NOT 4.5 - terrible app. – Play-Fi Review

How is this app getting 4.5 stars out of 5?? Who are these people who gave this good review? Did you use it once? Are you using the app on non apple products? I’ve had this for about a year and half an dit is totally not reliable. There is constant failure. Too many times I have to restart everything. I don’t think it is the speakers or my internet. I’ve moved and have new internet provider and router and still the same. All of a sudden the app just fails and music stops. Then I have to restart the whole process, select source, speaker volume etc.. It is totally annoying. Just randomly stopping. Just for information, I am a very tech-oriented person. I can use apps and electronics without much help and able to trouble shoot things. So it isn’t me. I used to and still have apple airplay and that was totally reliable. Never had interruption of music. Play FI when it works is fine. But this constant stop is terrible. I have the app in my iphone and ipad. When I open a webpage that has some sort of audio file, play fi stops and I have to restart the whole thing. EVERYTIME. Why??? I didn’t play any sound from the website. The same thing with phone. If I open the camera with video the Play fi stops. It seems like when ever the ipad or iphone is opening something that has sound, the PLAY FI just shuts down. And it isn’t like you can just hit ‘play’ on Play FI app, you have to re start everything. Besides, I should be able to have music playing/streaming form iphone or ipad and still use the device to do and listen to other stuff. The music is diverted to separate speakers, not the iphone/ipad speakers. There is no need to stop the music because I opened a webpage that has sound. Clearly a flaw. With my apple product, I can play music from any sources, ipad, iMac, iphone and still use that device to listen to something else. Again, the thing is that I don’t always know if there is some sound file on a webpage. So if i happen to open it, the play fi shuts and I have to restart again. OVERALL, this product needs LOTS of work. I am using it as terrible as it is because I bought several wireless speakers paradigm and they only work with play fi so I don’t have choice. Had I known the issues, I would not have bought them.
Review by stee tee on Play-Fi.