A rare gem
A rare gem of an app that works for you, not against you, allowing you to customise the player to display the information you want (star ratings for me). How software should be! Thank you!
Invaluable music app
Nothing compares to Marvis nothing is better for rediscovering your own music collecting
Great customisation, but unreliable
I bought Marvis many years ago and keep coming back to try it, because I love how you can customize everything, and there are so many useful filters, etc, which I'd love to use with Apple Music.
But it is so often unreliable. At the moment, for example, it just can't play any music. I have no idea why. I tap into a playlist, select a song... and it won't play. Regardless of which player is selected. Maybe the answer is to delete it and reinstall, but I just don't want to live my life constantly doing that, with what should be a straightforward music app.
But it is so often unreliable. At the moment, for example, it just can't play any music. I have no idea why. I tap into a playlist, select a song... and it won't play. Regardless of which player is selected. Maybe the answer is to delete it and reinstall, but I just don't want to live my life constantly doing that, with what should be a straightforward music app.
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Marvis Pro Rocks!
Lets you organize/customize your music library into sections so you can quickly just play something. Sort it. Filter it. Search it. View it differently (better). Create tabs with whatever criteria you want. Want just Jazz from the 1950’s, no problem. Want all your Albums organized by year? All your wife’s favourite albums? A playlist that randomly choses 25 Rock songs every time you play it?……. It’s endless.
You can display anything (playlists, songs, genres) as albums covers. And You can display 2, 3, 4 per row.
You can sort by so many more ways than the Apple app.
This app takes away so many Apple Music app limitations. I can view my library much easier. It looks so much better. I can find things much easier.
If you use JRiver or Roon or a product like that, you can do a lot of the things they can do.
I am listening to more music as a result.
It takes a bit to wrap your head around how to do it all, but once you get it, it’s awesome. And so is the support. I had a great back and forth email chain with the developer and learned a lot.
You can display anything (playlists, songs, genres) as albums covers. And You can display 2, 3, 4 per row.
You can sort by so many more ways than the Apple app.
This app takes away so many Apple Music app limitations. I can view my library much easier. It looks so much better. I can find things much easier.
If you use JRiver or Roon or a product like that, you can do a lot of the things they can do.
I am listening to more music as a result.
It takes a bit to wrap your head around how to do it all, but once you get it, it’s awesome. And so is the support. I had a great back and forth email chain with the developer and learned a lot.
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Near-perfect music app, with one horrible defect
Interface: perfect. Customization options: terrific. This is the only music app I would ever need... but for one infuriating problem.
For some reason, the app continually shifts to displaying ONLY downloaded music, rather than my full music library. I can't tell if this happens whenever the app silently updates, or if there's some godforsaken multitouch trigger that I'm activating without knowing it, but the bulk of my library suddenly vanishes. Search breaks. All music views break. What's more, toggling that setting back requires me to leap through 3-4 finicky and obscure menu screens, in addition to closing whatever series of contextual views I have open.
This might sound small, but it's enough of a pain—and happens frequently enough—that I still keep Apple's default music app on my lock screen, even though it's inferior to Marvis in every other way. This bug is just that bad. Bad enough that it can genuinely kill an otherwise good mood.
When Marvis works as it ought to, it's terrific. But I cannot in good conscience recommend it to others.
For some reason, the app continually shifts to displaying ONLY downloaded music, rather than my full music library. I can't tell if this happens whenever the app silently updates, or if there's some godforsaken multitouch trigger that I'm activating without knowing it, but the bulk of my library suddenly vanishes. Search breaks. All music views break. What's more, toggling that setting back requires me to leap through 3-4 finicky and obscure menu screens, in addition to closing whatever series of contextual views I have open.
This might sound small, but it's enough of a pain—and happens frequently enough—that I still keep Apple's default music app on my lock screen, even though it's inferior to Marvis in every other way. This bug is just that bad. Bad enough that it can genuinely kill an otherwise good mood.
When Marvis works as it ought to, it's terrific. But I cannot in good conscience recommend it to others.
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