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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 qgin »

ravenstine wrote: post #57
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 con…

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

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Post by justusthane »

wlesieutre wrote: post #49
b1476 wrote: post #29

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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 _____”?

This is what I always do and it works fine

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

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Post by jolux »

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…

Huh, I’ve never experienced that 15s delay, and I definitely listen to some obscure stuff.

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

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Post by madengr »

dash2 wrote: post #81
matheusmoreira wrote: post #62

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These streaming platforms are so bad. We had better software in the 90s and 00s. These trillion dollar corporations can't beat literally decades old technology. The only reason these little services even exist in the first place is to satisfy the whims of copyright monopolists. How many more steps backwards must this industry take before they're satisfied?

>These streaming platforms are so bad. We had better software in the 90s and 00s. You are sitting in a chair in the sky . I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. In the 90s I was buying CDs with five good songs and five filler for £15. In the 2000s I was finding stuff that I could pirate, downloading it, and playing it on my beige desktop computer because there was no such thing as a smartphone.

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

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Post by jolux »

midislack wrote: post #88
wfhordie wrote: post #51

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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…

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This is unfathomably sadistic.

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

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Post by grej »

This is one of my huge irritations with the “advancements” in tech. Is it too much to ask for my $1000+ 256GB device to have an mp3 experience at least as good as the one I could buy 20 years ago?! Apple Music is has slowly devolved into a worse and worse mp3 player. It’s much worse than the old ios itunes used to be, and it’s a deliberate choice they’re making.

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

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Post by Gigachad »

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…

I was astounded at how bad Apple Music is. I’m not talking about missing features or lack of polish, but that I’d click play on a song and a different song on the list would start playing. And this bug persisted for months on the web version before I left. The mobile app was just so lacking as well.

Not at all what I expect from apple. Honestly the only reason Spotify still exists is because Apple and Google are doing such a dismal job.

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