My favorite offline player!
I’ve tried several offline audio player apps, but Pentaton is hands down my favorite. Music sounds absolutely fantastic. I love all the EQ settings and the super clean UI design. Bravo! Purchasing the lifetime access was an easy decision!
Great features (Playlists! comprehensive EQ!) but needs polish
This might be (one of?) the only “offline” or “local” music player that actually supports playlist files (eg. .m3u files).
Feedback: The UI is still a bit janky in places. This includes
* rare glitches (eg. pressing “edit sections” a few times sometimes causes the app to freeze)
* 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)
Otherwise, this is a great tool for anyone 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
Feedback: The UI is still a bit janky in places. This includes
* rare glitches (eg. pressing “edit sections” a few times sometimes causes the app to freeze)
* 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)
Otherwise, this is a great tool for anyone 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
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It was my fault
It’s now working as it should. Thank you very much for the quick and friendly support – I’m happy to pay for it.
Response from developer
Hey Alain, I'd very interested to learn what didn't work for you. hello@pentaton.app
Very nice - but expensive
Foobar2000 stopped working after the latest update - so i needed something that just works to play offline music - this music player works very nicely but it’s expensive
I was ready to take out a subscription
I was hoping for a good listening experience. But my frustration with an app that doesn’t work properly outweighs that. I also use Doppler, which recognises my library instantly, even when a new album is added. Pentaton doesn’t. When the app does work, it’s an incredible listening experience, but that happens very rarely. Perhaps it’s down to nearly 60 GB of FLAC, AAC and a few MP3 files. But actually, that shouldn’t be a problem – other apps like Doppler manage it too, except that Doppler doesn’t offer Hi-Fi or an EQ. Most folders also contain a cover image, which the app unfortunately doesn’t display either.
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Response from developer
Hey Alain, I'd very interested to learn what didn't work for you. hello@pentaton.app
Question
Can I connect my Google Cloud to this app?
Shuffle and playback buttons
The app is really good but I wish i can have access to shuffle and playback buttons which is i rate the app 4 stars
Response from developer
Hey there, long-press the play/pause button and you'll see the shuffle and repeat modes.
Good
Good
Amazing!
I’ve been using the app for a few months and it’s getting consistent updates with insanely useful features! there are very few flac apps that have a queue feature that works like any of the major streaming apps and i’ve had nothing but positive feelings using this to play my 10k+ songs. + as i add more it seamlessly adds them into my library as soon as they make it to my phone
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Excellent stand alone player
I am a long time user of digital media, having the original MP3 players and iPods when they were first available. I have been wanting for some time to get back to that no-nonsense experience where I can put my own libraries on my own device and use them without curation as a playback device. Apple now goes out of their way to make this use case very difficult. iTunes has messed up my music libraries several times and I have gave up on it. Pentaton is the best app I’ve came across that embraces this standalone use case (I had previously used Foobar2000 and VLC, plus some poorly executed iPod clones). The polished experience the app offers is worth the price - on the phone and with car play it “just works” in the manner I would expect it to. Rather than invest in an expensive standalone player, I think you are better off with a high capacity modern iPhone paired with this app. If you are looking for a well built standalone music player for iOS, you will not go wrong with this app.
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Not worth it
UI looks good but I wont be using this app past the free trial. The lifetime license is WAY too overpriced ($55 AUD) for what it is… a LOCAL music file player.
Also, paying a yearly subscription for this is just ridiculous.
Also, paying a yearly subscription for this is just ridiculous.
谷歌邮箱可以联系到开发者吗
虽然是刚上市不久的播放器，但是功能已经很成熟，开发者也在积极迭代更新，希望经过和开发者的反馈，小问题可以已经解决，现在人工智能发达，开发者一个建议，用AI写程序会简单很多，最后希望开发者越来越好
Works well with large libraries
Love it! Tossed a 35,000 song library at it completely unsorted in a rats nest of poorly named folders using no organization strategy whatsoever and it built out a library with ease. Any chance we could get a shuffle all songs option sometime in the future in CarPlay? It doesn’t seem to be able to handle this size of library on the tracks page in CarPlay and the app crashes sadly. That would put this up there with Poweramp. Great stuff!
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Good App but Missing...
Limited functions in carplay. Artwork, previous/next song does not appear in carplay. Have to use phone.
Missing some features
I’m on an iPhone SE 2022 and I can’t really see the parametric EQ visualizer, it’s squished at the top of the screen. Otherwise great app, I wish it had shuffle for tracks/albums/playlists.
finally
ive used pentaton now for maybe 6 months? i was looking for a way that i could play the music library i own without having to push through multiple ads and streaming landing pages. ive mostly switched back to my 2009 vid ipod for music, but i did want a "bridge" app (for lack of a better term) that i could play my synced library on my phone also if i wanted to. this has fit the bill perfectly. it has all the most simple and necessary functions of a music player. it looks very similar to the way the original itunes organized things, and easily syncs your itunes music. it is SHOCKING how difficult it is to find something that just lets you play your music, and as far as i can tell, this is the only one. 5 stars.
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音质很好 功能性欠佳
希望可以看到歌曲封面和歌词 类似于apple music那种 再就是可以随机播放以及歌曲定位 目前来看泛用性不是很广 优化一下买单的人也会多一些 因为音质已经很好了
Great UI and app
Might be nice if we have queue features like rearrange etc. Albums is just empty not showing like other apps. Option to save eq as a file will be good to have.
Fantastic app!
I love the App As I've Installed had this for a while. It has returned in a lot of ways Since purchasing Pentaton LifeTime there are some Perplexities I have found to notice, even After installing the Latest updates for every supported Apple OS that I have: Tracks can spontaneously pause after being left in the background with the screen off; New users might find there to be more of a learning curve as new features get implemented as opposed to legacy users. A tutorial of some variety might be useful in the future; Relaying semantics and location of Pentaton playlists and their assorted contents between devices via .m3u8 file Seems to persistently fail regardless of playlist size or how symmetrical those devices respective library contents are to each other. It just says sync error and it gets the name of playlists correct while leaving the playlist empty. I don't know precisely causing all of this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯...Just mine perspective though So hope that This helps. Cheers!
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Great app .
Exactly what I was looking for when I wanted to move my music offline and control my own tracks . Happily a lifetime membership owner .
Response from developer
Thank you!
