All apps were tested on a high-speed Wi-Fi connection, not on slow GPRS.
In every app I searched for the term Gigi – I wanted to find something by Gigi D’Agostino.
Apps that search and download slowly
These apps are very slow both at searching and at downloading. A search always returns 30 completely irrelevant songs. Most of them offer “playing now” and “download” after you tap a song. I always chose download only, so I did not test how fast playing now is. A download can be cancelled, if not for a single file, then for all files at once. In most apps, quitting looks something like this:
This means, however, that even after Exit the app keeps running in the background.
Advanced MP3 music download
-I did not test this program, I only had it installed
-The installed app takes up 1.42 MB including data
Billboard hot 100 download
-Shows the weekly charts
-The menu has only a playback item
-Each chart contains 22 songs
-The installed app takes up 1.35 MB without data
Mp3 music download
-I am not even sure it downloads anything, because I waited at least a minute for the download to start and nothing happened
-The menu button does not work
-The installed app takes up 792 KB including data, which is 0
-The following screenshots show what the program looks like:
The app window after launch
This is what searching looks like:
Unfortunately I did not manage to download anything, so the library is gaping empty…
Music downloader lite
-The only difference from Music downloader pro (see below) is that you cannot choose between 4 networks; it always searches network A only.
-The installed app takes up 1.22 MB, data is 4 kB
Music Downloader Pro
-The installed app takes up 1.25 MB, data is 4 KB
You can choose from 4 networks:
A – terribly slow search, finds only junk.
B – finds nothing, always cancels itself
C – downloads really very slowly, but gives much better results
D – extremely slow search, ends with a network error
-menu: library
–menu in the song context: play, add to playlist, play all, edit tags, set as, send to, delete file
-When you switch networks, it immediately searches for the same term
-If a download is stopped, the part that has already been downloaded is saved.
-In the main screen item Chart I tried Country music and nothing was displayed
-Like most apps, it asks whether I want to quit or minimize. However, after closing it stays in the background, although it probably does not take up a single byte.
The main program window
Search – you can choose from 4 networks
Charts from which you can download a song by its title.
Top 340 songs download
-I searched for Kelly Clarkson – nothing found
-The app takes up 1.31 MB, its data 732 kB
-It has 2 main tabs: Local and Online
The Online tab
The Local tab
Top female artist download/Top male artist download
-The app takes up 1.31 MB, data is 740 KB; for Male it is 1.34 MB for the app and 0 B of data
-I only searched for Lady Gaga – Poker Face and got nothing
-As in many other apps, the menu has only playback.
-The app Top male artist download differs only in its color scheme and a different selection of songs
Library of downloaded songs
And Online lists female artists – tap one to see her latest albums and the songs in them
Top Great Song Download
-The installed app takes up 1.35 MB, data is 656 KB
-Searches slowly
-There are all kinds of lists sorted by genre, as well as an all-time hot 100 top songs list
-You can register for a subscription
Library of downloaded songs
Online contains several lists, most of them by genreTop songs by Year
-Searches “the standard way”
-It is exactly the same app as Top songs by year download
Top songs by year download
-At the start it asks for your e-mail; just press cancel and it never asks again
-The songs here are mostly unknown to me
-Main screen menu: Subscription, exit
-The song list is stored inside the program, because it loads instantly
-I did not manage to download anything at all
-The album playlist has the buttons Playback, Play all, Shuffle all
-The installed app takes up 2.02 MB including data
The library is exactly the same, because these programs were made by a single author
Once you select a year, the vinyl record starts spinning
Top music album download
-Main screen menu: subscription
-Album menu: Playback
-The app takes up 1.38 MB, data 656 KB
-Search, as always, gives irrelevant results
It shows 20 albums, but none of them shows the artist, which you only learn after opening the album
Music searcher -Looks exactly the same as Music search and download
-But searches “the standard way”
Mp3 spotter -The only app here that works fully in fullscreen
-The app takes up 0.94 MB in memory, data takes up 36 KB
This is what the program looks like after startup
I tried Bing, Yahoo and Google
According to this program, none of the 3 search engines found anything, yet the wheel at the top keeps spinning seemingly forever. The change from searching to nothing found takes about 1 s
Since it found nothing, logically there can be nothing in the download queue
It imports the library from the /music folder on /sdcard
GTunes Music -I did not try this appFildo
-If you are on GPRS (and possibly on a slow connection), the program warns you before downloading
You can search on 2 servers
Server 2 searches decently, but most results are Gigi D’Allesio
Server 1 knows how to make me happy. However, the songs repeat, just under different titles.
What you can do with a song you have found.
This is what the settings look like. Unfortunately I do not know everything that can be set, because the screen cannot be scrolled down.
Apps that search and download fast
Music search and download
-Looks the same as Music everyday
-Shares its library with it
-Searches great and fast
-Plays songs in the default music player
-The installed app takes up 320 KB including data, which is 0
This is what searching looks like; unfortunately the program cannot rotate the keyboard.
That arrow expands or collapses the list.
The library contains all songs downloaded by this app.
Music everyday -Cannot rotate the keyboard
-The main controls are the 3 buttons at the top
-It instantly found 2 Gigi songs, which means searching is instant and it also downloads at full speed
-It offers a preview of the song being downloaded
-In the library you can set a song as a ringtone directly
-The installed app takes up 328 KB without data, which is 32 KB
This is what searching looks like; unfortunately the program cannot rotate the keyboard.
That arrow expands or collapses the list.
The library contains all songs downloaded by this app.
