GoPlayer: cloud music player

I’m surprised by the glowing reviews. I bought this to be able to synch my mp3s with google drive as well as have a library of local mp3s. Every time I open the player it goes through a very lengthy process that seems to involve removing the track number from each song’s title, e.g., “01 I can’t get no satisfaction” becomes “I can’t get no satisfaction.” Attempting to play any song having the track number in its title (before it’s been removed) causes it to freeze, with an “X” inside of a circle displayed over the title that won’t go away. Also, every time I open it most songs (all local) are grayed out and can’t be played until the process completes. The UI presents the choice of showing “online files” “local files” and “on my IPhone.” What is the difference between “local files” and “on my IPhone?” When I click the latter and browse to what is an mp3 on my iPhone, the “add to library” option does nothing, and there is no way to select the file or folder. This is unusable!

I don’t normally pay for apps, but $2.99 is a fair price to unlock GoPlayer’s full functionality. I am a Gen X music lover with a lot of CDs I am working on digitizing so I can enjoy my entire music collection anytime, anywhere. I certainly couldn’t afford to buy all those albums all over again in digital format. I’m using iTunes on an old laptop to rip the CDs to mp3 format and then uploading them to my Google Drive. GoPlayer makes it easy to create unlimited playlists and organize my music on my iPhone how I want. I don’t have to take up space on my phone to download the songs to listen to them unless I want to play them somewhere where there’s no WiFi, like in my car, through the Bluetooth stereo. I really like that the app somehow knows and automatically displays the song title, artist name, and album cover artwork for each song. This is a great feature that other apps don’t have. If the artwork is incorrect or you want to change it, which happens about 5% of the time, just upload the image you want to use on your Google Drive and you can access it on the app. The only thing that would make this app perfect is if you could order your playlists how you want. I would order mine alphabetically by artist name. Right now, they are listed in order of their creation or modification, from most to least recent, and you can’t change it. Overall, I would recommend this app.***Edit: Someone must have read my review and modified the app accordingly because I noticed the other day that now my playlists are automatically alphabetized, which is fantastic, because it makes it easy to find what I want instead of aimlessly scrolling. Now the app is basically perfect so I’m upgrading my rating from 4 to 5 stars. ;) ***

I’m really enjoying the app as a way to manage my Google Drive music library. Being able to play ALAC files in particular is great. The only area where I’d like to see some improvements is the way it handles a few metadata features. It doesn’t seem to manage multi-disc albums very well. Instead of sorting songs by disc and then by track, the entire set is sequenced by track. For example, the tracks will show up as D1-T1, D2-T1, D1-T2, D2-T2, etc. instead of D1-T1, D1-T2, D1-T3, etc. Another thing that would be nice to see is the option to group compilation artists together rather than having to scroll past artists with only one or two songs in my library.