I like Apple Music because it integrates well with the Apple line. More importantly though it is one of the highest paying per stream to artists [1]. Streaming needs to be much more lucrative for artists and consumer choice helps that. It is nice to be able to buy the music as well if you want to support. Being part of Apple One is huge as well. The latest music streaming royalty rates are as follows. PLATFORM ROYALT…
Tidal is pretty great and worth a shot. Their recommendations are about as good as Spotify and they don’t try to shove podcasts into your ears.
Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
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i think FaceTime is the worst macOS app ever made i’ve never seen an app that can crash or lock the whole operating system design-wise it looks completely out of place
FaceTime is the reason my whole extended family moved to Apple. There was no comparably reliable and easy to use video call app 10+ years ago.
Skype? Initial release in 2003. Purchased by Microsoft for a gazillion dollars in 2011.
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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?
I’ve been seriously considering going back to owning a big library of mp3s. I love Spotify for its suggestions - well, when it’s not just playing the same 8 songs on repeat. And I love having my music available on all my devices. But the experience of playing songs feels like it’s taken a big step backwards into some sort of weird corporate happy land. The fact I we still can’t remove podcasts from Spotify is ridicul…
Have you tried plex/jelly-amp? Plexamp attempts recommendations and does a good job streaming / keeping media between devices (although for some reason you can't copy the entire library, only playlists/albums/artists?)
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#224Try using the Podcast app it’s even worst.
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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. 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?
If they just sold it, then no? They might get more for their next sale, though I imagine the count of streams is more influential for that than the revenue per stream
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> I’ve been seriously considering going back to owning a big library of mp3s. I never left! Every once in a while I go and try Streaming again to see if they have gotten their shit together, and they still haven't. My hand-curated collection of MP3s, hand-ripped by me using the quality settings I like, carefully stored in a directory structure I understand, with filenames that make sense to me, meticulously tagged wi…
What platform (linux/mac/windows) are you on, and which apps do you use to manage/consume it? Do you use a streamer (like plex, jellyfin, etc) or do you load your whole collection on every device?
Debian Linux for networked storage. Kodi as client on home theater system. rsync or iTunes to sync to USB devices or to a 15 year old iPod classic.
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#227If you're an Alfred user (and I think you "should" be), try creating a web search keyword for https://music.apple.com/us/search?term={query} . When it's triggered it will open up search in the app rather than your browser. I find this much more usable than directly opening and using the app.
Great suggestion! I just added this — and it worked as expected (mostly). If the Apple Music app is in MiniPlayer mode, it will not automatically switch to the full player, but thankfully, closing the MiniPlayer immediately drops you into the search results. Thanks!
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#228I see you're not a paying Windows user. :_(
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#229Regarding the second point: I believe this is "sound check" a setting that normalizes audio volume between different songs. I think it takes a second to kick in (maybe it has to fill up some audio buffer to work?) and yes it's incredibly annoying. Afaik only solution is to disable sound check
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#230Apple Music software on Mac is truly horrible, and I remember how bad iTunes used to be. It's the slowest UI I use (besides some Windows things), and it routinely goes catatonic if you
toggle a vpn or switch networks, etc. adding some things:
* the bar for scrubbing is what, 2 pixels wide?
* airplay is broken. it does. not. work. It takes about 5 iterations of pausing, restarting things, and prayer to get it to play through its speakers and a homepod. And god forbid you then pause it for a couple minutes or want to hear something from the browser for a second.
* If you want to mirror to an appletv and hear sound... good luck, be sure to designate a beneficiary before embarking because you'll probably want to kill yourself.
These aren't complicated things to identify or describe. They aren't edge cases. It's the basic functionality and it is absolute shit. How can anything get this bad? Do apple employees not listen to music? Is each feature made by a different siloed team? It doesn't take a silicon valley visionary to fix these things, but they are clearly missing something in their org