Music League 4+

I was a little skeptical about this at first since I wasn’t sure the fantasy sports concept would translate to music. I was dead wrong. I’ve played music league a few times now and had a blast with old friends who live in several different states. We all do our best to stay in touch, but Music League has this amazing power to get old friends back in touch and for current friends to stay in touch. The music aspect is amazing also since you hear some songs you’ve never heard or haven’t heard in a long time, but my biggest takeaway is how Music League builds relationships between old friends or has the potential to create new friends.

Love love love this app and concept, I’ve had a blast playing it with my friends and it’s exposed me to a ton of new artists and music. I understand the developer’s right to earn money off their product, especially when they continue to have to provide support and infrastructure for running people’s leagues. But my GOD the ads on this app are incredibly annoying. I have no idea how much control they exert over which ads appear, but it feels like they’ve gone out of their way to pick extremely long and obnoxious ads to push people towards their subscription tier. My suggestion to the devs: please dial down both the length and frequency of your ads, as in their current form they really hamper the experience. And if possible, please offer a single-payment ad-free option in addition to the option to pay a subscription. I have enough subscriptions in my life right now and adding another one here is not an option.

Music league is an awesome idea and the service itself is pretty good, but the app frequently errors out. Usually it’s an “interstitial failed to load” meaning the service they use to load the obscenely long 30s-1min ads they use for revenue doesn’t trigger correctly which also means you can’t access the view you’re trying to get to whether it’s to submit songs or view results. I’ve gotten other red error boxes that appear telling me some function failed and blocking access to whatever I’m trying to get to.

I’d actually pay for the service because it’s a cool service, but the poor development makes me think the money would be spent on more revenue generating material rather than fixing the issues that exist. If they made the app a good experience, I’d happily pay the couple bucks a month to suppress the ads. Until then, I’ll use the web app despite it not being responsive for mobile. At least it isn’t ad supported and actually works most of the time.