Music

Shiopa has music too. Almost any song you can think of is in there. Millions of songs, from big hits to small artists nobody else has heard of.

There are no ads. Nothing plays before your song, nothing cuts in halfway, and there is nothing to pay. Tap a song and it starts right away.

Getting there

Open Profile and tap Music. The music side of the app opens with its own bar along the bottom.

When you want movies and shows again, tap Back to Shiopa at the top.

Want music as its own app? See Shimu.

The bottom bar

• Home is where you start. New songs, picks made for you, and artists you might like.
• New is fresh music and categories. Pop, hip-hop, R&B, rock, and more.
• Library is your own music. Songs you starred, songs you played lately, and songs you downloaded.
• The round button on the right is Search.

Home

Home fills up with rows of music. The more you listen, the more it looks like you. The big cards up top are made for you from what you play.

Tap any song to play it. Tap the name of a row to see more of it.

Search

Type an artist, a song, or an album. Results show up while you type. Artists come first, then songs.

What you searched before stays under the search bar, so you can find it again with one tap.

Artists and albums

Tap an artist's picture and their page opens. Their photo sits across the top, with how many fans they have and what kind of music they make.

• Play starts their top songs.
• Shuffle plays them in a random order.

Under the top songs are their Albums, newest first. Tap one to see every song on it. Further down are artists that sound like them.

The player

While a song plays, a small bar sits just above the bottom bar. Tap it and the player opens over the whole screen.

The player takes the colour of the cover you're listening to.

• The line under the song is the song itself. Drag it to jump anywhere.
• In the middle are back, pause, and next.
• Under those is the volume. Drag it left or right.
• The star keeps the song in your Library.
• The arrow next to the star downloads the song to your phone.
• Tap the artist's name to open their page.

To close the player, swipe it down, or tap the small line at the very top. The song keeps playing.

Lyrics

Tap the speech bubble at the bottom of the player. The words show up and follow the song, line by line.

Tap any line and the song jumps there.

After a few seconds the buttons slide away, so you can just read. Scroll up a little and they come back. Tap the speech bubble again, or the small cover at the top, to go back to the player.

Playing Next

The list button at the bottom right shows what's coming up. Tap any song in it to play it now. When the list runs out, Shiopa keeps going with songs like the one you were on.

Downloads

Tap the arrow next to the star in the player. When the arrow fills in, the song is on your phone.

Every song you downloaded sits in Library, under Downloaded. To take a song off your phone, open it and tap the filled arrow again.

Downloads work on iPhone. On Android, the button doesn't show yet.

Listening offline

No signal? Your downloaded songs still play. If Home can't load, it shows your downloads instead, so the music doesn't stop.

Lyrics you've already seen stay on the phone too, so they still show up without internet.

When you leave the app

On iPhone, music keeps playing when you leave the app or lock the phone. The song, the cover, and the play and skip buttons show on the lock screen.

Shiopa also remembers where you stopped. Open it again and the last song is waiting in the small bar, right where you left it.

Importing playlists

Open Music settings and paste a public playlist link from Spotify (open.spotify.com), Apple Music, Deezer, or SoundCloud. Tap Import. The progress bar shows the import stage, completed track count, and current song while Shiopa finds matches. The playlist is saved when matching finishes. Private or unavailable playlists cannot be imported.