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Apple Music Web Client

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Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by ValentineC »

RandallBrown wrote: post #21

This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago. Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.

> Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify?

The ability to upload one's library [1] is huge — I believe both Spotify and Apple Music still aren't very good with video game music.

[1] iCloud Music Library: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204926

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by hellcow »

juniper411 wrote: post #40
hellcow wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the privacy-minded, Apple Music doesn't notify Facebook each time you open the app. Spotify does.

That's only if you login with Facebook to Spotify... Which isn't required.

No, you are mistaken. I have no Facebook account.

Spotify phones home to Facebook the moment the app is opened. This can be confirmed with a no-root firewall like Netguard on Android.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by hprotagonist »

minimaxir wrote: post #38
hprotagonist wrote: post #3

Nice! Now, how about some cross-platform iCloud Drive love? huh?

You can access iCloud Drive on the web at iCloud.com

i want something a lot more like dropbox or gdrive which have native applications, preferably with command line interfaces.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by minimaxir »

hprotagonist wrote: post #43
minimaxir wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can access iCloud Drive on the web at iCloud.com

i want something a lot more like dropbox or gdrive which have native applications, preferably with command line interfaces.

iCloud for Windows includes Drive: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283

If you are talking about Linux then you should be more explicit about that.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by MapleWalnut »

ryanianian wrote: post #33

Whatever. I was really hoping to see some improvements to the music-organization and display aspects here but it looks like they just re-implemented the weird parts of iTunes using html5. For example: It drives me crazy how Apple Music emphasizes the idea that "Recently Added" is only grouped by albums . I don't add whole albums to my library, I add individual songs . I want to play all the songs I've recently added…

You can create a genius (or maybe it’s called smart) playlist in iTunes that is ordered by recently added. It does exactly what you need.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by ryanianian »

MapleWalnut wrote: post #46
ryanianian wrote: post #33

Whatever. I was really hoping to see some improvements to the music-organization and display aspects here but it looks like they just re-implemented the weird parts of iTunes using html5. For example: It drives me crazy how Apple Music emphasizes the idea that "Recently Added" is only grouped by albums . I don't add whole albums to my library, I add individual songs . I want to play all the songs I've recently added…

You can create a genius (or maybe it’s called smart) playlist in iTunes that is ordered by recently added. It does exactly what you need.

Smart playlists are not displayed on cloud-based platforms (e.g. this webapp, sonos integrations, etc). I presume this is because they didn't want to implement the business-logic both on the server and on the native iTunes app.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by eof »

I recently switched to a windows machine from Mac at work, and brought in iTunes to listen to Apple Music. It’s really as bad as I remember.

Really great timing on this for me.

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