Basic settings are problematic
Hi, the Naxos classical music app switches to the Portrait mode (from the landscape mode)at login and stubbornly persists in this mode after. There seems to be no way to change this in any settings. Neither the Naxos Jazz music library nor the Naxos world music library do this –they're both functional and stay in the same landscape mode after logging in while playing or browsing. Would you be able to fix this issue in the classical music app please? Thank you
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UI isn’t compatible to iPad
Barely can set sleep timer on iPad. The timer list is only partially shown on iPad.
Poor sound
Great coverage of albums but, no matter what data connection I use (WiFi or 4g) the audio quality is terrible. It sounds ‘robotic’ and glitchy as if it’s buffering or over compressed . If I listen via the web/browser the sound is fine, so I can only conclude the problem is the app 😣
Search button is gone
Please, fix the problem on phone and pad application! There's no way to search any longer!
Essential app
Great app with a fantastic selection of music. Would be nice if it supported dark mode and interactive widgets.
login session ends too quickly
Are you afraid of people stealing money from your app? Login expires ridiculously fast. Cannot even finish a symphony
Great music just a little slow
Great music selection and sound quality, the app is just slow to load everything.
Amazing selection, sub-par interface
For classical music, it’s tough to beat the sheer breadth and depth of the Naxos Music Library. The app’s interface for browsing and listening is not on par with the best commercial apps, but it’s serviceable and has allowed me to find both old favorites and some new treasures in the classical realm. My biggest complaint is the app’s odd fixation on “playlists” (consisting of individual tracks) as the primary mechanism for saving and organizing pieces i want to listen to again later. While the app is excellent at highlighting new and featured albums, about the only way to save albums as albums for future listening is to designate them as “favorites.” This is a welcome feature, as far as it goes, but it puts all favorites in one long list (with newest selections at the top) and I would really like a way to organize my favorite albums under named (by me) categories, whether called playlists or themes or folders. I also wish the app could play back tracks from my favorites list randomly, turning my ever-expanding favorites list into my own personal classical station.
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Exceptional Music Selection
As another poster commented, the app user interface could use some tweaking. I’ve found the desktop version a far more satisfactory experience, particularly the option to shuffle ALL of my favorite songs from favorite albums. It’s not an option on the mobile app. Unlike many classical music lovers I’m not fussy about movements in any particular order when I’m on the go. It’s unfortunate that subscription costs prevent more libraries from signing up. It’s a great classical music resource. Thank You!
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I lobe
Awesome. Just amke login easy
Best musical selection, worst app
I’m torn as others are here. I subscribed for 3 years and finally stopped because as others have mentioned you get periodically auto-logged off, making offline listening a game of chance. The interface is nearly impossible for use on tablets/iPads. I love the music selection, but I need a break. I hope Naxos upgrades their app or goes with a different software developer. A library this good deserves a first rate app. For now I’m sitting on the sidelines unsubscribed and waiting.
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Love Naxos, not the interface
As others have commented, the interface could use improvement, but I love the breadth and selection. A huge plus is that you can (temporarily) download for offline listening, great for walking around or taking in the car, but the big DOWNSIDE to this is that this app logs you out at the drop of a hat. Often I load up an album to listen to when not on wifi, only to find that when I want to listen to those tracks, the app wants me to log in again, which I can’t do without turning the app’s cell data on, which kind of defeats the whole thing. Also, who wants to deal with being in “login purgatory” every time you leave the house? Another annoyance is that, even on iPads, the app only appears in “portrait” orientation, which is super annoying whenever you are using the iPad in a keyboard case that works only in landscape mode. Would love to see a couple changes to the interface, as the music selection is fantastic.
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Session expired
I keep getting logged out by the app forcibly even if it’s been one day and having selected “remember me.”
Good but no landscape mode
No real complaints other than it's rather annoying that the app only displays in portrait mode, not ideal when using it on iPad
Amazing selection, sub-par interface
For classical music, it’s tough to beat the sheer breadth and depth of the Naxos Music Library. The app’s interface for browsing and listening is not on par with the best commercial apps, but it’s serviceable and has allowed me to find both old favorites and some new treasures in the classical realm. My biggest complaint is the app’s odd fixation on “playlists” as the primary mechanism for saving and organizing music. While the app is excellent at highlighting new and featured albums, I see no obvious way to save albums as albums, apart from moving all the tracks on an album into a playlist and manually naming it something I hope I can recognize in the future. I would love to be able to move a newfound album into a manually defined favorite folder or category in one step—and then view my favorites as the same mini-album covers shown in “new” and “featured”—but I see no way to do that.
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Offline Access Problematic
It is very difficult to use this app offline (without internet) as you have to sign in each time you access it. If you don’t have internet connection, you cannot sign in. This sort of defeats the purpose of offline access. Please make it so that users don’t have to sign in every time they access the app.
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Too much phone storage used
The app takes more than 1GB memory of my phone. That’s ridiculous!
The gapless playback is awesome. Hope can add shortcuts for accessing the album page of the music being played.
The gapless playback is awesome. Hope can add shortcuts for accessing the album page of the music being played.
Super slow
I spend more time waiting for the app to load than listening to music
Naxos Leaves Much to be Desired
Though the library itself is comprehensive and amazing the app itself is lacking. No horizontal rotation, a colour scheme that hides the cursor in the search dialog, and a flakey saved playlists function are a few of its issues.
Additionally not enough information is stored in the system regarding the different recordings. Screen captures of the album covers are not as useful as the flipside of the cover could possibly be. Ideally the system would also capture and enclosure text of the recording but I can imagine would a huge task this could be.
Bottom line: Great service. Poor app.
Additionally not enough information is stored in the system regarding the different recordings. Screen captures of the album covers are not as useful as the flipside of the cover could possibly be. Ideally the system would also capture and enclosure text of the recording but I can imagine would a huge task this could be.
Bottom line: Great service. Poor app.
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Marvellous selection, terrible app
The selection of music is massive and wonderful, but the app itself is poorly designed: it’s full of bugs, it routinely crashes, and its search function is truly lazy and awful. I have access for free through my university, so I can gratefully deal with the crap app, but don’t pay money for this. The selection is amazing, the app is dreadful.
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