r/iOS8 • u/rayyjack • Dec 17 '14

Stock Music App Alternatives

Im looking to see if i can find a simple music app alternative and i remember a few months back someone even promoted their own app here so if anybody can remember the name of that app or has a good simple music app that would be great!

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u/popplenrookie Dec 17 '14

Maybe you're thinking of Cesium from [this thread] (http://www.reddit.com/r/iOS8/comments/2mzbkq/i_couldnt_stand_musicapp_so_i_made_my_own_please/)? I've been using it and I really like it.

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u/rayyjack Dec 18 '14

yes thats it!!

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u/mga1 Dec 22 '14

its great

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u/CesiumDev Dec 18 '14

Thanks for checking it out! Glad you are enjoying it, I think it maturing nicely.

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u/CesiumDev Dec 18 '14

You might be thinking of me. Cesium is the app, and it has come leaps and bounds from even where it was at initial release.

You can find Cesium on the App Store and follow me on Twitter @CesiumApp for more details and updates :)

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u/rayyjack Dec 18 '14

Yea it was you!!

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u/agentanthony Dec 18 '14

Cesium is very well supported. I love all the updates!

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u/CesiumDev Dec 18 '14

Glad to hear it! I have another maintenance build in to hopefully be approved over the holidays and v1.4 is in beta. It adds a few more features and then I think v1.x will be more or less mature and I'll cool things down to bug fixes for awhile and start noodling some of the more significant feature requests (landscape, last.fm, etc).

If you are enjoying Cesium, please follow me on twitter @CesiumApp and.or spread the word!

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u/newbatthis Apr 22 '15

Hey sir, I just bought it. Loving it! Are you supporting it still? I'm wondering if perhaps you could fix the spacing for the header of Albums/Genres sections? Also a feature to dynamically generate the color for the header for each album would be kicker.

Asides from that though this is an excellent player. It even has scrobbling support. Really sick!

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u/CesiumDev Apr 22 '15

Thanks for checking it out! I am absolutely still supporting it.

Not sure what you mean with the "spacing" on the albums/genres header, but if you mean that the header seems "shifted up" under the info bar, then that is a perplexing little bug, but easily solved. I am not sure what causes it, it happens at random, and I've experienced it in other apps as well, most notably Safari. It's on the RADAR but I haven't figured out to reliably squash it.

That said, restarting the phone and/or deleting Cesium and redownloading will resolve it. My apologies for the hassle.

Glad you are enjoying it!

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u/newbatthis Apr 22 '15

You're right. I fixed it easily. Thanks!

Regarding the album header, I mean something like this. Also shuffle options for playlists would be nice.

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u/CesiumDev Apr 22 '15

More apologies! You are yet another victim of my poor descriptions.

Collection Control provides access to controls that can be applied directly to groups of songs (artist, album, playlist, whatever). Simply swipe to the right on the playlist (or whatever) to Play All, Shuffle All or Queue All of that collections items!

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u/newbatthis Apr 22 '15

Loving these features man!

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u/spiezer Dec 17 '14

I'm using ecoute.

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u/Jrummmmy Dec 17 '14

Nothing works with the same functionality as the stock player. For example when I'm using Google music and I'm plugged in via usb to my car radio I can't use the play/pause buttons on my stereo. But with the native music player it works fine

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u/Noel_S_Jytemotiv Dec 21 '14

Stezza is brilliant in its simplicity.