TuTuneMe™ (Music Player)

Great with the ability to change songs, volume etc with gestures and a display that can be customized to you preferences. A landscape orientation that acts just like the portrait orientation, "what a great idea". Keeps my eyes on the road or trail if I am driving or running. Just a couple of quirks. I have to open the built in music app first to "update the library" or the songs you just added may not be there. The use of a bluetooth headset/headphones that have the ability to change songs or volume will interfere with the gesture recongition. The only way I have found around it is to remove and reinstall the app, then remember to reset the repeats and interfaces to my likings.

I was looking for a music player I could easily advance/rewind in increments to be able to jump around in recordings. This app let me set up a horizontal two finger swipe to advance/rewind 10 seconds, and a vertical two finger swipe to advance/rewind 30 seconds. I can now easily move around in my recordings.

Okay, as of June 2010 this is the best I've found. Here's why: 1. It's pretty customizable. It's the only app I've been able to adapt to my specific needs. 2. I listen in the car. Although there are a number of car-oriented apps, they are generally playlist/artist oriented. 3. I don't use playlists; I think in terms of Albums and Artists. I want to be able to select an album (or an artist and then an album) safely and easily while driving. This app permits that. 4. I was able to assign an up-swipe to the album list. Perfect. I then pick an album, and the rest of the swipes operate against that album. Now we're cooking. 5. All other features are at least as good as those in other apps. Most are better. Being able to resize the album art, for example, is just good thinking. Lots more of that for your money. 6. Although I don't need the social media integration, some might find it useful. I don't know why I'd expect the world to care what song I'm listening to. But if that's your pleasure, it's in the app. 7. The multiple toolbars are an excellent idea, and can be customized/turned off as needed. This organized the interface nicely. Well-considered UI design is the make or break of an app; these guys are on-track. So, overall, I believe this is the one I'll be using going forward. 10 bucks, 12 other apps and lots of research precede this decision. Hope the above will help you.

I looked at tons of different apps trying to find one that looked good and allowed me to play my music in landscape mode. This app is simply the best at doing that. Opus worked fairly good but was extremely ugly and doesn't default in gesture mode. I love how it automatically doesn't lock when it's charging and how you can lock it in landscape mode. Searching for artist or albums works great in landscape mode but when you search by song it automatically goes to portrait mode. Not a big deal since I hardly ever search music that way. Also very customizable with lots of themes. Definately the best alternative I've found to the default music player.

When i first got my iPhone I was wishing for an interface that was easier to use. This comes Soooo close, but it's just not quite there. Some things I'd like to see in a future update. -- Allow me to set the default panel at the bottom of the screen. I'm not going to use the control panel day-to-day so let me set it to the scrubber, volume or whatever. -- Allow me to set a gesture for going forward or backward in the timeline. While listening to a podcast, the iPod app gives you a small button for jumping back 30 seconds in the timeline. That button doesn't exist in Tutuneme and there isn't a way to set a gesture for the same functionality. I'd rather be able to do an actual scrub of the timeline - forward or back - with a gesture. -- I don't know why, but it lists every episode of every podcast into one big list instead of grouping them together like the iPod app does. If you listen to a lot of podcasts, like I do, that list is a bit overwhelming and difficult to navigate. My advice, don't buy this until they've either lowered the cost to $.99 or added these features.