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

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Post by coldtea »

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.

And it's a worse experience than the chairs in the sky we used to sit in the 50s and 60s...

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/vintage-airplane-phot...

>I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee.

Which is not that great in itself.

Streaming is for the 5% of the people obsessed with variety over building a relationship with select music (and who does that while claiming its a "false dichotomy"), and casual listening skimmers (the 95%).

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

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Post by ec109685 »

ushakov wrote: post #21
carlycue wrote: post #14

The app performance of Apple Music on MacOS and iOS is an abomination. It's consistently twice as slow as Spotify, from loading playlists to loading search results and playing a song. I would be ashamed if I worked on the Apple Music team. How can a person with any self respect go to work every day and be okay with Apple Music in it's current state?

> How can a person with any self respect go to work every day and be okay with Apple Music in it's current state? 1) debt/mortgage 2) kids 3) vesting stock 4) all of the above

You can have all of that and still produce good software.

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

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Post by thoughtpeddler »

astrostl wrote: post #153

If 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.

There's also Alfred's own Music feature (commonly mapped to ⌥+⌘+return), which will let you search your library and play songs without going to the Music app first.

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

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Post by thoughtpeddler »

what-imright wrote: post #238

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.

> Makes me wish I had never spent so much time pirating in my youth.

Listen, I feel your pain, but don't feel bad about this. Streaming services didn't exist back then. The best we could do was have some reasonably-sized collection on purchased CDs that we ripped to MP3, supplemented by a digital collection acquired through ... different means.

It took the (recording) industry years before they woke up. That's not your fault.

Thinking back, I could even imagine an alternate late 90s / early 2000s, where the RIAA was tolerant of the streaming model, but most peoples' connections were still dial-up / weak broadband, so we'd all be content with ~64kbps-quality MP3 playback lol

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

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Post by DangitBobby »

8note wrote: post #225
DangitBobby wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> If they just sold it, then no?

Please explain.

> though I imagine the count of streams is more influential for that than the revenue per stream

Whether I listen on Apple or Spotify, their count of streams increases by the same amount.

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

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Post by janandonly »

Agree. I never managed to sync playlists between my iPhone and iPad. The only way to make it work turned out to be:

1. Delete all playlists 2. Buy a MacBook 3. In the music.app, re-create the playlists. 4. Then, sync your iPhone’s music library including the just created playlists with the MacBook.

Took me a while to figure this out

I even started using Spotify just because at least syncing playlists would just work in that app.

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

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Post by librarianscott »

schipplock wrote: post #193
greymalik wrote: post #32

> The worst of the Apple Music clients is that on macOS I didn’t even know there were alternatives. Are there any decent ones?

There is Apple Music on iOS. It has different bugs :). That's what he meant.

But, yes, there are a number of apps that work with the Apple Music subscription that aren't Apple apps. For example, Cider[1].

[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/28/cider-is-an-alternative-apple...

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

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Post by cbare »

The desktop client is really buggy and reflects poorly on Apple. Some say, an all-you-can-eat buffet of a big chunk of all published music is just too good to be true and can't last. But, then wasn't that the promise? Too cheap to meter? To have at your fingertips the accumulated product of hundreds of years of culture, millions of hours of practice...

Currently streaming: JS Bach, Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, Sergei Istomin and Viviana Sofronitsky which I had to type 'cause you can't even cut-n-paste out that piece of junk.

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

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Post by asiachick »

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.

in the 2000s I was using Rhapsody and being mocked because people thought streaming music was stupid.
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