2012/02/12

[Free] Band of the day: daily music magazine built for mobile phone

If you are a band lover, this is the app you can't miss! With one band for the whole year, you will become band expert a year later! Just download this app to know about more bands: reviews, bio, albums are all there, you can even buy music online easily, don't hesitate to get this! 


Official website: Band of the day
App Link:Band of the day
Price:Free
Ratings:★★★★★

Pros:
  1. Stylish interface design
  2. Well-integrated band info center with reviews, bio, twitter, albums.
Suggestions:
  1. Navigation path is kinda complicated, users might get lost easily for the first few times, so many indicators on the interface to do different actions, can the navigation path more unified? 
  2. Icon designs are with lower affordance, "calendar" doesn't look like calendar, the red square doesn't imply anything to me.
  3. It takes sometime to play the song (pull to play), and I don't know why the bar is volume bar instead of progress bar since it's easy to adjust the volume just aside the phone.

Video introduction

Just check out why those members want to create band of the day

App introduction
When you launch the app for the first time, you can tap "Take the tour" to have short instructions or just start the app right away.
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Take the tour
  
The tutorials are not dynamic, they are just screenshot with explanation below.
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When you launch the app, it jumps to the date automatically, and the background photo varies whenever you tap a data grid, and below with the band name and introduction. 
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Main interface
  1. Tap to listen to songs of this band, pull to view the song list
  2. You will see a red + anywhere inside the app, tap to share info via Facebook, twitter & eamil, in some places, blank stars for ratings will also appear.
  3. Tap to give ratings
  4. Related info about this band
  5. Back to calendar view
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Listen to music
Pull to view the song list and music player
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There are 2 sides for the songs: featured songs & mixed songs
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Band info.

The info is quite complete, so even if you are new to this band, you can have better understanding of it from many perspectives.
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This app integrate with twitter so that you can interact with band simultaneously. Of course you can watch video.
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  1. Slide to view different albums
  2. Play the song
  3. Buy the song, connect to iTunes store to do that, it's a great pity I can't do in in my country
  4. Back to the band info page
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  1. Tap to display the further toolbar
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In "Friends", you can connect to Facebook to invite Facebook friends.
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In "My Ratings", you will see all the bands, songs, videos you've rated, it's like a favorite list.
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You can view popular bands in "Top of the charts"



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