Great app!
The app is great, much better than Music, specially for those of us that have offline music and don't rely on Apple Music.
A couple of things I'd like to see added in the future would be:
Custom 'Now Playing' themes. Not a huge fan of the current one, too simple and it's missing key features such as a 'show lyrics' button. For me it is not clear which of my songs have it as I'd have to open each individually to find out.
Add a shuffle all button on the artist page and shuffle button on the album page. I know this can be achieved by holding on each section but it'd be more user friendly with a dedicated button.
A couple of things I'd like to see added in the future would be:
Custom 'Now Playing' themes. Not a huge fan of the current one, too simple and it's missing key features such as a 'show lyrics' button. For me it is not clear which of my songs have it as I'd have to open each individually to find out.
Add a shuffle all button on the artist page and shuffle button on the album page. I know this can be achieved by holding on each section but it'd be more user friendly with a dedicated button.
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For album listeners
You can browse by genre > artist > album! I still listen to albums, for I am old, and the stock music app is just not designed to do that. This one is. It is a godsend.
Nice while it lasted
This has been my music app of choice since Apple Music’s big redesign mire than half a decade ago. I still think it’s superior to the built-in app and any alternatives I’ve found, but this praise has a big caveat: the app appears to no longer be supported. There are several major issues that I’ve tried to report to the developer (punctuation breaks search, you can’t select artists or albums from search results) with no response, the “official” support page is a twitter account with no activity in the past year, and the developer website no longer exists at all.
All apps lose support eventually, so I can’t complain too much, especially at this price point. I just wish the developer had made it clear he’d moved on so I knew to start hunting for an alternative.
All apps lose support eventually, so I can’t complain too much, especially at this price point. I just wish the developer had made it clear he’d moved on so I knew to start hunting for an alternative.
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Well designed but critically flawed
This could be a great app. I love nearly everything about its design and UX. However the app immediately crashes when you use AirPlay to broadcast to an external speaker, which makes it unusable for me. This did not occur previously so I’m not sure what changed. Also this seems to have started happening around the iPadOS 16 release so there may be some interaction there. Until fixed, though, I have to revert to the native Music app.
Update: After some experimentation, this issue seems to be specific to AirPlay with a HomePod Mini. The app behaves fine when I use a non-Apple speaker. The fault could well lie with the HomePod rather than Cs.
Update: After some experimentation, this issue seems to be specific to AirPlay with a HomePod Mini. The app behaves fine when I use a non-Apple speaker. The fault could well lie with the HomePod rather than Cs.
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Best music app
As someone who likes to buy music to support the artist but also to have a local music library, this is the best music player for iOS. It’s how the built in music app should be…clean and straight to the point. I don’t want a radio, recommendations, ads, or anything else they think is innovative. I just want a clean and simple way to play my music..something that doesn’t need any innovating. This app is what I miss from the older versions of iOS.
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Help!
I can’t find any way to get tech support. My songs are stuck on repeat which is extremely annoying. I’ll have to stop using this app if I can’t get a fix
Great functionality for what Apple allows
Looks great - dark mode, I can read full track names at last, can see and adjust my star ratings!
Trashed my music library
Somehow, after giving this music library permissions, a single song went missing from most of the albums on my iPad.
Response from developer
I’m sorry to hear you are experiencing this. I can assure you that third party applications do not have permissions to make destructive changes to your music library (I.e. a third party app can add songs to your library, but not remove them). Is the issue that those songs just aren’t displaying in ace?
Good UI, annoying bugs
This app is much better organized than Apple Music, but it has some annoying bugs. The worst of them all is the tendency to reset the repeat play mode (no repeat, repeat all, repeat one) seemingly at random.
After poking around it seems like it forgets what you last set it to when you kill the app, restart the phone, or - sometimes - switch from playing playlists to playing albums. When it does this, it defaults back to whatever Apple Music app was last set to.
The workaround is to start Apple Music and change the repeat play mode there to your preferred default (e.g., repeat all). Since I did that, I no longer have the app randomly revert to repeat one!
After poking around it seems like it forgets what you last set it to when you kill the app, restart the phone, or - sometimes - switch from playing playlists to playing albums. When it does this, it defaults back to whatever Apple Music app was last set to.
The workaround is to start Apple Music and change the repeat play mode there to your preferred default (e.g., repeat all). Since I did that, I no longer have the app randomly revert to repeat one!
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Great app
Apr ‘22: Still loving the app. Is there a way to rewind or fast forward 15 seconds?
Apr ‘21: just downloaded v6. After it being unusable for a while, I can use the app again! So glad I didn’t delete it. Well done. Don’t forget to tip, folks! Feb 16: Again, excellent app. One request: It would be nice to quickly see what was recently played. Now, you have to play a song, then touch the queue icon. Instead, I would like to have a Queue icon that can be placed on my bottom menu - I would get rid of the Artists icon, which I never use. Thanks for a great product. Edit Feb 8: Thank you for adding back in the convenient search field! Works great. Now, with the latest update I the fed/back buttons get stuck. Also, it’s sometimes hard to find the currently playing song - it randomly disappears from the bottom of the screen. Still loving the app! 1st review: Love it. But please add back the ability to search from any screen by pulling down to reveal the search bar. Searching now requires more steps than it did before. Otherwise, I love it. I switched over when I was no longer able to view lyrics in the apple music app. This app solved that issue, so I'm a fan.
Apr ‘21: just downloaded v6. After it being unusable for a while, I can use the app again! So glad I didn’t delete it. Well done. Don’t forget to tip, folks! Feb 16: Again, excellent app. One request: It would be nice to quickly see what was recently played. Now, you have to play a song, then touch the queue icon. Instead, I would like to have a Queue icon that can be placed on my bottom menu - I would get rid of the Artists icon, which I never use. Thanks for a great product. Edit Feb 8: Thank you for adding back in the convenient search field! Works great. Now, with the latest update I the fed/back buttons get stuck. Also, it’s sometimes hard to find the currently playing song - it randomly disappears from the bottom of the screen. Still loving the app! 1st review: Love it. But please add back the ability to search from any screen by pulling down to reveal the search bar. Searching now requires more steps than it did before. Otherwise, I love it. I switched over when I was no longer able to view lyrics in the apple music app. This app solved that issue, so I'm a fan.
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