Longplayer

Name: Longplayer
Price: 3.99 USD
Rating: 4.6 (11 reviews)
Author: The Longplayer Trust

By: The Longplayer Trust

Music

Features & Capabilities

Longplayer: a thousand years of music in your pocket!

Not recommended for versions of iPhone lower than iPhone 5.

Longplayer is a musical composition that has been playing since the beginning of the year 2000, and will play on, never repeating, until it reaches the point at which it first started, exactly 1000 years later. Longplayer is in effect an everlasting piece of music; its score mirrors a planetary system, six musical events whose orbits come into phase once a millennium.

Until now, Longplayer has only been accessible by visiting a handful of "listening posts" or via an online stream.

This app is the first standalone version of Longplayer, creating the music in real time based on the composition's thousand-year-long score. It requires no data connection and automatically synchronises itself with every other copy of the app across the globe. With this app, you become part of a community of listeners distributed through space and time, across many lifetimes.

real time high-quality playback of Longplayer, with no need for a data connection
plays in the background: listen to Longplayer while you continue to use other apps, and while your phone is locked.
real time score display
graphic and textual information explaining how it works
detailed information section about Longplayer's history, development, composition, conceptual background and much more
up-to-date news from the Longplayer website (data connection required)

Recommended for headphones or external speakers.

Watch a short video explaining Longplayer: http://vimeo.com/94166447

Longplayer was composed by Jem Finer and commissioned by Artangel in 1995. It is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

The Longplayer Trust

Rating:

4.60

(11) 0.30

Version:

1.0.1 Last updated: 2015-06-22

Version code:

837150902

Creation date:

2015-06-22

Compatible devices:

Size:

70.24MB

Price:

3.99

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-07

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# 363,218 ▼ 51,804

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Developed by:

The Longplayer Trust

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/longplayer/id959561382

User Reviews

I just recently learned about Longplayer and I think it’s a brilliant concept and a lovely thing to listen to. The app itself is pretty basic. It’s cool to see how the Longplayer loop was made and to see where it’s at in real time and I love that it plays in the background if you go to some other apps. My issue is that, if you switch to another app that requires sound, while it’s playing, the sound goes off (that part makes sense) unfortunately, after this happens the only way to get Longplayer to start playing sound again is to restart my phone. I wish there was a reload button or something like that. I would give it five stars, but I’ve had it the app less than 24 hours and I’ve had this problem three times already. Hoping someone will do an update before the thousand years is up.

by do*****, 2025-12-14

I first heard about Longplayer 15 years ago during a London visit. Evolving from the original listening posts, the ability to now walk and listen to the composition ‘live’ on my iPhone is a marvel. I often have the app running for hours at a time, streamed through a Bose speaker at home. I’ve gifted the app a number of times to friends and family, all have enjoyed it. A version of the app for AppleTV would be appreciated. Namaste.