Anghami: Play Music & Podcasts 4+

Big Disappointment

I downloaded the app almost three years ago, and I liked it so much that I had to tell everyone that I know about it. I liked its fast search engine, the high quality of music, and how it is up to date with new releases. Then it went downhill for me about a year and half ago when this fuss about Anghami Plus started. I was okay with it at the beginning because everything nowadays is about money, and it wasn’t a big deal for me not being able to see lyrics or download music. However, I discovered that most options were not available anymore to free Anghami users, although in my opinion some of these options should not be included in premium subscription such as the rewind option, fast forward, and not being able to listen to a certain song/artist because you’re guilty of loving it/him/her so much. I started using the app less and less till it was the last straw: Egypt Socially Discriminating Provocative Bullying Marketing Campaign. It was shameful and disappointing in which one of these ads a suitor is rejected for being too poor to subscribe on Anghami Plus. Now, my own list is on shuffle. It seems to me that there is no Anghami anymore, only Anghami Plus, so why bother having two versions. It was a long coming decision, but I am finally removing the app off my phone.

Great App, but..

1) When you download an album, it doesn’t show up as individual songs in your Downloads, under songs. You have to go to the Albums tab to find it. So if you shuffle your “Songs,” the items in that album won’t be played at all.

2) When you organise your songs alphabetically, the slider on the right freezes, so if you missed the letter that you want to find, you need to scroll up and down again to refresh the slider and start again. The slider also groups every 2 letters/characters together. I initially thought that it was because the items in each character are few (like the way Apple does it) but I have close to 2000 downloads, and it still has every 2 sequential characters group, which is highly impractical.

3) Anghami has a HUGE problem with attribution/mapping. On more than one occasion I found songs incorrectly attributed to an artist, either (A) One artist could just be featured on a song’s original artist, and the song will be attributed to the featured artist, when neither the song nor the overall album belongs to them, or more commonly (B) two separate artists could be similarly named and the song is attributed to the wrong artist, e.g. LEON (a male Asian artist/band) vs. LÉON (a female Swedish singer/songwriter)

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Stop forcing anghami plus down our throat

Ive been using this app for almost 3 years now and have been subscribed to anghami plus for the past year, ever since my subscription ended ive been using the “free anghami” and ive noticed how almost everything isnt an option anymore, i cant listen to an album without them forcing a shuffle and playing similar songs (not the ones i chose), it’s almost as if they keep limiting the most mundane options like rewinding or even as simple as choosing which song to play in order for them to force you into a corner so you have no choice but to purchase anghami plus, it’s extremely frustrating and comes across as very desperate from the app to force its users into purchasing anghami plus. This application used to be a free music app with an option to subscribe to another feature that gives the user more options (like downloading songs etc.) but now the app has transformed into Anghami Plus, with very few limited free options. Very big disappointment from the app especially since its coming across as very money hungry.