Sacred Music

After the last update nothing was coming up in my app. I deleted then reinstalled, still nothing. I was getting ready to write a review then remembered the system update on mu iPhone. Installed that and the app works perfectly. Hope this helps others!

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This app has all the hymns beautifully formatted to sing or play on the piano. And the ability to have the hymns played audibly is great. But that is also its major flaw. It is way too easy to accidentally touch the play button at the bottom of the screen and start the hymn playing aloud. Often it's not evident that this has happened until the church organist stops playing, long after you have closed the app and turned off your phone. How embarrassing to have to quickly fumble around trying to stop it from playing while the sacrament is being blessed. And as if in an attempt to make this all the more common, the music doesn't stop when you put the iPhone to sleep, and it even plays WHEN THE MUTE SWITCH IS ON! It is a fairly common event that this happens in our ward, perhaps because we have too few hymnals, coupled with he fact thatcher our ward is comprised of mostly young, tech savvy individuals not afraid of pulling their phone out to sing from. But maybe they should be afraid. Please fix this. All it would take is to add a confirmation dialog asking if you really want to start it playing. Oh, and don't play WHEN THE MUTE SWITCH IS ON!

Every now and then a hymn in the hymn list gets marked or highlighted and I can't remove that color highlight on the hymn. I like that this has options for words and sheet music, that it has optional music to play for sing along or background, and that this is the official app. This is great for the iPhone, but on iPad it renders as a stretched phone app and doesn't make better use of the available space. It's also too bad that copyright does allow the digital use (in the app) of all hymns in the hymn book (some are blocked). The optional music somewhat sounds like violins, but it would be nice to have a preferences area where I can pick what instrument sound to have used and have a grand piano as an option (if not the default option). It would be nice if this were in the same app as the official gospel library, rather than as a separate app.

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I loved this app in the beginning. When going to church I didn't need to use any books. Teaching primary this an important tool for my lessons. But then the last time I updated this app. I tried looking up hymns and primary songs. I searched songs by titles and numbers and nothing would appear. Then I decided to delete this app. I just came across it again and thought I give this app a second chance because this app used to display the lyrics and play music so my primary kids could sing along. And now the app won't open. I'm so disappointed . And I can't find another app that has lyrics and plays music. Please fix this.

This app is good when it works and I can read the music. It is just as often bad when I launch it and it needs an internet connection to download the music. Why oh why would you make an app that constantly has to update never-changing content? Super frustrating, and it always needs to download the sheet music at the worst time. Glad the scriptures app doesn’t do the same thing.