Comparison

Taper's Section vs Live Shuffle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Taper's Section

Access a vast library of live music recordings from archive.org. Stream, save, and organize your favorite shows, build playlists, and enjoy offline listening. Features background playback and powerful search capabilities.

Highlights
  • Stream live music from archive.org
  • Save favorite bands and shows
  • Background streaming
  • Offline listening
  • Powerful search and filtering
  • Build and share playlists
  • Manage play queue
Features
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Taper's Section gives you access to the Live Music Archive from archive.org in the palm of your hand. * Stream your favorite shows from over 5,000 bands * Save your favorite bands and shows for quick access * Easily access your recently played shows * Background streaming with Bluetooth and AirPlay compatibility * Powerful search and filtering options * Build playlists and share them with your friends * Build a play queue, reorder your queue, and make it a new playlist * Offline listening - save your data plan while listening to your downloaded shows while away from WiFi.

About

Live Shuffle

Discover and play random live music and digitized recordings from a vast library of artists. Enjoy full shows or continuous jams with a massive selection of songs. Explore over 200 artists and millions of tracks.

Highlights
  • Shuffle live music and digitized recordings
  • Queue favorite artists' tracks
  • Play full shows
  • Enable continuous jam mode
  • Access over 200 artists
  • Explore over 1,000,000 songs
Features
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Live Shuffle is a music shuffling app that allows you to queue up a list of your favorite artists' live music and digitized recordings hosted on sites like Archive.org and Phish.in and start playing random songs right away! You can also play full shows at a time, while still shuffling between however many artists you select, or you can enable Continue Jams > mode and make sure the jams don't cut off between connected songs! There are over 200 different artists to choose from and over 1,000,000 songs you might shuffle between! Follow @liveshuffle_app and @AustinByron on Twitter for updates about the app! Now features the artists from the Great 78 Shuffle app, so you can shuffle between artists like the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Chuck Berry, Willie Mae Thornton, Woody Guthrie, and many more!

Screenshots

Taper's Section4 screens
Live Shuffle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Live Shuffle at weekly against Taper's Section's every 3 months. Live Shuffle also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Taper's Section's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Live Shuffle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Taper's Section's written reviews are positive against 83% of Live Shuffle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Taper's Section ships an update every 3 months, Live Shuffle weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Taper's Section versus Live Shuffle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaper's SectionLive Shuffle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (40 ratings)4.8 (26 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings40 — better26
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB20 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperFranklin KeslerAustin Byron

Customer experience

Taper's Section

All ratings39 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

Live Shuffle

All ratings26 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Taper's Section

No in-app purchases

None

Live Shuffle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Taper's Section free?
Taper's Section is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Live Shuffle free?
Live Shuffle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Taper's Section or Live Shuffle?
Live Shuffle is rated higher. Taper's Section averages 4.5 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Live Shuffle averages 4.8 from 26 ratings.
Do Taper's Section or Live Shuffle have ads?
Neither Taper's Section nor Live Shuffle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Taper's Section or Live Shuffle?
Taper's Section ships an update every 3 months, and Live Shuffle weekly. Most recently, Taper's Section was updated on October 24, 2026 and Live Shuffle on October 24, 2026.

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