Excellent

Longing for the simple and efficient usability of the original iPod from 2001, I found this wonderful app doing a web search for *music app alternatives for iOS*.

Whereas Apple’s own music app has become a nightmare to use, Ecoute brings back a clean, hassle-free solution to picking music. With Ecoute, listening to music has become an enjoyable experience again.

It’s great that it allows to switch to list view and has a light user interface theme so I can switch to night mode with the triple-click-home-button Accessibility shortcut set to invert colors.

In a future release I’d like to see the alphabet headers removed from the genre list view. It makes sense to display long lists sectioned into the letters of the alphabet, but most genre titles are unique in their first character. With a list of 15 genres too much clutter is added by those alphabet headers.

The playlist list view only displays an *A* header although names start also with other letters. Again, I don’t need to see alphabet headers in a list of only 20 playlists.

A very useful feature would be to add an *all items* entry to the start of each list. So in the genre list an *All Genres* button at the top would allow to see all artists across all genres in the next view. Again, in the artists list view, the topmost entry would be *All Artists*. Tapping that would show all albums across all artists.

Lastly, I would welcome a preference setting to sort albums by year instead of by name.

nickname_prototype_3823823 about Ecoute, v2.4.3