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Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by frankjr »

I cancelled my subscription after the player regularly stopped emitting sound - the player would show it's playing a song and increment the progress bar but no sound was coming out. I have never had the same problem with any other player. Oh and sometimes any song would just keep buffering until I restarted the app.

As far as the slowness goes, I attribute that to the fact that the app is not native, it's just some sort of Electron-like mess. Then again so is Spotify (I think?) and it feels much snappier.

Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by drawkbox »

I like Apple Music because it integrates well with the Apple line.

More importantly though it is one of the highest paying per stream to artists [1]. Streaming needs to be much more lucrative for artists and consumer choice helps that.

It is nice to be able to buy the music as well if you want to support. Being part of Apple One is huge as well.

The latest music streaming royalty rates are as follows.

    PLATFORM     ROYALTY (PER STREAM) STREAMS TO MAKE $1

    Tidal Music        $0.01284       78

    Apple Music        $0.008         125

    Amazon Music       $0.00402       249

    Spotify            $0.00318       314

    YouTube Music      $0.002         500

    Pandora            $0.00133       752

    Deezer             $0.0011        909
I have lots of mp3/stored music as well and Spotify client started taking like 20-30 minutes to start up. Wasn't sure what it was doing...

Some of their patents for tracking are a bit dystopian as well.

New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music

> The streaming platform is interested in extracting data points like emotional state, gender, age, and accent to hone its recommendations [2].

Nah. Apple already has my info and reasonably treats it well eventhough it is too much, I don't need another service to invade privacy.

[1] https://producerhive.com/music-marketing-tips/streaming-roya...

[2] https://pitchfork.com/news/new-spotify-patent-involves-monit...

Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by plonk »

I've never seen a search box that couldn't actually handle input before, but Apple Music made it.

If I click in the search box and start typing, the box will lose focus at some random time and all my next keystrokes will count as play commands, usually pausing the music. If I come back to the search box, it happens again.

I know "text boxes" are cutting-edge technology that's barely 3 seconds old and developers are still learning to program them safely. Still, I expected more from a trillion-dollar company.

Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by plonk »

edhelas wrote: post #3

Using a RPi with a 1Tb SSD connected to it. MPD + various clients on all my devices, including the wonderful https://github.com/jcorporation/myMPD Lightweight, all free-software, can handle a massive audio-database, all synchronized. What else do we need ?

If I bought every song I've listened to over the past 5 years, I would have paid thousands.

Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by plonk »

drawkbox wrote: post #4

I like Apple Music because it integrates well with the Apple line. More importantly though it is one of the highest paying per stream to artists [1]. Streaming needs to be much more lucrative for artists and consumer choice helps that. It is nice to be able to buy the music as well if you want to support. Being part of Apple One is huge as well. The latest music streaming royalty rates are as follows. PLATFORM ROYALT…

> I like Apple Music because it integrates well with the Apple line.

Is there a need to integrate with anything? All I need is to play music. Spotify is as integrated into macOS and iOS as Apple Music.

> More importantly though it is one of the highest paying per stream to artists [1]. Streaming needs to be much more lucrative for artists and consumer choice helps that.

Too bad they are shooting themselves in the foot by neglecting user experience.

Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

frankjr wrote: post #2

I cancelled my subscription after the player regularly stopped emitting sound - the player would show it's playing a song and increment the progress bar but no sound was coming out. I have never had the same problem with any other player. Oh and sometimes any song would just keep buffering until I restarted the app. As far as the slowness goes, I attribute that to the fact that the app is not native, it's just some s…

Apple Music on Mac shifted from web views to native sometime in the last eighteen months, I think.

Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by brohoolio »

I had a bunch of random stability issues with Music, they mostly went away when I deleted and reinstalled the App. Still not what I would expect out of Apple for one of their main apps.

About half the time when I use it on the desktop I have to force quit Music. I have no idea how a non-technical person would use something so buggy.

Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by pdimitar »

plonk wrote: post #6
edhelas wrote: post #3

Using a RPi with a 1Tb SSD connected to it. MPD + various clients on all my devices, including the wonderful https://github.com/jcorporation/myMPD Lightweight, all free-software, can handle a massive audio-database, all synchronized. What else do we need ?

If I bought every song I've listened to over the past 5 years, I would have paid thousands.

Then pirate them.
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