PLAY by Aol Music

by AOL Inc.

Product Details

• ASIN: B008L1T560
• Original Release Date: July 25, 2012
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 26, 2012
Rated: Guidance Suggested This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,533 Paid in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Paid in Appstore for Android)
  • #15 in Appstore for Android > Music > Music Players

Product Features

• Listen to your music in a beautiful custom music player
• Share musical moments with your friends on PLAY, Facebook and Twitter
• Listen to your music in a beautiful custom music player
• Play music from an extensive collection of FREE songs and albums
• Access to over 60,000 SHOUTcast radio stations (on most devices)
• Read the latest music news
• Designed & Optimized for the Kindle Fire

Technical Details

• Size: 5.1MB
• Version: 1.1.71.1
• Developed By: AOL Inc.
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Read only access to phone state
  • com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT
  • Open network sockets
  • Write to external storage
  • Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
  • Access information about Wi-Fi networks
  • Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
  • Access information about networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 25 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh, screw this! July 26, 2012

By R. Boiter

Anything from AOL should be free anyway, to make this the app of the day is an insult to all the other apps of the day. A barely there music player app to sell you other crap from AOL. Just say no.

28 of 42 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars 11 permissions is kinda excessive don't ya think July 26, 2012

By Ben Wald

It's not just the number of permissions (11 total), but this ap also requires intrusive permissions as well. Just say no especially since there are alot of really good music aps.

3.0 out of 5 stars It works well enough, but.... December 7, 2012

By Philip LeBlond

Amazon Verified Purchase

This app is really a social media tool disguised as a media player. The media playing functions are present, but aren't really the main draw of the app. The real goal is to get you to talk about and discuss music with friends. There does not appear to be support for music stored in any sort of cloud, and I found the interface for browsing music to be unintuitive. Unfortunately, while I do save some music to my phone, most of it is stored in the cloud, so this music player doesn't do what I need it to.

Minor problems: Initially, the app was constantly force closing, but an update fixed that on my phone. Your mileage may vary.
Additionally, I could find no support for accessing my personal music collection in the cloud. The social media support was a nice touch, but I don't use social media enough to justify using this app as my media player.