A black button-pop-down menu comes up, which either lets you play or shuffle the files in the respective category (which basically means playing back all tracks) or rearranging them. In Ecoute for iOS, you can rearrange the order of the filter icons by tapping and holding one. You need to go into “More” and choose them (besides your four favorite ones permanently displayed in the bar) there. This is a significant change when you compare Ecoute to the native app, where you need to customize the bar to get access to you favorite filter options. The bar can be scrolled horizontally, making all filter options available with one single tap. These filter options are available through the top navigation bar. It fetches all the tracks and information from your synced music library in the system music player, from genres, artist, or albums to playlists and even podcasts. Ecoute is designed in a single-screen layout, different from the iPod music player. The navigation concept of the app is a good starting point from here I will move on to the design decisions concerning gestures and artwork integration. Except for some flaws in terms of navigation, Ecoute measures up to all these requirements. I basically want three things in a mobile music player: easy navigation, intelligent gesture integration for flawless in-app movement, and a focus on album artwork. But when I opened up Ecoute on my iPod for the first time, I immediately knew that this was exactly what I’ve been searching for.
For me this is not really a problem - I like the semi-skeuomorphic design of the iPad music player very much and was never seriously thinking about replacing it. Although the app is promoted as “Ecoute for iOS”, there is no iPad version available yet. But Ecoute for Mac was the first app which really made me think about switching my desktop music player. I’m still an iTunes guy, because I need a reliable solution for managing my over-1100-record digital music collection.
It is a minimalist, easy to use iTunes replacement with iconic UI and many cool hotkey and playback features. Yesterday, Pixiapps released Ecoute for iOS.Įcoute for Mac has been the app Pixiapps focused on during the last years. I tried out many alternatives like GoodMusic, but no app was able to satisfy both my design and usability needs on my iPod touch. But since Apple is a company that believes in radical minimalism and coherence throughout its ecosystem, this never happened and also won’t likely happen in the future. During my research, I found many innovative modifications of the iOS table view, and I often wished that Apple will integrate some of them into their system apps, especially their music player. Since I started to write about UI design and iOS apps again 5 months ago, I became more and more disappointed with the native music player on my iPod touch.
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