# HiChord - New Ways Play Music — user reviews > 8 indexed App Store user reviews of HiChord by Zili Zhang, rated 4.80/5 from 25 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hichord-new-ways-play-music/id1326625098/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hichord-new-ways-play-music/id1326625098.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 22 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0 ## Most critical reviews (8 lowest-rated) ### 3/5 — What did you do?? *2019-09-17, version 1.8.0* This was my perfect go to app to jam my tunes on shuffle... now you try to throw in random songs from Apple Music that I don’t want to hear. That stops the whole playlist from continuing. Sorry, but honestly if I wanted unfamiliar songs thrown in I would listen to Pandora or something. You had a magically useful random feature, but I am looking to only random my own music, and I can’t find a way for Apple Music to leave me alone. **Developer response:** In the last code review, I found a bug in Song Shuffle which may mix songs from HiChord Recommendation/Feature songs into local songs. It is fixed and will be included in the next release.  However in your case, in the middle of playlist, there should be no insert of Apple Music songs. I can only think of a situation of Always-Continue feature, which is to replace with a local song for bad network in the events of song switch and when playing progress is not moving. However in that case, the replacement should be a local song from your library, not from Apple Music, or unless found nothing in local library then a played track from HiChord Recommendation/Feature will be used. Maybe there is another hidden problem which I haven't figured out.  I indeed thank you for "liked" HiChord and really appreciate you taking the time to have written the feedback. Would you drop a message at webmaster@octamusicapp.com with a little more details on the problem? Thank you so much! ### 5/5 — Wen Fan *2019-05-24, version 1.7.1* Great music app! Teens love it! **Developer response:** 🙏😊 ### 5/5 — Highly recommended *2019-03-30, version 1.6.5* Love this app once found the shuffle 3 times option ; ) later found that the HiChord playlist 35 songs opens up my beautiful imagination of songs, not even that but HiChord could even centralize songs from othe app playlists. Just the first day, love it, the founder must make countless efforts in it!!! Thank you deeply!!! **Developer response:** Thank you indeed! ### 5/5 — Playlist *2019-03-23, version 1.6.4* Version 1.6.4 can add song to a playlist while listening. The changing background colors look nice. Thanks the developer **Developer response:** My pleasure! If you have any feature request please let me know. Thank you very much for your long time support! ### 5/5 — Dr. *2019-01-02, version 1.5.3* I was looking for alternative Apple Music player and so far Hichord is the best third party Apple Music player I ever used. Background playing, streaming iCloud Music library, headphone control all works perfectly. It is easier to navigate than the system music App. The album and playlist shuffle features are cool. I especially like the tracking new songs feature. I was listening to old songs and the next moment the new single is in the mix. Thumbs up! **Developer response:** Thank you very much! ### 5/5 — Love the update *2018-10-23, version 1.4.2* The new update is incredible it exactly what I envisioned for a music player app! Keep it up! **Developer response:** Thank you very much! I am working very hard for v1.5, which will incorporate much of the Apple Music contents and with lots of other improvements and bug fixes. Hope you will like it too. ### 5/5 — Much more than I expected *2018-08-21, version 1.4.0* I must confess that I did not expect too much about this App, but it turns out to be amazingly good! **Developer response:** Thank you very much! ### 5/5 — Game changer *2018-04-15, version 1.2.1* As a fan of album shuffle, I have been disappointed that this feature has been discontinued on the iPhone. OctaMusic changes all that. The app is also much more robust than what I was necessarily looking for, so I look forward to exploring all of its functionality. When I had a minor issue with the way it was sorting my music, the developer was super-responsive and had a fix for the problem within just a few days. I’m very pleased and impressed with this app. **Developer response:** [updated 20180416] Thank you for you kind review! Enjoy! [updated message]: 1.2.1 is up. Fix for the reported bug is included. Please evaluate and Thanks! Hi there! Sorry I just read your review. Indeed it is a sorting bug! Because the order of the query results from Apple API could be out-of-order, mostly likely related to the order of syncing, I have to re-sort the results. However I only sort by track number and forgot disc number. Thank you very much for pointing out! I just fix the bug and managed to submit a new build before Apple review. This new version 1.2.0 comes with an important new feature of music recommendation based on Apple Music. It is waiting for review now. Hope it will get through very soon. Thanks and enjoy! Zili Apr 8th, 2018 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*