Appmuse

In most places, it uses the track title from the ID3 tag, but in the play queue, it uses the file name, truncated at a certain number of characters. So I am looking at my play queue and all I see is “Moscow Symphony Orc” all the way down the screen. It should be using the track title, but given how slap-dash the whole experience is with this player, I am not surprised. Show more

A great player that was designed with a useless UI. So one would think that the app was designed to be the critical interface. Unfortunately the app is super unreliable and connectivity is dodgy at best. Build a decent WiFi connection or a reliable app. The great player is mostly useless as a result Show more

Worked pretty well for a while , but now won’t connect to the player and is useless. At least it worked long enough for me to load my library and select a bunch of favorites. Still, very frustrating. Update: app started to work again this morning after taking “a day off.” One more star for coming back to work! Has been stable for a long time now, so that’s great. Considering the competition, this app is actually pretty good. Show more

I absolutely love my HAP Z1-ES and enjoy the remote app...when it works. It’s a great app with an intuitive interface, but has not been connecting to the player with increasing frequency. Sometimes in connects and then when you try to change songs or artists it can’t find the deck and won’t reconnect - forcing me to walk to the HAP Z1-ES to change selections. Super irritating. I have generally really appreciated Sony products over the years but this app has a fatal flaw. Shocking that Sony has not addressed the issue. Show more

This new version of HDD Audio is terrible, the old version worked great. This one won’t connect to HAP-S1 player. The player itself is wonderful but this remote access is bad Show more

Hard to use this app with the HAP Z1-ES... it is constantly needing to Reconnect. Can Sony figure out how to keep it connected while the app is running? As al alternative to the HDD Player and HAP Z1-ES, I use Roon, and it tales less than 1/8 of a sec to reconnect. The HDD take almost 5 seconds to connect. Digital audio is a pain-in-the-butt, and the HDD and HAP-Z1ES was suppose to fix that.... Show more

On several of the window prompts, to confirm certain actions, for example, you cannot see the graphics for “Yes” and “No.”

Constantly loses connection with player.

Unfortunately the app is very temperamental as to whether it will find the player and without it it is very hard to navigate on the actual hardware. Sony really needs to address this Show more

The corresponding Sony unit has liberated the beautiful music in piles of CDs that were collecting dust, has aggregated them in full resolution to a single media server, and this app gives me immediate access. Show more

Unreliable. Rarely works.

Most reviews here 1,2 years old . As of today 2018. This apps works great, people complaining about wifi it please set it to 2.4 and make sure you get good router . Even a laptop people still get problem with connection. I think it is human errors. Only thing I like to see the the improvements on the unit is add tidal and other things but the review here for apps not unit. Show more

I have a PS Audio Stellar Gain DAC, and ONLY 18033R worked with the USB output Now, SONY upgraded the remote application, and it only now works with 18444R+ So, I either have no remote, or no USB output NOTE: 18444, which is suppose to fix USB output to certain devices, DOESN'T work with my 2016 PS Audio Stellar Gain Cell DAC. This all worked yesterday. Show more

Frequently refuses to connect to my HAP-Z1-ES player on both iPhone and iPad.

Fix this your app goes to sleep i have to keep reloading to work. There is better out there fix now or i am getting rid of your player.

The app Hardly connects to the player wirelessly. Cannot believe a global corporation like Sony doesn’t read its reviews. And if it does, why this level of apathy? Hard to believe Sony can’t make an app that works..... Show more

When it connects to your home’s wireless network, it is adequate. However, it rarely connects on first try and lately it has not been able to connect al all! Even after multiple re-boots of my compute, the Sony player, my routers, etc. Show more

Hi Sony, Please fix Wifi issues. I have to do a hard reboot every time to get wifi connectivity - ruining a great music streamer due to networking challenges makes it a brick Show more

The player functions and sounds great, it has been the wifi connection that was poorly executed. The update that came to it today appears to have fixed this. Update, still not working every time. Weird. Please fix the wifi! Show more

HDD Audio Remote (iPad and iPhone) fails to maintain connection with HAP-Z1es. It's not the network: The Spotify app reliably connects and is stable. Same for the HAP Music Transfer app on laptop. PLEASE fix this. Otherwise the only way to play tracks on internal drive is through controls on the player. Very inconvenient and not worthy of this otherwise great player. Show more