Terrible app
Great speakers, let down by this noddy app. Trying to get two minirigs to connect to each other is like an endurance test. Not for the faint of heart.
Intermittent connection and pairing
I spend more time waiting, trying to troubleshoot to connect one or both minirig speakers to my iPhone. So, so, frustrating!
Fab speakers, appalling app
The speaker hardware is amazing, sound wise they blow the competition out of the water. The app is simply appalling.
Disappointing support of the app and the speakers
The speakers always lose their stereo pairing and have different levels. The app is of little help and also always loses its settings. I don’t know how many times I deleted all my bluetooth connections and reset the speakers.
Incredibly frustrating
I have to agree with previous comments about this app unfortunately. A product as good as the Minirig speaker deserves an app equally as good, otherwise the whole experience is a let down. I bought 2 speakers for stereo sound and the battle I have to go through to get them to both link to my phone is ridiculous! Sometimes it won’t work at all and will stubbornly just play through one, sometimes after minutes of constant trying it will link both and play great but then intermittently drop out of one speaker, and very occasionally it will play through both from switch on without any issues at all. There seems to be no other explanation for this other than a general disregard for users of the app - almost as if it’s just an afterthought! “We got your money and now you’re on your own” kind of thing. Such a shame because they are great speakers.
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Fantastic Hardware, Poor Quality Software
As so many have already stated, MINIRIG are excellent portable Bluetooth speakers from a boutique company.
They have come up with a rather unique interface with respect to the audio jacks on the units and their function, but learning curve for effective usage is not terribly intimidating.
That said, using the speakers can quickly become far more frustrating than it should be when they don't work as expected, which happens often.
This experience is further exacerbated by the app, which is needed to view, update, and validate numerous important settings on the speakers, which is an absolute necessity given their hyper-minimal one-button design.
This design decision is fine; I like the idea on paper, but when 95% of the user interface of the product is in software, that software mist be reliable, and reliable it is not.
I could pardon the lack of UI polish and superfluous bloat (I have no idea who the target demographic is for the Mixtapes feature) if the features that were promised (by virtue of being in the app) actually worked, but many do not.
Connecting to a speaker can itself often require an inordinate amount of troubleshooting, including (but not limited to) performing a factory reset on the speaker. When one finally does succeed in getting the app to connect to a speaker, other issues quickly arise: settings aren't remembered after being changed and UI bugs prevent the user from changing certain settings with confidence.
All of this can conspire to create a scenario wherein during a "live" setting, you may spend upwards of 10 minutes troubleshooting connectivity issues and/or drop-outs even if only trying to use the speakers in wired mode – and especially if trying to use them in wireless mode.
I think MINIRIG have nailed the product vision and hardware design, but going forward they will need to invest considerable resources into their firmware and app to make the product one I could feel comfortable recommending to someone else.
They have come up with a rather unique interface with respect to the audio jacks on the units and their function, but learning curve for effective usage is not terribly intimidating.
That said, using the speakers can quickly become far more frustrating than it should be when they don't work as expected, which happens often.
This experience is further exacerbated by the app, which is needed to view, update, and validate numerous important settings on the speakers, which is an absolute necessity given their hyper-minimal one-button design.
This design decision is fine; I like the idea on paper, but when 95% of the user interface of the product is in software, that software mist be reliable, and reliable it is not.
I could pardon the lack of UI polish and superfluous bloat (I have no idea who the target demographic is for the Mixtapes feature) if the features that were promised (by virtue of being in the app) actually worked, but many do not.
Connecting to a speaker can itself often require an inordinate amount of troubleshooting, including (but not limited to) performing a factory reset on the speaker. When one finally does succeed in getting the app to connect to a speaker, other issues quickly arise: settings aren't remembered after being changed and UI bugs prevent the user from changing certain settings with confidence.
All of this can conspire to create a scenario wherein during a "live" setting, you may spend upwards of 10 minutes troubleshooting connectivity issues and/or drop-outs even if only trying to use the speakers in wired mode – and especially if trying to use them in wireless mode.
I think MINIRIG have nailed the product vision and hardware design, but going forward they will need to invest considerable resources into their firmware and app to make the product one I could feel comfortable recommending to someone else.
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Gain
Please consider low gain as the default or a way to switch it in the firmware using the speaker button
Great speaker… but the app is horrible.
Minirig should take notes from UE Boom app. Let us save custom EQs. Make it connect faster. All around, the app is awful. Speaker would be so much better with a functioning app.
Utterly frustrating
Seriously it’s difficult to imagine a company would release a product so unready for consumer use. I can’t even begin to criticize anything in particular because the whole thing is so broken. Major buyer’s remorse.
The speaker is a miracle!
But, the app is trash. It’s actually better on Android and that’s the only app I’ve encountered where that is true. It runs constantly in the background and yet you can’t silence background activity in the appropriate system menu for this app, at least in iOS 14. It crashes and fails to connect unless you force quit the app. This desperately needs a ground up rework.
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