The author needs iTunes Match. For some reason doesn't want anyone knowing about this service but it's the only way to sync your own music in Music.app. Of course, he could have just used Files.
Only works on Windows or MacOS right?
Setting the bozo bit on Apple
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#132Yeah, Apple's Music app has been fucked up for years. You can drag songs into some views and not others.
If you drag songs into a new playlist they get added then removed and put into "recently added" or the general library where you have to drag them into the playlist again.
Occasionally viewing the newly added playlist will hang when doing the second step.
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#133It’s really sad that the “profile in your pocket” model from the early iPod days never caught on.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
You missed my point entirely - the EU capitulated to Apple. They mandated what Apple was going to do anyway. Great job!
Apple never said they were switching the iPhone to USB-C, unless I missed something. Do you have a source for that?
Here is an ars article to back up the claim that they will switch to usb-c. Some devices like ipads use usb-c already.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-confirms-it-wi...
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#135I like this concept of a "bozo bit" and have to agree, the arbitrary difficulty of making Apple software do things slightly outside the happy path can border on insanity, like that "Malcom in the Middle" Fixing the Lightbulb clip/GIF that goes around from time to time. I would like to extend this concept. I do not, in fact, have the bozo bit set for my Linux desktop setup. I do, however, have the "fields of broken gl…
I think contrasting with Linux is indeed interesting. Apple deserves also more flak for this because they so long were running with lines like "it just works" (old favorite of Jobs), and using "quality" as marketing point; throwing stones in glass houses I say. At least on Linux it feels more acknowledged that stuff is complicated and occasionally break, instead of living in some weird kafkaesque experience where you are not sure if you are just imagining things or is everything broken.
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#136My biggest issue right now is that the iOS Music app has been almost completely hobbled by Apple Music (the service). I just want an app I can use to play my existing media files, but it’s always pushing you to subscribe to the service. Especially annoying is that they have hidden the previously free access to streaming terrestrial radio stations (not the same thing as the Apple Radio subscription). You can only acce…
After years of just ... avoiding the issue of why I can't play my local mp3s and flacs with my iPhone, I finally broke down this year and searched for a decent app for this, and the answer is an app called Doppler. It's not free, but it's not very expensive, and the developer is very responsive. Recommended.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple never really wanted to have the concept of files seep into iOS.
Which in hindsight seems extremely naïve. Files are just too damn useful a concept. Their main rival, databases, have a bunch of peculiarities that limit their generality. When people want to share information any longer than a paragraph or two, they send a file. You can’t beat files!
Of course ultimately the distinction between files/filesystems and databases is not that clearcut; I'd argue that in many ways filesystems are just databases promoted at kernel level.
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#138As annoying as some of this stuff is, i've found Android/Windows/Linux to be as broken in this regard. The last time I tried transferring photos/videos from my Android to a PC, it transferred at ~5-10MBps over a USB 3 connection because of limitations with MTP. So these phones can record in 4K@60FPS, have 256/512GB of storage but 5-10MBps transfer speeds.. and there is no easy way to get around this limit.. Any sort…
> Why invest in syncing when they could charge you for cloud storage instead?
Bingo. I started seeing this everywhere I looked and it made me furious. Everything, in small ways, seems to sabotage the user trying to control their things. Eventually, and at scale, they win. It's fatiguing to constantly be fighting these toys.
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#139> iTunes used to be if not the, then certainly a flagship app for Apple. I have used iTunes off and on for around two decades and it has never been a great or even mediocre experience. It was always bad. The author is fondly remembering a time which might never have existed.
I have used iTunes — consistently — for around two decades, and while I agree that iTunes was mediocre, Music app is soooooo much worse. It's total crap. Embarrassingly bad. I would happily trade Music app to get iTunes back again.
What's funny is that when they announced iTunes was going away, people cheered because they hated the kitchen sink approach that iTunes had become.
I think a lot of the Music.app issues stem from it being what looks like a SwiftUI/Catalyst app more than anything else.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
You missed my point entirely - the EU capitulated to Apple. They mandated what Apple was going to do anyway. Great job!
Apple never said they were switching the iPhone to USB-C, unless I missed something. Do you have a source for that?
In 2014 Apple said they would use the Lightning adapter for at least 10 years. Meanwhile they've adopted USB-C across their product line. Apple famously never announces future product plans but I think it's pretty easy to read the tea leaves with regards to what they were going to do.