foobar2000

Its an ok app. For the most part it does what it’s supposed to do. It has a really nice configurable interface for smaller devices where screen size is limited. For example i can use compact lists with tiny icons which makes it easier to find albums because the display can show more information. The biggest down side is it more often than not will cutout the last few seconds of a song. It’s very annoying but less annoying than trying to do anything in the Apple Music app. The other down side is it’s inability to get the playlists from the iTunes library. But that is really more of a nice to have rather than a requirement.

Foobar2000 may not be the slickest-looking or intuitive music app available on the App Store, but its customisability, speed and responsiveness make up for its aesthetic shortcomings. Since Apple changed its default Music app to prioritise streaming subscriptions and cloud-based music, it’s become more difficult to listen to one’s own carefully curated music library using the app. Music constantly returns to the main Library page if you switch apps, loses your place if you’re browsing songs by titles, and keeps pushing radio and streaming. Foobar2K acts like the good old-fashioned Music app: it remembers your place if you’re viewing songs as a list, doesn’t send you back to the home screen, lets you add custom folders, and doesn’t push streaming plans at you. And best of all, it’s completely *free of charge*.

If you’re new (like me) into the world of audio, and all you have done was stream music, this app won’t do you any good. It only plays music you have bought on iTunes etc. If you have a large iTunes library, it’ll take a very very very long time for the app to transfer everything (I’m still waiting but that’s fine I have like 12k songs on apple music). Great format for viewing music I love it; does what apple doesn’t want to do i.e. make it easy for you to find your music. I don’t have the other complaints most people have with this app, particularly because they’re expecting the whole darn website from windows to be transported when that’s not really how apps work...totally worth the free download!

I’m not a streaming music kind of person. I just wanted a simple player to play flacs of my ripped CD music collection, that’s all. This app not only does that, but it played my music gaplessly, which was critical for me (especially for live, classical, and concept albums like a lot of Pink Floyd’s stuff). I get the occasional audio crapping out on me, but I think that’s more to do with my Bluetooth and hardware more than anything. If all you want to do is play CD ripped music and don’t mind uploading via FTP (really easy if you understand it), then this is the app to get.

1. can't delete songs by album, can’t edit by choosing several songs together, 2. The songs are listed in the folder by their first letters or number, it’s very hard to delete songs in an album, hope that we can delete a whole album 3. If there are several artists on different songs in an album, the album would be separated into several parts in the “album “page 4. Add to a playlist can’t show all the playlists, only the last playlist you open.