Simple MP3 Pro

Simple MP3 Pro makes it a breeze to discover and download music files.

If you’re seeking an app that helps you discover new music and download it in MP3 format, then Simple MP3 Pro may be just what you’re looking for. This app is free to download and use, and it is truly freeware, so there’s no ads or other caveats. The developers take the simple in the name serious as a design goal and really manage to deliver on it with the user interface and other aspects of the app.

Like many MP3 apps, Simple MP3 Pro has an integrated search tool. This app, however, manages to distinguish itself from many others because of how sophisticated it is. The user interface for it is rather simple, but it’s powerful in that you can combine multiple criteria to find that particular song or album. It supports the usual criteria like song title, album title and artist, but it also has options like partial lyrics, which is a really fantastic feature that many users will find themselves using a lot.

The music collection that Simple MP3 Pro accesses seems to be pretty extensive. It even has obscure genres like ringtones and trip-ho, and you can search by genre too. The search results provide you a lot of data about the song itself but also the file, and you can choose what you do and do not see because it can be a bit overwhelming if you turn it all on. When you download a song, you not only get the song and that meta data but high-resolution album art and other resources.

Simple MP3 Pro downloads music fast. This is particularly noticeable if you’re on Wi-Fi and have a fast connection. One reason that it’s so fast is that it isn’t limited by the server. It requests parts of a file and can download multiple parts concurrently. That also means that it can suspend downloads, resume them and even repair music files that may have become corrupted during the download process.

The developers of Simple MP3 Pro market it as an app to download copyleft music as well as music distributed with the Creative Commons license. Nevertheless, whatever backend the app uses, it has access to much more than just that kind of music, and the developers have seemingly taken no steps to follow through on the marketing promise. People will download what they want, but it would be nice if those that didn’t want to inadvertently access that kind of content had a built-in way to avoid it.

Pros

• Freeware
• Fast downloads
• Powerful search feature

Cons

• Access to copyrighted music