Anywhere - Music Player

I switched from Apple Music and mainly use locally stored music on my phone. I tried so many apps, Doppler, Evermusic, and so many others. None of them checked all my boxes except this Anywhere app! Great music sorting options, metadata editing, easy downloading. I even asked about other features that would be nice and they quickly updated the app with my requests! I don’t think I have even received a response from any other music player app when I asked a question. This is the best! Thanks

No other one time purchase player is this sleek while having a 25 dollar lifetime purchase option AND a solid iTunes library import. It looks substantially nicer than the iTunes player due to balanced shiny reactive animations and color choices that dynamically recolor to match whatever song/album is in focus. The obligatory song-reactive animated bars show by default -take notes iTunes. Consistently will not allow me to add songs from albums I own to playlists, is more likely to fail to add them than add them. Other Issues: Imports playlists and albums successfully, caveat is you must rename the playlists presently. Imports music folders/files successfully. Zip files I wish auto-converted into folders with a tap when I am browsing for a song folder I just downloaded as a zip file from Bandcamp (legally purchased). Doesn’t work with Homepod, Homepod will kick the song off the speakers after about a minute. Sometimes won’t update the art of what song is playing, showing the art for a previous song instead. Does not loop individual tracks as smoothly as iTunes, possibly due to lack of iTunes’ integrated blending of tracks via transitions. Often has issue when adding individual or multiple songs where it won’t let me select them or won’t add them even when it says they are selected, forcing me to try multiple times until it arbitrarily works. Frequently freezes after editing a playlist forcing me to close and reopen the app. Will randomly invert playlists, has a button to invert them back but still annoying. Won’t play a 2-second audio file to completion, cuts it off 1 second early 100% of the time in normal use. Verdict: Looks really good, feels like a premium app. The developer should feel really good about their self. All the other app makers need to figure out it’s lifetime ad-free or nothing for playing purchased music.

First off, let me say that I’ve tried almost all of the offline music apps out there and Anywhere is superior in almost every way except one: it doesn’t support all music file types. I was hesitant to give the app 5 stars for this reason but I don’t want to dissuade others from using it because it’s an overall excellent app. Dev: please add the ability to play ogg files (like other music apps in the App Store). I would gladly continue to pay for premium if you did. Response to dev: thanks for responding but please research codecs. Ogg Vorbis is not an old format. It is an open source compressed format and superior to MP3 while matching the quality of Apple’s AAC (M4A). Also, you cannot convert a lossy format like ogg to lossless formats like FLAC or WAV. It goes the other way: FLAC (lossless compression) —> ogg/aac (lossy compression)