Apple Music Web Client • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by vonseel » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 7:55 AM UTC

mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #100

I’m so sad that most consumers want to pay for things like this or Spotify. I only buy digital albums, almost always from Bandcamp or bespoke band-specific sites, or Amazon if there’s no other choice. Always just a straight download of mp3 or ogg formats, backed up and accessible in cloud storage. I use VLC player on all my devices, and syncing music with the VLC wifi download tool is so extremely easy and simple. I…

I would have never discovered 99% of the music I listen to if I didn't use Spotify.

There are pros/cons to both sides of this argument. Many artists would not have a music career if it weren't for platforms like Spotify (mainly Spotify). Spotify put their music in people's ears. Spotify made people fans and now those fans buy tickets and go to their shows, so these bands are able to tour.

There are pros/cons to both sides of this story.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by Angostura » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 8:04 AM UTC

reilly3000 wrote: post #138

ec109685 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The iMessage app is also just a webview (at least up to 10.14).

I get a beach ball All-the-time with Messages lasting 5-10 seconds. I struggle to imagine that anything it’s doing is that computationally intensive.

I suspect this might be a problem with your installation - if you create a new MacOS user account for testing, does the problem persist? I don't recall Messages every beach-balling for me and I'm not exactly on new hardware.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by mosselman » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 8:09 AM UTC

hsk823 wrote: post #49

So much for https://musi.sh

I was using this on Ubuntu, works great, but I'd rather use something official.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by kingosticks » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 8:10 AM UTC

aquabeagle wrote: post #68

lainwashere wrote: post #59

This is great, no longer trying to get iTunes working in wine on linux, just play the music straight from the browser, and if you want a native app, Windows and MacOS has iTunes, no electron non-sense.

Maybe someone will make a CLI for it like pianobar for Pandora. https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar

Is there an Apple Music API that let's you directly access the audio data (i.e. without going through the browser DRM controls)? From my quick look it seems they don't, unsurprisingly.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by kingosticks » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 8:14 AM UTC

kweinber wrote: post #99

RandallBrown wrote: post #21

This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago. Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.

You can choose to filter explicit songs for your kids in Apple Music.

Spotify recently changed their Family plan to allow the main user to control the explicit lyrics filter. However, I'm not sure if that filter is on a per-person basis or across the whole family.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by nik736 » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 8:14 AM UTC

Does not work in Safari for me. When playing songs they simply don't start. Weird.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by lxgr » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 8:37 AM UTC

baroffoos wrote: post #142

duskwuff wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, uh, yes. You really expected them to let you download an unencumbered copy of any song in the iTunes catalog?

Yes, I expect that a service I paid for does not include untrusted malware. Thankfully there are other streaming services which do not do this.

Could you name one please? (That has a comparable catalog to Spotify/Apple Music)

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by oarsinsync » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 9:44 AM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #152

reilly3000 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get a beach ball All-the-time with Messages lasting 5-10 seconds. I struggle to imagine that anything it’s doing is that computationally intensive.

I suspect this might be a problem with your installation - if you create a new MacOS user account for testing, does the problem persist? I don't recall Messages every beach-balling for me and I'm not exactly on new hardware.

Tangentially, this appears to be the general (and usually, only) troubleshooting step you can do with Apple products.

Yes, creating a new user resolves the problem. Yes, resetting my device to factory settings without restoring from backup resolves the problem.

How do I resolve the problem without deleting my entire history?

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by wpdev_63 » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 9:51 AM UTC

It's funny that the web app performs better than the desktop app.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

#160

Post by new_here » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 10:29 AM UTC

Interesting to see Apple starting to move into the web app product space (aside from iCloud, of course). Must say though that performance feels a bit sluggish (esp. hover states) on a Macbook Pro (tested in Firefox, Chrome and Safari).

Results of a Lighthouse audit (London): https://www.dropbox.com/s/jaf3gmgo0tpanba/Screenshot%202019-...