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Good selection, but lost all my play lists over time due to discontinued relationship with labels. Absolutely no customer/ technical support inquiries from app, for convenience only. One must use website for full functionality and tech support. To their credit, website does allow user to search for and replace selections with other performances, but seems to have discontinued relationship with quite a few quality labels.
Essentially unusable. Search options are clunky and slow. It refuses to put things in my queue because they are already there but shows my queue empty. Pausing is buggy. I'm sad because it's such a great catalog but I'll have to unsubscribe.
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This app does not seem to be well maintained. It's always been quirky with the player being in a separate window from the library. Recently, however, it has been skipping tracks and sometimes crashing.. I suspect this may be related to incompatibility with the latest Android release.
1 people found this helpful
I haven't even scratched the surface of what there is, but the app needs to be improved in many ways. Various things need to be addressed. The overall functionality is good, but things like gapless playback (always brief silences between tracks), downloading for offline play, app stability (frequent crashing), and a myriad of other things. However, the sheer volume of what is available is hands down, superb, approaching endless content. Great app, I love it, but it needs work
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2021-05-08 OMG! They finally fixed this app! I have re-subscribed after cancelling and all but giving up on CA. Great service. For too long it was virtually inaccessible on Android due to an extremely bug ridden app. They fixed the app! Yay! 2021-07-11 App is still performing perfectly! So happy they fixed this app. This is now a great way to listen to classical music on Android.
7 people found this helpful
Wonderful app for classical music lovers. Wouldn't want to be without it -- at home or on the go.
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I was a Classical Archives subscriber for several years. Buggy poor quality App. I used it on Asus Tablets, Samsung and LG smartphones. I have been a subscriber to idagio classical music for about 9 months. It is great. Also tried Primephonic. It is also great. I have disovered several other composers that I'd not heard before. If you like Dmitri Shostakovich; you have to try Mieczyslaw Weinberg!! Great music and prolific composer in his time. Me, age 59.
3 people found this helpful
C.A. works very nicely on my computer, however in the app IT TOTALLY SUCKS.
1 people found this helpful
I'm happy to have found Classical Archives and use it on the Android app, Sonos, and PC browser. No sign yet of the app behaviors reported here... Update 2021: no problems in over four years of enjoying Classical Archives and the app.
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Gorgeous music, terrible app. This is the jumpiest, junkiest app I've ever used. Totally agree with all other complaints about random stopping, loss of playlists etc. Aren't the developers doing ANYTHING to fix the glitches? Recently almost everything I download stops before the end. Thanks for wrecking Chopin for me! Why amass a fantastic archive only to undermine the listener's experience by rubbish technology?
11 people found this helpful
From 41 saved reviews since 15 Mar 2013, all countries.
Share of the 15 negative reviews that mention it
“Aren't the developers doing ANYTHING to fix the glitches?”
“Pay for the subscription and then much more daily.”
“Search options are clunky and slow.”
“Besides the terrible design, it lacks offline functionality, it's not intuitive and crashes all the time.”
“Poor interface”
Share of the 20 positive reviews that mention it
“This is now a great way to listen to classical music on Android.”
“Thank you, Classical Archives, for making the gift of great music so easy to access and enjoy!”
“Beautifully designed: simple and yet very comprehensive.”
A drop after an update usually means the update broke something.