AudioKit Hey Metronome Negative Reviews

AudioKit Hey Metronome App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

AudioKit Hey Metronome app received 5 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using AudioKit Hey Metronome? Can you share your negative thoughts about audiokit hey metronome?

AudioKit Hey Metronome for Negative User Reviews

✓ Voice recognition but no counting off?Is there not a way to say Hey Metronome, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4? (And then have the app reply back “ok, ive set the tempo to 128.5 bpm, would you like me to count off and begin?”) The way this works, kinda like google home/alexa, which is neat, if I already know the tempo, but if I want to tap a tempo I still have to tap with my finger. I never know the tempo, its in my head, I dont read sheet music or know anything about classical music tempo names, but I would love to not have to tap ever again. I thought thats what this app would do... maybe in a future update you guys can provide that?.NcnomanVersion: 1.1

✓ Great concepts, some bugsLet me start by saying all the stuff I like about this app. 1. User Interface - sleek and modern 2. Ableton Link - this is a game changer 3. Banks of preset songs 4. Ability to create set lists 5. Voice commands - super unique and essential However, I am facing some issues with it and I am not sure if these are bugs that I am facing or somethings that have been deliberately left out. 1. Screen Locking while metronome is playing - If I am playing visually by referring to the pulse or the beat labels, the screen shut down renders the app quite useless. I think it should allow the screen to stay on while the app is running. 2. While waking the app back from background or after a screen unlock, the sound stops. The metronome stops every time it is resumed (this is of course with the 'Play in Background' setting on. So pair that with the previous issue, not only the screen goes dark while playing, the playing stops when I try to get back into the app. Quite detrimental. 3. All the voice commands have equivalent touch gestures except for mute and unmute. Please help me locate it if it's there somewhere. 4. This may be a bug? When the screen locks out while playing, the sound of the beat becomes dull for a bar or two and keeps happening every few bars. Like it becomes extremely lo-fi and comes back up. As you can see, I have done some thorough testing because I appreciate the app for what it is. But I will only continue to use it if these issues are addressed in some form or the other. Thanks!.BongolinVersion: 1.1

✓ Voice recognition screen activates randomlyIt interrupts the metronome playback for no reason (I am not saying a thing, not singing counting humming or coughing) and the voice input comes up “what do you want me to do” and mutes the click waiting for instructions — well I want you to continue clicking, stupid!.Swidbert R. OttVersion: 1.1

✓ Fantastic BUT Needs UI for ExitA great idea well executed but on my XS Max, there doesn’t seem to be any way to exit the app … swiping up leaves it running in the background, whether you want that or not. Force Close works, of course, but not everyone knows about Force Close. Would be a 5 star app with an Exit/Quit button, or at least make it recognize Hey Metronome! Exit and Quit. Update: The Developer’s response I would characterize as a “workaround”, not a solution. Playing in the background is a useful feature to some people, which still leaves the “how do I close this thing?” issue. I would hope that a means to close the app other than Force Close (or disabling background play) will be added in a future update. Another Update: Just tried disabling the “play in background” option and it doesn’t fix the problem. Swiping up to close the app still leaves the app running, as can be seen by the red “microphone in use” icon on the top left of the home screen. In other words, Force Close or rebooting the phone appears be be the only way to shutdown the app on an XS Max. As I said in my initial review, it’s a great idea well executed, but please fix the unable to shutdown issue. I know from experience that many iPhone users do not know Force Close even exists, let alone how to do it — for those people the app will be very annoying since they’ll be powering off the phone in order to stop the app. I should have made it clear that it’s not just the red icon showing on exit — the microphone no longer works. Neither Hey Siri or Hey Metronome work. The developer asked for an app that handles this issue, and I’d like to suggest Shazam. That app has a run in the background feature they call Auto Shazam and it is NOT on by default. You enable it explicitly and when you open the app again it tells you that Auto Shazam is active and tells you how to turn it off..KeeloidVersion: 1.0

✓ Can’t use with bluetooth. Actually breaks other apps as wellIt’s ridiculous that you can’t use this app with Bluetooth. It just won’t. Only on your phone or aux out. You can’t use bluetooth nor AirPlay. You can’t even play audio from another app via Bluetooth and use this at the same time. Really, really annoying and unhelpful. Ugh..FulluphighVersion: 1.1

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