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šŸ„³ Happy Thursday! Iā€™m excited to release the big 2.0 update to my album player @longplay today.

Where 1.0 focussed on discovery and the album wall, 2.0 focusses on the listening experience and organising your albums.

There's a now playing screen, album shuffle, CarPlay and more. Free update for existing users.

Read about the story behind the update and what's next:
https://adrian.schoenig.me/blog/2023/08/31/longplay-2.0/

Row of four iPhone screenshots: - The album wall, which now has a collection picker - The new now playing screen, including a shuffle button - The various sort orders, including the new Memory sorting - An in-app dictionary of the sort orders

I wouldn't have gotten to this by myself. So it's time for kudos!

Thanks to all the beta testers for their feedback. The many kind words let me push through phases of low motivation. In particular special thanks to @nier for his invaluable and detailed feedback, and helping fine tune the behaviour of that fun shuffle button.

Also thanks to @ivanski for his detailed feedback on the initial release, which inspired quite a few under-the-hood improvements in 2.0.

Many many thanks to @stroughtonsmith, @jsnell, @marcoarment, and everyone else who helped spread the word on the initial release, which really helped a lot. Marco, sorry to keep you waiting so long for a Now Playing screen.

Thanks also to fellow music app developer @adamlinder for the kind exchanges and his App Store review-related suggestions. If Longplay isn't quite for you, @albumstheapp probably is!