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

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Post by samtheDamned » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:13 PM UTC

matheusmoreira wrote: post #104

dash2 wrote: post #81

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>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.

With spotify maybe but for youtube music this is definitely true

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

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Post by achairapart » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

mwest217 wrote: post #148

jzackpete wrote: post #123

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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.

How does Redacted.ch work? I can't see any signup forms. Actually, I can't see anything but a login form...

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

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Post by nobodywasishere » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

Apple Music on Android is a pleasure to use for me, especially dark mode and being able to cast right from the app.

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

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Post by stack_framer » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

The worst thing about Apple Music on macOS are the "smart" playlists. They can't be disabled, they keep coming back no matter how many times I delete them, and they're always at the top, so they push my playlists out of sight. Just absolutely terrible UX.

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

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Post by nmlt » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:27 PM UTC

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?

I feel the UI at least is better than Spotify. And you don’t have to suffer from podcast advertisement with Apple Music.

In the end for all of these services you are exposed to the whims of their dev/management team. The only way around this problem is probably a regulation from the government to force services to offer a consistent unchanging api so that third party clients can be build and fix all of these problems.

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

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Post by teaneedz » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

> Adding a currently playing song to a playlist will stop the music and clear the play queue.

This bugs me to no end. I'm always asking myself if a song is worth the listening interruption that will happen when I add it to a playlist.

Such a stupid low hanging bug.

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

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Post by joecool1029 » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:34 PM UTC

achairapart wrote: post #182

mwest217 wrote: post #148

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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.

How does Redacted.ch work? I can't see any signup forms. Actually, I can't see anything but a login form...

They are strictly interview based, if you want a lower hassle orpheus.network still does invites. Smaller site but they get a good % of their releases from redacted.

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

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Post by crossroadsguy » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

Well that just means you certainly haven’t used many other Apple softwares. Because they compete quite healthily at being among the worst.

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

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Post by droopyEyelids » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

achairapart wrote: post #182

mwest217 wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How does Redacted.ch work? I can't see any signup forms. Actually, I can't see anything but a login form...

I dont think this is the right forum to ask how to join piracy groups

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

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Post by heretogetout » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

lloeki wrote: post #178

> If I choose to "like" a song, why is it not automatically saved to the so-called "library". I like that likes and add to library are distinct as they serve two very different purposes for me, but I would really like to have a "liked" playlist. Other annoyances (on macOS): search in apple music vs library, the search box is on one end, the scope selector is on the other. Toggling it requires re-searching. It also ge…

I prefer to use the radio feature because I don't know exactly what I want to listen to and more importantly I want to learn about new artists. The fact that you can never see liked songs again is so frustrating. You can't even see a history of playback -- when you use radio. Astounding.

I wonder how Apple engineers use the application. Are they not also frustrated?