retroPod: ClickWheel Music App

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About this app

The app will show you all the music on your device, sorted by Artist, Album, and a list of all the songs. Your mp3s can be played, paused, and rewound.

Pick your favorite colors to bring back old memories

The click wheel works just like how you remember, with haptic feedback while scrolling. You can adjust the clickwheel clicker, shuffle songs, and/or repeat all options in the settings.

This was a lot of fun to make, if you have any suggestions please use the email below :)

This app is not affiliated with Apple Inc. nor is it an official Apple app.

Ratings and reviews

Almost perfect... The app really does look and feel like a classic iPod. However, long pressing a song title by holding in the middle button does NOT trigger the ability to create a playlist. Long pressing on a song title does absolutely nothing. I've had multiple people try it. Instructions are clear and hard to mess up. The function simply doesn't work. It's almost a fatal flaw bc not being able to create a playlist on an " iPod " is dumb. Takes away from the initial excitement.

It's a pretty cool experience, and I really enjoy having a nostalgic way to listen to my offline songs, but it really drops the ball when trying to open an artist's collection or album. You click on it, and it doesn't go to the next screen displaying the list of songs, unless you click again, which starts playing a song, then you can back out of the now playing and see the list of songs in the album. Also pretty slow to refresh music library, but other than that, a nice app. Pixel 8Pro/GalaxyS20

The RetroPod is not working properly because no songs are showing up on the app. Even though music files have been uploaded to the device, the app shows a blank screen. This makes the device unusable for its main purpose playing music. Restarting the app and the device doesn't fix the issue, and re-uploading the songs doesn’t help either. Clearly, there’s a problem. I'm never using this app again.

What’s new

Pros: Updated to new android sdk and billing library to follow play store policy
Cons: No longer able to edit playlists from within the app.