Despite the fact that the iPhone already boasts an exceptionally good music player - dubbed the iPod app – and there is hardly any need for another music-centric app for the popular smartphone, the Ecoute app still appears to be quite an attractive option for the excessively music-inclined users.

Priced at $2, the Ecoute app for the iPhone features a notably more pleasurable and user-friendly design than the Apple iPod app. With a distinct ‘visual’ advantage over the iPod app, the Ecoute app superbly uses album art for facilitating the users – particularly the ones who have a big library - in finding what you are looking for.

In addition, the Ecoute team has paid special attention to, and tediously worked at, the gesture-based controls of the app. Though these controls are somewhat difficult to discover initially, the users will steadily find that they are very well-integrated.

One more appealing feature, which the users might just miss out during their first look at the Ecoute app, is the ability to change the items which their want to see in the top menu. This is possible by simply holding down one of the icons, and altering the top menu when the option to change shows up.

Another noteworthy attraction of the Ecoute app vis-à-vis the iPod app is that Last. fm support is integrated with the app, as is the option of using a #nowplaying hashtag for sending the current track to Twitter.