Hudson Music Digital Bookstore

After update I can’t get access to my purchases. 🤷‍♂️

What year is it!? Hudson needs to invest in its content creators. With the most respected educators, this is literally the worst app in the music education market. No wonder the YouTube and Instagram educators are leaving them in he dust, it’s a shame to see how limiting the use of this app is considering some of the iconic books that are in there. Even the simple task of separating purchased from non-purchased content would be an improvement. #downloaded #purchased ?? When there is media connected to the book it is glitchy to play on a newest gen iPad. Once again, amazing educators have put out content on Hudson… the app itself is the problem.

The app does deliver a multimedia experience as they say, but for books with a large amount of text, this app lacks the ability to highlight, underline, change font size, add multiple bookmarks, or add annotations. You can't markup charts unless you print them. If these things are important to you, don't get the e-version: get the actual book. While font size can be changed by "pinching", as soon as you pinch even a little bit, text disappears off the page and it's annoying dragging it around your screen. You can not use the material with other apps like Kobo, Kindle or Apple Books. If a company is going to charge $20 -- FOR AN E-BOOK -- the app ought to be more full-featured. So, for text-heavy material, I recommend the actual books. For media-heavy books, perhaps try just one book and see if it works out for you.

The load time for each page is so incredibly slow. App buttons on the bottom of the screen lack realtime interaction between hitting the “button” and something happening. I think it’s a good idea to have them catalogued online, but the execution of the service provided feels like I just spent $40 and cannot get the benefit of what I thought I was paying for. Maybe ChatGPT can help? Hope it gets better.

The app looks better no more scrolling through the whole catalog to find your purchases. My gripe is the new UI does not have a landscape mode. If you have device with a large screen you are fine but if you have a device with a smaller screen you are constantly zooming in and out or scrolling to get to areas out of view.

You can’t search the books you’ve bought, you can’t even just see them, you have to scroll through everything to find your book, then the app crashes anyway. Do not use this. They don’t even allow you to download the ebook YOU PAID FOR! So you pay to not be able to see it in the app. It’s horrendous and they should not allow them to make money like this

I can’t even view my downloaded books. I purchased them through hudsonmusic.com and they showed up before but I kept getting an annoying error message, which said, “ network error” so I deleted the app and downloaded it again, now I can’t even see my downloaded books. I only get an error message. They show up on my computer online through their website, but nothing on the app. This is very frustrating. Coming from a legacy company like Hudson who charges a premium price for their Digital products but can’t keep up with the digital world.

I’ve spent hundreds of dollars with Hudson either through physical books or ebooks. The app does not play the audio when you click on the link/button, even though the download is clearly there taking up space on my phone. There is absolutely no support from Hudson - I regret spending my hard earned money with this company!!!

Hudson Music! Please fix this app. Also what’s with zero compatibility for non M1 Apple products? I use your books to teach and now I can no longer access them for my students. This is extremely frustrating!

The app is very user-unfriendly. It does not allow you to organize your books in any way. Worse, it does not show you your purchased books in a separate window/shell unless you download them; and to download them you need to find them within the hundreds of books in the store, one by one. So you better download them immediately after buying and hopefully have still space in your tablet/phone. And even more stupid: the app used to have a “purchased” button and they got rid of it. It seems they hate their customers.