Concertino for Android

I think the app is mostly pretty good and an upgrade over Music. The interface is quite nice. I do have a few complaints. Advancing a piece: Why must I lock the screen or pull the screen down to access Google’s song advance slider to go forward or back in a piece? I don’t like leaving the app just to slide back to a part I really enjoyed. Inconsistent representation of composers: I search Paganini and I get an option that shows the composer Niccolo Paganini, then his works are broken down by essential, chamber and so on. I search Henri Vieuxtemps, and various pieces come up with his name in bold but he doesn’t have his own profile with his works broken down so I can easily browse his works. I find numerous composers have profiles with their works and others have their works available but not organized and scatter shot in a list. Favorites scattered: Why are my favorites scattered in a list? One of the things I was most hoping for where Google Music fails, is organizing my music by composer. When I favorite something, why do I not instead see a list of composers I have with at least one piece saved? Where’s that Dvorak piece I favorited? In some odd spot in a list mixed with a bunch of other composers. I want to go to my Dvorak favorites and see all my Dvorak there and so on. Number of composers: I know, yours limited by OpenOpus, and eventually the list will grow and a community will be able to help it grow. When will the Open in OpenOpus open?

The app has some quirks but is greatoverall.

This is a WONDERFUL app. I think it has a very recognizable feel to classical musicians, similar to browsing the IMSLP catalog, except with a link to a recording at the end (though occasionally it won’t find recordings that I know are on Google Music, particularly with older music, pre-Bach). It’s a great resource if you’re wanting to explore a composer’s oeuvre and immediately listen. While it achieves everything it aims to re: being a classical music library, there’s something to be desired on the streaming end. While it is a great thing to group movements together as a single work (though still listing them as individual movements is a good thing), you’re unable to scroll to specific time-stamps within a movement; you have to listen all the way through. It’s just standard-fare for a streaming service, and should be added in the next update. Additionally, consider researching and adding famous composers of color to the catalogues: Boulogne, Price, Still, Eastman, and others. There are several lesser known composers in the groups by time period, some lesser known than these. It seems prudent to include these and more now rather than later. Great job on creating a wonderful and very useful app.

I’ve wanted something like this to exist for so long! I’d have been thrilled just to find a classical music app that integrates with Google Music, but the fact that this app looks so nice and works so well is just the icing on the cake. And it looks like the developers are just getting started, so I can’t wait to see where it goes from here!

Superior not just to most classical radio stations with questionable curating at best but also to such scams as Primephonic or Idagio that presume to charge subscriptions for similarly clumsy selection of good music.