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Needs a lot of work

I am reviewing this app as a customer of the Populele 2.
This has the bones of something promising, but right now it’s basically an alpha product at best. The library is fairly empty; has a few Western songs in it (about 20 - but that’s counting nursery rhymes!) and the rest are Eastern artists I’ve never heard of. That wouldn’t really matter if the tracks included the music, but of the 5 tracks I’ve tried so far only one included the original music. The tracks without the original audio don’t even approximate it by playing the transcribed notes, which is a strange and jarring omission for a music app.
Couple this with random error messages and poorly translated English, and it makes for a very disappointing experience. It is a poor companion to the Populele 2.
Hopefully it is improved significantly over time to match the quality of the Populele 2’s hardware, as the promise of this app is really the only reason for buying the instrument.

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#ops

3 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your support and advice,we will continue to improve.

This app is an embarrassment

I received my Populele 2 Pro. The instrument looks nice and appears well-built. Unfortunately, it plays like a much cheaper instrument but is fine for an instrument to learn on. But here’s where the problems arise. The Populele app is wretched and quite literally unusable. The app is incapable of hearing my strumming and so I can’t even get through the basic lessons. Lesson downloads are incredibly slow, if you stop a lesson while it’s playing it continues playing in the background requiring you to “force quit” the app. Every time the app launches you have to reconnect the Populele manually. It’s not even fair to discuss the limited song availability when not a single song downloads. I’ve tried about thirty songs all of which fail to download. I tried on WiFi, on Cell, everything I can think of. Please tell me a significant app update is coming because as is, the promises of Populele 2 are completely unmet. I am left with a foul sounding instrument that also lights up and a non-functional and ugly app that looks like a spawned bastard of Windows Vista.

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iamblued

3 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your support and sorry for the situation, since the app has been updated, please download the latest version and try to use it again.

can’t create an account

Latest apple ipad operating system, US version
I have removed the original version populele and retried the latest popumusic apple app
scanned the mailed QR code to download and then
manually removed and directly down loaded again from the app store
did multiple attempts with multiple emails to generate an account
(even tried password recovery)
the emailed code for verification ( comes quickly) immediately fails
I do not have a facebook account to link
sent an email asking for help but no reply
liked the original version with the older uke, have not been successful with the new U1 version Uke and the new Popumusic app
looking forward to an update ( or getting smarter on what to do)

The videos themselves are golden. But app will switch between English and Chinese without warning. Not that it would matter if you can’t understand. Try going back and fixing these issues. Would go a long way to helping bring this instrument to those worried about learning. Had this been my only experience, I would of felt completely lost and discouraged.

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Father Hensley

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your support and sorry for the situation, since the app has been updated, please download the latest version and try to use it again.

Needs improvement

This app is still very buggy at this time, and is not terribly friendly to English speaking users despite being marketed to an English speaking audience. The instruments themselves are beautiful but not much use if you can’t use the training software. Hope to see improvements in the near future that will justify the expensive guitar/ukulele purchases.

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