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Tired of music apps cluttered with suggestions and recommendations? Yearning to return to an elemental music experience? Look no further than Cs Music Pro – your gateway to a pure, ad-free music experience on iOS.

CLASSIC TAB INTERFACE
Experience the timeless tabbed music interface with a modern touch. Cs Music Pro provides the familiarity you crave while seamlessly integrating into your iOS device.

COMPLETELY AD-FREE.
Cs Music Pro integrates with your Apple Music library, ensuring a seamless listening experience without ads or subscriptions. It's music the way it should be: uninterrupted.

UNLEASH YOUR CUSTOMIZATION
Tailor your music collection with versatile sorting and display options for each tab. Dive deeper into songs with track details, metadata, and tagged lyrics.

PIN YOUR FAVORITES
Create convenient shortcuts to your playlists, artists, and albums. Pinned items always take the top spot in any list they appear in, ensuring your most cherished music is always within reach.

ADVANCED PLAYLIST CONTROL
Enhance playlists with advanced functions, including in-playlist song searches, artist/album grouping, and creative track shuffling.

DYNAMIC PLAYER
Watch your music come alive with a player that changes colors based on album artwork. Convenient controls make it easy to love, rate, and shuffle with a single tap.


Rediscover the Classic Tab Interface with a Modern Twist. Download Cs Music Pro now!


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Cs Music Pro App Comments & Reviews

Cs Music Pro Positive Reviews

Hate the updateI’ve been using Cesium for years now at this point, and overall it’s so much better than Apple’s Music app; kudos to the developer. However... I’m not a huge fan of the update. It feels like it’s moving in the direction of Apple’s Music app, in terms of some UX choices, which is the reason I switched to Cesium in the first place. The new UI looks great, but now it forces you to either see all songs in a list or only the albums. You can switch between all songs and albums, but I’d rather have both without needing to go into settings every time I want to listen differently. It also now shows iCloud items that haven’t been downloaded, by default, though there is at least an option to turn it off. Personally, I would rather the default be off, some it’s not on my device for a reason. Some other issues I have is that the time remaining in a song disappears once the song is far enough along. I care more about how much is left than how much I’ve listened to. I don’t know why the time elapsed doesn’t just remain at the left end of the bar. The update also seems to have removed the ability to swipe and tap “play next/later,” which is so much faster than having to long press on a song, and you can’t see the “jump-to” alphabet until you’ve started scrolling..Version: 6.0

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..Version: 6.2

A lot to love, increasingly more things not to loveI’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..Version: 6.2.1

BuggyI want to like this app, but it's pretty buggy. Sometimes when you press the home button or modify the queue, the song that is currently playing starts over. Sometimes when you add a song to the top of the queue, it doesn't play (it gets removed from the queue). Sometimes when you try to modify the queue, the changes don't get saved. Sometimes it hangs (I'm not talking about the iOS 11.2 lag, this is different) and sometimes it even crashes. It doesn't seem to update song metadata (e.g. 'last played' and play count) in a timely fashion. Songs that have just played still appear in the queue. If you add a long playlist (a couple thousand songs) to the queue, it reduces it to about 500 songs, I have no idea how it selects which songs to play when it does this. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app and get the same results. I'm on iOS 11.3. Update for version 4.3: This app has gotten a lot better since the developer implemented workarounds for the Apple bugs. However, the Apple bugs still make it very difficult to modify the queue. Is there anything we can do to push Apple along? Post something on the feedback site perhaps? Shame on Apple for not fixing these bugs, they've known about them for a long long time..Version: 4.3

What Apple Music was and should be. Needs better scrobblerUpdate: app doesn’t work as well as it used to. It might be updates by apple’s fault but daft it is freezes often, crashes, often becomes unresponsive. Sometimes you have to go into the Apple Music app to stop the music playing. Still like the layout but it needs to be more reliable Original review: Good. Still some issues. Has become quite laggy though or just less responsive to finger presses. More so than the Apple player in a noticeable way. Needs better scrobbler. It's not precise when's moving and the hit box for your finger to activate it is way too small. The one thing the new Apple Music player does well is an improved scrobbler. Copy nothing from Apple Music but that scrobbler user experience. The app is What Apple Music was and should be. It's better for large collections. It prioritized usability over eye candy in the cluttered/poor interface Apple Music app. that is probably there for people that don't actually have Music collections. Otherwise they'd want better navigation in the Apple Music app. If you want the old Apple Music player's layout, look, and general function back this is an app you'll like. It's what you've been looking for. And there's other customization like colors, mines all black with blue lettering, night mode style. And other options..Version: 4.1.5

Great appApr ‘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..Version: 6.4.2

Almost perfectI love this music player! I can't say enough good things about the excellent UI, the dark mode, the player controls. This is the UI I wish the default Music app had. If you have been using iOS since the original iPhone came out you will remember the much simpler Music app or iPod app as it was called in the beginning back when we still had iPod's This app feels like a modern take on that style of Music app and to put it simply "it just works" My only minor complaints are sometimes there is a significant delay when I pause or resume or skip a track. I've encountered this in a few other music player apps that use the Apple Music library and I get the feeling it has something to do with the DRM protection in Apple Music files and the fact that some songs need to be buffered to stream while other tracks are already downloaded. Still sometimes the freezing crashes Cessium. Also I kinda wish the night mode had a pure black option for the iPhone X..Version: 4.0.1

Star rating with app is faultyI have used this app for a year or two now, which I prefer over the iPhone music app, primarily for the ability to have favorite playlists listed, greatly reducing the number of taps necessary to start playing. The negative is that for some reason the star rating within the app is no longer properly updating to my iTunes library. I rate all my music using the 5 star rating, and began using Cesium when Apple pulled (temporarily) it from iTunes and the iPhone music app. Although Apple brought it back, it is much quicker to rate via the Cesium/C’s Music app. What I recently discovered was that my iTunes library on my MacBook was not updating with all those ratings made via C’s music. After some troubleshooting, I discovered that any ratings made within C’s music will update my iPhone music app only temporarily and will not make it’s way into my iTunes/iCloud library. I will sit at my MacBook and see this happen in real time: if I make a rating using the iPhone music app, those would update immediately onto my MacBook iTunes library. If I make a rating using C’s Music, I would then switch over to the iPhone music app and see the new rating there, but it will not show up on my MacBook. Sometime later those C’s Music ratings will disappear..Version: 5.0.10

Cesium 5 - Perfect!!!I originally went with Cesium because it was the closest thing I could find to the old Apple Music app before it went belly up with everything I didn’t want in a music app. I loved Cesium and especially enjoyed and got used to some of the added features; especially the queue management. As time went on, and Apple continued to make changes to how iOS handled music, I could see it was a real balancing act for the developer to try to balance app stability along with keeping features that users were accustomed to having, but at the same time features which were making the app unstable. The developer tried to balance it as long as he could, but in the end chose to have a stable app at the cost of losing some features. Although I enjoyed the old queue management and will miss it, I am thrilled and will gladly exchange it for an app that is now totally stable, not “buggy” and is lightning quick. Many thanks to the developer who truly loves his app and is working diligently to make it the very best it can be..Version: 5.0

Just What I’ve Been Looking ForI’ll try to keep it simple, since there is so much one can say about an app that contains so much power and flexibility within such a simple and elegant interface. It does all the basics very well, but for me it’s a few of the deeper features that make all the difference. The three things I value most in Cesium are: 1) The ability to specify a genre (or genres) to sort by composer - a wonderful approach for viewing classical music; 2) The ability to view detailed info about songs, such as composer(s) and comments - one tap tells me who wrote the song I’m listening to; and 3) The ability to tag multiple genres in iTunes that sort out in Cesium as separate genres - artists or albums or songs can at last appear in two or more genres. No other app I’ve seen has even one of these features. Now that I am using Cesium, I am inspired to go back to my desktop iTunes library and tweak my tagging knowing it will enhance my listening enjoyment on my iPhone. What a great job - well done!.Version: 4.0.1

Best Replacement for the basic Music App I Could Ask ForI originally downloaded this app because I didn’t like how the normal music app looked after Apple Music got introduced. One of my favorite options, view all music by artist, had been removed. So I found this app to be my replacement and I’ve loved it since. It has all the features I want in a music app and it has a good UI too. Hands down my favorite part though is the developer support. This dev really knows what to work on first and is really good about communicating how the app is coming along. I have no clue what’s being changed about half my apps when I update them because they stopped including anything besides “Make sure to keep us updated and thanks for using our app!” Which doesn’t tell me at all if I should care whether or not there’s an update. This developer puts all the notes in the updates and I always get excited when there is an update since I’ll know exactly how the app is coming along and what is changing. 5/5.Version: 3.9.3

Love this app so much!!Been using this app for a couple years now. The developer is so dedicated and puts so much into making it great. I love that I can use a widget for the app to give star ratings to songs while I’m on the go that I can sync with my iTunes on my computer when I get home. I love being able to customize the colors of the background and the controls. And I love that I can once again click an artist name and see the list of their albums instead of a cluster mess of songs to have to scroll through like the more recent versions of apple’s stock music app. Cesium is basically just a “skin” for the stock music app, so anything you do with that automatically works backs and forth on Cesium. You can even play a song in the stock app and the switch over to Cesium and take it from there. Cesium is just a drastically improved and customizable user interface for the stock music app. So it works seamlessly with iTunes because it’s really just controlling the stock app..Version: 5.1

Apple Music Should Hire This Developer!This is the music player I’ve been looking for since Apple destroyed their stock player in iOS 10. Cesium is a beautiful player and has even more features than Apple ever had. Simple interface, with plenty of customization options. I can see my album artwork again! It also gives you the view to see metadata on each song that Apple never exposes. I love the option for disabling auto-lock when you want to have the album artwork on display at all times. This works well with the gestures built in to the app that let you skip, re-play and pause. Playlist folders are displayed the way you organize them in iTunes; other players don’t display that way. Landscape mode was a nice surprise too. I’m not much of a streaming music user but it can also play your Apple Music. However, if you have a lot of local music you’ve carefully collected over the years, this is a must have app..Version: 4.0.1

Music App for Those Who Liked iTunes 1.0Look, I have no problem saying I don’t want a new version of iTunes every week. I can’t stand the incessant fiddling that programmers feel is their right with all your favorite apps and programs...Yes, I’m not ashamed to say I’m old enough to remember them being called PROGRAMS!!! I could program the Apple ][e, and it JUST WORKED!!! So I don’t appreciate a new “updated” iTunes every three seconds, and it has a million problems every time. Never can they just fix all the problems, and leave it alone. That’s all I want. So HERE is an app that Steve Wozniak would have designed. It’s user friendly and it has good solid programming, like in the olden days...when computers started with a crank!!! Use this iPhone program application like you might put a record on an old Victrola or a wax cylinder on your Edison, and let it just WORK. This app does what Apple forgot was their best quality. It just works. Keep it up, CS!!.Version: 6.1.1

Good, but used to be greatFirst started using this app two years ago and loved it. There have always been some glitches but they’ve been rather minor. After upgrading to iOS 11 the glitches have gotten more major. The most annoying glitch is the app controls will randomly freeze - music will still be playing but you can’t control anything. The only way I’ve been able to fix it is to force close the app and then reopen it. A couple of times I’ve had to restart my phone. Super annoying. The other really odd thing the app does is if I haven’t been playing music for a while, say a few hours, whatever song I play next will restart at some point in time during its playback. It’s only the first song, and it’s only once. After that playback resumes as normal. Even with those glitches Cs is far and away better than iOS’s music app..Version: 4.1.3

Best library player on the iPhoneFirst off, this is an app that shouldn’t be needed, but does because a developer took the initiative to fix a problem that Apple created to promote Apple Music: the native Music app is a shadow of its former self when it comes to playing through the music library you’ve been investing time and money in for years. I went looking for an alternative to the native app and found this labor of love by a small developer who loves music and misses the glory days of the music/iPod app. The app for the most part looks and feels familiar and provides a great way to navigate your library and a great music player. The developer works hard to keep this updated and when there’s a bug (as with the current version) he communicates it clearly. He’s reachable by email and Reddit which is something that can’t be said for most apps. So download it and try it out, and send him some money to show your love..Version: 3.9.3

Name change...I don’t rate or review much, but I just gotta day something. While this is a really like music player with some features I do really like (you can change the icon color, and album art pictures for the artists was the whole reason I bought this) there are some things I don’t (no EQ at all) but it’s more now that it kinda changed. First, I liked the old name a lot. Cesium just sounded really good... Not that I hate “Cs Music Player” as a name, I just really hate looking at just “Cs” beneath the icon on the home screen. It’s a bummer... And it made me look for a different music player that might have features like an EQ. But I paid for this, and it still looks good internally. But the recent update with the name change introduced some crashes and bugs. So this was not a progressive good thing, and that’s why I’m leaving a review..Version: 5.0.6

Great App for Classical MusicCesium gives the user control over the metadata in their library in a deeper way than the other apps I’ve used and researched, and it’s amazing to finally be able to access the metadata of all the music I’ve purchased over the last 20 years. ‘Classical Mode’ is my favorite feature, as it allows users to organize a given genre by Composer. For users with large digital collections of classical music who have been ignored by mainstream music apps, this app is for you! I have one suggestion that would help users access their metadata even more effectively: the option to sort by Groupings instead of Albums. Currently, the app allows you to ‘randomize groupings’, so the ability to harness this metadata is already built-in. The organization process is currently structured as: Genre>Composer>Album>Song. I suggest an option be given to structure the organization like this: Genre>Composer>Grouping>Album>Song. For example: This would be useful for Classical Music libraries where the user wants to see multiple recordings of ‘Swan Lake’. The current organization requires the user to hunt and peck through album titles to find ‘Swan Lake’, if it is not in an album title. Other than that minor feature request, thanks for a great app!.Version: 5.0.10

Best Music app so farAfter trying 30 or so music apps, I decided (based on the many positive reviews) to make a blind purchase. I’m glad that I did. The program actually does live up to the hype. There is however one bug, which I hope will be addressed. Let’s say that you are adding several albums by (to give an example) The Beatles. If some albums are listed as “The Beatles” while others are listed as “Beatles”. It’s understandable to have two separate listings. Unfortunately, after correcting the metadata, we get to separate listings for the same group. In other words, instead of the app showing “The Beatles” and “Beatles” ... after making corrections, it’s two separate headings of “Beatles” and “Beatles” (rather than the corrected metadata residing within the same heading). The big aside, this is a great app and I have no regrets..Version: 5.1

Cesium is what a music app should beI have been on Cesium now for about six months and am extremely pleased. I have over 4,000 songs on my iPhone 7+. The main reason I bought Cesium was to be able to control my music by "Artist" instead of "Album Artist" (which seems to be the only way Apple supports). Album Artist is typically something like "Various artists" when you have a compilation album like "Best of the 60s". On Apple if you try to scroll by artist for songs by Cream they will not show up if they all come from a compilation album. As many other Cesium reviews have pointed out, the interface is simple and efficient. Try shifting between artist, album and song on Cesium Vs Apple. Enough said... I love this app enough that I just gave the author the largest tip his app allows. I hope other users support him as well..Version: 5.0.5

Amazing app! Much nicer than the Music appI’m constantly frustrated by the default Music app. There are lots of little things that just get in my way and annoy me (such as how the main screen shows your most recently added albums, so I end up seeing the same few albums for months at a time). This app lets you reorganize the main screen with favorites, pinned songs, and most recently PLAYED instead of recently ADDED. I’m still exploring all the options this app has, but it’s so far ahead of the built-in Music app that I can’t believe I only just now found it. Totally worth the few bucks. (Also, I can’t tell if I love or hate the fact that it can tell you the total time you’ve spent listening to a particular song ha ha).Version: 6.4.8

Much better than Apple; needs optimizationsEver since Apple ruined their much beloved music app in recent iOS releases, I’ve been searching for something to replace it. I heard about Cesium but never tried it; I finally made the purchase yesterday. It’s much better than Apple’s music app. Square album thumbnails (so sick of this round/circle photo fad), less white space between album and song entries make this a great design, close to the original Apple app. Lots of customizations. HOWEVER: the app stops responding to button presses.. like hesitation. If you keep hitting the next song button or pausing/playing frequently I’ve found that the app pauses (music doesn’t stop). Try pressing the repeat button over and over.. after several presses it gets stuck. If the dev can resolve this then it would be an A+++ app..Version: 3.9.4

If you don’t have or want Apple MusicIt’s great. You have to keep the original Music app for it to work, but just hide it in a folder. Instead of having radio take up a third of the bottom bar, it’s just artists, albums, songs and more (essentially setting). You only see the important things, none of apples filler. All your artists have a picture too, just an album, but better than a gray placeholder.. Also it’s much easier to arrange what’s playing up next or later. Just swipe left on a song and it’s one of two choices, up next or later. No need to scroll past delete this song or any of the other options. (Seriously why does Apple prioritize deleting your music over playing a song next) Anyways I’m really happy with this app..Version: 4.0.8

Go ahead and get it_-_-_-Review Pros: Cesium is exactly the type of app I wanted since I don't use Apple Music service. I play my own local music, and this allows me to do that easily without all the extra steps the built-in Music app forces me to do to avoid all the streaming and service options. The playlists and playcounts from iTunes are all honored, and there are even options for controlling the queue that are nice to add. Cons: The app does leave music playing when quit, which the developer claims is by design. I'd like it to stop music when quitting, but it's easily remedied by the use of the music controls found when swiping the screen up. In a similar vein the app frequently gets out of sync with the play/pause button in the interface, forcing you to use those same music controls to get music playing again when the app won't. The documentation is out of date, showing screenshots which aren't from the current version. It claims the app will shuffle albums, but the steps aren't possible in the current UI. Overall, a strong contender to completely replace the built-in Music app, just needs some fine-tuning. Well worth the $1.99 price tag, especially when considering it's a one-man (or very small) shop..Version: 4.0.8

The Best Music PlayerI’ve tried a lot of different Music Player apps out on the market and I can honestly say this is the best one. What really stands out to me is all the control that is implemented over your music. My favorite component about this app is the ability to go down a shuffled queue and quickly pick what will play next. However, it’s not yet perfect though I believe it’s on its way. The biggest issue is stability. Lots of freezing and overall slowness sometimes. I believe if the developer made this app independent from the stock app that it would run much smoother. Also if you could find it in your heart to throw in a cross fader functionality at some point that would be amazing. Other then that though this app is still the best out there and I praise it everyday!.Version: 4.0.10

Great! Issues to be fixed soonAbsolutely amazing! I’ve used Cesium as a replacement for the gross-looking and difficult-to-navigate Apple Music app on iOS for about a year, and it has been great. The interface is much cleaner and easier to use; it is very easy to organize everything as I want, and it is extremely customizable. I would compare Apple’s Music app to Apple OS Mountain Lion and Cesium to any Linux distribution; they both kind of get the job done, but one is much more efficient and easily editable. I have had MANY issues recently with delays and the mini-player, but the developer just mentioned that iOS 11 problema will be fixed soon and are on Apple’s end. I trust they will be fixed very soon. Looking forward to more Cesium updates and an iPad version!.Version: 4.0

Solid iOS music library appAs 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)..Version: 6.3.4

Nice while it lastedThis 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..Version: 6.4.3

Like the App, update still needs some workBesides 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..Version: 6.2.1

Was a Good alternative to bad Music app; new version takes a step backwardIt's still a better app for playing music on an iPhone or iPad than Apple's Music app. I’m especially pleased that the developer has modified Cesium to take advantage of the larger screens of iPads. Most of my tracks were ripped from my large classical CD collection, with a lot of time and effort spent on making track titles complete and correct. I can see this info properly in Cesium. Update: what the heck happened to Playlist view? Before the latest update: the default view showed a proper list of playlists, not silly tiles with part of the title missing, which is the way Music app handles them (what are they thinking?). If you want to get back a SANE playlist view, pay attention to the list setting under the Playlists title, which offers the options of List or Grid. Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to kill the big clunky album art tile and title at he top of every playlist that takes up a third of my iPhone screen (portrait orientation). It takes up half the screen in landscape mode. Big waste of space! I’d love to be able to change that view to eliminate the image tile..Version: 6.1

Works with podcast playlistsI have an extensive and organized podcast setup which syncs well with my iPod, but as those are now phased out (thanks for killing those Apple !), I am grudgingly migrating it all to the iPad, only to discover Apple doesn't want you to do it that way (thanks again Apple ! ... seriously, I'm getting sick of their heavy handedness) ... Anyway, Cesium DOES allow podcast playlists to sync to iPad. (thanks Cesium... REALLY 😎) Tech podcasts are hugely important for my professional development, and being able to listen to them on commutes is very important to me. And I live in a part of the world where constant connectivity isn't feasible. Anyway, let's me keep staying in the Apple abusive relationship a little longer, I guess..Version: 4.0.8

Good UI, annoying bugsThis 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!.Version: 6.4.2

My preferred player, but still some work to doVersion 4.01: Finally an iPad-respecting implementation! I don’t like to use iPhone-only apps on my iPad, as I prefer to use landscape mode. Thank you. I’m learning to get around in this version, and one thing that should be easier is shuffling the songs in a genre. If I select the Rock genre, I see a list of albums, so I tap Show All Songs. Then I have to view the info for a song and finally tap the Shuffle icon. I would like to see a Shuffle All Songs option at the top of the Genre page, as on the main unfiltered Songs page (and at the top of all song listings, actually). I also await a fix for the play/pause delay problem. I’ll update this review as things change..Version: 4.0.1

Great app, new update doesn’t look greatI love the CS music player, it’s been my go-to for years now. But, I’m sorry to say that I’m not impressed with the look of the now playing screen in the latest update. One thing that kept me using it instead of the Apple app was the full screen artwork and the really great landscape view. This new version totally ruined the landscape view with the focus being on the player controls instead of the cover art. And the regular view now has a smaller version of the cover art with a thin border around it. It looks outdated or like it’s a glitch in the software. Sorry to say that i like the look of the Apple player better now, even though it’s an inferior app. I will keep using CS in hopes that a future update brings back the stellar look that it once had..Version: 6.1

Well designed but critically flawedThis 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..Version: 6.4.3

Great concept, but some annoyancesI’m not a long-time user like many of the people who seem disappointed with the latest update. The UI *is* a little unpolished, but for me, it does the job simply and well, giving me access to my library and navigation on the bottom of the screen without the Apple Music nonsense in the default app. The main annoyance I’ve found is the delay when skipping forward or backward—it takes a solid half a second, and this is on a pretty new phone. There also doesn’t seem to be a way to see the play queue. Other than that, it does what it says on the tin, so it’s definitely an echelon above the default music player..Version: 6.1

Has PotentialI gave up on Cesium and went back to the Apple Music app. Cesium is feature rich but I sometimes found it confusing and non-intuitive. Sometime in ios 11.x I started experiencing more and more odd behavior with the app. The resume queue prompt was always confusing and of late choosing yes or no sometimes gave unexpected results. In shuffle song mode of my 3000+ songs It seemed like I was always hearing the same songs being played. When I went back to Apple Music I began hearing songs from my library that I haven’t heard for months. Then there’s the occasional crashes and slow operation when using Bluetooth in my car. I think the app still has future potential and its developer does a good job of providing updates on a timely basis..Version: 4.0.8

Amazing app!I've been using the app for a long time now as a replacement to the poor recent design choices of the built in music app. The interface in this one is much cleaner while offering most of the features I'd ever want in a music app. I really like how it is based on the older music app while still having room for customization from the color, to tab positions, to the function of some buttons, the layout of the Now Playing screen, and even the app icon. I recommend this player to anyone who uses music locally or purchases them on iTunes because this is a much better way to interact with it than the built-in app..Version: 4.0

IPod Touch 7th Generation: odd issue with skipping time stamps in some songsFirst of all, I love this app. I got it lost year as I often listen to songs with lyrics up while constantly rewinding and fast forwarding by dragging the music bar. However, as of this update, it only seems some songs work properly like this. On some songs it simply doesn’t seem to work. It happens on enough songs it’s becoming a problem. My iPod is fully updated. If I can’t easily listen to my music in a way that has been possible for over a year... I need to downvote. Will rate 5 stars when fixed!.Version: 6.0

First ImpressionSo far tho app feels like the FIX that I’m searching for, but I’ll have to experiment a bit more before I can tell. My goal stems from the fact that my old iPod was a masterpiece in its industry, sadly with the discontinuation of the device it seems Apple decided to throw away what was good about its software too. First focus is being able to successfully shuffle an entire playlist to its completion without even 1 song repeated through its duration. iPod Classic could do this with no problems. What I like to see is the shuffle by artist and by albums... and so on in this app. That was a really nice feature in the old iPod. One thing I noticed, however, is that this app cannot shuffle the Playlist Folders themselves (a feature I used to death on my iPod. I like having full access to my music. The only other thing is that I cannot see the list of songs to see how they’re shuffled. I just want to confirm that it’s shuffled the whole playlist. As I experiment with this app I may write a follow up review..Version: 5.0.9

GUI like the old iOS Music appCesium is a near-perfect app. The user interface closely resembles the old iOS Music app before Apple changed it, with one important and positive difference: When you close (not minimize) Cesium, your music continues to play. This allows you to close Cesium and switch to another music player app without interrupting music playback. Some of the other music player apps which are available today pause the music when you close (not minimize) the app. When you open another music player app, you can continue the song at the point where it was paused. The iOS Music app (the built-in app) fades out and *stops* the song when you close (not minimize) the app. Now there is “No song playing” so when you open another music player app you *cannot* continue playing the song at the point where is was stopped. This makes the iOS Music app (the built-in app) not my favorite thing. Do not uninstall the iOS Music app (the built-in app) because Cesium requires it to be present on your device..Version: 3.9.4

Understanding but disappointedRecently, the app was updated to account for API’s Apple no longer supports, which meant several features had to be cut - notably queue management. While the app remains beautiful and is more stable than before, I simply can’t give a higher rating to something now lacking a feature I used so frequently, and that remains in the base Music app. It’s near daily that I’m either working out or am on the aux with friends, and want to be able to queue up a playlist and then at the very least view the next few songs set to play and be able to remove songs from that list. It’s very disappointing to see this feature be totally gone now. Will happily return my rating to five stars if it ever comes back..Version: 5.0

Still great but I miss some thingsThis is a great alternative to the UI for the default Apple Music app for iOS. I find it a real PIA to move up and down what amounts to a strictly tree view of my music. With Cs you can directly access artists, albums, playlist and songs lists directly. For me, this makes playing what I want when I want it much easier. I’ve been using it for years and it used to be called Cesium. Two things I miss are: 1. Stay where I put you, please. When I leave app and come back later, I want to go right back to the screen where I left off. It used to do that. Now, it seems refresh back to the default “artists” screen like social media apps annoyingly refresh. 2. The app used to allow direct manipulation of the music queue. Now it will let you add to the queue, but if you want to change the queue (ie re-order it) you have to go to the Music (Apple) app. I still use it daily and like it, though. I gave it 5 stars, and it really isn’t that. But I’d say 4 stars..Version: 5.1.6

Albums, no! Lyrics, Yes…I'm so happy this app allows me to see artists' songs without first looking at albums because truly albums mean nothing to me. On the default iOS app I'm obliged to tap in and out of albums to play different tracks, with Cs Music player an artist's tracks can be shown and played without the useless intermediary step of looking at albums. This was possible in the default music app in iOS 6 and before. I'm also glad the app shows lyrics, on top of the cover art just like in iOS 6. Beyond that there are some other subtle features, like being able to see the info: year, track number, length, etc..Version: 5.0.10

Shuffle ProblemsI’m back to loving this app. It seems that the shuffle mode got changed to “albums” somewhere along the line. I had to search for the setting, so I’m sure I didn’t do it (I didn’t even know it existed). It must have happened during an update. In any case, things are working fine again! Previous post: I’m very frustrated. When you swipe right on an artist’s name and select “shuffle,” it shuffles the ALBUMS, not the songs. So, if you want to listen randomly to all songs by a particular artist, you can’t. That’s new behavior, I believe, and has caused me to quit using what was once a powerful and reliable app..Version: 4.1.4

Almost thereGreat overall music player. Much better than the Apple stock player. Two things holds this back from a 5 star review. 1) search function doesn’t work. The search button disappears and I can’t search. 2) playing queue is inconsistent. Sometimes it remembers where I left off listening and sometimes not. I have to go to the Apple Music app to remind it where I left off. Clarification: the search tab doesn’t disappear. I can type a search but nothing comes up. The keyboard at the bottom can’t be hidden and I can’t switch back to another tab. I have to close the app, restart ios, or delete the app to play music again..Version: 5.0.6

It’s goodThis is a pretty good app. It does what it says it does. I have been using it for a couple of weeks and am generally happy with it. What prevents me from giving it 5 stars is the lack of ability to download songs from within this app. You must go to the apple music app to do this. And also not being able to show only downloaded songs/ albums/ playlists. This would be very helpful when i’m travelling and have to watch my data.Version: 6.3.4

Shame on AppleThank you for saving us from the terrible, terrible built-in music app in iOS 10+. There are still a lot of us out there who believe in having a local, non-streamed music collection!.Version: 6.0

This is a good App (application)Are you an old fool who gets laughed at by the pretty folks who mock and deride you and draw a bright impassible line in the sand that says “here is an old fool that insists on storing MP3s locally, he is out of touch and his grave awaits a fool”? Yes? Then this is for you. It’s like iTunes before streaming. Which to me is like saying it’s like TV before you had to get hit in the head with a shovel every time you try to turn it on. Also, the in app purchase is a discretely buried option to support the developer with a voluntary donation. It works very well!.Version: 5.1.1

Best music appBest music app.Version: 4.3.1

Great AppThe best app for you to have a classic style mp3 on your iPhone. I’ve been using it for a year and a half now and haven’t looked back! I love album artwork and I love for the song viewer how it uses the maximum space on your phone unlike the Apple Music app! Similarly, the only thing I would improve is being able to change the size of the album covers on the alphabetical list albums list. Getting to toggle between small medium large would be great! I really like how you have the ability to customize your settings in this app!.Version: 4.3

What music player should be likeThis is what Apple’s built in music player should be, instead of the confusing mess it is..Version: 5.0.1

Quit apple music + (Vancouver April 9 2024')All those Canadian Francophone Singles of the Week for (0.00$ CND) back when Jobs was alive...suddenly came back to me, thru this device and yeah i had the McIntosh (sp) player but more love was put into this app. Yes i cut the cord music all my Francophone FREE singles of the week came back to me McIntosh software became irrelevant but C's Music just became indespenzable 🇨🇦.Version: 6.4.14

Help with playing mp3s stored in files pleaseReviews state you can play mp3s stored locally on your iphone i can't figure out how please help.Version: 6.4.14

I love this appIs it possible to convert folder in iTunes Windows into playlist?.Version: 6.4.4

For album listenersYou 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..Version: 6.4.4

Best music appAs 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..Version: 6.4.3

Trashed my music librarySomehow, after giving this music library permissions, a single song went missing from most of the albums on my iPad..Version: 6.4.2

Simply the BestI’ve been using Cs as my go to music player and it has replaced the Apple Music app on my Home screen for 5 years and counting. It is perfect for playing your local library with all the sorting and playing options you could want. For me, it is sorting albums (and thus songs) by artist in release date ascending. If you do have an iTunes/Apple Music library it will happily display and play that too, if you want. It is a nicely polished and enjoyable app. Highly recommended..Version: 6.4.1

Missing the highlightI love this app, but a few weeks ago I noticed the song playing is not highlighted anymore and it makes hard to find in my list when am scrolling fast. If could bring it back I would be happy.Version: 6.4.1

Great classic music app.I love the app, but what happened to the swop gesture to switch between local and cloud music? That was the handiest feature ever..Version: 6.3.4

Revising my evaluationRevising evaluation as I was complaining about missing features of swiping to add to next up play list and it’s back with latest version... The main feature I now miss the edit next up play list feature; I can understand why it was removed a long time ago, but I still miss it... a way to clear the next up playlist other than adding a song (and all the following songs) would be nice as I often do not resume play of the next up list after a pause as now feeling for another mood of music. Having to go to apple’s music app to do so is a drag... Other than that, app rocks as it easily beats apple’s too focussed on streaming music app in usability and beauty..Version: 6.1

ShufflingYou mean to tell me I don’t have the ability to shuffle a playlist or albums ?? Only songs ?.Version: 6.3.3

Better than Apple’s stock appIt’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..Version: 6.2.1

Great app - the best I could find after manyHas more features and a more committed to perfection developer than any other I could find..Version: 6.0

Normally 5 stars; last 2 releases broken.Apple ruined their basic iOS music player app when they used it as a gateway to sell their streams and music downloads at the expense of a streamlined user experience to simply let you play music files you have on your device. Cesium came along and fixed that. But these last 2 release versions freeze and crash just about any time I load up a track to listen to..Version: 6.0

Good music app with some missing featuresPlease add the ability to add music files from the Files app if possible! And the ability to browse the Files app from within the app. And copy music files to the app via the share function. Would love to see these improvements, thank you! Keep up the good work..Version: 5.1.5

The developer deserves a medalI opened the app for the first time and let out a sigh of relief. I could easily sort by albums/artists/songs/etc on the bottom tab with the click of a button. Sorcery. I literally forgot how much music I owned because the native music app has become so terrible and useless that's it's been years since I opened it. I'm currently enjoying my old favourites, my heart is full, my shoulders unburdened, and I'll definitely be tipping. Thank you!.Version: 5.1.6

Just what I neededAll the navigability and ease of use of the original iOS Music app, with none of the forced social media nonsense, bloated online content, or clutter of the present day Music app that hides the most basic features under several layers of indirection. Cesium is instant relief for anyone who misses the simplicity and clean design of the old iOS Music app..Version: 5.1.6

👌🏻PLEASE FIX THE SEARCH TAB! 🙏🏻 It is literally taking 30 second for the search to finish and sometimes it freezes. This is the only thing that would make the app 5star. Please developer update! It is such an excellent app!.Version: 5.0.10

Excellent alternative to MusicDoes everything required to navigate my music library and play tunes without Apple Music notifications and cloud file references that only clog up the interface..Version: 5.1.4

Far better than the rest and that includes AppleJust try it. If you are not loving it you can ask for a refund through Apple..Version: 5.1

Nice appBut it needs Equalizer.Version: 5.0.11

SolidMike—why does music keep playing even when i close the app?.Version: 5.0.4

Thanks for the horizontal volume bar!!Finally it’s here, the horizontal volume bar, been waiting for this and really appreciate it. Overall, beautiful design as always!.Version: 5.0.10

Great music player without the garbageFar better than the stock Apple Music player if all you want to do is play locally saved music. There’s no streaming radio stuff or iTunes constantly trying to cram its ads in your face..Version: 5.0.6

This is greatAs a window into iTunes music, CsMusic is so much cleaner and more straightforward. Well worth the price..Version: 5.0.6

Cs Music Player is greatThis app is the perfect alternative to Apple’s clunky and unintuitive music app. It behaves very similarly to the music app of yesteryear; straightforward and to the point (with some added benefits!). I use Cs Music Player literally every day, and have been for the last 3-4 years (when it was called Cesium). It also can’t be understated how fantastic the developer is at communicating updates and development ups and downs with the app’s users. He is very transparent and always keeps us in the loop. The support is second-to-none. You won’t regret this purchase..Version: 5.0.6

One of the best Music Players on iOS!At first the app was a bit sluggish, but I believe Apple opened up some sort of settings or APIs and allowed developers to utilize it properly. This developer didn’t hesitate and now the app runs like butter. Apple Music support, amazing UI, customizations, settings. This app absolutely destroys the Apple Music app. Can recommend to EVERYONE. Would recommend to EVERYONE..Version: 5.0.6

Better than Default LayerNice simple layout with decent amount of options. So far so good only complaint is I would like the sorting inside a playlist to be more comprehensive when showing all songs. I can’t sort by album inside a playlist without using a collection which is a bummer. Will rate 5 stars when fixed..Version: 4.3

SolidThanks to the dev for explaining where to enable rating stars - I use Cesium to quickly rate my library. 🙌.Version: 5.0.3

I love this app. The stock music app is a joke and Cesium has all the features I love.Sort features alone make this my favorite ios app. Can't recommend it more!!! Carplay support would be a dream!.Version: 4.2.2

Way way way better than Apple appThis is incomparably better than the Apple standard music app, which seems to get worse every time they update it. If you are as frustrated with it as I am, try Cesium instead. I have had no problems with it freezing or hanging as some have reported..Version: 4.1.5

Works okMuch nicer interface than stock music app. I use it when I need landscape mode. However, I cannot use it as a replacement for the stock music app because it is much slower, the artwork and song name appear wrong very often and the app crashes occasionally..Version: 4.2.2

FantasticExactly what I was looking for!!! A music lover! and I love this app!!! Could you please add an option to toggle swiping left/right when adding to playlists/up next?.Version: 4.1.5

Great Playlist optionsThis app is full of things that Apple never integrated in their native music app, which is sometimes frustrating. But this app is a saviour! You may take it without fear, you’ll discover how Apple is sleeping on his application compared to this one. (Even though Apple did put some new stuff recently they are still behind this one) Great work dev..Version: 4.1.5

Lags a lotPretty good music player but even after a lot of updates, still got glitches since always. Kindly update it once and for all. Thanks.Version: 4.1.2

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