Great app, but doesn’t work in iOS 8 and is slow
This is an incredible music player. I have tried almost every 3rd-party music player for iOS (both paid and free), and this is definitely the best in most ways. However, there are a few major issues that make it a 1-star app for me.
It looks and functions exactly like the built-in music player in iOS, which I find to be great because it’s a good interface. It also has many great features that the built-in app lacks:
- 10-band customizable equalizer, so the audio can be customized just like in iTunes on a computer. It also has automatic gain control to adjust the preamp level to ensure that the music never clips if, for example, you increase the bass a lot.
- Cover flow can be disabled. This is a big one for me and many others because I find that cover flow is a huge nuisance. In the past it always forced me to disable screen rotation throughout all of iOS just to make sure cover flow doesn’t show up when I tip my device ever so slightly.
- Music can be loaded from sources other than iTunes
- Song info, such as genre, track number, comments, etc can be viewed. It can also be edited if the song isn’t synced from iTunes.
- Better control and features for creating and editing playlists than the built-in app
- Screen dimming can be disabled when the device is charging and playing music
- Has a “Car Mode”, which makes text large and easy to see at a glance in a car
However, there are a few major issues with this app, which is why I am giving it 1 star. If it weren’t for these debilitating issues, this app would definitely get 5 stars and would be well worth the $3 price:
- It doesn’t work in iOS 8. It will open and almost everything functions, but music will not play.
- It is very slow. It takes a while to load each screen, go through playlists, etc. This also results in delayed reaction time to button presses. It is even slow on newer devices like the iPhone 5S.
- It doesn’t run properly on older devices. For example, on my 4th-gen iPod Touch it will only play 2 or 3 songs in a row before it crashes or won’t play music anymore. Closing it and restarting always fixes this, but this is a huge inconvenience.
- It doesn’t show playlists in folders. So, if you’re like me and you have a few hundred playlists organized very neatly into dozens of folders in iTunes, these playlists will show up in this app in a single list in alphabetical order.
It seems that the developer hasn’t updated this app for a few years, so I’m not holding my breath that it will be fixed. But if it does then it would definitely be the best available.
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