iOS 13's Music App Sucks

Post by sbarre » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 9:34 PM UTC

herodotus wrote: post #150

sbarre wrote: post #120

The elephant in the room here is that Apple forces you to use the Music app to manage/navigate/enjoy the music you have locally on your phone (I'm 90% sure I'm right about this). They maintain a monopoly on that functionality, and therefore when they make decisions that don't align with your desires or expectations, you have no recourse. You can't just use a different app - on your own device - that suits you better.…

No, this is not correct. I sell an App that lets you play music that is stored locally on your phone. Before you rush to get it though: it is restricted to Operas. It also lets you play cloud music in your library if you subscribe to iTunes Match.

Post by cygned » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 9:45 PM UTC

odysseus wrote: post #201

cygned wrote: post #143

While I can cope with the UI, what really drives me nuts are actual bugs. Sometimes, albums are split into two parts. Sometimes, songs are randomly missing. When downloading music, sometimes it takes forever or just doesn’t download at all. My most favorite one: when I plug the phone into my car, in 1/2 cases it stops playback (even from another app) and starts playing a random song. It’s always the same. And it’s a…

This happens because: 1. The original app that was playing (Podcasts, Spotify, etc.) got automatically killed for whatever reason (consuming too much memory, etc.) 2. The default app for audio playback is Apple Music, so if you press play (or if your car resumes audio), that is the app that starts up. There is no way (at least right now), to change the default app for audio playback on the phone.

Post by lightbulbjim » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

teunispeters wrote: post #142

lloeki wrote: post #121

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Go to iOS Settings -> Music. The first toggle is literally "Show Apple Music", which instantly disables all "streaming services" features, while keeping the sync-your-own-library-and-playlists-over-iCloud if you're a iTunes Match subscriber.

I've never had it stick. Not interested in any of their subscription services... not in anyone's. I'll buy albums and copy them over to a local music share then onto android devices. I still use the "music" app on android, I just blacklist it from access from child - which makes me sad as there's a lot of music there they'd love to listen to. (Apple has terribly fragile screens. Android doesn't - at least if you go f…

Post by Hamuko » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 10:05 PM UTC

prostheticvamp wrote: post #192

Hamuko wrote: post #176

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>all the legacy that a) personal libraries Since when did a personal library become legacy?

My nieces are mid-teens. They had CDs played to them for lullabies and the like when they were little. By the time they were old enough to want to play their own music, it came in the form of YouTube or streaming. They’ve never ripped a CD, or bought an individual track for download. Two of them have no idea what a “file” is. The third thinks a “file” is some bygone shibboleth known only by dorks like their uncle. Th…

Post by nobleach » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #126

72deluxe wrote: post #67

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Surely that music library is important and cost you money? Why would you give your money to another service to listen to the same music again, that you already own? I ask this because I have about 900 albums on CD that I ripped and then stored away in the loft/under the stairs and could never envisage actually paying a streaming service to listen to stuff I actually have already bought. I mean, I have an iPod Classic…

Unless I'm mistaken, they're not talking about some cloud/streaming service, just exposing their music folder to iTunes.app so that iTunes can give them a GUI over it (like search/sorting). Without the checkbox, iTunes employs its own local folder organization strategy and will update id3 tags and album art from fingerprint lookups.