Miximum: Smart Playlist Maker 4+

Do you have that one app that you literally can’t do without, the one that keeps you from migrating from apple. This is that App for me. Its purpose is plain and simple take a set of rules from the user and apply them to a vast music collection and make a “smart” playlist that easily updates depending on how it’s set up. I use it to easily switch up songs from my own collection of several thousand tracks, but where it gets really interesting to me is in the time since I first picked up the app the developer has added a function so you can tell it to combine playlists from the apple community that other people are updating. So In essence I have created several genre playlists that automatically add new music from other users, and knows my favorites mixes them together and then keeps the individual tracks from repeating within 4 weeks to 6 months depending on my personal preferences… I used to create playlists by hand and the time I’ve saved with this app is a true life saver!

I have been looking to create dynamic/smart playlists on iOS for years. After tons of fighting with synching between macOS Music/iCloud Music/iOS, I finally found Miximum. It was everything I wanted. The rules engine is fantastic, and allows for complex playlist to be created very easily. My only suggestion would be to add a rule that allows you to set the total count for an Artist. For example, I have one playlist (Metallica) that feeds into a larger playlist. Because the Metallica playlist has so many more songs, I would like to limit the number of songs from them in the new playlist. There might be a way to do this by combining different rules, but I haven’t been able to figure it out yet. That small suggestion aside, this is the best $1.99 I have spent on the App Store in years. Well worth it.

My main reason for getting this app was to consolidate music “in my library” with music “not in my library” (since my experience with the Apple Music app has been buggy and incomplete). First I tried just selecting “All Music” which (after a few minutes of waiting) generated a playlist of 110,000 songs, which means that part worked! Sadly when I hit the shuffle button, it simply failed to play. I assume this is a bug in Apple Music, not in the app. I was able to use the smart filters to create a 1000 song randomized playlist, though, which means I have a way around it at least by creating a new randomized playlist each session/day. If it was possible to handle this automatically somehow (only open the maximum allowable playlist size in Apple a music when clicking the shuffle button), that would be an improvement, but I assume it isn’t that simple.

Thanks for creating a great app! I look forward to seeing what’s in store for the future.