Music League 4+

I was a little skeptical about this at first since I wasn’t sure the fantasy sports concept would translate to music. I was dead wrong. I’ve played music league a few times now and had a blast with old friends who live in several different states. We all do our best to stay in touch, but Music League has this amazing power to get old friends back in touch and for current friends to stay in touch. The music aspect is amazing also since you hear some songs you’ve never heard or haven’t heard in a long time, but my biggest takeaway is how Music League builds relationships between old friends or has the potential to create new friends.

Love love love this app and concept, I’ve had a blast playing it with my friends and it’s exposed me to a ton of new artists and music. I understand the developer’s right to earn money off their product, especially when they continue to have to provide support and infrastructure for running people’s leagues. But my GOD the ads on this app are incredibly annoying. I have no idea how much control they exert over which ads appear, but it feels like they’ve gone out of their way to pick extremely long and obnoxious ads to push people towards their subscription tier. My suggestion to the devs: please dial down both the length and frequency of your ads, as in their current form they really hamper the experience. And if possible, please offer a single-payment ad-free option in addition to the option to pay a subscription. I have enough subscriptions in my life right now and adding another one here is not an option.

This is the greatest app on my phone. It is everything a music geek could ask for: It lets you compete with friends over taste, it helps you find great new music, and you can spend lots of time playing in it or you can pop in and out without losing the fun. Most importantly, I basically traded in all the time I spent on social media for this instead.

There are a few things that could make it perfect:
1. Fix the scheduling glitches. Have lost a couple rounds because of that
2. Make it possible to download a .csv or .xls report of the round-by-round results
3. Add individual chats so you can invite individual people to new leagues (vs telling the whole group)
4. Make it possible to have downvotes be optional - I.e., not mandatory, so if you don’t want to downvote, you don’t have to
5. Improve link sharing in chat
6. Add filters to the entire league and/or individual rounds so you can set parameters like “<500k monthly listeners”. This would prevent people from sneaking in guaranteed winners like RATM or GNR

But even still, awesome app - best one on my phone!