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Apple Bringing Native Apple Music Experience to Music App for macOS

Oh my god yes
I’m reasonably satisfied with Apple Music as a service but using it on macOS is just painful with the disguised webviews constantly messing up

Hopefully they will also make the navigation less counter intuitive
 
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Shirasaki said:
To give you a bit more context, I have a LOCALLY stored 500GB music library (on apple fabric SSD mind you) with 3000 or so songs. Every time I want to scroll a bit faster than just a few pixels, the artwork keeps reloading and reloading. I don’t use Apple Music at all yet the performance is horrible. Hopefully this update changes it. Oh and maybe don’t let the process eats away one core equivalent of resources When playing music.
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What a mess, they slowly stripped down iTunes but kept ridiculously slow core parts of it and rebranded instead of just creating a new native app from the start. Hopefully we will get there.
 
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Hope they add the ability for the max is app to automatically switch decoding bitrate on an external DAC like iOS music app can already do. Right now I have my mac upsampling everything to 192KHz
 
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Shirasaki said:
To give you a bit more context, I have a LOCALLY stored 500GB music library (on apple fabric SSD mind you) with 3000 or so songs. Every time I want to scroll a bit faster than just a few pixels, the artwork keeps reloading and reloading. I don’t use Apple Music at all yet the performance is horrible. Hopefully this update changes it. Oh and maybe don’t let the process eats away one core equivalent of resources When playing music.
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As someone with a local library of just shy of 100GB, this explains so much about the performance on my M1. Always felt it was strange that it would chug as much as it did when scrolling, despite the newer hardware.
 
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When Spotify users try Apple Music (whether on macOS or iOS) they should immediately have a difficult-to-put-into-words sense that it is nicer to use. It should be much faster, more native-feeling, and easier to use.

Spotify’s apps feel like websites. Apple’s normally don’t. But Apple Music has made Apple’s Music apps feel more and more like a website. Even if they have to pre-load some web-sourced content so that it feels ready to go as soon as you see it that would be much better than the slow experience we have today.
 
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I never understood why Music is a website acting like an app. what’s the benefit of it? It’s slow!

Same with the AppleTV interface. It feels very slow and un-Apple. Even on the second generation 4K AppleTV. Why does iOS feel so much faster than tvOS running on literally the same chip?
 
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Apple's Music app (and all of it's previous renamed incantations) have never been much good. In fact, they've typically gotten worse with each new release as the bloat and UI continued their inexorable descent. While I continue to hope for the best, the trend just isn't good. This should be one of times when Apple just hires a COMPLETELY different crew and starts over - the current development gene pool is too contaminated.
 
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About time! Spotify, Tidal, Deezer etc wipe the floor with the Music 'App'. Every time you navigate to browse, for you etc it's a refresh. If it wasn't for Lossless for free I'd have left ages ago.
 
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Excuse my ignorance, but in what way was it not native? Do they mean not entirely unique code because it’s based on iTunes?
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Some parts are native UI elements, others are embedded HTML content. I think most of the library interface is already native but e.g. the "Browse" interface is embedded HTML.
 
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Are there plans to bring the Apple Music App to windows?

FFS, thank you Apple for even giving us PC users the ability to access Apple Music, but iTunes on Windows is slow, and like navigating a Gateway 2000.
 
I stayed on Mojave for the longest time on my 2015 MBP only for iTunes. The Music app is genuinely horrible for someone who only purchases music and doesn't use Apple Music like myself. Sadly I no longer have a choice on the 2021 MBP. Sad.
 
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4jasontv said:
[Pauses iTunes.] How about Windows?
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There was a job posting Apple put up over a year and a half/two years ago to hire someone to build “next generation media apps for Windows” using modern UWP foundations. Presumably that was supposed to be a dedicated Music app but the apps never materialized. I’m sure the fact that Microsoft can’t decide what it wants to do with UWP and other modern Windows development frameworks isn’t helping the matter…
 
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Great!

Apple, now would be a good time to prod those .NET developers you hired to actually get something done and remake the UX disaster Windows version of iTunes.

bradman83 said:
There was a job posting Apple put up over a year and a half/two years ago to hire someone to build “next generation media apps for Windows” using modern UWP foundations. Presumably that was supposed to be a dedicated Music app but the apps never materialized. I’m sure the fact that Microsoft can’t decide what it wants to do with UWP and other modern Windows development frameworks isn’t helping the matter…
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The thing is, there are *plenty* of other options in .NET to make decent apps for the Windows store. Even a UWP developer would have no trouble adopting a different strategy.

I’m just surprised (appalled) they haven’t worked it out yet.
 
I really wish Apple Music would support FLAC as Quicktime already supports it. I know ALAC is their lossless codec of choice, obviously, but I have a few albums I bought on USB flash drive that are FLAC. Loses something when I have to use another app to convert them to ALAC just to use tether in Apple Music.
 
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I’m usually too too fussy over the way apps or built or even how they perform, up to a point… But I have to say that the speed of the MacOS music app is what’s kept me from fully switching from Spotify. I find searching slow, filtering almost non-existent and the whole app pretty unintuitive.

Hopefully a rebuild will provide a speed boost along with a few usability improvements.
 
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Looking VERY forward to this. These are the things that surprise me with apple (that an app is such a slow user experience and they can obviously fix it but take forever to do so). I shouldn't have to wait around 7 seconds for a page to load inside an app.
 
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827538 said:
Every web app as a native app needs to die.
Teams
Discord
VS Code

They all suck in terms of performance.
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That and upgrade the basic internet infrastructure, too. I've see some areas get 2 Gbps fiber, while other places get maybe 5 Mbps. And that's just the wired infrastructure, to say nothing about cellular service. And to add insult to injury, these slower places still have to pay extortionately high prices.

With so many places now offering high resolution, lossless music, 4K HDR movies, as well as some AAA games requiring 100+ GB of storage, streaming/downloading is slow & unreliable as hell!
 
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