Musicboard: Music Reviews ١٢+

Essentially letterboxd for albums and songs. It had some bugs at first, but the developers caught on and made the necessary improvements. I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 5 because I feel there’s still room to grow, both within the app as a community of listeners, and in terms of general user friendliness.

If I could change one thing it’d be to improve on the organization of user’s profiles. There’s no way to search for a specific artist or item by name when you’re browsing through an individual user’s feed. I’d love it if users could have their ratings/reviews organized by say, a drop-down menu where you could see all the user’s artists and go right along to those submissions. I think the same feature could also be used to sort by year of release or to locate applicable genres/subgenres, although the genres don’t get specific here on the album profiles and in many cases it seems like the release dates aren’t right.

It’s a good app, and I’d recommend it to anyone who wants a medium to contribute to the discussion of music/hear the takes of others. For a relatively new app there’s already a large and quickly growing community, and the more people join this virtual discussion of music, the more other music lovers out there have to gain from each other.

shoutout to the developers for listening to their users and taking the time to boost the servers to allow the app to run efficiently !! it’s very fast and the user interface is wonderful ... there are a few bugs remaining, like a white screen when looking up full album titles (but not segments of titles, interestingly), but overall it’s much better than it was last week.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: while this is such a good idea , it seems like the app developers skipped like 4 steps in the design process and released the app full of glitches , crashes , and (allegedly) open to hacking !! it’s a shame because I would be an AVID user of this app if it weren’t so poorly executed

This app is just letterbox for music. It functions almost identically and is, like letterbox, a great way to see what’s what. I recommend it to anyone who is trying to discover new music or has some interesting takes on music, but I personally did not enjoy this app. Music is different from a film and much more subjective, so much of the opinions represented are about people’s personal take on pieces of music rather than a criticism of what the artists actually made. This is fine for enjoying or disliking music, but makes much of the reviews you’ll read feel “one note” and I found myself bored of the app after the first few reviews I made. It’s just not as enjoyable as letterbox and it feels like copying elements of that format work against the app. Also, many of the people on this app are a little all consumed with their tastes; their music taste is their personality which left me feeling empty. There are good critics and interesting takes on music, but most are pretty trite with little to add. I also have no ideas on how the app could be improved from its current point, other than formatting it completely differently.