Let’s face it — for a multi-purpose device heavily weighted toward music, the iPhone’s music-player interface is crap. Dealing with those tiny buttons crammed onto the bottom of the screen is bad enough under most conditions, worse for meaty-fingered users and infuriating when the iPhone is docked or when movement is involved.
Enter Quick-Tunes, a $1 app that replaces the iPhones native chintzy soft controls with a big, meaty, attractive buttons. It also adds cool additional functions around the main play/pause button that let the user play more songs from the same artist, genre or album.
There are a few other minor additional features like a 30-minute sleep timer, but it’s Quick-Tunes well-designed interface that make the app really shine; the app is particularly useful while driving where the massive buttons make for quick, easy targets — superior even to many car stereos.
The only downside is the lack of a music library search-feature, a failure common to many (if not all) third-party players. Still, well worth the dollar investment for music-lovers who frequently dock or drive.
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