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Apple Music is the music as a service subscription that keeps pushing adverts in app and keeps turning itself back on even if you're not subscribed and have turned it off.
> This article explains how students do not follow the same organization paradigm based on folders and local file management. This could be, in part, attributed to the new ways young students learn, which is on online first operating systems or tablets, where by default, the local system is hidden and also where everything is done through applications. For me it was because I realized that the time I spent doing this…
I prefer to buy, not rent music. Bandcamp is good for it and they sell FLAC. This is also fitting comparison to cassettes library a lot more than Apple Music where it's not your library, but Apple's. Other stores like 7digital are also good.
The combination of the iTunes Store, Apple Music, and iTunes Match is the most expansive music service offering I can think of.
> This article explains how students do not follow the same organization paradigm based on folders and local file management. This could be, in part, attributed to the new ways young students learn, which is on online first operating systems or tablets, where by default, the local system is hidden and also where everything is done through applications. For me it was because I realized that the time I spent doing this…
The buildings internet was out, and not a single one of them realized you could save a file (while connected to cellular data) and then connect to wifi and print it.
They had only ever been taught to print directly from apps.
Sometimes it does mean they're less informed and skilled.
The more I use a streaming music service like Spotify, the more new music I find, but the shorter my musical memory becomes.
This is why you remember something more if you write it down - you get not just the memory of a fact but also the tactile experience of holding a pencil, feeling the paper, of an aching wrist…
Passively streaming someone else’s (or an algorithm’s) choice of music in the background is probably the worst possible way to build music memory because you don’t even have the association of choosing or even reading the track title.
Ritual serves a purpose.
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 finally to reorganize my classical music so that the artist was the composer and the orchestra/performer name was just munged into the album title (obviously deeper nesting would have been better, but this worked well).
Now with YTM even browsing by artist is nearly impossible, and when you do, it doesn't display the albums by that artist that you've added to your collection, it just displays everything, so there's no real way to avoid seeing 20 copies of the same album remastered at different times mixed in with "pop rock of the 90s" collections. It's just dreadful.
All I want is a music service that lets me access an unlimited virtual store and bring whatever content I want and organize it recursively by tags (i.e. when I navigate to "artist" it presents me with the ability to narrow my search by "composer" or "album" or whatever). I stick with YTM mostly because it came with free ad-free YouTube. There is no public API to talk to the service, though, so I can't even build my own frontend (although there are numerous hacks, most of which involve checking your plaintext password into a git repository, which of course means compromising your gmail account which is essentially the end of the world).
Is there a library-focused video streaming service?
- Custom Artists / Producer / Lyrics description
- Custom rules to ignore songs on random selection
- Custom rules to select equalizer per song
- Folder based navigation
- Smart Folder based playlists
- Uploading your music to the cloud and streaming them as any other song
Nails my reasoning for having stuck to it all this time as well. way easier to include my own (un-published) music, mixtapes/etc that never made it to streaming but that I have mp3s for, album art that I want to swap out, etc.
I do fear that these might all be incidental features and they eventually re-orient to mimic Spotify's approach more closely.
The product referred to as "Apple Music" isn't library focused. The app now known as Music and the service known as "iTunes Match" is. Apple Music is the music as a service subscription that keeps pushing adverts in app and keeps turning itself back on even if you're not subscribed and have turned it off.
iTunes Match, which the author mentions, is responsible for exactly 1 of the features listed:
> Uploading your music to the cloud and streaming them as any other song
Everything else is part of Apple Music, the streaming service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Music
The more I use a streaming music service like Spotify, the more new music I find, but the shorter my musical memory becomes.
If you consistently like/heart songs as you go along, put your Liked Songs list on shuffle sometime - you'll find great old gems!