Hudson Music Digital Bookstore 4+
Hudson Music LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The Hudson Music Digital Bookstore and Reader delivers the finest drum education books to your tablet or mobile device. Featuring a catalog of over 300 digital lesson books, there is something for every drummer. Our digital books feature an interactive format integrating print, audio, and video! For books that include audio, you will find the examples embedded right on the pages - just tap the notation to begin playback! Select books also include embedded video lessons, which present an even more complete, integrated, and fun music lesson experience.
What’s New
Version 7.0.0
Rebuilt completely from the ground up! Our latest generation book reader is a major leap forward:
- Audio Playback: Our app's most significant update is the custom audio playback functionality. Each book includes streamed audio, enhanced with new controls: play, pause, timeline scrub, looping, and speed control (without altering pitch). Playback now seamlessly spans multiple pages, ideal for charts and exercises extending beyond one page.
- Purchase Sync: The second major change is automatic sync for in-app purchases on iOS or other platforms with your HudsonMusic.com account. This feature lets you access your purchases on any supported device, including our web-based reader. This addresses the top customer query: how to access mobile purchases on a computer. Now, if you buy directly at HudsonMusic.com, you can instantly access your book on any reader app or web browser.
- Speed: The app is now twice as efficient, with the Shop and Catalog screens loading 20% faster and books loading 90% faster. Media is delivered via edge CDN servers globally, ensuring faster and more reliable audio and video streaming.
- Search: Every book now features an in-app search. Simply tap the search icon, start typing, and get a comprehensive index list to navigate quickly.
- Renamed Screens: We’ve made navigation clearer by renaming "Shop" to "Buy" and "Bookshelf" to "Read."
- Shop and Bookshelf Search: Easily search our catalog or your owned books by title, author, style, skill level, or publisher. No more endless scrolling to find what you need.
- Navigation: The Shop catalog now only displays books you don’t own, while the Bookshelf shows only your owned books, making navigation cleaner and less confusing.
- Table of Contents: Each book now has a consistent app-based table of contents for easy navigation.
- Bookmarking: Bookmark pages within the app to quickly access favorite sections, exercises, lessons, and charts.
- Improved Zoom: Double-tap to zoom in on a page, or use granular zoom controls for precise adjustments.
- Account Info: View and manage your account details directly within the app, including password reset options.
- Support: Access common support questions within the app. If you need further assistance, a direct contact option is available.
Ratings and Reviews
Disappointing!
How to make a purchase in-app, or via website, when there is no button that facilitates this action: impossible.
How to search for content when the App has no search box: possible, if one is prepared to scroll through the entire catalogue.
How to unsubscribe from the website: impossible.
How to delete personal data: impossible.
It’s one way traffic; this is my experience. Be Warned. READ THE TERMS and Privacy Policy.
Developer Response ,
Hello and sorry to hear this. We have just rebuilt our bookstore app from the ground up - I would suggest updating your app to the latest version and seeing if your experience is improved. You can also now contact us directly from within the app for support or feedback if needed!
Can’t get the associated audio
The app in itself is great and the books are in very high definition. Unfortunately if you purchase via the in app rather than via the website you cannot get the associated audio downloads. Their reasoning for this is that when you purchase in app, you are a customer of Apple or Google Play rather than Hudson Music. I’m confused as to who receives the payment for the books that are purchased via the app in this case...
Would definitely recommend the app but would highly, highly recommend you purchase via the Hudson website and sync the book to the app so you can get any associated audio downloads and then use the ebook reader to view the books.
Extremely Outdated
I love digital books. Hudson is a name that’s respected and trusted so it’s great to see them fully embracing the digital age. I would love to be able to link/export my books to forScore but I can understand if it’s not possible for copyright reasons.
The downsides are the app is extremely outdated, especially on the large 12.9” iPad. There needs to be a way to search/filter to browse and purchase books. There also needs to be a way to view all of my library and decide which ones to download, currently I have to endlessly scroll to find my book in the store no then download to my iPad which adds it to the download tab. It’s also very strange to have the # in the name of the tabs.
The sharpness of the books isn’t quite as good as I would have expected, it makes me wonder if these are a really good scan and not actually an export from a digital file.
Hoping for some big updates to the app soon, very much needed!
Developer Response ,
Hello and sorry to hear this. We have just rebuilt our bookstore app from the ground up - I would suggest updating your app to the latest version and seeing if your experience is improved. You can also now contact us directly from within the app for support or feedback if needed!
App Privacy
The developer, Hudson Music LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Hudson Music LLC Apps
- Size
- 8.6 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Hudson Music LLC Apps
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- The Drummer’s Complete Vocab.. £14.99
- Groove Essentials 1 Book £24.99
- The Funky Beat £14.99
- The Evolution of Jazz Drumming £14.99
- AfroPop PlayAlong for Drummers £9.99
- Groove Alchemy £14.99
- The Breakbeat Bible £12.99
- Groove Essentials 2 Book £24.99
- The Roots of Rock Drumming £12.99
- New Method for Afro-Cuban Drum £9.99