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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 wfhordie »

eloisius wrote: post #23
drawkbox wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is there a need to integrate with anything? I do like a more open/api platform and wish Apple was, but Spotify probably won't be for long. Tracking my plays takes more work with everything to closed. Apple misses some of the obscure stuff but I will always side with the higher payer to artists. I also like just being able to buy albums I like and support artists.

That higher royalty isn’t because of altruism. It’s probably a factor of licensing volume.

Comments like this one are a real puzzler to me. Why does it matter that the higher royalty is not out of altruism? It’s money! Money doesn’t care. More money for artists is good. You can’t buy a cheeseburger with altruism.

I guess I’m just not sure what sort of “gotcha” this is supposed to be. The beauty of incentive alignment is that you don’t have to waste your time trying to discern nebulous motivations of large groups of people.

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

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Post by lvl102 »

clintonwoo wrote: post #53

I used to use Apple Music and liked it, but the bitrate (music quality) of the music was too low so after a few years I cancelled it. For me it's really audible the difference between 320kbps music.

They offer higher quality music now. Have you tried it?

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

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Post by sascha_sl »

plonk wrote: post #46
pdimitar wrote: post #10

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Then pirate them.

Copyright has issues, but "not paying for any of it" isn't the solution.

I'd consider "paying for the things you like within your means" a better option morally than many streaming sites though.

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

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Post by lancesells »

plonk wrote: post #5

I've never seen a search box that couldn't actually handle input before, but Apple Music made it. If I click in the search box and start typing, the box will lose focus at some random time and all my next keystrokes will count as play commands, usually pausing the music. If I come back to the search box, it happens again. I know "text boxes" are cutting-edge technology that's barely 3 seconds old and developers are s…

I have this text field thing happen with Apple Maps as well.

I use Apple Music and it's got all sorts of problems. "Hey Siri, play Chill Mix" "Sorry, I'm having trouble finding that in your library."

Chill Mix is generated from Apple Music based on what you play. I use it every morning except those days it just can't be found.

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

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Post by ravenstine »

aniforprez wrote: post #16

How are first party Apple apps so horrible on first party hardware? I don't use Music but I decided to check out Severance (great show) and the TV app was absolutely horrible to use in every way. The player would only stream some really low resolution on my monitor so I tried downloading the episodes and the whole app lagged so badly every time I would queue something up or delete it. It even completely stopped strea…

Because Music is anything but "first party" from Apple's perspective.

A lot of people seem to have the wrong idea about Apple's software, with the exception of macOS. The point of the software is to entice the customer with a complete ecosystem. Once they've sold you their laptop they've made their money. At that point, they're not that interested in putting resources towards things like Music when their hardware continues to sell quite well.

I'm not advocating for that approach, but it is what it is.

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

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Post by mr_sturd »

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.

What are you using for network streaming? SnapCast is great for that - there's a delay, but only about .5s. On the home network, that is.

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

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Post by OskarS »

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

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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…

I’ve had similar issues with HomePod when it comes to other apps (e.g. playing podcasts from Overcast using AirPlay), but the Apple Music integration has never been a problem, that has always just worked. Siri sometimes gets confused about what you’re asking (as with all these systems), but it’s less than I expected and at an acceptible rate for me.

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

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Post by ushakov »

sascha_sl wrote: post #43
ushakov wrote: post #24

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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.

from Wikipedia

> Das Gesetz trat am 1. Januar 2008 in Kraft.[7] § 53 Abs. 1 S. 1 UrhG wurde geändert, so dass Privatkopien nicht zulässig sind, sofern zur Vervielfältigung „eine offensichtlich rechtswidrig hergestellte oder öffentlich zugänglich gemachte Vorlage“ verwendet wird.

the last sentence says that no public sharing is allowed for copyrighted works

doesn’t matter if the distributor is a library or a torrent

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