sound-advice1.8 - App Store

sound-advice
A free tool for music student and teacher instruction

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Music Teachers, Manage Your Studio
. Organize your studio: Add your students, view their profile and preferences, and share your studio policy, all within sound-advice.

. Communicate with your students: Send new assignments to your students, record and share examples, and give feedback on your students' recordings.

. Manage your lessons: With sound-advice, you can always access previous assignments and recordings to easily track student progress and goals. Use these records to prepare for your next lesson with your student.

. Keep your professional life separate: Communicate with your students directly through sound-advice. Share studio policy information directly within the app. No need to exchange phone numbers or emails.

All of your studio info, all in one place

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Music Students, Improve Your Practice
. Ask for feedback: Ever needed help during your practice at home? Record yourself playing, post a question, and send directly to your teacher. Get your teacher's feedback before your next lesson, so you can show up confident and ready.

. Track your progress: With sound-advice, you can always access your previous goals and assignments. Listen to previous recordings to hear your improvement. And of course, review your current assignment before your next lesson.

. Know the rules: Can't remember how much to practice? Need to know the cost to add an extra lesson? Quickly view your teacher's Studio Policy in the app.

All of your lesson info, all in one place

Version History What's New

Staging For Modernization:
sound-advice is moving to SwiftUI. This will give a more response UI and improve the user experience. 1.8 07/23/2025 Group Recordings by Assignment:
Access all files for each assignment on one screen.

Smarter Screen Loads:
New Audio and Video headers blink to indicate loading. Loading screen pop-ups are more consistent and informative, and automatically dismiss.

Long Press Added:
Long press to quickly get in contact with Students, or to update recording names.

Smarter Notifications:
Notifications include Student, Teacher, and Assignment names.

Improved Recording Previews:
A better look and more stable player for previewing Audio and Video. 1.7.4 11/30/2021 Improved Look and Feel:
Assignments and Assignment details have an improved format and organization for Students and Teachers. Color and styling is more consistent.

Favorite Assignments:
Teachers, you can now assign the same Favorite Assignments to multiple students. Edit the templated Favorite before sharing to a new student to customize instruction.

Easier Access to Assign Practice:
Teachers, you can now Assign Practice from within each student’s profile — in addition to the Assign Practice tab.

New In-App Sounds for Teachers:
Teachers, experience new sound effects when you Assign Practice and dismiss modal screens. 1.7.2 03/22/2021 Improved User Feedback:
Receive in-app notifications for uploading audio and video, and studio invitations.

Redesigned Onboarding:
The sign-up experience is more intuitive.

Redesigned Record Screen:
Recording audio and video is easier and quicker.

More Control Over User Account:
Account information is easier to update. Swipe left to delete. Hold and drag to reorder information.

More Stability:
A more enjoyable app with 30+ bug fixes this round. 1.7 01/23/2021 More Control Over Studio Videos:
Remove videos as they are reviewed. Swipe to the left to delete a video.

Redesigned Studio Policy Screen:
The Teacher Studio Policy is now tappable and easier to review.

More Informative Studio Videos:
Now videos feature the date stamp and recording user's profile picture, to better keep track.

Reworking App Icon Notifications:
We are temporarily pulling app icon notifications. We will add them back when they offer a more enjoyable user experience. 1.6.1 09/09/2020 sound-advice now offers new, interactive features for teaching and learning music.

Pull to Refresh.
Teachers and Students: Wait no longer. Pull down on your screen to refresh assignments, audio, and video recordings.

Dark Mode.
sound-advice onboarding screens now support dark mode. And we added a few more dark mode enhancements.

Empty State.
Empty screens are more informative and on theme. 1.5.2 07/21/2020 sound-advice is pleased to present some big new features in version 1.5.1

Send and Receive Video.
Teachers: Send students guidance by recording and sharing a video how-to. Students: Record video progress and invite teacher feedback.

Dark Mode.
Dark mode option is now enabled.

Student Profile Update.
Students: Update your instrument choice.

Various other UI improvements and bug fixes.
Use new custom controls for video playback and editing. Stay up to speed on load and upload progress with a new activity indicator.

Request new features.
Have an idea? Share your thoughts to make sound-advice even better for the next update. 1.5.1 07/07/2020 I have implemented on-boarding, for users who have never opened the app before. I've also updated layouts for the Studio Profile Page and fixed recordings not appearing from the Student side Previous assignment page. I have changed the URL for the app's website, and where the privacy policy is hosted. 1.4 10/22/2019 1.0 10/16/2019