Longplayer vs TM Stores
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Longplayer
Experience a unique, ever-evolving musical composition designed to last 1000 years. This app provides real-time, high-quality playback without needing a data connection, allowing you to listen in the background while using other applications. It offers a real-time score display and detailed information about the composition's history and conceptual background.
- Real-time high-quality playback
- Offline playback
- Plays in the background
- Real-time score display
- Detailed information section
- Up-to-date news
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Longplayer: a thousand years of music in your pocket! Longplayer is a musical composition that has been playing since the beginning of the year 2000, and will play on, never repeating, until it reaches the point at which it first started, exactly 1000 years later. Longplayer is in effect an everlasting piece of music; its score mirrors a planetary system, six musical events whose orbits come into phase once a millennium. Until now, Longplayer has only been accessible by visiting a handful of "listening posts" or via an online stream. This app is the first standalone version of Longplayer, creating the music in real time based on the composition's thousand-year-long score. It requires no data connection and automatically synchronises itself with every other copy of the app across the globe. With this app, you become part of a community of listeners distributed through space and time, across many lifetimes. - real time high-quality playback of Longplayer, with no need for a data connection - plays in the background: listen to Longplayer while you continue to use other apps, and while your phone is locked. - real time score display - graphic and textual information explaining how it works - detailed information section about Longplayer's history, development, composition, conceptual background and much more - up-to-date news from the Longplayer website (data connection required) Recommended for headphones or external speakers. Watch a short video explaining Longplayer: http://vimeo.com/94166447 Longplayer was composed by Jem Finer and commissioned by Artangel in 1995. It is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.
TM Stores
Manage your Townsend Music Stores client admin area on the go. View live sales reports and fully manage store settings and products. Log in easily with just your email for 30 days.
- Mobile client admin access
- View live sales reports
- Manage store settings
- Manage products
- Email login for 30 days
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Access your TM Stores client admin area via your mobile using Townsend Musics new app. You can view live sales reports for all of your stores alongside fully managing your store's settings and products. Login via email - You can log in for 30 days by simply entering your email address and following the link to open up the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Longplayer at 83% against TM Stores's 0%. Longplayer also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). TM Stores's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
TM Stores is free to download; Longplayer costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Longplayer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Longplayer has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Longplayer's written reviews are positive against 0% of TM Stores's.
| Parameter | Longplayer | TM Stores |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 136 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Longplayer Trust | Townsend Music Ltd |
Customer experience
Longplayer
TM Stores
In-app purchases
Longplayer
No in-app purchases
TM Stores
No in-app purchases









