Custom album covers
App is great.. it would be nice if I could add my own album covers to playlists though sadly this app isn’t updated anymore
great way to listen to snes music!
totally worth the upgrade as-is for the quality and convenience, thanks! would be so great to see a search feature, art uploading/fetching, and queues someday. alphabetical ordering also seems somewhat unusual, but nothing experience-breaking. appreciate the app!
Consider finding something else if you want an NSF player.
The app refuses to load several of the NSFs I have, won't even try to let me rename anything, and if I remove anything from my songs list it crashes 100% of the time.
Just use chiptune.app instead
This app requires that you upload your own files and then has the gall to demand that you pay money to listen to more than 5 or 6 of the files that YOU uploaded.
chiptune.app (a free website) does everything this app does, and it does them better. Don't waste your time with this.
chiptune.app (a free website) does everything this app does, and it does them better. Don't waste your time with this.
Utterly Perfect - Playlists Would Be Nice
I didn’t know how much I needed this app in my life. Only thing I would add is Playlist support but either way easy Premium purchase.
App does not work
No songs. Nothing. Apparently failed with iOS 15 and was never updated. Should be removed from store. Do not pay for functionality.
Great, the broken. Reinstall wants second pay to upgrade
I loved this app, even upgraded to premium,until it stopped playing anything. I deleted and reinstalled. It asked me to upgrade to premium…again!
Does not work
This app is a good idea, but it doesn’t work
What’s this track’s name?
I want to love this app, but it is kinda hard when everything displays as Track 14 and Track 33. Why can’t we import NSFE files? Immediate 5 star with that one change.
iOS Equivalent to Droidsound-e??? A Worthy Successor to NoiseES NO Doubt...
However, some features still lacking... Like a built-in tag editor and playback of Genesis tracks in VGZ and SNES in a compressed RSN format and a choice of customizing audio quality settings (playback and sample rates, equalizer and stereo expansion) similar to Droidsound-e, among others...
Broken in iOS 15
This app appears to be useless in iOS 15. All my songs are gone, all my lists are empty, and nothing will actually import. Also, tapping Playlists crashes the app.
Response from developer
Thanks for the review. The latest update should resolve the issues with iOS 15!
High hopes but hasn’t worked out
I was a big NoisES user, and basically every chiptune player I’d found for iOS was just… too bulky or came with seven thousand hours of unremovable pre-installed music. So, was happy to find this app.
On the plus side: it’s minimal, it has all the functions I’d want, and it plays just fine.
However, in my ~3 days of use, this app has been seriously buggy. A selection:
— loading files from iCloud or Google Drive does not recognize .nsf files. At all. It will load .7z or .zip with an .nsf in it just fine, but trying to add the .nsf alone doesn’t work (its greyed out)
— songs work fine, for a while, but within a few uses of the app, the songs remain in the UI but playing them does nothing. If you look at the “Voices” menu for those songs, they’re empty, so there’s nothing to play
I assume these are growing pains of the project, so I’ve got high hopes for the future, but for now I think I’ve got to shelve this until some of the kinks get worked out.
On the plus side: it’s minimal, it has all the functions I’d want, and it plays just fine.
However, in my ~3 days of use, this app has been seriously buggy. A selection:
— loading files from iCloud or Google Drive does not recognize .nsf files. At all. It will load .7z or .zip with an .nsf in it just fine, but trying to add the .nsf alone doesn’t work (its greyed out)
— songs work fine, for a while, but within a few uses of the app, the songs remain in the UI but playing them does nothing. If you look at the “Voices” menu for those songs, they’re empty, so there’s nothing to play
I assume these are growing pains of the project, so I’ve got high hopes for the future, but for now I think I’ve got to shelve this until some of the kinks get worked out.
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Probably the best retro music app around (with one minor drawback)
This is by far the best retro music player I’ve ever used, but my only complaints are that the app only supports music files up to the SNES and Genesis. I’d love to see N64 and maybe even GameCube support if that’s possible, but even with that, this is still a perfect 5/5!
A Solid Performer
I’ve been using the application for approximately a year or more at this point. I think it does a great job at being a media player for VGM files. I love the ability of isolating the different channels, you can really hone in on the different sounds and synths involved in some of the music, especially tunes that tend to have louder channels that overshadow underlying synths that would normally go unnoticed.
As it sits right now, the only thing I wish that could be added is the ability for custom VGM files to be used. Aside from that, this application is solid!
As it sits right now, the only thing I wish that could be added is the ability for custom VGM files to be used. Aside from that, this application is solid!
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Great but...
It seems that the player only gives you the option to mute the 2 square wave channels on nes files. Control of the other 3 would be great.
Crashes a lot
This sounds fine for me until I try and select a song from the Songs UI. After the crash it won’t play music until I restart the phone
Response from developer
Hi! Thanks for writing this review. Please try out version 1.2.5 to see if this update fixes the issue. Thanks!
Needs support for Famicom Disk System
Great app with wonderful functionality, but it’s missing some of the Famicom Disk System Sound Channels which drags the whole thing down if you’re looking to listen Famicom Disk System exclusives like VS. Excitebike or Hyrule Fantasy.
A solid app with some notable issues
This was the app I’d been looking for, one that could play and shuffle a wide range of native game music files! It has a clean logical layout and the baseline features for a respectable media player without a cheesy retro aesthetic. I paid for it and then started into more heavy use. Two bugs came up for me that have spoiled the experience of using it however— and additionally, a small but important missing feature.
1. The PCM audio tracks for mega drive vgms generally don’t play. Maybe it depends on the source, but I have a big library of more recently-produced vgm files, exported from deflemask and vgm music maker which consistently seem to omit the sample channel. (It shows as present, but produces no sound).
2. The app will never successfully add a zip archive containing compatible files, it tries to, and sits for a while but then nothing new has been added. I’ve tried individual games in zip files as well as the master project2612 archive multiple times (stored on the local device, not in the cloud).
3. Not complex, but a pretty important omission imo: there really needs to be an artist category- many formats can store this meta data and there is real value in being able to filter/sort by a single creator.
1. The PCM audio tracks for mega drive vgms generally don’t play. Maybe it depends on the source, but I have a big library of more recently-produced vgm files, exported from deflemask and vgm music maker which consistently seem to omit the sample channel. (It shows as present, but produces no sound).
2. The app will never successfully add a zip archive containing compatible files, it tries to, and sits for a while but then nothing new has been added. I’ve tried individual games in zip files as well as the master project2612 archive multiple times (stored on the local device, not in the cloud).
3. Not complex, but a pretty important omission imo: there really needs to be an artist category- many formats can store this meta data and there is real value in being able to filter/sort by a single creator.
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Response from developer
Hey thanks for the review! I’ll definitely be looking into the bugs you shared. If you’d like, you can file bugs here: https://github.com/a-busman/SquareWaveSwift/issues as this app is entirely open source.
Love this
It’s a-me! An app that does it all.
I love listening to my favorite video game music. This app is really helpful for keeping me focused while studying or cooking. Can’t help but smile when the Mario death scene music comes on!
I love listening to my favorite video game music. This app is really helpful for keeping me focused while studying or cooking. Can’t help but smile when the Mario death scene music comes on!
