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I give this app five stars because I know it will attract a lot of fans over time. It also increases the number of music fans. I am very happy that a public rating website was designed for music as well.

Currently, the only drawback of the app is that we can not enter the Tracks page. For example, when I want to enter the track page of "Comfortably Numb", I am directed to the album "The Wall". In this situation, in order to understand the rating number of this track, I have to go directly to the website.

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.

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.

I use this app to keep track of albums, songs, and artists that I have critically listened to, thought about and (possibly) reviewed more than just 1-5 stars. But I do think that the search function being updated will help improve the experience for everyone. A lot of people who are using this app most likely aren’t going to be misspelling or messing up the name of what they’re looking for. With that in mind I think you could improve the search function by prioritizing matching over popularity… the amount of times that i have to open the “view all albums…” to find what I’m looking for because 5-8 completely unrelated items came up first is absolutely infuriating. And not being able to search within someones account is very annoying. Lastly, clicking on the “Ratings” tab pulls up a users history rather than a list of their ratings. Make it almost identical to the “Reviews” tab and it will be great.

Update: I have now run into album(s) that just don’t show up when sorting by albums.

really enjoying the app, but there are so many issues still. for example, the app struggles A LOT when searching for anything. it does a search and gives results every time a letter is typed in the search bar, causing the user to wait several seconds before the actual wanted result appears. this is probably the most annoying issue i’m having. sometimes after many searches the app just gives up and just gives a white screen. one time i was making a list and had added like 30 songs only to have them all deleted because of that issue. definitely not going to make more lists until that is resolved.

every time you review something, a green bar comes down over the top to notify you of your review, and it blocks the back button. you just have to wait until it goes away. not a huge issue but still annoying. there is a similar problem when adding things to “listen later” which could easily be solved by just replacing the ⏰ a ✅ to show that it has been added.

there are also doubles for all albums in the discographies for many artists which is annoying since the reviews/ratings are often split between the two. not sure if it’s separating clean & explicit versions or what.

the app will also log me out periodically for no apparent reason and tell me that i’ve been logged out.

those are the biggest ones i can think of but i would love to see this app fully optimized and take off! 💚

It’s nice having a Letterboxd equivalent for music and a much more modern answer to RateMyMusic for the mobile generation, but truthfully this app can be frustrating to use. There are a lot of UI interactions that don’t flow in an expected manner, many buttons are not adapted to dark mode and appear black on the dark background (not to mention there is no sync color scheme with device option), contributing new albums can be infuriating due to switching between apps and having Musicboard time out and lose all your typed information with no quicksave feature, etc etc. I see there haven’t been updates in 4 months and I seriously hope the developers do not consider the service a stable product because the road ahead is long but promising if they will put in the work for making it a good experience for the user.

This idea is great, a letterbox equivalent for music. The issue is that they basically just ripped off artist and album information from a streaming service and integrated that into their database. That may sounds just fine but the problem is that tons and tons of music is not available on streaming platforms and there is no way for a user to submit a page for an album or an artist. In addition to that, streaming services have a lot of duplicates releases for albums as well, they also put inaccurate release dates a lot of times. None of these things can be changed currently. They should have a system where users can submit a request for a particular release/artist or edit a current release. These requests could be approved by getting confirmation from a select number of other users. Right now, the app is alright, but it is vastly imperfect.

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

I absolutely adore this app. I love it so much that I became a pro member. However, with the recent update there have been a few issues I have come across. The biggest being the app works great for two minutes then just completely gives up and loads for eternity. The other is when I’m arranging lists I have an iPhone 13 pro and the list is cut off at the bottom to a point I can’t scroll to. Every time I try to move or remove a song my phone thinks I want to close the app.

As a frequent user of Letterboxd, I was very intrigued by this app. I have used RateYourMusic regularly, but with no app and horrible UI/UX, I would rarely return.

Musicboard is a fantastic start, and if they continue to improve the app, it will be as popular as Letterboxd.

To the developers:
-Add an iPad app and desktop website
-Make searching easier, such as searching by decade or year (maybe this in the app and I haven’t found it yet)
-A “hard press” when in a list to quickly rate an album rather than having to open the album page would be really nice, especially for new users trying to rate albums in bulk
-Letterboxd has a great feature to quickly rate films for new users so you can build up your profile quickly. I found it a little cumbersome to go through decades and decades of albums.

It’s a great app. Download it.

Also, add some sort of subscription. I’d happily pay $2-$3 a month for this app just to support its further development.