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Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

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Post by b-lee »

biztos wrote: post #207
b-lee wrote: post #201

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…

> 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.

Don’t think so. Almost every third party app does downloading right except Apple’s. It’s like they don’t even try to recover at all. You can’t resume updates - only on Apple related software. I remember spending 5 days trying to update to Mojave because the update kept failing.

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Post by concinds »

pupppet wrote: post #142
wintermutestwin wrote: post #107

I am fully bought in to the Apple ecosystem, but Apple Music is the poison pill that has me questioning this new prison I have chosen. The iOS app wastes three out of five buttons at the bottom that I can't change to something useful: "Listen Now" "Browse" "Radio" are all weak "discovery" tools that are probably more about label kickbacks than actually helping me find new music that I like. And really, I don't need y…

I can’t stand the iOS Apple Music button setup. Library > Playlists > Playlist name > Play/Shuffle Four taps just to get my own music to start playing. Maddening that 3 of the 5 buttons are dedicated to not my music.

It's especially horrible if you have lots of playlists, and like to add playlists from Apple Music to your library.

You can't add Apple Music playlists to playlist folders, and playlists can only be sorted alphabetically. On the Mac, your playlist folders are on top; then Apple Music playlists & your playlists are mixed together. On iPhone, it's reversed; Apple Music playlists, then your folders, forcing you to scroll all the way down to get to your playlists. And on Mac you can't add a song to a new playlist in a playlist folder directly; you need to add a song to a new playlist, and drag that playlist (that isn't highlighted) all the way up to the right folder. Yuck.

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Post by jancsika »

dash2 wrote: post #81
matheusmoreira wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

>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.

> You are sitting in a chair in the sky.

A chair in the sky is great.

But in the 1990s we were travelling without moving through the aggregate of everybody's music collection that they already paid for.

In the 2000s we were using idle bandwidth to move the distribution cost closer to zero than ever before.

In light of that, I wonder if in a decade you'll be praising an uncomfortable sardine can that drags us across the desert with better than 25% departure delays.

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Post by concinds »

The weirdest Apple Music bug I had was:

Watching Netflix with Safari, and then going to the Apple Music local library ("Recently Added", then click on an album) literally broke Music. It looked like this[0], all the Music toolbar buttons were gone, and keyboard shortcuts (spacebar to play) no longer worked. Pausing the movie and switching Safari tab to non-Netflix was the only solution. This was still the case on a completely clean install with only Music and Safari launched. I guess it had to do with the DRM Safari uses to play Netflix content messing with the Music app.

But did Apple really never test watching a movie and listening to music at the same time, with the built-in apps? That bug survived from early Big Sur to at least the Monterey release candidate, again on a completely clean install (I didn't test it again afterwards). Huh? How?

[0]: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252162447

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Post by blibble »

ushakov wrote: post #24
edhelas wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've borrowed hundreds of CD from the different public-city-libraries I've been the past 15 years. In France you're allowed to make private copy of books and CDs :)

in Germany if you try to do this, lawyers will show up immediately at your doorstep and will treat you like a criminal

how could they find out unless you tell them?

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

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Post by b-lee »

JimBlackwood wrote: post #70

I switched from Spotify to AM and I still wouldn’t switch back. There’s some weird bugs for sure and the lack of switching between devices is annoying. Sometimes I’ll accidentally leave it running in my laptop and then when I’m on my phone it keeps interrupting for some reason. Their shuffle actually shuffles, it’s not just the same 20 songs. Artist matching is weird though. Frequently I’ll have an artist that songs…

You basically tried to make a point and refute it on the same post lol

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Post by lloeki »

heretogetout wrote: post #190
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?

Note that when I say radio I don't mean the Radio feature of Apple Music & al but actual FM/DAB radio stations! (which may or may not be available over shoutcast/icecast)

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Post by jghn »

abruzzi wrote: post #163
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally don’t find that to be true. Time for some objective anecdata. There is a site [0] that ranks how “mainstream” one’s listening habits are based on their last.fm profile. Punching in my username, I get ranked as 12% mainstream (i.e., only 12% of last.fm users listen to music more obscure than mine). Keep in mind, this is relative to last.fm users, whose musical tastes are probably more obscure than the gen…

I don't know how well iTunes tracks with music available on other streaming platforms, but when I imported my library of ~700 CDs to iTunes Match about 40% of my tracks matched, and 60% had to be uploaded, so I suspect that for me there is a lot that isn't on any platform (but is on iTunes match.) Which is why I don't subscribe to any streaming service.

How do you see the match rate? I've been using iTunes Match for years and really prefer it over services like Spotify. But I've always wondered how much of my content wasn't available on the mothership.

EDIT: `Cloud Status` lists this. TIL

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