YouTube has proved to be a mighty popular way to listen to music. Wait a minute, isn’t YouTube just for videos? Well, it turns out there are a ton of songs and albums available to for you to listen to free of charge. And these are not all pirated copies. The most popular musicians and publishers have YouTube channels and upload their own content to promote their work. Yet, the YouTube app isn’t how you want to listen to these songs. For one thing, it requires your screen to be on and doesn’t keep running if you close the app. This is why you want Musi. Musi solves this problem by streaming only audio from YouTube videos. It also presents content as a music player. So you’ll be able to search for songs, preview them, and add them to your own custom playlists. Musi offers song shuffling, repeats, and even continues to play when you exit the app. Sometimes music videos have intros and outros that you want to skip, Musi lets you trim your songs to cut out those extras. With all these feature, Musi is a great way to search for and listen to new music.

Musi is just one of our favorite music apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

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Here are a couple of our other picks of the best music apps for iPhone and iPad:

Discovr Music – Explore a visual network of music on your iPhone and iPad

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LiveTunes – The Best Concert Simulation App

There is something about a live music set that spruces up a musician's catalog. The energy of a live crowd can bring a stale song to life again. If your music library is getting a bit predictable, LiveTunes is just the app you need. LiveTunes is an iPhone music player ...