App Profile: Musicboard: Albums & Songs

hunkbuster69

Rating: 4/5

Essentially letterboxd for albums and songs. It had some bugs at first, but the developers caught on and made the necessary improvements. I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 5 because I feel there’s still room to grow, both within the app as a community of listeners, and in terms of general user friendliness. If I could change one thing it’d be to improve on the organization of user’s profiles. There’s no way to search for a specific artist or item by name when you’re browsing through an individual user’s feed. I’d love it if users could have their ratings/reviews organized by say, a drop-down menu where you could see all the user’s artists and go right along to those submissions. I think the same feature could also be used to sort by year of release or to locate applicable genres/subgenres, although the genres don’t get specific here on the album profiles and in many cases it seems like the release dates aren’t right. It’s a good app, and I’d recommend it to anyone who wants a medium to contribute to the discussion of music/hear the takes of others. For a relatively new app there’s already a large and quickly growing community, and the more people join this virtual discussion of music, the more other music lovers out there have to gain from each other.

yeujejejsks

Rating: 4/5

everything in this app works, its useable and it’s a really good app. ive been using this app and aoty to find new music and it’s been a fun time. many complaints tho, change the screen into landscape for ipad please it’s literally vertical and it doesn’t appeal to ipad users nor computers users. next the notification system is flawed, minor nitpicked but why is messages the first thing that’s shown when you click on notis? it should be notifications first. and when you click on somebody replies you have to scroll all the way down to it, make it so it instantly teleports to the comment that appears in your notifications next next i need genres tag for albums/songs so i can find more songs and albums similar to the ones im listening to. if you guys are too lazy to maybe make it so users can vote for the genre for the albums lastly next next next please have an algorithm for the review/lists recommendations. if you guys are confused the home page is just review/lists and you can scroll infinitely. but theres many reviews and lists that i dont gaf about like there’s random post rock and country reviews on my page. maybe have algorithms decide the lists based off of the users review anyways that’s all, basically a near perfect app tho

Chickn' Scratch

Rating: 3/5

This app is just letterbox for music. It functions almost identically and is, like letterbox, a great way to see what’s what. I recommend it to anyone who is trying to discover new music or has some interesting takes on music, but I personally did not enjoy this app. Music is different from a film and much more subjective, so much of the opinions represented are about people’s personal take on pieces of music rather than a criticism of what the artists actually made. This is fine for enjoying or disliking music, but makes much of the reviews you’ll read feel “one note” and I found myself bored of the app after the first few reviews I made. It’s just not as enjoyable as letterbox and it feels like copying elements of that format work against the app. Also, many of the people on this app are a little all consumed with their tastes; their music taste is their personality which left me feeling empty. There are good critics and interesting takes on music, but most are pretty trite with little to add. I also have no ideas on how the app could be improved from its current point, other than formatting it completely differently.