What amazes me about Apple is that they have hardware and operating system that are really great. Every other software I have used that is made by them is buggy beyond belief. Have you tried Apple TV. I stopped using it not because of lack of content but was so unreliable to the extent that you feel like it says “fuck you”. You have one packet loss, your download is doomed. Starting is takes multiple seconds. Try to search something, the UI will freeze. I love Apple products and I hope they fix their services.
Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually it does work with Spotify, and pretty well in my experience. I guess Apple are wary of antitrust rules.
Yep, until a couple years ago you had to say “Hey Siri, play Tom Waits on Spotify ,” otherwise it would always try Apple Music even if you didn’t have a subscription or the app wasn’t installed. But they changed it - probably for antitrust reasons, like you said - and now it’s pretty seamless.
Nope. Then you're streaming FROM your iPhone.
As far as i know there is no native Spotify for HomePod : https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/22/spotify-users-impatient...
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#203Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
#204I tried out Apple Music for the first time because I got a trial for it. I was shocked with how slow and unresponsive the interface is. Not only that songs had a noticeable delay between when they were clicked and when they actually started playing
To be fair, Spotify is doing something pretty magical here. I can’t figure out how they usually start tracks playing within what feels like microseconds after I choose them. Pre caching? Yes but sometimes I don’t see how it could have reasonably guessed that I might play that particular song, like when I start typing to search and then stab at an entry in the results. Surely they also want to be doing some buffering,…
FWIW, I switched from Spotify to YouTube Music and both are certainly fast enough that it's not really something I think about.
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#205I really wish Spotify had native HomePod integration...
[1] "Spotify Users Growing Impatient and Canceling Subscriptions Over Lack of Native HomePod Support" : https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/22/spotify-users-impatient...
[2] "[iOS] Implement Native HomePod Support" : https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/iOS-Implement-Na...
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#206Moved to Doppler a couple of weeks ago and never looked back. I put up for way too long with Apple Music and streaming.
Re: Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
#207What amazes me about Apple is that they have hardware and operating system that are really great. Every other software I have used that is made by them is buggy beyond belief. Have you tried Apple TV. I stopped using it not because of lack of content but was so unreliable to the extent that you feel like it says “fuck you”. You have one packet loss, your download is doomed. Starting is takes multiple seconds. Try to…
> You have one packet loss, your download is doomed.
I’ve noticed that on my iPad with a few different video services. Makes me wonder if there’s a buggy video-download API.
In any case, absolutely maddening when you’re trying to “fill up” your device on hotel WiFi before a flight.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple Music on Mac shifted from web views to native sometime in the last eighteen months, I think.
They did, but the new native views are quite buggy, so while it uses less memory, the user experience improvement was minimal. Apple should really stop shipping such buggy softwares.
I wonder if they had to use SwiftUI.
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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…
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#210The 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…
> songs take like 5-15s to start playing when selecting one that isn't super popular. It feels like some server is spinning up a hard drive to stream it. If it's really that long, it sounds like it's literally spinning up an actual vinyl record.
Was thinking a tape robot, but that’s cool too.