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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 aczerepinski »

I hate that in order to add a song to a playlist I have to add it to my library so that it is mixed in and listed alongside the full albums I’ve purchased. I guess I prefer using Spotify so that my library of purchased music and playlists for streaming are altogether separate.

Also on the desktop app the way to find new jazz releases is to first put the curser in the search input which opens a secret menu. Is there a way for me to “favorite” new jazz releases so that I can check it each week without so much scrolling and clicking?

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

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Post by pupppet »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #107

I am fully bought in to the Apple ecosystem, but Apple Music is the poison pill that has me questioning this new prison I have chosen. The iOS app wastes three out of five buttons at the bottom that I can't change to something useful: "Listen Now" "Browse" "Radio" are all weak "discovery" tools that are probably more about label kickbacks than actually helping me find new music that I like. And really, I don't need y…

I can’t stand the iOS Apple Music button setup.

Library > Playlists > Playlist name > Play/Shuffle

Four taps just to get my own music to start playing. Maddening that 3 of the 5 buttons are dedicated to not my music.

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

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Post by aczerepinski »

The UX I enjoy most is buying a vinyl record, listening to it start to finish while reading the full liner notes, knowing that the artist got the maximum amount of money, and there being no way for any tech company to track how many times I listened. Highly recommended!

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

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Post by tayne »

Spotify is the worst and buggiest software I use, both the app and the web app. How bad could it be? It resets to the beginning of a multi hour podcast randomly with no way to get back to where I was. It does many other unbelievable things. God damn the Spotify player.

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

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Post by swozey »

tyrfing wrote: post #128
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I use datpiff for truly obscure/b-sides stuff

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

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Post by smugma »

ysleepy wrote: post #15

The 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 i…

Apple has acknowledged the challenges of searching for and browsing classical music.

They acquired Primephonic to address this, but no results yet.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-acquires-classi...

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

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Post by lawgimenez »

I've always been an AM user but I can't stand the poor performance and issues anymore. I switched to Spotify again 3 months ago and amazingly they still have my 7-8 year old collaboration playlist with my wife. But Apple Music on the other end just removed my playlists that are barely a year old.

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

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Post by mwest217 »

jzackpete wrote: post #123
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.

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/wh…

OiNK was succeeded by What.CD, which was succeeded by Redacted.ch. The highly refined catalog of music is still there on the right place.

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

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Post by parkingrift »

plonk wrote: post #7
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 foo…

Music is included in Apple One Premier along with TV, News, Fitness, Arcade, and 2TB iCloud Drive. All these things integrate well within the Apple ecosystem and family sharing. One Premier is honestly one of the best value subscriptions in tech today.

However, I do think it’s anti-competitive. Spotify, for example, has absolutely no possible way to get my business until and unless my entire family were to ditch Apple.

I don’t like the Music UI but I’ve come to understand how to use it and it no longer bothers me.

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