Loosely related, App Store is by far the worst of the top-1000 online stores.
It almost sounds like proper competition would do some good here.
Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
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#12i have used Apple Music for a short time on my mac
the amount of usability issues the app has are phenomenal
i was actually more surprised when it worked rather when it didn’t
not worth my $9.99
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#13I 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 foo…
> Is there a need to integrate with anything?
I do like a more open/api platform and wish Apple was, but Spotify probably won't be for long. Tracking my plays takes more work with everything to closed.
Apple misses some of the obscure stuff but I will always side with the higher payer to artists. I also like just being able to buy albums I like and support artists.
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#14The app performance of Apple Music on MacOS and iOS is an abomination. It's consistently twice as slow as Spotify, from loading playlists to loading search results and playing a song. I would be ashamed if I worked on the Apple Music team. How can a person with any self respect go to work every day and be okay with Apple Music in it's current state?
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#15The one thing that sours the entire experience for me is that songs take like 5-15s to start playing when selecting one that isn't super popular.
This happens on my ipad, mac, android phone.
It feels like some server is spinning up a hard drive to stream it.
Apart from that, why the hell is the title and artist only shown in one line that starts scolling instead of showing multiple lines if it doesn't fit, at least in the album view and the player. It's such a pain listening to classical music when the composer and the performer and section are not visible without playing it and waiting for the line to scroll, like wtf.
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#16How are first party Apple apps so horrible on first party hardware? I don't use Music but I decided to check out Severance (great show) and the TV app was absolutely horrible to use in every way. The player would only stream some really low resolution on my monitor so I tried downloading the episodes and the whole app lagged so badly every time I would queue something up or delete it. It even completely stopped streaming on my monitor because for some reason it thought my HDMI cable didn't support the HDCPI thing and after I put the laptop to sleep and woke it up, it magically started working again. So many other UX problems that I just couldn't put up with and cancelled my subscription after watching the show
Like Xcode, so many of their first party apps on Mac are just badly made and awful to use
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#17Using 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.
I've borrowed hundreds of CD from the different public-city-libraries I've been the past 15 years. In France you're allowed to make private copy of books and CDs :)
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#18I have 2014 year MacBook Pro and app is barely usable on it. Sometimes I just switch to browser version
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#19On point 2:
> Hitting play will start the music at some sound level, after about a second or two the sound level is suddenly reduced (and stays at that level until hitting pause and play again).
This is likely due to "Sound Check" being enabled (I think it's on by default), which you can un-check in the "Playback" section of the Music app's preferences.
Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
#20How are first party Apple apps so horrible on first party hardware? I don't use Music but I decided to check out Severance (great show) and the TV app was absolutely horrible to use in every way. The player would only stream some really low resolution on my monitor so I tried downloading the episodes and the whole app lagged so badly every time I would queue something up or delete it. It even completely stopped strea…
i think FaceTime is the worst macOS app ever made
i’ve never seen an app that can crash or lock the whole operating system
design-wise it looks completely out of place