Shuffle" Shortcuts action mirrors the in-app control.</li>
  <li>Clients announce a client type — <code>cli</code>, <code>mcp</code> or <code>bridge</code>. <b>Breaking for embedders:</b> the client config now requires an explicit <code>clientType</code>.</li>
  <li>Connect protocol 4 adds owner auth; hosts return a structured <code>pending_trust</code> and advertise each client's capabilities.</li>
  <li><code>rate --stars 0</code> removes a rating.</li>
  <li>Adding to your library verifies the album against the catalog first and errors on a stale URL. The blocking <code>wait</code> parameter is gone, and <code>resolve_album</code> reports <code>inCatalog</code>.</li>
  <li>Bridge: malformed bodies return 400, and a failed operation drops its cache entry.</li>
  <li><code>status</code> reads the end-of-album policy as a sentence; the diagnostics dump prints skip reasons as <code>skip=&lt;value&gt;</code>.</li>
</ul>
<hr/>

<h2>Longplay for Mac 2.0 highlights</h2>

<p><b><i>The album wall, rebuilt in Metal:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>One continuous zoom from a few big covers out to your entire library, on Mac and iPhone/iPad.</li>
  <li>Multi-select, keyboard navigation, and dragging albums out to collections, the queue, or another app.</li>
  <li>A first run that builds your wall in front of you, from your library as it's scanned.</li>
  <li>First-class VoiceOver, on the wall and on the regular iOS grid.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Longplay Connect:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Sync your playback across devices. Leave right where you left off as you switch between them.</li>
  <li>Remote control one device from another, or many others — jukebox mode. Works across iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, and Mac.</li>
  <li>HandOff support.</li>
  <li>Your own devices trust each other. A guest is bound by a preset: View-only, Jukebox, or Full remote.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Hand-pick singles/EPs for inclusion:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Manually opt-in singles, EPs, or imcomplete albums to be shown in Longplay.</li>
  <li>The "hand-picked" search token to check only those albums opted in.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Enhanced search and create smart collections in-app:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Auto-completion to filter by artists, genres, release year, or decade.</li>
  <li>Quickly filter by recently played, added, downloaded, artist or playlist, whether added to collections or not, hidden or not.</li>
  <li>Combine filters and save as smart collections.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Album ratings:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Rate albums, not just tracks. Star ratings appear as outlines on unrated tracks of a rated album.</li>
  <li>Filter by rating, and combine into smart collections.</li>
  <li>Ignore individual tracks within an album so they're skipped during playback.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>Extended support for Apple Music catalogue albums:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Listen to albums not yet in your library: drop a URL on the mini player or your queue, or ask an AI client to queue them up.</li>
  <li>Add to your Apple Music library directly from Longplay.</li>
  <li>Pre-release albums grey out their unreleased tracks and skip them, then fill in the real ones once the album is out.</li>
</ul>

<p><b><i>CLI, for terminal lovers, AI and automation:</i></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Embedded <code>longplay</code> CLI inside the app. Interactive mode for terminal lovers; JSON output for automation. Drives any Longplay over Connect, iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro included.</li>
  <li>Metadata storage on albums and collections — build automations like syncing your collections to MusicBrainz or Discogs.</li>
  <li>An MCP server with a UI: a mini wall of albums right in your AI client, click to play or enqueue.</li>
  <li>Your AI client can suggest Apple Music albums you don't own yet, and play, queue or add them.</li>
</ul>

<p><b>A big lot of UI polish, performance, and robustness improvements, plus:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>An in-app ASCII screensaver on iPad — your library as a calm wall of text, covers descrambling out of it in colour.</li>
  <li>A rebuilt immersive album wall on Vision Pro — far faster and smoother, however big your library.</li>
  <li>Rainbow sort orders your wall by colour, with a diagonal variant a second tap away.</li>
  <li>An audio output indicator — the AirPlay button reflects your current output and updates live on plug/unplug.</li>
  <li>MusicBrainz IDs from local file tags, sent on to ListenBrainz.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
  <li>Keyboard shortcuts now match macOS conventions: ⌘+ / ⌘− for zoom, ⌘⌥S for Show Sidebar</li>
  <li>ListenBrainz scrobbles now correctly tag Longplay as the media player</li>
  <li>Small performance improvements</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.8</h3>

<p><b>New:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Adds setting to disable up-sizing of playing album</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Tweak colour extraction from albums to better avoid poor contrast, and vibrant text on vibrant background</li>
  <li>When getting random albums via Shortcuts and AppleScript, return a new set each time</li>
  <li>Make search more relaxed regarding colons and dashes in titles</li>
  <li>Increase maximum allowed album artwork size</li>
  <li>Fixes handling of non-square album artwork</li>
  <li>Fixes issue where new collection wouldn't be applied when pressing tab key</li>
  <li>Fixes possible scrobbling mismatch of tracks in a playlists </li>
  <li>Fixes an issue where temporary files could accumulate and eat up disk space</li>
  <li>Performance improvements</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.7</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Addresses race condition where previously selected album could resume playing when starting playback of another album right after app launch</li>
  <li>Stability improvements, in particular when encountering corrupted album artwork</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.6</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Fixes a regression where tapping the playing album to pause/resume might need a double tap</li>
  <li>Fixes a glitch where next queued up album might ping pong between two due to a sync issue</li>
  <li>Fixes rare crash on resuming previous album with invalid timestamp</li>
  <li>Improve reliability for the "Show in Apple Music" action</li>
  <li>Make sure albums fill the wall edge to edge</li>
  <li>Robustness fix for showing artworks of recent albums</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.5</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Fix for the tessellated background sometimes not showing up</li>
  <li>Fixed a remaining rare case of playback tracking issues that could cause the app to show stale track info and prevent the queue from advancing</li>
  <li>Fix for album refresh not consistently picking up new albums</li>
  <li>Fix "Open in Apple Music" action often failing</li>
  <li>Fix for offset in track not always getting restored properly after pausing in background</li>
  <li>Revisions to German translation</li>
  <li>Performance improvements and minor style tweaks</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.4</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>New Global Hotkeys: play/pause and show/hide app</li>
  <li>New 'Rate Current Track' and 'Skip Album' menu items</li>
  <li>AppleScript: Add `visible`, `next track` and `previous track`</li>
  <li>AppleScript fix: Allow looking up albums with no artwork, too</li>
  <li>MCP server: Add `next track` and `previous track`</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Style tweaks for sidebar and Now Playing indicator</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.3</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Fixed occasional playback tracking issues that could cause the app to show
    stale track info and prevent the queue from advancing
  </li>
  <li>Much reduced memory footprint when loading album library</li>
  <li>Reduced memory footprint of album wall</li>
  <li>Performance improvements for smoother scrolling of the album wall</li>
  <li>Speed up restoring last playing album in mini player after app launch</li>
  <li>Other minor performance and robustness tweaks</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.2</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>
    Start playing an album by dropping it on the Mini Player when nothing is
    playing (rather than adding it to the queue)
  </li>
  <li>Adds toolbar style toggle for Tahoe</li>
  <li>Update German translations</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Reflect new ratings immediately</li>
  <li>Improves legibility for Now Playing toolbar on Tahoe</li>
  <li>Fixes Mini Player style when Reduce Motion is enabled</li>
  <li>Fixes a rare issue where an album on the queue does not get dequeued</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.1</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Added tessellated background to the space on the wall not covered by albums
  </li>
  <li>Added "Find" menu bar item with Command+F keyboard shortcut</li>
  <li>
    Longplay now parses MusicBrainz IDs from local files and passes those on
    when scrobbling
  </li>
  <li>Updated German translation</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Fixed issue where local player might overwrite remote ratings when updating
    play counts
  </li>
  <li>
    Fixed glitch where playback might start then stop then resume when resuming
    tracks from a spinning disk
  </li>
  <li>Fixed playback of Apple Music tracks that are in state "Waiting"</li>
  <li>
    Workaround for issue where pausing from a Bluetooth device might reset track
    progress back to the first track
  </li>
  <li>Stability improvements</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1</h3>

<p>
  <b><i>Ready for macOS 26 Tahoe</i></b>
</p>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Adds "More" button in various places to trigger album-specific actions
  </li>
  <li>Adds in-app dictionary</li>
  <li>Adds settings to disable the dynamic app icon (macOS 26 only)</li>
  <li>
    Simpler set-up of Claude Desktop using a one-click MCP install file (DXT /
    MCP Bundle)
  </li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Workaround for Apple Music tracks being played in alphabetical order on
    macOS Tahoe
  </li>
  <li>
    Update track list immediately when track ratings is changed externally, too,
    e.g., via sync from different device
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix dragging mini player by the album art if queue list was visible on back
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix for library refresh not doing anything when albums window was closed
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix missing "Hide/Unhide" context actions when viewing smart collection
  </li>
  <li>Switch bug report mechanisms to mails to auto-attach logs</li>
  <li>Minor style tweaks throughout</li>
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<p><b>New:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Adds setting to disable up-sizing of playing album</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Tweak colour extraction from albums to better avoid poor contrast, and vibrant text on vibrant background</li>
  <li>When getting random albums via Shortcuts and AppleScript, return a new set each time</li>
  <li>Make search more relaxed regarding colons and dashes in titles</li>
  <li>Increase maximum allowed album artwork size</li>
  <li>Fixes handling of non-square album artwork</li>
  <li>Fixes issue where new collection wouldn't be applied when pressing tab key</li>
  <li>Fixes possible scrobbling mismatch of tracks in a playlists </li>
  <li>Fixes an issue where temporary files could accumulate and eat up disk space</li>
  <li>Performance improvements</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.7</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Addresses race condition where previously selected album could resume playing when starting playback of another album right after app launch</li>
  <li>Stability improvements, in particular when encountering corrupted album artwork</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.6</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Fixes a regression where tapping the playing album to pause/resume might need a double tap</li>
  <li>Fixes a glitch where next queued up album might ping pong between two due to a sync issue</li>
  <li>Fixes rare crash on resuming previous album with invalid timestamp</li>
  <li>Improve reliability for the "Show in Apple Music" action</li>
  <li>Make sure albums fill the wall edge to edge</li>
  <li>Robustness fix for showing artworks of recent albums</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.5</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Fix for the tessellated background sometimes not showing up</li>
  <li>Fixed a remaining rare case of playback tracking issues that could cause the app to show stale track info and prevent the queue from advancing</li>
  <li>Fix for album refresh not consistently picking up new albums</li>
  <li>Fix "Open in Apple Music" action often failing</li>
  <li>Fix for offset in track not always getting restored properly after pausing in background</li>
  <li>Revisions to German translation</li>
  <li>Performance improvements and minor style tweaks</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.4</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>New Global Hotkeys: play/pause and show/hide app</li>
  <li>New 'Rate Current Track' and 'Skip Album' menu items</li>
  <li>AppleScript: Add `visible`, `next track` and `previous track`</li>
  <li>AppleScript fix: Allow looking up albums with no artwork, too</li>
  <li>MCP server: Add `next track` and `previous track`</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Style tweaks for sidebar and Now Playing indicator</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.3</h3>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Fixed occasional playback tracking issues that could cause the app to show
    stale track info and prevent the queue from advancing
  </li>
  <li>Much reduced memory footprint when loading album library</li>
  <li>Reduced memory footprint of album wall</li>
  <li>Performance improvements for smoother scrolling of the album wall</li>
  <li>Speed up restoring last playing album in mini player after app launch</li>
  <li>Other minor performance and robustness tweaks</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.2</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>
    Start playing an album by dropping it on the Mini Player when nothing is
    playing (rather than adding it to the queue)
  </li>
  <li>Adds toolbar style toggle for Tahoe</li>
  <li>Update German translations</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>

<ul>
  <li>Reflect new ratings immediately</li>
  <li>Improves legibility for Now Playing toolbar on Tahoe</li>
  <li>Fixes Mini Player style when Reduce Motion is enabled</li>
  <li>Fixes a rare issue where an album on the queue does not get dequeued</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1.1</h3>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Added tessellated background to the space on the wall not covered by albums
  </li>
  <li>Added "Find" menu bar item with Command+F keyboard shortcut</li>
  <li>
    Longplay now parses MusicBrainz IDs from local files and passes those on
    when scrobbling
  </li>
  <li>Updated German translation</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Fixed issue where local player might overwrite remote ratings when updating
    play counts
  </li>
  <li>
    Fixed glitch where playback might start then stop then resume when resuming
    tracks from a spinning disk
  </li>
  <li>Fixed playback of Apple Music tracks that are in state "Waiting"</li>
  <li>
    Workaround for issue where pausing from a Bluetooth device might reset track
    progress back to the first track
  </li>
  <li>Stability improvements</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<h3>Version 1.1</h3>

<p>
  <b><i>Ready for macOS 26 Tahoe</i></b>
</p>

<p><b>Improvements:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Adds "More" button in various places to trigger album-specific actions
  </li>
  <li>Adds in-app dictionary</li>
  <li>Adds settings to disable the dynamic app icon (macOS 26 only)</li>
  <li>
    Simpler set-up of Claude Desktop using a one-click MCP install file (DXT /
    MCP Bundle)
  </li>
</ul>

<p><b>Fixes:</b></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Workaround for Apple Music tracks being played in alphabetical order on
    macOS Tahoe
  </li>
  <li>
    Update track list immediately when track ratings is changed externally, too,
    e.g., via sync from different device
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix dragging mini player by the album art if queue list was visible on back
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix for library refresh not doing anything when albums window was closed
  </li>
  <li>
    Fix missing "Hide/Unhide" context actions when viewing smart collection
  </li>
  <li>Switch bug report mechanisms to mails to auto-attach logs</li>
  <li>Minor style tweaks throughout</li>
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    <li>Apple Music playback does not support the in-app AirPlay picker (FB13313634).</li>
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<p><b>Known issues:</b></p>

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    <li>Apple Music playback shows up twice in Control Center and might show outdated information (FB13313624)</li>
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<hr/>

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<ul>
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    <li>Apple Music playback shows up twice in Control Center and might show outdated information (FB13313624)</li>
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    <li>No indication of status when library refresh is active</li>
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