Picky Music Player

I was searching for an app like this since 8.4 release. Apple totally ruined stock music app with all this useless links for radio, likes, e.t.c. All tabs like "artists" and "songs" were gone, but with this app they are actually back! You can easily navigate your music library with this tabs. Song grouping is in iOS 6 style with a button "play all" for a single artist. Swipe now-playing screen up and see current album track list. This ability was also gone with 8.4. Perfect app! If you are not going to use Apple music service, this app with iOS 6 functionality in iOS 7(8) looking is best choice for you.

Feb 2021 update: updated to 5 star. I have rediscovered Picky after some time away. Not sure when search was added in a prior update, but I missed seeing it at the time . This app is fantastic for navigating a large music library of entire albums and one hit wonders. Its my go to app to find and play all the music I own. Easy to use and does exactly what I need. Well done. ***** Original comments: This app has one killer key feature i have never found elsewhere (filter artists by number of songs); however it lacks search capability which limits its usefulness for most day to day use where one wants to find specific songs among thousands in the collection (especially if you dont renember exact artist or song title). This app has one particular key feature for old school guys like me who want to find and play entire albums or CD’s in their music collection, but you want to scan the collection to decide what to listen to: It offers the digital equivalent of scanning through the milk crate of albums or shelf of CD’s: by filtering artists by the number of songs, I can separate the entire CD’s I have ripped from the thousands of one hit wonders in my collection, to find the old favourite that hits my mood from the shortlist.

I have tried in vain to get an app that will shuffle all songs and play them only once during the shuffle play. This product was advertised that it does just that. After an hour or so of play, I hear the same song play again. To me this is unacceptable -as that is the purpose to pay (like I did) for a music shuffle app. Not impressed.

Once you told me that I can access iTunes Match through the settings button in the app, it worked great. Well worth the price to have an alternative to the apple app. Thank you!

This is an excellent music app, it's what the Music app should be, and still isn't. Highly recommended, grab a copy, you won't be disappointed.

The app is great just takes a while to go from song to song

Smooth simple interface. Wish I could use it to create. Name, and save playlists. But great as a player and a quick way to picklist.

I use Picky every day — but then again, I built it, so I'm a bit biased 😉

The app says I need to enable access to my media library through iOS settings, but there's no way to do that without the app first requesting those permissions itself, as far as I can tell.

Not being much of a streaming person due to a limited data plan and a fan of much music unlikely to ever to make it to streaming services, I felt left out in the cold when I upgraded from a device on iOS 6 to an SE running iOS 10. I tried tweaking the stock Music app settings and tried some common replacement apps when that didn't work, but still found myself really missing the simple beauty and organization of the pre-Apple Music iOS Music App. Luckily I found this app, which seems to be everything I loved about the old Music.app plus a bunch of other nice features that seem handy but are happy to stay out of your way when you don't want them. For those of us that a functional, non-gimmicky, and well-polished music app for recent versions of iOS, I highly recommend it.