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MusicSmart - Liner Notes. Ratings and Reviews

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4.19
out of 5
45 Ratings
  • Mr. Magsby, 21.05.2020
    Really good
    This app is amazing!!! I love looking at the album information and the record label the album was released on. The only thing is that the release date on the album is one day off. For example, if the album was released on june 17th 2004, on the app, for some reason it says the release date is june 16th 2004. I wonder is there a way this could be rectified? On all of the albums in the Apple Music library it does the exact same thing. Other than that, I really enjoy using this app!!! Show more
  • jadanzzy, 20.05.2020
    A delightful resource!
    Think less of MusicSmart as a standalone application, and more of an extension to Apple Music. If you start with the MusicSmart app, you’ll find the experience frustrating, as the UI and UX is pretty barebones. If you use the MusicSmart extension as you navigate through Apple Music, you’ll appreciate that you have that additional context at your fingertips. It’s a great first start, and well worth the $2, in my opinion. The information is much more robust with more recent music than older, but you can’t blame Marcos for that given he’s just pulling from 3rd party sources. Show more
  • pu55ycat, 19.05.2020
    Definitely a 1.0 version
    Bought this after reading some great reviews on it. The app has huge potential but needs to be reworked. The app itself lists all albums in your Music library. Theres no way to re order them by artist or songs. No search bar. The extension portion of the app (tap the three dots when you go into an album) for the Music App is great but it’s limited to what it can do. Not sure why. Is this an Apple limitation or just the way the share extension works? When it does work, it’s fantastic. A whole wealth of information. Seriously. Needs to be more complete. Can’t understand why some albums work and others don’t. Show more
  • Not what I need, 19.05.2020
    Disappointing
    I hope this app gets better. I don’t use Apple Music, but I bought this app based on a couple glowing reviews that said it works with your library in addition to Apple Music. It can’t find the vast majority of my library, whether downloaded from iTunes or copied from CDs. They touted that it’ll tell you which musicians are credited on albums and tracks like I miss from the liner notes of yore. But it doesn’t do that on the few songs it was able to identify. Instead it offered a links to music videos or banal snippets about the artist like where they were born. Not at all what I was expecting. Frankly I’d like my money back. Show more
  • recordcollector 2120, 19.05.2020
    Promising start but serious music aficionados will be disappointed
    This is a concept that’s been a long time coming. But serious aficionados and collectors will find it disappointing. You’ll find plenty of info on newer releases and for pop recordings, but what shows up on even very well known classic albums is often erroneous or bare bones. First, in spite of what some of the online reviews say, I didn’t find any original liner notes for any of the albums I checked on. And many, many famous albums that have sold millions of copies show up with generic or worse album art (Apple Music itself is much more likely to have correct album art). BB King’s Live at the Regal shows up with a generic “Electric Blues 101” album artwork; no musician lineups or songwriting credits on Pet Sounds or any Beatle albums. How is this even possible? Somehow, though, MusicSmart reveals accurate age, birth city and middle names for even the most obscure artists - not 100%, but for a high proportion of albums in your Apple Music collection. Search is an annoyingly missing feature. And, again, songwriting credits, which must be legally registered with every song still under copyright, are somehow missing. All that said, I give the app 2 stars because there is the potential, if the developers can ever link it up with a decent database, to provide all this info and more within the structure of the app. And the depth of info provided for a lot of newer popular albums is kind of amazing (sample sources for newer big selling hip hop albums is a really cool feature). Looking forward to the developers getting this one right in future updates, or if it finally inspires Apple to finally embed full liner note, album art and artist info within Music, that would be worth the $1.99 too. Show more