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Update: Please fix the favorites section. It doesn’t refresh anymore in your downloads section but it does it in your library section which is really annoying. This app has had its bumps along the road but things have been running as smoothly as can be expected on this ever-changing iOS platform. I do like it and I like the layout of the downloaded tracks category with album covers beside songs. Unfortunately, the search function is still horrible. If you so much as miss a letter it won’t recognize what you’re looking for. Even then, it’s still hard to find certain songs even though they actually have the song in their catalog if you look hard enough. And I’ve noticed lately that they don’t have as much music as some other services. It’s usually not high profile music, just some random songs. For instance, I wanted this Psy song (not Gangdem Style, hate that song) and they didn’t have it though they have some of his other songs. Little things like that make me wanna switch sometimes but I’m gonna see how it goes for now. Hope things improve.

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Although I’ve subscribed to this app for years, there is much that drives my bonkers about this app. The search engine is completely useless. Sometimes it requires investigating just to find certain albums from certain artists. It can not be assumed that all albums are listed under the “all albums “ tab. Also many albums by some artists are not available. Example, even though all Beatles mono mixes are available on CD doesn’t mean you’ll find them here. The most annoying part is the time it takes to load a new track when one is finished playing. You’d think with the speed offered to these music services, they’d be able to allow tracks to flow uninterrupted as is the case with any CD. Removing songs from a playlist is difficult and cumbersome. If I decide I want to remove a song from a playlist there should be an option while the track is playing to make a two click system that will remove it. There are plenty of other options listed while listening to a track, it should include an option for removing a song from a playlist. Lastly, would it kill them to include a small biography about the artist and album you are listening too? All in all an ok app that could be made great by these upgrades.

It’s great for the pricing and for the amount of music you get. It’s great. The headphones settings are also fantastic. However, a few things I would like to be added/fixed. The main one is, could you guys like, stop changing my playlist cover photos? I mean seriously, don’t give us the option to pick our own cover if you’re just going to change it to a random photo every other day forcing us to change it again. That doesn’t mean take away our ability to customize our cover, cause that’s neat, I mean that by please fix that bug or setting you guys have so it will stay what we choose. It’s seriously starting to get VERY annoying. Second, more music from smaller artists/broadways would be great but I understand that purchasing rights is hard so that’s more a small no doubt frequent request you guys get. But it would be greatly appreciated to see more cover artists and creators on here. That’s it, otherwise, fantastic app!

I travel globally for work. I can download music before getting on planes or being in countries where the service isn’t offered. I can customize or randomize playlists and music based on where I am in the world. In Austria, Baroque Back Paul playlist of Beatles and Paul McCartney songs with Baroque style horns. Hong Kong? Random punk rock protest songs. Sitting in a random office working? 202 Motown Songs: The Complete #1’s to keep my mood up! My only issues are 1. the app logs itself out in countries without service so I cannot play downloads until I am able to log back in. 2. Downloading needs to be more transparent and flexible. Sometimes downloading stalls but I don’t know it happens or why. Need to be able to dynamically reorder or selectively delete download queue when connection speeds are slow.

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But the app is slightly broken, I cannot add albums or artists while connected to my Wi-Fi. Tried force quitting the app and opening again, artists and albums which I selected to be added to my library were not being added while on Wi-Fi. When connected to cellular data it works fine, but it was rather irritating to not be able to add the artists while connected to my own connection. The app design itself is nice, enjoy the music playback screen, and the organization is much better laid out than Apple Music. Last there is an Xbox One application? It will not even allow me to open the app without it force closing automatically. One thing I look for in a streaming service is being able to have background play while I’m playing video games. Fix the Xbox One app, and the function of the iOS app and I might think about switching to it.