This app looks really nice, but what was so bad about the native music app? Third party apps that try to replace a native iOS app are usually unable to replace all of the built-in functionality. For example, will this app show the album art on the lock screen?
One complaint:
When browsing artists, why don't you move though the Artist -> Albums -> Songs hierarchy? If I have an artist with 10 albums, selecting that artist just gives me an alphabetical list of all their songs across all 10 albums. This is lame when you want to start an album from the top and listen through.<p>(Yes, I'm aware that you can navigate by album name, but who remembers all your album's names?)
Big buttons are better, but this still replicates an incredibly annoying UI paradigm that kills me: << > >> or Back, Play [Pause], Forward<p>Whether it's an audiobook or music, I'm hitting the play and pause buttons all the time. I don't have particularly thick fingers, but my genius self still manages to accidentally hit the Back or Forward button's instead of Play or Pause about 2 times out of 10. In an audiobook, loosing your place and finding it again is a killer, especially if the book is split into very long segments of audio.<p>Minor nitpick on a device with such large buttons, but I just find that idea annoying. Could be just me and my obviously adroit digits though :p
The screenshots on this page are next to useless for evaluating the app. I appreciate there is a video but it seems they're missing a trick.<p>The app's App Store page on the the other hand is much more pleasant.