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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 zackify »

I’ve had Apple Music convert saved songs from explicit to censored in the past. The software must be written so poorly.

Another good one:

If you start a station on macOS. You can’t hit previous song to go back.

If you’re on iOS you can…

Apple Music is pretty terrible. So many times there’s no UI feedback when pressing things and they just glitch into some new state seconds after pressing things

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

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Post by micromacrofoot »

The desktop app is abysmal and slow, I like how they pay artists a little more and it’s a little cheaper bundled with other services, and that’s the only reason I use it.

The usability sucks too. How in god’s name do you make an app in 2022 that has unclickable artist and album names sprinkled throughout? It’s incredible how terrible iTunes was and how long Apple is allowing it to drag everything down.

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

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Post by matheusmoreira »

edhelas wrote: post #3

Using a RPi with a 1Tb SSD connected to it. MPD + various clients on all my devices, including the wonderful https://github.com/jcorporation/myMPD Lightweight, all free-software, can handle a massive audio-database, all synchronized. What else do we need ?

Did you get local network streaming to work well? Player takes over one second to respond when I try to control the streaming from my phone. Works perfectly except for this high latency issue.

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

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Post by bowsamic »

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 never used Apple Music. I’m too used to how instant Spotify is

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

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Post by donatj »

Maybe it’s just because I enjoy obscure music, but I find a fair number of older tracks are seemingly corrupted on Apples servers. I run into music pretty regularly that’ll get part way into a song and just fail. Sometimes it will skip to the next song, sometimes it will get stuck and I have to manually advance it. Sometimes I get the treat of horrible static/screeching.

I have this problem across Mac laptop and android phone.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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

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Post by embik »

I‘ll add a comment to reflect my own experience: I’m quite happy with Apple Music, both on iOS and macOS. Sometimes I get „not authorised“ errors when playing something new and that is annoying, but other than that it just works for me as a casual user.

In comparison, Spotify has grown overly complex and feels weird in terms of UI responsiveness to me.

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