Does anybody have a good replacement for the cluster fsck that is the Music app in the iPhone?

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raz wrote:
Fired it up for the second or third time since the 9.x upgrade. It's ridiculous. How many times to I have to decline a Music subscription? Who knows what is a control and what isn't?

That's strange—my Music app hasn't been bugging me. Yeah, I agree that controls should be visually distinct. Jony Ive is an idiot.

Really, all I want is to be able to

1. play a specific album/playlist/song
   
2. turn on/off shuffle
   
3. be compatible with my Sony head unit
   

Albums and songs don't seem to be a problem. Just click the…um…"control," i.e. the list heading, when you're on the "My Music" tab. Theoretically, the "Playlists" "control" at the top of the interface should show you all your playlists but for me, it only shows one, i.e. "Purchased".

As for shuffle mode, you can enable it with the "control" shown in the fullscreen view of the currently playing song.

I don't know anything about your "head unit" (and I don't want to either).

[davemchine]

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[deckeda]

After another iOS update and once again Music includes online music in the display despite that being turned off. Gotta "force quit" the app and relaunch it to show offline music only. I'm DONE with it.

[raz]

ecoute looks like a winner. I'll test it over the weekend. Otherwise, I'll move on to the other suggestions.

thanks all

[ka jowct]

TuneShell?

[deckeda]

I've got 3 in rotation I'm currently playing with, Ecoute, TapTunes and Onkyo HF.

First impressions:
Ecoute looks and acts like Music in the sense it's got that tiny Play/Pause button way down at the bottom and the "back" nav upper left. This layout obscures Prev and Next navigation in favor of navigating directly from the song list so long as you can find the blinking icon for the playing song or read the songs in the list at a glance. Not my preference. Also, I can currently get it to easily lock up for a few seconds by tapping a playing song or something.

TapTunes is most interesting to me right now. It's FAST and rewards my preference for seeing the artwork while playing a song with Prev/Next nav. I like being able to double tap artwork to pause/play. Also, its "back" button in the upper left is merely an "X" that for whatever reason makes more intuitive sense than "back to something" (even though it's of course doing the same thing.) Perhaps it's just a clearer target to see, but that's still meaningful.

[pinkoos]

deckeda wrote:
TapTunes is most interesting to me right now. It's FAST and rewards my preference for seeing the artwork while playing a song with Prev/Next nav. I like being able to double tap artwork to pause/play. Also, its "back" button in the upper left is merely an "X" that for whatever reason makes more intuitive sense than "back to something" (even though it's of course doing the same thing.) Perhaps it's just a clearer target to see, but that's still meaningful.

Full disclosure: I helped the dev beta test this app. He was very responsive to bugs that I came across and issues fixes fairly quickly when new ones are found.

[Will Collier]

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try Ecoute.

And yes, the new Music app sucks like an Electrolux.

[pinkoos]

Another one to try

Marvis