Appmuse

This was my favorite music app because it had a dark gray background I could use at night to listen to music when going to bed and not expose myself to bright blue light computer screen which disrupts circadian rhythms and makes it harder to fall asleep. Now in the latest 2022 version the background is bright cream white and there does not appear to be a Setting to change it back to dark theme mode. If you want to provide bright background as the display default that's fine but at least give your existing users a preference option to change it back to original dark background. Yet another iOS app I relied on for years then a change was made that makes it unusable for my purposes, oh well, DELETE! Show more

This adds functionality the default app would (in my ideal world) have built in. Being able to see an attractive spread of albums to pick from reduces the cold impersonality of digital libraries. Lots of customizability. Would love even more choices. Update: Thank you for adding the widget with random albums! I love it and use it daily. Wonderful app. Show more

It looks and feels great and the grid view of all your albums is great. Some people may not like it, but I love that the album order is randomized so it shows me something different when I don't know what to listen to. When I do however, the search function and recently played albums are immediately accessible. The app is generally fast and it's animations are smooth and tactile. There aren't any make or break bugs for me, but occasionally I have to force quit to get it to work and for whatever reason the game changes your loop playback setting to what it feels like sometimes. Honestly my main issue is that I feel like I have to live with any bugs the app has forever, because I'm not sure if we're going to get another update. Please David, come back to this app, it's fantastic! I would gladly pay a small yearly subscription for it. Show more

The reason I pie did this useless app is to ditch the garbage player that Apple provided, and eliminate the auto play when connecting to BT in the car. Yet the app does not play anything WITHOUT the Apple Music app installed. You can delete the Apple Music app, then re-sync to get music on the device. Tap tunes sees the music, but will not play anything. Why build an app that depends on the trash we are paying to replace!!?? Junk app. Show more

I need a refund please

TapTunes was my favorite music player app, but since iOS13 it freezes and cannot scroll the screen. Please update the app!!

It's attached to apple music library! With no other ways to import music from it

I love the random display of album art and customizations for rediscovering albums I haven’t played in so long! But, when I tap on the cover of a song that has lyrics attached, how do I get back to the cover? I can’t dismiss the lyrics. No combination of taps or swipes gets me back to the album view. Is it a bug? Show more

I may have misunderstood the TapTunes functionality but I am greatly disappointed. The app does not manage your music, it attaches to Apple Music to access your music. Every time you open the app it starts as it was never opened, instead of opening where you last closed it...I would prefer it would open at the song I am playing so I don’t have to search for it once again. The app accesses your Apple playlists, listing the songs but there is no way to play the list one song at a time, the very definition of a “playlist”. This app is NOT for me....waste of energy attempting to learn it. Show more

I really wanted to like this app, as it appeared to be the best alternative to the default. The concept of the different views are brilliant, if only the app's core functionality worked well. Upon selecting or switching to any song, the entire app freezes, sometimes for up to 5 seconds at a time. Don't like the next song you skipped to? Well you better be ready to tolerate the intro while the GUI is frozen. Even when a song is playing, many of the animations at the heart of user interaction are evidently choppy, like the volume control on the playing screen. This is all on a brand new iPhone 8 and persistent across reboots and reinstalls. Platform limitations like the control center shortcut are tolerable, but charging people for a non-responsive app is not. Show more

The randomness is nice but often I would like to listen to my playlist in order. The problem I encounter with playlists is that it will only play one song then stop right there. The next song in my playlist does not auto play. I have to go back to the selection screen and select the next album. My second complaint is the 3-5 sec buffer. If you accidentally play the wrong song, you are waiting for the song to play, go full screen, then it will allow you to go back. Fixing these two things would make this the best 3rd party music app. It’s by far better than Apple’s but on it’s own, just shy of perfection for me. Show more

Just a great app with a lot of flexibility to organize and display your music library. Thank you David for updating this app. I’ve been using this app for a long time and it always has worked flawless for me. I know that the AOL Play app was based on your work also and it was excellent. If a future release of TapTunes were to include Shoutcast capability I certainly wouldn’t complain :) Show more

With the default iOS music player I get tired of seeing my albums in alphabetical order... this app finally solves that problem! I'm so happy, thanks to the developer for creating this! Show more

This app is amazing and it's exactly what I was hoping to find with shuffled album display. It actually even goes beyond expectations with the transitions and different display types. The only issue I have with this app is that it often crashes and I don't have the option to keep a certain selection of albums. Overall, worth more that what you pay for in concept, but this app's bugginess keeps it from being perfect. Show more

2016/09/26: So, this is my update d review, a year and a few days after my first review - the app has been stable and work as expected. But, I decided to lower my 5 star rating to 3, because, no basic features were added to it, over a full year, in comparison to other music players in the same league that have added much needed basic features, as, "Play Next", "Add to Playlist" and Lyrics (I don't even mention cloud integration). Which, unfortunately, don't deserve the same rank. As a veteran and heavy iPhone user, who tried many apps, in search for the best ones. Including many music players (lately, gave up on Apple's music player, for it's lack of features, commercial bloat, and eyesore white background), I find this music player to be one of the top in the app store with numerous customizing options, especially, the fast track search, and user-friendly controls. I'm so happy with it,i bought the stacked view option, just to contribute. A great music player! feature request to the developers: Please add a playlist creation with options to quickly add & reorder the tracks in them. Show more

This is the best music app I've found in two hours searching to replace Apple's MISERABLE native Music app on iOS 9.3.3 on an iPhone 5. However, TapTunes freezes in iOS 9.3.3 on an iPad 2. After Apple abandoned sense beginning with the release of several iOS 8 consistently broken versions, the iOS 8 Music player nonetheless worked well. If they weren't before, Apple's managers are certainly now greedy corporate schmucks doing their part to churn software breakage into sales of new mobile devices which use ever more destructive conflict minerals to hasten the demise of Earth's ecosystems. And while I'm writing about software, iTunes software for PC was a giant step backward by deleting valuable features, confusing the user interface by moving everything around, and adding sales crap. And on a *perfectly* maintained Windows 7 box the cursor in iTunes 12 has gone missing. Show more

This is a great app!

TapTunes is a fun way to get to know your music library all over again. The gestures are intuitive and make it effortless to navigate between artist, album and individual tracks. It does not appear to support playlists or track tagging. Other than that - well done! Show more

This is a very clean & simple music player. Love seeing all my albums. Two things I would like to see in future version 1. In landscape view on my iPad mini I cannot simply pull down quickly on the album cover and close the album and go back to the main all albums view. This works perfect in portrait view but not landscape. Pls fix this. 2. In my car I have my iPad in landscape view with the home button nearest me at all times while playing my music. When playing music the album cover is nearest me and the music tracks are furthest from me. Please switch this where music tracks are near the person. Also the album cover could be smaller making the tracks slightly larger font. There is no need for a giant album cover. Show more

The interface is not intuitive. The menu space is wasted with how you would display the icons. The shake to shuffle function doesn’t include shuffling songs (only albums).