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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 DangitBobby »

dmitriid wrote: post #160
wfhordie wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comments like this one are a real puzzler to me. Why does it matter that the higher royalty is not out of altruism? It’s money! Money doesn’t care. More money for artists is good. You can’t buy a cheeseburger with altruism. I guess I’m just not sure what sort of “gotcha” this is supposed to be. The beauty of incentive alignment is that you don’t have to waste your time trying to discern nebulous motivations of large…

> Comments like this one are a real puzzler to me. Why does it matter that the higher royalty is not out of altruism? It’s money! Money doesn’t care. More money for artists is good. You can’t buy a cheeseburger with altruism. All the money that streaming services pay out goes to copyright holders. Guess who the copyright holders are. If you say "artists", think again. For the absolute vast majority of music it's the…

But the artist does get more peanuts if I stream on a service that spends more on royalties per play, yes?

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

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Post by dash2 »

rchaud wrote: post #140
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.

> In the 90s I was buying CDs with five good songs and five filler for £15. That is unfortunate. In the early 2000s, I was cleaning up buying used CDs for $1 on Half.com and Amazon. The whole thing about "1 good song on a 10-song album" is a remnant of Steve Jobs' iPod marketing pitch designed to get people buying songs piecemeal for 99c on iTunes. Regular people buy music if they want to support the artist. Trying t…

I'm a regular person, and I buy music because I want to listen to music.

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

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Post by therealdrag0 »

jb3689 wrote: post #161

I thought Spotify was much worse. The silent playlist song cap alone was infuriating. I constantly had issues syncing between devices. UI feedback was miserable making it so you didn’t understand whether a button was pushed due to the callbacks over cellular, not that Apple Music is much better here. The worst part of Apple Music is the distinction between Apple Music and your library. You can rate things in your lib…

My HN, top of the day view, has a post complaining about Spotify above this post complaining about Apple Music. pretty gnarly dislike coming out.

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

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Post by radicality »

Back when Apple Music was just introduced, I enabled the free trial on my MacBook where I already had a curated iTunes library over the years. Apple Music was so destructive that it went and started irreversibly not only reorganising my local library but also deleting my local songs because it had the same song in the cloud… No thank you.

It was so destructive that my only option was to disable Apple Music, completely remove my whole iTunes music/data folder and restore everything from backup.

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I also recently realised that the Mac OS upgrade broke my iTunes playlists again, I’m not sure if it was during move to Bug Sur or earlier. I have a whole folder of music and an iTunes db file, anyone how Im supposed to import that into Music considering that iTunes is dead?

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

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Post by CharlesW »

qgin wrote: post #93

I’m not saying it’s the best app I use, but I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading this thread. I’ve used Apple Music since it launched and I haven’t had an issue since the first few releases.

I’m also a very happy user (and a Spotify expat). Apple Music already has about half of Spotify’s market share and its growth is accelerating. I feel like this is an “Apple Maps”-type situation, where it’s slagged on for years while Apple continues to quietly improve it.

https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/music-subscriber-market-s...

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

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Post by wahnfrieden »

jrmg wrote: post #139
wahnfrieden wrote: post #118

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lol this magnitude of royalty does not meaningfully broadly move artists into gaining a livable wage. let's expect more please. what a neoliberal idea to support specific choice of streaming platform purchase as a moral decision

What do you think would be a fair amount to pay per stream?

since you're asking me, I think artists should be able to make a living wage whether or not they're popular

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

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Post by SheinhardtWigCo »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #62
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…

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?

Why compete on merit when you have an insurmountable marketing/advertising advantage?

A feature of the modern smartphone ownership experience is being bombarded with ads for clones of existing businesses, the best of which are almost as good as those pre-existing offerings.

The Music, TV, News, and Books icons on the home screen are really just ads. Each of these "apps" contains a prominent ad, followed by a torrent of push notification ads.

In a way, the home screen is a re-imagining of AOL from the 90s: a crippled proprietary take on the web, spoon-fed to a captive audience, lacking the egalitarianism that allows companies like Spotify and Netflix to thrive.

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

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Post by dmitriid »

DangitBobby wrote: post #191
dmitriid wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Comments like this one are a real puzzler to me. Why does it matter that the higher royalty is not out of altruism? It’s money! Money doesn’t care. More money for artists is good. You can’t buy a cheeseburger with altruism. All the money that streaming services pay out goes to copyright holders. Guess who the copyright holders are. If you say "artists", think again. For the absolute vast majority of music it's the…

But the artist does get more peanuts if I stream on a service that spends more on royalties per play, yes?

Until the Big Four renegotiate the agreement, yes.
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