MusicHarbor - New Music Daily

everything is paywalled

Seriously, this pop up for the Premium features has got to stop popping up every time I open the app. Once in a while is fine but every time is obnoxious and makes me come here and leave a less glowing review than I’d like to.

This app is fantastic. Personally, it’s got everything I could want in a music app—new releases, music playback + artwork, music videos, and artist pages with discography, tour dates, news, and profile. You’re able to import your favorite artists from Apple Music, Shazam, Spotify, and Last.fm as well as from your local files. The ‘Labels’ feature which allows you to browse the various artists signed to a specific label is also a nice touch. The numerous options for sorting, grouping, and filtering releases is also greatly appreciated. Being able to update albums and read liner notes is really just the perfect cherry on top. My only gripe is with the music player. If you play a song in the app, you have no control over playback aside from Play and Pause—and the Pause button is in need of serious recalibration. It regularly takes me 3-4 tries for it to register and actually pause the song. I’m also not a fan of the feature where tapping the song starts it over. This combined with needing 3-4 tries to pause a song gets really frustrating, as it restarts the song every time my tap on the pause button isn’t registered. These are extremely minimal issues though and absolutely should not prevent you from downloading this app.

I dont give reviews but when i do, its good

It’s the best way to track your favorite artists.

I never review apps but this one deserves a rating/review. It helps me find new songs all the time that otherwise would get missed by the bad release radar on Spotify. I created a playlist and just add all the songs I need to listen to when I get the time and remove them after I listen to them. Rinse and repeat. Love the app.

The developer has not made updates since October 2023.

Absolutely love this app but I swear it used to notify of when new releases drop for me. I’ve double checked all my settings and it should work but I haven’t received a notification in forever. Edit: thank you to the developer for responding and letting me know, updating my review to 5 stars

So as the title says, I purchased unlock everything. I did this back in 2020. Recently I had to reset my device as new and reinstall all my apps manually again (edge case scenario for sure). When I was in Musicharbor I obviously noticed immediately that I didn’t have access to any of my purchases so I went to restore my purchase and I didn’t look hard enough. This was my first mistake. I presumed, through prior experience that if I just attempted to make a purchase I’d be prompted to restore my purchase that I’d made previously (in 2020). Well, apparently that only works if you are attempting to repurchase the SAME in-app-purchase. So great… I’ve been charged. Okay no worries, I’ll just request a refund instead. Apple is good about that (in my experience). Yeah, well not this time. For no reason given I was denied once and then twice. “This purchase is not eligible for refund” is all that was written. So then I hopped into an Apple Support chat, to save you time, the Support agent said, after reviewing the purchase in 2020 and 2023, “The purchases are from the same app, but are different. One is “Unlock Everything” and the other is “Filter releases by type.”” Yes the agent used quotes on the in-app-purchase names. So then I proceeded to ask them what they though Unlock Everything means, as I’ve had access to the entire app since 2020 and therefore unlock everything, as the name implies does indeed unlock everything. At this point, maybe ironically, the chat was ended, not by my choice and I don’t think due to their choice either. The message given was that there was a connection error. So who knows. What I learned though is that Apple is not this amazing errorless company either and that in my opinion developers and online store keepers need to do better. It’s asinine that I can walk into most clothing stores and return a shirt or pair of pants and get a refund, but I can’t return a digital token that unlocks a part of code. The prior example creates real waste and harms the environment, whereas the latter is negligible.

Scrolling a list of songs of any album in the Releases tab suffers from significant stuttering.