# MonkeyMote Music Remote HD — user reviews > 35 indexed App Store user reviews of MonkeyMote Music Remote HD by Martin Tofall, rated 4.50/5 from 53 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/monkeymote-music-remote-hd/id534978426/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/monkeymote-music-remote-hd/id534978426.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 36 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 4 ## Newest reviews (10 of 35) ### 5/5 — Great remote for WinAmp *2014-06-13, version 1.4.2* If you use WinAmp, this works great as a remote. It's a lot like Apple's Remote app for iTunes. I won't get into why I like WinAmp so much better than iTunes (for Windows), but for those that agree, and still use WinAmp, this app does some nice tricks and works well. I use it to control a large MP3 library for home listening on a little netbook connected to my living room stereo, and it works great for that, with nice playlist control and browsing features. Developer updates features and fixes bugs regularly. Make sure you keep the companion WinAmp plugin updated, too. ### 5/5 — Fantastic and seamless *2013-10-22, version 1.3.1* Media monkey is the best music app on the market and this remote works extremely well. I have vcmote as well but I find this app a little better ( so far) in that it synchronises differently. No off line mode, but that is not a problem for me anyway. I particularly like the screen setup and sizing on monkey mote - very good use of the space. ### 5/5 — Awsome *2013-07-19, version 1.2.1* Excellent for parties. ### 5/5 — App is so good... *2013-06-11, version 1.1.4* This app is so good that I am dedicating an iPad to it. I'm going to hang an iPad on the wall in my family room so I can control and play my music collection any time I want from that spot. My windows machine with my 200,000 track media monkey library is hooked to my main stereo system in the family room. Now my system is complete, great big sound, big speakers and fingertip control to play music. This app is fast too, it has no problem loading auto playlists that have 10,000 tracks! Unlike the media monkey web interface which breaks with big libraries. I love this app, I can hide my dedicated windows machine now that I use to maintain my music and video library, and just have this on the wall for remote control. The ultimate bachelor pad! Anyone using MM will love this app, especially if your computer is hooked to your main entertainment system. I prefer hooking my computer directly to my DAC then to the stereo because I can play high nitrate files that typically don't play on my receivers dlna client. So this app basically allows me to have the best of what dlna does but allows me to use my high end DAC. Also having this hanging on the wall is great for the whole family, I don't have to worry about someone deleting my music and the music library is basically an appliance, easy and always available. This is by far the best add on anyone can get for media monkey. ### 5/5 — Super duper! *2013-04-26, version 1.1.4* This app is simply awesome! Lets you control your music collection from the comfort of your arm-chair! ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2013-03-11, version 1.1.1* Works flawlessly. I couldn't ask for more. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2013-01-19, version 1.0.8* A wonderful companion to MediaMonkey. works flawlessly with my home setup. One thing would make it better would be a view that's similar to the stock Music app: A full screen cover mode. It's available on the iPhone version of the app, but it seems to be missing on the iPad version. (Unless of course it is there and it's just hiding from me :-) ) ### 5/5 — Great *2013-01-11, version 1.0.8* Great app to use with Media Monkey. No need/use for iTunes. Remote access to my FLAC library ... :) ### 5/5 — Excellent *2012-12-07, version 1.0.7* Does exactly what it should. Stable and lightweight. The only way to improve is to allow app to control Window7 system volume OR Mediamonkey volume as a user setting. Browse by other Mediamonkey library nodes would also be nice but probably hard to do ### 5/5 — Simple and Fast *2012-12-05, version 1.0.7* I was amazed at how easy it was to setup. No firewall issues, just install and go. Editing the playlist on the fly is a great feature. I'm just hoping for ratings on the search results screen - hope it happens in a future version! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — NOT compatible with MM5 /2024 *2025-08-09, version 1.8.3* This will work, - but it throws up error messages in windows when you play an mp3 from explorer etc. It states that MM is running in portable mode, (it isn’t). And that it’s MM4 that’s running and not MM5/2024. The command .\MediaMonkey.exe /elevate /regcomserver does not cure the issue. I know I downloaded the correctly labelled add on from the mediamote site, But strongly suspect the add on I actually received was for MediaMonkey 4 and not 5/2024. I’m just glad it wasn’t that expensive. Still disappointing though… ### 1/5 — No pono support *2015-10-17, version 1.6.1* Does not work with pono version of Jriver. ### 1/5 — Large album covers cannot be shown *2013-08-17, version 1.2.2* Some large album covers still have problem to be shown. ### 2/5 — Cannot support folder browsing *2012-11-27, version 1.0.7* Buying this app for browsing my video and music library on my pc using MediaMonkey. Issues: 1. Cannot support folders browsing as in the foobar version 2. Cannot switch to full screen video via the remote ### 3/5 — Almost but not quite *2018-03-22, version 1.8.2* A reasonable remote for the money. Needs the ability to be able to direct the music output to a device of your choice. Playlists is cluttered, not reflecting exactly the playlists created on JRiver. ### 3/5 — Good but not perfect *2015-11-12, version 1.6.1* I use this with Mediamonkey. It works well enough, was easy to set up, and loads and navigates much faster than the Apple remote app (which is perfectly fine in its own right). I would like to see it able to reflect more of the functionality of MM, like multiple collections, and to allow browsing and playing within playlists, but for its basic purpose it works really well. I would also like to see AirTunes output integrated into the app itself - although to be fair it's not really integrated properly into Mediamonkey yet. One functionality bug - it doesn't handle single albums split into multiple discs correctly. This could be related to tag types, but certainly causes issues on my collection. ### 4/5 — Works in my crazy network *2017-01-16, version 1.6.3* I have an old Dell laptop as my media server using JRiver. The Dell's wireless card stopped working, so I used a Network Repeater to give me a wired connection between my router and my Dell. The repeater is limited to 2.4 Wireless N, while my router is a dual band Wireless AC. Initially, MonkeyMote couldn't find my laptop across the 5G connection to my router. So I tried connecting my iPad to the Wireless Repeater (which is what my Dell was plugged into) and MonkeyMote had no trouble finding my lapt. I resigned myself to the slower speeds of the repeater initially, but got so ticked off that I decided I would simply change my WiFi connection on the iPad whenever I needed to control MonkeyMote. To my surprise, using the 5G connection on my iPad, MonkeyMote was still available. Whether this is due to MonkeyMote or the two routers, I'll never bother to figure that out; it just works without any issue. As far as MonkeyMote, the media interface is far superior than Apple's own Remote app to control iTunes. Once I got it through the networking hurdles, it has been flawless at controlling JRMC. For $3, I am surprised at how well it works. The folks at MonkeyMote deserve an AttaBoy. ### 4/5 — Balance please *2014-09-21, version 1.4.4* Wonderful app, the only thing it's miss is the ability to adjust balance. ### 4/5 — Works well with my iPad mini *2014-02-02, version 1.3.4* Did not configure itself automatically but this was probably my fault. I set up connection to media monkey on my PC using simple instructions on the monkey mote website no problem. Very handy app. ### 4/5 — Almost perfect *2013-10-28, version 1.3.1* An amazing app.Does everything you want it to do, except connection between server drops quiet frequently whitch I find very annoying, that you have restart aimp on your PC and app on my iPad.Please sort it out for a 5 star rating. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Media Monkey *2017-04-23, version 1.7* Works great with iPhone and iPad. Live it. ### 5/5 — Takes some Practice *2016-09-10, version 1.6.3* Trying to keep things aligned between devices and stereo is a job, but is unavoidable. Nail down the addresses. ### 5/5 — Monkeymote *2016-05-30, version 1.6.3* We have been using Mediamonkey for our home music system for a several years and have been using Monkeymote for over a year. Monkeymote is far superior to our old standard using Apple Remote on an iPad. It is much, much faster to show the albums in a large music collection, which was my growing complaint with Apple Remote. It also has superior displays of the music playing and queued. Recommended highly. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2016-05-19, version 1.6.3* This is one of my best apps. Awesome! ### 5/5 — Great App *2015-10-14, version 1.6.1* Monkeymote pairs so well with Media Monkey Love it ! ### 5/5 — Easy access *2015-10-03, version 1.6* I have almost over 3 terabytes of lossless music on my hard drive. Any album, artist or song is a couple taps away on my iPad. Bliss. ### 5/5 — Great app, works great with my iPad! *2015-03-28, version 1.5.6* Sit on the back porch and control the music, have the full media monkey on the computer and works sooth as silk. ### 5/5 — Great app for remote control of computer based music libraries *2015-03-06, version 1.5.6* This app does what it says it does and it does it easily..from set up to actual use. Reminds me of the feeling that I got using VisiCalc for the first time on an Apple II so many years ago. Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Thanks! *2014-12-12, version 1.5.3* This app rocks. Period. ### 5/5 — Monkey mote *2014-08-14, version 1.4.4* I use with Mediamonkey on PC and control with iPad. No longer running back and forth to switch songs and turn down volume. monkey mote on ipad throughout the house. Great app. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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