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Apple Music Web Client

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Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by jakobegger »

ec109685 wrote: post #94
eddieh wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually Apple Music in iTunes is just a web view that leaks like crazy, to the point of making iTunes slow to a crawl, if you're quickly navigating through artists and albums. Not much better than Electron IMO. Apple Music in the browser seems like there isn't much hope of a truly native experience now.

The iMessage app is also just a webview (at least up to 10.14).

Only the bubbles, though. The text input field and the sidebar are standard Cocoa controls (at least that was the case when I last checked).

It's not as bad as a full web app

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Post by Kpourdeilami »

dzonga wrote: post #11

seems they're using Ember.js . Reason I love spotify so much is that it's available on the web, no need to be downloading native apps everywhere. Always bet on the web. also good to see, another web property using Ember. As a react dev, competition is healthy

Apparently even the Apple Music in iTunes tab was written in ember as well: https://twitter.com/geoffreyd/status/616848868391555072?s=21 (from 2015)

IIRC, the old Mac App Store was in ember too

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Post by baby »

I’m really sad about the state of international music on youtube. Asian music is completely absent. Worse, all Chinese alternatives are blocked in the US.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by dmitriid »

mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #100

I’m so sad that most consumers want to pay for things like this or Spotify. I only buy digital albums, almost always from Bandcamp or bespoke band-specific sites, or Amazon if there’s no other choice. Always just a straight download of mp3 or ogg formats, backed up and accessible in cloud storage. I use VLC player on all my devices, and syncing music with the VLC wifi download tool is so extremely easy and simple. I…

Because streaming:

- is available almost anywhere: your phone, your car, your smart waffle maker.

- leads to much better music discovery through curated playlists, “discover weekly”s, radio stations based on songs/artists/genres

- you can instantly share your music and music tastes with friends, leading to even more music discovery

- many more other minor things (like creating playlists for parties etc.)

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Post by s_trumpet »

mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #100

I’m so sad that most consumers want to pay for things like this or Spotify. I only buy digital albums, almost always from Bandcamp or bespoke band-specific sites, or Amazon if there’s no other choice. Always just a straight download of mp3 or ogg formats, backed up and accessible in cloud storage. I use VLC player on all my devices, and syncing music with the VLC wifi download tool is so extremely easy and simple. I…

I would be bankrupt if I bought all the albums I stream now.

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

RandallBrown wrote: post #21

This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago. Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.

> Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify?

I imagine this is more Apple’s doing than Spotify’s, but last I tried I couldn’t put Spotify music on my Apple Watch to use untethered. I run with my Apple Watch, Bluetooth headphones and no phone, and being able to do that is worth choosing Apple Music for me.

Also no Facebook SDK if you care about that, there was the recent article here about how that pings Facebook with identifiers on app launch even if you’re not using any of its functionality yourself.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by reilly3000 »

ec109685 wrote: post #94
eddieh wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually Apple Music in iTunes is just a web view that leaks like crazy, to the point of making iTunes slow to a crawl, if you're quickly navigating through artists and albums. Not much better than Electron IMO. Apple Music in the browser seems like there isn't much hope of a truly native experience now.

The iMessage app is also just a webview (at least up to 10.14).

I get a beach ball All-the-time with Messages lasting 5-10 seconds. I struggle to imagine that anything it’s doing is that computationally intensive.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by Fr0styMatt88 »

It’d be awesome if they did this next with their movie and TV stuff. I have a bunch of stuff purchased on iTunes that I can’t play on my TV (out of HDMI ports and TV stand space and no AirPlay solution for Android that I know of will work due to the DRM).

Really cool they’re starting to open this stuff up at least.

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