Presto Music

I find the service a delight to use and now feels quite stable, although the iOS/iPad apps still have annoying clicks between tracks and the beginning of some tracks marred by a second of poor audio quality before it settles. However I have two streamers which perform almost flawlessly. As a remote for the streamers the app is great, nice and clean and intuitive to use. However, some strange inconsistencies, such as only being able to switch from list to grid view of albums in just a few sections. Also if you favourite a conductor say and then view the conductor page from your collection the page only shows you a selection of the albums featuring that conductor in your collection and not all - no “view all” option. It would be great if you could organise your collection to your own taste or preference and seems the best way would be to allow users to tag albums and have a tags section - e.g. my favourite concertos, or a series of albums I associate with each other for quick access.

I love the enormous range of classical music available. I’ve been using the app for a while and it’s great to have such an enormous library available so readily. Good value. The app - I can’t create my own playlists, which seems a quite a fundamental flaw.

Regret to have to unsubscribe due to broken airplay connections all the time. Please integrate the streaming with smart speakers to provide a better experience. Thank you!

Music beautifully and very intelligently curated. What I’d hoped Apple Classical might be. No Chromecast (yet) means no hi-res streaming. Also no way of playing on a Mac. Fix that and it’s almost perfect.

Version 2.8.0 finally works with the screen sleeping. Well done developers. Now 5 stars👏👏👏

… but v2.8 won’t let me save my most recent CD purchase offline to mi iphone 13 mini running iOS 16.5.1. The button is present but not active.

Excellent in many ways, but a significant and frustrating issue on iPads with face recognition is that when playing an album the music progress bar is too close to the bottom of the screen and is partially covered by the iPad’s app changer bar. Swiping up to change to another app while listening results in the track resetting. It also makes moving through the track almost impossible. Disappointing that this issue has not been fixed in any of the recent updates. It’s not a problem on iPhone.

The search works well and sound quality seems good but you can only book mark a whole album not a single track, and there is no option to make a playlist.

There is much to like about this service, especially if you want to dig deeper into classical music. The search function is ideally suited to classical music and this is the work of an independent UK company. An alternative to the enormous global companies that constitute the other options for classical music streaming. Competitively priced and as far as I can all the compositions that you could possibly wish for.Try their free trial and see for your self .

I have an extensive collection of CDs purchased from Presto which I can view and listen to via the website but they did not show up in the App. I had to DELETE the app and re-install it. I hope that wont be necessary every time there’s an update.