Sorry for the Hateful Review
Subscription Based is Financial R***
Response from developer
If you consider this app is not worth the subscription, nobody forces you to subscribe and use it. Thus, it is not a scam, neither a theft. Especially as it can be used without subscriptions, albeit with many advertisements and a limited number of available melodies. I don't see the reason for butthurt.
Subscription Based is Financial R***
Response from developer
If you consider this app is not worth the subscription, nobody forces you to subscribe and use it. Thus, it is not a scam, neither a theft. Especially as it can be used without subscriptions, albeit with many advertisements and a limited number of available melodies. I don't see the reason for butthurt.
Pointless
Response from developer
I believe, it is actually 146 melodies, if you unlock all of them by subscribing. No Legends of Zelda songs, because copyrights - the app does not generate nowhere near the profits necessary to pay for rights to include notes of copyrighted melodies. Thus, it only includes free melodies from the public domain, otherwise it can't exist at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The (only) creator sure could have done something better than this, but that would require a lot more efforts, and involvement of additional people... again, at the moment the ends don't meet - the app does not generate (and does not seem to have a potential to generate) nowhere near the profits necessary to finance that, thus the creator dedicates most of his time for full time work on other, commercial projects, and does not have resources to pay for additional professionals necessary to make this app better. Negative reviews, complains about abundance of advertisements, locked melodies, and overall hesitation to subscribe for any, but perfect app also aren't helpful for advancing such small, niche projects ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Profiting off the public domain
Response from developer
Right, this app presents songs and melodies from the public domain in the way that helps learning how to play them. The music in public domain may be free, but the labour of software engineer, and the butter on his bread, are not; thus subscription model in the app is required to make it financially feasible (as the matter of fact, so far revenues from this app do not cover the cost of efforts spend on it). The costs of printing rights, needed to include non-public-domain music into the app are, on the other hand, just prohibitive - to be financially feasible with non-public-domain music this app would need at least x100 times larger user-base and revenues. If you believe there is a problem with music key, please provide more details - if there is a bug, it sure can be fixed.
