Music Choice: Ad-Free Music Reviews

by Todd White

It was my hopes to turn on music choice channel soundscapes as simple as on spectrum TV channel 843. Unfortunately, what I found was - You may think you are about to download a music app for your listening pleasure, however what ends up happening is you have to jump through a gazillion hoops answering personal questions that have absolutely no connection between you and the music you want to hear. I got about halfway through the questionnaire when I realized I may not only be halfway through the questionnaire. In the end, I deleted MusicChoice . You say that finding your choice of music should not be stressful and yet have you ever tried opening MusicChoice?

by JFat

Don’t get me wrong. Love the music, but MusicChoice is terribly unstable and the recent update is not intuitive. Each time I launch MusicChoice I need to navigate to my favorite channel. I want it like before where is just plays the last channel is listened too. It’s too bad there isn’t a setting for this. MusicChoice often times disconnects and the music stops. Also sometimes it won’t load. Improve MusicChoice stability and this will be perfect. Thanks.

by ?bassakwards

I have used Music Choice streaming to my IOS devices ever since Direct TV contracted with them. However as of October 20, 2019 I have been informed I can no longer stream with my old App and AT&T login. When I attempted to “create” a Profile to force the NEW updated App to work I was presented a super convoluted procedure that did not work. After an hour on the phone with Direct TV as the provider I was informed the Music Choice would no longer allow streaming via Direct TV. I removed the Apps from my 4 devices. So Pandora here I come paid subscription and all. And, IT WORKS too!

by Richard1252

I love listening to ad-free music in those rooms in which I have TV. I thought MusicChoice would provide the same listening pleasure around the house, like when working in the yard—but it doesn’t. I only use it on my home Wi-Fi. But eventually it disconnects, telling me that “cell charges may apply.” Every single time. Ridiculous. And just now I fired up MusicChoice after a long interval, only to find that it had been “upgraded”—and no longer recognized me. So I had to go through a lengthy login and verification, even though *I* authorized the upgrade via Apple ID on the same phone. Ridiculous and aggravating. (I am not surprised, though, as ALL of their apps are like that.) Fix the ID thing in ALL the apps and I would give them 4-5 stars. But as things stand, absolutely not.

by Scott👨‍💻

Constantly makes you sign with with your TV provider. Play/pause button hasn't been visible for like a year now. Annoying "did you know" messages keep covering the music information. Still no settings to adjust steam quality or disable video/graphics when you want to save mobile data. No way to mark channels as favorites or hide ones you don't want. Channel list refuses to stay on the screen and keeps going to "recent artists" screen after a few seconds. (Now it's just moved into the side menu) Can't change channels using next/previous track buttons. Spam notifications telling me to check out music videos...stop! The content is great, it's just really hard to enjoy with all these bugs and limitations.

by Rgray65

Some of the music channels that you tap on won’t load and if they do happen to load (if you’re lucky!), it buffers in the middle of the song. I like the idea of not having ads (unlike other music apps where you have to pay to go ad free) because you’ve already basically paid for it through your cable/satellite provider, but it does no good if the channels won’t load or your songs quit in the middle of listening to them. The developers need to go back and fix all of these bugs that I and others have found to have a better listening experience. With that said, I have deleted MusicChoice . Don’t waste your time on it until it gets fixed and it’s smoother operating. 👎

by Barbara455

I love the Music Choice selection on my cable TV and MusicChoice has even more channels to choose from. However, having to re-sign in every few days is very annoying (and impossible while driving). And the music times out; this used to happen after a few hours but lately, music times out after maybe 20-30 minutes. Also, the playlists for Soundscapes and MC Workout-Yoga haven’t been updated for about a year. I’ve gotten tired of all the repeats. But the worst thing about MusicChoice is having to look at that disgusting Janelle Monae image on the iPad version every time MusicChoice opens.

by Sumday Buick

Suddenly I am forced to, create a profile to use MC on my iPad and iPhone. The excuse I was given was they need to verify that I am over 21 because of the content of some of the movies offered. However I am able to get MC on all of my computers. BS. Then I was told Apple’s app had changed and it required a profile. Lastly I was told my cable company (Clicktv Tacoma) had changed something. I believe This is all an attempt to get me to put in an em address so they can focus more adds or get me to pay for streaming their music (Which Imalready pay for through my cable company) Sorry I will cave to Apples I-tunes before this.

by Luvs BCs

MusicChoice is easy to use. It’s nice to have the same music as the cable channel. However, I use MusicChoice when sleep and it periodically shuts off. It is extremely annoying because I continually have restart it. Needless to say it affects my sleep time. So MusicChoice needs major fixing!! I’m probably going to do what my wife does and create a playlist because those don’t shut down as MusicChoice does. Not sure I’d recommend MusicChoice to anyone.

by UserMMasdf

I love the product but MusicChoice is used 1/20 of the time that I would use it because the developers are not user centric. It constantly asks for resignin for provider, email and password. Why not make it like other apps that do not require this with every app update? Otherwise do not update so often. Test your app so there are less bug fix releases.
ALSO - CALL UP A PROPER KEYBOARD FOR TYPING AN EMAIL ADDRESS AS OTHER APPS DO. Provide a period and hashtag on the letter key pad. THANKS.

by Flex968

I really enjoy having the same music that is available on the TV channels but MusicChoice makes me sign in every time I open it. Sometimes the sign-in will not accept my entry and I have to close MusicChoice and start over.

The seems like more work than necessary just have good music without ads or commercials.

Wake up developers! You got some work to do!

by Mrsmartin

I like that I have access to the music choice channels I love, but MusicChoice needs work. There should be an option NOT to auto play the music as soon as I open MusicChoice . Also, there should be a way to save favorite channels. It also needs a pause button or something similar - I have to use my phone’s play and pause to control this.

by Rockscaper1

It’s still the same app I remembered. Same great music, artist pictures and profiles, etc.
Even though you can stream the songs through CarPlay, you can’t change them at the touchscreen radio because there’s no controls displayed on it. You can only pause and play livestream, but that’s it. You can only change the station on the IPhone, provided if you can safely pull the car over. Or you can change the audio on the radio to AM, FM, or satellite radio.
Please make it work for CarPlay like IHeartRadio, and Stingray! (I don’t have Stingray anymore since I have Verizon Fios.)

by David Slim Chance

Enjoy the symphonic and instrumental versions of my VERY wide music genres. But the recent revision of graphic stying is distracting. The full screen images are a good intention but the “black boxes” cover and interrupt the images. Given the nowadays screen sizes I like the previous layout better.
The info is often interesting, both the titles and sometimes the artists’ history. Besides, my girlfriend is an artist and often pauses and photos for inspiration. 😂
David Chance

by Dang Stinker

I don’t care if you are periodically required to sign me in or not! I can’t have you doing that because you’re talking about my grandfather’s account which I don’t know the password to. I do have a suggestion though. You could create a station based on “Wiered Al” Yankovic’s music. He gets me laughing all the time.

by Skemmey

Not a fan of the new update. In the old app we could have the channels that were on our TV. I no longer see that feature. I for one won’t be using MusicChoice . I liked that I could listen to what our TV was playing when I was out and about!

by Xo Briggycubed

If logging in with my tv provider credentials is all it takes to get 75 commercial free music channels, I'm not complaining! Awesome selection of commercial-free channels across pretty much every genre + 25 music video channels. Literally where else can you watch pre-programmed video playlists?! I'm hooked.

by Lostnthesound

I love that this doesn’t have ads and that I can put it on while cooking or working out or throwing a party and don’t have to spend the time making a perfect playlist. Honestly, this is also the best for my guilty pleasure of Christmas tunes. Highly recommend.

by Caligator59

Used MusicChoice for a couple of months. Have MC on my tv and love the variety. All of a sudden MusicChoice says I can’t access the content. This happens more than half the time now and is extremely frustrating. My cable co says they made some kind of billing change and now they don’t know if I’m eligible any more. That’s total BS. I’m paying a lot of $$$ for my cable service and there should be no question about whether I can access MusicChoice . I just want to listen to some Christmas music at work, for God’s sake! About ready to ditch MC. A music app that won’t play music is pretty useless.

by Heshe5

I Listen every night to Easy Listening and I have often wished I could remember the words to a song that is being played. . It would be wonderful if you could show the words sometimes where your pictures are....or anyplace. Especially the oldies. If a family were listening we could make it a sing-along.

by Angus MacGuyver

The new menu is much more cumbersome to access recently viewed/listened.

Since Apple began charging for Radio this has been my go-to app for music. Below are some of the positive and negative things about MusicChoice.

Opening to the previously played channel is VERY nice.

However, three very annoying issues remains -
(1) Need to add an option to not stop the music every so often (or provide multiple timer options) - some of us have unlimited data.
(2) When did the pop-up ads come back? I've already paid for the service via my cable provider. My review lost a star for this issue.
(3) Keeps forgetting my cableco credentials! Sometimes it stops and requires me to login, but to do that I have to logout first. So frustrating!

by Kiddkevo

1. You need to fix the bugs from the artist, song and album because it became missing after getting back to MusicChoice .

2. It’ll be very nice if you guys put “favorite channels tab” instead of “my history”.

3. I don’t want to see MusicChoice saying “Still listening?” which means the music stopped. I want to play the music when I go to sleep and wake up while it still playing.

4. You also need to fix “Did you know?” section. Why? Because it needs more improvement. Plus it’s blocking certain artists face sometimes and it doesn’t look good.

I’ve been a big fan of music choice since 2004. I’ve downloaded MusicChoice since 2012. MusicChoice needs to do it better. I’ll give 5 stars if you fix 4 cons.

2 stars for now.