Holy hell the ads are out of control. This app used to just have some unobtrusive banner ads, but now anytime I want to quickly open it to skip a song or something I have to wait for an unskippable 30 second ad to play (along with their gross habit of "skip, but here's the link. skip the link but here's a screenshot of the store page" so it's more like a minute long ad).
Every since the last two updates I'm no longer able to use the app. It keeps coming up saying that I need to allow it permissions to appear on top and to send notifications. I enable it all and it still doesn't work. 😡 I've used this app for years and have loved it. At this point it's useless. I DO NOT RECOMMEND DOWNLOADING IT!!!
I LOVED this app. And then, like others, I was put off by the app suddenly requiring permission to manage phone calls and display over my screen. I get the reason for these permissions, but there is absolutely no reason these can't be optional. I can pause my own music if I decide to pick up a phone call, and I don't need my music app displaying over anything. My phone is off 80% of the time I'm listening to music, and I'm playing games I need the full screen for the other 20%.
I thought I'd configured my phone app wrong when Muzio started popping up after EVERY CALL out of nowhere! Sometimes, before I could even end the call properly! Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I wanted from my audio player, thanks! 🙄 You had it all, Muzio! You could have been THAT ONE APP but you just couldn't help yourselves. I leave you with two stars (a year ago, it would have been five without hesitation!) hopeful you'll turn this train wreck around before you do permanent damage.
This app used to be my go-to. I preferred it over other free players because if the nice default themes and lack of audio ads, just occasional banners. After a while popups started creeping in, then popups with wait-times. Today the canary in the coalmine dropped. I opened the app to a paywall. Full-page spread of their $6 a week (a WEEK) ad-free service. It has no apparent way to close and ofc you need payment info to start a free trial, basically holding my playlists for ransom. Just use VLC.
When I originally got this app, it had no ads and worked great. I used it off and on for 4 months, but when I left it alone for roughly 3 months, it started having ads afterwords. I disable Auto Update because many groups bloat or entirely re-design their apps to be worse, so make of that what you will. If you still see 3 stars on this review, then ads haven't started interrupting my music audio yet.
Had to go from a 5 star to 1 star. I've used this app for years cause for the longest time it was the best music player, but now you can't even click the back button without being spammed with ads on top of pummeling you asking for you to subscribe to their paid plan every time you pull the app up. So I think I'm gonna look for a different app. Also seeing reviews of people saying they paid for lifetime membership just to have it yanked away, that's bad business.
3/27/21 needed a replacement for google play music and this is way better. 02/25 Update: When I first found this app it was perfect. No ads and overall no issues. They've decide to bombard people with ads now, its ridiculous. When the change first happened, it was fine. A single ad that you could x out of immediately would pop up when the app first opened and never again. Now ads are constant and are difficult to x out of so you need to click multiple times. Going elsewhere.
I really loved using this app to put and listen to music, but the change has really been annoying. I used to be able to access the music offline but now when I'm not connected to WiFi it takes forever to load. And not to mention, the subscription screen popping up with an ad sometimes immediately afterward. Even simply going to a playlist sometimes makes an ad pop up. It's honestly starting to remind me of those 3D games that are just ads after every single little thing you do.
Been using for years and all of a sudden, I'll open the app and it's a pop up for the subscription and I click exit than another pop up pertaining to something else than something else pops up so that's 3 times I gotta click the "x" to get to the music player. I can't deal with this anymore so I need to find another app.
