Cs Music Pro

• Price: $2.99
• In-app purchases

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.3 1812 ratings · App Store

1. 3/5What Apple Music was and should be. Needs better scrobbler

   Update: app doesn’t work as well as it used to. It might be updates by apple’s fault but daft it is freezes often, crashes, often becomes unresponsive. Sometimes you have to go into the Apple Music app to stop the music playing. Still like the layout but it needs to be more reliable Original review: Good. Still some issues. Has become quite laggy though or just less responsive to finger presses. More so than the Apple player in a noticeable way. Needs better scrobbler. It's not precise when's moving and the hit box for your finger to activate it is way too small. The one thing the new Apple Music player does well is an improved scrobbler. Copy nothing from Apple Music but that scrobbler user experience. The app is What Apple Music was and should be. It's better for large collections. It prioritized usability over eye candy in the cluttered/poor interface Apple Music app. that is probably there for people that don't actually have Music collections. Otherwise they'd want better navigation in the Apple Music app. If you want the old Apple Music player's layout, look, and general function back this is an app you'll like. It's what you've been looking for. And there's other customization like colors, mines all black with blue lettering, night mode style. And other options.

   Mick_Swagger · 31 Jul 2026

2. 4/5Buggy

   I want to like this app, but it's pretty buggy. Sometimes when you press the home button or modify the queue, the song that is currently playing starts over. Sometimes when you add a song to the top of the queue, it doesn't play (it gets removed from the queue). Sometimes when you try to modify the queue, the changes don't get saved. Sometimes it hangs (I'm not talking about the iOS 11.2 lag, this is different) and sometimes it even crashes. It doesn't seem to update song metadata (e.g. 'last played' and play count) in a timely fashion. Songs that have just played still appear in the queue. If you add a long playlist (a couple thousand songs) to the queue, it reduces it to about 500 songs, I have no idea how it selects which songs to play when it does this. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app and get the same results. I'm on iOS 11.3. Update for version 4.3: This app has gotten a lot better since the developer implemented workarounds for the Apple bugs. However, the Apple bugs still make it very difficult to modify the queue. Is there anything we can do to push Apple along? Post something on the feedback site perhaps? Shame on Apple for not fixing these bugs, they've known about them for a long long time.

   tom_993 · 31 Jul 2026

3. 3/5App is still super useful, with room for optimization

   Cesium has been my go-to music app for a few years now and I’ve loved its interface and functionality much more than the ugly and hardly functional Apple Music app. The app has significantly improved since my last review. Previously, it crashed all the time and had barely any functionality. Now Mike restored some original functionality (ratings, queueing, etc.) and Cesium is almost back to its old self. The search has a tendency to crash the app, so that’s sad, since that means I have to defer to using Apple Music’s search and its “play next” feature, which is really annoying. As a wish list item, I wish that I could sort by artist within a playlist, because then I could use the little right sidebar to jump to a letter, since I find myself doing a bunch of scrolling looking for an artist to start off my music listening, which is time-consuming. Also, whenever I queue a song to play next, it will, then another song or two will play, then it’ll play the same exact song that I queued earlier again, which is kinda annoying because then I have to skip it. After that, my songs will play normally. This might only happen when I do multiple “play next” actions in a row, because I haven’t noticed this problem when I only do one “play next” at a time. (I’m using an iPhone 6 with the latest iOS and Cesium update, if that impacts the situation.) Looking forward to the subsequent updates and optimizations though. Keep it up, Mike, you’ve really made one of the best music apps on the market!

   Elixir Walls · 31 Jul 2026

4. 3/5Star rating with app is faulty

   I have used this app for a year or two now, which I prefer over the iPhone music app, primarily for the ability to have favorite playlists listed, greatly reducing the number of taps necessary to start playing. The negative is that for some reason the star rating within the app is no longer properly updating to my iTunes library. I rate all my music using the 5 star rating, and began using Cesium when Apple pulled (temporarily) it from iTunes and the iPhone music app. Although Apple brought it back, it is much quicker to rate via the Cesium/C’s Music app. What I recently discovered was that my iTunes library on my MacBook was not updating with all those ratings made via C’s music. After some troubleshooting, I discovered that any ratings made within C’s music will update my iPhone music app only temporarily and will not make it’s way into my iTunes/iCloud library. I will sit at my MacBook and see this happen in real time: if I make a rating using the iPhone music app, those would update immediately onto my MacBook iTunes library. If I make a rating using C’s Music, I would then switch over to the iPhone music app and see the new rating there, but it will not show up on my MacBook. Sometime later those C’s Music ratings will disappear.

   Desmond W. · 31 Jul 2026

5. 3/5Unfortunately at the mercy of Apple Music

   I wish I was able to test this before buying. I was hoping an alternative music app would fix my biggest issue with Apple Music: songs (or entire playlists if you're not playing an album) restarting from the beginning if you pause them for a certain amount of time or if the app drops out of memory. Not only does this app not fix that problem, it actually makes it worse. In Apple Music, it at least remembers what song you were on if you're playing one album (or, in the most annoying feature ever, goes back to the beginning of the playlist if you're playing any other type of playlist, including if you're playing anything that was added to a standard album playlist with "play last"). With Cesium, after the timeout(?) passes that causes these annoying issues with Apple music, nothing is remembered at all and you need to go back and find exactly what you were playing. For me personally, this is a useless app that I wasted three bucks on, but after doing a tiny bit of research (that I should've done to begin with) I found that the dev was essentially forced to work within the Apple Music framework, causing all kinds of issues that weren't in earlier versions of iOS. It's a very nicely designed app with a lovely UI and some cool additional playlist features so I feel a bit bad piling on who is clearly a good developer that had a great app at one point, but in my case I bought a digital brick. That's Apple's fault, not the dev's, so I'm keeping the score neutral (I'd love to actually use this if Apple after gets their bleep together), but a lite version really should be offered so that people hoping for an alternative to the Apple Music app don't get burned by something that only exacerbates its issues.

   Selurple · 31 Jul 2026

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