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> These are sent via WhatsApp so the audio recordings are mp4 files, which for some bizarre reason won't open in Music and instead open in QuickTime Player, despite definitely being audio files. .mp4 being associated with a video player seems reasonable, since it's almost always used for video. (I think the only difference between .mp4 and .m4a is the extension? It's just serving as a signal about which app should op…
I don’t think Music is really intended for this use case. Maybe look at third party apps that let you play local files like Vox Music Player. If you want to stick with Music you can always subscribe to iTunes Match that will sync your local files libraries seamlessly
> I don’t think Music is really intended for this use case. What do you think are the intended use cases of the operating system's proprietary audio-file-playing application?
I've always hated Music.app's and iTunes's concept of a "Library". I already have a library for my media--it's organized, hierarchal, consistently named, and fully-integrated with my computer's operating system. It's called "the filesystem". I don't need the app to re-invent the concept of a filesystem on top of my existing filesystem. This isn't really limited to Apple applications, either. For a lot of applications…
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> and there is no easy way to get around this limit.. I mean, Apple could just add a better physical connection to the iPhone. Either the USB3-speed Lightning port they used twice on a few iPads, USB3.x over USB-C, or even the brilliant Thunderbolt standard they helped make nearly a decade ago. But... the iPhone's physical transfer speeds are still stuck in 2001. It's genuinely an unbelievably amount of negligence fo…
USB3/USBC is coming in the next set of devices (thanks EU), so at least the speed issue will be resolved.
For the most recent time I tried, the music has been in this state for 2 months.
> How can such basic functionality be this incredibly broken? That's what I'm thinking almost every day when working with Apple devices. There is so, so much basic stuff broken on both macOS and iOS. I truly miss the days where Apple devices were a reliable tool, even a source of inspiration.
The hardware is still incredibly reliable and astoundingly performant. The rate at which they're capable of delivering them to the store and your doorstep is too. Per number of devices sold, it's crazy that they encounter as few issues as they do. Yeah, they've had some real 'Oops' moments, but on the whole it's crazy good. As for software? Yeah, it's really, really bad. :( I think Apple has forgotten how to do softw…
I have a ~100 item Notes file of stuff like this that I experience regularly on iOS and macOS. It's optimistically a list of Radars I would file should I ever work at Apple again, but I'm fully aware that 95% of Radars like these go nowhere so it's more realistically just a space to vent. A few of the really bad ones are Radars I filed years ago that went nowhere and still annoy me to this day (top prize probably goe…
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Services and operating systems should just be separate things. They can (and should) be able to work together, but pre-installing AppleTV+ on my Macbook and Candy Crush on my Windows machine are both stepping over the line. iTunes/Apple Music is definitely the perfect example of this, going from "slick Winamp upgrade" to "Apple Music sales vector" over the course of 20 years. It's reasons like this why I advocate for…
Isn’t integrating services with the OS the whole point of Android for Google? They aren’t licensing technology to handset vendors, they just are keeping the numerically larger but profitability smaller sector of the smartphone business safe for advertising.
So, I'd say that Google is to Android what Canonical is to Ubuntu. Both are developing "open" products that technically qualify as Free software, but use their services to lock people into convenient but exploitative agreements. They're bad, but using Android without Google is much easier than using an iPhone without Apple.
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> and there is no easy way to get around this limit.. I mean, Apple could just add a better physical connection to the iPhone. Either the USB3-speed Lightning port they used twice on a few iPads, USB3.x over USB-C, or even the brilliant Thunderbolt standard they helped make nearly a decade ago. But... the iPhone's physical transfer speeds are still stuck in 2001. It's genuinely an unbelievably amount of negligence fo…
USB3/USBC is coming in the next set of devices (thanks EU), so at least the speed issue will be resolved.
So, let's end the farcical statement that the EU stood up to Big, Bad, Apple. The EU did nothing.