SongCapsule

Bought this because my playlists on Apple Music have become extensive after years of listening to music, I have around 5 or 6 days worth spread between two or three playlists on there, however when I load into the app and it says it’s accessing my music library and finishes, it only manages to bring around 750 songs over from the probably over 2000 that’s I have, if that gets fixed this would be perfect

The notion of better generated playlists is how this app drew my attention when I was looking online for third-party Apple Music apps. This app does live up to exactly what it says and does so with a clean, easy interface. However, my experience with Next quickly went downhill as I attempted to alter a setting that would prioritize lesser played songs. The app said it was refreshing my music library, which it then continued to do for the better part of an hour as the app ran in the background with my phone awake. After an hour, I closed the app and reopened it, only to be greeted by a loading wheel, which after another hour led me to believe that it would continue forever if I let it. I reinstalled the app and found the same issues again. Even if this app will run successfully on your phone, paying $4.99 for a glorified shuffle button was only worth it to me because I had leftover gift card funds. As Apple continues to refine and update the functionality of their Music app and Apple Music services, it will be apps like this one that will quickly and increasingly fall into irrelevance.

I read a review on an Apple news site and followed it to the app, figuring this would be a cool addition for my library of over 50k songs and over a decade of iTunes history. If I wanted to hear the same three or four albums over and over again, I could have just made a playlist of them and shuffled it. I’m quite honestly shocked and disappointed. It tossed in a few playlists of most played songs from random artists that I somewhat enjoy - again, I could have just easily made these playlists myself faster than I could find them in the app. Furthermore, when I tried to open the app again later in the day, it was blank with just icons at bottom, and now won’t work at all. Instant regret purchase that I keep regretting enough to leave a review and share. What could make this app worth the cost? First, could you ensure it doesn’t crash and become unusable after the first use? Second, I would enjoy some unique and insightful playlists (as I expected) that don’t consist almost entirely of two or three artists that I used to listen to heavily ten years ago. Finally, perhaps something different then a handful of playlists that are simply most played songs by random artists, because that’s all I got for the $5. I’m sincerely hoping this gets better. Edit: I wish I could just have this refunded. This may be my first instant regret purchase on the App Store. Every time I leave the app for more than a few minutes, I go back to it and it’s unusable. It has to be deleted and reinstalled. It then proceeds to feed me the exact same thing: the exact same one or two artists with a sprinkling of other random songs. There’s no way this is the intended experience in a diverse library of almost 50,000 songs and 10+ years of iTunes playing history.