Miximum: Smart Playlist Maker Reviews

UPDATED: With further testing I’ve learned more about when the ‘last played’ data fails to update. When I use a single set of headphones, or the built-in device speaker, or a single airplay speaker, everything works as expected. Hooray! But when I use two airplay speakers together, which is my normal household setup, the last-played dates never seem to update. That sounds like a problem with Apple’s systems, and not Miximum. ORIGINAL: I’m disappointed. I used Miximum to create a “Recently Played” playlist, based on the rule: “Last played within the last six months.” The playlist included exactly the songs I expected it to. Then I used the Apple Music app to play an album I hadn’t played in a year. Minutes or days later, those songs are still missing from the this app playlist. Miximum is much less useful to me if the playlists don’t update automatically. And Miximum description suggests that they should. It’s disappointing.

I have a playlist with 1,200 songs I’ve worked on building and regularly refreshed over the last year. It seemed like no matter how much work was put into the playlist I was listening to the same songs repeatedly...
Enter this app the perfectly simple app with tons of complications. I can easily sort the playlist or make a mix from the playlist using least played as the rule and it constantly updates the mix so that the most played stuff is buried or in this case not shown in the mix. Instant play list bliss, the perfect companion!

After spending time just playing with their mix rules I’ve built several new mixes that I love and easily expand my listening library. It’s one of those things that the more you use it the more amazed you’ll get with just what can be achieved on a smart playlist from your phone. Tweaking these mixes gives satisfying results without ever feeling too complicated or burdensome.

I don’t want to ever live without the features Miximum provides. It gives the sort of options that honestly should have been provided by Apple Music on the iOS.

I first got Miximum because I wanted a way to make smart playlists on my phone, since I had to use a computer otherwise. It started out brilliantly, just a few minor bugs that were easy to look past. I made tons of playlists and enjoyed creating them all. But now, after a while of having Miximum - I can no longer make playlists. No matter what I attempt to do, no songs show up in the playlists I’ve been trying to create- they just come out blank. I’ve tried to make multiple playlists in the span of about 2 months, but no matter when or how I try… it just doesn’t work. I’d love for this to be fixed so I can get back to making playlists and create some that I’ve been meaning to make for a while!! Otherwise, without this issue, Miximum would be pretty close to perfect. A good 4.5 stars.

There is a confirmed problem with Alexa and Apple Music, where the shuffle function simply does not work on large lists. Miximum has the potential to fix my issue once and for all, but needs a couple of tweaks to be perfect, and could be shared as answers on the many thousand thread responses of frustrated Alexa/Apple users.

Right now this fixes my issue in a clunky way, in that I can open Miximum on a regular basis, open my mix, select random for sort again and saved it to a playlist that my Alexa routine calls. This works only AFTER deleting the existing playlist.

What the hordes of frustrated Alexa users out there would love to see is a single button or right click to automate the shuffling and OVERWRITE the playlist of the same name in Apple Music. Bonus points for integrating with iOS Automator app to do it in one click!

Great work! If you make these changes, I promise to spend some time promoting it for you in the many threads I talked about. That would make it worth much more than $2.99.

I first have to say that I almost never go out of my way to write a review unless I really stand by the product. This is definitely an app that everyone should be using. Especially if you’re like me and enjoy coming up with different angles to mixing music together. What this app is able to do is something I’ve always wanted on my phone. Being able to create random mixes on the fly with so many rules to customize its outcome is really a beautiful thing. Mike is clearly putting a lot of work into Miximum. So thanks for putting this app out there! It’s a game changer!!

Love Miximum so the new bug hits me pretty hard as it’s rendered it kind of useless for me.

When I sort a playlist on genre it will consistently crash Miximum . If I uninstall and reinstall Miximum I can view the playlist I want. If I sort it on genre it crashes immediately. If I open Miximum and try to open the playlist again Miximum crashes immediately. No transitions, fatal error. If I delete Miximum and reinstall the sort resets to song and I can open it and do this all over again.

A thing I should note is I use non-alpha characters in my genre names, like “Rock/Metal” or “Drum & Bass”.

Love what Miximum does in regards to combining playlists but it currently is not and will not save the created playlists to my Apple Music account. It saved one playlist I created in Miximum but now none of my other 5 created playlists will show up in Apple Music. If this gets fixed it’s definitely a 5 star app

Update: Correcting this review to 5 stars. Totally user error as I have now figured out how to export the created playlists to Apple Music. Awesome app and not easy work as this developer has no competition in this arena currently. Great work!

this app makes creating mixes a breeze, and it does it well. The interface is clean and simple, you can customize mixes to be whatever you want, and it simply works! If you’re a music fanatic that likes to create playlists for any occasion, this app is your go-to app. Why not give it a try? It’s free! (At least at the time of this review.)

As a side note, the developer is active in keeping Miximum up to date and listening to feedback he receives, so that’s always a plus. Thanks for making and updating Miximum, Mike!

I’ll never understand why Apple doesn’t offer smart playlists in the Music app on iPhone and iPad, but Miximum is the next best thing. It allows you to organize playlists by pre-specified criteria. Tired of manually adding all your new music to a playlist?...just create a this app playlist with “recently added music” as a requirement. You can even export as a “dumb” playlist to the Apple Music app. Really helpful for those of us with exceedingly large music libraries!

I used to love making smart playlists and fun mixes on iTunes, back when I’d sync my iPod almost daily to make sure I had the most current version of mi library. As Apple has encouraged users to stop docking over the years that fell by the wayside, and I was left with only basic playlist control. Now this app is here and it works in tandem with Apple Music to help me get some of that feeling back. It’s an attractive app that does a good job and I feel confident it will get even better over time.

I was among the fearful that figured smart playlists would go away with Catalina and iOS 13. I have invested quite a bit of time into rating songs to feed those playlists so being able to create and manage them on iOS is a dream come true. I also appreciate some of the smaller details like being able to view playlists as albums which you can’t do on Apple Music. Great work so far!

VERY clever app that adds a smart-playlist layer on top of Apple Music. Very useful as-is to, say, shuffle any song I’ve ever Loved.

It could use some helper text or more hand-holding when adding rules, though. Sometimes all I get is a text field and I have no idea how to write the kind of rule I want to write.

OH. Big feature request: Support context menus on items (long-pressing) to Play Next and Play Later. Maybe Share too if possible with the API. Why not?

Smart, randomized playlist don’t exist on the iPhone. With Miximum...they finally do. I can play three random songs. Or three random Christmas songs if I add genre as a criteria. Or seven random songs to fall asleep to. I used to use a jukebox program on my PC and would toss 25 cents in a piggy bank as I played three songs, and used the piggy bank to fund my hobbies. I can now do that with my iPhone and Bluetooth speakers. Thanks for this!

I really like the premise of Miximum, and the “smart playlist” logic appears to work pretty well. Unfortunately, Miximum does not appear to be tracking Play Counts or Last Played dates. I’m seeing this issue in reviews for this developer’s other app, too.

This would be a 5 star app if those features were working since it definitely brings MacOS “smart playlist” features to iOS.

I will update my review once the dev fixes this issue. Looking forward to fully utilizing the power of Miximum!

I’ve been using playlists to manage subsets of music for years and lacked the way to manage them from my device. I especially like that you can mix playlists together and group tracks within, again on the fly. Interface is smooth. Developer is responsive to email and feedback. Another great app from Mike Clay, just like Cs Music!

This is an excellent companion app to whatever music app you happen to use. It provides functionality that the Apple music app lacks. You can create a smart playlist on the fly. The Apple music app has some issues when playing smart playlists in shuffle mode. Miximum circumvents those issues by submitting a static playlist to Apple, which you can then rearrange, add to or subtract from.

The mix creations and options are awesome and provide so many possibilities. I’ll never be short on custom playlists.

When I initially downloaded Miximum I was having an issue getting my playlists to import into my Apple Music. I reached out to the developer who contacted me Immediately and RESOLVED the issue for me. He is prompt, courteous and a great app developer!

Thank you Mike!

Tired of hearing the same old songs when you shuffle with Apple Music? Then get Miximum. You can make smart playlists that only play songs you haven’t heard in a long time, or so many other choices. Thank you for making this happen!

Does exactly what is advertised simply and efficiently. My only complaint is that when you sort a playlist, it creates an entire new playlist that doesn’t have a title, description, or picture. I’m not sure if Apple allows apps to change/rearrange song, but if that is possible it really would be nice.

I use iTunes Match and have love everything about it EXCEPT the lack of smart playlist support. Yes, I can see them and download songs in them, but the logic is not the same as it is on the desktop. Miximum totally solves that for me. LOVE IT. If you use smart playlists to get fresh music on your phone, this is really the only way to do it (without connecting directly to your pc/Mac).

This is easily one of my most used apps on my phone!

This was such a great update! I love the search mixes and playlists, but I absolutely love the addition of the excluded sources! So helpful! Now I don’t have to add as many “doesn’t include” rules!

The one feature addition that would be the most impactful to me would be the ability to duplicate a mix. This way if I have a good set of rules, I can duplicate it and just change the sources rather than rebuild the list of rules multiple times (such a pain!) I’m definitely not a coder, but this seems like an easy add?

A second high wish would be a search/filter on the include/exclude sources screen. I have an embarrassing amount of playlists to scroll through! Haha!

Awesome work! I love Miximum!

I do enjoy the simplicity and look. I only wish I could turn off the shuffle function. I’m just annoyed because I pick a playlist but I like to sort songs from date added (from Apple Music). After sorting I just pick a random song and wish it just continue thru the list. At this time after the first song is done it shuffles automatically and I can’t turn turn it off.