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This is what I wish the stock Music App was the whole time. Features like changing whether albums sort by artist or album title are basic and part of any music program on a computer like iTunes, but they’ve been missing from phone music apps the whole time. There are a few clear missing features such as not being able to download music, but I understand these are API issues and that’s in Apple’s hands to change. I do love the gesture controls, but they will take some getting used to. I strongly hesitated to pay $10 for an app that is just an extension of the stock Music App that I already use, but this is the first of its kind to be a 3rd party app that works with Apple Music like this, so I chose to support the developer to encourage more apps to develop like this or to help the developer keep making this one better. The price is the only reason I rate this app with 4 stars. If it were $5 or less, I would say it’s worth 5 stars. I feel like the ~$4.99-$5 price range would just make the app more accessible and encourage more people to purchase it. If it changed to $5 after I’ve already paid $10, I wouldn’t even be mad though because hopefully more people would get it and support the project.

honestly don't believe the app is with the five dollar price at the current state of it, at least at the time of writing this. the app is well at doing some basic functions, like if you wanna just listen through an album, it'll absolutely get the job done. the library transfer from Apple music to the app is smooth and effortless. the app also improves upon some things from basic apple music, such as noticing when you try to add a song to a playlist that already exists within the playlist, which personally I found to be really nice. however, the app also lacks to do a lot of basic things at the moment. attempting to shuffle, whether from the get-go by clicking the shuffle icon of the whole album/playlist/whatever, or from trying to shuffle from the player after a song is already playing. you can't remove songs from the queue which is stupid- unless you can add I apparently can't find it, in which case is also stupid because it should be an easily found feature. aside from all that, you can't interact with the -small but very much still existent- social part of apple music, which might just be because this is a third party app in itself and can't do that cause of legalities and whatnot, but I figure that's a worthwhile heads up. honestly I got the whole app to bed able to do the dark mode feature, which is absolutely dope. I can tell that this app has a lot of potential but first the moment it's not with the price in my opinion.

I really love having a player that uses Apple Music that has a dark mode but for $10, I was expecting something with a little more polish and reliability. I have bought other apps from this maker so I know he has the ability but this app was obviously rushed. I've had multiple instances of the app pausing songs repeatedly. This is often followed by a full crash of the app. Rebooting the app does not fix it but hard rebooting the phone seems to for a while. Playing songs randomly from the all songs tab does not work like every other music player I've ever used. It makes a short playlist of a selection of songs that eventually start repeating instead of just playing all of the songs at random. If you want to start your list from a specific song and hit the shuffle button in the player screen after starting that song, it only shuffles songs that begin with the same letter. Its frustrating because the app is truly beautiful but when a player is missing such basic functionality, is obviously only skin deep. He does seem to update his other apps pretty regularly so I'm hoping to see and update that addresses these issues but the last update for this app was ten days ago and didn't really seem to do anything. At the price, this is definitely in the premium range. It should be better.

When I first saw this app being released I fell in love with the design, especially the true black because it looks amazing on my OLED display. I took a leap of faith after reading good reviews and spent the $10 on it. I love the way this app is designed to be reminiscent of the stock Apple Music app, but apart from that, it’s very thoughtfully and beautifully designed. I love being able to see my library, Charts, “For You”, and other Apple Music Playlists on the front page. I personally am not a fan of all the tabs on the stock app so this is a breath of fresh air. The only thing that I would like to see is being able to change the accent colour and what my friends are listening to. On the not so good side, I understand that this app is continuously being developed and therefore will have its quirks here and there. They’re not so bad that they hinder me from enjoying the app, so I will not state them. I appreciate the work being put into the app and would like to see these bugs being fixed in future updates. I’ve sent bug reports so for now I’m satisfied with it. Thank you once again to the developer for making such a good stock music app alternative.

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Apple's stock music app is annoying enough that I dropped nearly $10 on this immediately. Yes, it looks much better. Yes, there's great new functionality. BUT after a few days of use I'm realizing all the things it doesn't do. Most notably, there's no quick access to the "up next" list by scrolling down from the currently playing track. In fact there's no way to see what's in the queue at all and the ability to add tracks to the "up next" queue is only available in random places. For example, long presses on songs or albums offer up no functionality. I use "up next" all the time, and it's enough to make me switch back. It's also quite buggy in its current release. I often get stuck on the full screen track view while playing a song with no way to minimize it and browse for other music. Also, although opening up control center while playing something in Soor shows the currently playing track, actually tapping through to open the app always ends up opening the built-in Apple Music app - which makes this whole app feel like a pretty kludge and not a proper relacement.