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

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Post by musha68k »

pschuegr wrote: post #74
carlycue wrote: post #14

The 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?

The lack of attention to detail is palpable. But it's not just an Apple problem. It feels like the vast majority of software, you can open it up and fiddle around for a few minutes and find any number of poorly conceived UX choices not to mention straight up bugs / inconsistencies. I'm not talking "I could make this software better than they did" level stuff, just things that any reasonable person would admit don't m…

Agreed. I often wonder if with agile we threw the baby out with the bath water(fall).

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

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Post by spideymans »

What makes this frustrating for me is that the underlying Apple Music API is actually quite robust, such that it really is quite straightforward to create an Apple Music client that is extremely performant. I just can't wrap my head around why Apple can't do it themselves.

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

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Post by jzackpete »

dash2 wrote: post #81
matheusmoreira wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These streaming platforms are so bad. We had better software in the 90s and 00s. These trillion dollar corporations can't beat literally decades old technology. The only reason these little services even exist in the first place is to satisfy the whims of copyright monopolists. How many more steps backwards must this industry take before they're satisfied?

>These streaming platforms are so bad. We had better software in the 90s and 00s. You are sitting in a chair in the sky . I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. In the 90s I was buying CDs with five good songs and five filler for £15. In the 2000s I was finding stuff that I could pirate, downloading it, and playing it on my beige desktop computer because there was no such thing as a smartphone.

If there was music I wanted to listen to, OiNK[1] had it. Had it been allowed to survive, I'm sure it would have evolved into something far better than our current options. I'm willing to pay for music but not a huge fan of songs/albums randomly disappearing from my library due to some licensing decision[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/5ph69t/why_does_sp...

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

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Post by carlivar »

dash2 wrote: post #81
matheusmoreira wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These streaming platforms are so bad. We had better software in the 90s and 00s. These trillion dollar corporations can't beat literally decades old technology. The only reason these little services even exist in the first place is to satisfy the whims of copyright monopolists. How many more steps backwards must this industry take before they're satisfied?

>These streaming platforms are so bad. We had better software in the 90s and 00s. You are sitting in a chair in the sky . I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. In the 90s I was buying CDs with five good songs and five filler for £15. In the 2000s I was finding stuff that I could pirate, downloading it, and playing it on my beige desktop computer because there was no such thing as a smartphone.

I would give up these modern improvements in return for my attention span.

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

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Post by lotsofpulp »

carlivar wrote: post #124
dash2 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>These streaming platforms are so bad. We had better software in the 90s and 00s. You are sitting in a chair in the sky . I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. In the 90s I was buying CDs with five good songs and five filler for £15. In the 2000s I was finding stuff that I could pirate, downloading it, and playing it on my beige desktop computer because there was no such thing as a smartphone.

I would give up these modern improvements in return for my attention span.

What is stopping you?

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

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Post by lotsofpulp »

OskarS wrote: post #22
plonk wrote: post #7

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> 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…

The integration with HomePod is very nice, I can just go ”Hey Siri, play Tom Waits” or whatever. Maybe that works with Spotify, I dunno, but the integration with Apple Music is obviously seamless, it just works.

In my experience, nothing Homepod and Siri related “just works”. I do not even bother to ask it what date it is anymore.

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

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Post by the_only_law »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #104
dash2 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>These streaming platforms are so bad. We had better software in the 90s and 00s. You are sitting in a chair in the sky . I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. In the 90s I was buying CDs with five good songs and five filler for £15. In the 2000s I was finding stuff that I could pirate, downloading it, and playing it on my beige desktop computer because there was no such thing as a smartphone.

> I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. Any music? Nope. Maybe the popular stuff that plays on the radio.

I’ll post my playlist and you tell me how much of it you’ve heard on the radio.

Sure, maybe you won’t find that one band from the 90s you loved that played a few shows and only ever recorded anything on tapes that have been obscured over time.

But one of the reasons I use streaming over the radio is because streaming libraries offer 1000x times the diversity of any radio station or chart.

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

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Post by tyrfing »

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #116
matheusmoreira wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. Any music? Nope. Maybe the popular stuff that plays on the radio.

I personally don’t find that to be true. Time for some objective anecdata. There is a site [0] that ranks how “mainstream” one’s listening habits are based on their last.fm profile. Punching in my username, I get ranked as 12% mainstream (i.e., only 12% of last.fm users listen to music more obscure than mine). Keep in mind, this is relative to last.fm users, whose musical tastes are probably more obscure than the gen…

That site says I'm at 6%, and I agree 95%+ is accurate. Some particularly obscure stuff is only on YouTube or Bandcamp, that's maybe 3%, another 1-2% is simply unavailable due to various licensing issues, generally odd albums for artists that have most of their content available. If you go way, way down the long tail of 400-youtube-view music from decades ago, most of it won't be available anywhere except YouTube and pirate sites, both with spotty coverage.

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

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Post by lotsofpulp »

ushakov wrote: post #20
aniforprez wrote: post #16

How 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

FaceTime is the reason my whole extended family moved to Apple. There was no comparably reliable and easy to use video call app 10+ years ago.
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