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Apple Music is the last library focused music service

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Post by tshaddox »

kall wrote: post #186
tshaddox wrote: post #161

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Oh, that’s super interesting! I see the setting and I’ll check if it solves my issue (it sounds like it does). I wonder if this setting got introduced or changed in the last year or two, because I don’t remember having the problem before that.

This setting is going to change your life (maybe hyperbole...). It's one of the things that makes me really appreciate Apple Music. With this setting, and an interface that can group playlists by album and filter them by artist, you can get as many additional "virtual libraries" as you want, kinda like Twitter lists. Remember you can also put playlists themselves into folders and create dynamic playlists. You can ass…

Yeah, this is great, although it’s going to be a big effort to go clean out my library from all this time I had the setting wrong!

How do you view a playlist organized by artist or album? Does that require Marvis Pro?

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Post by MonaroVXR »

standardUser wrote: post #103
andrewla wrote: post #16

Google Play Music was extremely album-focused, but their move over to YouTube Music has basically scrapped that. GPM even let you modify the metadata for albums; I had used this to strip out things like "(2020 Remaster Special Gold Edition)" from album names, and to cut "bonus" tracks off of albums (nothing as fun as playing an album and then getting a two hour long spoken word interview with Quincy Jones), and final…

Google Play was ideal because I could upload any of my own music and it was part of my library, accessible anywhere in the world. Does any service like that still exist? I'm stuck with Spotify, which lacks dozens and dozens of albums that are important to me, and it won't let me upload them myself.

>Does any service like that still exist?

https://www.ibroadcast.com/home/

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Post by oxplot »

I salute all companies/services that have made managing music a thing of the past (Apple is up there as the catalyst back in early 2000s). For next to nothing, I can listen to any song ever recorded without having to worry about where to keep them, back them up, etc.

I used to have a 3K song collection in FLAC which I had curated and spent a gazzilion $$$ on. I `rm -Rf`ed it in a heartbeat when Apple introduced lossless streaming.

I have learnt that maintaining a music library (even on a cloud service) is an absolute, utter waste of time. YMMV.

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Post by piva00 »

peatmoss wrote: post #150

Apple is also the only service to get gapless playback right, near as I can tell. Since adding lossless (I care less about "high-res" or "spatial"), they are far and away my favorite. EDIT: In case anyone is wondering why gapless playback is important, the entire genre of classical music pretty much demands it. Also, anyone who listens to popular music where one track seamlessly leads into another will know how frust…

I get proper gapless playback in Spotify and have had it for years. To be honest I can't remember a time it didn't work. I listen to quite a lot of classical music and avant-garde music where albums are basically one song divided in multiple tracks, they work seamlessly.

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Post by dangravell »

standardUser wrote: post #103
andrewla wrote: post #16

Google Play Music was extremely album-focused, but their move over to YouTube Music has basically scrapped that. GPM even let you modify the metadata for albums; I had used this to strip out things like "(2020 Remaster Special Gold Edition)" from album names, and to cut "bonus" tracks off of albums (nothing as fun as playing an album and then getting a two hour long spoken word interview with Quincy Jones), and final…

Google Play was ideal because I could upload any of my own music and it was part of my library, accessible anywhere in the world. Does any service like that still exist? I'm stuck with Spotify, which lacks dozens and dozens of albums that are important to me, and it won't let me upload them myself.

I operate a service that does this: https://asti.ga/

Happy to answer any questions.

I also wrote up some other example services a while back:

- https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0... (these integrate storage)

- https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0... (these are bring-your-own storage)

Re: Apple Music is the last library focused music service

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Post by kall »

tshaddox wrote: post #221
kall wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This setting is going to change your life (maybe hyperbole...). It's one of the things that makes me really appreciate Apple Music. With this setting, and an interface that can group playlists by album and filter them by artist, you can get as many additional "virtual libraries" as you want, kinda like Twitter lists. Remember you can also put playlists themselves into folders and create dynamic playlists. You can ass…

Yeah, this is great, although it’s going to be a big effort to go clean out my library from all this time I had the setting wrong! How do you view a playlist organized by artist or album? Does that require Marvis Pro?

It‘s possible in the mac Music app. On iOS, it requires an app like that. Before I knew about Marvis, I had build out a system to navigate album playlist via Shortcuts.

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Post by dangravell »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #171
rsync wrote: post #162

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Yes, it's the title - but not the filename. WAV/PCM files don't have metadata. There is no id3/tag data. They do not have a "title" nor do they have anything else. That's a problem if your music library predates iTunes and iDevices.

Your WAV files don't have metadata, but WAV absolutely supports metadata. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV > WAV files can be tagged with metadata in the INFO chunk. In addition, WAV files can embed any kind of metadata, including but not limited to Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) data[25] or ID3 tags[26] in extra chunks. That aside: why are you using WAV when there are mature, open lossless compression formats l…

This. Funny how "WAVs don't have metadata" has become such a meme. What is really meant is "software doesn't support WAV metadata". This has changed over the past five years or so, though.

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Post by erdaltoprak »

miiiiiike wrote: post #223

Apple Music is close to perfect. When you find the right Apple Music 1 show and show playlist for you it’s incredible. I wish there was an API so I could write a DJ bot that would allow my Discord to queue and play tracks in an audio channel.

Hi,

Maybe this MusicKit web api could help your Discord bot project!

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickitjs

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Post by seba_dos1 »

peatmoss wrote: post #219
rozab wrote: post #167

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Alas, it still fails to loop Nonagon Infinity seamlessly

Hadn’t heard of that, and I also didn’t know that CDs could reference back to a previous track that way. Also interesting music… cheers!

They can't, it's the music that loops if you play it back with no gaps, which not all CD players will be able to do (it needs to be buffered because of seeking latency). Easy to achieve with local playback from files though.
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