Let’s you navigate and listen to your music without getting in the way
This app simply Let’s you navigate and listen to your music without getting in the way. It is able to play your music already in your Apple Music database without you having to import it all like some other players. Apple Music app was good 12 years ago and apple have been making it worse ever since - if your fed up with apple trying to sell you stuff and changing the app navigation all the time try this app instead.
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Solid iOS music library app
As someone with a large music library I’ve been building since I was a teenager, I require a music app that allows me to quickly navigate to what I want to listen to and Cs Music Player does it with a much better focus than the Apple Music app. Additionally, I appreciate the beautiful user interface that it isn’t bloated with features I don’t need. The way the now playing screen matches the UI color with a primary color from the album art, is tastefully done and gorgeous. It serves a fairly niche purpose for some people, but if you’re one of those people, this is one of the best apps in the store (and I feel like I’ve tried all the similar ones).
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Shuffling
You mean to tell me I don’t have the ability to shuffle a playlist or albums ?? Only songs ?
Response from developer
Thanks for your review, and of course not! If you swipe or long press on any collection (playlist, album, etc) you can access play, shuffle and queue controls 👍
I Like It!
I wanted a music player that's fast, fuss-free, looks & sounds good, and importantly, doesn't try to rope users into an overpriced subscription. I found it - and you have too, so grab it!
My music only
Just begun with this app , but pretty sure it will be my go to music player .. just my music and playlists when I want them
Yes!
Thank you! Every since Apple Apple took away the ability to skip to the next song etc, I’ve been looking for a replacement. I think I just found it… at least for music.
Like the App, update still needs some work
Besides the comments some reviewers have posted below about feedback concerning navigation, look and feel, I do like the App. Particularly because it stays basic and doesn’t try to compete with Apple Music. That App is NOT what you should be looking to emulate! It has taken so much out of users hands and forced a different way to think about your music. If you are like me and own your music versus stream, forget it. Apple doesn’t care about us, only streamers. That said I use Dark Mode on my phone and when I do whatever view I have selected on the bottom (Artist, Album, etc.) that one disappears and you only know you have selected it because you can’t see it. I suggest a light grey so it’s still visible or something.
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A lot to love, increasingly more things not to love
I’ve been a long time user of Cs Music Player (or Cesium as it used to be called). I’m not so old but it seems I’m a dinosaur when it comes to the way I like to listen to music since I’m a firm believer in OWNING music, having a music library that somehow reflects my own progressing tastes. Apple used to love music lovers and used to provide some very nice hardware and software to cater to guys and gals like me. Now these times are gone and streaming took over. Anyway.
I really would like to like Cs and I lindner do since it allows me to listen to my synced iTunes library in a meaningful way. A huge library needs the right tools to handle it and Cs still does that. So thanks for that. However, I don’t like the direction the app is heading with constantly changing and seemingly erratic UI choices that try to reinvent the wheel. That’s really not necessary because if Cs was just a copy of what Apple’s iTunes app used to be a few years ago, everything would be just fine. But for some unknown reason Mike seems to take pleasure in deconstructing well-proven features which is really a shame since the USP of Cs is really simple: an app that allows you to easily navigate your (huge) music collection and so helps you to enjoy it.
Please, Mike, don’t try to improve things that are just fine the way they are.
Personal wish: please bring (back) the shuffle by album feature. Thanks.
I really would like to like Cs and I lindner do since it allows me to listen to my synced iTunes library in a meaningful way. A huge library needs the right tools to handle it and Cs still does that. So thanks for that. However, I don’t like the direction the app is heading with constantly changing and seemingly erratic UI choices that try to reinvent the wheel. That’s really not necessary because if Cs was just a copy of what Apple’s iTunes app used to be a few years ago, everything would be just fine. But for some unknown reason Mike seems to take pleasure in deconstructing well-proven features which is really a shame since the USP of Cs is really simple: an app that allows you to easily navigate your (huge) music collection and so helps you to enjoy it.
Please, Mike, don’t try to improve things that are just fine the way they are.
Personal wish: please bring (back) the shuffle by album feature. Thanks.
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Better than Apple’s stock app
It’s nice to have alternative to Apple’s clunker, that also doesn’t ask to constantly sign up for Apple Music. Works well for me.
Very nice app except for one (minor) thing...
I’ve been using this music player for a few years now. The #1 reason I bought the app in the first place was because the album art filled the entire width of my phone. Apples music app used to do that too, but when they changed it a few iOS versions ago, I was annoyed. I like my album art to be as big as possible. And since they are always a square picture, having it full the entire width is the only way to maximize the viewing size of it. Now with Cesium, that IS the reason I bought the app in the first place, because the developer brought back that UI element and it filled the entire width.
With the recent updates, however, I notice that there is how a border around my album art, effectively make it smaller. My phone is already small compared to the large Pro Max phones.... If the dev would simply change it to again fill the entire width of the phone, I would change my rating to 5 stars.
*edit* After using this app for a few more days, I have come to really enjoy it. The interface is cleaner than the old version, and it seems to run extremely stably. Despite my comments above about the album art, after these few days, I now find that I don’t mind it as is. It’s very aesthetic with the way the background changes color based on album artwork colors. Very nice update after all.
With the recent updates, however, I notice that there is how a border around my album art, effectively make it smaller. My phone is already small compared to the large Pro Max phones.... If the dev would simply change it to again fill the entire width of the phone, I would change my rating to 5 stars.
*edit* After using this app for a few more days, I have come to really enjoy it. The interface is cleaner than the old version, and it seems to run extremely stably. Despite my comments above about the album art, after these few days, I now find that I don’t mind it as is. It’s very aesthetic with the way the background changes color based on album artwork colors. Very nice update after all.
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