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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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Post by _kevinspencer »

coldtea wrote: post #241
dash2 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 w…

Why is that not great? I’ve been a Spotify user for years. The Discover Weekly, “artist radio, and daily mix playlists allow me to find other bands I’d otherwise overlook. Finding/sharing playlists with others is a joy.

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

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Post by FunnyBadger »

It also has a horrible UI. Honestly iTunes had its issues but Music is a step backwards compared to iTunes!!

It's UI is clearly designed by someone who 1) only listens to recent popular music, 2) isn't particularly passionate about any music they listen to, and 3) don't bother to look for new music that isn't in the top-10. Basically the last kind of person who should ever do UI design - no passion or knowledge about the application or the market!

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

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Post by FunnyBadger »

ysleepy wrote: post #15

The one thing that sours the entire experience for me is that songs take like 5-15s to start playing when selecting one that isn't super popular. This happens on my ipad, mac, android phone. It feels like some server is spinning up a hard drive to stream it. Apart from that, why the hell is the title and artist only shown in one line that starts scolling instead of showing multiple lines if it doesn't fit, at least i…

This is why I only buy music and always download it to local storage.

I DO NOT TRUST APPLE anymore.

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

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Post by hollandheese »

mikhailt wrote: post #85

For folks on Windows/Linux that want to use Apple Music but not the web player, try Cider ( https://github.com/ciderapp/Cider ). Yes, it is Electron but Apple did use webviews in their macOS AM app as well before they switched back to native earlier this year; which still isn't that great. Ironically, Cider works better than the Apple's web app as well; it doesn't skip or get stuck once in a while. It just works for…

Honestly, even on the Mac I prefer using Cider to the actual Apple Music app.

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

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Post by coldtea »

_kevinspencer wrote: post #261
coldtea wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 w…

Why is that not great? I’ve been a Spotify user for years. The Discover Weekly, “artist radio, and daily mix playlists allow me to find other bands I’d otherwise overlook. Finding/sharing playlists with others is a joy.

Because it's not about endless consumption of new artists, which soon lose their value in the endless supply of replacements, but about getting in depth with fewer...
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