Music sounds better than it has in a long time
Really love how easy it is to pick my headphones and have the EQ dialed in right away without messing with a bunch of settings. My music sounds better and I have been enjoying my collection a lot more because of it.
AAlawayy
Artists
Some artists are not visible in the list
MMythicblade_
Response from developer
Yes, by default Pentaton hides artists with just a single track in your library. If you want them to show, you can turn this off in the Settings app under Apps/Pentaton
Awesome Music Player!
The app works great! I love that there’s built in EQ with specific settings for different headphones. Playback is seamless like advertised, and the app support is amazing! I had an annoying bug that made it difficult to use the app, but a quick email to the developer was all it took to get things taken care of. My only gripe would be the playlist feature which feels a bit clunky because there isn’t an easy way to just play or shuffle play the playlist. This should make sense if you use the app. I rarely use the playlist feature though so it’s a minor gripe. I love this app!
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EEthanOign
Where is equalizer presets?
They all just gone
SSarastus
Response from developer
Hey, they should be back with 2.0.3 or later.
Buggy mess with some great features (Playlists! comprehensive EQ!)
I liked the promise of this app - it might be (one of?) the only “offline” or “local” music player that actually supports playlist files (eg. .m3u files). But it’s a bit of a buggy mess and the UI is still a bit janky in places.
Bugs/glitches
* Sometimes albums aren’t recognized as albums despite metadata (seems to affect mp3 files exclusively; app still displays album titles but does not show in list of albums)
* Can’t consistently add/keep files with special characters in filenames to playlists - not even pound character “#” (which us not escaped correctly for the m3u/m3u8 format, therefore fails to parse every time library is reloaded, and the app is also unable to parse the properly urlencoded-form)
* Pressing “edit sections” a few times sometimes causes the app to freeze
* Sometimes the lock screen / control center buttons (prev/next track) will freeze and become nonresponsive
* If library is saved into iCloud, sometimes the app gets into an inconsistent state where it fails to load any track (greyed out as if file not found), and requires closing and reopening library folder.
Unintuitive design - swiping the playback bar to go to prev/next track works the opposite from most other apps (with no option to invert controls)
I would have loved this, as someone who
* doesn’t want to be locked into a streaming service
* is tired of iTunes randomly obliterating playlists during sync
* wants to build a platform-agnostic, interoperable music library, that can be copied between desktop and mobile devices (without going through a laborious import/export process), is usable from most standard music players, & is entirely under their control
I still think this app has great potential; I’d like to see if that bears out in the coming months.
Bugs/glitches
* Sometimes albums aren’t recognized as albums despite metadata (seems to affect mp3 files exclusively; app still displays album titles but does not show in list of albums)
* Can’t consistently add/keep files with special characters in filenames to playlists - not even pound character “#” (which us not escaped correctly for the m3u/m3u8 format, therefore fails to parse every time library is reloaded, and the app is also unable to parse the properly urlencoded-form)
* Pressing “edit sections” a few times sometimes causes the app to freeze
* Sometimes the lock screen / control center buttons (prev/next track) will freeze and become nonresponsive
* If library is saved into iCloud, sometimes the app gets into an inconsistent state where it fails to load any track (greyed out as if file not found), and requires closing and reopening library folder.
Unintuitive design - swiping the playback bar to go to prev/next track works the opposite from most other apps (with no option to invert controls)
I would have loved this, as someone who
* doesn’t want to be locked into a streaming service
* is tired of iTunes randomly obliterating playlists during sync
* wants to build a platform-agnostic, interoperable music library, that can be copied between desktop and mobile devices (without going through a laborious import/export process), is usable from most standard music players, & is entirely under their control
I still think this app has great potential; I’d like to see if that bears out in the coming months.
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Uuser713908754128
Response from developer
If you're willing, could you drop me a line at hello@pentaton.app, I'd like to learn more about the issues you encountered and fix them.
