LiveOne Music Reviews

by RDU06

Slacker has always struggled, in my opinion, with various generations of their app. Sometimes it was amazing and easy to use, other times it was not. But this merge with LiveXLive is AWFUL. It’s so bad that I had to restore my iPhone to a previous iOS in order to get an old backup with the old app. I’ll use this version until they force me to upgrade and then I’ll probably cancel after almost 10 years of being a premium paid subscriber. I use this service almost exclusively on my phone while driving. I’m not sure if they have figured this out yet, but most people don’t want to watch videos while they’re driving... I’m sure they feel that they’re offering additional content by this merge, but all I see is a bunch of garbage in place of a clean music interface.

by Jay9739

Okay, it’s time. Time to judge and being honest. Before I start my paid membership today on the radio plus, I paid enough attention to other feedbacks and I realized something important which once upon a time used to be available with this radio plus has been canceled and categorized in a highest level of membership with $9.99 and I bought my membership with full acknowledgment about this in particular but for what I experienced with LiveOneMusic, I didn’t expect anything worse and surprisingly right now and even before a whole day membership I just canceled the automatic payment and end of the story. I really have no idea what the designers of LiveOneMusic are thinking about but obviously they have forgotten that people are comparing similar service apps together and this one which supposed to be no advertise and pure music is everything but what it says it is. Anyway I am more comfortable to get back to my iHeartRadio or even Tunein radio with almost the same amount of monthly payments and don’t trick myself with something that is not even close to be a two stars app in my evaluation.
Sorry that I had to be honest but that’s all I had to say.

by Ricky Onscreen

i have been telling people about Slacker and now LivexLive for at least a decade. This was the BEST THING available. ANYWHERE. Now i have to say i have never been more disappointed with an app! Lately the video ads are playing over the music and forcing me to unlock my phone which uses more data. Three weeks in a row the Weekly Countdowns have started over before i got to the Number One song. i understood when that happened on the day the Countdown debuts, but this is happening every time now. It's hard to imagine not having livexlive on my phone. i'm a little sad after so many years of relying on LiveOneMusic to bring the music i need to get thru my days but now it's becoming a source of frustration. i have to find something else now.

by B-futile

Regardless of continuous updates LiveOneMusic Still only plays one song at a time when Bluetoothing to my Google home max hub. The adds seem to disrupt the connection. Also when you press play on iPhone LiveOneMusic disconnects the Bluetooth. (Possible ploy to get you to sign up the the pay for service app???). So aggravating. Pandora works fine by the way. Can you fix this already?!? It not rocket science, it’s not brain surgery. Regular people can take space flights and We can fly remote control helicopters on Mars...but sorry you can’t seamlessly stream music, or a least more than one song, from your phone to another device. Did I mention that Pandora works fine? And, yes, before you ask, everything is up to date, rebooted and plugged in.
-Frustrated.

by Berlynn88

Like many, I left Pandora a few years ago in search of something better. I was tired of listening to the same old things, the price just to remove ads, and those limited skips. I finally found Slacker, 3.99 a month for Plus subscription, featuring unlimited skips, no ads, and the BEST thing was offline listening for work travel or when reception was poor. It wasn’t uncommon to have minor issues with LiveOneMusic , but those were mostly just mildly annoying and often times addressed in the next update. Today I go to listen to my offline playlist as usual and was given a notification that I would have to upgrade to a Premium subscription to enjoy offline listening. What?? I did a bit of digging and realized that the Plus subscription has removed offline listening from its list of perks. Really?? It’s worse that I wasn’t even given a warning or a quick email/notification. They just changed it. $4 a month was the perfect sweet spot for what I got, but I don’t think it’s worth $10 per month. I find myself a bit distrustful of the way they went about it. I wouldn’t have been terribly upset if they increased their rate $1-2 per month with notice but to jump $6 a month? No way. Now I get to start doing some research again into switching music apps.

by Someone Youll Ignore

Slacker was better when it was slacker the overhaul LiveXLive did of LiveOneMusic is hard to navigate. Where slacker made navigating around their app easy with a side bar that sent you where you wanted these guys hide your recently played stations in a sub menu off your profile and the home page is full of their advertising no one cares about and the offline play and custom playlists stations etc are all made prominent but if you don’t use any of that the. Your stuck trying figure out how to listen to your stations you had previously.

LiveXLive take a lnother look at how easy slacker made their station and take some pointers and improve the navigation and I really don’t think a lot of people care about those “shows” on that page. We just want to listen to good music we like as we go about our day. You make it easier to do that then you’ll get a loyal fan base like what slacker had.

I’ll continually check back and change my review if you guys actually listen to your listeners and improve your app. If you have any questions or anything let me know. Feels like I’m talking to a wall because so far I haven’t seen you answer any reviews yet.

by Thj4

Big joke to put a music service up there with the higher tiers of video streaming provider. I wholly like the radio content delivery shtick. A great thing i enjoyed was to load up an older iPod, take it out with it to exercise or knock around with. Didn’t need WiFi or a SIM card, just played what was downloaded. Serving as a Walkman of old.

Now, they expect you to either put the wear on my phone (and risk losing coverage if out on trails, or fork over an additional amount 1.5x the cost of the original package. I was introduced with Milk Music (which had a much superior dial channel selector) but I supported Slacker after they shut down the value added content they offered with Samsung phones.

They can come back to $4 and count me a sub. Or at the least humor the process and come up with a decent lyrics display (that properly renders horizontally) or something so we’re not just getting gypped.

by Kjs270

Been an avid paying fan of Slacker for years until the recent big change. Now sometimes I can only play 4 or 5 songs then it just stops. Hitting pause, then play does nothing, neither does advancing to the next song. The next song shows up but doesn’t start playing it. I have to quit the program and restart it and sometimes it works and sometimes it still doesn’t work. At that point I go listen to Pandora or Google Play until Slacker decides to start working again. The old old saying, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” really fits here. I never had a problem until now, and 3 months ago I would have given it an easy 5 star rating. Even on my computer, I use to listen to slacker for 6-8 hours without it stopping and asking me if I was still there. Now recently I’m lucky to go 90 minutes before it stops playing. Really disappointing ....

by Blnded

I have used LiveXLive a min of 5-6 years, maybe more. Long before they changed the name from slacker radio. It used to be great and still has a crazy amount of songs. But the last year or two I have had more and more issues with playback, crashing, and improperly playing songs but I finally decided to cancel due to a fairly unprofessional reply from a support agent. It was kind of the last straw for me so for anyone looking to use this service I wish you luck and hope any issues you report to their support team doesn’t get you a sarcastic/lazy reply as the “solution” Yes in a small way my opinion is more negatively biased than it would have been before but overall it’s no longer worth even the 3.99 price I paid. I had downgraded long ago from the 9.99 membership for similar issues.

by Gruvedaddy

Been a Slacker premium subscriber since 2009 and haven't had any buffering issues until they switched to XliveX. I have 400mb download wifi and still get constant buffering, and yes i always update to the latest version. Also it takes a lot longer to refresh my downloaded content then ever before almost like they have insufficient servers to provide the content. As much as I'd hate to lose the thousands of songs I've liked and disliked and stations and playlists I've created if this buffering bs continues i will cancel my subscription. This is one of the reasons I've kept my free Pandora account active, just in case Slacker went under which appears to be happening. Very bummed about this but i'll give XliveX another few weeks to straighten it out and if they don't I'm gone and I'll give Tidal or Apple music a shot.

by Ghost_Cloud

I've used slacker/Livexlive for a long time. But recently it's started pausing its music for no reason at all multiple times in a row. It also stops the music in the middle of the song or before the next song even begins and sits there and loads for as long as I allow it to sit there before exiting out of LiveOneMusic and restarting it. All while everything else on my phone is working perfectly fine with no issues at all. Now, it's telling me I can't cancel my subscription because there is an error trying to do so. It's rather annoying and I'm just trying to cancel it so I can go somewhere else at this point. Still a good app it's just not for me anymore.

by Kaorovic

The hands-free link support is dodgy at best. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if I don’t want notices that means I don’t want notices about not receiving notices that I don’t want, especially if the notices I don’t want about the notices I don’t want to cause LiveOneMusic to not work correctly. The hands-free link always seems to stop working when it tries to give me a notice that I’m not receiving notices, even though I repeatedly declined notices. And when the hands-free link stops working the only way to skip a song is to open LiveOneMusic and skip through LiveOneMusic , this really brings up an advertisement that takes over I won’t play any audio at all. I understand how and support works, but I don’t understand how a music app has ads that don’t have any audio.

It also seems like the more songs I favorite the less variety there is in the favorites station.

by James A. H.

I reported a corrupt song a couple years ago and was told it would be handled. I just heard the same corrupted song today. How hard is it to remove a song from circulation?!? I was told there are multiple copies of the song - great! Why don’t you redirect to the good copies of the song or take a copy of a good one and rename it to take the place of the bad one. It seems there are multiple solutions to the problem and none of them have been utilized. Very disappointed. Other than that, it seems to be a decent music app.

by LLoose494

I love Slacker. I actually used it religiously about 10 years ago. It has always done a great job of mixing old and new with my custom stations. I left Slacker long ago when they made all the huge interface changes. I subscribed to Pandora and never really looked back.

Fast forward to this week. I decide to see what’s going on with Slacker. Plus I wanted to see if my old stations had any gems I forgot about. I downloaded LiveOneMusic and connected it to my car stereo. The first thing I noticed was the sound quality was way better. Everything sounded more full than my pandora music. 2nd is that unlike pandora, my phone didn’t got into “accessory mode” making it hard to control it the way I want. 3rd was the interface looks great! Much better than the old blue colors of pandora. My only thing with it is why is it so hard to get to my custom stations? I couldn’t care less about the premade stations, I want to see a list of mine the moment I open LiveOneMusic . Instead I have to go to my music, then scroll around until I find custom stations. It should either be there from the get go or one tap away. Another bonus that I never thought I would like... djs and little snippets of news in between songs. They are short and informative and really make it feel like a premium radio station. Remember the old XM radio? It’s similar to that. Now XM has mindless bla bla bla in between songs. This is different and they nailed it.

by PetuniaBlue

I have to say that I liked Slacker Radio better than XLiveX. Slacker was all about the music & being a radio. Up until now it had the best selection of music for all ages. I have noticed since XLiveX took over that some of my favorite songs are being replaced by live versions or updated versions & a few have simply disappeared. I liked the original versions. I absolutely hate live songs because you can’t hear the music or singers for all the background garbage of the crowd. XLiveX is no longer a radio station but a multimedia collection of concerts, tv shows, interviews, news & everything else. Some may like this but I simply want to listen to music.

by BrownEyz72

I have been a paid Slacker subscriber for many years...but I’m a bit disappointed with the look of the new app LiveXLive.
New app should mean NEW cover art for ALL the stations. Some stations have had the same cover artist forever.
I’m not a fan of the last played station window stuck in the lower corner as I browse the new site. It’s in the way.
I’ve mentioned it before, but it would be nice if the people that create the playlists for stations could rotate music more frequently or add way more songs so that if one is listening during a work day, music hasn’t repeated itself numerous times. Especially if you aren’t listening to a New Release station.
I give 4 stars because I am a loyal premium subscriber and I prefer slacker over all others.

by Swood_de

LiveXLive is, by far, the best of the most popular streaming services for music discovery. Their catalog is very deep and their genre specific channels reflect that, especially because the content is user-adjustable (ban a song or an artist, more or fewer popular songs, newer or older songs, etc). Plus, you can build your own stations my adding a artist you like to them, and then LiveOneMusic ’s algorithm adds similar swings and artists which you can then ban if you disagree with the choice. Love it!

by ManuelM13

I've tried all of the other major music streaming apps and nothing beats livexlive/slacker where it counts: playing a station that you won't end up endlessly skipping through. The ability to play music that matches what you're in the mood for is second to none, and the ability to fine tune a station to play newer/older or similar/more diverse music gives you all of the power to play what you like. And you can like or dislike a song and it stays specific to the station. So maybe you don't want a pop song on your rock station, or maybe you do, and it won't affect if it'll play on another station. I have stations for all different types of moods and nothing else comes close to being able to do this at well. One knock: wish you could skip back to a previous song when on a station. Sometimes i wanna hear the same song a second time without leaving the station.

by Jj131187

It always has what I want, after 3 years with it I still love it. Just not happy with the live! I don’t like live music I want to hear the singer not the crowd. And it keeps changing the music to mix songs I want to first version more not a remix. Can y’all make it where it can be turned off. But I do really like LiveOneMusic it has all my favorite so I hope it never god away but please fix these things to help us keep the original music playing not screaming people or so many remixes that play over and over the same lyrics 😐

by Fantastickkay

The one thing I miss with streaming music these days is the lack of news updates and little personal dj touches. I thought it was a pipe dream to have news included with music streaming but somehow I found the perfect app!
Not only does it have an option to include news updates, it has amazing curated stations for absolutely every mood. I have a spot in my heart for the 60s Deep Dive station.
I paid for it for a while, which is great to curate your own stations, but now I use the free version which only adds adverts to my experience but I can still listen to the stations I created so it’s all the same to me!

by Cmm472

LiveOneMusic works really well on my iPhone and offline. I think $3.99 is a good value considering that it offers unlimited skips and no ads plus offline listening, I left Pandora for Slacker and use it in addition to my Apple Music account. I like the ABC news breaks and some of the DJs are amusing but I question their musical background; one of them introduced a Beach Boys song and called “Surfin’ USA” “Let’s Go Surfin’ Now.” One of them was talking about a Harry Nilsson cover of “One,” calling it his best original song, I think they all must be in their 20s or 30s. Regardless, there seems to be good variety and they play more deep cuts than Pandora without as much repetition. I wish that when I chose an artist I could hear that artist instead of everyone else.

by LAX20531

I love Slacker. It’s awesome for those of us who don’t follow artists and want help listening to the latest content through their curated channels.
That being said, Slacker has done such a poor job in marketing itself and attempting to acquire a loyal base of paid subscribers to assure its long term survival. The idea to cross market with Dash Radio seems short sighted given it’s a gratis product, but the least you could do for subscribers is to offer higher bitrate streams because the audio quality is lacking.
Other than this I can’t say enough good about Slacker and send everyone I know to the platform and encourage them to subscribe to at least the low-tier subscription as it’s an excellent value.
Lastly: Chromecast streaming is broken after iOS 12 and needs to be fixed.

by GoNoFurther

I've used Slacker for many, many years now. If fact, I don't think they had ads for freeloaders like myself when I first started. I just listen to 'Golden Oldies', Folk and Folk-rock. Don't buy or download misic. I don't even have a lot of lists. I can't afford a monthly bill to just play music. I've tried Pand..... and other internet music apps but I've always returned to Slacker. The ads aren't bad. Hay, what do you want for free and it's better than the radio. If I could pay for music, it definitely would be Slacker.