Nice Bells, but Poor Controls
I give it a 2 instead of a 1 because the bells are really very nice, except that they dont have a clue how the Westminster Chimes ring. They could easily find out from Wikipedia (or from my email to them). Theyve decided to present the sequence that is rung on the hour at Westminster before the hour is counted as one option, and the sequence that counts the hour as a second, separate option. At Westminster they are always rung together. The first one is they offer to repeat on the half hour, instead of the appropriate quarter, half, and three-quarter hour sequences.
The really bad problem with this application, though, is that the controls dont work properly. When I activate the Mute checkbox I get a strangely inconsistent behavior, where sometimes it doesnt chime and sometimes it does! If I set the apps volume to zero, that reduces the frequency of the chiming, but eventually it will still decide to chime anyway! For this outrageous behavior I would have given the app a 1 (or a zero, if that were possible in the App Store), except that many of the bells really are nice.
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