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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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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 c…

Some sort of drm bug when multiple sources using drm are active at once?

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

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Looking at the comments, I must be the only person who likes this app.

- Consistently recommends music I like - Spotify went down a rabbit hole with a certain genre and got weirder every week

- Opens instantly

- Integrates perfectly with Siri

- Doesn’t have the weird colour scheme of Spotify

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

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Looking at the comments, I must be the only person who likes this app. - Consistently recommends music I like - Spotify went down a rabbit hole with a certain genre and got weirder every week - Opens instantly - Integrates perfectly with Siri - Doesn’t have the weird colour scheme of Spotify

Yeah agree - I used Spotify back in the day, then Google Play Music, then Apple Music when HomePods first came out. It’s just simple, works well, has the awesome lyrics function and has good quality human curated content.

It’s just great!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. Any music? Nope. Maybe the popular stuff that plays on the radio.

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…

It has none of the songs from Kids Learning Tube. https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kids-learning-tube/9933602...

This is not an obscure artist. They have over 1 million subscribers.

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

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I suspect one reason the browsing and search experience is so slow and horrible on these services is that they don't want to present straightforward lists that would allow people to scrape their catalogs and put them head to head. Mainstream tech reviewers seem to have extremely mainstream tastes and insist that you won't notice the difference between the catalogs of YouTube Music (the smallest major service with about 60 million songs) and Apple Music (the largest with about 90 million). Even I noticed YouTube was missing a bunch of my favorite albums and I don't think any of my favorites could be called "obscure" unless you have a really liberal definition of that word. It would be interesting to see a list of the most popular artists missing from each service, or a venn diagram of record labels and rights groups, but I haven't found anything more detailed than isolated anecdotes and media coverage of individual artists trying to push Tidal and/or getting mad at Spotify.

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

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We just cancelled it yesterday for many of the same reasons. Apple needs to get a small team to rip through the design work and build something incredible.

Listening to music has become less fun and the experience objectively worse, even as the catalog of available titles has grown to include everything. It’s not as delightful an experience as it once was.

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

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I have to agree it’s buggy but awesome too. Very good value for my family plan, excellent sound quality. Every artist obviously. Makes me wish I had never spent so much time pirating in my youth. The Siri integration is quite bad. Sometimes songs only half play. Needs a restart about every day. Yep it’s buggy, but I’m a Apple music subscriber for life. They nailed it.

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

#239

Looking at the comments, I must be the only person who likes this app. - Consistently recommends music I like - Spotify went down a rabbit hole with a certain genre and got weirder every week - Opens instantly - Integrates perfectly with Siri - Doesn’t have the weird colour scheme of Spotify

Yeah agree - I used Spotify back in the day, then Google Play Music, then Apple Music when HomePods first came out. It’s just simple, works well, has the awesome lyrics function and has good quality human curated content. It’s just great!

I forgot to mention the human playlists! Those are great and get updated regularly, by actual people

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

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post #20

How are first party Apple apps so horrible on first party hardware? I don't use Music but I decided to check out Severance (great show) and the TV app was absolutely horrible to use in every way. The player would only stream some really low resolution on my monitor so I tried downloading the episodes and the whole app lagged so badly every time I would queue something up or delete it. It even completely stopped strea…

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

I think Home app tops it. Just try if you have any HomeKit enabled lights for example. I think it's some half-assed attempt at just running the iOS version on the Mac. It's just so hilariously bad - I just now tried it again and I still have no idea how do the most basic of things - change the brightness of a light. There is a slider which on iOS you would intuitively know what to do with, but on this Mac version I have no idea what the input is meant to be.
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