Genau das, was ich gesucht habe
Diese App ist genau das, was ich gesucht habe. Endlich kann ich meine Alben so sortieren, wie ich es früher mit meinen LPs gemacht habe. Und sogar noch viel mehr. Möglichkeiten, seine Alben zu sortieren sind schier unendlich. Vielen Dank für diese App, was jetzt noch fehlt, wäre eine deutsche Lokalisierung
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Oustanding
Best music player for Mac (and iOS). Great design and very responsive developed. Highly recommended.
Fantastic App
This app quite literally has revived my love and appreciation for listening to albums front-to-back over the past two years of using it. One of the only apps that’s ever been able to handle a large library. Highly recommend and the premium features are all worth while.
Exceptional app.
This is an exceptional music player.
It has two features that make it special (that I’ve found so far).
The ability to make random playlists from either your entire collection or from particular sections of it, means I’m hearing tracks I had forgotten I owned. And the ability to hear new releases from artists sin your existing collection means I’m hearing tracks I didn’t even realise existed.
It has two features that make it special (that I’ve found so far).
The ability to make random playlists from either your entire collection or from particular sections of it, means I’m hearing tracks I had forgotten I owned. And the ability to hear new releases from artists sin your existing collection means I’m hearing tracks I didn’t even realise existed.
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Great app, but…
Really wanted to love this app but on MacOS it was quite a CPU hog, so eventually I had to abandon it. It’s got huge promise, does everything Apple’s own Music doesn’t do, but even on a fairly modest collection it struggled.
Response from developer
Hello there, thanks for the review and sorry to hear about the performance issues. I’d love to investigate! Could you email me at adam@albumstheapp.com when you have a chance?
Really great music player.
I’ve been using this app for less than a week and so far I’m loving it. As the name indicates, it’s a music player that is organized around albums versus individual songs. This may be in my head, but IMO the sound is better than the Apple Music app itself. (Higher res recordings sound clearer than when I play them through Apple Music.) For sure the interface is more visually arresting than Apple Music, with the album art displayed at a larger scale and distractions kept to a minimum. The paid version also displays lots of stats that you won’t find in Apple Music.
Couple of caveats … 1), this doesn’t fully replace Apple Music. You can’t edit Apple Music track metadata from Albums and, in fact, you can’t even view it. 2) If you have a large library like I do, you probably don’t want to keep both apps open at the same time. I tried it and both Albums and Apple Music crashed at various times. 3) Speaking of large libraries, I noticed that some of my larger playlists don’t display in Albums. The music itself is available, but the playlists are empty. 4) Note that Albums can access Apple Music play counts but it doesn’t work in reverse, at least not for the OS version of Albums. So if I play a track in Albums, the play count in Apple Music is not incremented. However, this is not an issue on the iPhone version.
In fairness, some of these issues could be due to my having an extremely large library running off an older, slower external drive.
If the price for the full version were higher, these caveats might be significant enough to lower my rating. But, for the price, I find this a 5 Star Player with a captivating interface. It’s a really nice add on to Apple Music and makes it fun to listen again.
Couple of caveats … 1), this doesn’t fully replace Apple Music. You can’t edit Apple Music track metadata from Albums and, in fact, you can’t even view it. 2) If you have a large library like I do, you probably don’t want to keep both apps open at the same time. I tried it and both Albums and Apple Music crashed at various times. 3) Speaking of large libraries, I noticed that some of my larger playlists don’t display in Albums. The music itself is available, but the playlists are empty. 4) Note that Albums can access Apple Music play counts but it doesn’t work in reverse, at least not for the OS version of Albums. So if I play a track in Albums, the play count in Apple Music is not incremented. However, this is not an issue on the iPhone version.
In fairness, some of these issues could be due to my having an extremely large library running off an older, slower external drive.
If the price for the full version were higher, these caveats might be significant enough to lower my rating. But, for the price, I find this a 5 Star Player with a captivating interface. It’s a really nice add on to Apple Music and makes it fun to listen again.
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Well-crafted listening software for serious listeners
I’ve been using Albums for years to organize and listen to my Apple Music library. It’s been the best way to listen in an album-centric way for years, and it keeps adding new features that add depth without burying the core UX in complexity. Daily-use app from an excellent creator!
5 stars
Literally my favorite app, used daily
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I just keep on finding useful features! It’s a godsend!
If the Apple Music client feels a bit lacking to you, get Albums. In one place, I can have last.fm scrobbling, large album artwork view (with UI coloured to blend in), collections, stats, and so on. Then there’s the release feed and shareable listening reports. I keep finding new features, it’s so comprehensive. I love it, it’s my default music app - I hope the ability to play your own files gets added, as that would just make it perfect! 👌
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i don’t write reviews — this app the exception
it’s like the developer crawled in my head and made the exact app i didn’t know i needed. i prefer to listen to albums front to back — the way the artist (and the good lord) intended. this app has helped me rediscover so many albums i love but scrolled past for years. it’s also so visually pleasing to use while still being feature rich and incredibly customizable. seriously, thank you for developing this!
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Love it
Best music app , I like it
1 fix you need to do
When you’re in an album in the app, would it be possible if you could do fullscreen album art as well as on the lock screen just like Apple Music does please and thank you.
Also, I would love the app to be able to go into landscape plz and thanx.
Also, I would love the app to be able to go into landscape plz and thanx.
1 fix you need to do
When you’re in an album in the app, would it be possible if you could do fullscreen album art as well as on the lock screen just like Apple Music does please and thank you. That would be great other than that. Great app.
Best Apple Music client
This is how I want to listen to my music. I love it.
Wanted to love it, but it keeps crashing
I love the concept, but the app keeps showing me a spinning beach ball when I scroll down the list of tracks of certain albums. If it were more stable, I’d totally buy it.
Great app
A really great app for music lovers. You can organize your entire catalog and get rid of a bunch of other apps at the same time. I bought the lifetime version and I'm completely satisfied. Don't miss out on it!
Great concept, but with some data issues
As someone who remembers the days of collecting and listening to entire albums, I love the idea of this app and subscribed for a year to see how much I use it. Unfortunately, I may be turned off simply by the effort needed to correct the data for each album / song in my library. If I have to manually adjust release years and tell Albums that the thousands of individual songs in my library are not complete albums, I may give up. Also, Albums uses Musicbrainz and Discogs for info, and while I use Discogs…I have to say that Musicbrainz must be a dumpster fire of bad data. Albums that Discogs correctly identifies as a 1991 release show up as 1947 in this app. Album Art that shows up correctly in the library view and in Album Settings is wildly incorrect while playing…and I mean not the correct album, not even the correct artist. There doesn’t seem to be any way to correct this either since I’ve deleted the cache and it still persists.
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Response from developer
Hi there, thanks for the review. I’d be curious to learn a little more about your library — each of these things is unexpected behavior, and I wonder what’s embedded in the files themselves. Feel free to email adam@albumstheapp.com if you’re up for a little troubleshooting.
It needs only 2 updates it desperately needs a landscape mode and a fix for the song that’s playing
Please fix the app so it doesn’t auto-reverse after a song ends. Apple Music handles this perfectly. Thanks!
Doesn’t allow local music importing into the app
The Albums app does not support direct importing or scanning of local folders/files on your computer independently. Instead, it relies on your system's music library managed by the native Apple Music app (formerly iTunes). You'll need to add your music there first, and Albums will then access and display it for playback and organization. Big question…. WHY?!?!?! I don’t use Apple Music (whatsoever). You made an incredible looking and nicely featured app, and I was so ready to purchase the lifetime license…and then I realize that for whatever weird reason, you don’t let me even import my music directly into your app (locally saved and owned music). Therefore, the app went from super-exciting, to ‘can’t even use’, and I don’t see it plainly mentioned in the app description unless I somehow missed it. Please add the feature to directly import my music folder into your app and scan the web for metadata, and if you must integrate with 3rd part music apps, then please add VLC functionality, or pretty much anything but Apple Music. I will never use Apple Music/iTunes, ever. Then it’ll go from 2 stars to 5 stars. Thanks for your consideration.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the excitement and feedback about Albums, even if it doesn’t have the functionality you’re looking for. Local file support is on the longterm roadmap, but it will take a while to get there. In the meantime, I wanted to note that the first words of the App Store description are “Albums is the Apple Music player that puts you in control of your music” and I try to make clear during the first-install onboarding that it requires access to your Apple Music library to play music. I’m not trying to deceive anyone that the app does something other than what it says on the store.
