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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 jmuguy »

I tried switching to Apple Music from Spotify. One of my favorite features were the radio stations/shows. Elton John has one called Rocket Hour. The craziest thing to me - there was no way to favorite or bookmark those shows or track which episode you’re on. You need to navigate the labyrinth UI, drilling down to the show, or search for the show every time. Folks on the Apple Music subreddit suggested copying the “share” URL for the show, and keep that in a Notes doc.

I’m back on Spotify.

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

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Post by sascha_sl »

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

Really? We have Privatkopie, and last I checked CD Audio was not considered copy protection. You (indirectly, via the manufacturer) already pay a fee to GEMA for every device or data storage media that can be used to make them with the assumption you will. Do it.

Unless you thought libraries were a euphemism for torrents.

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

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Post by plonk »

edhelas wrote: post #17
plonk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I bought every song I've listened to over the past 5 years, I would have paid thousands.

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 :)

There's no way any public library near me has more than 10% of what I listen to currently. They have famous bands and mainstream albums from my country and that's it. I hate most of it.

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

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Post by edhelas »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #35
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.

Yeah that's one of the issue, but I'm living with it. It's pretty awesome to have a stream of all my music on a unique link available on the Internet :)

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

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Post by 23B1 »

donatj wrote: post #38

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 andr…

There's so much music from the 90s and 00s that I can't even find anymore. Little videos and movies too.

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

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Post by plonk »

chse_cake wrote: post #31

I changed countries on the apple store and in transition I lost my entire apple music library which I curated for over 6 years (thousands of songs). All vanished. It was so painful. I have moved to spotify but I am still overcoming the grief :(

The one good feature Apple Music has is the "export" feature. Spotify makes it a pain, Apple just lets you make an archive of your whole library instantly.

Sorry about your old library. Don't trust Spotify either! You can download a listing on your account page.

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

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Post by wlesieutre »

b1476 wrote: post #29
OskarS wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The integration with HomePod is very nice, I can just go ”Hey Siri, play Tom Waits” or whatever. Maybe that works with Spotify, I dunno, but the integration with Apple Music is obviously seamless, it just works.

I have to disagree with this. I have endless issues switching the playback between my iPhone and HomePod, sometimes I’ll have to quit the app just to get the right device to play music. When I’m playing the song on my iPhone with playback on the HomePod it sometimes ‘forgets’ the HomePod is the playback device and using the controls on the iPhone to pause the song etc do nothing forcing me to use Siri to stop playbac…

Have you tried saying “play album _____”?

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

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Post by can16358p »

jhickok wrote: post #30
can16358p wrote: post #25

Another one: when I add a song to my library, sometimes the music stops playing. If it happens, it keeps happening for the entirety of that session.

Yep, one of the most frustrating experiences. What makes it worse is how hard it can be to navigate back to what I was listening to when the music stopped.

It's so buggy that I started to think that Apple doesn't have a QA team and devs are just pushing code to master.

It's that bad.

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