Leave a Review Magic Piano
Game is dead to the developers…..
I’ve been playing Magic Piano for about 10 years. It’s good at what it does, and new users will likely enjoy it for some time. However. I’ve made numerous attempts to get a meaningful reply from customer support and the developers, and never received more than a thanks we’ll forward your concerns. The single most bothersome thing about it is the composer mode. Sure, this allows for people (some extraordinarily good at it) to add songs to the game. Seems great. Here’s the problem…. If I spend untold hours of my time going through the painstaking process of placing hundreds of individual notes, I get nothing in return but ratings from other users. Those other users are spending in game currency to play the song you put on there. It’s not free. The developers are further profiting from this practice. Also, anyone can modify and upload it as their own with minimal changes. This has created sometimes hundreds of duplicate or near duplicate copies of someone’s very hard work. I’ve seen numerous prolific “composers” stop adding new music, or, deleting their accounts and originals altogether. My last unanswered email to the developers referenced all of this, including that I would no longer be financially supporting the app with a subscription. So, to the public it goes.Show lessdaveandy1
Developer Response
Hey, we are here to assist with anything you experience while using Magic Piano! You can contact our Support team so we can help you sort this out and go back to creating amazing performances! You can reach us here: https://smule.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/newWe are always here for our users!Even Mad Men didn't have this many ads
I loved Smule when I first played it several years ago. I decided to come back only to find almost all of my songs in my library paywalled. And then there's the ads. So many ads. Too many ads. I hope you like coloring book ads and bootleg Chinese app games and their stock songs, because I guarantee you'll memorize the ads and their songs before anything in your actual Smule library. What makes it even worse is the fact that 99% of all the songs are now 25 Smule points. Even unfinished user pieces. And to make the ad situation even more humiliating, if you watch an ad for the free Smule there's a 50/50 chance you won't even get the Smule point for wasting your time playing one stupid ad. Adding further insult to injury is the fact that each song. No matter how short. How long. Or even if you're replaying it, is met with a 30 second ad for an app or game you'll never consider downloading after it plays for the millionth time. Go play a different piano game, or better yet learn to play the actual piano. I guarantee there'll be less ads, and you'll probably learn the instrument in the time it would take you to earn 25 Smule points.Show lessThe Diddly Doodly Diddlywanger
Really fun but needs fixing
I really enjoy playing this game.I have for a long time. But oh god this game has probably the most irritating bug in any mobile game. The majority of songs are “unplayable” due to lack of connection, even though I am connected to the internet. What’s even more absurd is that i can still open these songs in the editor and publish them myself, and then they work! The game is locking me out of songs for no good reason. This NEEDS fixing. While there is a work around, its time consuming and very irritating. This isnt the only thing that needs fixing. If there is a large intentional gap between notes in a chart, and you wait the appropriate amount of time before playing the next note, it counts as a miss for waiting too long. Even the “learn this song” feature that plays the song for you will wait the long amount of time. But when you do it yourself, it counts as a miss. These issues along with ads after EVERY SINGLE SONG keep this from being 5 stars. And seeing as the game was last updated 9 months ago, I don’t think it will be updated again.Show lessdienomite55
Best Piano Game!
This game is super fun and I have been showing it to my class every week! Though…the ‘report’ button is right next to ‘back to songbook’. I keep pressing ‘report’ accidentally instead which makes me feel bad to the creator. And most of the time I press it on my favourite songs to play, so if you can move the report button into a corner or on the top, that would help a heap. Either than that, best piano game that I have played!Show lessTheSmartestGamer7362
Apple, and Other Devices
Cloud Nineteen here again; the problems on apple are when you look at songs in previews, it doesn’t show the actual gameplay, and like others have said before, the latency, or the notes don’t sync when you hit them. They are really off, and it makes you lose your combo/streak when you try to hit them. You also Have to spend coins to listen to your own songs, and you can’t even listen to your OWN songs for more than 30 seconds; it just brings you back to the menu screen after listening to it for 30 seconds just like how it does this for every other song in the game. Here are the problems on every device; please stop cutting off the songs when we listen to them in the previews; it’s very annoying, plus, most of the songs we listen to on previews are songs we probably can’t even play in the first place since it requires so much smoola for just one song, so all we can do is just listen to 30 seconds of a song because of it. Another problem on every device is that you can play bot your levels; you can just press play on one of your songs, and it will count it as a play when you look into your level again, and, you can open someone’s song in “Composer,” not even edit anything, and still publish it because you can just add one note, delete it, and then publish it, and it will work; also, for some reason, starting on November 25th, you’re not able to preview and publish your levels anymore; it keeps saying that there is a problem, and to please try again.Show lessddddwes
Developer Response
Hey there, please contact us at support@smule.com. We will look further into your case and see what we can do for you.Stop linking my account
This is the 3rd time you did this to me. Stop linking this app with your sing app! I had so many songs unlocked on my other account now they are all gone!!!! Now I have that stupid twinkle twinkle star bull crap! And I have to restart! This same thing happened a few months a go and it also happened last year. stop.. Linking... The. ACCOUNTS!!! I literally watched so many stupid ads to get all the songs I wanted! And I completed so many achievements! BUT GUESS WHAT!! THEY ARE ALL GONE!! You need to do something about this, because this is ridiculous! Alone, I spent like 100 minutes to get all the songs I had! I had 87 freaking songs from using the smola from advertisements! All gone... The achievements, all gone.... I didn't mind it as bad the past 2 times because I didn't have many songs.. But this time really upsets me. Do something about it. And you know what else???? I tried to get the other account back, but when I tried it said it was linked to another account and I couldn't get it back.... Change that otherwise I'm deleting it.Show lessdarkiplier1
Disappointed
I had this a long time ago as first ree thrn premium . I had fun but got a bit too busy so cancel it. This time I’m still busy but have a little more told so I thought I would get the ‘free with advents version ‘ as I wasn’t going to use it much.
So sad find I t’s absolutely impossible to use now! I have just deleted the app 30 monies after downloading! There is an advert after every song that not only lasts an age but is impossible. I kept waiting for the x as usual on add. - but nothing . If you try everything that looks halfway like an exit and it tries to load it the advertised game - it’s infuriating . I restarted the app three times and sat through three adverts ( but I could at least close the start up ones )But each time ended up with an advert after one song that i couldn’t close no matter how long I waited or what I did ,
I am paying the same amount if money this app is asking , for industry standard art tools- i am just not going to shell out almost £10 on a app that’s so old and so basic process just because they have made the freebie
unusable ! Bye bye app . Very disappointed !Show lessHagwithaBag
Money grab
This is a good concept, well executed, until it was covered in ads. On top of that, there is a subscription for $15 a week, that is far too much to pay for far too little. I feel like this is designed for young kids to some how get the subscription since their device is linked up with Apple Pay or something.Show lesshulahupa
Not the app I remember
I remember playing this when I was a kid and I loved it but greed has ruined the app completely. I re-downloaded it recently and was offered a free trial. Everything was great, the songs were good, you could find basically any song you want and there was no ads with the free trial. After the trial ended all the songs I’d played and added to my songbook I now had to pay for with coins which are ridiculously hard to get. But I thought I’d give it a chance anyway and try to earn some so I decided to try and lvl up by playing the “free” songs but after clicking on it I had to watch an advert, then I played the song which of course I didn’t know any of the free songs as they weren’t well known ones and after that I got another advert. It’s hardly playable and there’s more ads than gameplay. I even thought about paying for vip but that’s ridiculously expensive for a game!Show lessMillie.E.Collins
Ehh.
There’s too many adds and plus the pink notes literally ruin certain songs.Catcufflings
