That’s not the kind of product we want to sell at Steamclock. Too many users are having a bad experiences, and it’s only getting worse.

For every delighted customer who’d bought their music, we’d get one or two who had no use for a DJ app that didn’t support streaming.Įven though the apps still make some revenue, we’ve reached a tipping point. In the meantime, our apps’ ratings just have just trended lower and lower. In 2018, it is still not possible to make a nice queueing and crossfading DJ app that can play Apple Music tracks in the background, so this use case is clearly not a priority for them. To their credit, Apple soon made a handful of fixes that changed Apple Music support at the MPMediaPlayer level, but 2 years later there are still multiple showstopper issues. Essentially, we needed either improvements to the the crossfade-capable but low-level AVFoundation APIs to let them play Apple Music, or additions and fixes to the high-level MPMediaPlayer APIs to support crossfading and queueing.

So in 2016, we rounded up the various bug reports we’d made and published a review of the various issues and limitations with the APIs for DJ apps. Even with app descriptions that started with all-caps “THIS APP DOES NOT WORK WITH APPLE MUSIC“, we’d get users who were upset – and reasonably so – because they’d downloaded our apps but couldn’t use them with their music. Not only can crossfading DJ apps like ours not download Apple Music songs, we can’t even play downloaded tracks, since they they are protected with DRM.Īs we wrote in 2015, this has been a pain for our users, and attracts angry and frustrated reviews. First it was iTunes in the Cloud, and iTunes Match – cool services, but they arrived without any way for apps like ours to trigger a download and make these tracks available to play. However, Apple’s transition from iTunes downloads to cloud-based streaming gradually hobbled this kind of DJ app. I love the cloud, some of my best friends are clouds. Man Yells At Cloudĭon’t get me wrong, the cloud is great.

Before long, these apps were paying our rent – which is a rare milestone in the indie iOS app world. Party Monster was well-loved for its opinionatedly queue-based UI, and fans enjoyed its habit of refusing to play Nickelback. WeddingDJ was a hit with brides, grooms, and semi-pro DJs alike. The pitch was simple: a queue-centric flow, smooth crossfades, and an easy interface for amateur DJs. Once upon a time, Steamclock launched two DJ apps for iOS: WeddingDJ and Party Monster.

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