StarTone 4+
Star rate music easy and fun
乃波 黄
Designed for iPad
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- $0.99
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Description
Star your favorite Apple Music
StarTone is a music player which can play songs in your "Music" library and audio files stored in your device, including common format like mp3 and lossless format of Flac, also it support MIDI playback and support customize sound bank.
StarTone was came out for rating music with stars and "love" statues. The rating bar stands out in the main page, so it just need one touch to make the rating, no need to open many submenus. In addition, StarTone provides Today Extension and Watch app, so you can also make music ratings on the Widget Screen and your Apple Watch.
StarTone now also equips some handy features to make the music listening easy and happy. Please try to play with them.
Features:
1. Quickly set star and love ratings for music on your local library, Apple Music or audio file.
2. Sync music ratings with other devices or iTunes via iCloud on the go.
3. With iCloud Sync enabled, love / dislike rating are available.
4. Support rating on today extension (widget).
5. Share music ratings with family and friends.
6. Support embed lyrics, .lrc lyrics file and online lyrics.
7. Support automatically play when launch the app.
8. Support star music rating on Apple Watch.
9. Play and rate audio files of general format and Flac lossless format.
10. Support MIDI playback.
11. Smart playlist for both Music Library and audio files.
12. Play audio files on Apple Watch.
13. Scheduled music playback.
What’s New
Version 1.8
Now support star rating for Apple Music items. Also support auto add Apple Music to library.
Ratings and Reviews
Better than native music app, but still have flaws
The main reason l purchased this app is that l can easily check/edit 5-star rating of any song, unlike the native app.
I also like that the album art is displayed on a bigger area compared to iphone’s music app.
Displaying file’s lyrics is very easy.
However, when showing a list of songs in an album for example, 5-star rating isn’t shown next/below every song, but you have to open every single song to check that.
Also, when playing a song, lt’s order/number in an album or a playlist isn’t shown, as well as the total play time.
I hope the developers add these features to the next update soon.
Unreliable, and will unintentionally rate unplayed songs
I tried this app well over a year ago and had a deal breaking issue. I couldn’t tie the issue to the Startone app, so I abstained from writing a review. After deleting the app over a year ago, fixing my ratings, reinstalling the app today (newer version), and listening to and rating a couple songs stored locally on my iPhone… I can unequivocally state that this app is the culprit. It rated songs I hadn’t even listed to. Additionally, it changed songs’ ratings that I’d methodically managed over the past 20+ years.
To fix the damage caused, I had to remove this app, synch my iPhone to my library, restart the iPhone, fix the ratings that this app broke (redundantly stored as text “***” in songs’ Comment tag), then re-synch.
If you actually care about keeping song ratings, my recommendation is to proceed with caution with this app. It is buggy/unstable at best, or worse… poorly designed. Either way, it can’t be trusted.
Great way to rate songs with Apple Watch
Love this app. I like song star ratings, but Apple has been making it harder and harder to use them. This app puts the ability to quickly rate a song right in my wrist.
One thing to note: if you set the Apple watch to keep the last used watch app on screen longer, *and* if you don't ever open the native music app on the watch, StarTone will stay on the watch screen. Once you open the native Apple watch music app, it will keep coming back to the foreground.
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
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Information
- Seller
- 乃波 黄
- Size
- 18.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 6.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 Huang Naibo
- Price
- $0.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.