Name: BBC Music Magazine
Rating: 3.6 (54 reviews)

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BBC Music Magazine

Our Media Limited

Released: 2011-12-23

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Version 8.8

Free 0%

Version 8.8

Released: 2011-12-23

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Description

Every single page of the world's best-selling classical music magazine is included in our app.

BBC Music Magazine is a must-read for anyone with a passion for classical music. Every issue brings the world of classical music to life, from interviews with the greatest artists and features on fascinating subjects, to all the latest news and opinions from around the music world.

Plus, listen to a selection of complete works performed by BBC ensembles, BBC New Generations Artists and other internationally acclaimed musicians each month. They play in the app for a seamless listening experience.

There are also reviews of over 100 recordings, from symphonies and operas to big concertos by great composers from Bach to Vivaldi, each one rated by the finest writers in the business. BBC Music Magazine is the ultimate choice for classical music connoisseurs and new enthusiasts alike.

Now available on your iPad, there’s never been a better time to read BBC Music Magazine!

Subscriptions and Single Issues

Customers can buy single issues and subscriptions using In App Purchase

Subscriptions are available on monthly or annual terms.

• Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period

• You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for that product

• You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase

• No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. This does not affect your statutory rights

• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription

• The app may offer a free trial. At the end of the free trial period, the full price of the subscription will be charged thereafter. Cancellations must occur 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Visit http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 for more information.

The subscription will include the current issue if you do not already own it and subsequently published future issues. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.

If you would like more information or support please visit our App support page https://www.ourmediaapps.co.uk/apps-faqs/

Our Media Ltd Privacy Policy and Terms of Use:

https://policies.ourmedia.co.uk/privacy-policy/

https://policies.ourmedia.co.uk/website-terms-and-conditions/

What's New in Version 8.8

This update includes bugfixes and necessary compatibility improvements. Please download to ensure your app remains fully functional.

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Developer

Our Media Limited

Version

8.8

Size

59.5 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 16.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English, German

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

3.6 of 5 (54 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2022-09-22

Pity you can’t give minus scores!

I’m not a regular subscriber to the magazine but have used the app to download the magazine when the mood takes me. Last time was less than a year ago and the app worked perfectly.

Downloaded the October issue and paid £6.99.

Utter waste of time and money. Pages don’t load properly, pages don’t turn when swiped, crashes, in short utterly useless.

This appears to be a case of trying to fix something that was never broken in the first place and ending up with an app that is unusable.

Uninstalled and switching to another classical music mag.

Hope the Beeb are happy about losing revenue due to this truly appalling app.

2022-06-07

New(ish) format is awful

I just can’t put up with this any more. I much prefer the “magazine experience” way of reading any magazine (others I subscribe to continue to provide that alongside the newer format).

The ‘web’ like format might actually be bearable if it actually worked properly. I have a relatively new (2020) iPad Pro which I use to read 4 or 5 different magazines - only the BBC Music Magazine has such a flaky interface. Unable to scroll down some pages, skipping to next page for no good reason, doesn’t remember where in the magazine I have got to.

I’m sorry but unless there is a significant improvement (and a return to the magazine format) my subscription will be cancelled.

2022-05-18

Loss of Digitised Print Version Disaapointing

It’s a great shame that this new version of the app gives a clunky web-style version of the magazine rather than a digitised print version. It’s not an enjoyable experience at all. An outstanding magazine but this app really lets the world-class content down.

2022-03-16

New format

I really don’t like it at all. I find it very hard to navigate through it, and it’s nothing like reading the magazine. If I could go back to the old format, I would do so immediately.

2022-03-03

A shocking mess

I wanted to be fair before I cancelled my subscription as I gave loved the magazine on my IPad. So I looked at the ‘new’ redesigned version again. It’s truly ugly and a shocker. It looks like it was put together on an old Amstrad. How could someone have let this happen?

2022-02-18

Unhappy with the new format

As others have mentioned, the changes indeed really ruin the user experience. I recently switched to a digital sub and I’m disappointed that reading the issues feels much like scrolling through a clunky website. The app before wasn’t perfect, but I’m sure most readers would prefer a user experience similar to reading the physical magazine, as it used to be pre-change. Please consider reverting back to the more readable older version.

2022-02-15

Change not good

The latest update is poor in comparison to the previous version of the application: the interface provides more a series of individual and rather ‘clunky’ website-like pages rather than the excellent electronic but genuine magazine feel previously experienced.

As with the previous version of the app., the so-called ‘Cover CD’ is a misnomer as playback does not provide a CD experience: the tracks do not play one-after-the-other, as per a CD, they each need starting separately; and playback stops when the iPad goes into screen saver mode or if one accesses another page in the magazine.

Correcting this issue is, technically, simple to achieve.

I’ve noticed that the August 2021 and earlier editions in my library do, indeed, display in the previous and much better magazine format but, the so-called ‘Cover CD’ has disappeared from each of these earlier editions. This is a serious problem as all these ‘Cover CDs’ are supposedly included as part of my subscription payment and, therefore, should remain accessible contractually.

LJK - subscriber

2022-02-09

Very disappointed to lose Magazine copy

I’m afraid the loss of magazine design turns this from a pleasurable coherent read into nothing better than consulting one of many music websites. The essential essence of the magazine is lost. Similarly the presentation of the cover discs is now just the sort of random streaming you can do anywhere rather than a magazine article with associated content. There is nothing left now to justify a subscription. N

2022-02-07

Content very good

Second update: All ok, new version delivered and working. Interface is quite different, more like a tabled edition and not a copy of the magazine, but good all the same. Back to 5 stars.

Update: February 2022. No digital magazine available? Last one delivered in December and I am fully subscribed. Zero help from anyone for the past 2 weeks, will reduce to 3 stars and put back up when I get a full response. A full cd worth or music is also in the digital app so it works out well worth the monthly sub, and saves on the paper No need anymore to buy the printed version.

2022-02-07

Very disappointing

No links to music app like Gramophone Magazine, can’t copy text to paste into Apple Music.

2020-10-19

Utter rubbish

Cannot download issues cannot get support utter crap. Not run by BBC and constantly directly to Apple for any support question. Sadly have to rate this one star because it won’t let me rate it no stars pathetic

2020-08-22

The BBC Music Magazine app has no accessibility at all

I am registered blind, and use the iPhone large fonts feature, dark mode and zoom features to make the iPhone accessible. The app is has virtually no accessibility at all. It doesn’t use dark mode. There is no text reading mode. The zoom capability for the articles in the magazine is not good. While it is possible to zoom in to articles, this only goes so far, it is necessary to use the native zoom capability go go further, but the result is still quite small, but manageable. Note that sometimes when using this method, the screen goes blank and it is necessary to go back to no zoom, and get the page back to normal and start again.

The real problem is with voiceover. There is virtually no voiceover support while reading, the only voiceover capability is the page turn slider, however if you use it, the pages don’t reader at all, and all you get is a blank screen.

The app doesn’t use the iPhone large fonts feature at all.

I think this is the worst magazine reading experience I have had on any device.

2019-12-03

Download problem

I tried the free trial period, and managed to download the first edition (which was great), but for the next one available couldn’t get past 0% downloaded (despite leaving it overnight). The ap support is via a survey monkey form which doesn’t work - fields don’t accept any input.

2019-08-07

You know something is bad when......

.....the latest issue requires an update to the app and it offers to redirect you to a place where no update is available. I’ll thought-through, rookie error. The magazine is so-so with the reviews section increasingly crowded out by ‘popular’ twaddle.

2019-06-16

Scots appreciation

I have been a reader/listener since the magazine has been produced.A great magazine,great cd,s,keeps me enthralled for hours,a monthly highlight

Only one small criticism,could we have some extra special editions that we used to have in the past

Regards

A.Davidson

2017-11-30

Great magazine, but...

Thoroughly recommend the magazine for all the printed material. However, the lack of ability to play all the music from start to finish (one has to access each track separately) is a real bugbear, particularly for people like me who like to listen in the car. Am seriously considering returning to the print version because of this.

2017-06-30

FOR THE MUSIC CONNOISSEURS AND AFFICIONADOS

General effort on the layout and quirky pop-up articles are distributed in this e-magazine for the music lovers like myself. I enjoyed also the 3 months free subscription trial offer

2016-12-30

Content excellent, delivery poor

Title says it all really! The content is what it has always been - excellent. However, the app is disappointing. It works most of the time on my iPad but is erratic on older ones. The music, that is a proper CD with the printed magazine, is pathetic; seems low quality and will not play tracks automatically. You have play each one independently, one at a time! Why not provide a link to download them all?

2016-12-22

I'm rating this 1

Nativex, once again, has failed to give my free platinum. They owe me more than 500 now. Scamming parasites.

2016-11-22

Worth it for the reviews

If nothing else, this is worth it for the reviews, covering a wide range of periods, composers and styles.

If not every feature engages, this is where I turn without fail, and it almost always inspires new additions to my own music library, including music and composers that is quite new to me.

2016-05-26

Unreadable

Unreadable on the iphone6, don't bother. Other magazines have realised that they need to produce different layouts for iPhone and iPad in order for the work to be readable, clearly not this one... I can't believe no-one tested this and thought "gee that text is a bit small, perhaps this solution isn't fit for purpose"

2015-07-27

Not recommended

I've persevered with this on and off for a long time now. It's just a glorified scroll about PDF. Reading experience is terrible. When is it going to be a proper iPad magazine like the BBC Focus.

2015-05-13

Good app regressing!

iPad Air with iOS 8.3 Ok, I have had trouble free use of this app for some time now but i am really frustrated at the recent change. Mags only seem to download if I am reading them so I order to have them on my wifi only iPad for reading on the train I need to pretend to read every page (!) at home to be sure they will be available off line. I've only just realised this as I had half a mag to read on the train tonight. I'm not happy with this and if not fixed I will cancel my subscription. Not worth the hassle.

2015-03-17

No CD!

Instead of the excellent monthly CD, you get an in-app streaming option. I'm guessing this is going to be squashed to 128kbps which is not what you want if you're the kind of person who reads a mag with an regular column on audio! I prefer to download 9600kbps files from HDTracks, but the 1411kbps of the CD is a minimum. Disappointed that this offering is so last-millennium!

2015-02-21

Good magazine

I subscribe via the app and enjoy getting this magazine every month. The features are generally interesting and worthwhile and the reviews are always very helpful. The building a library section has been fantastic, suggesting new music to listen to.

I think the app is OK, bit is at times a bit clunky. Downloading can take quite some time. I seem to always need to sign in to activate my account, which isn't difficult but certainly an inconvenience. It works well now when it is and running. My biggest gripe is that the free CD is only accessible in app and cannot be added to iTunes to listen to on the go. This is a big disadvantage compared to the print issue (where you get a physical CD) and does sour the experience somewhat.

But on the whole it is still worth subscribing if you're a classical music fan, or if you just want to explore this music just a bit further.

2014-10-17

Useless

Downloaded app and subscribed to the magazine but unable to download or access content. Does not appear to be compatible with latest IOS. Why can you not rate ZERO?

2014-10-05

Poor

Having been a print subscriber to BBC Music Magazine since it first began I thought I would try the digital version from Apple. It has been fine until the latest iOS 8 update. The app crashes. I have tried all the recommended solutions i.e deleting and reinstalling to no avail. I feel literally shortchanged. It is appalling that the customer is left in this limbo! If it is not fixed soon I will be withdrawing my subscription. A shame as the magazine is great.

2014-10-03

BBC Music Magazine App

Truly terrible! This app fails to work in Ios8 despite installing 8.02. Great magazine but spoiled by lack of attention to user convenience. It never worked well; took an age to load and instal. But at least it worked. Now it doesn't.

2014-10-01

App won't load since IOS8 Update

Since updating the IOS update the app now crashes

2014-10-01

Useless

I assume you will be issuing refunds to all your customers, since you clearly can't be bothered to keep your app up to date and working. For a company the size of the BBC, this is pathetic.

2014-09-30

Poor service

Not only crash, crash, crash but no useful feed back following ios 8 impact. Please fix and update.

2014-09-28

Crashes under IOS 8

Was always a bit unstable but will not start up at all under iOS 8. If you are going to take money under these subscriptions it is the duty of the provider to make sure it works. Ios8 dev kit has been around for a while so no excuses. Lazy.

2014-09-26

Doesn't load

Since I upgraded to iOS 8, it won't load.

2014-04-24

Disappointing

The magazine looks the same as the paper version with the addition of some music samples. However the "cover CD" is only playable a track at a time and only whilst the app is open! So, a continuous work, like Taverner's Protecting Veil, has to be heard in chunks - not good.

2014-04-04

Great app

Just love being able to listen to excerpts of the music I'm reading about. Articles always fascinating. Reviews really help me to decide what to buy

2013-09-07

Mr H

Does NOT Work. Avoid. Might as well put your money in the bin.

0/5 stars.

2012-12-30

Currently Unusable - Dec 2012

This has never been the most stable magazine app compared to others that I subscribe to however currently the app constantly crashes. In addition somehow I have paid twice for latest issue that I have not been able to download.

Very Disappointing!

2012-12-21

Crash, crash, crash

This magazine is almost unreadable even if you get the magazine to open before it crashes, it will inevitably crash at some point when you turn a page.

2012-05-05

Bug

Unreadable until they fix the bug that makes the pages reload every 10 seconds making it impossible to read.

2012-04-02

Not as good as the paper copy

WARNING! the paper mag has a "free" cd with it...although you can listen to samples of the music discussed you don't get the "free" album that you get with the paper copy. This is the first and last I buy.

BBC Music Magazine

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What's New in Version 8.8

Seller

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App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

Pity you can’t give minus scores!

New(ish) format is awful

Loss of Digitised Print Version Disaapointing

New format

A shocking mess

Unhappy with the new format

Change not good

Very disappointed to lose Magazine copy

Content very good

Very disappointing

Utter rubbish

The BBC Music Magazine app has no accessibility at all

Download problem

You know something is bad when......

Scots appreciation

Great magazine, but...

FOR THE MUSIC CONNOISSEURS AND AFFICIONADOS

Content excellent, delivery poor

I'm rating this 1

Worth it for the reviews

Unreadable

Not recommended

Good app regressing!

No CD!

Good magazine

Useless

Poor

BBC Music Magazine App

App won't load since IOS8 Update

Useless

Poor service

Crashes under IOS 8

Doesn't load

Disappointing

Great app

Mr H

Currently Unusable - Dec 2012

Crash, crash, crash

Bug

Not as good as the paper copy