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Loved C’s and am really loving this app as well. Far better than Music. Curious about the ability to reverse sort order. Year/Alphabetical as ascending vs descending. Not a deal breaker, still love and will use the app.....just curious if it’s in there and I don’t know how to do it. Show more

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Cs Music player has long been my most used and cherished app on my phone and now the author has released a new app, Song Owl. This has the sleekest, most elegant and functional interface of any music player I’ve seen on the platform- I have a new most cherished app! Show more

I think this is a great start, I am happy to buy this to support the great work you’re doing! Please add iPad support ?

Finally!!! After years of waiting, SongOwl reintroduces a way to sort my library and playlists by random albums. As with another reviewer, I’ve been using Cs Music for some time and really like it. Random album has me sold as my new primary music app. Thanks, Mike! Show more

Really like the app so far! Please add support for compilation albums. Currently, songs on compilation albums are not visible in album artist view, when the field is blank.

As someone with a collection of 22,000+ songs in iTunes, SongOwl has quickly replaced both Music.app and Cs Music Player (from the same developer) for the same reasons I prefer the Column Browser in iTunes - speed and flexibility. I’ve been beta testing SongOwl for a couple months, and the reusable navigation paths and Favorites earned it a spot in my dock. Kudos to Mike Clay for realizing that Cs Music Player fills a niche, yet also finding an outlet in SongOwl for his different approach to music library navigation. Show more

It does what it says- allows you to sort tracks in a lot of different ways, except it seems by album track order. And I can’t get lyrics to show when I press the lyrics button - I have to switch back to the Apple Music player to see them. Show more

Very customizable music player. Can listen to my library exactly the way I want to!!

songowl is natural evolution of Cs Music Player. both of which are massive improvements over apple’s horrendous music app. apple needs to take some UI design lessons from Mike! i’ve been a beta tester for Cs for years and for songowl and there is nothing better out there! Show more

There is nothing different or amazing about this app. I am disappointed. This app should be free if anything.

If you spend about a half an hour getting a feel for what this app can do, you’ll be impressed. I guarantee it. App delivers a very clever way to sort through your music library and your playlists to get you to the music you want to hear quickly. And the paths you take to get there are saved and can be custom-named. I have a path that takes me from a genre to a list of artists to a list of their songs grouped by album. Want to see when the last time was that you played a track by Bon Jovi? Group songs by artist, sort them alphabetically, find Bon Jovi, and sort their songs by last played date. Most recent will be at the top. Reverse the sort order and you’ll probably find a Bon Jovi track you forgot was in your library at the top of the list. Using Sound Owl together with this dev’s outstanding Miximum app, a poor old Windows user like me may finally be able to ditch iTunes for PC to manage my Apple Music library. Five stars, absolutely. Show more

I like being able to group and sort songs. I use the Paths feature for viewing music differently, such as seeing all my favorite albums in one Path and seeing loved songs in another. Show more

Mike has a penchant for knowing what exactly needs to go into a music player app - Cs for the throwback to iOS 9 days, and now SongOwl for the next generation. Some enhancements I can envision for future builds: - Customizable Light/Dark theme (independent from system defaults) - Customizable “Now Playing” background color (the default ivory is easy on the eyes, but can see an option to customize it further) - Refinement and/or customization to Search, adding “Album Artist” as a category Show more

Now Playing doesn't show the album title. Too bad. Otherwise that screen is an upgrade over C's Music.

Simply 1,000,000 times better than the stock music app - this keeps playlists in the proper order and makes it so easy to slice and dice the collection. Highly recommended

SongOwl is a great way to re-discover your music library

I started testing this app in beta several weeks ago, and it very quickly became my all-time favorite music player. Thanks to its customizable navigation tools, I can finally do a bunch of things I've always wanted: group a playlist by album, see all songs by an artist in one list, sort just my classical music by composer, and lots more. On top of that, the user interface is really solid and comfortable, and it's gorgeous to look at (the artwork color scheme matching in Now Playing is lovely and subtle). Before SongOwl, I'd been happily using Cs Music, a fine app from the same developer, and it was a great improvement over the built in music app. But SongOwl pushes the envelope a lot further, and I could never go back. Take a little time to get used to the new navigation possibilities and you might just love it too. Show more