Outstanding voiceover, accessibility, and documentation
Well, the App Store ate my original review. But there’s nothing else like this on the App Store. One of the tips in Help said that if you’re listening to the song, you can find a podcast where that song or artist is mentioned. Continuous play works by after you hit now playing it will automatically pull up all information available as you’re listening. You can customize what information is shown about an album under sections in the app settings. And all of these features are free. I just feel that real efforts have been made to make this app accessible and easy to use. Music Harbor is also a fantastic app.
I agree with the person that bemoaned the loss of the original information from the vinyl album covers. But if it hasn’t been digitized in catalog, there’s nothing that can be done to ever get that back.
I agree with the person that bemoaned the loss of the original information from the vinyl album covers. But if it hasn’t been digitized in catalog, there’s nothing that can be done to ever get that back.
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Great App!
Love this app! Brings me back to when I bought physical copies of albums and would spend time going through all the lyrics and liner notes to find little nuggets of guest appearances, writers and all the other fun facts you would find. It was something I genuinely missed in this digital age of music. Thanks for creating this app!
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Doesn't give enough time to evaluate before buying
I clicked 1 album and then I was blocked, I closed it immediately not knowing this would be my only chance to see what the apps is about. The next day I had another trial and that's it. Know I cannot see anything even after reinstalling the app. I am NOT buying a 25$ app when I couldn't even take 10mins to see if it even interests me.
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LINER NOTES? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING LINE NOTES!
Yes we do! That’s what I thought I was getting. The words “Liner Notes” are below the name of this app. To me, Liner Notes are what is inside the record jacket, on the record sleeve or on the back of the record jacket. Sometimes there wasn’t much but sometimes there were comments by the artists, types of instruments used including amps, pedals, strings, cymbals and even golf clubs. Sometimes there was funny stuff, jabs at other musicians or even song lyrics. There was front cover art. There was back cover art and if you were lucky enough to get a double album there was double notes and art work. I checked before I wrote this and there are no real liner notes here. No inside art, no back cover art, No notes, The explanations included are just there to take up space. Example; Songwriter. A person who writes the song. I’ll keep hoping for change but I wish I had just tried the 1 Month trial before going all in.
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No Liner Notes?
Unless I’m having a difficult time navigating the updated app, it seems like all the actual “liner notes” are no longer available. There’s a wealth of information within the app, and it seems pretty well laid out since I was a more regular user, but the liner notes from old vinyl records that I used to be able to access through the app don’t seem to be there anymore. I imagine it could be a licensing thing, but it’s a shame. And if there are no actual liner notes, it makes the app name a bit misleading.
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Response from developer
Thank you for the review. Please get in touch via marcosatanaka@gmail.com so I can better understand this issue you're seeing and help fixing it.
Really good
This app is amazing!!! I love looking at the album information and the record label the album was released on. The only thing is that the release date on the album is one day off. For example, if the album was released on june 17th 2004, on the app, for some reason it says the release date is june 16th 2004. I wonder is there a way this could be rectified? On all of the albums in the Apple Music library it does the exact same thing. Other than that, I really enjoy using this app!!!
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Response from developer
Thanks so much for your review! I'll see whats going on with the release date, and fix it in future versions!
A good idea, but only for very mainstream tastes
This app isn’t bad, it’s just not very useful. If your musical tastes run even slightly outside of the narrow, current mainstream you are likely to be met with a lot of “there’s no data about this recording” messages.
In short, the app over-promises and under-delivers, and blaming the lack of online data to draw from seems a bit disingenuous.
In short, the app over-promises and under-delivers, and blaming the lack of online data to draw from seems a bit disingenuous.
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Now playing not reliable
I’m on iOS 16.4.1 and think the app is great but doesn’t reliably update the now-playing song info - for example, if I’m playing the an Apple Music Radio station and the song changes I refresh and tap the headphones but it continues to only show me the first song that had been playing.. I can get it to update if I crash the app and then try again and it’ll get the current playing son.
This makes it fairly annoying to use how I want to.
I have also tried with Amazon Music and the now playing doesn’t seem to be picked up.
This makes it fairly annoying to use how I want to.
I have also tried with Amazon Music and the now playing doesn’t seem to be picked up.
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Response from developer
Thank you for the review. I will investigate this now-playing issue when playing radio stations.
Best way to view credits in the streaming era
Been looking for something like this forever
Response from developer
Glad you liked it! Thank you for the review!
This Developer Changed the Way I Experience Music
This app is incredible. So much attention to detail.
MusicSmart and MusicHarbor are a beautiful pair. Both help me to experience more new music and stay in the know of who is making the music behind the scenes.
Fantastic Work.
MusicSmart and MusicHarbor are a beautiful pair. Both help me to experience more new music and stay in the know of who is making the music behind the scenes.
Fantastic Work.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for the review! I'm thrilled to hear that MusicSmart and MusicHarbor are improving your music listening experience!
