MusicSense by 10tracks is my go-to for music discovery and appreciation. I just found this app a few weeks ago but I cannot stop sharing it. MusicSense has awesome quality music, no commercials or ads, no buffering, and I haven’t seen a single “premium” pop-up, or any limitations on any of the apps features. Any songs you like can be marked with a star to download it in the app for offline use. You can also search for a song or a band you like to listen to and it’ll play said song or band and others like them. If you’ve saved a song for offline use you can click the dice beside it in your starred menu and MusicSense will generate similar songs for you to discover. You can, of course, dislike songs, and MusicSense will not play them again. You can also see what songs are coming up and select which one you want to hear, or jump over to it so you can dislike it so it doesn’t show up anymore. And, perhaps best of all, if you link your Facebook to MusicSense, it’ll play music based on your FB activity. And though it didn’t say this, I think it also plays based off your iTunes account, since the first songs it played when I got it were songs I already owned on my iTunes account.
Some suggestions to really knock this app off the charts:
Replay button
Adding date and time to the user profile/music timeline
Allow dislike/blocking when searching for artists and songs
Allow users to create playlists with starred songs or through searching
Allow the option to listen to just the artist users search for instead of automatically generating a playlist
And this last one is more a just for fun suggestion, but wouldnt a "Surprise Me!" button be so perfect? One thats totally random and doesnt play any of the disliked artists or songs, of course.
Alyssa Henricks about MusicSense, v3.0.1