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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When he was eight, Eli Milchman came home from frolicking in the Veld one day and was given an Atari 400. Since then, his fascination with technology has made him an intrepid early adopter of whatever charming new contraption crosses his path. He calls San Francisco home, where he works as a journalist and photographer. Eli has contributed to the pages of Wired.com and BIKE Magazine, among others. Hang with him on Twitter.
