McIntosh AP1 Audio Player 앱 리뷰

Beautiful app… just doesn’t work. All other functionality seems fine e.g. skip forward/backward, library, etc. but when you press the play button… nothing.

Somewhat of a novelty app. Functionality has waned without any updates and there’s almost zero reason to use it. If they could update to take advantage of new StandBy mode it might actually be used. It could be what this app has been waiting for to shine.

Not much else to say.

Please add the ability to cast this app for the people that use casting technology please !!! 🙏😊

This app is totally stupid the meter isn’t synchronized to the music or volume level. Like what’s the point. Really!

It shows a track, but is playing a different song. I don’t store music locally on my device but it asked permission to use Apple Music, so maybe the issue is centered around the Apple Music API? I’ll try it on another device next.

I have tried all of the “Audiophile Quality” music players on the app store and this one, to me, sounds the best. Detail, “air”, and musicality are all there. I recommend it highly!

Sadly, for all the emphasis on quality this company seemingly prides itself on, this ince great app has grown outdated and buggy as one version after another of ios passes it by… It hasn’t been updated in years, so I’d ask why even keep it out there at this point. Update it or take it down. Sad.

Come on McIntosh, is there even a need to have this app at all? What’s the point in it? It adds nothing to the iOS experience, adds zero music listening functionality, none. And because it is so buggy, the mere ability of users to download this and put it on their phone or pad simply tarnishes the brand. Terrible software floating out there with your name on it.

I have had this app for a couple of years but it is only recently that the app has been developed to a high enough standard that it is actually usable. In its current state it is as usable as the Apple Music app is and it accesses the same music that is downloaded on my phone. I love the classic Macintosh look… In fact I love it so much that I spent $5000 on a Macintosh amplifier two years ago. My only wish is that this app were available on CarPlay with the same look and feel.

I actually really like the way that this app allows you to play music from the library on your phone, and get the cool blue McIntosh meters! However, as other reviewers have stated, this is not a good Music player. If you open another app while music is playing, and then go back to the McIntosh app, the music will stop playing altogether which basically makes this app unusable in my opinion.

It is a very good app but crashes and consonant find my self reinstalling it but overall good app

I couldn’t get the app to work at all.

No reverse or forward makes this pretty useless to music oriented people who purchase said type of electronics. Stupid to release a player with a name like this and no function. lol. Whatever

Great app if I didn’t need to delete and reinstall every time I close it Premium amps and subpar app. Sad to see.

Please add another vu meter for landscape mode on phones. To give people the experience who cannot afford McIntosh system in their room or cars.

This could have been something wonderful, but it is obvious that development was dropped before the product was allowed to mature. Sad. As it stands, AP1 is primitive in functionality and I would recommend going elsewhere for a music player.

Beautiful UI, but unfortunately you need to keep it open for it to work. If you switch to another app, the music stops playing if you try and return to the player. If your phone display is set to turn off after a minute or two, again the app will stop playing and the music must be re-started. The only way around it is to keep your iPhone display on indefinitely and not switch to another app. Looks like McIntosh, has stoped supporting it sadly. Understandable as it’s a free app. I would have paid good money for this if it was working properly. This was too good to be true, sadly. The only to have to have that McIntosh experience is to shell out big bucks I guess.

I was so disappointed in this app I thought coming from McIntosh I would be better but this app is buggy the meters work some of the time music don’t recognize all my song on the iPad. I give it two stars cause it do look cool to bad it didn’t work well.

The title says it all. It won’t see my music installed on my iPad Pro.

I love using this with the rest of my Mc Intosh gear. Would love to have a search option!

Used a version of this app 8 years ago. Liked it a lot until it became unstable with system updates. Tried installing and using again, but it crashes when adding tracks into system. A shame as I really enjoyed its interface in its earlier incarnation.

Please update this app. It crashes every few minutes. The artists list no longer loads. It would be a perfect fit matching my McIntosh setup, but it us useless at the moment. Please fix it!

the player indicates that i have selected a certain song but only plays the song it was already on. i select song after song but it doesn’t play what is clearly selected.

Awesome App please update

It stopped working consistently with IOS 12. It only reads the music library once but then loses it. You have to delete it, reboot and reinstall it. Hope they fix it.

iOS 12.3.2 killed this app Crashes right away

Do the meters reflect reality? I am not seeing it. Is it random meter jerking? It looks like it. I have spent big bucks on their stuff, and gladly. But this is insulting. If anyone can tell me that this is more than an mp3 player with a randomly wiggling meter having no connection to the music please let me know. Thanks.

I bought a C26, MC2105, MR77, and MI3 almost 50 years ago and they are all still going strong! Love your gear! And now I have your VU meter on my iPhone X. Looks great on the black glass. And your app is much better laid out than the Apple iTunes app. I’m delighted. Thank you!

Looks cool when it actually stays open.....automatically shuts off during songs. No equalizer??🙄

Unfortunately it crashes ... won’t play songs then crashes ... very disappointed .... used to use all the time ... update not functioning works on iphone but not iPad mini 4 iOS 12 .... very saddened ... hope an update comes out to fix ....

please

Couldn’t reach the developer through the website (too many redirects), so thought I’d ask here. Does this program utilize sound check? I have most of my music files adjusted for sound level and in the apple music player you have to enable sound check for it to read the parameters. Also, does it have its own randomizes, or does it use apples?

It’s a beautiful player visually. A great companion to MHA50 portable decoder amp. It’s transparent with 16b 44.1kHz tracks however anything above gets down converted to 16bit 44.1kHz. iPhone now supports up to 24bit 192kHz and with MHA50 in their lineup, McIntosh should include a bit perfect output for this player.

Awesome potential but crashes during every song

Meters don’t work, if they do, it’s not to the music anyway.

silly meters is all to see here

Product won’t stay open. Too bad I want to love it.

Looks pretty, looks Mac. Meter activity is hokey but still kind of cool. But... only works through WiFi and only accesses your cloud music. If future updates allow access to be limited to the downloaded music on the device and to function off-line I’ll load it back up. For now, I’ve deleted it. McIntosh, this is below you.

Crashing lately. Will there be an upgrade soon

I like the app very much but the problem with it is after i start the app and skip two or three songs the app is crushing. And when I open the app again it starts from the same song when I opened the first time.This is happening on iPhone X.

Downloaded and ran. Skipped the first five songs, landed on U2 “40” which crashed during the song intro. Replicated the crash a second time, crashed at exactly to same moment. However the big blue meters are nice.

The title says it all.

I like the app but it is unstable at times. I have to close it and restart.

I'm sorry but a name as well established as They are? Very disappointing. It really doesn't sound ANY better then Apples player. Just average! Just Disappointing!

It could use a little polishing, but is very capable. I'm glad the streaming media app is separate. It won't be for the typical i-crowd, and it's not a light-show, so don't expect it to be. It's a concise Bluetooth-enabled (now "AirPlay"?) player that couples well with a B-tooth receiver that bridges flash memory digital music storage with your audiophile equipment. It also lends itself to album playing more than one-song "beats", although a playlist is available. Very surprised to see it available, and very pleased to get away from i-Want your credit card. A+ for simplicity, A- for app implementation.

Come on guys! McIntosh equipment is some of the best in world. This app is an embarrassment and damaging to the brand. Why did you even need to release this? If you can't do it well, don't do it. The fact that the meters are actually not connected to the output level is inexcusable. Would this be acceptable in your hardware? Why do you think it is here? SMH.

I’ve used this app periodically for years, from the iPhone 3 I think. Earlier iterations were definitely buggy, but this version, just downloaded on to a recent generation iPad works seamlessly. Folks complaining have to have other issues with their gear. It’s pretty, informative and well, so very McIntosh. 5 Stars.

Doesn’t work at all with iOS 11.1