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How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Post by piva00 »

pier25 wrote: post #16
missjellyfish wrote: post #15

I like how they fail to mention that the Apple Music App on Windows is hot garbage riddled with bugs. A few weeks ago they broke reordering of upcoming songs, the "play next" feature and I don't know what else. I have submitted bug reports with exact steps, reproducible on at least two accounts on five different conmputers. Haven't heared back, doubt I'll ever will. Anyone can recommend a streaming service that isn't…

The Apple Music app on macOS is also hot garage.

It's incredible how bad it is both for macOS and even on iOS.

I know people like to criticise Spotify's UX/UI but whenever I'm using Apple Music on my partner's devices (she has AM, I'm on Spotify) it's a quite marked difference in snappiness of the UI, Apple Music for some reason has the same weird loading behaviour that the App Store suffers from (and sometimes even fucking System Settings on macOS goes through), and I can't understand how Apple can drop the ball that much in their own platforms...

Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Post by Terretta »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #13

As long as I can still move pictures from wife's phone. Still, this is such an annoying change. As in, Itunes on PC always sucked, but it did not occur to me that Apple would want to actively make it worse. edit: This reminds me. Wasn't there a FOSS project that has most of Itunes functionality?

They didn't make it worse. If you don't want to change, don't install the replacement apps.

Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Post by whynotmaybe »

missjellyfish wrote: post #15

I like how they fail to mention that the Apple Music App on Windows is hot garbage riddled with bugs. A few weeks ago they broke reordering of upcoming songs, the "play next" feature and I don't know what else. I have submitted bug reports with exact steps, reproducible on at least two accounts on five different conmputers. Haven't heared back, doubt I'll ever will. Anyone can recommend a streaming service that isn't…

Deezer

I can't exactly recommend it because I haven't used it since 15 years and it surely must have evolved since.

Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Post by chrisjj »

Manfred wrote: post #14
eudoraexplora wrote: post #11

I like how Apple's page starts with "When iTunes was originally released, it had everything you needed to be entertained. Now, there are individual apps for all your media" - yes, exactly! That's the problem!

What is exactly the problem with individual apps in your opinion? This not a weird jab, I'm actually curious.

What's the problem with using one app for all audio files?

I don't see why a user should be forced to use different apps depending on the type of the audio content.

Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Post by asystole »

nailer wrote: post #3

I recently tried Apple Music and then gave up because it didn’t support podcasts and the podcast apps that exist in the Apple ecosystem aren’t as good as Spotify

IMO podcasts have nothing to do with music, and the fact that people expect one app to do both is entirely Spotify's fault!

Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Post by the_snooze »

gempir wrote: post #10
basisword wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> the podcast apps that exist in the Apple ecosystem aren’t as good as Spotify Do you mean Spotify is better because it's all in one? Or specifically as a podcast client it's better? Because, as a podcast client, Spotify is shockingly bad. Perhaps the worst podcast client available. Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Pocketcasts are all much, much better.

I hate Spotify Podcasts with a passion. The UI is lackluster, since it's just the same one from the normal Spotify Music experience. Because they bought Joe Rogan they had to add video too and video is horribly implemented. There isn't even an obvious way to turn it off. I consider myself tech-savy but I gave up trying to turn off and just switched to Apple Podcasts. Podcasts and Music are not the same. Please if you…

Spotify podcasts were what made me jump ship to Apple Music. At least back then, Spotify would heavily prioritize their podcasts in the UI. Podcasts were front and center on the main screen. I don't just mean the desktop or mobile UI, but in Apple CarPlay and Android Auto too, where screen space and attention are at a premium. I had to keep fighting the UI to get to what I was paying Spotify for: the music. When I tried out Apple Music and saw that it was music only, it was easy to leave Spotify because their priorities were no longer aligned with mine.

Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Post by aniforprez »

pier25 wrote: post #16
missjellyfish wrote: post #15

I like how they fail to mention that the Apple Music App on Windows is hot garbage riddled with bugs. A few weeks ago they broke reordering of upcoming songs, the "play next" feature and I don't know what else. I have submitted bug reports with exact steps, reproducible on at least two accounts on five different conmputers. Haven't heared back, doubt I'll ever will. Anyone can recommend a streaming service that isn't…

The Apple Music app on macOS is also hot garage.

Apple TV is also somehow hot garbage

I don't understand. These are "just" media players and all split up to do one thing each. How do they all do that one thing so miserably. TV hangs for multiple seconds every single time I download or delete episodes of TV shows and the player is so incredibly bad and doesn't save your progress properly

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