great local music player!
i’d been using another music app for years until finding minimoon and i’m so happy to replace the other. i love the large artwork that fills my phone screen and being able to edit metadata of my files directly within the app. this was an easy purchase for the extra features. would’ve paid twice as much!
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Good App! Would Enjoy More UI Minimization Options
This is a really good app! I used to use foobar2000, where a lot of basic features (such as a music queue) were missing. This app has far more features and I’ll likely be sticking with it.
Features/Settings I wish were added:
- Disabling Ambient Mode (glow when playing songs).
- Separation of Loop and Shuffle between Collections and Albums. Spotify has this; shuffle and loop state is attached to each Collection/Album instead of being based on when it was last enabled/disabled. Maybe add as a setting?
Li’l Extras:
- Proper playtime/play count tracker for Listening tab. Currently, if you skip a song, it will count the entire song as being listened to, even if you only listened to a few seconds. I’d also like if tracks only counted as a play if a minimum time or certain percentage of the song was played (maybe make this time/percentage a setting if possible!).
- Way to reset playtime and play count (because of issue above).
- Optional time/date tracker for playtime/play count, so you could see a timeline of what you listened to.
Features/Settings I wish were added:
- Disabling Ambient Mode (glow when playing songs).
- Separation of Loop and Shuffle between Collections and Albums. Spotify has this; shuffle and loop state is attached to each Collection/Album instead of being based on when it was last enabled/disabled. Maybe add as a setting?
Li’l Extras:
- Proper playtime/play count tracker for Listening tab. Currently, if you skip a song, it will count the entire song as being listened to, even if you only listened to a few seconds. I’d also like if tracks only counted as a play if a minimum time or certain percentage of the song was played (maybe make this time/percentage a setting if possible!).
- Way to reset playtime and play count (because of issue above).
- Optional time/date tracker for playtime/play count, so you could see a timeline of what you listened to.
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Just needs carplay support to be perfect.
I’ve been using the app for a few months and it has allowed me to give up 99% of music streaming and allowing me to listen to my local music library again. Love how it organizes your screen by recently played and favorited etc. I just wish it had more integration with carplay. It still plays via “now playing” but I would love the ability to choose my own collections through the car screen rather than having to physically grab my phone to change music. Add that and it will be a perfect app for me.
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The Best
Simply the best music player for local files I’ve found—and I’ve tried quite a few. There are a few minor, technical frustrations, but very understandable for a single-person developer. Two that come to mind are (a) a crash when dealing with the collection menus, and (b) the last.fm scrobbling feature does not have an offline log that I can figure out, so if you listen without wifi or cellular, those scrobbles are gone, unfortunately. Would be nice to see this feature!
Quick tip for other users: Use Opus! It becomes transparent at much lower bitrates than mp3, ogg vorbis, &c.
Quick tip for other users: Use Opus! It becomes transparent at much lower bitrates than mp3, ogg vorbis, &c.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the kind review. Please contact me at info@plastaq.com and I’ll try to figure out your collection crash.
Great App
The app feels quite nice, it would be nice to be able it to pull from a local dnla server to bypass the stupid apple devices path altogether. One thing that is missing is a CarPlay 👍 I found a few bugs that are quite critical to having a great experience. The random button does not work. It will play the original track that you selected many times. If you click on a track within an album and hit random to play the album in a different order the tracks will play like 5>9>5>7>7>5>5>5>2. Secondly the queue next button doesn’t work as it will insert the track in a random place in the queue. I really like this app but these features are quite essential for me so it’s important that they function.
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Response from developer
Random just plays random items from the play queue. If you want to shuffle an album use the shuffle button on the album page.
Great App
The app feels quite nice, it would be nice to be able it to pull from a local dnla server to bypass the stupid apple devices path altogether. One thing that is missing is a CarPlay app but other than that it does exactly what it is designed to. 👍
No Playlists
Really good player but not having the ability to make playlists is a huge dealbreaker
Response from developer
Playlists are called collections in the app and have all the functionality of playlists and more, including sophisticated smart collections.
good player, bad importing
seems like a good player, it’s just that whenever i import any music, the player makes the artwork of all of them VERY low quality, and that’s just a big gripe for me. otherwise id be using this all the time
Response from developer
The artwork is shown at full resolution on the album page and the full screen view. The app imports all your art at full resolution and doesn’t alter it in any way.
Best Music Player
This is legitimately the best music app I have ever used. It is fast, responsive, and uses wonderful gestures like being able to swipe right from pretty much anywhere to go back, instead of having to go all the way to the left edge. Also, the Mac app and the syncing between the two is so easy and reliable.
It is also clearly designed by someone who loves music. The support of the opus codec, the last.fm integration, the focus on albums, being able to favorite and rate songs/albums, and the statistics are wonderful. Being able to edit the metadata in the app is great.
If there was one nitpick, it would be that I wish the search functioned slightly different. How it works is I have to type out “poison the well” to find the band, but I would LOVE it if I could just type “poison well” and it return what I am looking for. I don’t know why, but I do not like typing articles into searches, so maybe it’s a me problem.
It is also clearly designed by someone who loves music. The support of the opus codec, the last.fm integration, the focus on albums, being able to favorite and rate songs/albums, and the statistics are wonderful. Being able to edit the metadata in the app is great.
If there was one nitpick, it would be that I wish the search functioned slightly different. How it works is I have to type out “poison the well” to find the band, but I would LOVE it if I could just type “poison well” and it return what I am looking for. I don’t know why, but I do not like typing articles into searches, so maybe it’s a me problem.
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Response from developer
Thanks for your kind words about the app! I agree about search. I’ll add that to my to do list.
Easy to use 🌙
Would love a YouTube player on the app so you can listen and stream music 🫶🏻
Aesthetic and functional music player
Minimoon is the only music player I have been able to find on iOS that combines ease of use, functionality, and superb aesthetics. I have only had issues with one aspect; synced lyrics. As far as I’ve seen after experimenting, the player does not support embedded lyrics. It instead displays them as they’d appear in an .lrc file, i.e., [timestamp] (lyrics), as well as not syncing with the song. If this feature could be added it would boost this to a five star perfect app for me. Also, if I’m doing something wrong and the player does support embedded lyrics I would appreciate if the dev could tell me what I’m doing wrong. Otherwise, love the app and I would recommend its one-time purchase for the full version! Btw I love the icon, it’s very charming.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the kind review. You’re right that currently synced lyrics only work in external lrc files but the next update will add support for synced lyrics in tags too.
Superb Music Player
The new UI revamp is beautiful, I honestly like it better than Apple Music’s UI. The home page is amazing and the new features are neat! I really like when you scroll down an album by an artist you can see all related albums by them. 5 stars for not collecting data!
EDIT: If possible please add a filter in the favourites tab for song and album favourites <3!!!
EDIT: If possible please add a filter in the favourites tab for song and album favourites <3!!!
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3.0 Update
Love the app and new look is nice. Some issues I noticed: In Home Screen, Most Played track list will only play the top #1 item when clicked, ignores clicking any other tracks. Albums Tab is sorted in a way that isn’t obvious, with no options that I can find to control sorting. There doesn’t seem to be a way to reorder tabs like the last version, I definitely want Home, Artists, Genre at the top so they appear on the bottom bar, the last version let you do that.
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Response from developer
Thanks for your feedback. The latest version brings back the tab reordering feature and a 3.2 update is coming soon that should fix several other issues including the most played tracks click issue.
Excellent app, receptive developer
excellent music player for a large library shared between different platforms, the developer is super receptive to feedback as well
Solid
Simple design, modest pricing, great free sync tool for windows/mac. Refreshing to see, and I appreciate the album-centric focus.
My only gripe is this, and my main reason for writing the review: My music library has no cover art attached to the files, and instead has a folder.png/cover.jpg image in the folder for the album art, as it cuts down on file size. This is common practice in a lot of online circles. minimoon seems to have a hard time figuring this out, and i’m hoping it’s not because of metadata/cover art editing being locked behind the paywall. I’d prefer to not have to edit them on my phone.
Consider it a feature request. I’ll definitely support the app if it goes through, as I respect this a ton.
My only gripe is this, and my main reason for writing the review: My music library has no cover art attached to the files, and instead has a folder.png/cover.jpg image in the folder for the album art, as it cuts down on file size. This is common practice in a lot of online circles. minimoon seems to have a hard time figuring this out, and i’m hoping it’s not because of metadata/cover art editing being locked behind the paywall. I’d prefer to not have to edit them on my phone.
Consider it a feature request. I’ll definitely support the app if it goes through, as I respect this a ton.
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Response from developer
Thanks for your feedback. Cover art in separate files should work. Can you please contact me at info@plastaq.com and I can take a closer look at your case?
W app
no other local music player lets you sync between pc and ios so quick and easy, the companion app is a godsend
Best local music player I’ve found
This is by far the best local music player for iOS I have found, I’ve tried quite a few others but this one seems to recognise the tracks tags the best, it has a really nice layout and is very easy and intuitive to use.
love it its so smart
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 love it good luck
The best music app on iOS period
This is genuinely the best music app on iOS, I can’t even think of another app with lyric support, an equalizer, the ability to shuffle albums, and just fast and reliable playback. I use it every day and I’ll never go back to a streaming service!
Almost Perfect
Literally the only thing change is a cleaner UI and more options for customisation such as OLED Black other than that PERFECTTT
Response from developer
Thanks for your kind words about the app. If you have any suggestions for improvements please send them to me at info@plastaq.com.
