I guess it's 'pretty' – Ecoute Review

I've been using this player for a month or two now and when it's not being just a little bit frustrating, it downright doesn't work. Like, does not play music work. Deal breaker -will sometimes not play music. I've tried restarting the app, I've tried restarting the phone, neither of which helped at all. Not what I want to deal with when I'm in a rush and just want to listen to some music, yikes. Gripes: -you have to swipe in an oddly specific way to trigger skipping through titles/artists/etc by alphabet. I still haven't gotten the hang of it, and again, it's been two months. I am usually great at that sort of thing, so I have to imagine it's the app -no way to play all music by an artist without queueing all of it. Why do we have to tap 4 or 8 times with what should just be a single tap? -the filters tab (how you switch from sorting your music by artists/albums/etc) is way up in the top left corner. Also takes two taps to switch, which isn't the biggest issue, but why have something be two taps when you've got a ton of unused space in your interface? Ideal solution? Take a look at Apple Music's old design. Have them on the bottom. Move it up a tad while music is playing Not ideal but better? Move the filters button to the bottom left or right. -same issue with the shuffle button for all music. Haven't used it but it looks annoying to hit every time -shuffling while you're in the actual song page player takes two taps and moving on the screen. 100% would prefer tapping an icon multiple times None of the gripes are the worst thing on their own. I would probably give a 4 star review if it was a great player with 1 to 3 of those things. But all together, it's way more trouble than it's worth I switched to Ecoute because the new Apple Music update was driving me insane. Guess I'm switching back because I guess the people at Ecoute don't really understand UX.
Review by lara1bee on Ecoute.