Apple Music

[Oldmacs]

@lawrence

I’d like the iOS 10 aesthetic a lot more if they applied it to every app. Like Apple, either do all your apps at once and make us wait another year for a redesign, or don’t do it at all.

Apple News and Maps are gorgeous. Music is a disaster but they can never seem to get an audio app UI right. I swear we’ve had 3 designs since iOS 7.

I have a love hate thing with iOS 10 redesigned apps. Music sucks, Maps, Health and News are good. Notifications and control centre look good, though control centre in iOS 10 sucks. iOS 8.3 had the last good music player IMHO, iOS 9 was better than iOS 10 though.

[Entropy]

The problem with a Music is it is trying to make you use the streaming end of the app, or at the very least, see no difference between streaming music and local content. Local storage is less clear to access. This means the user gets confused.

This would be fine if we all had unlimited or data caps so huge we would never use them, but we don’t.
And then there are the poor sods with business phone where the business doesnt allow/provide for streaming non work data.
The only option away from home wifi is locally stored music.

[snarl]

I use an app named Cesium. It is simple like music from older ios versions and just shows local music.

[recd]

@Entropy

The problem with a Music is it is trying to make you use the streaming end of the app, or at the very least, see no difference between streaming music and local content. Local storage is less clear to access. This means the user gets confused.

This would be fine if we all had unlimited or data caps so huge we would never use them, but we don’t.And then there are the poor sods with business phone where the business doesnt allow/provide for streaming non work data.The only option away from home wifi is locally stored music.

This one of the advantages of Telstra mobiles. Streaming apple music doesn’t count towards your download limits.

[Entropy]

Yes, on consumer contracts. Not on business contracts.

[Oldmacs]

@Entropy

The problem with a Music is it is trying to make you use the streaming end of the app, or at the very least, see no difference between streaming music and local content. Local storage is less clear to access. This means the user gets confused.

Yeah, I’ve got no interest in using Apple Music. I just want to be able to use my local music like in iOS 8.3 and below where I could easily switch between Artists, Albums, Songs etc and have the ability to customise the order and what appears on the menu.

[Acelon1]

@Oldmacs

I just want to be able to use my local music like in iOS 8.3 and below where I could easily switch between Artists, Albums, Songs etc and have the ability to customise the order and what appears on the menu.

I’d like this too but Apple don’t want us to use our own music any more as they don’t make as much money from that so they make it a poor user experience when you try and use your own music, actually scratch that - Apple Music overall is a terrible user experience with a far from intuitive user interface

[Dan]

So today Apple Music was added to PlayStation 5, I’ve been waiting since the PS5 launched.

You can now listen to Apple Music on PlayStation 5

So far I have a few thoughts.

I buy all of my music, but I have Apple Music as part of my Apple One subscription. I use it to find new music before buying. So I have 3K+ purchased music added to my library. When I shuffled all of my songs, I noticed something.

Currently, it seems to struggle to shuffle a large number of tracks. It kept on playing songs starting with ‘A’ and numbers, and worse than that it would repeat several of those even though ‘repeat’ was off. I imagine this will get ironed out but, but it’s a bit of a rocky start.

There is also limited access to the app from the quick menu, all you see are a bunch of suggested playlists so you can’t do more than that. In order to shuffle all of my music, I had to open the Apple Music app in full. Though Spotify may do the same so this may not be an Apple Music specific thing.

I wasn’t sure whether to make a new topic for this, but this thread hasn’t been touched since 2017 so figured I’d revive it.

[DogKnight]

@Dan

I buy all of my music, but I have Apple Music as part of my Apple One subscription. I use it to find new music before buying. So I have 3K+ purchased music added to my library. When I shuffled all of my songs, I noticed something.

I combined Apple Music with iTunes Match. Apple music lets you download any songs on the service. iTunes match adds any songs downloaded on your device to your permanent library. At least this is how it should work in theory. Haven’t let my Apple Music sub lapse in years, so don’t know for sure.

[Dan]

Oh yeah that’s still a thing, which I like. I buy basically everything on iTunes but occasionally there’s something I’ll have to go and buy a CD for. So it’s a welcome feature in my book