--- title: "Sound Byte Cart Machine App - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "Looking for a way to play sound clips at a theater or sporting events, as a DJ, or at other events? Don’t want to lug a computer around with you? With Sound Byte, the so-called "cart machine" used at " --- # Sound Byte Cart Machine App — United States > Sound files at your fingertips ![Sound Byte Cart Machine App App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple122/v4/9f/bf/b1/9fbfb17c-90b3-2359-8f9d-84e672ff57a4/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-7-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Black Cat Systems](https://apptail.io/developer/black-cat-systems-Gpc) (United States) **Category:** Music **Rating:** 4.0/5 (159 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.blackcatsystems.SoundBytePad **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 2.2 (released 2022-07-20) **Original Release:** 2010-10-30 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id399788078) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/sound-byte-cart-machine-app-yzte/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/sound-byte-cart-machine-app-yzte/united-states) ## Sound Byte Cart Machine App Description Looking for a way to play sound clips at a theater or sporting events, as a DJ, or at other events? Don’t want to lug a computer around with you? With Sound Byte, the so-called "cart machine" used at radio stations in the past is now available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Whether you're programming a radio show or amateur podcast, adding spice to the commentary at a local sporting event, controlling sound effects for a theater production, or simply organizing your personal playlist, Sound Byte lets you manage and control playback of your audio files. Sound Byte is perfect for: Radio, podcast and TV productions - have ads, announcements, songs and sound effects at your fingertips. Theater Productions - play any sound effect on cue. Sports Events - jazz up the commentary for your home team with sound effects each time they score. Sound Byte supports up to 20 racks of carts, or up to 1500 recordings total (420 on the iPhone/iPod). You can set the number of racks in use, so you don’t have to deal with empty, unused racks. Using Sound Byte is easy - just tap a cart, and playback of the audio file begins. You can set the title of each cart, as well as the background color. Optionally, you can have the app automatically change cart colors based on their state: empty, loaded, playing, and already played. Carts can also be numbered if you wish, and you can mark carts with a bright red border to make them easier to find, to play next. Fade in and out times can be set, as well as the cut in and cut out times, the playback volume, stereo pan, and rate. The volume of carts can be set while they are playing, and you can set the volume up to 200%, in case you have some recordings that are at too low of a level for normal playback. Carts can be set to loop a specified number of times - great for sound effects! Carts can be set to flash a user configured number of seconds before they finish playing, so you can get ready to play the next one. Interactions between carts can also be controlled - touching a cart to start it can optionally cause currently playing carts to stop playback or fade out. You can even set carts up to play sequentially, so once one ends, the next one starts playing. Carts that have been played can be marked as such, as well as disabled, if you only want to play a cart once. You can also log the name and time of played carts to a text file that you can copy back to your computer to view. This log can also be viewed from within the app. Several sizes of carts are supported, so you can display fewer larger carts to make playback control even easier. Sound Byte plays sound files from your Music Library. Note that sound files stored on iCloud cannot be played, they must be stored on your device. Sound Byte also plays sound files that you have installed in the Documents folder, which you can access via the iTunes app. Note that the screenshots are for illustration only, so you can see how the app works. Sound Byte does not come with any sound files, you'll need to supply your own. Please see for a full description of how to use the app. Buy your copy of Sound Byte now, and get complete control over playback of your sound effects and other files. ## Sound Byte Cart Machine App Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple112/v4/5a/34/5d/5a345dd9-350f-0ed4-c1a5-68272b8bfb4c/mzl.vxmilbgm.png/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple112/v4/c5/ea/85/c5ea85f1-ac00-f6d9-ec49-373326054d30/mzl.sngoiysf.png/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple112/v4/cf/d6/f7/cfd6f70f-bf73-edab-2072-48328e16802c/mzl.vyeqiuzn.png/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple112/v4/c2/5f/57/c25f5758-6a02-751c-3042-c0f251a79f98/mzl.vwctlshn.png/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple112/v4/4b/aa/55/4baa5510-5854-7769-fb6c-d6127acc4d56/mzl.fbwskgac.png/960x640.png) ## Sound Byte Cart Machine App Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 95 (60%) - 4 stars: 28 (18%) - 3 stars: 7 (4%) - 2 stars: 6 (4%) - 1 stars: 23 (14%) ## Sound Byte Cart Machine App Reviews in United States ### *---- "Disappointing" I’ve been using this app for years for my podcast. The file structure broke when Apple updated to APFS in iOS 10. As of writing, the latest iPadOS is 18.2. It’s unbearable to add clips to the app when they don’t show in alphabetical order. Sorting the contents of a directory is Coding 101. It’s even more embarrassing to think this developer had access to the dev betas and still failed to update such a rudimentary feature. My podcast ends today, and while it’s bittersweet, I’m very happy to be free from this app. -- Nadrekab, 2024-12-13 ### ***** "Music format radio show invaluable aid." This is the second time I had to get this app because ofApples upgrade a few years ago my old iPad was outdated. It’s an amazing app, sometimes because of Apple iTunes it’s a little difficult to get new sound events into it but I always seem to figure it out eventually, it’s just never like the instructions on the app. They perhaps could be updated please. I use this app for both bed music which I play under my mic breaks and I also use it for short little sound events in between songs. It is indispensable for me and my show. I’d feel naked without it. It helps me to put the show into the show. -- Mr. S. Vinyl, 2023-10-25 ### *---- "Can’t upload" I can’t even open iTunes to upload songs to the pad. -- wilksman, 2022-12-13 ### ****- "Best I’ve Found" Works great. Does not work with Apple or Amazon Music. Downloaded songs won’t show up as able to add to cart. You have to actually buy the song (which I don’t really buy songs anymore with a music subscription). But for $1.29 a song, I pay for the ones I use on this, not too big of a deal, but would be a great update. -- Shrip, 2022-12-10 ### ****- "Good program that needs updating" 20-year tenured broadcaster here. I was looking for something to run a radio show after iJingle discontinued support for their App. SoundByte is very functional but definitely an older program. I wonder if the developer is still watching comments and enhancing the program. The age of the product makes some features difficult to use. Suggestions for developer: 1) Loading to the iPad from a computer isn’t too difficult, but selection of items from the “SoundFile” is aggravating because the list isn’t alphabetized. Why isn’t there a sort button? Or at a minimum a default alpha sort? 2) Default setting for cart color - add a default in the SETUP screen. 3) The Cart Color selector for each cart doesn’t seem to hold the customer cart color. The color “wheel” is difficult to use and match color from cart-to-cart. It would be easier if a MS PowerPoint color “grid” was present instead of the older-style wheel. 4) There is no backup and restore capability. I’m paranoid I’ll have to spend another 4 hours loading up files and custom-naming them if something goes wrong. 5) The “Cart Rate” setting distorts the quality of the playback. Modern digital manipulation of song files don’t do that. Why offer the feature if it’s not functional? 6) There’s no “Exit” button. Yes I know how to close an iPad app…but without a backup function, I’m deathly afraid of losing something. Thanks for listening. I’m hoping there may be updates coming sometime soon. -- Winston Salem Reader, 2022-10-28 ### ****- "Not sure if it is still supported" When it worked, it was great. -- Nope McNopey, 2022-10-13 ### ****- "Been using it for a few years…" And I love it. Very easy to use. Updates always address most glitches. My only complaint is how some albums won’t load. Rare, but it happens. Almost perfect soundboard. -- Social Hermit, 2022-08-07 ### **--- "No change" Come on. Is this a joke. Fix it please. Fully crashes. -- no arrow, 2022-07-24 ### *---- "Broken as of today" The day I’m typing this, the app crashes if the user taps either Setup or Music Library on iPhone 13. Will update my review when the app functions. Devs, please also update to allow adaptive resolution — it looks like it was made to fit an iPhone 6, and this app can really make use of the new real estate that came with modern iPhones. I want to like this. Please update, devs. -- Morristech25, 2022-07-16 ### **--- "(Have always) Love(d) this app" I have been using this app for years. It has always been rock solid. Recently updated … oops crashes constantly when going to cart setup. Recently updated again (today 13-Jul-2022) in hopes that bug was resolved…. Oops crashed instantly. Just to confirm I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. C R A S H. Please resolve. Note - my current rating is for this (current version) I’d give the pre-updates app 5 stars. -- Ibdreaderd, 2022-07-13 ### **--- "Still crashes" Please fix. Still crashes on music library pick in cart -- clk30!, 2022-07-08 ### ***** "Great app" I’ve been using the PC version in the theater for years and really love it. Now using the iPhone version when I need sounds in a quick/emergency situation. Just need to figure out where it hides the files…so I can delete a couple of dupes. -- WestchesterMale, 2021-12-22 ### *---- "Will be asking for a refund" Crashes every time I try to add music -- Rosie 007, 2021-12-12 ### *---- "Absolute garbage" Does not work AT ALL!!! Save your $5!!!! -- Petey T, 2021-11-09 ### ***** "Love it!" I’ve used this for sporting events for 3 or 4 years now and it’s awesome! So simple to setup and use. I’ve never had a single issue. 1,000% suggest it to anyone!! -- Randy430, 2021-03-23 ### ****- "Works great, esthetics weak" The app does a great job of making it easy to set up cartridges very similar to if you were operating a live broadcast or for work as a disc jockey. What is lacking is the ability to easily format the colors and fonts for carts. It is a lot of repetitive work to constantly change the colors, and to control color changes for carts that have been played. It would be nice to also be able to change fonts. Overall I highly recommend the app, but hope the developers do a better job with the formatting options that are available. -- Hoosier Hack, 2021-03-03 ### ***** "Amazing Software" I have been using this application for years and find it irreplaceable for many theatre, radio station projects and television productions. I’m surprised how many professionals have never heard of Sound Byte. When I show them how powerful it is they are wide-eyed and ask “Where can I get this, and how much does it cost?” When I tell them it’s free they think I’m joking. You have to give it a try. You won’t be sorry. Hats off to the Black Cat Systems folks for their great support and unending efforts to bring it to iOS devices. Great track record, team. -- Lightsup, 2020-11-01 ### ***-- "Stoped working as of 13.6.1" This is a great app and have loved and used it for years and recommended it to so many people! With the update to 13.6.1 the app no longer works. It opens but the only screen response is to move between carts. It will. It play any songs. So make sure you have a phone or iPad running something other that 13.6.1 or later before you drop the cash for this. (Sept 2020). Looks like the app hasn’t had an update in 4 years so I’m not expecting this to be resolved. -- Jon Sig, 2020-09-12 ### *---- "Could be great, but it’s not" I bought this software for my iPad and for my Mac. The Mac version works pretty good but the iPad version is junk. It depends on Apple’s "Music” application to get clip in but that application in turn is a pain in the neck. Particularly if you have huge collection of sound effects CDs like I do. It would be great if you could bring in the clips through an IP address, Amazon S3 or Dropbox. I’ll stick to the free version of Soundboard. -- Orlando Mergal, 2020-03-13 ### ***** "It doesn’t work anymore!" What is going on here? -- egjjx jddhvcb, 2020-03-09 [View all Sound Byte Cart Machine App reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://apptail.io/account/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Sound Byte Cart Machine App Store Rankings | Chart | Country | Category | Rank | |-------|---------|----------|------| | Top Paid | Kazakhstan | Music | #143 | | Top Paid | Saudi Arabia | Music | #179 | | Top Paid | Brazil | Music | #324 | | Top Paid | New Zealand | Music | #328 | | Top Paid | Canada | Music | #361 | | Top Paid | Belgium | Music | #376 | | Top Paid | Spain | Music | #380 | | Top Paid | Denmark | Music | #390 | | Top Paid | Netherlands | Music | #410 | | Top Paid | Australia | Music | #426 | | Top Paid | Norway | Music | #433 | | Top Paid | Chile | Music | #442 | | Top Paid | Mexico | Music | #449 | | Top Paid | Singapore | Music | #449 | | Top Paid | Philippines | Music | #459 | | Top Paid | Ireland | Music | #461 | | Top Paid | United Kingdom | Music | #461 | | Top Paid | Thailand | Music | #464 | | Top Paid | Greece | Music | #472 | | Top Paid | Russia | Music | #478 | ## Sound Byte Cart Machine App Discovered Keywords - 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