Cs: Music Player
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $2.99 | Mike Clay | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
"...back to local music with [Cs] and I have never been happier."
– Nilay Patel, Editor-in-Chief, The Verge
• Works with your iTunes Library automatically
• Classic design with rearrangeable tabs, full-width album artwork and landscape mode
• Powerful sorting and display options
• View track details, metadata & tagged lyrics
• Personalize your look with custom themes
Cs requires Music.app be installed.
Reviews
Very nice app except for one (minor) thing...
Jones369
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.
Great app, way older version was simpler and better
Daffodil322
Thanks Mike for working so hard on this app! If I was stuck using the built in app for music I simply wouldn’t listen. I found this and will never look back! I have an iPhone 12 mini, and I just updated to 6.2 because whatever version I had before would no longer play songs without freezing. This new version works, but the individual lines of text under genre or artist are very spaced out, meaning I can only see 5-6 titles at a time. I would really appreciate it if there was a way to increase the information on one screen and decrease the wasted open space. A few other requests: I can’t find a way anymore to turn off the placeholders for album art when looking at the contents of that album (I prefer text only for everything), within the now playing strip at the bottom it is hard to see progress through the song, and since I tend to browse by genre the most I would love to swap out genre for songs or playlists in the bottom row on the app. Also, I think I found a minor bug in dealing with blank album titles. I have a few artists with incomplete id3 tags missing all album titles, yet the app still lists everything by the invisible/missing album information rather than reverting to listing all songs instead. I can work around this, but thought other users might get confused if they have incomplete song information. Don’t let my recommendations for changes fool you, I still love this app, I just liked it a bit better when it was sleeker and simpler and was easier to tweak to my information dense and text only preferences.
A most excellent music player
Lamikeith
For simply playing music on your phone, this app works well. For allowing me to sort groups, albums, artists, and songs the way I prefer, one "unbelievable tip" for the tip jar. Keep up the good work.
Best Music App!
Madisonius
I’ve been using this for years. I bought & tipped happily. Just please keep the star ratings on the Now Playing screen!!
Good app, small things missing
iPod user 2234
Really good app, been enjoying the shakeup from classic Music.app on my iPhone, the only thing I wish this has was Last.fm scrobbling support. This is a built in feature in Spotify and I'm able to get this on my Mac with a third party app that constantly runs (a small price to pay). Hope to see the development continue!
Best music player
Troxartas
If you’re in anyway annoyed up with the default music player, get this app ! Makes listening to all my music a much better experience
A lot to love, increasingly more things not to love
Rai El Grande
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.
Like the App, update still needs some work
asebasti
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.
Not what I expected
?️?Zhärlas?️?
This app does not work with Apple Music search integration, and it’s only practical if you add a lot of songs to your library. The app itself is mostly well-designed, although I definitely should have read more into this before purchasing. I don’t prefer it over the original music app but I do like the metadata feature, rating feature, and the ability to see every song in my library in an alphabetical list.
